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Nexus X HumectressGlenn Greenwald: Stelter’s NEW LOW in fawning interview with Biden Press Sec
The US media is as sycophantic to the Bidenists as Pravda was to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Groundbreaking Study PROVES Culture Wars KILL Class Politics
Class politics doesn’t happen in societies that are fragmented into warring tribes.
ACLU ABANDONS Free Speech In Favor Of Trump Derangement
The decline of the ACLU has been happening for a while.
Socialism or Capitalism? Arthur Brooks and Richard Wolff Debate
Half of Americans under forty say they would “prefer living in a socialist country.” A self-described “Democratic socialist” surged to an early lead in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries . . . . . . after winning more 2016 primary votes from under-thirty voters than the eventual Democratic and Republican nominees […]
Conversation with Israeli Zionist Activist Rudy Rochman
The Curious Case of China’s Feminist Eugenicists
By Li Jun, Sixth Tone The country’s extremely online feminists are ditching movement building to go all-in on shaming people for their lack of ‘uterine morality.’ What if there was a program allowing the government to go around collecting sperm from good-looking, smart, healthy men — celebrities, scientists, […]
Keith Preston on what should be done about Israel and why liberal democracy won’t fix it
The Mindcrime liberty show interviews Keith Preston about Israel. We discuss the past and future of Israel and how this conflict emerged and if any “solution” actually exists. We begin the discussion by pointing out why a one state liberal democracy in the western European context, which is […]
Oh, Did I Offend You? GOOD!
I’m neither an LP member nor an orthodox libertarian, so I don’t get a “vote” in this. But this is what a real “subversive” movement would look like: First, openly and unabashedly attack the Israeli and Saudi lobbies and US subsidies to these countries, which will immediately have […]
Anarchism is the Best
Peru’s Castillo builds election lead but Fujimori says won’t concede yet
The second generation of Peru’s civil war continues with the Shining Path’s front candidate, probably being puppet mastered by Abimael Guzman from jail, leading over Alberto Fujimori’s daughter, probably being puppet mastered by her father from jail. By Marco AquinoMarcelo Rochabrun, Reuters Peruvian socialist Pedro Castillo widened his […]
Examining ‘The Anarchist Handbook’ w/ Keith Knight and Sal the Agorist
Keith Knight of the Don’t Tread on Anyone podcast invited Pete and Sal to come on his show to highlight some sections from the book Michael Malice has compiled and released titled, “The Anarchist Handbook.”
How America Fractured Into Four Parts
By George Packer, The Atlantic People in the United States no longer agree on the nation’s purpose, values, history, or meaning. Is reconciliation possible? Nations, like individuals, tell stories in order to understand what they are, where they come from, and what they want to be. National narratives, […]
Congress Approval JUMPS 10 PTS Under Biden, Still Gets DISMAL Rating
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 44 percent of voters approve of the way Congress is doing its job while 56 percent disapprove, a ten point increase in support from 2020. This survey was conducted online within the United States from May 30 – […]
OVERWHELMING Majority Want UAP Report Publicly Released
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds 66 percent of voters say the UAP report expected to be provided to Congress by the Pentagon should be released to the public. Rich Baris, Director of the Big Data Poll, and Karlyn Bowman, Public Opinion Analyst, join […]
VP Tells Migrants DON’T COME, MEDIA Still BLASTS Trump Immigration Policy
This should be good for building a wedge between neoliberals and progressives. Excellent. Some good, though very basic, background on US foreign policy in Central America. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky react to VP Kamala Harris telling Guatemalans making the trek to the U.S. southern border, “do not […]
Do Trump SOCIAL MEDIA Bans Really Matter?
Team Rising discusses the impact of Trump’s social media ban.
Steven Donziger: MSM Ignoring MAJOR Human Rights Violations, Here’s WHY
Environmental attorney, Steven Donziger, explains why he thinks most mainstream media outlets refuse to cover his story.
Breaking Points: Full Show June 8, 2021
Does DOJ Crypto Siege Spell TROUBLE For Bitcoin?
