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Nexus X HumectressBy David Klion, The Nation What’s most striking about the Mailer contretemps is how it embodies so many aspects of the current discourse around cancel culture and free speech. The first “cancel culture” episode of 2022 began just three days into the new year, when the journalist Michael […]
By Caitlin Johnstone Back in November, The Military Times published a Ukrainian intelligence claim, which was picked up and repeated by numerous other mainstream publications, alleging that Russia was going to invade Ukraine by the end of January. Then in late January when the calendar debunked the Military […]
Ryan, Kim, and Robby answer questions from “The Great American Political Trivia Challenge: Political Trivia on Steroids”
David Sirota breaks down the failure of a single-payer healthcare bill in California’s state legislature.
Team Rising weighs in on speculation about Vice President Kamala Harris’ future in the Biden administration.
Pew Research Center’s Baxstar Oliphant breaks down where President Biden stands with American public opinion.
Team Rising debates government influence in drug prescribing.
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the new progressive push to share the U.S. military’s pan-coronavirus vaccine with the rest of the world.
Andrew Marden explains why one Olympian is missing out on the 2022 Olympics due to Covid.
Every bit of this story needs to be questioned, as always when dealing with strikes of this nature.
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
My whole issue with the censorship debate is they just assume we’re all too stupid to recognize information and make our own decisions
Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments made by White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on behalf of the Biden administration demanding Spotify do more to censor Joe Rogan
Ben is usually pretty good on free speech.
The CPGB-ML stands resolute with the People’s Republic of China against imperialism.
By Robert Stark The Webster Dictionary defines racism as “a belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.” The term racism did not enter the vernacular until the early 20th Century and has since evolved from […]
Well, this doesn’t sound good for Trump. Condoleezza Rice’s interview on the #CarlosWatsonShow is full of unexpected surprises, one of which is the former Secretary of State’s unexpected take on the Trump presidency.
Fragment, fragment, fragment… Republican Sen. Mitt Romney condemned his party over a Republican National Committee motion to censure GOP Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their service on the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol. RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, who […]
A purge of all things Cheney by the GOP can only be a good thing. The Republican National Committee (RNC) on Friday voted formally to censure both GOP Reps. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) over their criticism of former President Trump and participation in the special […]
Back in the 1980s and 1990s when the US religious right was more influential, I used to be a Richard Dawkins/Christopher Hitchens-like opponent of social conservatives. And I still maintain that a lot of conservatives would gladly maintain a cancel culture of their own when it comes to […]
By Caitlin Johnstone The western media are blaring headlines today about a “revelation” by the US government which does not actually reveal anything because it contains nothing but empty narrative fluff. “U.S. reveals Russian plot to use fake video as pretense for Ukraine invasion,” reads a headline from […]
From 2019. My guess is that laws pertaining to prostitution in the US will eventually splinter into three different directions: Some states and localities will have the conventional prohibition model. Others will have the so-called “Nordic model” and still others will have either full decriminalization or legalization. There […]
By Noah Millman The Week Ever since the rise of President Donald Trump, Americans have been warned that our democracy is under attack, even in danger of being extinguished. From the left, the center, and the shrinking precincts of the anti-Trump right, that warning has primarily been about […]
By Joel Mathis The Week The author and podcaster Roxane Gay has joined the (so far, small) exodus of artists who are choosing to leave Spotify rather than share a platform with Joe Rogan and his COVID misinformation. “It was a difficult decision — there are a lot […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week Some people in Washington are very upset that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) doesn’t think the United States should want Ukraine in NATO. This includes the White House, where Press Secretary Jen Psaki dismissed the lawmaker’s concerns — that NATO membership would make […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week President Biden has announced the leader of ISIS has been killed during a U.S. raid in Syria. Biden said in a statement Thursday that U.S. military forces undertook a counterterrorism operation early Thursday, and “thanks to the skill and bravery of our armed forces, we […]
By Peter Weber The Week U.S. Special Operations forces conducted a large-scale counterterrorism raid on a two-story house in Syria’s northwest Idlib Province early Thursday, in pursuit of what one U.S. official told The New York Times was a “high value” target. The Pentagon gave only cursory details […]
By Jeva Lange, The Week In one of my characteristic moments of having no idea what day it was (a state I’ve lived in more or less constantly since March 2020), I got the inkling this week that the Opening Ceremony must be impending and did a requisite […]
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The U.S. reached a $30 trillion milestone this week. Instead of signifying a great achievement, though, it serves as a dire warning for American workers, investors, and retirees. On Tuesday, the Treasury Department reported that total public debt outstanding surpassed $30,000,000,000,000. That’s […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic ABC has suspended the View co-host Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks after she said on Monday’s show that the Holocaust was “not about race,” and later that day repeated the idea on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, saying that “most of […]
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS and LEAH WILLINGHAM, AP News JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — If you are Black or Hispanic in a conservative state that already limits access to abortions, you are far more likely than a white woman to have one. And if the U.S. Supreme Court allows […]
Former Democratic presidential candidate says attempts to censor Joe Rogan is ‘latest indicator about the real danger’ society is facing.
The commentary on this issue I have heard so far. David Crosby of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young fame recently described his former bandmate and censorship fan Neil Young as “the most selfish person I know.” This assessment may help explain how the iconic ‘60s rock star could […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave make the case that the Biden administration’s public calls on Spotify to censor information is a violation of the First Amendment.
Kim Iversen criticizes the Bureau of Prisons’ nationwide prison lockdown.
Krystal and Saagar offer their perspective on the comments made by The View’s Whoopi Goldberg about the holocaust and how the show has responded
–Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene loses her mind during an interview with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, claiming that masks and vaccines don’t work and that not using Ivermectin to treat COVID is “murder”
On this week’s Bad Faith Brie tackled the latest Joe Rogan/Spotify controversy with an all-star panel: Taylor Lorenz, technology reporter for the New York Times; heterodox writer at Substack Freddie DeBoer; & Evan Greer — activist and musician with an album titled “Spotify is Surveillance.”
Katie Halper discusses the role of #MeToo in Jeff Zucker’s resignation from CNN.
Krystal takes a look at how billionaires and tech companies are exploiting people’s pain and misery to profit by selling the data to companies without people knowing
Who do you trust more about COVID? A legendary rock star or the world’s most popular podcaster? The biggest takeaway from the latest culture war battle is that you get to decide.
Big Brother: “I will increase widget production beyond 100.” (Widget production falls to 80). Media: “Big Brother has raised widget production to 80!”
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the US role in the ongoing financial and humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the news that a historic bridge in Holland will be taken down to allow Jeff Bezos’s superyacht to pass through without getting damaged
Fiscal conservative pan-secessionism? “Obviously we could have used the money, but at what cost?,” says Sheila Hemphill, an activist and lobbyist from Brady, Texas
I would love to hear Fox News and Forbes denounce Federal subsidies for private military contractors as price gouging but we all know that this is not going to happen.
Democratic congressional candidate Nina Turner updates the hosts on the state of her campaign for Congress.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by author Freddie Deboer and policy expert Oren Cass who go back and forth on the left & right cases against the college for all system that dominates American education
From school shutdowns to insane teachers union demands to frustrated parents, the pandemic has made radical education reform a reality.
Social-democratic pan-secessionism? If only we had a nationwide pandemic to make this apply to everyone.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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