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Nexus X HumectressBy Caitlin Johnstone To rule the world, make it rely on a single dominant financial system you control so anyone who disobeys you can be cut off from the economy you’ve made them dependent on for survival—whether they’re a nation, a protest movement, or an individual—without having to […]
Home prices set to soar 12% in 2022 says a top forecaster: ‘No end in sight’ The Nasdaq is on the plunge. Private market investors say it could ultimately be a good thing Why a top crypto quant fund manager thinks it’s not time to buy Bitcoin or […]
Lisa Sachs on the environmental challenges of clean technology. On the shore of the Congo River in Kinshasa sits the Fleuve Congo Hotel, a five-star hotel with a weekly pool party in a country where most people subsist on less than $2 a day. The hotel hosts an ongoing […]
By Brigid Kennedy The Week In remarks on the ongoing crisis between Russia and Ukraine, President Biden told reporters on Friday that he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has made up his mind to invade. “As of this moment, I’m convinced he’s made the decision. We have […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Vice President Kamala Harris met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday, The Hill reports. President Biden told reporters on Friday he is “convinced” Russian President Vladimir Putin has made up his mind to invade Ukraine, but a […]
By David Faris The Week Discussion around the Ukraine crisis has mainly focused on what caused the massive, ominous Russian military buildup at the Ukrainian border, what would transpire in an invasion, and what policy options are available for the U.S. and its allies. Relatively less attention has […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order Saturday for his country’s military to begin a series of drills involving its nuclear arsenal, Reuters reports. According to The New York Times, the exercises will include ballistic and cruise missile launches as well as nuclear-capable […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Former French modeling agent and Jeffrey Epstein associate Jean-Luc Brunel was found dead in his Paris jail cell during the night, a spokesman for the city’s prosecutor said Saturday. According to The New York Times, Brunel, 75, had been charged with raping minors […]
Why are Covid restrictions suddenly lifting across the U.S.? Patrick Murray on the changing politics of the pandemic in Democratic states. Mask mandates are easing, even ending, in a number of the places that implemented the toughest Covid restrictions in the United States over the past two years. […]
By Andrew Sullivan, Weekly Dish It’s now happening in schools, and could take gay people down with it. For the first 15 years of my life, I never heard the word “homosexuality” in my home or school. I only knew about sex at all because in my Catholic […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Queen Elizabeth II, 95, has tested positive for COVID-19, Buckingham Palace announced Sunday. According to The Guardian, she is reportedly experiencing “mild cold-like symptoms” but expects to be able to continue performing “light duties” during the coming week. The queen may have contracted […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Canadian police took aggressive action over the weekend to break up the Freedom Convoy protests that have occupied downtown Ottawa for three weeks, USA Today reported. Police arrested 191 people and towed 57 vehicles on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, according to Ottawa Police. […]
By Lee Fang The Intercept The company formerly known as X-Mode is now part of a federal government contractor that sells location data quietly harvested from apps. In January, The Markup revealed a list of apps that have sold location data to X-Mode, a controversial data broker that […]
By Sharon Lerner The Intercept The NIH continues to withhold critical documents that could shed light on the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. With the global death toll from Covid-19 approaching 6 million, the need to understand the origins of the pandemic is both pressing and grave. But […]
By Austin Ahlman, Ryan Grim The Intercept The administration blamed ongoing 9/11 litigation for delays in sending desperately needed assets back to starving Afghans. Since the Biden administration promised to release half of the $7 billion in Afghan central bank assets back to the country late last week, […]
