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Nexus X HumectressDozens of Republicans are planning to call for reforms amid escalating divisions within their party and are threatening to form a separate group if GOP members do not break away from former President Trump. The more than 100 former Republican officials are expected to release their demands in […]
By Matthew Walter, The American Conservative It is somehow absurdly fitting that Joe Biden, who entered the United States Senate in 1973 at the age of 30 as an opponent of racial busing, is presiding over a return to the 1970s. The Seventies are one of the few […]
By Ian Mayes In recent years I have been becoming increasingly interested in and excited about the prospect of people exploring and colonizing the planet Mars. A friend asked me recently about what I find so compelling about this idea, and I thought that I’d elaborate some on […]
The entire plan can be read here. Is this better or worse than either Obamacare or Medicare-for-All? By Justin Haskins and S.T. Karnick, Chicago Tribune For the better part of the past three decades, supporters of free-market public policy solutions have fought against one attempt after another by […]
Of course. As I have said, this is a ruling class unity regime: neocons, neoliberals, supply-siders, imperialists, technocrats, and woke progressives united against all genuine dissidents. Krystal Ball weighs in on the decision to oust Rep. Liz Cheney from Republican leadership.
Saager’s and Krystal’s comments in this are good. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to President Joe Biden’s discussion with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Team Rising reacts to reports that Ohio is using federal COVID-19 relief dollars to conduct a $1 million lotto drawing for people who have been vaccinated.
I always thought Yang was weak on foreign policy, particularly Israel, which is why I thought Tulsi Gabbard and Marianne Williamson were better candidates than Yang. A good litmus test as to whether someone is a genuinely “anti-system” figure is the degree to which they are critical of […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the Colonial Pipeline resuming operations and President Biden’s actions to thwart future cyberattacks.
I lean toward the view that inflation is more of a long-run than immediate danger. Inflation is a potential though not inevitable consequence of more immediate problems. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti share their thoughts on new numbers revealing the Core CPI Inflation numbers.
Anarchist Library UGL: Ok, let us start with the basic things like the project itself. What is it? TSU: Okay, well, the scarlet underground’s got three parts of the project—the first part of course is the immediate mutual aid that we need to be using as a direct […]
By Gabrielle Canon, The Guardian Under a highway, beautiful structures offer food, healthcare, showers and a free ‘store’ – as well as a strong sense of community. Tucked under a highway overpass in West Oakland, just beyond a graveyard of charred cars and dumped debris, lies an unexpected […]
This is one of the most comical editorials I have read in a while. Christian Science Monitor Biden has shored up four key allies – and their democratic ideals – against next-door aggressors. During his early months in office, President Joe Biden has taken an unusual approach to […]
It’s rather ironic that “woke” America’s two closest allies are an ethnostate and a theocratic absolute monarchy.
Zac & Gavin of The Vanguard host and moderate a live #DEBATE between Steve Cox (Independent Congressional Candidate) and Ben Burgis (Philosophy instructor, Jacobin columnist) concerning gun control, gun rights and the second amendment in general.
As a social scientist myself, I lean toward the view that the evidence indicates that racism in the United States today is neither the pervasive, all-encompassing racism that existed in past times, nor is racism non-existent or entirely marginal or peripheral. Instead, I think the evidence supports the […]
For the prosecution. By Rashawn Ray Brookings Institute South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott shocked many people when, in response to President Joe Biden’s congressional address, he stated that “America is not a racist country.” He admitted that he himself had experienced “the pain of discrimination,” and noted, “I know what it […]
Austin’s comments fit the general pattern of a shift toward soft power, outsourcing imperial functions to client state and proxy forces, and greater reliance on technology. By Robert Burns, The Associated Press NAVAL STATION PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii — In his first major speech as Pentagon chief, Lloyd Austin […]
By Andrew Higgins, Washington Post Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor’s bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile’s trajectory back to an “enormous, stupid mistake” made 30 years ago. “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” says Mr. Cohen, a […]
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 exacted a […]
By Mehdi Hasan, Dina Sayedahmed What do you know about Hamas? That it’s sworn to destroy Israel? That it’s a terrorist group, proscribed both by the United States and the European Union? That it rules Gaza with an iron fist? That it’s killed hundreds of innocent Israelis with […]
By Adam Gabbatt, The Guardian The percentage of churchgoing Americans is steadily falling, and the swirl of right-wing politics and Christianity is playing a key role. Fewer than half of Americans belong to a house of worship, a new study shows, but religion – and Christianity in particular […]
By J.D. Tuccille, Reason Government officials who wield land grabs to pick economic winners and losers now want to use them to kill disfavored businesses. In 2005, the United States Supreme Court ruled that it’s constitutional for government officials to use eminent domain to steal private property and […]
Yang was always weak on Israel/Palestine. ANDREW YANG UNITES THE LEFT! Everyone from Vaush to Kyle Kulinski to Virgil Texas to Chelsea Manning to Abby Martin to Aaron Mate to Ryan Knight to Eddie Huang to David Doel is calling out Andrew Yang over an extremely offensive Tweet […]
These estimates sound a bit low. By Chris Uggen, Ryan Larson, Sarah Shannon, and Arleth Pulido-Nava, Sentencing Project 5.2 million Americans are forbidden to vote because of felony disenfranchisement, or laws restricting voting rights for those convicted of felony-level crimes. In the past 25 years, half the states […]
There is hope. By Domenico Matanaro, National Public Radio More Americans voted in 2020 than in any other presidential election in 120 years. About 67% of eligible voters cast ballots this year, but that still means a third did not. That amounts to about 80 million people who […]
By Billy Binion, Reason Hernan Palma is suing after he says he was punched in the face and his family restrained by cops during a botched no-knock drug raid. Officers with Maryland’s Montgomery County Police Department (MCPD) allegedly executed an illegal no-knock raid against the wrong residence, assaulting […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to fuel shortages popping up across the country following a cyberattack.
