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Nexus X HumectressPraise of Folly Podcast #57: Brenton Lengel on Breadtube
Keith Preston and Todd Lewis will ask Brenton Lengel about his thoughts on the Breadtube drama.
How Dragonfly will explore Saturn’s ‘bizarro Earth’ moon, Titan
By Bryné Hadnott Planetary Why send a typical lander when you can send a dual-quadcopter? That’s the question Dr. Elizabeth Tuttle and her team at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory asked when they developed NASA’s next New Frontiers mission to Saturn’s largest moon, Titan. The dual-quadcopter, […]
The Satanic Panic: the 1980s Media Scare that’s still Ruining Lives Today
Thank God they didn’t have mass media during the Salem Witch trials.
The SportsBall Social Containment Mechanism Explained
“FOOTBALL, beer, and above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.” -George Orwell, 1984
Matt Taibbi descends deeper into the abyss: the CJ Hopkins interview
I have trouble keeping up with all of these “who hates who and why” feuds that go on with the left-wing movement (and, for that matter, the right-wing and libertarians as well). By Louis Proyect Recently I discovered that Matt Taibbi had interviewed CJ Hopkins on May 13, […]
Meet 4chan’s ‘Kommandos,’ the Armed Meme Lords Driving Gun Culture
By Tess Owen, Vice While the stereotype for the American gun owner is old, white, and hung up on culture wars, Kommandos are young, apolitical, and fluent in memes. Flandre S. enjoys shitposting on 4chan’s /k/ board, collecting Kalashnikov rifles from foreign conflicts, and cosplay. Flandre S., who […]
Fascism as root and consequence of the Cuban Revolution
Fidelismo always struck me as being more “left-national-socialist” than Marxist-Leninist, although Che was closer to an actual M-L, even leaning toward Maoism at the end of his life. Among the leadership of the Cuban revolution, it seemed like Fidel was the left-nationalist-socialist/fascist, Che the M-L-M, and Raul the […]
Revolutionary Syndicalism: A French Specialty
Rébellion – September 16th 2014 French Syndicalism was born from the reaction of the proletariat against democracy” (H. Lagardelle) In the history of the European worker’s movement, French revolutionary syndicalism holds a special place due to the originality of its organization and its style of action. Its Origins […]
Burger King workers write ‘we all quit’ on sign, walk out of Nebraska restaurant
By Jared Leone, Cox Media Group National Content Desk LINCOLN, Neb. — Employees and a general manager at a Nebraska Burger King quit amid deteriorating work conditions and used the restaurant’s sign to let customers know. “We all quit,” the sign at the Lincoln Burger King read. “Sorry for […]
Chris Hedges DESTROYS The Squad’s Ineffectual Electoral Incrementalism
AOC, the Fraud Squad, and the Injustice Democrats know exactly what they are doing. Having a six figure income, socialized healthcare, and a lifetime pension after 5 years in Congress is a good gig to have.
Vaush’s TERRIBLE Afghanistan Take Goes VIRAL for Its Stupidity!
Vaush canceled again? Zac & Gavin break it down.
Caitlyn Jenner Plays The Trans Card To Bash The Left At CPAC
Phil DeFranco: “as for Caitlyn Jenner, she is as bad a political candidate as she is a driver!”
Dr. Cornel West RESIGNS From Harvard University, Reflects Utter FAILURE Of U.S. Academia
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss Cornel West’s resignation from Harvard University.
Tucker Carlson RIPS APART Claims He’s Angry With Fox, Calls CNN Reporter A LOATHSOME Person
Team Rising discusses Tucker Carlson’s reported anger at Fox News for not backing his NSA spying claims.
Dems KILLED M4A, Now They’re STUCK Having To Do Something
Ryan Grim breaks down House Dems’ H.R.3 bill and Big Pharma’s fight against it.
Family Policy MUST INCLUDE Working-Class Families, Anything Less Is NOT Conservative
Brad Wilcox, professor of Sociology at UVA, discusses the potential of UBI in the United States.
Super PAC Backing Nina Turner Challenger Launches UNFOUNDED Smear Campaign, FAILS
Rising is a weekday morning show with bipartisan hosts that breaks the mold of morning TV by taking viewers inside the halls of Washington power like never before. The show leans into the day’s political cycle with cutting edge analysis from DC insiders who can predict what is […]
Is Biden’s FULL COURT PRESS On Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big AG Too Good To Be True?
