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Nexus X HumectressNeanderthals Farming 125,000 Years Ago?
A recent discovery made in Germany by researchers from the Dutch Leiden University and the German Johannes Gutenberg University that will change our perception of history and Neanderthals completely.
John J. Mearsheimer, “The False Promise of Liberal Hegemony”
Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs. John J. Mearsheimer, R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago, gave a series of three lectures in November on “Liberal Ideals & International Realities” […]
Australian man self-immolates after ranting against Covid vaccines
By Patrick Reilly New York Post An Australian man was critically injured after he doused himself in gasoline and lit himself on fire in public on New Year’s Day after ranting against vaccines, according to local reports. The gruesome act of self-immolation occurred just after 8 p.m. local […]
Twitter Permanently Suspends Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Account
By Davey Alba New York Times The social media service said the Republican congresswoman had violated its policy on coronavirus misinformation. Twitter on Sunday permanently suspended the personal account of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican of Georgia, after the company said she had violated its Covid-19 misinformation […]
The Price of Happiness
By Mara Hvistendahl The Intercept U.N. Power Broker Jeffrey Sachs Took Millions From the UAE to Research “Well-Being” Starting in 2016, the men who run the United Arab Emirates went all-in on positivity. They installed a giant smiley face on the dome crowning a Dubai police station. They created a […]
Who Won in Afghanistan? Private Contractors
By Dion Nissenbaum, Jessica Donati, and Alan Cullison, Wall Street Journal The U.S. lost its 20-year campaign to transform Afghanistan. Many contractors won big. Those who benefited from the outpouring of government money range from major weapons manufacturers to entrepreneurs. A California businessman running a bar in Kyrgyzstan […]
The Empire That Cried Genocide: Washington’s Exploitation of Ethnic Brutality from Rwanda to Xinjiang
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The American Empire is crying genocide again. It’s an old song that the war class loves to sing, but one that never fails to get their compliant colleagues in the mass media dancing. No matter how woke these […]
Are Dems BLUFFING On Student Debt Cancellation?
The hosts answer your questions about the Afghanistan War withdrawal, student debt, and Bravo’s housewives.
Chris Hedges REVEALS Inner Workings Of Corrupt Media
Krystal and Kyle Kulinski for Krystal Kyle & Friends talk to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges about his time working in mainstream media and more.
Fauci DEMANDS Fox Host Be ‘Fired On The Spot’
Talk about a heel vs. heel match. Krystal and Saagar respond to the comments made by Dr. Anthony Fauci after he was asked on CNN about criticism he received from Fox News host Jesse Watters at a conservative event
The truth about “Red Browns” & “Nazbols” – Caleb w/ Peter Coffin & Ms. ACD
Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the Occupy Wall Street movement from its early planning stages, and has been involved many struggles for social justice. He […]
Worker Cooperatives Are More Productive Than Normal Companies
By Michelle Chen, The Nation When maximizing profits isn’t the only goal, companies can actually work better. Imagine an economy without bosses. It’s not a utopian vision but a growing daily reality for many enterprises. A close analysis of the performance of worker-owned cooperative firms—companies in which workers […]
Reading Rothbard On ‘Why He Left The Libertarian Party’ w/ Andrew of Popular Liberty
See Rothbard’s article on “Big Government Libertarians.”
Why Millennials Think That the Government is Their Friend
Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The majority of Millennials are overwhelming in favor of a broad variety of “progressive” policies, most of which involve the expansion of government. They are more likely than Generation X to support government policies that penalize people who make seemingly offensive comments, […]
1 in 3 Americans say violence against government can be justified, citing fears of political schism, pandemic
By Meryl Kornfield and Mariana Alfaro Washington Post Phil Spampinato had never contemplated the question of whether violence against the government might be justified — at least not in the United States. But as he watched Republicans across the country move to reshape election laws in response to former […]
Anarchy in the Holy Roman Empire
Some excerpts from Peter H. Wilson’s “Heart of Europe: A History of the Holy Roman Empire.” German Freedom Mutual accusations of lack of patriotism peaked during the Thirty Years War, with Protestants accusing Catholics of selling the Empire to Spanish Jesuits and the pope, while Catholics blamed Protestants […]
The US military can’t get the job done, and the problem starts at the top
By Andrew Bacevich, TomDispatch Professional sports is a cutthroat business. Succeed and the people running the show reap rich rewards. Fail to meet expectations and you get handed your walking papers. American-style war in the 21st century is quite a different matter. Of course, war is not a […]
Robby, Kim, & Ryan PREDICT 2022 midterms outcomes: blowout in the house, toss up in the Senate?
