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Nexus X HumectressCould The Overturning Of Roe V. Wade HELP Dems In Midterms?
The hosts answer your questions about Roe v. Wade, politicians they admire, and natural immunity.
Biden GASLIGHTS On Failing Economy With Ridiculous Charts
Krystal and Saagar look at the discouraging numbers from the December jobs report and how the Biden administration is spinning them to convince people the economy is doing well
Big Pharma Shamelessly LIES In Pro Price Gouging Ad
The truly sad thing about this add is: That there are people who believe that! Seriously, some people need a reality check, especially those who have profited from the system (upper middle class people mostly, who think that through adapting to the perverted state the system is in, […]
Andrew Cuomo SKATES, Avoids ALL Criminal Charges. Elites Will ALWAYS Protect Their Own
Katie Halper reacts to news that Andrew Cuomo will not face any prosecution for his alleged sexual harassment of a former aide, or his role in New York’s Covid nursing home deaths.
Ted Cruz ‘Cucks’ Himself LIVE On Tucker Carlson
Krystal and Saagar respond to the confrontation between Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz and Tucker Carlson after Cruz used the word ‘terrorist’ to describe the Jan 6th Capitol riot
Ted Cruz CUCKS Himself To Tucker In Jan 6 Debate
Ted Cruz’s biggest enemy? Video recordings of Ted Cruz.
How Militarists HIJACKED US foreign policy, enriched themselves off forever wars
Richard Hanania breaks down his new book, “Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of Grand Strategy: How Generals, Manufacturers and Foreign Governments Shape American Foreign Policy.”
Is The FED About To Trigger A Great Depression?
On Krystal Kyle & Friends, Krystal and Kyle Kulinski talk all things Fed policy & history with a leading economist
Expert EXPOSES Central Bank’s Socialism For The Rich
Central bank policy since 2008 has not been aligned to capitalism. It has been corporate socialism. QE, if it had to be used, should have been transitory with a definite end date. The FED and the ECB has created institutional moral hazard, which is distorting the global economy […]
Sotomayor FALSELY Claims 100K+ Kids In ‘Serious Condition’ During Vax Mandate Hearings
Robby Soave breaks down the reportedly false claim made by Justice Sonia Sotomayor while debating federal vaccine mandates.
Jon Stewart RIPS ‘Fake News’, Divisive JK Rowling Lies
Krystal and Saagar respond to the controversy that developed when media outlets claimed Jon Stewart accused J.K. Rowling of antisemitism only for him to shut down the story
Iran Calls For Trump To Stand Trial For War Crimes
‘If the Nuremberg Laws were actually applied across the board, every post-war American President would be strung up in the gallows’ — Noam Chomsky
5 MILLION Americans Estimated Out Sick Due To Omicron, Surge Leads To Complete BREAKDOWN Of Services
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave discuss the explosive spread of the Omicron variant across the country.
How Mike Gravel FOUGHT The Military-Industrial Complex
Krystal and Saagar are joined by Skye Wallin, the director of a new documentary about the late Senator Mike Gravel who stood up against the war machine in multiple Presidential campaigns
Breaking Points: 1/10/22 Full UNCUT Show
Krystal and Saagar discuss the December jobs report numbers, liberal cringe on January 6th, Ted Cruz’s heated appearance on Tucker Carlson, SCOTUS misinformation during vaccine mandate hearings, POLITICO’s major reporting screwup, CDC lies on covid & kids, the frauds on the anti-vax right, intergenerational warfare between millennials & […]
What happened to “The Left?”
By Peter R. Quinones I have a few confidantes who contact me for private discussion or send me articles, etc. I was sent an excerpt from a Washington Examiner piece titled, “Archaeology of Freedom,” by Geoff Shullenberger, which looks into the question many have asked: what happened to […]
Archaeology of Freedom
It is interesting to find a discussion of David Graeber in the Examiner of all places. By Geoff Shullenberger Washington Examiner In his 2011 book Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the anthropologist David Graeber marshaled historical, ethnographic, and archaeological evidence in an effort to dismantle some of the […]
When Revolutionary Moments Arise Again — and They Will — What Will We Do?
