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Nexus X HumectressBroadcast live on Friday, November 13, 2020. This week’s Backchannel is a free discussion between Chronicles Editor Paul Gottfried and military historian and author Bill Lind on the topic, “What is Cultural Marxism.” Gottfried and Lind wrote complimentary essays in the November 2020 issue of Chronicles in which […]
In this clip from PRIMO RADICAL #232, journalist and “Useful Idiots” host Matt Taibbi is asked about former MIT linguist, philosopher and media critic Noam Chomsky’s “bad takes”.
An interesting viewpoint from the comments thread: “Glenn represents my views and also my own approach to talking with people on the right. I don’t see people on the right as “enemies.” I see them as my neighbors who agree with me sometimes & disagree other times. I […]
Emily Jashinsky reacts to a court ruling that Facebook can be held liable for sex trafficking conducted on it’s platform. She also weighs in on the addiction being created by Big Tech.
Team Rising reacts to the anticipated charges against the Trump Organization. They also discuss Donald Trump and the GOP’s comments on the NYC mayoral race debacle.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Bill Cosby’s sexual assault conviction.
Executive Editor at The American Prospect, David Dayen, explains how rising sea levels in Miami could have played a role in the Surfside condo collapse.
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discusses just released reported that reveals “Exxon aggressively fought early climate science through “shadow groups” to protect its investments.
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 67 percent of registered voters said medical researchers continue to work with virus mutations and variants in the lab while 33 percent said to stop this type of research. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss.
In the future, more and more election results will be disputed given the growing partisanship and distrust between the contenders and in the system generally. Ross Barkan returns to Breaking Points to talk with Krystal and Saagar about the chaos in the NYC Mayoral race.
Saagar dives into the fall of cable news and partisan media in the Joe Biden era.
As fourth-generation warfare theory would predict. Krystal Ball expresses her concerns about a billionaire paying for an army in South Dakota.
The progressives vs the neoliberals once again. Krystal and Saagar explain why powerful corporate Democrats are fighting to stop Nina Turner from being elected to congress.
Krystal and Saagar evaluate the truth behind Tucker Carlson’s claim that the NSA is spying on him
My first guess is that this case is being used to lean on Trump to stay out of politics and not run again. “We can make this a lot more serious, Orange Man!” Krystal and Saagar break down the charges being leveled on members of the Trump organization
Krystal and Saagar go over the horrifying story of sexual predator Bill Cosby being freed from prison
By Amanda Suárez Mexican transnational criminal organizations (TCOs) are expanding into cybercrime to form “cyber-cartels,” which present unique threats to U.S. national security interests. Mexican drug cartels have already begun to use technology to further their business operations, including doxxing and surveillance software. Now, these new Mexican cyber-cartels […]
By Scott Howard The breakneck speed of technological advancement and the fever for automation have resulted in these self-contained decision-makers worming their way into all aspects of life; algorithms aren’t just the property of social media news feeds anymore, they’re also used to predict consumer habits, make investments, […]
By Spencer Ackerman The only thing tragic about the death of Donald Rumsfeld is that it didn’t occur in an Iraqi prison. Yet that was foreordained, considering how throughout his life inside the precincts of American national security, Rumsfeld escaped the consequences of decisions he made that ensured […]
Krystal and Saagar talk about the injustice of the Bill Cosby case, Nina Turner’s congressional campaign, Trump associates getting indicted, NSA spying on Tucker Carlson, NYC Mayoral elections, and more!
By Money Metals Columbus, Ohio (July 1, 2021) – By signing legislation last night, Governor Mike DeWine has officially ended Ohio’s sales taxation of gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion and coins, enabling the Buckeye State to join Arkansas as the two states having canceled taxation of the […]
The Ludwig von Mises Institute presents The Libertarian Tradition, a podcast with journalist, author, editor, broadcaster, and educator, Jeff Riggenbach.
A 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 […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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