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Nexus X HumectressJim Rogers is an American investor and financial commentator based in Singapore. Rogers is the Chairman of Beeland Interests, Inc. He was the co-founder of the Quantum Fund and was also the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index. Jim Rogers is mostly known for speaking about investing […]
I agree the documentary he is describing is very interesting.
Some of these progressive folks really know how to do drama.
The discussion of how media credentialing works at the beginning of this is interesting.
“We are your Yankee Doodle Dandy come home.” This captivating scene from Oliver Stone’s “Born on the Fourth of July”—starring Tom Cruise as paralyzed Vietnam veteran and anti-war activist Ron Kovic—shines a light on how one’s love of country can fuel the desire for radical change. Buy/Rent Born […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well dearest motherfuckers, it’s that time of the year again. A time for heat waves, fireworks, hotdogs, and backyard swimming pools. Annoyingly enough, it’s also a time for that kneejerk, braindead brand of jingoism that Americans like to […]
By popular demand, we’re posting another big section of Glenn Greenwald’s debate with Nathan J. Robinson, covering Lee Fang’s controversial reporting, detransitioners, and how the left – and reporters in general – ought to handle sensitive stories that do not fit neatly into larger movements for justice.
Krystal and Saagar talk to Irami, known as the Funky Academic, about a whole range of different topics that make for a wonderful conversation.
0:00 A peek inside Glenn’s writing process 3:31 Aaron Hana’s critique of Thomas Sowell and Shelby Steele 13:50 Extending the presumption of free will to Black communities 19:31 Who gets to opine on race matters? 32:09 Black rednecks 44:31 Is the “acting white” phenomenon real? 53:58 A critique […]
By Kenyon Zimmer It is no coincidence that Salvatore Salerno’s groundbreaking study of transnational influences on the Industrial Workers of the World, Red November, Black November, devoted much space to the role of anarchists. Within the constellation of late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century radical movements that gave rise to the […]
Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. My guest today requires a longer than normal preamble. I’m speaking with Charles Murray, who is a Political Scientist, Writer, and W.H. Brady scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Murray has been a controversial figure throughout his whole career, but […]
“Screw me once, shame on you… shame… screw…. me……. you can’t get screwed again.”
On The Jacobin Show, Jen Pan and Paul Prescod discuss how the shortcomings of the popular text “White Supremacy Culture” by Kenneth Jones and Tema Okun have permeated society and led to some reactionary, culturally essentialist ideas.
By John W. Whitehead & Nisha Whitehead, Rutherford Institute June 28, 2021 “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.”— George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell (Jun. 25, 1903-Jan. 21, 1950) has become an operation manual […]
By Eva Fu and Frank Fang Epoch Times Priests and nuns were forced to kneel down in front of a large bonfire, watching helplessly as the flames devoured their sacred instruments and burned their skin. In another Chinese city, students wearing red armbands hit Catholics with sharp wooden […]
By FRANK BAJAK, ERIC TUCKER and MATT O’BRIEN Associated Press A ransomware attack paralyzed the networks of at least 200 U.S. companies on Friday, according to a cybersecurity researcher whose company was responding to the incident. The REvil gang, a major Russian-speaking ransomware syndicate, appears to be behind […]
By Isabel van Brugen Epoch Times A judge on July 1 ruled in favor of a group that filed a lawsuit demanding more police officers be brought into the city, after city council members and activist groups advocated to replace the police department following the death of George […]
So much for the Left’s fear of a socially conservative turn on the part of the SCOTUS. Notice that two of Trump’s appointees refused to hear this case. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday declined to take up the case of a florist who refused to […]
By Dr. Ayusman Chakraborty Published in 1826, Pandurang Hari by William Browne Hockley is effectively the first English novel to feature the Thugs of India – a fact almost never recognized till now. However, Hockley’s description of the Thugs in this novel contradicts colonial and contemporary conceptualizations of […]
By Jack Phillips Epoch Times Some Facebook users have recently reported being sent warning messages from the social media giant relating to “extremists” or “extremist content.” “Are you concerned that someone you know is becoming an extremist?” one message reads. “We care about preventing extremism on Facebook. Others in […]
By Matt Taibbi YouTube’s use of government guidelines to regulate speech raises serious questions, both about the First Amendment and regulatory capture. Just under three years ago, Infowars anchor Alex Jones was tossed off Facebook, Apple, YouTube, and Spotify, marking the unofficial launch of the “content moderation” era. […]
Spoiler alert: calling the White House phone isn’t gonna do shit about this.
US student Otto Warmbier was sentenced to 15 years in a North Korean labor camp in 2016. Warmbier was released the following year, but he died of brain damage shortly after his return to the United States. Was he really the victim of torture?
“Socialism” has once again assumed the meaning it had in the early 19th century when it was just an all-purposes term for social reformism/welfarism. Also, in this segment, Emily mistakenly claims capitalism and free enterprise are the same things. No, they’re not. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to reporting that a Russell Stover Factory in Kansas employs 150 work-release inmates from a nearby Topeka Correctional Facility.
The more popular economic leftism (or economic populism) becomes the more the ruling class will attempt to disarm such trends by seeking to coopt, suppress, fragment, or deflect them. Daily Poster founder, David Sirota, shares reporting on the proxy war against Medicare For All.