I always figured Bitcoin would go in this direction. Bitcoin is way overrated. Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss the long-term impacts of the Colonial Pipeline hack.
Revolutions of 1989
The Wikipedia entry on the wave of revolutions that impacted the Communist world in the late 80s/early 90s is generally accurate from a historical perspective, and worth reading. The impression these events made on me at the time was the realization that revolutions could be carried out in […]
The Inevitability of Tribalism and Sectarianism
I’m undecided as to whose in-fighting is the most comical: libertarians, leftists, or the alt-right. I would view all of the people and groups mentioned in these memes as the equivalent of tribal leaders or clerics leading their own tribes and sects, with each of these tribes or […]
No, Small Isn’t Beautiful
The commies at Jacobin mag share Big Capital’s disdain for small business. Incidentally, I’ve seen this article criticized by “small is beautiful” leftists who were also zealous proponents of the covid shutdowns. By Matt Bruenig, Jacobin The power of big business needs to be confronted. But the solution […]
Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right
Apparently, the new atheists are no longer in the club. By Phil Torres, Salon It was inspiring — really inspiring. I remember watching clip after clip of Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens debating Christians, Muslims and “purveyors of woo,” exposing the fatuity of their faith-based beliefs in superstitious nonsense […]
Modi’s bulldozing of parliament shows him as the architect of a Hindu Taliban
The Left suddenly does an about-face on the destruction of monuments and architecture? By Anish Kapoor, The Guardian Flattening the majestic Mughal-inspired buildings is the latest stage in a hateful, vanity-fuelled campaign to de-Islamify India. At the heart of New Delhi, the capital of India, sits a Mughal-inspired […]
More Than One-Third Of Small Businesses “In Jeopardy” Of Closing This Summer
And that’s what “Big Capital” wants as a means of eliminating on-the-ground competition, the same way classical capitalists wanted the elimination of independent artisans and craftsmen. By Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge As small businesses complain that it has never been harder for them to hire workers according to […]
Capitalizing on Mass Incarceration: U.S. Growth in Private Prisons
Private prisons are only about 7% of the US prison industry. Most prisons are government-run prisons. The problem I have with most leftist critiques of the US prison system is that they tend to predictably blame everything on capitalist profiteering and/or racism. While those are obviously part of […]
What exactly is the “system” that we are fighting?
This is generally a good article that is superior to most leftist commentary of this kind. For example: “To do that, we first have to free our minds of the state. We must lose the false assumption that the material advances made over the past 500 years — […]
Mexico’s Midterm Elections
By Peter Zeihan on June 8, 2021 Mexicans went to the polls over the weekend. Preliminary results indicate that while incumbent president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s (better known as AMLO) MORENA coalition will maintain a majority in Congress, AMLO did not score a two-thirds majority necessary to amend the constitution. AMLO’s […]
Brahmin Left versus Merchant Right: Changing Political Cleavages in 21 Western Democracies, 1948-2020
This is well worth checking out. This is one of the best descriptions of the condition of Western politics that I have seen to date. Present political conflict is not about class (or race or gender), although such conflicts exist in a way that is subordinated to the […]
If the Wuhan lab-leak hypothesis is true, expect a political earthquake
By Thomas Franks, The Guardian There was a time when the Covid pandemic seemed to confirm so many of our assumptions. It cast down the people we regarded as villains. It raised up those we thought were heroes. It prospered people who could shift easily to working from […]
Is California Over?
I did a livestream with some California independence folks yesterday. For well over a century, California was synonymous with the American dream. By the early 1960s, it had become the most populous state in the country. Now its population is declining for the first time in recorded history—The […]
Biden’s DOJ Attempts SILENCING NYT?
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss reports that the Justice Department tried to seize the emails of four New York Times reporters and forced a gag order on the paper’s executives.
OUSTING Israel PM Netanyahu Won’t INCITE Change
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses the potential Prime Minister change in Israel and what is means for Palestinians.
Why Single Payer Healthcare WILL WORK Despite Cuomo Holdout
This is how it should have been all along. If New Yorkers want single-payer, fine. If Oklahoma wants free-market medicine, that’s fine too. New York State Senator Jabari Brisport makes the case for single-payer healthcare in New York.
