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Nexus X HumectressOf course. Big Tech and the Media represent the left-wing of the capitalist class just as the fossil fuel and Big Ag represent the right-wing of the capitalist class. By Tim Pearce, Daily Wire Comedian Russell Brand ripped into the Democratic Party and accused it of colluding with […]
By Ted Rall, Counterpunch Your opinion doesn’t matter—not by itself. No matter how heartfelt or important to you personally, your thoughts about Gaza or legal weed or the war on skinny jeans don’t mean anything merely because they reside inside your brain. Your opinion matters only if you […]
By Robert Graham This article discusses the different forms of organization utilized by anarchists within various anarchist movements from their beginnings in the 1860s until the present day. Despite the claims of some contemporary anarchists that horizontal network forms of organization are a recent development that distinguish contemporary […]
This looks to be an interesting book. The science of climate change has to stand on its own, whatever the findings or ideological implications, assuming it’s actual science (based on sound scientific methodology). But I find the “anti-climate change” movement to be problematic. Much of it seems to […]
Israel and Saudi Arabia are state-guaranteed export markets for US arms manufacturers that are underwritten by US taxpayers. Fiscal conservatives and tax-cutters, where are you? By Thomas L. Knapp, Garrison Center On May 5, Hamas commander Mohammed Deif issued a warning to Israel’s government: Unless Israeli police and […]
By Claes G. Ryn, The American Conservative Reactions to globalization, the Trump presidency, and the coronavirus pandemic have turned discussions of American conservatism increasingly into discussions of “nationalism.” Regrettably, terminological confusion is rampant. Both “conservatism” and “nationalism” are words of many and even contradictory meanings. The strengths of […]
By Damian Carrington, The Guardian The massive melting of glaciers as a result of global heating has caused marked shifts in the Earth’s axis of rotation since the 1990s, research has shown. It demonstrates the profound impact humans are having on the planet, scientists said. The planet’s geographic […]
Notice that it is primarily the governments of red states and corporations that represent the right-wing of the ruling class (e.g. fossil fuels) that are behind this. This is the right’s counteroffensive to the growing hegemony of “woke capitalism.” Fragmentation within the capitalist class itself is growing, although […]
By Jane Wakefield, BBC A camera system that uses AI and facial recognition intended to reveal states of emotion has been tested on Uyghurs in Xinjiang, the BBC has been told. A software engineer claimed to have installed such systems in police stations in the province. A human […]
Reuters Facebook Inc (FB.O) said on Wednesday it would take “stronger” action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on the platform. Facebook will reduce the distribution of all posts in its news feed from a user account if it frequently shares content that has been flagged as false […]
By Sam Levin, The Guardian Los Angeles sheriff deputies frequently harass the families of people they have killed, including taunting them at vigils, parking outside their homes and following them and pulling them over for no reason, according to a new report from the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) […]
Instead, they want to raise fuel taxes on the working class. Washington Post economics reporter, Jeff Stein, discusses pushback fro By Mona El-Naggar, Adam Rasgon and Mona Boshnaq, New York Times When asked to describe how they felt, many parents answered with a simple “It’s God’s will,” their […]
Instead, they want to raise fuel taxes on the working class. Washington Post economics reporter, Jeff Stein, discusses pushback from Dems on Biden’s tax plan.
Remember that Silvio Berlusconi went to jail after his term as Italy’s Prime Minister. Purging the opposition. Team Rising reacts to reports of a grand jury convening to examine evidence in a criminal investigation into Trump’s business dealings.
All of that pandering to the Israeli Lobby apparently didn’t help him much. The neocons and neoliberals don’t want him and the left views him as too conservative. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest New York mayoral polls which show Andrew Yang in third place.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to White House press secretary Jen Psaki’s comments on the “lab leak theory” investigation.
They all work together behind the scenes like in pro-wrestling. Team Rising discusses the unexpected connection between MSNBC’s Joy Reid and Fox News’ Sean Hannit
Duh? Host of Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, discusses the need for businesses to raise their wages in order to bring back workers.
When are these social democrats going to give up on electoralism? Krystal Ball explains the long-term financial effects of coronavirus on Americans.
We’re moving closer to the kinds of transnational elites that existed in the era of royal dynasties.
What does anyone expect? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the latest updates in the infrastructure bill negotiations.
