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Nexus X HumectressPentagon Spying On Its Own Service-Members, Here’s Why That’s Dangerous
Host of Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, discusses the Pentagon’s newest military surveillance program.
Biden Gives HUGE GIFT To Putin, Media Ignores
Team Rising reacts to President Biden waiving sanctions on a Russian pipeline into Germany.
Palestinians Launch HISTORIC GENERAL STRIKE Hailed Most Significant Action In Decades
Krystal Ball reacts to the protests taking place across Palestine in response to recent Israeli attacks.
Reporters FAWN Over Biden In Disgusting Exchange Over Israel-Palestine
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the media fawning over President Biden and asking permission to ask him a question.
What REALLY Went On With Epstein and Bill Gates..
And why is Melinda divorcing Bill?
Israel Continues To Mow The Lawn After Rejecting Cease Fire
“Mowing the lawn” is the phrase used by Israelis to describe the massacres of Palestinians.
Major Power Rivalry in Africa
By Michelle Gavin, Council on Foreign Relations Competition for influence on the African continent is an undeniable geopolitical reality. The Donald Trump administration’s emphasis on countering China and Russia on the continent raised concerns about unwelcome echoes of the Cold War era, when the United States often treated […]
The Inflating of Fears
By Peter Zeihan I’m going to attempt the impossible with this one: making economics not necessarily fun, but painfully relevant to someone who cannot work an Excel document. Here goes: The United States is experiencing the fastest increase in prices since at least the peak of the subprime […]
Supreme Court rules warrantless home gun confiscation is unconstitutional in 9-0 vote
By Liz George, American Military News The Supreme Court ruled Monday that warrantless gun confiscation from Americans’ homes is unconstitutional, voting unanimously on the side of a Rhode Island man whose firearms were taken by law enforcement without a warrant after his wife expressed concerns that he might […]
Creating Unity or division – The origins of the FAI
By Jason Garner As anarchism was never a mass movement in either the United Kingdom or the United States it has often been the victim of equivocal, prejudicial and patronising (often sympathetic) interpretations. Studies of the anarchist ‘phenomenon’ are often more anthropological than strictly historical. The result has […]
Crypto Currency Skepticism or Crytpo to the Moon?
The Mindcrime libertyshow is joined by Duncan Whitmore of Mises UK who wrote an essay entitled Crypto Skepticism to discuss both his essay and crypto currency in general. Does crypto currency ranging from the very well established Bitcoin and Ethereum to the plethora of startup alt coins and […]
When Scientific Orthodoxy Resembles Religious Dogma
By Avi Loeb, Scientific American When my Harvard colleague Stephen Greenblatt saw my book Extraterrestrial featured on the cover of the Orthodox Jewish magazine Ami, he commented “It is interesting that the Orthodox evidently do not consider their faith threatened by the possibility of other inhabited worlds.” To […]
How French “Intellectuals” Ruined the West: Postmodernism and Its Impact, Explained
By Helen Pluckrose, Areo Magazine Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself. That may sound like a bold or even hyperbolic claim, but the reality is that the cluster of ideas and values at the root of postmodernism have broken the bounds […]
How America Went From Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
By Ellen Brown, ScheerPost The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done? In a matter of decades, the United States has gone from a somewhat benign […]
Catalonia and 14 Other Potential New Countries We Could See by 2025
By Sam Becker, Showbiz We all yearn to be free — to be independent, to call our own shots. But most of us have to abide by rules. You might be living in your parents’ house, for example, and have to follow the whole “my house, my rules” […]
DOES DECENTRALIZATION STRENGTHEN OR WEAKEN THE STATE?
By Jean-Paul Faguet, Ashley M. Fox, Caroline Pösch We examine how decentralization affects four key aspects of state strength: (i) Authority over territory and conflict prevention, (ii) Policy autonomy and the ability to uphold the law, (iii) Responsive, accountable service provision, and (iv) Social learning. We provide specific […]
These Forward-Thinking Utopias Changed Design Forever
By Elizabeth Yuko, Architectural Digest It’s easy to look back at the many failed American utopian communities that sprung up during the Transcendentalist movement of the 1840s—from the Oneida Community to Brook Farm to Fruitlands—and point out what went wrong. (Typically, some combination of leadership issues, problematic sex […]
These six utopian cities of the future will help you re-imagine life on Earth
By Alan Marshall, The Conversation Utopia, a book by English statesman, lawyer and clergyman Thomas More (1487-1535), turns 500 years old this month. A fictional rendering of social philosophy, the book describes an exemplary society on an imaginary island in an unknown place faraway across the seas. Coined […]
What Can We Learn from Utopians of the Past?