It’s interesting how the “war on drugs” is now starting to resemble the “war on tobacco” now that totalitarian humanism has become hegemonic and the therapeutic state model is becoming even more entrenched. As Thomas Szasz pointed out in “Ceremonial Chemistry,” the Anslinger/Nixon/Reagan/Bush version of the drug war […]
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to Toyota’s political donations.
We’ll see. The ShapeShift founder and early pioneer in the space talks about why bitcoin poses an existential threat to fiat money. Few figures in the bitcoin community are as controversial and visionary as Erik Voorhees, founder and CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange ShapeShift. Back when cryptocurrency was […]
Libertarians are good a criticizing the state just like Marxists are pretty good at criticizing the corporate class even if both have an overly one-dimensional lens they are using. Even more of Reason’s “great moments in unintended consequences”—stories of when something that sounds like a terrific idea goes […]
Reason Magazine is too plutocrat-friendly for my tastes but here are their arguments. The government and media relied on studies plagued by shoddy statistics to make the case for blocking evictions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss BlackRock’s role in the current housing crisis.
The main danger the alienation of rural/small-town Middle America presents is that this discontent will be marshaled by a Red Tribe revanchist like Tom Cotton or Ted Cruz, which seeks a Latin American-like caudillo, and which is a much more dangerous situation than Trump’s neo-Nixonian implicit Rockefeller Republicanism. […]
The present ruling class unity/totalitarian humanist/neocon-neoliberal-progressive coalition appears to be successful so far in terms of maintaining the explicit or implicit support of a popular majority and establishing an aura of legitimacy. This provides them with a significant level of cover under which to continue purging opponents, beginning […]
Katie Halper joins Krystal and Saagar to compare how the media treated the deaths of Mike Gravel and Donald Rumsfeld.
By Shirin Ghaffary Vox One challenge is how little we know about the dangers. Social media has drastically restructured the way we communicate in an incredibly short period of time. We can discover, “Like,” click on, and share information faster than ever before, guided by algorithms most of […]
What if North and South America were never colonized by Europe? Which of the indigenous tribes, nations, and civilizations will prove advanced enough to rise as the new superpowers of these continents?
What If The Ottoman Empire Had Conquered Morocco And Gained Direct Access To The Atlantic, Allowing It To Establish Colonies In The Americas?
Kings and Generals’ historical animated documentary series on the history of the Ottoman Empire continues with a video explaining why this dominant naval power never expanded to the American continent during the age of colonization. Previous episodes in the series on the Ottoman Battles: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list… covering the battles […]
By Geoff Russ Yesterday | TheTyee.ca This alienation didn’t come from nowhere. And it won’t be going away anytime soon. Don’t be surprised that many Indigenous people do not like Canada. Do not be shocked that many actively reject it, and won’t cease to do so in the future as […]
This week, I am discussing Anarchist Unity with Nicky Reid, radical contributor at Counterpunch.org, assistant editor for Attack the System and gonzo blogger at Exile in Happy Valley, covering everything from Queer Anarchism to the endless wars to what the future of our society could be. Apparently, we […]
By Pallab Ghosh, BBC Astronomers have worked out when the first stars began shining. They say that this period, known as the “cosmic dawn,” occurred between 250 to 350 million years after the Big Bang. The results indicate that the first galaxies will be bright enough to be […]
Northwestern Now EVANSTON, Ill. — The Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and National Public Radio have partnered to release a national survey of nonvoters Tuesday (Dec. 15) that, despite record high turnout for the November presidential election, found that most nonvoters did not cite impediments […]
This week’s “Backchannel” videocast features Paul Gottfried, Editor-in-Chief for Chronicles magazine answering the question, “What is Fascism?” The term “fascist” is thrown around a lot these days to tar and feather political and ideological opponents. President Trump is habitually called a fascist by his political opponents while he […]
If he was poor they wouldn’t care about breaking some DA’s promise. The police can legally lie to anyone to get confessions.
So let me get this straight: it was undercover ANTIFA agitators, but they DON’T want to look into it? Hmmmmmmmm….
The Republican position is that government agencies should be organs of the Republican Party and any activity by them outside that direction is illegitimate, while any use of them by the Party is just fine.
America’s Public Forum: Race, Rights, and Black America June 30th, 2021 From a series of events bridging the worlds of ideas and depolarization, hosted by Braver Angels and friends, “America’s Public Forum.” MC’d by John Wood Jr. ft. Coleman Hughes ft. Rakim Brooks What are the major narratives […]
Dave Smith is the host of the Part of the Problem podcast and is a frequent guest on cable TV news. Dave joins Pete to answer a couple critics who appeared on another podcast and challenged not only his strategy with the Libertarian Party, but took some personal […]
Broadcast live on Friday, October 30, 2020. This week’s Backchannel features Pedro Gonzalez, Chronicles contributor (and now Associate Editor) and (former) American Greatness assistant editor, discussing his piece “The Poor Man’s Sam Francis” from the October 2020 issue of Chronicles magazine. Gonzalez will discuss Francis’s theory of the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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