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Nexus X HumectressBy Jack Phillips Epoch Times Another mob of looters targeted several San Francisco Bay Area retailers on Sunday night, marking the third such incident in as many days. Police told CBS San Francisco that they responded to the multiple calls of smash-and-grab looting incidents at the Southland Mall […]
By Eric Levitz, Intelligencer In August 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse brought an AR-15 to downtown Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the name of law and order. As protests and riots raged in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake, the 17-year-old Blue Lives Matter enthusiast felt called to serve […]
By Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine It is scarcely an exaggeration to say that the fate of American democracy may hinge on President Joe Biden’s success. If his approval rating sinks too far below 50 percent, it becomes more likely than not that the next election will reinstall […]
Our enemy, the state.
By Brigid Kennedy The Week Though about half of American voters support Democrats’ sweeping social safety net and climate change package, roughly 4 in 10 voters also worry the agenda will worsen inflationary pressures, despite President Biden’s continued assurances to the contrary, a new Morning Consult/Politico poll reveals. Forty-nine […]
By Damon Linker The Week Stephen Hayes and Jonah Goldberg, center-right pundits and co-founders of The Dispatch, have been getting some good press for quitting their longstanding gigs as talking heads on Fox News. The occasion of their protest is Patriot Purge, a revisionist and conspiracy-laden documentary about […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week CNN just showed viewers a “live, real-time example” of censorship in China with a live feed of its segment on tennis star Peng Shuai being cut off. CNN on Monday morning discussed Peng Shuai, the Chinese tennis star who recently disappeared after making sexual […]
By Brendan Morrow The Week A new report from New York’s State Assembly has found there is “overwhelming evidence” that former Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) engaged in sexual harassment. The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Monday released a 46-page report following an eight-month impeachment investigation into the former governor, […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week It’s a sign of how much the Donald Trump era has scrambled our politics that the American right — which not so long ago reflexively and joyfully defended capitalist prerogatives — is now actively considering whether big business has become so powerful that […]
By Samuel Goldman The Week What is Christian nationalism? Unless you’re a devoted student of religion and politics, you’d be forgiven for wondering. The concept has circulated for decades in scholarly circles, where it was more often used in an international context than applied to the United States. […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, Ahmaud Arbery case, Joe Biden running for re-election, Hunter Biden’s business dealing, supply chains ahead of the holiday season, YouTube censoring Breaking Points, delusional Democrats, the fight to unionize Amazon, and more! Merch: https://breaking-points.myshopify.com/ Amazon Labor: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-th… Timestamps: Rittenhouse: 0:00 […]
It’s Going Down Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: RSS Welcome, to This Is America, November 20th, 2021. On this episode, first we speak with the resident of a mobile home park in upstate New York, about how they are organizing to push back against a […]
By Peter R. Quiñones If you ever concerned yourself with Kyle Rittenhouse (KR) crossing state lines with a scary AR-15 there’s a reason: that was the narrative constructed almost immediately by the corporate press. It had nothing to do with the facts of the case. To shine a […]
The civilian sectors of the military-industrial complex and the deep state, like the intelligence services and defense companies, are the real power, and not the uniformed military leadership. By Ethan Barton | Fox News Austin, Milley, McKenzie could have offered resignation to send powerful message to Biden, retired […]
Because they don’t know how to mind their own business and they’re often not as “kind” as they let on. By David Robson, BBC Have you ever come across someone who is incredibly kind and morally upright – and yet also deeply insufferable? They might try to do […]
By Tim Arango New York Times Chesa Boudin, the district attorney of San Francisco, will face a recall election next year after a backlash in one of America’s most liberal cities to his policies aimed at reducing the number of people in jails and prisons. Elections officials in […]
By Jeremy Scahill, The Interception ANY DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS, traditional conservatives, and even some leftists continue to tell themselves that the election of Joe Biden was the first step toward restoring U.S. standing in the world after the damage caused by Donald Trump. And in a variety of ways — […]
By Dominick Mastrangelo The Hill Kyle Rittenhouse, the teenager who was acquitted of murder last week after shooting and killing two people in Kenosha, Wis., during civil unrest there last year, said he supports the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. “I’m not a racist person. I support the BLM movement,” […]
Police say they have a person of interest in custody after a fast-moving SUV broke through a barricade at a holiday parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing at least five and injuring more than 40 people.
By Grayson Quay The Week President Biden assured key donors and allies at a fundraising event last month that he plans to run for a second presidential term in 2024, the Washington Post reports. If elected, he would be 82 years old on Inauguration Day, shattering the record […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something happened on May 25th, 2020, when George Floyd’s heart stopped, something revolutionary. As the whole country watched helplessly while a clearly psychotic police officer murdered a bound and incapacitated human being before a captive audience on a […]
By Helen Davidson, The Guardian The disappearance of the Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai has dominated international news in recent days, but inside China there is barely a whisper. Peng – the former doubles World No 1 – has not been heard from in more than two weeks, […]
Tulsi is now working the Republican angle hard. Maybe she can be our Hindu Eva Peron someday. Krystal and Saagar compare comments made by Tulsi Gabbard on Fox News about Biden’s Build Back Better legislation compared to her Presidential campaign stump speech a couple years ago. Fast forward […]
Yang is right on the mark when he says the Democrats are really two parties in one.