By Sara Sirota The Intercept Top foreign policymaker Sen. Bob Menendez couldn’t say whether his bill would monitor where U.S.-funded arms end up. While Senate Democrats consider a way forward to send Ukraine hundreds of millions of dollars so it can buy new weapons, some of the most […]
By Sam Biddle The Intercept Activists are pressuring Amazon to divest from Omni Air International, a company at the center of ICE’s deportation machine. As Amazon’s dominance of global e-commerce has grown, so has its vast fleet of vehicles shuttling packages from warehouse to doorstep around the world. […]
By Jackie Salo New York Post The sister of late fraudster Bernie Madoff and her husband were found dead in Florida in an apparent murder-suicide, authorities said Sunday. Sondra Wiener, 87, and her spouse Marvin, 90 — whose lives were among those destroyed by Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme — were discovered dead from […]
By RJ Rico, Press Democrat Krystal Guerra’s Miami apartment has a tiny kitchen, cracked tiles, warped cabinets, no dishwasher and hardly any storage space. But Guerra was fine with the apartment’s shortcomings. It was all part of being a 32-year-old graduate student in South Florida, she reasoned, and […]
By Gabrielle Fonrouge New Post Three days after US officials first used the term “China Virus” on a national news broadcast, a barrage of anti-Asian attacks began in New York City. Within hours, two Asian Americans were separately assaulted — the first of such hate crimes in the […]
New York Times “What are you waiting for?” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine asked Western leaders in Munich, as Russian-backed rebels urged people to evacuate and shelling escalated in eastern Ukraine. [Read our latest news coverage of the Ukraine and Russia crisis.] Here’s what you need to know: […]
By Natalie Kitroeff and Sarah Maslin Nir New York Times Officers in riot gear pushed to regain the area around the Parliament building in Ottawa, where demonstrations have roiled the nation’s capital for weeks and parked trucks have blocked the city’s downtown core. READ MORE
Webinar 7 pm CT USA, Wed, Mar 2, 2022 The billion-dollar marijuana market should have room for every ethnic group. But going from decriminalization to medical and recreational use has resulted in a patchwork of dangerous inconsistencies. The weaponization of marijuana laws against communities of color leaves victims […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I don’t believe in taxes. I know that’s not exactly the trendiest take on the left these days, but I just can’t justify giving any institution that kind of power. I would love nothing better than to play […]
In my 35 years as a radical, opposition to US imperialism has always been my primary area of interest. By Darragh Roche Newsweek Fewer than one in six Americans want U.S. soldiers deployed to defend Ukraine if Russia invades the country, according to a new poll published on […]
Krystal and Saagar answer your questions about Marianne Williamson, fighting back against media smear campaigns, Trump’s base and economic populism, who chooses the AMA questions, and Hunter Biden’s business dealings in Ukraine!
Whatever your opinion of either AOC or Tucker, this is hilarious. Fox News host gives his take on a new book about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight.
This is a pretty nuanced discussion of geopolitics. People would be wise to disabuse themselves of the notion that there are “good guys” and “bad guys” in geopolitics. There are just bad and worse.
Krystal and Saagar talk about CIA spying, Biden’s legal battle against student debtors, CNN imploding, Prince Andrew settlement, MSNBC ratings crash, big weed monopolies, and more! Daily Poster: https://www.dailyposter.com/ Matt Stoller: https://mattstoller.substack.com/ Timestamps: Student Debt: 0:00 – 7:16 CIA: 7:17 – 13:13 CNN: 13:14 – 21:15 Prince Andrew: […]
If you want to know what the CIA wants you to think, just read the Bezos-owned WaPo. By Andrew Jeong, Alex Horton, Ellen Francis, Claire Parker and Timothy Bella The threat of renewed war in Ukraine escalated Saturday as shelling and military preparations by Russian-backed separatists picked up […]
On the latest BIG Breakdown, policy expert and writer Matt Stoller dives into all of the big money in the legal weed market and how big business is moving to take full advantage of it
The rich see an economic crisis as a garage sale and stay rich by investing and diversifying their portfolio with stocks.