By Adam Gopnick, New Yorker Michael Robertson’s “The Last Utopians: Four Late Nineteenth-Century Visionaries and Their Legacy” (Princeton) is instructive and touching, if sometimes inadvertently funny. The instructive parts rise from Robertson’s evocation and analysis of a series of authors who aren’t likely to be well known to […]
Seven Planned Utopian Towns That You Can Visit Today
By Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian Institute Throughout history, people have been in search of the perfect town. A utopia, built with harmony in mind, where everyone gets along and works together without conflict. Thomas More coined the term in 1516 with his book, Utopia, where he describes a perfect […]
The New Generation of Self-Created Utopias
By Mike Mariani, New York Times THE EAST WIND COMMUNITY is hidden deep in the Ozarks of southern Missouri, less than 10 miles from the Arkansas border, surrounded by jagged hills and tawny fields. Getting there requires traversing country roads that rise, dip and twist through chicken-wire-fenced farmsteads […]
People’s Party Invites You To Nominate Your Next Congress Person
I wish them luck. Fragment, fragment, fragment…
Julian Assange’s Brother, Kevin Gosztola & Glory Jones discuss #FreeAssange
Gabriel Shipton, Kevin Gosztola & Glory Jones join The Vanguard for a live panel concerning Julian Assange and the status of the #FreeAssange movement.
Trump Tried to Pull Global Troops after Losing 2020 Election
If only he had been successful. It is revealed that Donald Trump, in a tantrum after losing the 2020 election, tried to pull all American military troops from around the world.
St. Louis lawyer who waved rifle at protesters running for Senate in Missouri
I wish him well. I’m for electing the most ridiculous people possible to electoral positions. By Henry J. Gomez and Dartunorro Clark, NBC News Mark McCloskey, the St. Louis lawyer known for brandishing a rifle at Black Lives Matter protesters outside his home last year, announced his run […]
Fauci and the Fed: America’s Technocratic Frauds
By Tho Bishop, Mises Institute This past March, Dr. Anthony Fauci sparred with Dr. Rand Paul over any public health benefit that came from wearing a mask if one had developed immunity to the virus. In dealing with both a democratically elected senator and a medical doctor, Dr. […]
On Crime and Punishment in Large Cities
By George Liebman, The American Conservative Recent events might lead the uninitiated to believe that, on the crime front, America’s large cities are getting better and better. Several of the new breed of city prosecutors have announced with pride that the “war on drugs is over” in cities […]
When cities add cops, Black residents could have the most to gain — and the most to lose
By Aaron Chalfin, Benjamin Hansen, Emily Weisburst, Morgan C. Williams Jr., Niskanen Center As police shootings remain in the public eye and the Black Lives Matter movement demands change, vocal debate about “defunding” the police can obscure a critical point: Most Americans, Black and white, are clear that […]
Settler Colonialism: America and Israel
Black Americans and Palestinians share a bond of oppression and resistance
By Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times-Dispatch The message on the protest signs and face masks, “WE CAN’T BREATHE SINCE 1948,” succinctly expresses the shared history of oppression between African Americans and Palestinians. “I can’t breathe” were the dying words of Eric Garner and George Floyd — one man […]
White Nationalism as a Deracinated Subculture
This is a pretty interesting academic presentation on the “white nationalist” subculture. Ironically, the anarchist and “white power” subcultures mirror each other in many ways, however much they may hate each other. This video is dedicated to all post-alt-righters, and for those who still think anti-liberalism, and the […]
Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for a commission to study ‘BLM and ANTIFA mobs’
Another heel vs. heel match. Those are always the best. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene took to the House floor on Sunday to call for a commission to study BLM and Antifa protests from 2020.
Tom Cotton rips AP again, slams them for sharing building in Gaza with Hamas
Tom Cotton and Netanyahu vs the Associated Press and Hamas in a heel vs. heel tag team match. Following yesterday’s Senate floor broadside against the AP, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) doubled down, questioning whether the Associated Press knew it was sharing a building with Hamas.
Why Are Deficits No Longer Important?
Interesting economic analysis.
