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Nexus X HumectressMore drama from Portland. What could possibly go wrong? By Alex Zielinski Portland Mercury As Portland prepares to take on the familiar role as a battlefield for far-right groups brawling with antifascist counter-protesters this Sunday, city leaders are relying on the possibility that attendees will “choose love.” During […]
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farrah, and Kim Iversen are joined by Huffpost reporter Arthur Delaney to discuss the developing situation near the U.S. capitol.
U.S. Capitol Police are investigating an active bomb threat near the Library of Congress. According to reports officials are negotiating with a man in a suspicious vehicle.
In true Soviet fashion… Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to reports that Nathan Robinson, editor-in-chief of Current Affairs, allegedly fired staff for trying to start a workers’ co-op.
She was the only one who got it right in 2001. Even Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul voted for the war in Afghanistan. In 2001, every single member of the House and Senate voted for war in Afghanistan. Except one. Congresswoman Barbara Lee joins Mehdi Hasan to discuss […]
Team Rising debates the potential ban on abortions in the second trimester of pregnancy.
Kim Iversen breaks down the history of war promises made by modern American presidents from Richard Nixon to Joe Biden.
Alyssa Farah explains the hypocrisy of congressmen who vote to extend the eviction moratorium while collecting rent money on their own properties.
Ryan Grim analyzes the “military cable complex.
Ken Klippenstein, investigative reporter at The Intercept, discusses the biometric devices and data that were seized by the Taliban and explains why it’s so dangerous.
Scott Horton joins us to discuss the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, the specifics of how it was done, and the content of Joe Biden’s speech to the nation. Ep. 1952 Scott Horton on What Just Happened in Afghanistan
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss President Biden’s plans to evacuate American citizens from Afghanistan.
Capitol Police have evacuated the Cannon House Office Building, the Library of Congress’s Jefferson Building and other buildings nearby as they investigate an “active bomb threat” near the Capitol building.
By Jack Phillips Epoch Times President Joe Biden during a Wednesday ABC News interview revealed there may be about 15,000 Americans stuck in Afghanistan as U.S. forces hastily attempt to evacuate them at the Kabul airport. Also trying to escape are tens of thousands of Afghans who either […]
The real public health consequences of the lockdown and related recession are now starting to show. By Eric Kolenich Richmond Times Dispatch Emergency rooms in Richmond are seeing more patients now than any point in the pandemic, and the ailments go beyond COVID-19. There’s more heart disease, more […]
By Li Hai Epoch Times The Taliban terrorist group is carrying out a highly organized door-to-door manhunt for people on their wanted list, according to the head of a nonprofit providing intelligence to the United Nations. “They have lists of individuals and even within the very first hours […]
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 57 percent of registered voters in the August 17-18 survey said the U.S. did not do enough to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies from Afghanistan before the Taliban took over. By contrast, 43 percent said the U.S. did […]
Krystal and Saagar separate fact from fiction in this update about the future of covid vaccine booster shots after Biden’s recommendation
Krystal and Saagar go through all of the lies told by Chris Cuomo in his return to CNN after the downfall of his brother
Spencer Ackerman, writer of the Forever Wars Substack, Reign of Terror: How the 9/11 Era Destabilized America and and Produced Trump, and contributing editor at The Daily Beast discusses the legacy of the war on terror with Saagar and Marshall on The Realignment.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by journalist Michael Tracey who explains why the so-called Afghan war experts weighing in on the withdrawal should be ignored
Krystal explores the conflict brewing between deep state actors and Joe Biden following the withdrawal from Afghanistan
Saagar cuts through the media frenzy to deliver the truth about what took place in Afghanistan over the last 20 years up to today
Krystal and Saagar filter out the worst Afghanistan takes online from a few of the usual suspects as the media fanaticism around the situation continues
Krystal and Saagar expose the grifters and frauds who have profited off the Afghanistan war for the past 20 years with little scrutiny
Krystal and Saagar respond to Biden’s recent interview where he addressed the chaos happening in Kabul in the face of withdrawal
By Emily Cochrane and Maria Cramer New York Times The police closed off several streets and sent alerts to congressional staff members, prompting evacuations. WASHINGTON — The United States Capitol Police were negotiating with a man who claimed to have a bomb in a pickup truck outside the […]
Krystal and Saagar break down the chaotic scenes in Afghanistan, massive war profiteering, Chris Cuomo’s return, the future of covid booster shots, terrible media takes, reality in Afghanistan, Biden vs the national security state, failures of the expert class, and more! Timestamps: Afghan Chaos: 0:00 – 20:31 War […]
Wilder, Wealthy, Wise Well, I guess that solves that problem. The collapse of Afghanistan’s armed forces was total and complete. Taliban soldiers entered city after city with little to no resistance. As I write this, a tragic failure is unfolding in Kabul: the last McDonalds® grill in Afghanistan […]
By Aaron Miguel Cantú The Intercept Far from breaking with Trump’s civil disorder prosecutions, Biden has doubled down with an expansive view of extremism. WITH GAS MASKS covering their faces, police officers in Mobile, Alabama, stood guard at the entrance of a highway on-ramp as tear gas wafted in […]
By Saul Austerlitz It was a marriage of opposites, the collision of the middle-class rebels of the local music scene and the working-class motorcycle enthusiasts. Each had seen themselves as refugees from polite society, standing in opposition to the enforced consensus of postwar America. For the bikers, the hippies and […]
Reuters (Reuters) – It took just a few days for the Taliban to sweep across Afghanistan and seize territory they did not already control, sometimes taking major provincial capitals with barely a shot in anger. While much has been made of the Afghan army’s military collapse, interviews with Taliban leaders, Afghan politicians, diplomats and other […]
We speak to Jimmy Dore, host of the Jimmy Dore Show. He discusses why the Afghanistan withdrawal is window dressing to shift divert attention from a refocusing of US imperialism, the West’s concerns for women’s rights in Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover, the Afghanistan war as a big […]
By Andrew Korybko, One World The writing was on the wall this entire time that Biden was actually implementing a fair share of Trump’s foreign policy vision related to trading away his “allies” interests in pursuit of the “greater good” connected to more actively “containing” China in the […]
He tripled down, just like Kyle hoped for.
By 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.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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