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Nexus X HumectressExcellent. These are the kinds of protests we need more of. Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen react to the protests outside Raytheon, a defense contractor that makes weapons, in Rhode Island.
Krystal and Saagar go through the new census data that outlines demographic trends and the failures of Democrats across the board
Krystal examines a shocking and revealing segment on Fox News that shows exactly how the wealthy elite views American workers
Krystal and Saagar alert viewers to the newest crisis in Haiti stemming from a huge earthquake and upcoming tropical storm.
Krystal and Saagar are joined by foreign policy expert Richard Hanania to debunk the lies told by neocons about the withdrawal from Afghanistan and explain where the US went wrong in the war
Saagar returns to inform viewers about who exactly is to blame for the collapse in Afghanistan after 20 years and trillions of dollars spent.
Krystal and Saagar criticize the warmongers in the media for how they reacted to the collapse of Afghanistan after 20 years of lies.
Krystal and Saagar break down the truths and lies behind the collapse of Afghanistan to the Taliban and how it ended this way.
By Marwan Bishara Senior political analyst at Al Jazeera. The Taliban victory is a major humiliation for the US, but perhaps that’s the silver lining of the Afghan tragedy. Last week’s turn of events in Afghanistan has been utterly shocking but hardly surprising. The Taliban’s blistering takeover of […]
By Jack Phillips Epoch Times Afghanistan’s president, Ashraf Ghani, on Sunday fled the country as the Taliban terrorist group surrounded the capital, Kabul, according to a senior official, while the Taliban entered the Afghan presidential palace. Photos circulating online show members of the Taliban, holding AK-47-style rifles, inside […]
By Matt Taibbi As the Taliban waltzes into Kabul, the look of surprise on the faces of top officials should frighten us most of all. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, when asked months ago about the possibility that there might be a “significant deterioration” of the security picture […]
Krystal and Saagar dive into the Afghanistan collapse to the Taliban, warmonger frustration over the withdrawal, trends in the new census data, Haiti natural disaster, whose to blame for Afghanistan, corporate attacks on workers, US failures abroad, and more!
I’ve always disliked David Brooks as a neocon mouthpiece. But his “bourgeois bohemians” thesis was prophetic. When you’re right, you’re right. By David Brooks, The Atlantic The dispossessed set out early in the mornings. They were the outsiders, the scorned, the voiceless. But weekend after weekend—unbowed and undeterred—they […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Do you smell that, dearest motherfuckers? Secession is in the air and not just among freaky anarchists like me. From coast to coast, from border to border, Americans of all stripes, shades and sizes are openly discussing and […]
By Peter Zeihan on August 15, 2021 On New Years Eve, just minutes before the dawn of 1992, the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin for the last time. Arguably the Cold War had been over for a few years already. Glasnost and perestroika had defanged the thorny […]
David Dayen, executive director of The American Prospect, discusses the extension of the moratorium on federal student loan payments and debates whether or not the Biden administration will push to cancel student debt altogether.
While I am the polar opposite of a “conservative” plutocrat apologist, I also reject the state-centrism of nearly all “progressives.” What I would prefer is a dismantling of the legal and institutional apparatus that makes centralization of wealth possible in the first place.
One thing I find particularly interesting is just how vast anti-statist thinking is. This piece is a very good discussion of intellectual and political history. The arguments are mostly a regurgitation of Russell Kirk, Robert Nisbet, and other similar thinkers in the Burkean conservative tradition. In his history […]
Vaush caters neoliberal imperialist talking points to his zoomer audience that he has built playing the edgy antifa guy that debates fascists. Sad how these people think they are lefties.
His story dealing with Chevron’s ruthless legal team and the damage they wreaked upon South America.
By Matt Taibbi On the road from stirring symbol of hope and change to the Fat Elvis of neoliberalism, birthday-partying Barack Obama sold us all out. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. — Leo Tolstoy “Even Scaled Back,” wrote Vanity Fair, “Barack […]
By Sávio Coelho, Startup Societies Foundation Refugees are one of the most controversial topics in modern politics. Not since the end of World War II has the world faced such an influx of inter-jurisdictional refugees. According to United Nations data, over 3 million Iraqis left their country since […]
Aug. 2, 2021: Nationally syndicated radio talk show host, Larry Elder, met with California opinion editors to share his views and explain his reasons for entering the California recall election.