Matt Stoller, research director at American Economic Liberties Project, discusses President Biden’s executive order on Big Business.
Kristi Noem’s BASELESS Attack On Ron DeSantis MISSES THE MARK, Reveals Hypocrisy
Emily Jashinsky breaks down how top GOP candidates for the 2024 presidential race are handling Donald Trump.
7% Want LESS Police, Biden Addresses Murder SURGE, Trump Says Police NEED Their Authority Back
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 7 percent of voters want less police in their community while 44 percent want more and 50 percent say they want the same amount. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss. This survey was conducted online within the United […]
Hunter Biden’s Art Sale Is POLITICAL GIFT To GOP, Trump Jr. WISHES He Thought Of It First
Real Clear Politics reporter, Philip Wegmann, reacts to the White House’s defense of Hunter Biden’s art exhibit.
WH TRIES TO HIDE Hunter Biden’s Six-Figure Art Buyers
Krystal and Saagar go over the Biden administration’s major ethics issues when it comes to Hunter’s art sales.
Susan Rice’s BLATANT Corruption While Workers Get Fleeced
Krystal and Saagar talk with David Sirota about corruption in the Biden administration and how Wall Street is ripping off workers.
Will Monthly Payments To Parents Change Politics Forever?
Krystal and Saagar consider the effects that the child tax credit expansion by Biden could have.
Oligarch Space Race REVEALS Danger Of Privatizing Public Goods
Krystal and Saagar explain the danger behind oligarchs going to space and privatizing public goods.
Biden, DNC Want TO CENSOR Text Messages For ‘Misinformation’
Krystal and Saagar discuss a major story detailing the Biden administration’s next vehicle for censorship.
If You Hate The Culture War, BLAME WHITE LIBERALS
Saagar uses data to demonstrate the outsized role white liberals play in the never-ending culture war.
DEA, FBI Informants LINKED TO Haiti Assassination?!?!
Krystal and Saagar unpack the possibility of US government informants playing a role in Haiti’s political crisis.
Media, GOP Elites DEMAND Regime Change In Cuba
Krystal breaks down the fervor being shown in the media for regime change in Cuba.
Chaos ERUPTS In Cuba, South Africa, Ethiopia, Colombia, Lebanon
Krystal and Saagar try to make sense of the turmoil happening in Cuba, South Africa, and other countries across the world
Rothbard and The ‘Paleo-Strategy’ Explained w/ Tho Bishop
The paleo-strategy is arguably what produced the Ron Paul moment for libertarians, but it also contributed to libertarianism’s eventually succumbing to culture war tribalism.
Kristi Noem’s National Guard Deployment Is America’s Future
By Eric Schnurer The Atlantic The private sector has long been absorbing duties that belong to the government—and that pattern is intensifying. The recent decision by South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem to accept private funding from Willis Johnson, a major Republican donor, to send her state’s National Guard […]
COVID left Portland’s homeless population in crisis mode. Then the heat wave hit
By Adam Mahoney Environmental Justice Fellow, Grist Advocates say cities need to dedicate more resources during extreme weather events to help those without stable housing. When temperatures in Oregon hit 116 degrees Fahrenheit late last month, Portland resident Scott Kerman found he couldn’t stand outside for longer than […]
Climate change is fueling mass-casualty heat waves. Here’s why experts say we don’t view them as crises
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN)The Pacific Northwest heat wave in late June was a mass casualty event, officials said. Hundreds of people likely died in the multi-day, record-breaking heat, and the death toll continues to rise. At least 83 people died from heat-related illness in Oregon, and officials […]
Where Portland, Oregon, Stands A Year After Being A Protest Hotspot
By Jonathan Levison, NPR Racial justice protests in Portland, Ore., have quieted down since last year. The city is now grappling with whether promises for police accountability will actually take shape in the coming months. LISTEN HERE
Forces from Ethiopia’s Tigray region say they are pushing south
By Dawit Endeshaw and Maggie Fick,Reuters ADDIS ABABA, July 12 (Reuters) – Forces from Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray said on Monday they were pushing south and had recaptured a town from government forces, underscoring their determination to keep fighting until the region’s pre-war borders are restored. Reuters […]
The Economic Crisis In Lebanon May Be One Of The Worst In The World Since The 1800s
By Ruth Sherlock, NPR The once-thriving middle class in Beirut, Lebanon, has collapsed amid a historic economic crisis. Banks are freezing withdrawals and pharmacies are running out of medicines. LISTEN HERE
The USA-China Trade War: 2000-2018
But where would China be without US capital investment and debt financing? And does China have anything even remotely resembling the military reach of the US? I think those are big questions here.
