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Nexus X HumectressSleeping Epstein Security Guards Wanted To ‘Put The System On Trial’
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky weigh in on reporting that the guards who were asleep when Jeffrey Epstein hung himself planned to “slam” federal prison system at trial.
How Worker Co-ops Successfully Weathered The Pandemic
The Real News’ senior reporter, Jaisal Noor, shares his reporting on worker cooperatives.
Here’s WHY The Lab Leak Theory MATTERS
Ryan Grim and Emily Jashinsky explain the importance of the lab leak theory.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Krystal Kyle & Friends Crossover Episode
It’s funny they left The Hill because their bosses thought they were too radical when they’re actually very middle of the road.
Amazon Says Sad Workers Can Shut Themselves in “Despair Closet”
By Victor Tangermann, Futurism Amazon is being roasted for sharing a video of its “AmaZen,” a phonebooth-sized box where employees can go to “focus on their mental wellbeing.” In other words, one of the largest companies in the world is offering its overworked employees a, well, box to […]
Sanders Says No Way to $10 Billion Taxpayer Handout to Bezos’ Space Company
By Sharon Zhang, Truthout Last month, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) chose Elon Musk’s space exploration company SpaceX for a $2.9 billion contract to help develop the agency’s moon landing project, Artemis. Now, Congress is debating an amendment to a science and research funding bill that […]
Trump Will Be INDICTED For Tax Fraud Or Bank Fraud – Roger Stone
Berlusconi, Sarkozy…Trump? Roger Stone, a longtime friend and former advisor to Donald Trump, said in an Infowars interview on Friday that he believed the former president would face an indictment imminently, Salon reported. “I would be shocked if they did not come forward with a fabricated indictment for […]
The Continuing Fictitious Struggle
By Paul Gottfried, American Consequences Antifascists and others on the Left like to believe they have been struggling against the same Right for almost 100 years. But there is little evidence for this assumption. Breitbart last week published a commentary about homosexuals who were demonstrating against the Israelis […]
From BLM to Palestine, What’s Really Changed?
Briahna Joy Gray and Virgil Texas discuss how the establishment has pushed back against movements for justice in U.S. policing and Palestine.
Cornel West DENIED Tenure for Supporting Palestine
Virgil Texas and Briahna Joy Gray speak to the one-and-only Dr. Cornel West about the professional consequences of his advocacy for Palestine, his tenure battle with Harvard, and what he makes of the gap between the media response to his case versus Nikole Hannah-Jones’s tenure battle. How does […]
At Last: The Military-Industrial Complex is Atoning for Its White Privilege
By Matt Purple, The American Conservative As bombs rain down on Yemen, Lockheed Martin has finally realized it has a problem: a lack of woke consultants. Don’t ever say there isn’t healing in America today. From Christopher Rufo at City Journal: Last year, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation’s largest […]
Putin’s Turkish Nightmare
By Douglas MacGregor, The American Conservative The revived geopolitical rivalry between Russia and Turkey spells trouble for Putin and his allies. On the first of October 1939, just three days after the fall of Warsaw and Poland’s destruction at the hands of Soviet and German forces, Stalin summoned […]
Hollywood’s Other Foreign Censor: Saudi Arabia
By Evin Ashley Erdogdu, The American Conservative American culture and freedom of expression are the battleground of a new cold war. China and Saudi Arabia have outsized influence in Hollywood today. Money from their repressive governments is influencing American culture, including our films, and thus our representation around […]
American Hegemony, Now and in the Future
By Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative The U.S. squandered the unipolar moment, but we aren’t into simple multipolarity quite yet. The collapse of the Soviet Union began nearly two decades of American unipolarity. During that time, U.S. leadership pursued a strategy of what international relations scholars call liberal […]
Mothers of Tamir Rice, Breonna Taylor Criticize Black Lives Matter: ‘Benefitting Off the Blood of Our Loved Ones’
By Jack Phillips, Epoch Times The mothers of several people whose names have been invoked by Black Lives Matter activists panned the group’s co-founder, Patrisse Cullors, for benefitting “off the blood” of their family members. Cullors last week announced last week that she would be departing the organization, […]
“Malatesta in Brexitland: locating the geographies of democracy”
By Federico Ferretti, Richard J White, and Anthony Ince This paper aims to make a timely and original contribution to the long-standing debates regarding the interrelationships(s) between democracy, anarchism and the state in two key ways. The first is by exploring more fully the work of Errico Malatesta, […]
Politics Is Seeping Into Our Daily Life and Ruining Everything
By J.D. Tuccille, Reason Americans are choosing jobs, brands, and friends for partisan reasons, say researchers. Is there anything that politics can’t ruin? The answer, it appears, is a resounding “no” as partisan conflict creeps into all areas of American life. Our political affiliations, researchers say, obstruct friendships, […]
Our Radical Ideas Have a Bigger Audience Than We Thought
Tom Woods Show Michael Malice’s latest book, The Anarchist Handbook, made it all the way to #1 among nonfiction books on Amazon. He accomplished this feat with no publisher, no marketing department, and not even a book launch. This is worth talking about. Read the original article at […]
Sacco and Vanzetti’s Trial of the Century Exposed Injustice in 1920s America
By Annika Neklason, Smithsonianmag.com For six years, starting in 1921, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti watched from death row as writers argued for their freedom, politicians debated their case, and radicals held protests and set off bombs in their names. They managed to rally support even from people […]
INSIDE Koch Network’s Bid To Become America’s Landlord
Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, breaks down The Koch Foundation’s recent financing of legal groups fighting to end prohibitions against evictions.