Journal of Special Jurisdictions This special issue’s topic is non-territorial governance. We sought papers that explored the relationship between non-territorial forms of governance, such as blockchain, the internet and distributed communities, and special jurisdictions, including Special Economic Zones and other forms of Startup Societies. We decided to put these […]
By Tom W. Bell Governments across the globe have created special jurisdictions offering common law rules and practices imported from abroad, the better to attract foreign investment and stimulate local economic growth. Four such common law zones have launched in recent years: the United Arab Emirates’ Dubai International […]
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Money Metals After getting off to a rough start to open the week, precious metals markets appear to be stabilizing. Gold and silver prices got walloped in a futures selling raid ahead of Monday’s market open. Some leveraged speculators who faced margin […]
By Andrew Sullivan In the great movie, “A Man For All Seasons”, there’s a classic scene when Thomas More speaks to his ultimate betrayer and former friend, Richard Rich, who had lied about him under oath in exchange for the position of the attorney-general of Wales. More was […]
By Allan Stein Epoch Times Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced Wednesday he received a letter from the state’s Department of Family and Protective Services determining that genital mutilation of a child through gender transitioning surgery constitutes child abuse. Abbott had directed DFPS to issue a determination on the […]
By Peter R. Quinones In the macro, society is not improving. Anyone saying that is using micro examples. As an example, many people are waking up to the fact that the press isn’t just biased, but has an agenda. But that doesn’t give people a way to mitigate […]
Biden had the advantage of being an “elder statesman” and Obama’s VP, as well as having an image of a moderate. Finding a suitable replacement will be hard for the Democrats because their in-house candidates are generally unpopular with the public, and their popular candidates are unpopular with […]
When the entire established narrative is “Trust science! But, only the science we endorse,” you are not dealing with truthful individuals.
Team Rising debates who should pay for college education.
Ryan Grim, Alyssa Farah and Kim Iversen discuss Apple’s new iPhone feature that will scan photos and texts for evidence of child sex abuse.
David Sirota, founder of The Daily Poster, discusses the financial motivations behind the seven Democratic lawmakers who voted to pass a GOP amendment prohibiting the government from banning fracking.
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen and Alyssa Farah react to a labor department report that, for the first time, the average pay for restaurant and grocery workers is above fifteen dollars an hour.
0:00 Intro 2:19 Does systemic racism still exist in the US? 12:26 Addressing “racial inequities” rather than “systemic racism” 18:30 John: “The idea that modern colleges and universities are racist spaces is false” 29:18 Race and the academic job market 34:40 Why does anger persist even after progress toward […]
Kim Ives, journalist, breaks down the latest updates in the investigation into the assassination of Haiti President Jovenel Moïse.
Team Rising discusses the Pentagon’s plans to prioritize investigation into UFOs.
There is an upside and a downside to this kind of thing. On one hand, I am all for private cities as an alternative to states. On the other hand, many of these could end up being modern versions of feudal fiefdoms or company towns during the industrial […]
This is the future and the past. Look at the Hanse cities. Worked really well back then.
A paradigm-shifting book in the vein of Sapiens that brings a crucial Indigenous perspective to historical and cultural issues of history, education, money, power, and sustainability—and offers a new template for living. As an indigenous person, Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from a unique perspective, one tied […]
In these “thought-provoking visions of the future” (The Wall Street Journal), Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman of the Seasteading Institute explain how ocean cities can solve many of our environmental, technological, and civic problems, and introduce the visionaries and pioneers who are now making seasteading a reality. Our […]
Governments across the globe have begun evolving from lumbering bureaucracies into smaller, more agile special jurisdictions – common-interest developments, special economic zones, and proprietary cites. Private providers increasingly deliver services that political authorities formerly monopolized, inspiring greater competition and efficiency, to the satisfaction of citizens-qua-consumers. These trends suggest […]
America is in her twilight. Our systems are headed for collapse. So say goodbye to politics as we know it. In this audacious book, Max Borders shows us that American society is breaking down: Our socio-economic models are faulty. Our hierarchies are strained. Our belief in the founding […]
Imagine a system in which a private company offers you protection of life, liberty and property as a “government service provider”. This service includes internal and external security, a legal and regulatory framework and independent dispute resolution. You pay a contractually fixed fee for these services per year. […]
This Guidebook provides comprehensive how-to information to build Startup Societies. These are small areas that innovate in governance, such as Shenzhen, Dubai, and Singapore. The Authors wrote this Guidebook to radically lower barriers for launching Startup Society ventures. This Guidebook covers twenty steps to create a Startup Society […]
Max Borders is the founder and Executive Director of Social Evolution—a non-profit organization dedicated to liberating humanity through innovation. Max is also co-founder of the Future Frontiers conference and festival. His books include The Social Singularity and After Collapse. READ MORE
This “progressive prosecutor” phenomenon is one of the few examples I have seen of “reform within the system” actually working. Probably because prosecutors have enormous powers and can pretty much unilaterally alter the character of the criminal justice system in their own jurisdiction. A prosecutor who is ideologically […]
This interview with Michael Lind from February 2020 nails it down pretty well in terms of what is going on with class relations, and the meaning of Trump. By Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker In his new book, “The New Class War: Saving Democracy from the Managerial Elite,” the […]
On August 11 the UK Court hears arguments from the US govt on its appeal for Assange’s extradition. Williamson talks to Julians’ family about his case.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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