The coronavirus pandemic is far from over
DW Some countries are reporting more new coronavirus infections compared with the previous two weeks. Global data trends show that the coronavirus pandemic isn’t over yet. DW sums up the current situation in three charts. These charts and this article are updated every Friday between 1100 and 1300 UTC. Last updated: July 9, 2021. […]
Murder Mystery: What Were Colombian Military Vets Doing in Haiti?
By Julie Turkewitz and Simon Romero New York Times At least 20 Colombians have been implicated by Haitian officials in the plot to assassinate the president. But their role in the killing, if any, is murky. BOGOTÁ, Colombia — One evening in early June, Mauricio Javier Romero, a […]
Worst violence in years spreads in South Africa as grievances boil over
By Alexander Winning, Wendell Roelf, Reuters Jailing of ex-president Zuma triggered initial protests Violence has broadened into protest over social injustice More than 40 killed so far in unrest Troops move in to flashpoints to help outnumbered police Shops, warehouses and some COVID-19 vaccine sites shut JOHANNESBURG, July […]
Breaking Points: 7/13/21 Full UNCUT Show
Krystal and Saagar discuss the chaos happening around the world as protests heat up, the political situation in Haiti, billionaires racing to space, the DNC’s newest censorship campaign, effects of the child tax credit expansion, white liberals fueling the culture war, corruption in the Biden administration, and more!
America Vs. Everyone
Is China really the enemy, or are we just creating self-fulfilling prophecies? Jeff Sachs talks with Rob Johnson about the tragedy of modern geopolitics, and how our current race to the bottom could be reversed.
The Proportion Of White Christians In The U.S. Has Stopped Shrinking, New Study Finds
By Becky Sullivan, NPR Two dramatic trends that for years have defined the shifting landscape of religion in America — a shrinking white Christian majority, alongside the rise of religiously unaffiliated Americans — have stabilized, according to a new, massive survey of American religious practice. What was once […]
Anarchism: A General Formula
Anarchist News From Libertarian Labyrinth by Shawn P. Wilbur The interval between the interruption of the “Margins and Problems” survey and the appearance of this first draft-section from the Constructing Anarchisms manuscript has been considerably shorter than expected—a pleasant surprise after the slow going of the last month […]
Deconstructing Anarchy
Anarchist News The following text was first delivered as a talk during Anarchē, a two-day conference curated by the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. Here Italian philosopher Donatella Di Cesare explores the possibility of releasing the anarchic ontology concealed within the anarchist tradition. 1. Although sometimes tempered […]
The National Security State and the Kennedy Assassination
The full video playlist of a conference on the Kennedy assassination from the Future of Freedom Foundation. The national-security establishment’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy was one of the pivotal events in our lifetime, and it continues to have an adverse impact on American life today. This […]
The Truth About Antifa
Tom Woods Show “Antifa is an idea, not an organization,” we’re told. Well, that “idea” sure seems to burn down a lot of buildings, doesn’t it? Jack Posobiec joins me to discuss the violent movement that the media makes excuses for or ignores. LISTEN HERE
What Does Freedom Mean to You?
Freedom is also a concept were our freedom can develop, as long as we are not impacting other peoples freedom. Take the Tao Te Ching 道德经; being in harmony with the universe. Avoid extremes. The best thing can have a few bad aspects and a bad thing can […]
Making Sense of Red Nostalgia
By Helen Andrews, The American Conservative Why do so many Eastern Europeans say the fall of Communism hasn’t made their lives better? Taking Stock of the Shock: Social Consequences of the 1989 Revolutions by Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein (Oxford University Press: 2021), 304 pages. Professor Kristen Ghodsee […]
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