Team Rising weighs in polling that reveals a majority of Republicans believe a third political party is needed.
Ideologies are the new religions. Subcultures and interest group affiliations are the new tribes. Krystal laments the lack of class politics in the US but class politics doesn’t happen in a society fragmented into warring tribes. Saager laments the 70 million who didn’t vote. Are non-voters a macro-tribe […]
Good riddance to another fraudster. Fmr national press secretary to Bernie Sanders & co-host of The Bad Faith Podcast, Briahna Joy Gray, weighs in on Elizabeth Warren’s new book and her plans to run for re-election in 2024.
This is like when Nelson Rockefeller was running for office in the 1950s and described “the average guy making about $100,000 a year.” Krystal Ball demonstrates how “wealth serving wealth has nearly shut working class people out of politics.”
So Fauci is a Fraudci? Only what some of us have been saying for the whole time this pandemic has been going on. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Dr. Anthony Fauci’s Senate testimony on the Covid-19 response.
Vaush & Shoe0nHead discuss her old videos about Feminism. Shoe0nHead talks about how she doesn’t have an issue with feminism overall she just criticized certain aspects of ‘pop-feminism’
By Peter Billington Seven North East Lancashire men fought as International Brigade volunteers during the Spanish Civil War. Four came from Burnley, two from Nelson and one from Colne. Two were killed in action, four served with great distinction and one deserted. The pamphlet looks at the North […]
There are three different parts of the world that provide some indication of what the future of the USA will look like. Increasingly, our educated, managerial classes and elites are moving toward the social norms of Western Europe (e.g. support for gay marriage is regarded as the hallmark […]
By Joel Kotkin, American Mind The national consciousness regresses to the level of the toddler, casting everything in stark terms of good and bad. “We are here to guide public opinion, not to discuss it.” Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, 1804 By the calendar, the American republic is mature, but […]
If you think democracy is broken, here’s an idea: let’s replace politicians with randomly selected people. Author and activist Brett Hennig presents a compelling case for sortition democracy, or random selection of government officials — a system with roots in ancient Athens that taps into the wisdom of […]
As I have recently said, look for an eventual shift away from “defund the police” rhetoric (which is already fading) toward a renewed emphasis on “law and order” in response to rising crime rates, and with a move toward the creation of a national police force, which will […]
Anarchist News It’s not a novel idea, for today large projects aimed to rebuild the world are in decline. In the twentieth century, the powerful movements mobilized millions of people to storm political Olympus and start “great construction projects”. But during the last century, they have gone bankrupt […]
Team Rising discusses reporting that reveals Donald Trump’s campaign hid unfavorable polling from members of the GOP.
By Andrew Bacevich, The American Conservative In President Biden’s address to a joint session of Congress, military issues figured as an afterthought. Yet implicit in his presentation was a potential shift in basic U.S. policy from activism to restraint. The central purpose of American military power, he announced, […]
–President Joe Biden’s approval rating climbs further, now to 63%, buoyed by high approval for Biden’s handling of the pandemic, and the economy
By CLG News Editor, Lori Price 4 May 2021 This morning, I received an unsubscribe request from a long-time reader of the CLG newsletter. They wrote: I think you turned on the left and Democrats –Somewhere along the line, you switched sides. I once preferred your e-mails because […]
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He’s probably okay for mayor of NYC but keep him away from the presidency. Andrew Yang’s recent dehumanizing and pandering statements (https://twitter.com/kthalps/status/13…) in support of Israel as it engages in ethnic cleansing have rightfully earned him criticism. But, as Abby Martin already pointed out, Yang has a history […]
“She seemed real.”
Abby Martin explores what’s missing from coverage of Biden’s announcement of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
By Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss Some day historians will scratch their heads over the fact that for the better part of 20 years U.S. presidents were engaged as a leading foreign policy question in how to restrain Iran, a small country half the world away that has not attacked […]
By Whitney Webb, Unlimited Hangout Facebook’s growing role in the ever-expanding surveillance and “pre-crime” apparatus of the national security state demands new scrutiny of the company’s origins and its products as they relate to a former, controversial DARPA-run surveillance program that was essentially analogous to what is currently […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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