Opioid CRISIS Continues As Sackler Family SKIRTS Responsibility AGAIN
After 50 years of the modern war on drugs, 50 million arrests in the US alone in half a century, and trillions of dollars spent on drug law enforcement, the unquestionable winner of the war on drugs is drugs. Congratulations, drugs! I salute you. Team Rising discusses Purdue […]
Deaths Of Despair On The Rise As Wages Fall
Emily Jashinsky explains how identity politics can be used as a band-aid for deeper societal issues.
Ryan Grim CHALLENGES Author Of ‘Battle For The Soul’ On Dem Primary Reporting, Tara Reade
Author, Edward-Isaac Dovere, discusses the media’s coverage of Tara Reade’s sexual assault allegations against Joe Biden.
Why The Media Is SOFT On Biden Admin
Why was Pravda soft on the Brezhnev administration? What a stupid question. Team Rising reacts to CNN host Brian Stelter’s interview with White House press secretary Jen Psaki.
Pentagon PRESSED On UFOs, Does Report Prove ALIEN Life?
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky discuss potential government cover-ups of alien-related information.
Breaking Points Full Show June 7, 2021
The first edition of their new show.
Why are Leftists a Bunch of Freaks?
In this video blog, the question of why the left has seemed to lose touch with the working class is taken up as Douglas Lain responds to Nagle and Tracey’s essay “First as Tragedy, Then as Farce: The Collapse of the Sanders Campaign and the “Fusionist” Left.” Lain […]
Back From Being Banned. What Did I Say THIS Time?
YouTube vs. Kim
Companies Are Using Pride Month to Rainbow-Wash Bombs and Tasers
by Edward Ongweso Jr Vice Raytheon, a military contractor with a business model that centers on making killing machines, changed its logo colors to a rainbow palette. June is Pride Month, which means it’s time for corporations that normally contribute to the deaths of marginalized people in the […]
A Would-Be Trans And Queer Haven In Rural Colorado Just Wants To Be Left Alone
By Dan Boyce, NPR There’s a 6-foot-tall fence going up around the Tenacious Unicorn Ranch in rural Custer County, Colo. The people who live there say they need it because they’ve been the target of harassment since they relocated the trans-friendly ranch there in 2020. The perimeter fence […]
The GOP’s Ultimatum to America: Fascism, or Else
By Umair Haque, Medium Every sensible person knows by now that the GOP has become America’s greatest threat to itself. Even Republicans with common sense — like my father-in-law, the farmer — shake their head at what’s become of their party: a hotbed of fanatics, extremists, loons, and […]
California’s Future of Pan-Enclavism
By Robert Stark California prides itself on its diversity with race relations that are generally better than many other parts of the nation. However, California, as a beacon for diversity, does have major problems including income inequality and a massive exodus out of the state. Problems with the […]
South Africa is way worse than you think
By David Hiscox, XYZ South Africa is hell. The following post was seen in The XYZ Telegram chat: Fuck, man, after the reset I’ve joined a few Afrikaanse chat rooms and I’ve been chatting quite intensely with some people there. To get a detailed picture of White life […]
They Shoot Trans Kids, Don’t They?
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s official dearest motherfuckers, those goddamn Jesus freaks have declared war on trans kids, my kids. As I gaze upon the legislative wreckage from the tsunami of hate laws that have washed over the Bible Belt and beyond, […]
Beyond Politics Ep 01 – Transcending the Dialectic
This is the first episode of Beyond Politics with hosts Doug McKenty and Jason Bosch, where we discuss a wide variety of issues working to bridge disagreements and come to better understandings outside of rhetoric and political tribalism.
Devastation and Denial: Cambodia and the Academic Left
By Matthew Blackwell, Quillette Looking out across the yellow-washed angular buildings that clutter the inner city of Phnom Penh in 2016, hindsight fills me with anxiety. Imagining myself here in 1975, I recall the jubilant and cheering crowds in the spring of that year who weren’t privy to […]
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