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Nexus X HumectressDems IDIOTIC Decision To Go ALL IN ON January 6 For Midterms
Team Rising discusses Democrats’ plans to campaign on January 6th commission votes.
Right-Wing “Cancel Culture” Hypocrisy EXPOSED By AP Firing Of Emily Wilder
Krystal Ball breaks down conservative silence on cancel culture in regards to criticism of Israel.
Epstein Guards ADMIT Faking Records As Bill Gates Revelations Continue
Saagar Enjeti explains how Bill Gates planned to leverage his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Jim Jordan Warns What He Thinks Democrats Will Do After “Defunding The Police”
This is what is going to happen. There will be a pullback on policing in poor and minority neighborhoods and communities (obviously, there is not going to be less policing in suburbs and wealthy areas). Crime rates will start to spiral as they did in the 70s and […]
Why Netanyahu thinks America is stupid
Time is going to run out on the Israelis eventually. They’re getting too arrogant for their own good. Eventually, American public opinion is going to turn against them, and then they will be a shadow of their former selves when big brother no longer has their back. By […]
Naomi Wolf vs. The Therapeutic State
A Jewish woman questions whether having the state enact “Where are your papers?” laws in the name of health and hygiene is a good idea. Gets called a reactionary by enlightened progressives.
Campaign 2024: Trump getting ready to hit campaign trail
It’s increasingly obvious the Republicans are becoming the American Le Penists, i.e. a family fiefdom that functions as a permanent right-wing populist opposition party with a large enough fandom to stay in business, but not enough to pursue any real political transformation. It really says a lot about […]
NEW Evidence Emerges For Lab Leak Hypothesis As Fauci Does TOTAL 180
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the media’s change in coverage of the coronavirus “lab leak theory.”
The Life and Thought of Lysander Spooner
FROM 2013: Today we’re joined by Gary Chartier of the Center for a Stateless Society for a discussion about the life and work of Lysander Spooner. We talk about Spooner’s American Letter Mail Company, his abolitionist activism, and the development of his anarchist philosophy and his arguments against […]
Robert Owen, born 250 years ago, tried to use his wealth to perfect humanity in a radically equal society
By Richard Gunderman Do you have a work schedule that leaves you with enough time off the clock to rest up and handle your other responsibilities? If so, you might owe something to Robert Owen, a wealthy industrialist who was born in Wales on May 14, 1771. Welsh […]
The Rise of Corporate-State Tyranny
By Joel Kotkin, Claremont Institute In explaining his shift away from Maoist economics, Deng Xiao Ping, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, described his market-oriented changes as “socialism with Chinese characteristics.” Today, American businesses, as well as the media and academic establishments that serve them, increasingly embrace what […]
What Did the Lockdowns Actually Accomplish?
Apparently, nothing. By Kim Iversen Now that the pandemic is waning in the US, let’s take a look at how the states did. Look at this list sorted by deaths per capita. There really is no rhyme or reason as to why some did better than others. Lockdown, […]
Democrats Bewildered at the Unpopularity of Kamala Harris
By Rick Moran, PJ Media Democrats have been flogging the image of Kamala Harris for more than six months, trying to show Americans why she should be popular, and the public isn’t buying it. The efforts and the expectations of success by Democrats say a lot about the […]
If Donald Trump faces criminal charges, analysts doubt it will hurt him with his base in 2024
It will probably only make him more popular. By David Jackson, USA Today WASHINGTON – When Republicans talk about whether Donald Trump will run for president again in 2024, many hasten to add it may depend on a big unknown: his legal troubles. Could an indicted ex-president still lead […]
Let’s talk about NY’s sweeping police reform legislation….
The USA: a country where doing a fraction of what a reasonable person would consider baseline standards gets called “sweeping reform.”
