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Nexus X HumectressA Trotskyist perspective. By David North, World Socialist Website The following letter was sent on June 13 from David North, chairperson of the WSWS International Editorial Board, to the editors of the Chronicle of Higher Education and Jack Stripling, a leading writer for the Chronicle and author of […]
Some drama from the Left.
By Mark Harris and Denise Ferreira Da Silva Indigenous peoples in Brazil are under siege by the Brazilian government, which is waging war on two fronts. New legislation in the form of a bill known as PL 490/2007 threatens to cancel legal protections for Indigenous territories, while a […]
The intra-right and intra-left sectarian battles are often even funnier than the left/right ones.
Tucker Carlson is telling his viewers that a white genocide is coming. Sam Seder and the Majority Report crew discuss this.
Sen. Josh Hawley has slammed the writings of Ibram X. Kendi, a prominent anti-racism scholar. Ibram X. Kendi explains how he is not a scholar of Critical Race Theory, and that in his book ‘How to Be an Antiracist,’ ‘I make the case that we shouldn’t believe that […]
Chris Rufo responds on ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ to Joy Reid, WaPo on critical race theory debate.
‘Critical Race Theory’ is explained as neither Marxist nor racist by its leading scholar, Kimberlé Crenshaw, who co-developed this framework of study, and coined this term.
A right-libertarian perspective. By Robby Soave, Reason Alarm about critical race theory—a previously obscure field of study pioneered by far-left legal scholars and sociologists—has suddenly gripped the political right. This development has forced the right’s adversaries on Team Blue to defend a theory that very few people on […]
By David Miguel Gray The Conversation U.S. Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana sent a letter to fellow Republicans on June 24, 2021, stating: “As Republicans, we reject the racial essentialism that critical race theory teaches … that our institutions are racist and need to be destroyed from the ground up.” […]
One of the most interesting things about this article is that it provides another bit of evidence that many of the traditional lines of social conflict are no longer predictable indicators of where someone will be on controversial topics. A sample quote from the article: “Parents have revolted […]
Associated Press LAS VEGAS (AP) — For the first time in the pageant’s history, the title of Miss Nevada USA has been won by a transgender woman. Kataluna Enriquez was crowned the winner Sunday at the South Point hotel-casino in Las Vegas. The 27-year-old Enriquez won the Miss […]
A step toward bringing the Chinese social credit system to the US? By Marissa Gamache House lawmakers on Tuesday called for sweeping reforms to the credit reporting industry — with some Democrats going so far as proposing a nationally run system, saying the three major bureaus are failing […]
By Kierra Frazier, Oriana Gonzalez Axios President Biden signed legislation on Friday designating the Pulse nightclub a national memorial. Why it matters: The 2016 mass shooting at the Orlando, Florida gay club that left 49 people dead and more than 50 people injured is one of the deadliest attacks […]
The system will ultimately try to bring gun prohibition in by stealth. If they can’t ban guns outright because of the 2A they will just try to regulate firearms to death. By Jamie Ross, The Daily Beast Just five weeks after last month’s massacre at a San Jose […]
By Christina Lamb, Foreign Affairs In 2008, I interviewed the United Kingdom’s then outgoing military commander in Afghanistan, Brigadier Mark Carleton-Smith, in a dusty firebase in Helmand Province, where international troops had been battling the Taliban on a daily basis for territory that kept slipping away. The war […]
By Peter Cole In two of the planet’s most highly racialized countries, South Africa and the United States, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, or “Wobblies”), were remarkable. A key revolutionary syndicalist current operating globally, aspiring to unite the world’s working class into a revolutionary One Big […]
While it’s entirely likely that Trump and his associates have violated all kinds of laws (which is largely normal in “corporate America” and probably unavoidable given the prolificacy of overcriminalization and hyperregulation generally), this seems more like a calculated move to distract Trump from his position as the […]
By Ben Burgis, The Jacobin Bush administration Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is dead at the age of 88. It’s a tragedy that Rumsfeld died before he could be put on trial for crimes against humanity. Donald Rumsfeld just died at the age of eighty-eight. Obituaries at outlets […]
Some interesting footage of the January 6 riot is available here.