By Marjorie Cohn, Truthout The testimony has concluded in the Georgia murder trial of the three white men who targeted Ahmaud Arbery because he was Black and then killed him. Evidence presented at trial transported us back to the days of the infamous slave patrols. Gregory McMichael, his son […]
A former university instructor talks about his experience so far with quitting the classroom to teach independently on the internet. Jackson Crawford, Ph.D.: Sharing real expertise in Norse language and myth with people hungry to learn, free of both ivory tower elitism and the agendas of self-appointed gurus. […]
By Denise Sawyer, Jay O’Brien VERO BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — Jurors found Andrew Coffee IV not guilty on charges of felony murder and attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, on Friday, determining he acted in self-defense when firing at deputies during a SWAT raid in 2017. When […]
By Mane Kara-Yakoubian Research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology has revealed that hatred toward collective entities, such as institutions or groups – but not individuals – can bolster meaning in life. “I think that any casual observer of human nature recognizes that many prominent cultural […]
I generally share Greenwald’s take on the Rittenhouse case. He was an idiot, but not legally guilty.
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 […]
By Chantal Da Silva and Associated Press Police opened fire on anti-lockdown protesters in the Dutch city of Rotterdam Friday ahead of demonstrations in several European cities against new Covid restrictions. Mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb told reporters about police officers “felt it necessary to draw their weapons to defend themselves” more […]
“Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
By Joe Lancaster Reason Despite a tragic on-set death, there is no need to involve police officers in still more aspects of people’s lives. In October, a tragedy occurred on the set of Rust, a Western film in production in New Mexico, when star Alec Baldwin discharged a […]
*Kyle Rittenhouse: at the very least guilty of reckless endangerment despite plausibly acting in self-defense* We know from studies that the presence of armed individuals in protests, strikes, riots etc increases the chances of violence tremendously. This is true currently and historically. And we know that the presence […]
By Richard Hanania American Affairs Journal REVIEW ESSAY Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam by Vivek Ramaswamy Center Street, 2021, 368 pages In our political culture, there is no issue quite like wokeness. The conversation it provokes tends to be about everything and nothing at the […]
By Richard Hanania Those opposed to the social revolution need to understand how we got here, and present an alternative vision. In American Affairs, I review Woke, Inc., by Vivek Ramaswamy. I find him an interesting and compelling figure, but I think that his critique of wokeness and […]
Virtually everyone’s opinion on this case is based on their tribal affiliations not the facts of the case. You can almost predict what any individual might say based on what you already know about them, or what their stated affiliations are. By Jamala Rogers, LA Progressive In a […]
By Mary Hanbury, Yahoo News A California city is asking retirees, stay-at-home parents, and students to fill empty jobs for 6 months, according to a report. This is a temporary solution to help ease the labor shortage. Businesses across the US are struggling to find workers. A city […]
By Olivia Nuzzi Intelligencer Stephanie Grisham saw the pickup outside and yelped, “That’s Larry!” She grabbed a small package and raced out her front door, down the steps of the porch, through the gate of the white picket fence, and leaned halfway into the truck via the passenger […]
By W. James Antle III, The Week The week ahead of President Biden’s 79th birthday — Saturday, Nov. 20 — there was a considerable amount of drama involving Vice President Kamala Harris. The two are not unrelated. Biden is the oldest person to ever serve as president. He will turn […]
By Ryan Cooper The Week On Friday morning, Democrats passed their Build Back Better agenda through the House. Only hours before their triumphant celebrations, however, reporter Reid Epstein had published a bombshell New York Times article about how Wisconsin Republicans are preparing to set up permanent one-party rule and very possibly […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week Is Donald Trump a continuation of the postwar conservative movement — or its executioner? A year after his electoral defeat, scholars, journalists, and pundits continue to debate the former president’s place in a lineage that extends back to Ronald Reagan, Barry Goldwater, and […]
By Grayson Quay The Week While many anti-racist and police reform activists saw the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict as a defeat for their cause, courts have delivered the movement two victories this week that received far less media attention. Eric DeValkenaere, a former Kansas City police detective who fatally […]
By Grayson Quay The Week Dutch police shot and wounded at least two people Friday night during anti-lockdown riots in Rotterdam, the BBC reported. The protests led to seven injuries and at least 20 arrests. Police used water cannons and lethal force in response to what a police […]
The Week Staff During the debate over spending bills, Democrats proposed raising taxes on the wealthy. Do the rich pay a fair share? Here’s everything you need to know: What do the wealthy pay? Generally, a much lower percentage of their incomes than the middle class. A White […]
By Grayson Quay Protestors reacting to Kyle Rittenhouse’s exoneration broke windows and threw rocks at police officers in Portland, Oregon, Friday night, the New York Post reported. Local law enforcement said they had expected some upheaval in response to a not-guilty verdict. The Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office declared […]
A discussion of the relationship between the far-right and class politics from a far-left “anti-fascist” perspective. Some of this I agree with, and some of it I don’t, but my actual perspective on “anti-fascism” is that fascism is an archaic ideology that actually has very little influence in […]
I’m not a Libertarian Party member, so I don’t get any say in what they do. But, apparently, what is going on in the party is a “culture war” showdown between something called the Mises Caucus (apparently, “paleolibertarian” types with views like those of the Mises Institute) and […]
By Damon Linker, The Week Americans are fond of calling the United States the greatest country in the world. But that doesn’t mean the sentiment is universally shared. Critics point to various measures that raise doubts about the judgment: high rates of childhood poverty, sky-high levels of gun […]
By Brigid Kennedy, The Week The son of newly-exonerated Khalil Islam, who was wrongfully convicted in the 1965 assasination of Malcolm X, explained Thursday that while he’s happy a judge cleared his late father’s name, sadness nevertheless lingers. “It almost sounds casual to me that he’s been exonerated,” […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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