Rethinking Godwin’s Law in Gaza
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s an inevitability if you’re an online muckraker. It happens all the time. You get dragged down the rabbit hole by some malignant grandstanding troll and, regardless of what the devolving conversation was actually about, somebody gets called […]
Geraldo Rivera STANDS UP To Sean Hannity
Geraldo Rivera wasn’t afraid to call out Sean Hannity for his abhorrent takes on Israel.
Geraldo Defends Palestinians And Schools Fox News On The Crisis
Geraldo Rivera schooled Fox News on the ongoing crisis.
Addressing “Anti-Woke” Leftists
I’m not a fan of Vaush, but this is an unusually articulate defense of the intersectional left perspective. Of course, his analysis is still contained within the narrow and overly reductionist race/class/gender framework and progressive/reactionary dualism. Institutions have interests of their own, over and above their formal function […]
Enemies Of The Logic Of Totalitarianism
By Julian Langer, Anarchist News/Eco-Revolt Nomadism Not Dialectics I generally describe my anarchist-philosophy as ontological and one of my reasons for this is due to my lack of belief in authority, with my basic position being that all-is-(actually-)anarchy – the attempt at assuming authority I encounter as an […]
Who Would Krystal And Saagar Pick To Run The Government?
The answer they give is surprisingly good.
How Israel helped create Hamas
From 2014. By Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post All signs indicate that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to wage a protracted battle in the battered Gaza Strip as it seeks to crush the capabilities of the Islamist militant group Hamas. The ongoing conflict has already […]
U.S. to ramp up tracking of domestic extremism on social media
By Nomaan Merchant, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security plans to ramp up social media tracking as part of an enhanced focus on domestic violent extremism. While the move is a response to weaknesses exposed by the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, it’s raising concerns […]
Let’s talk about DOD and the CIA’s new recruitment practices….
In the tradition of the Congress of Cultural Freedom.
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin
This is a must-watch. This debut feature film by journalist Abby Martin began while reporting in Palestine, where she was denied entry into Gaza by the Israeli government on the accusation she was a “propagandist.” So Abby connected with a team of journalists in Gaza to produce the […]
Joe Biden’s German Green Deal
Michael Lind really is one of the very best political analysts and social scientists out there today. Here, he thoroughly exposes both Biden and the Green New Deal as statist-capitalist, corporatist-plutocratic scams that will have a negligible impact on carbon emissions. By Michael Lind, Tablet The Biden administration’s […]
Trump Voters After Trump
The future of conservativism will likely be something comparable to #walkaway in the center and something more like Le Penism on the right. The big question is to what degree rank and file conservatives will reject their neocon/Reaganite overlords. By Andrew Bacevich, The American Conservative In the grand […]
Pakistani foreign minister spars with CNN anchor live on air over Israel having ‘deep pockets’ & ‘controlling the media’
Russia Today A CNN news anchor has accused Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi of using an anti-Semitic slur during a live interview after the diplomat claimed that Israelis “control the media.” The interview began with Qureshi talking about a possible ceasefire between the Palestinian militant group Hamas […]
“Our Atheists are Very Pious People”
Max Stirner seems to have nailed it 175 years ago.
Structural Antisemitism
The most immediately obvious problem with this article is that it rests on the assumption that Hamas launches rocket attacks on Israel for no other reason that boredom or having nothing better to do. By Jonah Goldberg Structural racism means different things to different people. But here’s a […]
The lawyer who took on Chevron – and now marks his 600th day under house arrest
Critics of anarchism often argue, “But without the state we would have corporate feudalism!” apparently not recognizing that we already have corporate feudalism. By Oliver Milman, The Guardian Steven Donziger has been detained at home since August 2019, the result of a Kafkaesque legal battle stemming from his […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends | Abby Martin (on Israel, Palestine & ‘Gaza Fights For Freedom’)
Abby Martin is a pretty good source for information on Israel/Palestinian.
