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Nexus X HumectressThe Synthetic Left
An actual Communist explains where the present-day Western Left originates from.
‘Downhill,’ ‘divisive’: Americans sour on nation’s direction in new NBC News poll
By Mark Murray, NBC News WASHINGTON — Overwhelming majorities of Americans believe the country is headed in the wrong direction, that their household income is falling behind the cost of living, that political polarization will only continue and that there’s a real threat to democracy and majority rule. […]
Subway diary: Decay and depravity underground as system struggles to recover
By Kerry J. Byrne New York Post In the wake of the horrific subway shoving death of 40-year-old Upper West Sider Michelle Go last week in Times Square, The Post spent three days surveying the troubled transit system, where crimes have soared by 30% this year compared with […]
Library security guard is viciously attacked by pit bull after approaching passed-out owner to administer Narcan
By Christina Coulter Dailymail A security guard at the San Francisco Main Library was attacked by a pit bull as he tried to administer Narcan to its unresponsive owner on Sunday The dog ‘wouldn’t let [security guards] near the man, and pulled one guard down to the ground […]
Today’s “Wayward Puritans” of the Academic “Elect”
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The American mentality is unabashedly elitist. Indeed, mediocrity is anathema to the American way of life. Much of the Americans’ ire toward communism has nothing to do with its tyranny, but with their animus toward equality. John Steinback had it right: Americans see […]
Fact-Checkers Are Used to Confuse the Public
By Masooma Haq and Jan Jekielek Epoch Times Five-time Emmy award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson said she has seen an increased effort to manipulate the public to appreciate censorship and disapprove of journalism. One of the strategies that has been employed is the use of third-party fact-checkers, she said. […]
An inflation surge poses a growing threat
The Week Staff The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: Economists are starting to question whether the Federal Reserve missed its chance to act on inflation, said Christopher Rugaber in The Associated Press. Consumer prices rose 7 percent in the past year, […]
Transparency is good, but it won’t end the CRT debate
By Samuel Goldman The Week The next battle in the war on “critical race theory” is here. Bills recently introduced in Congress and several states would require public schools to make information about their curriculum and classroom practices available to the public. The proposals represent a shift in strategy […]
The misogyny fueling America’s mass shootings
The Week Staff One trait connects many American men who go on shooting sprees: a history of hating women. Here’s everything you need to know: What motivates mass shooters? The motivations of these killers are often confused, complex, or simply not known. But researchers have found that many […]
Pipeline Giant Enbridge Uses Scoring System to Track Indigenous Opposition
By Alleen Brown The Intercept On a color-coded map, land belonging to Native tribes that opposed the Line 3 pipeline were marked in red — areas of “threat” to the bottom line. As part of its efforts to build and operate pipelines, the oil transport company Enbridge used […]
Brazen Drug Dealing & Fentanyl Use Witnessed At Official But Illegal San Francisco Homeless “Linkage Center”
I don’t generally agree with Michael Shellenberger on these issues (although he is interesting in his advocacy of nuclear power), but his ongoing reporting on the conflict between bourgie-normie liberal-yuppie-gentrifiers and the woke Left in the Bay Area is unintentionally hilarious. His writing reminds me of the 1970s […]
Against Bourgeois Anarchy
By AntiBoomerEquation For an Aristocracy of the Ego. Mencken and Christophe Cieters both advocate a Nietzschean approach to libertarianism. Renzo Novatore, Max Stirner, Zo d’Axa, Georges Palante and S. E. Parker are all examples of a profoundly anti-democratic rejection of statism and collectivism. John Beverly Robinson, John Badcock, […]
Breaking Points: 1/23 AMA
Krystal and Saagar answer your questions about the populist right’s future, ESG investing, how to become a journalist, who they would like to interview, Harry Potter, & More!