Richard Wolff On Defunding The Military-Industrial Complex
In this clip from the Waking Up With Julianna Forlano show, Professor Richard D. Wolff discusses how “if we stop funding the Military-Industrial Complex we could afford the greening of America, the infrastructure program, the American family program. All of these things wouldn’t require a nickel of government […]
Max Blumenthal: we’ve been hearing about “concentration camps” to liken China to Nazi Germany
The Grayzone journalist, Max Blumenthal, talks about charged, weaponized rhetoric used to ratchet up tensions with China.
Fareed: China’s own missteps are turning world against them
CNN’s Fareed Zakaria gives his take on why China’s increasingly assertive foreign policy is putting it at odds not just with foreign nations, but also with its own interests.
Republican accuses China of ‘worst cover-up in human history’
CNN’s Jake Tapper speaks to Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, a top Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, about the origins of Covid-19, the potential evacuation of thousands of Afghan nationals whose work for the US could make them Taliban targets, and election reforms in his home state.
Parent: Why I pulled my daughter out of antiracist school
Freddie Sayers meets Andrew Gutmann. Listen to the podcast version here: https://shows.acast.com/lockdowntv-wi… Accompanying article here: https://unherd.com/thepost/parent-why… Brearley is one of the most prestigious private schools in America. Based in the Upper East side of Manhattan, where the children of plutocrats and power brokers attend, the $54,000 a year […]
Debating the Effectiveness of Incrementalism and The Squad
These guys have a decent leftist “inside baseball” show. The Vanguard is bringing lively conversations to the left and platforming independent voices with ideas on the “vanguard” of modern leftist thought and politics.
John Boehner Book Review: Throwing His Book at Them
There are some gem quotes in this. By PJ O’Rourke, American Consequences This is not a book review… This is especially not a book review of a memoir by a politician. Because they always write them, and we never read them. We just read the reviews. Oh, sometimes […]
We Are Now: The Story of an Armed No-Cop Zone in Atlanta
Crimethinc On the night of June 12, 2020, Atlanta police officers murdered Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, at a Wendy’s in south Atlanta, Georgia. This took place immediately following the high point of the countrywide uprising in which people responded to the murders of George Floyd in […]
Is There a Future for the American Middle Class?
This discussion between Michael Lind and Walter Russell Mead is a must-watch. Among Lind’s observations: -The USA is actually becoming less racially polarized as more integration is taking place along socioeconomic, geographical, institutional, and even partisan lines. -More class polarization is taking place but the working class is […]
The Young Turks “DISGUSTING” Says Rock Legend Roger Waters
The Albrightians vs. Pink.
UNHINGED: Cenk Uygur & Ana Kasparian SLANDER Real Journalists
The Young Turds forever discredited themselves with their reverential interview of Maudlin Half-bright.