Tulsi Gabbard calls for Chicago mayor Lightfoot to resign over ‘anti-white racism’ causing social media uproar
Russia Today Former congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard has condemned the “blatant anti-white racism” of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and called for her resignation. The culture war bombshell triggered both Republicans and her fellow Democrats. “Mayor Lightfoot’s blatant anti-white racism is abhorrent. I call upon President Biden, Kamala Harris, and […]
Oregon First State to Require Vaccination Proof for Maskless Entry Into Businesses, Workplaces, and Churches
By Samuel Allegri,Epoch Times The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) is requiring that people in workplaces, businesses, and religious sites show proof of COVID-19 vaccination in order to be allowed maskless entry to the facilities. The state’s health authorities updated their masking guidance on May 19, following the Centers for […]
Ideas and Data
This is a pretty interesting blog by someone who seems to be making an honest effort to defend generally conservative and/or right-wing positions on empirical grounds. If you are on the right, you will probably find a lot of material here to fuel your own confirmation biases. If […]
How Bad Has the US Economy Become for Regular People? (1970 – 2020)
This article makes an empirical case that the economy still isn’t that bad, although data from the post-covid period has been deliberately excluded by the author, and the statistics presented end in 2019. My initial impression of this author’s arguments is that he/she relies too strongly on the […]
The nation against the State: the Irish question and Britain-based anarchists in the Age of Empire
By Federico Ferretti This paper discusses the relation between early anarchism and republican/nationalist ideas. We will focus on the case of British-based activists grouped around the journal Freedom and their engagement with Irish nationalism during the Age of the Empire. Freedom, founded in 1886, was the most important […]
Jill Biden On Kamala’s Debate Attack, ‘Go F*** Yourself’
Team Rising discusses a new Politico story on the evolving relationship between Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
New Data Reveals CEOs LIED About Taking Pay Cuts
Krystal Ball discusses the pay rises major CEOs received in 2020.
Worker Accuses Amazon Of Meddling In Union Election
Max Alvarez, host of Working People Podcast, discusses Amazon’s alleged union busting tactics.
How Reporters Came To Love The Spy State
Journalist and author, Matt Taibbi, discusses how the media’s coverage of intelligence has changed in the past decade.
CNN Tries To Cover Up FAILURE By Targeting Opponents
Saagar Enjeti reacts to CNN’s Oliver Darcy going after The New York Times for accepting ad dollars from Fox.
CNN Becomes EVEN MORE CORPORATE After Firesale
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that WarnerMedia is planning to merge with Discovery.
MSNBC Ratings PLUNGE As Cable News Fails To Meet The Moment
Team Rising reacts to the falling ratings of cable news, specifically MSNBC.
Susan Sarandon and Marianne Williamson Call On Biden Admin To STOP Chevron Persecution Of Donziger
Actress and activist, Susan Sarandon, and former presidential candidate, Marianne Williamson discuss the trial of Steven Donziger.
How America turned into the EU
By Joel Kotkin, Unherd For many liberal Americans, the European Union is the perfect elite model: a non-elected, highly credentialed bureaucracy that embraces and seeks to enforce the environmental, social and cultural zeitgeist of the urban upper classes. It is, as the establishment Council on Foreign Relations puts […]
Can Businesses LEGALLY Ask For Your Vaccine Status?
Interestingly, the Left and Right will likely do an about-face on this issue, with the Left defending the autonomy of business owners and the Right defending consumer rights.
Trump’s war with his generals
By Jonathan Swan, Zachary Basu ,Axios Axios’ “Off the rails” series documents the end of the Trump administration, from election night 2020 through the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol. One important piece is only now beginning to emerge: Former President Donald Trump’s last-minute bid to pull U.S. […]
“The Few, the Proud, the Inclusive and Diverse”
Toby Green’s top 10 utopias and dystopias
An overview of famous utopian/dystopian writings. By Toby Green, The Guardian Toby Green is the author of Thomas More’s Magician: A Novel Account of Utopia. The book tells the story of Vasco de Quiroga who, using Thomas More’s Utopia as his blueprint, forged a commune on Mexico City’s […]
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