Peace with Horror: How a Psychotic Empire Loses a War
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It has been a cold cold winter for Afghanistan and I’m afraid it’s only getting colder. As the temperature drops below freezing and the snow continues to fall, this tiny war-torn nation that has already seen so many […]
The deep state is no conspiracy theory
By Gilbert T. Sewall Spectator World In 1958, Aldous Huxley foresaw a congestion of power able to shape and defy popular will. “Under the relentless thrust of accelerating over-population and increasing over-organization, and by means of ever more effective methods of mind-manipulation, the democracies will change their nature,” […]
Anonymous Officials Claim There’s An Evil Russian Plot Again But The Evidence Is Secret Again
By Caitlin Johnstone Major western news publications are running a story about a sinister plot by the Russian government, and—you may want to sit down for this—the sources of the report are anonymous, and the evidence for it is secret. The New York Times reports that according to […]
Israel, One of Most Vaccinated Countries in the World, Sets New COVID-19 Case Record
By Lorenz Duchamps, Epoch Times The Israeli Ministry of Health announced this week that more than 72,000 people tested positive for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, the largest rise in infections since the start of the pandemic. Total active cases in the country rose to nearly 400,000 […]
‘Unseemly’: NPR Refuses to Correct Story After Supreme Court Deems It False
By Zachary Stieber, Epoch Times National Public Radio (NPR) is refusing to correct a story that was challenged by a trio of Supreme Court justices, triggering a flood of criticism. Citing anonymous sources, reporter Nina Totenberg said Chief Justice John Roberts “asked the other justices to mask up,” […]
Breaking Points: 1/22/22 Full UNCUT Mini Show
Krystal and Saagar talk about Democratic leadership’s failures, BlackRock greenwashing, Flint, Michigan coverup, Prince Andrew’s punishment, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Daily Poster: https://www.dailyposter.com/ Timestamps: Dems: 0:00 – 12:13 Flint: 12:14 – 18:44 Prince Andrew: 18:45 – 24:23
Performing anarchism, practicing freedom, pursuing revolt
By Simon Springer If anarchism is a spirit, it is the spirit of revolt. For those unfamiliar with the actual content of anarchism or the enabling possibilities of revolt this statement might appear doubly negative. Just as so much of the contemporary discourse surrounding anarchism is framed by […]
Libya and “American Democracy”
By Sarah Abed 1. There was no electricity bill in Libya; electricity was free for all its citizens. 2. There was no interest on loans, banks in Libya were state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at zero percent interest by law. 3. Having a home was […]
Stop sending weapons! Russia is NOT going to invade Ukraine! THIS IS DANGEROUS! YOU HAVE NO CLUE!
America will never learn that we can’t have everything. Worse thing about it, going into territory we don’t know always has a bad outcome and we’re always the masters of the losing streak. Infuriating!!!
Tucker: They suddenly care about borders
Tucker Carlson discusses how Washington is reacting to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
It’s Time to Break Up New York State
By Nicolas Gregoris Mises Institute Neil Sedaka said it best – “breaking up is hard to do”. Ask any 16-year-old and they’ll tell you that’s certainly true, but Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) recently made headlines when she suggested not just a breakup, but a “National Divorce” on […]
Jeff Bezos Startup Hires Top Scientist to Defeat Death
By Tony Tran, Futurism Amazon founder and Elon Musk’s favorite punching bag Jeff Bezos is assembling a team of top scientists to assist in his dream of developing immortality technology. The billionaire is funneling his money into an anti-aging startup dubbed Alto Labs, which formerly launched on Wednesday. […]
What Crime Surge?
LA Progressive Sacramento News & Review, one of the last supposedly “lefty” publications in the region just published an article (A winter of worry: Sacramento’s violent crime rate in January puts a chill on the community) decrying a recent “crime surge”–a constant worry among conservatives. Among other things, […]
Liberating Society From The State And Other Writings : A Political Reader
By Gabriel Kuhn , Erich Mühsam Erich Mühsam (1878-1934), poet, bohemian, revolutionary, is one of Germany’s most renowned and influential anarchists. Born into a middle-class Jewish family, he challenged the conventions of bourgeois society at the turn of the century, engaged in heated debates on the rights of […]
Impact of Gun Control Laws Visible in Virginia Protests
By Ford Fischer and Matt Taibbi With the evolution of gun control policy in the state of Virginia, the character of gun protests have changed, as Ford Fischer shows. In a creative and provocative piece of video journalism from TK partners News2Share, Ford Fischer compares three years of […]
Murray Bookchin: Ecology and Revolutionary Thought (1965)
A classic from Murray Bookchin. Note A splendid text with many interesting considerations and anticipations. From: Post-Scarcity Anarchism, 1971. In almost every period since the Renaissance, the development of revolutionary thought has been heavily influenced by a branch of science, often in conjunction with a school […]
Murray Rothbard: Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal (1968)
Rothbard’s classic. By Murray N. Rothbard Note A classic article in which Rothbard denonce the move by the political and cultural right in support of militarism, police power, and the corporate state. This is relevant today as when it was written. Source: Ramparts, VI, 4, June 15, 1968. […]
The Jews and Modern Capitalism
By Werner Sombart , Translated by Mordecai Epstein 2015 Reprint of Original 1913 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Werner Sombart (1863 -1941) was a German economist and sociologist and one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first […]
The four pillars of a decentralized society
This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. What if we could rebuild our society in a way that works for everyone? Epochal changes are now underway that are radically transforming how society operates. Johann will describe this revolution, and how […]
San Francisco Government Is Secretly And Illegally Operating An Illicit Drug Use Site
There is a book that is now getting a lot of attention in neocon circles called “San Fran-sicko” by a moderate progressive named Michael Schellenberger that is lambasting the supposed libertarian excesses of large city governments like San Francisco, LA, Seattle, Portland, etc. It’s basically a “liberal” version […]
Clint Ehrlich on Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan
Scott is joined by Clint Ehrlich who recently went viral after his appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show struck the nerve of a handful of foreign policy “experts.” So Scott invited him on the show to dive deeper into his arguments. They discuss why Ehrlich is nervous about the […]
Nation’s drug-related overdose and death epidemic continues to worsen
American Medical Association *Updated November 12, 2021 The nation’s COVID pandemic made the nation’s drug overdose epidemic worse. This issue brief highlights media and other reports showing increases in drug overdose mortality and other concerns relating to access to evidence-based care for substance use disorders, patients with pain […]
Why An Expert In Political Violence Is Worried About Civil War In The U.S.
