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Nexus X HumectressThe 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.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss the security threat that prompted the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan to tell Americans to avoid the Kabul airport.
Saagar takes a look at the newest effort by the media and the Biden administration to cover up the lab leak theory of covid’s origin
Krystal and Saagar cover the final lie Andrew Cuomo told during his time as governor of New York about the total number of covid deaths that happened under his watch
Krystal and Saagar tell the story of a publicity stunt gone wrong when two congressmen flew out to Kabul for a photo op in the middle of the Afghanistan withdrawal
Krystal goes over the battle to save the eviction moratorium and the failure of the rental relief program to help those who need it most
Krystal and Saagar are once again joined by David Sirota to discuss the inner workings of Bernie’s budget reconciliation bill and corruption from corporate Democrats including Rahm Emanuel
Krystal details the corruption from healthcare consultants in the vaccine rollout process and what it shows about the American healthcare system
Krystal and Saagar break down the steps being taken by Nancy Pelosi and congressional Democrats to pass the budget reconciliation bill proposed by Bernie Sanders
Krystal and Saagar dive into the latest numbers showing that Biden’s approval ratings have reached new lows for a variety of reasons
Krystal and Saagar react to the divide between Alex Jones and Trump on the covid vaccine
V-RADIO Website: V-RADIO.US OR https://linktr.ee/VTV115 SOURCES: Hillary Clinton tries to distract from Bernie’s exposure of Wall Street with Social Justice Bullshit: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/us… Nexis Lexis Twitter Thread of stats of the articles that were written mentioning Occupy and Occupy’s issues declining, with social justice articles shooting STRAIGHT UP. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/11… […]
By Lenore Skenazy Reason “The next step, after tickets, it goes to child abuse.” What happens on a summer’s eve when a couple dozen kids and parents spill into the street for a neighborhood game of kickball? On a well-manicured street in Colorado Springs last week, this […]
Consequence.Net Spencer Elden, who was famously photographed as a baby for Nirvana’s iconic Nevermind album cover, is suing the band for child sexual exploitation. The lawsuit comes just a month shy of the landmark album’s 30th anniversary. One of the most famous album covers of all time, Nevermind […]
By Jamie Ross, The Daily Beast OnlyFans has heard the massive backlash against its plans to ban porn from its platform and has announced a screeching u-turn. In a statement posted Wednesday, the company confirmed: “Thank you to everyone for making your voices heard. We have secured assurances […]
By Nadia Ahmad Common Dreams The American departure from Afghanistan was inevitable. We shouldn’t ask what went wrong? We need to ask: what could possibly have gone right? Since the U.S. withdrawal in Afghanistan, there has been no shortage of solidarity statements to mourn the demise of democracy […]
By Zachary Stieber Epoch Times At least two explosions took place near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, complicating efforts to evacuate Americans, Afghans, and others trying to leave the country before the United States pulls out its troops. A bomb went off at the Abbey Gate […]
Krystal and Saagar cover the drop in Biden’s approval ratings, evacuations from Afghanistan, a failed congressional stunt, Andrew Cuomo’s final lie, Bernie’s budget reconciliation bill, a challenge to the eviction moratorium, media lies about lab leak, and more!
I don’t necessarily endorse these “smart perspectives” that Linker recommends, but they make for interesting reading. By Damon Linker, The Week If you’re like me, you’ve been frustrated and more than a little irritated by media analysis of recent events in Afghanistan. While on-the-ground reporting has been invaluable, […]
By Joel Mathis, The Week The bombings at the Kabul airport on Thursday is a reminder of a fundamental truth: War is an ugly, bloody, violent affair. That may seem self-evident, even simple. Everybody has heard the “war is hell” cliché at some point. But it bears repeating at this […]
By Peter Weber, The Week People 65 and older are the most-vaccinated demographic in the U.S., with more than 84 percent fully vaccinated, versus 52 percent of the entire U.S. population. “But national averages mask the high rate of older Americans who remain deeply vulnerable,” The New York […]
By Samuel Goldman, The Week America’s European allies are not happy about the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan. In a speech last week, the EU’s foreign policy official Josep Borrell described the situation as a “catastrophe.” Borrell is not the only European critic. German politician Armin Laschet, who […]
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