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Nexus X HumectressThroughout history, the Russians have always held a bad hand. Their geography and climate make the basics of life – food and security – devilishly difficult. Their lack of navigable rivers demands huge rafts of artificial infrastructure, but that costs money that Russia’s brutal winters and vast distances […]
Scott interviews author and geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan. Zeihan does not believe China will be a nation state ten years from now. One reason, he argues, is that China’s economy is completely dependent on the disappearing American presence keeping the peace on the world’s oceans. This, of course, […]
This survey was conducted online within the United States from Dec 6 – Dec 7 among 926 registered voters by HarrisX. The sampling margin of error of this poll is plus or minus 3.2 percentage points.
Krystal and Saagar go in detail to discuss how Starbucks workers in Buffalo, NY were able to overcome management to form the first unions within the coffee giants
Executive Vice President of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, Trita Parsi, reacts to the limited media coverage of talks surrounding Iran’s nuclear program.
Krystal and Saagar give an update on the Omicron variant and how pharmaceutical companies such as Pfizer have responded to the spread of the new covid strain
Kim Iversen explains why the Biden administration’s Democracy Summit is hypocritical.
Krystal and Saagar update viewers on the deadly tornadoes that went across five states and left at least 100 people dead including Amazon workers trapped in a warehouse
Investigative reporter, Ken Klippenstein, details attempts by Kellogg’s to replace striking workers.
Krystal and Saagar provide the updated statistics on inflation happening throughout the economy and the toll it is having on the wage gains made by workers
Deputy opinion editor, Batya Ungar-Sargon, reacts to Chris Wallace’s departure from Fox News to CNN.
Saagar outlines how Apple CEO Tim Cook sold out the principles he and his company apparently stood for to China in a secret deal in exchange for massive profits in the Chinese market
Team Rising weighs in on the response to the devastating tornadoes that ripped through the Midwest.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by filmmaker Gabriel Shipton, the brother of journalist and publisher Julian Assange who is set to be extradited to the US to face charges brought by the DOJ
Robby Radar argues against covid vaccine mandates for chidlren.
Krystal and Saagar respond to the decision made by longtime Fox News anchor Chris Wallace to leave the network for CNN’s new streaming service that is doomed to fail
Ryan Grim details the next steps in the fight against big tech and the potential obstacles in the government’s way.
Krystal and Saagar cover the news that Steven Donziger has been released from prison and sent back home to serve out the rest of his sentence after unrelenting pressure from independent media
Ryan Grim and Robby Soave react to a British court’s decision to overturn a lower court ruling that had blocked Julian Assange’s extradition. They also discuss Steven Donziger being released to home confinement for the rest of his sentence.
Krystal picks apart the lies told by MSNBC about Julian Assange and the charges being leveled against him by the US DOJ
Krystal and Saagar cover the worsening inflation numbers, devastating tornadoes in Appalachia, Pfizer’s campaign for another booster, Starbucks workers unionizing, Chris Wallace’s puzzling decision, Apple selling out to China, MSNBC vs Julian Assange, the next steps for Julian Assange with his brother, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Help Assange: […]
Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski talk with substack journalist Freddie DeBoer about class politics
Krystal and Saagar cover the hilarious messaging failure from Democratic party communications staff who celebrated a two cent decline in gas prices on social media
Krystal and Saagar examine whether the DC rally by a white nationalist group was a real event or if it was staged by feds to boost fears of domestic terrorism
Krystal and Saagar look at how the disgraced Cuomo brothers planned to avoid a sexual misconduct scandal for Andrew by using the playbook Joe Biden deployed against Tara Reade.
Nils Melzer responds to the Julian Assange verdict on a special Useful Idiots Livestream. Nils Melzer is the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture; Human Rights Chair, Geneva Academy; Professor of International Law, University of Glasgow; Vice-President IIHL, and the author of The Trial of Julian Assange (https://twitter.com/nilsmelzer)
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It happens over and over again. Another day, another shooting. Another day, another nightmare. Another sleepy small-town community put on the map for all the most horrifying of reasons. Another school shattered by unspeakable violence. Another lonely pissed […]
By Keith Preston Anyone who follows the mainstream media, Congress, or elite intellectual circles knows that the Blue Tribe is increasingly fearful of a right-wing coup by the Trumpists with the common refrain being that January 6 was only a warm-up event for the real thing. I’m going […]
By James Patterson, Law and Liberty Coverage of the recent National Conservatism conference has highlighted the growing divisions in the conservative movement, especially when it comes to the exertion of political power in economic life. The intellectual roots of this conflict were on display earlier this year when […]
Examining a classic.
