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Nexus X HumectressBy W. James Antle III The Week I’ve written previously about how two ascendant factions within the major political parties — the progressive Democrats and populist Republicans — are mostly anti-war, but may have difficulty cooperating on foreign policy because they disagree about former President Donald Trump and […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said Saturday he believes the country’s military is capable of fending off a Russian invasion, CNN reported. “Everyone who has looked into the eyes of our soldiers at least once is sure that there will be no repeat […]
Krystal and Saagar answer your questions about keeping balanced views, campaign finance reform, stock buybacks by large corporations, media attacks, Saagar’s love for comedy, & more!
By Grayson Quay The Week Canadian police moved in Saturday morning to remove protesters and end a five-day blockade of Ontario’s Ambassador Bridge, The Associated Press reported. A Canadian judge on Friday ordered protesters to stop obstructing the bridge, which they had blocked with their vehicles to protest […]
By Grayson Quay The Week President Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone Saturday in what could be a last-ditch attempt to avert a Russian invasion of Ukraine, The Associated Press reports. Putin initially tried to schedule the call for Monday, but Biden requested on Friday […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Another high-profile police-related death has rocked Minneapolis, once again thrusting the Twin Cities — and the authorities’ use of controversial no-knock search warrants — into the spotlight. Here’s everything you need to know. What happened? Early morning on Wednesday, Feb. 2, the Minneapolis […]
By Noah Millman, The Week Why a growing list of countries might conclude they need the bomb. In Vienna, American and Iranian officials are racing to find a way back in to the abandoned 2015 deal to restrain Iran’s nuclear program before Tehran’s uranium enrichment advances so far it’s […]
By Christina Coulter For Dailymail.Com Oregon Gubernatorial candidate Stan Pulliam (R), 40, was outed as a swinger when Facebook posts and a photo from Portland’s Erotic Ball in 2011 surfaced Pulliam, the current two-term mayor of his hometown Sandy, is polling in second place among Republican candidates and […]
By Linh Dinh From 2/8/2011: Of the 225 countries that watched the Super Bowl, nearly none play American football. Not familiar with the rules of the game, they merely stared at a spectacle. Of all American sports, football is one that has not spread overseas. It doesn’t translate […]
By Scott Ritter Special to Consortium News In the quiet fields outside the sleepy college town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, sits a bronze monument, in the form of an open book. Known as the “High-Water Mark of the Rebellion” monument, it contains the identities of the various military formations that, […]
Predominantly white, Christian, and right-wing, dead anti-vaxxers are providing a source of morbid comedy for a growing audience that is just too burned out to care anymore. Dexter Thomas explores the phenomenon of America’s newest schadenfreude obsession.
By Jesse O’Neill New York Post The Supreme Court on Friday shot down an appeal from a group of New York City school teachers who sought to block a COVID-19 vaccine mandate, arguing it violated their religious freedom. Justice Sonia Sotomayor rejected the emergency appeal on Friday, the […]
By Ashish Singh MEAWW The NYC mayor makes this plea after his speech about the life and death of 18-year-old drill rapper Chii Wvttz who was gunned down in Bedford-Stuyvesant. A day after giving an emotional speech on the death of 18-year-old drill rapper Jayquan McKenley, aka Chii […]
Free Thought Project (EFF) — People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages —not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. It’s a clear and obvious point, but one place it doesn’t seem to have reached is the U.S. Senate. A group of lawmakers led […]
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason In a February 7 bulletin, the Department of Homeland Security warned that fake news is fueling domestic extremism. The warning came complete with new jargon to describe the threat: mis-, dis-, and mal-information (the three are collectively referred to as MDM). “The primary terrorism-related […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Black power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” -Huey P. Newton Growing up as a secretly Queer white kid in a predominantly white conservative community can be a profoundly surreal […]
Historiansplaining We consider the strange ambiguous developments of this year, including the political paralysis in the US, the furors over mask and vaccine mandates, and most importantly, the labor reshuffle or “great resignation,” in light of crises past, including the bubonic plague and World War I and World […]
By Michael Hudson, Counterpunch The U.S. aim is to keep them from trading with China and Russia The Iron Curtain of the 1940s and ‘50s was ostensibly designed to isolate Russia from Western Europe – to keep out Communist ideology and military penetration. Today’s sanctions regime is aimed […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston and Swithun Dobson to discuss the Trucker resistance, within the Anglo-Sphere, to the Covid Vaccine mandates.
By Caitlin Johnstone If you “vote out fascism” and then the president you voted for turns out to have the same effective policies as the previous administration, it’s time to start asking who the fascists actually are. Hoo you’ve done it now, CIA. You are in trouble. It […]
By Ira Helfand The Nation Why do we fail to consider the danger? As the crisis in Ukraine deepens, it is appropriate to consider what the actual consequences of war there might be. An armed conventional conflict in Ukraine would be a terrible humanitarian disaster. Last week, US […]
By Kovie Biakolo The Nation Immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean who make the dangerous trek across the Americas to the US face racist policies and practices everywhere they go. Julliana Essengue arrived in Tapachula, Mexico, from São Paulo, Brazil, in March 2020. She was broke but determined […]
By Kwame Anthony Appiah New York Review of Books How Frantz Fanon came to view violence as therapy. They were out to get him. It was at once a source of terror and a form of tribute. Frantz Fanon was targeted as an Algerian revolutionary, but he was […]
By Stephen Wertheim New York Review of Books For decades, America’s governing elite caricatured sensible restraint in order to pursue geopolitical dominance and endless wars. At last the folly may be over. As Russia threatens a new invasion of Ukraine, a segment of politicians and pundits in Washington, […]
By Lisa Miller, New York Magazine Even her haters call her a “generational talent,” a disparagement candy-wrapped as a compliment, the implication being that the astonishing rise of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was somehow encoded in her DNA. Frame a thing as expected and it can be discounted. But rewind […]
The only upside to a war between the USA and Russia is that the American Reich would probably come to the same end as the Third Reich.