By JP Cortez, Sound Money Defense League Washington, DC (May 26, 2021) – America’s gold reserves would be audited for the first time in more than 60 years if a measure introduced yesterday by U.S. Representative Alex Mooney (R-WV) becomes law. The Gold Reserve Transparency Act of 2021 […]
In this video, Laci makes her case against cancel culture. She highlights 5 ways that cancel culture fails as a method of justice, or actively perpetuates injustices.
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston and Swithun Dobson to discuss the connection between the cult of the Veterans and Identity Politics.
Panelists (left to right): Box 1 – Erec (anti) Box 2 – Brittany King ( host) Box 3 – Alma (anti) Box 4 – Sam (pro) Box 5 – Chris (anti) Box 6 – Nicole (pro) Box 7 – Dr. Kasey (pro) Box 8 – Desi-Rae (anti) I’m […]
Noura Erakat (https://twitter.com/4noura), a Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer and Assistant Professor at Rutgers University, New Brunswick in the Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice lays out how pretending that anti-zionism is antisemitism obscures the way that antisemitism was created by White Supremacy. She also […]
By AKSEL BORA ÇORLU This dissertation explores the connections of anarchism and violence, especially in the form of propaganda by the deed. The existing scholarship on this subject either focuses on national/ethnic units, or subsumes it under the dubious heading of “terrorism.” I aim to present an inclusive, […]
A new book from Michael Malice. Anarchism has been both a vision of a peaceful, cooperative society—and an ideology of revolutionary terror. Since the term itself—anarchism—is a negation, there is a great deal of disagreement on what the positive alternative would look like. The black flag comes in […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Biden’s nominee for Air Force Secretary, Frank Kendall.
D.C. bureau chief at The Intercept, Ryan Grim, discusses Senate’s proposed $10 billion bailout for Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, which lost out on a NASA contract to SpaceX.
Team Rising discusses Florida governor Ron DeSantis’ new bill, which allows the state to penalize social media platforms that ban political figures.
Sorry, Krystal, but January 6 wasn’t a “horror.” It was hilarious, well-deserved, and long overdue. As was the torching of police precincts. Team Rising reacts to the National Guards leaving the Capitol after five months of deployment following the January 6th riots.
Saagar Enjeti dissects how and why the media discredited the coronavirus “lab leak theory.”
By Donnacha DeLong This essay was written as part of my studies in 2010/2011, reading a Masters in PoliticalCommunication in City University, London. The essay was the assessment in the course GlobalCivil Society and answered the question: Compare the relevance of the classical transnational labour movement and the […]
By Peter R Quinones Can we finally stop with the accusations that anyone who questions the motives of those ACTIVELY propagandizing the public to take one of the CV19 “vaccines” is being paranoid? Especially when you take into consideration that in 1986 the government gave vaccine manufacturers total […]
By Matt Taibbi Fact-checkers are great, but the media business keeps trying to solve its credibility problem by misrepresenting what they do. The news business just can’t stop clowning itself. The latest indignity is an international fact-checking debacle originating, of all places, at a “festival of fact-checking.” The […]
Journalist Glenn Greenwald, discusses the Belarus warplane that forced a flight from Greece to Lithuania to land in order to detain a 26-year-old dissident journalist, Roman Protasevich.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss who is still hesitant to take the COVID vaccine and why.
By Mya Frazier, New York Times Suzy Niffenegger slept outside in Las Vegas for the first time in late August 2019. She put what belongings she still had — including her collection of what she refers to as her “ ’80s big-hair wigs” — into storage and filled a […]
By Zack Stanton, Politico Thirty years ago, sociologist James Davison Hunter popularized the concept of culture war. Today, he sees a culture war that’s gotten worse—and that spells trouble for the future of the American experiment. In 1991, with America gripped by a struggle between an increasingly liberal […]
Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses the rise in anti-Semitic hate crimes amidst the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
President and founder of Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology, Richard Hanania, discusses his predictions for the 2024 presidential election.
Team Rising discusses the hypocrisy of Dems, who called for defunding of the police, voting for a spending bill for more Capitol security.
This segment explains pretty well why electoral politics is about tribalism, not policy. Former Congressional candidate, J.D. Scholten, discusses how the Democratic Party is resonating with rural voters in key battleground states.
Team Rising discusses Democrats’ plans to campaign on January 6th commission votes.
Krystal Ball breaks down conservative silence on cancel culture in regards to criticism of Israel.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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