Ultras and radlibs have no conception of tactics. Everything runs with feelings and perennial, essential moral absolutes
By Ross Douthat, New York Times A great and mostly unknown prophet of our time is Michael Young, whose book “The Rise of the Meritocracy,” published way back in 1958, both coined the term in its title and predicted, in its fictional vision of the 21st century, meritocracy’s […]
China’s economic system is simply a reworking of Lenin’s New Economic Policy. And Western capitalists have always been perfectly willing to do business with Communist regimes. See the work of Antony Sutton. Revolver One of the most significant recent developments in American foreign policy is the emergence of […]
By N.S. Lyons Like many, I have spent the last couple of weeks a bit entranced by the trucker protests happening in Canada (and now around the world, from Paris to Wellington). I initially tried to document here every twist and turn of the Freedom Convoy drama, but […]
“What makes an arranged marriage work? My mom and dad’s marriage worked because people who knew and cared about them got them together after thinking hard about whether they’d be compatible. Each of their parents ran through an exhaustive checklist. The whole point of it all was to […]
By STEVE PEOPLES, AP News Democratic candidate for the Pennsylvania U.S.senate seat in the 2022 primary election, Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, arrives for a campaign stop at the Mechanistic Brewery, in Clarion, Pa., Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. The Democratic Party’s brand is so toxic in some parts of […]
By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times Possibly hundreds of Porsches, Volkswagens, Bentleys, and Lamborghinis are marooned on a burning ship in the Atlantic Ocean after the crew abandoned the vessel earlier this week. According to the real-time data website FleetMon, which tracks ships, the Felicity Ace car carrier vessel’s […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Post-Iraq the US has zero moral authority. The narrative managers aim to suck you in to arguing about the minutiae of the inner workings of the latest target of the empire, when in fact a simple “Shut the fuck up, it’s none of your business” […]
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV, YURAS KARMANAU, AAMER MADHANI and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press See Biden’s warning to Putin from the White House KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — U.S. President Joe Biden said Friday he’s “convinced” that Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to launch a further invasion in Ukraine, […]
By Limin Zhou and Noé Chartier, Epoch Times OTTAWA, Canada—Police put the number of arrests at over 100, and the number of vehicles towed at 21 on the afternoon of Feb. 18 as law enforcement escalated its confrontation with protesters in Ottawa. Mounted police and officers on foot […]
By Christopher Moraff The Intelligencer How a once fringe idea — making it safe to get high — became a reality. I’m nearly two hours into an interview with Sam Rivera, who runs one of America’s first supervised-drug-consumption sites, when a voice cuts abruptly through his serene, incense-filled […]
Murderville The Intercept Charles Raby is tried for the murder of Edna Franklin. No physical evidence ties him to the crime. But the jury sentences him to death. Charles Raby is tried for the murder of Edna Franklin. The murder weapon is missing, and no physical evidence ties him […]
By Alice Speri The Intercept Tens of thousands of people from dozens of countries have been detained in northeast Syria since the fall of the Islamic State three years ago. When dozens of Islamic State fighters attacked a prison in northeast Syria last month, setting off a 10-day […]
By Jesse Rosenfeld, Oren Ziv, Ahmad Al-Bazz The Intercept The triple assassination recalled the darkest days of the Second Intifada — and Israel’s impunity to commit violence. Palestinians were shocked last week by a brazen midday Israeli military assault that employed tactics not seen in the West Bank in over […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week The intelligence community enjoys enviable status in popular culture. In shows like Homeland and films like the Jason Bourne series, the agency is presented as hyper-vigilant, super-competent, and brutally effective. Older works and period pieces place intelligence agents in a clubby, vaguely aristocratic milieu. […]
By W. James Antle, The Week The woke left may be the new religious right: preachy, censorious, humorless, judgmental, constantly policing popular culture for impure thoughts. In fact, the new left compares unfavorably: Christian conservatives at least believed in redemption, even if it did not always manifest itself […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week Former Minnesota police officer Kim Potter has received a two-year sentence for the killing of Daunte Wright. Judge Regina Chu during a hearing on Friday announced a 24-month sentence for Potter, 16 months of which she will serve in prison and the rest […]
We’re thrilled to bring you Episode 61 of Krystal Kyle & Friends, with our special guest Michael Levitin. You know Michael from his book Generation Occupy, a look at how, ten years down the road, the Occupy Wall Street movement continues to resonate through contemporary politics and shape […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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