By Nicole Hao Epoch Times Editor’s Note: Some of the accounts in this article contain graphic and disturbing details of torture and other forms of degrading treatment. Founded in July 1921, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has wreaked death and destruction on the Chinese populace for a century. […]
By Sean Gabb We have, for the past eighteen months, lived through a fantasy pandemic. If unpleasant, the Virus is not particularly deadly. The number of cases is a product of testing, the number of deaths a statistical fraud. We have had much worse infections in living memory. […]
By Peter R. Quiñones “The unsophisticated people are always taken in by appearances, and the world consists mostly of the unsophisticated.” While I disagree with Matt Erickson on a lot, one of the most salient points he recently made when it comes to using the Libertarian Party, or […]
By Matt Taibbi Suburban America’s self-proclaimed racial oracle returns with a monumentally oblivious sequel to “White Fragility.” “The ideology of individualism is dependent on a denial of the past as relevant to the present… Individualism denies the significance of race.” — Robin DiAngelo “Individualism is for f*gs.” — […]
This is at least the third find of this type in the past few weeks. By Alex Migdal CBC WARNING: This story contains distressing details. A First Nation in B.C.’s South Interior says 182 unmarked grave sites have been discovered near the location of a former residential school. […]
By the Associated Press, with reporting from WPVI-TV and ABC News PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s highest court threw out Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction and released him from prison Wednesday in a stunning reversal of fortune for the comedian once known as “America’s Dad,” ruling that the prosecutor who […]
Good news. By ROBERT BURNS, AP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Rumsfeld, the two-time defense secretary and one-time presidential candidate whose reputation as a skilled bureaucrat and visionary of a modern U.S. military was unraveled by the long and costly Iraq war, died Tuesday. He was […]
An interview with Joseph Cotto recorded on June 25. Watch here.
An interesting collection of writings from anarchists on the meaning of the black flag. Crimethinc In the following selections, a range of authors and artists from across a century and a half reflect on the meaning of the black flag, the anarchist standard of rebellion and negation. READ […]
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Host of Bad Faith podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, breaks down Rep. Jim Clyburn’s endorsement of Shontel Brown for Rep. Marcia Fudge’s congressional seat.
Ryan Grim breaks down some of the causes and consequences of the recent heat wave
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to newly released footage of supposed UFOs surrounding a Navy ship in Southern California.
This is a fairly representative articulation of the mainstream version of Red Tribe ideology and stated fairly moderately. Ryan Grim’s comments about the revolutions that followed the American Revolution are important as well. Emily Jashinsky makes the case for American exceptionalism.
If Roe is overturned, it just means that individual states will have their own policies, many of which will be more liberal than Roe. And if there was a federal ban on abortions, many liberals may well become states’ rights conservatives overnight. Activist, Lauren Windsor of The Undercurrent, […]
There will be more and more contested elections in the future as politics becomes more contentious, election results become closer, and both sides increasingly resort to trying to rig the game in order to ensure victory for themselves. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky explain the complications with the […]
Washington Post economics reporter, Jeff Stein, discusses the latest updates in the infrastructure bill and explains the child tax credit plan.
By Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Pennsylvania’s highest court overturned Bill Cosby’s sex assault conviction Wednesday after finding an agreement with a previous prosecutor prevented him from being charged in the case. Cosby has served more than two years of a three- to 10-year sentence at a […]
Notice how persons of different ethnic backgrounds are on different sides of this issue. This is not a white/black or majority/minority issue. The Blue Tribe and Red Tribe error when they assume every minority is on the “left” and every WASPish white is on the “right.” Team Rising […]
Progressive liberals vs social democrats vs Marxists?
“I’m against cancel culture until I’m for it and I think we should imprison all my political opponents just because I don’t like them.” – Modern Conservatives
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un chastised top ruling party officials for failures in anti-epidemic work that led to an unspecified ‘great crisis’ and put the safety of the country and people at risk, state media reported.
Kim on the state of things.
By Caitlin Johnstone Americans: healthcare please Biden: Sorry, did you say airstrikes on Iraq and Syria? Americans: no, healthcare Biden: Alright, you drive a hard bargain, but here are your airstrikes on Iraq and Syria. It is journalistic malpractice to parrot US government claims about acts of military […]
As I said in another post on here yesterday, I generally hold to the view that the central thrust of PC/SJWism/Wokeness/whatever is largely just the latest rendition of bourgeois morality, filtered through the lens of sectarian WASPish Protestant pietism in its “progressive Christian” and “social gospel” forms. It […]
This week’s Backchannel features William Lind, Chronicles contributor, as he speaks about his recent piece “Fourth Generation War Comes to a Theater Near You,” which is featured in the October 2020 issue of Chronicles magazine. Lind is joined in conversation by Edward Welsch, Executive Editor of Chronicles, and […]
This is a story about medieval Maghribi merchants, Kalahari San Bushmen, American ranchers, Arctic Inuits, Pygmies, The Semai, and Wisconsin businessmen. For people wanting more stories like these you should read Elinor Ostrom’s “Governing the Commons”. She was the first woman to win the Nobel prize in economics, […]
Harold Barclay’s classic work in anarchist anthropology. Preface by Alex Comfort Introduction I. On the Nature of Anarchy On anarchy and anarchism Social order and authority Social sanctions Government and the state Conclusion II. Some Observations on Procedure III. Anarchy among Hunter-Gatherers Inuit San Pygmies Australian hunters and […]
Nationwide or nearly nationwide legalization of marijuana seems to be fairly inevitable at this point. It’s interesting to hear a bunch of conservative pundits advocating for drug legalization. Not the Republican Party I grew up with, lol. Gutfeld!’ panel discuss Clarence Thomas and the marijuana legalization debate.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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