New Pluralist Vision for California
By Robert Stark, Medium The nation is caught up in a reckoning over racial justice that coincides with civil unrest and greater political polarization. In line with these national trends, California has put forth measures on racial justice grounds that include racial favoritist cash payouts, educational curriculum based […]
NATO Monsters (and Super Creeps)
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America loves its monsters. We love to make em and we love to blow em up. For all our high talk of freedom and democracy, we are a superpower with a long and storied history of building up […]
Anarchism, Franco’s Dictatorship, and Postwar Europe: High-risk Mobilization and Ideological Change
By Eduardo Romanos Historians have traditionally considered Spanish anarchism to be the most successful variant of the international libertarian movement. Most of them also believe that the terminal point of that variant came soon after the end of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and Franco’s dictatorship (1939–1975) came […]
A New Study Shows Us the Single Biggest Motivation for the Jan. 6 Rioters
This is fairly interesting. A new study on the January 6 Capitol insurrection finds that of the nearly 400 rioters arrested or charged, 93% are white and 86% are male. Michel Martin speaks to the study’s principal investigator, Professor Robert Pape, to discuss these findings and some surprising […]
Canada mourns as remains of 215 children found at indigenous school
BBC A mass grave containing the remains of 215 children has been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978. The discovery was announced on […]
A new report complicates simplistic narratives about race and the 2020 election
By Andrew Prokop The report from the firm Catalist looks at what changed since 2016, but also at the parties’ coalitions overall. In the days and weeks after presidential election results come in, commentators attempting to figure out what happened with voter demographics are often in a fog […]
Free College Doesn’t Go Far Enough for the Left
I suspect free college will happen eventually for three reasons. As more and more jobs require college degrees, a college education will eventually come to have the same status as public school education, a necessary public utility that is provided by the government. Colleges are also big businesses […]
Betrayal, Vengeance, and the Anarchist Ideal: Virgilia D’Andrea’s Radical Antifascism in (American) Exile, 1928–1933
By Lorenza Stradiotti A contribution to histories of women in the interwar transnational antifascist movement, particularly radical exiles, we focus on VirgiliaD’Andrea, a noted Italian anarchist exile from fascist Italy who spent her final exile in New York, 1928–33. An intellectual, writer-poet, and orator belonging to a small […]
VIDEO: Marjorie Taylor Greene Against Removal of Hitler Statues
She’s crazy, but I don’t necessarily disagree with her on this. I think the decision concerning what public monuments to have should be made by the people who actually live in a community and pay for the upkeep of the community. But the wave of statuephobia we have […]
3 Myths About American Decline
The most immediately obvious problem with this analysis is that it ignores the rise in the expected threshold of subsistence during the time period that is being discussed. Politicians and the media are telling bogus stories about falling fertility rates, rising inequality, and supposed lack of economic mobility. […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends | Vaush
I agree with his emphasis on Palestinian issues. Most of the rest of this is fairly predictable.
Noam Chomsky – Why Does the U.S. Support Israel?
A pretty good explanation of the backstory.
Will the Spike in Murder and Violence Undermine Criminal Justice Reform?
Growing criticism of big-city progressive D.A.s George Gascón and Chesa Boudin underscores the importance of distinguishing necessary reform from simply failing to enforce the rule of law. In 1960, the U.S. violent crime rate started rising, and for three decades this was one of the most vexing and […]
Abby Martin WINS Anti-BDS Lawsuit Against Georgia
Good job, Abby. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Georgia’s anti-BDS law being deemed unconstitutional.
Rachel Maddow Finally Criticizes Biden BUT It’s Over Russiagate
As I said, they’re getting desperate. Krystal Ball reacts to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow attacking Attorney General Merrick Garland.
MSNBC Courts ‘Young Audience’ With NICOLLE WALLACE Streaming Show
They’re apparently getting desperate. Team Rising reacts to reports that MSNBC anchor, Nicolle Wallace, is in talks with the streaming platform, Peacock, about a new show.
CNN Can’t Crack 1 Million Viewers, Is It End Of An Era?
Thanks to the Internet, everyone is going to the independent media, which is why the censors are trying to tighten the grip. Team Rising discusses CNN’s struggle to maintain viewers in the post-Trump era.
Bezos Buys MGM, OFFICIALLY The Most Powerful Person In America. That Should Worry You
Saagar Enjeti reacts to Amazon’s Jeff Bezos purchasing MGM for $8.45 billion.
TODAY On Rising And What’s NEXT For Krystal And Saagar
It will be interesting to see what their next project is. Their program was highly unique.
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