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Nexus X HumectressThis article is interesting because it foreshadows what mainstream political debate is going to look like in the future, at least in heavily populated areas. Today’s moderates are tomorrow’s conservatives. Today’s far-left are tomorrow’s liberals. Over time, today’s conservatives (e.g. FOX fans) are going to be increasingly small […]
We keep claiming FBI over and over, completely missing that Ray could be a CIA asset operating domestically in violation of their charter.
By Nicholas Turner, President & Director, Vera Institute of Justice, Forbes On any given day, the United States incarcerates nearly 2 million people in prisons and jails—more than any other country. Vera Institute of Justice But this astronomical figure doesn’t capture the full scope of mass incarceration in […]
2020 is the most recent year for which up-to-date information is available. By Nicole D. Porter The Sentencing Project In recent years most states have enacted reforms designed to reduce the scale of incarceration and the impact of the collateral consequences of a felony conviction. This briefing paper […]
Krystal and Saagar talk on this special Wednesday show about the cultish behavior of the Democratic Party, the popularity of banning Congressional stock trading, tensions between Russia and Ukraine, Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s meltdown, Joe Rogan censorship attempts, the billionaire problem, Starbucks workers’ revolution, and fact from fiction on […]
By Rich Whitney, Truthout For decades, the American people have been repeatedly told by their government and corporate-run media that acts of war ordered by their president have been largely motivated by the need to counter acts of aggression or oppression by “evil dictators.” We were told we […]
I’ve been looking further into the role of the CIA in postwar US politics. It seems that much of the New Right and New Left that emerged in the postwar period were controlled opposition movements created by the intelligence services, although in collusion with different internal factions. It […]
Firms like Black Rock and Vanguard are like the Rockefellers at their apex. As the top of the heap within capitalism, they’re hated by both the left and right. By Ben Zeisloft Daily Wire BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink said that being “woke” has no place in his […]
Is NATO (what Ross Douthat calls the second zone of the empire along with the Pacific Rim) also fracturing? If the first zone implodes and the second zone fractures, the third zone (those in the East and the Global South under the boot of the empire) is on […]
Timothy Snyder’s viewpoint is interesting. Of course, he is a Yale academic, and therefore a high priest among the new clerisy, and his main concerns are both preserving the empire and achieving the hegemony of the Blue Tribe within the empire. His main fear is the emergence of […]
By Timothy Snyder Thirty years ago today the Soviet Union came to an end. This is not an occasion for triumphalism. It is a warning. Stagnation, or the absence of a future, was the underlying Soviet problem. Stalinism had created temporary social mobility in the Soviet Union, if […]
By Timothy Snyder As we reach the first anniversary of Trump’s failed coup attempt, the former president and his supporters are indulging in a pleasant dream of his return to power in 2025. An electoral victory seems unlikely: he lost last time as an incumbent by seven million […]
By John Zube Note Anarchy and Panarchy are not two opposite forms of social organization. In fact Panarchy is mainly a method of solving problems of social organization and through that method anarchy (as well as statism, or communism, or any other conceivable social model) can be implemented […]
By Peter Cole, Yves Magazine If Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. still lived, he’d probably tell people to join unions. King understood that racial equality was inextricably linked to economics. He asked, “What good does it do to be able to eat at a lunch counter if you […]
By Duane Fuller, Center for a Stateless Society As an anarchist prisoner, it has been said many times that one can learn a great deal about society by looking towards its prisons. Look towards its dungeons and there you will see in concentrated and microcosmic form the sickness […]
By George Allison UK Defense Journal British C-17 transport aircraft are currently moving “light anti-armour” weapons into Ukraine in light of “increasingly threatening” behaviour from Russia. The C-17 transport aircraft are in flight as we speak. CORRECTION 18-1-2022: I had originally claimed that Germany had appeared to have […]
This is the biggest sedition case in a third of a century, since the Fort Smith trial in 1988. Krystal and Saagar analyze the sedition charges brought by the Biden DOJ against the Oathkeepers who played a central role in the Jan 6th Capitol riot
Hopefully, 2024 will see not only the GOP fractured into Natcon, Trumpist, and anti-Trumpist conspiracist factions, but the Left offering a major primary challenge to Biden. Fragment, fragment, fragment… Krystal and Saagar are joined by former Sanders campaign co-chair Nina Turner to examine how the Left should approach […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave react to controversial comments made by Chamath Palihapitiya about the suspected persecution of the Uyghur Muslim minority in northwestern China.
Following first-round action at the Australian Open, tennis Star Naomi Osaka discussed how the WTA handled the Peng Shuai situation.
Krystal and Saagar cover the comments made in private by former President and GOP kingmaker Donald Trump about the possible 2024 contender Fl. Gov Ron DeSantis
Cases are going down! (because we stopped reporting) Unemployment is down! (because we jacked up the requirements to apply) Business is booming! (because corporations are hurling employees into the furnace to power it) Noticing a trend yet?
Kim Iversen takes a closer look at the Supreme Court’s ruling on the Biden administration’s workplace vaccine mandate.