Jobs Report Is Sign Of Economy IN TROUBLE
Professor of economics, Richard Wolff, discusses the latest jobs numbers. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the U.S. economy added 266,000 jobs last month.
Inside China’s Global Propaganda Machine
Media columnist for The New York Times, Ben Smith, discusses China’s use of propaganda in other countries.
Proof LITERALLY Everyone Was WRONG About Mask Restrictions
Team Rising reacts to reports that lifting the mask mandate in Texas had almost zero impact on COVID cases or the economy.
The Untold Story of Christian Zionism’s Rise to Power in the United States
From the perspective of serious Judaism or Christianity, Zionism can’t be considered anything other than heresy. According to Judaism, Israel cannot be restored until the Messiah comes, and the “kingdom of Israel” is a spiritual kingdom, not a political one. According to Christianity, Jesus Christ was the Messiah, […]
Don’t call Israel an apartheid state
I would agree with this only in the sense that the occupied territories are less like the former South African apartheid and more like the Warsaw Ghetto. By Giles Fraser, The Unherd Arnold Schwarzenegger meant well, but there was nonetheless something ill-judged about his borrowing the term Kristallnacht to […]
Israel DECIMATES AP Bureau And Biden Does NOTHING
Krystal Ball reacts to the Israeli airstrike that destroyed a building in Gaza containing major media outlets.
Biden’s Call For Ceasefire IGNORED By Hamas-Israel
“Go back to sleep, Joe” said Bibi. Israel will only change its ways if it experiences intense pressure from the USA (“No change, zero aid”), and that will only happen if there is intense domestic and global pressure on the USA. We need a BDS on steroids, crystal […]
Kim Responds To Criticisms About ‘Zionism’ Definitions
Want more? I now make videos from your comments and emails exclusively for my Locals Community. I pick out some of the best comments and read email responses in a new “Viewer Thoughts Show”. Joining my Locals Community helps support my fully independent show as well as gives […]
Those Who Rely On Disorder For Their Survival Desire Chaos
By Peter T. Quinones “It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it” – Upton Sinclair How many people do you think actually serve humanity on their jobs? Do you think the grocery store worker realizes the service […]
Eldridge Cleaver: The Mormon Years
By Jesse Walker, Reason When Eldridge Cleaver ascended the Marriott Center stage on June 28, 1981, the Black Panther Party wasn’t quite dead. The organization’s last remnants were running an alternative school in Oakland, California, and that final Panther project didn’t peter out until 1982. But Cleaver, who […]
Netanyahu Warns Biden Not To Get Involved
By Philip Giraldi But Biden gives Israel more weapons even while Gaza is bleeding May 18, 2021 An interesting recent article by international lawyer John Whitbeck suggests that the billions of dollars that the United States gives to Israel annually is not technically “foreign aid” as the Jewish […]
Resistance, Fascism & Cracks in Ruling Class Consensus
I’m not a fan of this guy but this is an interesting and, I think, accurate analysis of what is going on with the Republicans. It seems as though the neocons and their allies (neo-Reaganites, superhawks, Never Trumpers, etc.) are pursuing a three-front strategy: colonizing the Democratic Party […]
Gaza under attack: Israeli apartheid with Ali Abunimah, Rania Khalek, Max Blumenthal
Israel is bombing Gaza, while extremists ethnically cleanse Palestinians. Ali Abunimah and Rania Khalek join Max Blumenthal, Aaron Maté, and Anya Parampil to discuss the colonial violence – and indigenous resistance.
The Retribution Karma Will Bring
By Kim Iversen “Israel has been targeting the press in Gaza in an attempt to cover up their obvious war crimes. They just blew up the building housing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera. They gave the press an hour to evacuate. Yesterday they blew up a building […]
Imagine If Gaza Rockets Were Landing In Washington, Not Israel
They say that like it’s a bad thing. Baltimore Jewish Life, Staff Report IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman deflects criticism of the bombing of media office building in the Gaza Strip. IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Hidai Zilberman deflected criticism of the military’s actions in the Gaza Strip on Sunday […]
Far-right Israeli groups plan further violence against Palestinians after night of lynchings
By Lubna Masarwa, Frank Andrews, Middle East Eye Far-right Israeli groups are planning to mount further attacks against Palestinians in Israel on Thursday night, according to group chat messages seen by MEE, after a night of mob attacks, crackdowns by Israeli security forces and deaths across Israel, the […]
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