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Nexus X HumectressBreaking Points: 7/4/21 Full UNCUT AMA
The discussion of how media credentialing works at the beginning of this is interesting.
Born on the Fourth of July: Tom Cruise Movie (1989)
“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 […]
War Movies for Peaceniks
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 […]
Glenn Greenwald vs. Nathan Robinson Part 2: What to Do with Inconvenient Truths
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.
The Funky Academic UNFILTERED on “infrastructure”, freedom, and white feminists
Krystal and Saagar talk to Irami, known as the Funky Academic, about a whole range of different topics that make for a wonderful conversation.
Rejecting Racial Determinism | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter
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 […]
A Cosmopolitan Crowd: Transnational Anarchists, the IWW, and the American Radical Press
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 […]
Coleman Hughes on The Perils of Race Science with Charles Murray
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 […]
Bill Cosby Let Out Of Prison, Trump Organization Indicted |
“Screw me once, shame on you… shame… screw…. me……. you can’t get screwed again.”
The Absurdity of “White Supremacy Culture”
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.
George Orwell’s 1984 Has Become a Blueprint for Our Dystopian Reality
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 […]
Replacing God: The CCP’s Century-Long War Against Faith
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 […]
Ransomware attack hits 200 or more US companies
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 […]
Judge Orders Minneapolis to Hire More Police Officers Amid Crime Surge
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 […]
Supreme Court turns away florist who refused same-sex wedding job
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 […]
Were Thugs of India religious terrorists or mere bandits? The evidence of Hockley’s Pandurang Hari
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 […]
Facebook Now Sending Messages to Some Users Asking About Potentially ‘Extremist’ Friends
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 […]
A Case of “Intellectual Capture?” On YouTube’s Demonetization of Bret Weinstein
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. […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends | Julian Assange’s Brother & Dad (Gabriel & John Shipton)
Spoiler alert: calling the White House phone isn’t gonna do shit about this.
What happened to Otto Warmbier in North Korea? | DW Documentary
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?
EXPLOSIVE Study Finds Socialism Gaining MOMENTUM In U.S., Buoyed By Gen-Z, Black Americans
“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 […]
Company Turns To Hiring PRISON WORKERS Instead of Raising Wages, Uncovering SYSTEM FAILURE
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.
Nina Turner Fundraising PROVES Candidates Can Back Wildly Popular Ideas Like M4A
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.
J&J SETTLES Opioid Case For MILLIONS, Is It Enough?
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 […]
Toyota Gave HUGE Donations To GOP Election Objectors, MSM Goes BERSERK
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to Toyota’s political donations.
Governments Can’t Stop Bitcoin ‘Despite All Their Guns and Weapons’
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 […]
Great Moments in Unintended Consequences (Vol. 4)
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 […]
The Deeply Flawed Studies Behind the Eviction Moratoriums
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.
U.S. Officials COZIED Up To BlackRock During Market Madness, Now Millions In Housing CRISIS
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss BlackRock’s role in the current housing crisis.
DEEP SEATED Hatred For Establishment REVEALED By Trip Through Rural Midwest
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. […]
59% APPROVE Of Biden’s Handling Of Economy As U.S. ADDS 850k Jobs In June
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 […]
Media’s DISGUSTING Treatment of Mike Gravel vs Rumsfeld
Katie Halper joins Krystal and Saagar to compare how the media treated the deaths of Mike Gravel and Donald Rumsfeld.
Why some biologists and ecologists think social media is a risk to humanity
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 America Was Never Colonized? | Alternate History
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 Ottomans Colonized America? | Alternate History
What If The Ottoman Empire Had Conquered Morocco And Gained Direct Access To The Atlantic, Allowing It To Establish Colonies In The Americas?
Why the Ottomans Never Colonized America?
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 […]
Canada’s Coming Crisis with Indigenous Peoples
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 […]
Anarchist Unity w/Nicky Reid AKA Comrade Hermit
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 […]
Astronomers work out when the first stars shone
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 […]
‘Nonvoters 2020: Counted Out’ examines reasons 80 million Americans opted out of presidential election
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 […]
Paul Gottfried on “What is Fascism?”
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 […]
We Said #FreeBritney But Got #FreeBillCosby
If he was poor they wouldn’t care about breaking some DA’s promise. The police can legally lie to anyone to get confessions.
Let’s talk about why Republicans voted against the committee….
So let me get this straight: it was undercover ANTIFA agitators, but they DON’T want to look into it? Hmmmmmmmm….
Let’s talk about the Republican investigation into the NSA….
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.
Critical Race Theory & Black America | Coleman Hughes & Rakim Brooks with John Wood Jr.
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 Answers His Critics
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 […]
Pedro Gonzalez on “Trump Versus the Managerial State”
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 […]
Paul Gottfried and Bill Lind discuss “What is Cultural Marxism?”
Broadcast 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 […]
Matt Taibbi Asked About Noam Chomsky’s “Bad Takes”
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”.
Glenn Greenwald DEBATES Nathan J. Robinson: Is Glenn a Useful Idiot for the Right?
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 […]
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