By Anton Woronczuk, Truthout The world is in a prolonged period of global unrest. Since the financial crisis of 2008, every region of the planet has experienced levels of mass protest unprecedented in recent history, from the Arab Spring in the Middle East and Black Lives Matter in the U.S., to […]
The USA is Ranked is 95 Among Nations in Social Capital
Solability.Com Social capital The Social Capital of a nation is the sum of social stability and the well-being (perceived or real) of the entire population. Social Capital generates social cohesion and a certain level of consensus, which in turn delivers a stable environment for the economy, and prevents […]
Adams defends brother’s NYPD job, says he’ll protect against white supremacists
By Sam Raskin New York Post Mayor Eric Adams on Sunday defended choosing his brother to serve as a deputy NYPD commissioner, saying he needs someone he can trust to protect him — including from potential threats by white supremacists. During an appearance on CNN, the new mayor revealed […]
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tests positive for COVID-19
By Patrick Reilly New York Post New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has tested positive for COVID-19 and is recovering at home – just over a week since she was spotted partying without a mask in Florida, her office said on Sunday. “Representative Ocasio-Cortez has received a positive test […]
Former Border Commissioner: ‘We Have Lost Control of the Southwest Border’
By Charlotte Cuthbertson Epoch Times The southwest border during President Joe Biden’s first year in office reached historic levels of illegal crossings, pulling agents off the front line and leaving large swaths of the border unpatrolled. Drugs, especially fentanyl, flowed in, and overdose deaths are at an all-time […]
3 in 5 American Voters Fear Violence Over 2024 Presidential Election: Poll
By Anders Anglesey Newsweek A majority of American voters fear election-related violence at the next presidential election in 2024, recent polling suggests. It comes after three former U.S. Army generals raised concerns about the risk of “civil war” over the White House vote, although some experts downplayed such […]
‘Heralds of the future? Emma Goldman, Friedrich Nietzsche and the anarchist as superman’
By Kevin Morgan In its heyday around the turn of the twentieth century, Emma Goldman more than anybody personified anarchism for the American public. Journalists described her as anarchy’s ‘red queen’ or ‘high priestess’. At least one anarchist critic was heard to mutter of a ‘cult of personality’. […]
Ukraine: The Backstory
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right American establishment media, which combine historical ignorance with shallow ideology, are presenting Russia’s threat to invade Ukraine as just typical Russian bad boy behavior. However, there is a backstory to current events, and if we understand that backstory Russia’s actions become a […]
Why Disasters Have Declined
By Michael Shellenberger And why did they rise from 1900 to 2000 before declining? Over the last 30 years, the United Nations, climate scientists, and governments around the world have claimed that climate change is making natural disasters including hurricanes, floods, and heatwaves more frequent. “Climate change has […]
If we offered Russia a bridge out of conflict, would they buy it?
By Noah Millman The Week Next week, Western diplomats will meet with their Russian counterparts for a series of meetings that are likely the best opportunity to prevent a Russian invasion of Ukraine, for which 100,000 Russian troops are already poised on the border. The question is: What can […]
Non-citizens can now vote in NYC elections
By Grayson Quay The Week A New York City bill allowing non-citizens to vote in local elections became law Sunday after Mayor Eric Adams declined to veto it, The Associated Press reports. The new “Our City, Our Vote” measure will reportedly enfranchise around 800,000 legal, non-citizen New York […]
The Long Prehistory (The Crusades)
By Sean Gabb The Crusades are the defining event of the Middle Ages. They brought the very different civilisations of Western Europe, Byzantium and Islam into an extended period of both conflict and peaceful co-existence. Between January and March 2021, Sean Gabb explored this long encounter with his […]
Bad News: How Woke Media Undermines Democracy
It’s interesting how the critique of totalitarian humanism, or at least components of it, that I developed in the 2000s is now finding its way into mainstream discourse as well, and not just on the “far-right” or among ordinary conservatives, but also among centrists (James Lindsay), liberals ( […]
Lyceum Round-Table #49: Where Have All the Ideas Gone?
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Terminal Philosophy and Swithun Dobson to discuss the current lack of new and creative ideas to deal with the problems of modern 21st century America.