Krystal takes a look at how Kamala Harris’s attempted rebrand has already crashed and burned in a revealing display of how hollow Democratic Party elites are
“Can you explain why you are doing this?” “Money.” “Any other reason?” “Money.”
Journalists Jordan Chariton and Charlie LeDuff lay out their new reporting on the Rico charges that were blocked in the Flint water crisis scandal.
Krystal and Saagar cover the decision by the Australian government to ban tennis great Novak Djokovic from the country for not being vaccinated and lying to the government
Joy Reid “corporations are the most vulnerable in our society”
Team Rising debates whether Democrats will be able to turn their fortunes around in time for the 2022 midterms.
Krystal and Saagar review the data on party affiliation and polling on the Biden administration that could preview a historic red wave for the GOP in the 2022 midterms
Glenn Hubbard, author of The Wall and the Bridge: Fear and Opportunity in Disruption’s Wake, dean emeritus at Columbia Business School, and former chairman of the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers, joins The Realignment to discuss why populist “walls” aren’t the right responses to critiques of capitalism and […]
This dude must have a Hillary poster next to his sock drawer.
Krystal and Saagar break down the new covid test distribution plan released by the Biden administration intended to help mitigate the spread of the Omicron variant
Going undercover is almost always the only way to get truth.
Jonathan M. Katz, author of Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Remaking of America’s Empire and The Racket Substack, joins The Realignment to discuss the legacy of General Smedley Butler (the most decorated U.S. Marine in history) through the lens of his involvement […]
“The first time I ever really listened to Kyle Kulinski’s show was in the back of a cab last summer. The driver had his phone hooked up through the stereo and was pumping out an episode through the car speakers — loudly, as if looking to convert a […]
My suspicion is that the national conservatives (a neocon front movement) are trying to cultivate De Santis as their front man as they try to build a parallel movement to the Trumpists. A three-way fight between the Natcons/neocons, Trumptards, and anti-Trump conspiratards would be welcome. Ryan Grim and […]
Saagar covers the school mask wars unfolding across America between state level politicians and the Biden administration who refuse to concede ground on masking children
It’s going to be hilarious if the crystal lady ends up replacing Sanders as the left’s leading politician.
By Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times Dispatch As he settles into office, Gov. Glenn Youngkin looks an awful lot like one of those “inherently divisive concepts” he seeks to ban from the classroom. It’s one thing to campaign to a soundtrack of dog whistles and yet another to […]
By Jessica Nocera , Mel Leonor , Patrick Wilson Richmond Times-Dispatch A group of Chesapeake parents sued Gov. Glenn Youngkin Tuesday in the Supreme Court of Virginia over Youngkin’s order that rescinded a statewide school mask mandate and gave parents an opt out from local mandates, saying a […]
When are they ever not “at it.” By Joel Mathis, The Week For America’s national security hawks, old habits die hard. Washington Post columnist Max Boot is probably best known these days as a Never-Trump conservative, a figure who spent much of his career making common cause with […]
By Damon Linker The Week With Democrats confronting the imminent failure in Congress of their bills to expand social spending and voting rights, recriminations have already begun. As Politico reports, progressives are especially preoccupied with how to talk about their defeats with their presumably angry and demoralized constituents. […]
By Bonnie Kristian, The Week The left used to warn about unintended consequences in foreign policy. Maybe it’s time to remember those warnings. The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has case rates spiking exponentially across the United States, and though hospitalizations and deaths haven’t followed anything like the same […]
By Peter Weber The Week The wealth of the world’s 10 richest people, as measured by Forbes, more than doubled between March 2020 and November 2021, advocacy group Oxfam reported Monday, rising to $1.5 trillion from about $700 billion. Meanwhile, the incomes of 99 percent of people in […]
It would be interesting if the GOP split into 3 quarreling factions: the DeSantis-led natcons, the Trump loyalists, and the anti-Trump but conspiratard right. By Peter Weber The Week Former President Donald Trump has been privately fuming about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for months, irked that DeSantis […]
By Grayson Quay The Week A new survey suggests people living under authoritarian regimes increasingly trust their major institutions more than citizens of democratic countries trust theirs, Axios reported Tuesday. According to the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer, which surveyed 35,000 respondents across 28 countries, trust in NGOs, business, […]
Well, that ought to be…interesting. By Brendan Morrow, The Week Daniel Radcliffe is ready to get weird. The Harry Potter star will portray “Weird Al” Yankovic in a biopic about the famed parody musician, Roku announced Tuesday. The film, WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, will be an exclusive to […]
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic As many Americans sit in a weird pandemic limbo, one group of workers bears the brunt of the Omicron surge. Then: Our happiness columnist offers advice for navigating failure. The Coronavirus Outbreak (The Atlantic) As my colleague Katherine J. Wu reported late […]
By Matthew Vadum, Epoch Times Allowing national flags and flags about historic events, causes, and organizations while refusing to raise a Christian flag outside a city hall is an unconstitutional example of government censorship, a seemingly sympathetic Supreme Court was told on Jan. 18. The hearing came as […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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