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Nexus X HumectressI’m hoping for more of this here. Let’s see some Congressional battle royales. BBC Founded with the noble ambition of uniting the continent, a session of the Pan-African Parliament (PAP) recently descended into farce with some members fighting and threatening to kill each other. The ugly scenes came […]
By Gino Spocchia,Independent Social media users react to viral article by Indian-British food writer after he calls popular dessert a product of ‘stolen land, wealth and labour’ Apple pie has been at the centre of a debate about racism after it was claimed the dish has colonial roots, […]
By Lauren Weber, Wall Street Journal More U.S. workers are quitting their jobs than at any time in at least two decades, signaling optimism among many professionals while also adding to the struggle companies face trying to keep up with the economic recovery. The wave of resignations marks […]
By IVAN PEREIRA and JOSHUA HOYOS A cashier is dead and two people were wounded after a shooting broke out following an argument inside a Georgia store Monday afternoon over its COVID-19 mask policy, authorities said. The incident took place near Candler Road in DeKalb County at a […]
Useful idiots for neoliberalism and digital capitalism.
Ugh, no.
For the most part, universities have more in common with Wal-Mart than with North Korea, in the sense of having making money as their first priority. Higher education has become very corporatized in the past couple of decades, part of the “McDonaldization” process sociologists like George Ritzer started […]
By Chris Walker, Truthout Norma McCorvey probably isn’t a household name across most of the United States, but she was instrumental in a Supreme Court ruling most Americans are well-aware of: Roe v. Wade. In that decision, lawyers for McCorvey, who was listed as “Jane Roe” in briefings, […]
Science writer Steven Johnson, author of the new book Extra Life, on vaccines, medical breakthroughs, and life after Covid. “It took us four years just to identify the virus that caused AIDS in the ’80s,” says Steven Johnson. “Imagine COVID where it’s four years before we even know […]
By most accounts, America was founded in 1776 when the Founding Fathers wrote the Declaration of Independence. More recently, The New York Times Magazine launched an initiative known as the 1619 Project, aiming to redefine America’s birth as being 1619, when the first slave ship arrived on American […]
Best viewer comment: “It’s good to be in the top 1% of something for a change.”
Zac & Gavin react to The Hill’s NEWEST iteration of “Rising” which of course Krystal Ball & Saagar Enjeti recently left to start their own show “Breaking Points.”
From 2018. More cracks have appeared since then. “We don’t look after each other at all,” says Jeffrey Sachs on America today Jeffrey Sachs sits down with Rob Johnson to discuss his new book, A New Foreign Policy: Beyond American Exceptionalism (Columbia University Press, 2018).
Correction: it is oppressing 7 Million Palestinians, Gaza Strip siege included.
Colin Rogero and Emily Miller discuss the G7 Summit. They also weigh in on a New York Times Investigation that reveals employers can require workers to get the covid vaccine.
Team Rising discusses mobile apps that allow teenagers to invest in the stock market.
Team Rising reacts to the Biden Administrations’ decision to use the term “birthing person” instead of mom.
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, weighs in on the Israel’s newly formed government.
Colin Rogero details the price increases being seen across rideshare platforms Uber and Lyft.
Colin Rogero and Emily Miller share their thoughts on reports that the Justice Department subpoenaed Apple for information in February 2018 about an account that belonged to Don McGahn.
Colin Rogero and Emily Miller react to the FBI’s investigation into the disclosure of the personal income and tax data of some of the wealthiest Americans. Maybe the takeaway lesson should be: income tax is an utter failure and we should do away with it entirely.
“The worker who votes the Republican or Democratic ticket does worse than throw his vote away. He is a deserter of his class and his own worst enemy.” Eugene V. Debs
The internet doesn’t naturally create these monopolies. These corporations bought their place on the market by cutting losses every year for well over a decade until they just outpaid and outresourced everybody else. Big money behind them, is why they got so big. Not because that organically happens […]
“Trust the science” LITERALLY means to DISTRUST the scientists. A poll of scientists or the opinion of a single scientist is not science at all.
If you don’t understand that billionaires own our government, you’re not paying attention.
Glenn Greenwald wrote a white paper in 2009 about decriminalization of all drugs in Portugal. They stopped a heroin epidemic.
Remember Trump said, “ It’s obvious that the next battlefield is going to be space”?
