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Nexus X HumectressBy Matt Taibbi The American political system has been captured by the military, and only an independent political power can prevent the next Afghanistan. On the Sunday morning shows today, prestige media did its best to soften the blow of Afghanistan. A key theme: we didn’t lose to […]
How shitlib narratives are slandering anti-imperialist and working class-oriented leftists as fascists.
A critique of a utopian science fiction writer on dystopia.
A Newsweek article about this guy can be found here. “One person who stops lying can bring down a tyranny ” Alexander Solzhenitsyn
By Dylan Donnelly Express According to sources, the SAS squadron would like to set up a base in the Afghan-Pakistan border. The group will then conduct undercover strikes against ISIS-K, the Afghanistan sect of ISIS, based in the east of the country. Their base will also be used […]
By Caitlin Tasker Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is set to break new ground for the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it hits theaters on September 3, 2021. The first nearly all-Asian American cast for Marvel Studios has recently been overshadowed by the Spider-Man: No Way […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It was the perfect plot for a desperate hour. It was 2019 going on 2020 and the Clintonians who had run the Democratic Party since the early nineties were on the cusp of losing the parties presidential primary […]
By William S. Lind, Traditional Right By “Mars Ascendant,” I do not mean the little green men who pole their gondolas along the planet’s peaceful canals are about to invade and conquer earth. I refer to a different Mars, Mars the god of war. I think he is […]
One point that Bill Lind makes in this piece that I think is particularly relevant to the future of the US is that his description of present day Iraq is very similar to what I have long believed the future of the US will look like. Bill writes: […]
Retired General Dan Bolger, author of Why We Lost: A General’s Inside Account of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, joins The Realignment’s season premiere to discuss the rise and fall of America’s post-9/11 military interventions.
Hat tip to Jim Bell for digging this up. By Andrew Bryant , Theresa A Lawrie , Therese Dowswell , Edmund J Fordham , Scott Mitchell , Sarah R Hill , Tony C Tham Background: Repurposed medicines may have a role against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The antiparasitic ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, has now been tested in numerous […]
Dr. Avi Loeb, professor at Harvard University, his creation of The Galileo Project.
Amy Chua, professor at Yale Law School and author of Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, joins The Realignment to discuss how political and […]
Yesterday the Supreme Court struck down the federal eviction moratorium that was reinstalled at the beginning of the month. It declared that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had overstepped its own power, as The New York Times reports, citing the eight-page opinion: “The C.D.C. has imposed […]
By JULIE WATSON and BRIAN MELLEY, Associated Press SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s assassin was granted parole Friday after two of RFK’s sons spoke in favor of Sirhan Sirhan’s release and prosecutors declined to argue he should be kept behind bars. The decision was […]
By Jack Phillips Epoch Times A spokesman for the Taliban said that Afghans who have government-issued weapons, ammunition, or vehicles need to hand them over or face punishment. “All those who have government goods, equipment, weapons, ammunition, or vehicles need to hand them over to the relevant department,” […]
By Mimi Nguyen Ly Epoch Times The U.S. military carried out a counterterrorism drone strike against a member of the ISIS-K terrorist group in Afghanistan early on Aug. 28 local time, according to U.S. Central Command. In a statement, CENTCOM spokesman Capt. Bill Urban said that the U.S. military […]
W. James Antle, The Week The horrific bombing in Kabul on Thursday was a stark reminder of why the United States has remained at war in Afghanistan for 20 years. When terrorists murder civilians or American troops, there must be justice, punishment, and deterrence. But after a particularly heinous attack, […]
By Ryan Cooper, The Week Nine months after several highly effective coronavirus vaccines started to become available in America, and three to five months after they became available in pharmacies across the country, the pandemic is now as bad as it’s ever been in many states. In Louisiana, Mississippi, […]
By Gerry Shih Niha Masih Dan Lamothe Washington Post As the Taliban encircled Kabul on Aug. 15, Fada Mohammad told his family about what he’d seen on Facebook: Canada and the United States were airlifting anyone who wanted to leave out of the Kabul airport. But if Fada […]
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Precious metals markets are rallying on some early Friday remarks from Jerome Powell. The Federal Reserve chairman is speaking at the Jackson Hole virtual gathering of central bankers Friday and Saturday, and he started off by emphasizing the view that high inflation […]
The good news about the weaponization of the pandemic by the culture war factions is that the ruling class’ ambition for a national unity regime under Biden as the figurehead isn’t going to work out. By Peter R Quinones These people just suck. I’m at the point where […]
News arrives a little more slowly here in northern Iceland. But as the details of the horrific attack against US service members and Afghan nationals came in across my phone, so too did many arguments that these are exactly the same sorts of individuals the US should remain […]
By Alexander Zaitchik New Republic In July 1979, shortly after installing a set of solar panels over the West Wing, Jimmy Carter did something peculiar for a peacetime president. He asked Americans to sacrifice: to consume less, take public transit more, value community over material things, and buy bonds to fund […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds voters place equal blame on Afghan leaders and President Biden for the current situation in This survey was conducted online within the United States from August 13-14 and August 16-17 among 1919 registered voters by HarrisX. The sampling […]
Brittany Ramos DeBarros, New York congressional candidate, discusses the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.