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave make their 2022 midterm election predictions.
Congresswoman Openly Advocates End To American Democracy
Have we pan-secessionists found our leader? If the person who gets the pan-secessionist ball rolling turns out to be this illiterate fruitbat, so be it. “Marjorie Taylor Greene is a troll. But it’s not either or. She can be a troll, and she can be a serious threat to […]
Manias upon Manias: The Rise of the Counter-Woke Collective
By Kevin Hockmuth For those charting the intellectual mood of the mainline American left, it is hard to avoid sensing that a specter is haunting liberal sensibilities—the specter of wokism. Indeed, a stream of anecdotes highlighting this foreboding development has been frequently relayed and expounded upon in the […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends | Chris Hedges
Christopher Lynn Hedges is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author and television host. He has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005) and reported from more than fifty countries. Hedges […]
Retired general warns the U.S. military could lead a coup after the 2024 election
By Mary Louise Kelly, Noah Caldwell, and Ashish Valentine, National Public Radio As the anniversary of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol approaches, three retired U.S. generals have warned that another insurrection could occur after the 2024 presidential election and the military could instigate it. The generals – […]
Greg Lukianoff: The Second Great Age of Political Correctness
Greg Lukianoff, President of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) and co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, joins The Realignment to discuss the differences between debates over political correctness in the […]
The Problem with “Left vs. Right”
By Gary Galles Mises Institute As a libertarian, I have long objected to being characterized on a left-right political spectrum (as with studies of political affiliations that group libertarians with republicans or conservatives on the right). In response to inquiries about where I fit in that framework, over […]
Conservative was allegedly denied a mortgage due to political views
Rebel News Founder Ezra Levant alleges he was denied a mortgage from a bank due to his political views.
NASA Hires Theologians To Help Tell Humans That Alien Life Exists, Per New Report
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss how religion might impact Americans’ reactions to proof of extraterrestrial life.
Americans RENOUNCING Citizenship To AVOID Taxes, Media Narrative MISSES The Mark
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave weigh in on data regarding Americans who have renounced their citizenship.
Climate Scientist: ‘Don’t Look Up’ Hysteria Hits TOO Close To Home, Climate Crisis IGNORED
Climate scientist Peter Kalmus discusses climate change skepticism and the influence of the fossil fuel industry on climate policy.
NEW Book Documents First-Hand Accounts From Gravedigger, Bartender, Nurse, And More Amid PANDEMIC
Host of Working People Podcast and editor-in-chief of The Real News, Max Alvarez, details his new book, “The Work of living.”
NEW: Fentanyl Overdoses Now Killing More Young People Than Covid, Suicide, Car Crashes
The only way to prevent fentanyl overdoses is to legalize opiates and coca-based products and to allow them to be sold at pharmacies and liquor stores. Unfortunately, most people are incapable of rational thinking when it comes to drugs. “Anti-drugcraft” is the anti-witchcraft of the present era, and […]
Youth Mental Health DRAMATICALLY Worsened During Pandemic, Media IGNORES The Issue
Team Rising discuss childrens’ mental health and pandemic school closures.
Food insecurity rises in US military ranks. So does honesty about it.
By Anna Mulrine Grobe Christian Science Monitor When her husband was a Marine Corps sergeant, Bianca Strzalkowski struggled with what, to the couple, felt like a shameful secret: Even on their active-duty military salary, which included a housing allowance, they could not afford enough food and diapers for […]
DEBATE: Can Dems BOUNCE BACK In Time For 2022 Or Are They TRYING To Lose?
Team Rising debates the impact of the Build Back Better bill’s apparent failure on Democrats’ performance in next year’s midterms.