Liz Cheney and the Many Lives of Neoconservatism
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something truly terrifying is happening at the Capitol this January. Something deeply deadly to what passes for democracy in this stagnant empire. Something far more severe than the QAnon Shamen and Proudboy lunkheads who garnered so much media […]
The Decline of the American World
From 2020. By Tom Tague, The Atlantic Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le Carré wrote of his fictional Soviet mole, Bill Haydon, in Tinker […]
Our Friend, the Trump Propagandist
This is an interesting piece by two centrist neocons who discuss the infiltration of Trumpism by right-neocons. There seems to have been a genuine split in neocon circles over how to respond to Trumpism. There are those like Kristol, French, Will, Brooks, Frum, the Kagans, Goldberg, and Hayes […]
Democrats ‘want a one-party state’: Hawley
By Graham Colton | Fox News The Missouri senator blasted Dems’ attempt to keep conservatives off ballots. Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., claimed Democrats “want a one-party state” on Thursday during an interview on “Fox News Primetime.” Fox host Lawrence Jones began the interview highlighting a tweet from former […]
Is Trump Laying the Groundwork for a Coup in 2024? Bill Moyers Weighs In
Clashing ideologies about the meaning of democracy in America are no less harrowing than the events of January 6. Journalist Bill Moyers, a 30-time Emmy Award winner, shares his views and concerns in the new PBS documentary “Preserving Democracy,” airing tomorrow. Moyers speaks with Hari Sreenivasan alongside historian […]
How does this end? Where the crisis in American democracy might be headed
By Zack Beauchamp Vox Americans have long believed our country to be exceptional. That is true today in perhaps the worst possible sense: No other established Western democracy is at such risk of democratic collapse. January 6, 2021, should have been a pivot point. The Capitol riot was […]
Jason Stanley Warns: “America Is Now in Fascism’s Legal Phase”
Yale philosophy professor Jason Stanley sees January 6, 2021 as part of a history of fascist impulses in American politics. This is the focus of his book “How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them.” His latest article in The Guardian is titled “America is now in […]
How dangerous talk of a “second civil war” is different today
Is a “second civil war” possible? On the latest “Reality Check with John Avlon,” historian Professor Edna Greene Medford and CNN’s Elle Reeve talk about the American history of violent struggles to hold onto power – from Reconstruction to January 6.
How Likely Is A New U.S. Civil War?
Author Barbara F. Walter warns in her new book that the country is closer to a civil war than it has been for more than 100 years. She joins Mehdi to discuss what should be an unthinkable question: Is America one step closer to civil war?
Chicago Politician Wants People To Run at Armed Robbers While Blowing Whistles
If we could defend ourselves with whistles, they’d be banning whistles.
County board to act on 2nd amendment sanctuary next week
I am for every political, cultural, ideological, economic, identity, or issue-based group there is forming “sanctuaries” of their own. By JENNIFER BAILEY JBAILEY@DANCOMNEWS.COM A group of local citizens called the Vermilion County Constitutionalists have been trying since last year to have Vermilion County become Illinois’ 68th Second Amendment […]
A Sanctuary City for Crime
I have no problem with the idea of New York City being a sanctuary city for crime. By all means, turn NYC into a Stirnerite homeland where theft is just another economic activity. By Charles Fain Lehman, Wall Street Journal Manhattan’s new district attorney undercuts Mayor Adams’s initiative […]
Modern America’s Most Successful Secessionist Movement
By Antonia Hitchens The Atlantic In rural Oregon, voters fed up with their state’s leftward turn have embraced a simple and outlandish idea: What if we were just Idaho? In the summer of 2015, a chimney sweep in Elgin, Oregon, redrew the map of the American West. “Imagine […]
Secession might seem like the lesser of two evils. It’s also the less likely.
By Stephen Marche, Washington Post When Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) talks about a “National Divorce,” as she did again in a tweet on Wednesday, she may be advancing the cause of secession or she may just be seeking attention. Either way, she knows what she’s doing — […]
The next US civil war is already here – we just refuse to see it
By Stephen Marche, The Guardian The right has recognized that the system is in collapse, and it has a plan: violence and solidarity with treasonous far-right factions. Nobody wants what’s coming, so nobody wants to see what’s coming. On the eve of the first civil war, the most […]
A backsliding democracy and a civil war in the making.
By Holly McCall, Tennessee Lookout Tennessee’s leaders have already shown an eagerness to bend to Donald Trump at the sacrifice of American democracy. The day Joe Biden was declared winner of the 2020 presidential election, my husband asked me why I wasn’t happier: He thought I’d be in […]
Is a Civil War Ahead?
By David Remnick New Yorker A year after the attack on the Capitol, America is suspended between democracy and autocracy. The edifice of American exceptionalism has always wobbled on a shoddy foundation of self-delusion, and yet most Americans have readily accepted the commonplace that the United States is […]
Half the U.S. Believes Another Civil War Is Likely. Here Are the 5 Steps We Must Take to Avoid That
By Peter T. Coleman Newsweek Coleman, PhD, is a Professor at Columbia University who studies intractable conflict and sustainable peace. His latest book is The Way Out: How to Overcome Toxic Polarization. An astonishing moment occurred at the apex of the horrifying violence that erupted on the steps […]
We Are In a New Civil War … About What Exactly?
By JOHN F. HARRIS Politico For most of my reporting career, to refer to some dispute or another — over a judicial nomination, perhaps, or an uproar over a proposed shopping mall near a battlefield — as “a new Civil War” was to reach for a metaphor. On […]
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