David Sirota, founder of The Daily Poster, discusses the Democrats attempting to undermine the budget bill.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to reports of a lawsuit against Huawei, a Chinese telecommunication company, for stealing trade secrets.
As long as he stays there. Team Rising discusses former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel’s various connections to Japan.
A great victory of the lumpenproletariat against the banksters. Team Rising reacts to OnlyFans dropping their planned ban on sexually explicit acts.
Yet another step toward Civil War Two. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss the whistleblower website created to enforce the Texas “heartbeat bill.”
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 68 percent of voters support impeaching Andrew Cuomo after his resignation, including majorities of voters across party lines. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah, and Kim Iversen discuss.
The public may be a lot smarter than I thought. Krystal and Saagar discuss the reasons why everyone hates Kamala Harris as vice president even more than her predecessors.
By Caitlin Johnstone ISIS has reportedly claimed credit for an explosion near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. As of this writing there are around 90 dead including 13 US military personnel, though to read western mainstream media reports you’d think only US troops died and not scores of Afghans as […]
By Thomas L. Knapp, Garrison Center “President Joe Biden continues to humiliate the United States,” Joseph Klein whines at neoconservative rag FrontPageMag, “by letting the Taliban terrorists dictate the terms of his surrender.” Furthermore, writes Klein, “the president is clearly willfully blind to ISIS in Afghanistan being a long-term […]
Terry Gross, NPR CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward can’t stop looking at the bruise on her arm. It’s a reminder of her harrowing escape last week from Afghanistan. At the end of a trip reporting on the fall of the Afghan government, Ward found the Kabul airport […]
By Patrick Buchanan, Intellectual Takeout As President Lyndon Johnson and the best and brightest of the 1960s were broken on the wheel of Vietnam, the Biden presidency may well be broken on the wheel of the Taliban’s triumph in Afghanistan. Less than a week into the chaotic U.S. […]
By Ulick Fitzhugh, The Burkean A Historicist Revolt in Jurisprudence “The Guilty Have No Past” – Death in June Edmund Burke’s ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ cemented, in the eyes of conventional scholars and lay people alike, his place as the father of modern conservatism. Although frequently […]
Wall Street Journal More than 100 people were killed, including at least 13 U.S. service members and 90 Afghans, at the Kabul airport Thursday when two blasts ripped through crowds trying to enter the American-controlled facility, disrupting the final push of the U.S.-led evacuation effort. A suicide bomb […]
Anarchist News via The Federation of Anarchism Era Afghan anarchists need to leave Afghanistan urgently! The Taliban are now on the verge of establishing their own government in Afghanistan. The powerful countries of the world did not prevent or hinder this Taliban project. Unfortunately, the people of Afghanistan […]
Why not? By Charles P. Pierce Esquire In Portland, the mayor and police chief announced cops would not intervene if brawls broke out at a political demonstration. hile we’re all watching week-old films from the airport in Kabul, and rending our garments—rightfully and self-righteously—about the plight of the […]
By Robert Mackey, The Intercept Portland’s police force chose to stand back and stand by as Proud Boys who came to the city to fight with anti-fascists assaulted protesters and a right-wing gunman opened fire. Portland narrowly avoided tragedy on Sunday as the city’s police force abandoned its […]
By Tess Riski, Williamette Week Portland’s Bureau of Emergency Communications, which fields 911 calls for the city, did not dispatch police when a Chevron gas station employee called to report a potential explosion hazard as dueling protesters threw fireworks near the gas pumps during a street battle. WW […]
By Tom Vanden Brook Josh Meyer Rebecca Morin USA TODAY WASHINGTON – Explosions outside the Kabul airport that have caused multiple U.S. casualties come as Biden administration officials have been alarmed in recent days by threats at Hamid Karzai International Airport by ISIS-K, a terrorist group that is a […]
Kyle has spent more time saying “WE ARE STILL IN AFGHANISTAN” than the MSM has even mentioned them in the last decade.
By George Packer, The Atlantic Even those with a visa must endure harrowing conditions on their way to freedom. or the past 10 days, thousands of private citizens have been working around the clock, through informal networks of friends and colleagues, to organize evacuation flights from Afghanistan to […]
This is pretty interesting. Kim Iversen discusses her family’s journey from Vietnam to America.
Alyssa Farah reacts to NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s official resignation.
Ryan Grim discusses the connection between the bipartisan organization, No Labels, and the “Unbreakable Nine”, a group of Democrats blocking the party’s agenda.
Team Rising discusses a new Quinnipiac poll showing that Florida voters do not support a Gov. Ron DeSantis run for president.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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