She didn’t even get to win her own primary, she was shoehorned in because Obama and Hilary love her because she fits the diversity checkboxes.
Fauci’s idea of science is similar to CNN’s idea of journalism.
by Don Fitz and the Green Party of St. Louis People the world over are opposing fossil fuel extraction in an incalculable number of ways. It is now clear that burning fossil fuels threatens millions of Life forms and could be laying the foundation for the extermination of […]
On The Jacobin Show, Jen Pan and Cale Brooks discuss the implosion of Dianne Morales’ New York City mayoral campaign and why the use of social justice rhetoric can backfire.
For the record, I generally oppose efforts to impose censorship on schools that want to teach critical race theory, just as I would oppose censorship of the teaching of intelligent design, “scientific creationism,” Marxist class theory, intersectionality, or Charles Murray’s theories on the relationship between race, class, and […]
History has been forgotten. Nobody seems to know what ‘Fascism’ actually is, or was, or means. And the word has degenerated into little more than a slur. Today though I’m going to use historical sources to accurately define what Fascism was, place it within the context of history, […]
Today we explore the meaning and facets of the ideology known as Fascism. We’ll briefly cover it’s origins and history before focusing on what this philosophy stands for, and promotes in a hopefully unbiased manner.
Igor Shoikhedbrod’s “Revisiting Marx’s Critique of Liberalism” offers a theoretical reconstruction of Karl Marx’s new materialist understanding of justice, legality, and rights through the vantage point of his widely invoked but generally misunderstood critique of liberalism.
Former Louisiana Governor, Huey Long, was once a figure of great controversy and interest. During the Great Depression of the late 1920’s and early 1930’s, Long achieved prominence on a populist and seemingly socialistic platform which advocated redistribution of wealth, and much more. Often portrayed through history as […]
By Peter Cho Waking up early on a Saturday morning or racing home from school to catch your favorite animated shows is something of a right of passage for children of all ages and adults who are kids at heart. While most are designed to be innocent, pure, […]
–Audience Question: Can we say for sure that UFOs aren’t aliens?
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative Everyone understands the Soviet Union tried to cover up the Chernobyl disaster, but what’s less known is that they’d already pulled it off once before. In 1957, an accident at a plutonium production site near the remote city of Kyshtym in the […]
By Chris Navagonski, The American Conservative President Biden is right: America is back. Since January, the United States has re-embraced the tactlessness and belligerence that have for so long defined American foreign policy. In April, Biden was a no-show when Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga visited the White […]
Netanyahu could be out. A more extreme right-winger is set to take his place. But the new ruling coalition is being heralded as a “progressive step” and “an opportunity for change.” Learn the shocking details about what is happening, and what it means for Palestine with prominent Israeli […]
And now in leftist civil war news…
Apparently, there is a civil war going on in some of the state Libertarian Parties. I have no idea what it’s about, but my first impression is that it’s about which side the LP should take in the Red/Blue sectarian civil war. Libertarian Party of New Hampshire During […]
The more parties, the better. Activist, Renee Johnston, discusses The People’s Party.
The totalitarian humanist revolution is being consolidated.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Believe it or not, dearest motherfuckers, these can be depressing times for an upstart genderfuck anarchist like myself and not just because I have depression. On the 52nd Pride Month, this bastard nation seems to be divided up […]
By Hada Thier, Jacobin Yet again, both Republican and Democratic party leaders are attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar for telling the truth about American and Israeli war crimes. And yet again, Omar has nothing to apologize for. As sure as the sun rises in the morning, the American political […]
By Tim Challies I grew up in the era of the Cold War. From my youngest days I was taught that the West was the bastion of democratic freedom and the Soviet Union the stronghold of oppressive totalitarianism. We knew who the enemy was, and we knew he […]
By Bill Hull, The Bonhoeffer Project Hard totalitarianism is easy to see. It is Soviet tanks rolling through your streets. It is the secret police in the former East Germany bugging your home, following you, arresting you, torturing you, and imprisoning you with a show trial or no […]
By James M. Patterson, Law Liberty Many Americans today live on edge. The arrival of COVID-19 has introduced an invisible enemy that attacks without reason or mercy. The policy responses of quarantine and shutdown have led to lay-offs, business failures, evictions, and foreclosures. Those still lucky enough to […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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