Matt Taibbi explains how media coverage of the Biden administration’s woes reveal the rot in elite journalistic circles.
By Grayson Quay The Week Voters in the French territory of New Caledonia vote Sunday on whether to remain a part of France, The Associated Press reports. New Caledonia, an archipelago in the South Pacific with a population of around 250,000, became a French colony in 1853, gained […]
By Brigid Kennedy It can be difficult to understand what exactly is happening along the Russia-Ukraine border without knowledge of the countries’ deeply intertwined histories. That said, here’s everything you need to know: What’s going on with Russia and Ukraine? A build-up of Russian military troops along Ukraine […]
By George Packer, The Atlantic To head off the next insurrection, we’ll need to practice envisioning the worst. A year after the insurrection, I’m trying to imagine the death of American democracy. It’s somehow easier to picture the Earth blasted and bleached by global warming, or the human […]
From, May 2021. BY ALEX GRANIER, Baton Rouge Advocate Democrats are waging political war on all fronts to transform America into a one-party state. Recently Democrats launched a legislative effort to “pack the court,” which if realized would add four seats to the U.S. Supreme Court. Since President […]
By Jeffrey Goldberg The Atlantic The GOP’s leaders are attempting to destroy the foundations of American democracy. In October of 1860, The Atlantic’s first editor, James Russell Lowell, wrote of Abraham Lincoln that he “had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough […]
From February, 2020. By Brynn Tannehill, Dame Magazine The GOP has rigged the system on every level of government. Is there a path forward? ell me why you kept kicking him. You had already won.” “Knocking him down won the first fight. I wanted to win all the […]
From October, 2020. The different ruling class factions and their constituent groups increasingly favor one-party rule. by Jeffrey M. Jones Gallup 41% of Americans favor unified control of federal government 23% want divided control 52% of Republicans, 43% of Democrats favor one-party control WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new […]
This editorial from the local newspaper in Colorado Springs (April 2021) nails it. The various ruling class factions understand their system is crumbling and the different factions are looking for ways to create a one-party state for themselves. By Barry Fagin, Colorado Springs Gazette It doesn’t take much […]
From August 2020. New York Post Editorial Board Democratic lawmakers in Albany are never satisfied: Their party already has a firm lock on the key levers of power, yet last week they moved to solidify that power even more — via an amendment to the state Constitution. And […]
From September 2020. By Marc Thiessen, The Washington Post Democrats say “democracy is on the ballot” in November. They are right — because a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for a one-party state. That’s not hyperbole. If Biden wins, Democrats will likely keep the House and […]
The popularized expression “Let’s go, Brandon!” definitely has its legitimate applications. From the comments: “I clearly remember people saying that the Middle East would be the second Vietnam in the mid-2000s. Where are all those naysayers now that the Middle Eastern wars are unpopular EVEN AMONGST CONSERVATIVES? I […]
It has been argued by myself and others that the USA has more in common with Latin America than Europe, with the major exception being that the US has traditionally had a larger middle class. While the US ruling class increasingly resembles that of the European Union, a […]
Tim Marshall, author of The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World, The Age of Walls: How Barriers Between Nations Are Changing Our World, and Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World, joins The Realignment to discuss how the […]
At present, the Trumpists are the least dangerous faction of the Republican Party. The other two major factions, the neocon-led Never Trumpers and the neocon-adjacent/infested Natcons are worse. The Never Trumpers are folks who want to return the Bush-era neocons to power (e.g. Liz Cheney). Natcons want to […]
The participants on January 6 were mostly a motley collection of aging losers and mentally ill fruitbats. No one involved has been charged with sedition, treason, terrorism offenses, murder, or attempted murder. Mostly, there are guilty of institutional offenses like interfering with Congressional proceedings, or petty crimes like […]
By Emile Doak, The American Conservative Conservatism is alive and well. David Brooks is a scorned lover. This refers not to the circumstances surrounding his divorce from his wife of twenty-seven years, finalized in 2014 while he was writing The Road to Character. No, Brooks has instead been […]
By David Brooks The Atlantic The rich philosophical tradition I fell in love with has been reduced to Fox News and voter suppression. I fell in love with conservatism in my 20s. As a politics and crime reporter in Chicago, I often found myself around public-housing projects like […]
By Kaitlyn Tiffany The Atlantic A poster in the window of Cahoots Corner Cafe—great potatoes, good coffee—advertised a family event at the Oakdale, California, rodeo grounds. There would be food trucks, carnival games, live music, a raffle, and the opportunity to support the cause of “freeing child sex […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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