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Nexus X HumectressBy Andrew Sullivan An expert on East Asia helps me think through the complicated challenge of how to deal with Xi. Michael, currently in Hong Kong, is a veteran journalist on East Asian affairs and a regular contributor to The Atlantic and Bloomberg. He’s written a book on […]
By GQ Pan Epoch Times Students at Connecticut’s Quinnipiac University will be fined up to $2,275 and lose internet access if they fail to comply with the university’s COVID-19 vaccination policies. The private liberal arts college in New Haven County announced the new penalties on Aug. 16 in […]
Duh? By John Reid Blackwell Times-Dispatch The economic gap between white workers and workers of color has widened during the pandemic, as well as the wealth gap between lower income Virginians and those with higher incomes, according to a recent study by Virginia Commonwealth University and research from […]
By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said that data sourced from Israel on COVID-19 vaccines show that the efficacy of the shots has dropped among individuals who received their vaccines early on. Citing three studies […]
By Matt Taibbi MSNBC rails against the “fantastically corrupt elite” on the ground that ruined the Afghan mission, but the real corruption was our own. On MSNBC the other night, Rachel Maddow told a story about visiting Afghanistan a decade ago. She described being taken on a tour […]
We look at the brutal, stupid, and embarrassing end of our brutal, stupid, and embarrassing twenty year occupation of Afghanistan.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss the Nabisco workers’ strike.
Briahna Joy Gray, host of Bad Faith, breaks down the latest battle between moderate and progressive Dems over the infrastructure bill and reconciliation package.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to reports that Prince Andrew is a person of interest in the investigation into Jeffrey Epstein.
Kudos to Ryan Grim for bringing up Saudi Arabia during the discussion of the Taliban. Team Rising discusses the Taliban’s latest promises to protect women’s rights.
The Vietnam War made it impossible for the system to fight imperialist wars with conscript armies. The War on Terrorism may have made it impossible to fight imperialist wars even with volunteer professional military. In the future, the overlords of the empire will attempt to retain their position […]
Alyssa Farah reacts to the right-wing fear-mongering around potential Afghan refugees coming to the United States.
As I have said before, the Democraps are now really two parties in one, a centrist neoliberal neo-Rockefeller Republican party, and an oppositional neo-Ted Kennedyesque progressive liberal party. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s pushback against the budget resolution.
This is a funny description of how Congress critters act like middle-schoolers behind the scenes. Ryan Grim explains how Rep. Josh Gottheimer’s unpopularity with his colleagues in Congress is affecting the outcome of budget resolution.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s comments on American citizens who remain in Afghanistan.
Kunwar Khuldune Shahid of The Spectator on the religious tyranny in the IRP and its leader’s pathetic attempts to export it beyond his borders. ~MRDA~ _____________________ An eight-year-old Hindu boy is currently in custody in the southern Punjab. He is the youngest person in Pakistan to be charged with […]
Imagine having a racket where everyone is required to get regular injections of your product or else.
Why does America even have a Whistleblower Protection Act if it’s completely meaningless?
Scott Horton is director of the Libertarian Institute, editorial director of Antiwar.com, host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica, 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles, California and podcasts the Scott Horton Show from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2021 Book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on […]
Afghanistan. After al-Qaeda terrorists attacked us on 9/11, brave warriors, special forces quickly deployed to defeat al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. They accomplished their mission rapidly and effectively. THAT is when they should have returned home. But the elite wanted to nation-build, getting us into a 20-year war with no […]
There are brain drains, and there are skin-in-the-game drains.
If the post-United States lacks a federal government altogether, we will probably end up looking something like ancient Greece.
If the post-United States maintains any kind of federal or confederal system, it will likely resemble something like the Holy Roman Empire.