NYU Student FORCED TO SELL EGGS To Pay For Scam Education
Krystal and Saagar tell the story of graduate students at NYU who are paying sky high prices for tuition and living expenses that leads to colossal debt and desperate methods to pay it off
The Single-Mindedness of the Democratic Party
By Paul Gottfried, American Greatness If Democrats can get their way legislatively within the next few months, they may do better than expected in November. The Greek historian Polybius begins his history of the Punic Wars by explaining that Rome “from the beginning” was driven by a single […]
On Being an Empiricist Anarchist in an Era of Tribal-Sectarian Warfare
By Keith Preston Every so often, I like to provide readers with an updated description of who I am and what I do as newer readers are constantly coming to Attack the System who are unaware of this site’s history. I’ve written previous narratives containing the backstory of […]
Truck driver’s sentence lowered to 10 years after originally receiving 110 years for fatal crash
By MARK OSBORNE and DEENA ZARU A truck driver who was sentenced to 110 years in prison for a fatal accident in Colorado has been resentenced to 10 years after an outcry from family and advocates. Gov. Jared Polis announced the commutation of Rogel Aguilera-Mederos’ sentence Thursday. “I […]
11 Years After Trying to Kill Each Other, a Marine and a Talib Meet Again
By Thomas Gibbons-Neff MARJAH, Afghanistan — The tea was hot. The room, oppressive and dusty. And the Taliban commander I sat across from in a bullet-scarred building in southern Afghanistan had tried to kill me a little over a decade ago. As I had tried to kill him. […]
Halsey English and Keith Preston on their 2022 predictions + much more
LISTEN HERE ‘Cotto/Gottfried’ is the thinking man’s current events show. Rather than run with sound-bite-driven ‘interviews’ which last only a few minutes or sensationalist ‘debates’ where the host shouts down the person being addressed, appropriate consideration is given to worthwhile ideas. Knowledge, rather than pandering, is the focal […]
In 2022, Pay Attention to Right-Wing Authoritarianism
By VERONIQUE DE RUGY Reason For decades, libertarians have focused on illiberalism coming from the political left. But authoritarianism has taken root among many conservatives across the world. At the eve of a new year, it’s traditional to make a resolution or two. I have no such list […]
Organization, Repression, Burnout, Action: A Discussion with CrimethInc
It’s Going Down In this latest episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we are joined with a participant of the CrimethInc. collective as we spend several hours broadly discussing contemporary anarchist history and organization, the impact of both material conditions and repression on those organizational forms, how […]
Still Fighting Against the Odds
Crimethinc n Greece, the right-wing New Democracy government came to power in summer 2019, initiating a campaign of repression targeting refugees and the anarchist movement. The following spring, the COVID-19 pandemic hit Greece, enabling New Democracy to clamp down yet further. Yet anarchists have shown considerable resilience, shifting […]
Why is everyone quitting their jobs?
WHO AM I: I’m Dami, a licensed Architect living in Vancouver, BC. I make videos about architecture, career, and creativity. WEBSITE – https://www.damilee.com
America: Love It Or Leave It
By Kaia Hubbard, US News and World Report Long-standing political divisions within states are being heightened in a hyper-partisan climate, fueling secession movements across the country as walking away is looking easier than coming together. When three rural Maryland counties recently threatened to secede from the state, citing […]
How seriously should we take talk of US state secession?
By William G. Gale and Darrell M. West Brookings Institute One troubling sign of our deteriorating civic mood is the shocking breadth of support for secession in the United States. At a time of widespread polarization—where people are arguing over a supposedly stolen election, vaccine mandates, mask-wearing, and […]
The Mask Cultists are Changing Their Story Again …
By Thomas L. Knapp, The Knappster … but they just can’t bring themselves to admit error, hubris, or falsehood. Flashback to March of 2020. Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases: There’s no reason to be walking around with a mask …. […]
Cult classics: the faded glory of California’s fringe sects – in pictures
By Jamie Lee Curtis Taete, The Guardian Fifty years after a golden age for the spiritual groups, many have disbanded. But pockets remain throughout the state Half a century ago, you could barely walk down the street in California without tripping over some kind of fringe spiritual sect […]
BBC Apologizes for Interviewing Alan Dershowitz About Ghislaine Maxwell Verdict
By Lindsey Ellefson Yahoo News! The BBC apologized Thursday for a Wednesday segment that featured Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, discussing the guilty verdicts against Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell. In addition to previously representing Epstein, who died in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, Dershowitz […]
What COVID could look like one year from now
By Caroline Mimbs Nyce The Atlantic The United States is logging record-setting numbers of coronavirus cases in the final week of 2021. The country is now averaging more than 300,000 new cases per day as it prepares to enter a third calendar year spent battling the pandemic. We […]
I thought Trump would go away in 2021. I was wrong.
By Joel Mathis, The Week For me, 2021 will always be the year Donald Trump didn’t go away. I had thought — and predicted — that shorn of office and social media access, the former president would be forced to give up the spotlight. And it’s true that […]
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