In the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, academics and journalists have taken the possibility of future political violence in America increasingly serious. In her new book “How Civil Wars Start And How To Stop Them,” Barbara F. Walter writes, “We are now closer […]
Stock market has worst week since pandemic began
By Grayson Quay The Week Between Tuesday and Friday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,400 points, the market’s worst week since the COVID-19 pandemic began, The Washington Post reported. The S&P 500 fell by 5.1 percent and the Nasdaq by 6.2 percent during the same time period. “The […]
Millennials expect lifetime of rent as American dream evaporates
Home prices rose a record-breaking16.9 percent in 2021. Meanwhile, rent payments are surpassing mortgage costs in major US cities. Wall Street firms are buying up lower-income “starter homes” as an investment. But debt-saddled, low-earning millennials see the once-commonplace “American Dream” of homeownership receding ever further from their reach. […]
Wealth Gap & Waistlines Widen in Pandemic
While working stiffs worry about rampant inflation outpacing wages, corporations see profits hit a record high regardless. RT’s Brent Jabbour discusses the widening wealth gap, which is minting new billionaires by the day.
Biden fails to grasp basic economics: Stephen Miller
Former senior White House adviser Stephen Miller slams Biden’s first press conference of 2022 on ‘Kudlow.’
Gabbard: Washington elites are in the pockets of the military industrial complex
2020 presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard assesses President Biden’s handling of Russian threat to invade Ukraine.
US Sends More Military Equipment to Ukraine
By Marcus Weisgerber and Tara Copp Defense One Latest deliveries to arrive today as DOD searches its inventory for more to send. The U.S. is expected to deliver more defense equipment to Ukraine today to counter Russia’s rapid escalation of military and diplomatic moves along the Ukrainian border, […]
Thousands of anti vaccine-mandate protesters are reportedly expected in D.C. this weekend
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Organizers are supposedly expecting thousands of protesters for an anti-vaccine mandate rally in Washington, D.C. this weekend, NBC News reports, a sign that the vaccination resistance “that gained traction on social media during the pandemic is spilling even further into politics and real […]
Refusing to Sort Bundles is a Fundamental Human Flaw
By William P. Meyers, iii Publishing This essay is inspired by a lifetime of trying to sort through the lies told by my fellow human beings. And by hearing some news reporting saying Harry Reid was “lying in state.” Thinking: why not, he was a politician, he lied […]
Families of U.S. Embassy personnel must evacuate Ukraine, State Department orders
By Grayson Quay The Week The State Department issued an order Saturday directing families of U.S. Embassy personnel in Ukraine to evacuate the country as soon as Monday, Fox News reports. Per Fox, the State Department is also expected to issued guidance next week encouraging American civilians to […]
Air strike on Yemeni detention center kills at least 70, Houthis claim
By Grayson Quay The Week Saudi-led coalition forces reportedly carried out an air strike against a detention center in Yemen Friday, killing at least 70 people injuring over 100, and drawing condemnations from the United Nations, BBC reported. Amjad Yamin, who handles communications for Save the Children in Yemen, […]
‘That raise meant nothing’: Inflation is wiping out pay increases for most Americans
By Abha Bhattarai Washington Post Ty Stehlik, who works the front desk at a hotel in Milwaukee, pleaded for a raise all through the pandemic — and finally got an extra $1 an hour in the fall to make $15. But higher prices for rent and food have […]
Why Wokeism Is A Religion
By Michael Shellenberger Introducing the Taxonomy of Woke Religion Over the last year, a growing number of progressives and liberals have pointed to police killings of unarmed black men, rising carbon emissions and extreme weather events, and the killing of trans people as proof that the United States […]
The Role of Progressive Prosecutors in Promoting Meaningful Criminal Justice
USC Gould School of Law hosted Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in discussion with Prof. Jody Armour Oct. 29, 2019.
Taking on Progressive Prosecutors
The main problem I see with these critics is that much of their objection to “progressive prosecutors” seems rooted in their disdain for the non-prosecution of “quality of life” offenses, i.e. things that conflict with bourgeois aesthetics, lifestyle, or class interests. That may not be the whole story […]
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