There is a good number of threads on Quora discussing this idea. It is clear that pan-secessionist ideas are increasingly working their way into the mainstream and being discussed more seriously by a greater number of people from many different points on the political and cultural spectrum. Over […]
As the DOJ releases new video showing the horrific attack on the Capitol by MAGA supporters, the widow of a Capitol Police officer who died by suicide after the insurrection is now suing his alleged attacker. MSNBC’s Chief Legal Correspondent Ari Melber is joined by NYU law professor […]
While I have no doubt that Donald Trump would have no problem with becoming an Erdogan-like president for life if he could, even more dangerous are the right-wing plutocratic flunkies in the Republican Party like Marco Rubio, Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and others who want a […]
My main priority as far as US politics is concerned is to keep the Bush-era neocons and their allies or descendants from ever returning to power. Right now, we have three de facto political parties: the neo-Rockefeller Republicans (centrist Democrats), neo-Know Nothings (Trumpists/American Le Penists), and neo-Ted Kennedy […]
Kermit Warren is a hardworking grandfather and the head deacon of his church in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. After losing his home to Hurricane Katrina, Kermit managed to rebuild his life. Thanks to a dogged work ethic, frugal lifestyle, diligent saving, and a small inheritance, […]
By Lisa Beilfuss Barron’s New census data paint a picture of an older and more diverse U.S. where population growth is slowing, changes that have major economic and political upshots. The country’s population grew 7.4% over the past decade, according to 2020 census data released last week. That […]
By Ben Norton The leftist governments of Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, and Bolivia have found a key strategic ally in Iran, the heart of the Axis of Resistance. Revolutionary socialist movements in Latin America are developing closer relations with anti-imperialist resistance forces in West Asia, building a united front […]
By Michael Puttré Discourse It was ‘mission accomplished’ by 2002, but then the U.S. embarked on a much bigger, and impossible, mission. The 20-year American-led experiment to turn a rogue state into a Western-style democracy has come crashing to the ground. There will be plenty of recriminations, and […]
For close to 7 years, Yemen has been entangled in a devastating civil war that’s left more than 5 million citizens on the brink of starvation. In 2015, the Saudi’s instituted a blockade, which has only exacerbated the conditions and have prevented much needed resources from reaching the […]
This commentary is surprisingly sensible. Lawrence O’Donnell must be planning on retiring soon. Lawrence O’Donnell says no one knows how to run the American evacuation from Afghanistan without the same chaos and dishonor we experienced in Vietnam.
Rick Scott, the Republican senator from Florida who ran a company that committed the largest Medicare fraud in American history, suggested on Monday that the senate should consider using the 25th Amendment to remove President Joe Biden from office. This was Scott’s response to the situation unfolding in […]
–Marjorie Taylor Greene goes on Steve Bannon’s show and says she’s working on articles of impeachment against Joe Biden for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan
By Branko Marcetic The Jacobin In Afghanistan, as in Vietnam and Iraq, US elites sold us a vision of the world in which the United States alone has not just the power but the duty to forcibly reshape the world how it sees fit. They have again proven […]
A reader writes: “Keith, have you noticed how American sentiments around the war in Afghanistan seem to cut across all political affiliations? It reminds me of how Brexit cut across party lines in the UK. Against the war are the majority of the public (at least, that’s my […]
Congress has a 25% approval rating. Who cares what they have to say? Most of them supported this war and have been wrong about almost everything.
It’s crazy to have everything and still want everything while fighting like hell to make sure everyone else has nothing
This is why American needs to stay out of Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, Somalia and all other countries.
Team Rising discusses CNN’s Clarissa Ward coverage of the Taliban on the ground in Afghanistan and the backlash she’s faced.
Lucas Kunce, national security expert and Missouri Senate candidate, explains why Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban was inevitable.
Kim Iversen examines the increase in fire arms sales over the past year.
Alyssa Farah breaks down the eight biggest mistruths of President Biden’s defense of his Afghanistan withdrawal strategy.
Ryan Grim analyzes why the Taliban was able to take over Afghanistan so quickly.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to President Biden’s speech on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 46 percent of voters approve of Vice President Kamala Harris in the White House while 42 percent disapprove, and 12 percent said neither. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farrah, and Kim Iversen discuss. This survey was conducted online within the […]
“I know my decision will be criticized. But I would rather take all that criticism than pass this decision on to another president of the United States, yet another one, a fifth one.” Joseph Biden. That’s about the most presidential thing I’ve heard in a good long time.
Krystal and Saagar talk with the author of the Afghanistan papers about the lies that were told in the years leading up to the fall of Kabul
Saagar looks back at the fall of Saigon to counter the media and show what the real lesson is from the Vietnam war is now that Afghanistan has fallen
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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