Vaccine Aristocrats Strike Again

By Matt Taibbi As yokel-bashing reaches impressive new heights, reports of yet another year of record profits and a widening wealth gap go unnoticed. Jimmy Kimmel Live, fast becoming Leonid Brezhnev’s never-realized dream of a Soviet Tonight Show, just put out a high-effort gag called “Anti-Vax Barbie.” It’s […]

Latin America’s Left Turn

The Signal Why are voters across Latin America rejecting right-wing authoritarian populists? Amy Erica Smith on economic inequality, cultural backlash, and a shifting anger with elites. Right-wing authoritarian populists have been building power and rolling back democracy around the world for more than a decade. From Donald Trump in […]

Workforce changes will continue to affect economy: ‘Power has shifted and it has shifted to labor,’ Richmond Fed president says

By John Reid Blackwell  Richmond Times-Dispatch The COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the job market seems likely to have long-lasting affects on the U.S. economy, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond said Thursday. “We have been living for decades in a world of excess workers, driven […]

The Future of Freedom Daily

January 12, 2022 Leave Cuba, and Leave Cuba Alone On the 20-year anniversary of the Pentagon’s and CIA’s torture and prison center and their military-tribunal judicial system at their imperial base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, some critics are asking the obvious question: Why doesn’t President Biden simply order […]

Partition & Entanglement

By William Gillis, Center for a Stateless Society Partition & Entanglement: Review of Home Rule by Nandita Sharma “The entire, eons-long practice of human  movement  into  new  places  was  pushed  out  of  our  imagination — or,  perhaps more accurately, was reimagined as a national security threat. In the […]

A Lancashire village self-regenerating—via community centre, library, shop, pub—is good to see. But not every place has enough capital, human or financial, to succeed

The Alternative We’re always on the hunt for stories of community self-determination – people stepping over the line of bureaucracy (and passivity) to seize the development of their towns and locales. (One of our most popular blogs in 2021 were the activists in Maryhill, Glasgow seeking to develop […]

The Capitalist Manifesto: Conrad Black on invincibility of capitalism and re-establishing America’s place in the world

The neocon/superhawk/supplyside alliance is hoping they’re going to get another Reagan 1980 moment in 2024. By Conrad Black, National Post The resumption of American national renovation in 2024 will re-establish the unambiguous superiority of American influence in the world, and particularly its economic model. Dec. 26 will mark […]