A lot of good comments in the thread: Providing and administrating sterile syringes for IV user, not only can save lives, also it can prevent a slew of infectious and viral diseases, and save millions in the cost of emergency calls in our hospitals, since our health care […]
By Caitlin Johnstone I think it would be a lot more efficient and straightforward if all English-language news media were just run directly out of CIA headquarters by agency officials in Langley, Virginia. This way news reporters could eliminate the middleman and drop the undignified charade of presenting unproven […]
By Andrew Sullivan Kathleen was a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex for nearly 20 years. Last fall, she resigned under duress following a vicious campaign to have her fired for questioning the policy goals of radical trans activists. Her latest book is Material Girls: Why […]
By Andrew Sullivan Truckers, Rogan, Peterson and the revolt of masculinity. To be honest, I didn’t quite see the Canadian truckers coming. I’ve watched a lot of Canada coverage over the years (mainly via South Park, I concede) and the whole anti-vaxxer, campfire-burning, horn-tooting, macho revolt among our […]
By Mack Lamoureux VICE On Dec. 27, 2021, a minor figure in the ‘manosphere’ went on a targeted killing spree across Denver. VICE News has learned before he was killed, he made a movie outlining his plans. Now, his friends are selling it. Less than two weeks after […]
By Patrick Reilly New York Post The US is preparing to evacuate its embassy in Kyiv amid fears of an imminent Russian invasion of Ukraine. An announcement for all staff at the embassy to leave the country is expected early Saturday from the State Department, US officials told […]
By Caitlin M. Kenney and Jacqueline Feldscher Defense One President orders 3,000 more US troops to Poland; American citizens told to flee “immediate” threat in Ukraine. Three thousand more American soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division will deploy to Poland to reassure allies on NATO’s eastern flank as […]
By Mimi Lau South China Morning Post It aims to ‘improve reproductive health’ and will set up a task force for education and communication projects, according to plan outlining key initiatives for the year Association will also roll out pilot public health programmes to encourage Chinese to have […]
By Adela Suliman Washington Post Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has long been the center of controversy for comparing Democrats and their policies to Nazi Germany — but it’s her latest attempt, in which she appeared to confuse its secret state police force with a cold soup from […]
LA Progressive The Terrifying World of 2025 I’ve just wrapped up my shift at BurgerBoy and I don’t have much time before the weekly self-criticism session at town hall. This hour with my diary is precious, especially when I have to make a big decision. Writing used to […]
The Revolving Door Project’s Jeff Hauser details the potential conflict-of-interest issue with the Biden administration’s nomination to head the FDA.
David Sirota criticizes mainstream media’s selective outrage over misinformation about Joe Rogan, who are the most egregious spreaders of disinformation.
Team Rising discuss corporate greed and the generational wealth gap as polling shows 70 percent of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
Team Rising weighs in on the controversy surrounding new photos of former President Barack Obama.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss public health response to gambling addiction.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss new developments in the cases of Prince Andrew and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Krystal and Saagar talk to Daily Poster founder David Sirota about the misinformation machine that corporate media has become
The uber-neocon Bush speechwriter who came up with the “smoking gun/mushroom cloud” line jumps on the “systemic racism” bandwagon. You can’t make this stuff up. By Michael Gerson, Washington Post The phrase “systemic racism,” like “climate change” and “gun control,” has been sucked into the vortex of the […]
This is quite interesting. This is what a real communist looks like. If I were a Marxist-Leninist, I would be inclined to take the same positions as this fellow.
By James Anthony The Post Millennial Both parties were concerned about the movement “spreading” to other countries, and wondered why nobody has put a stop to this sooner. On Thursday morning, CNN correspondent Rosemary Church and Associate Professor Stephanie Carvin were talking about the Freedom Convoy and worried […]
A haunting story of the FBI’s dark hand in American life. In 2015, Khalil Abu-Rayyan was just a young Muslim man in Detroit, Michigan: to get by, he delivered food for his family’s pizzeria. Depressed and lonely, Khalil found solace in smoking weed and looking at extremist material […]
By Callie Patteson New York The Department of Homeland Security has warned that a trucker convoy protesting vaccine mandates — similar to the ones that have transfixed Canada in recent days — could start in the US on Super Bowl Sunday. A bulletin warning of the potential protest […]
This week, Briahna Joy Gray interviewed Sean Campbell, author of a viral story criticizing the murky finances of the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. After raising 90 million dollars during 2020, at least 60 million remains undistributed and unaccounted for, and local organizers feel abandoned and/or undermined […]
Krystal and Saagar talk to the founder of WallStreetBets Subreddit about how Julian Assange’s family raised millions for his legal defense through crypto and what the implications could be
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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