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Nexus X HumectressDemonstrators are marching in the streets of Elizabeth City, North Carolina protesting lack of transparency by law enforcement following the deadly shooting of Andrew Brown Jr. Civil rights attorney Bakari Sellers on Monday slammed the “disrespect” shown to the family of a man shot and killed by police […]
Not that bad for a Breadtuber.
Oh, well. Folks need to organize their own protection systems.
China is the test market.
Imagine that.
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the implications of Defund the Police, the Chauvin Trial, and the rise of the Martial Law State.
Host of The New York Times’ The Argument, Jane Coaston, discusses Florida governor, Ron DeSantis’ controversial ‘anti-riot’ law.
Krystal Ball breaks down the Warrior Met Coal strikes.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss President Biden caving to Big Pharma on negotiating drug prices.
Saagar Enjeti warns about a new wave of celebrity involvement in politics.
Seattle City Council member, Kshama Sawant, discusses a resolution that her office will bring forward for a vote in support of over 400 global organizations who are calling on the Biden administration to stop blocking intellectual property waivers.
Team Rising discusses President Biden’s latest approval rating according to a new poll from ABC News.
Team Rising reacts to a New York Times’ piece on the American CEO’s who earned the most money during COVID.
As an anarchist, I oppose taxes generally, but unfortunately, these supply-side guys give anti-tax perspectives a bad name. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Chris Christie’s latest comments on President Biden and socialism.
When I started ATS 20 years ago, the main objective I wanted to promote was to end US imperialism by dissolving the United States itself, a goal I had originally embraced in the 1980s. Initially, I had thought anarcho-syndicalism would be the vehicle but being involved with actual […]
By Jason Lee Byas, Center for a Stateless Society Almost everyone today accepts at least one utopian idea: that slavery is so morally unacceptable that the practice must be stomped out wherever found, and any institution that depends upon it must immediately crumble. It’s probably even an understatement […]
By Joel Kotkin The Democratic Party has always been a loose confederation of outsiders — poor farmers, union members, populists, European immigrants and southern segregationists. As the actor Will Rogers said in 1924: “I am not a member of any organised political party. I am a Democrat.” Yet […]
Michael Lind nails it again. The Democrats are now the new Rockefeller Republicans, and the Republicans are now Jacksonian Democrats (as was FDR). By Michael Lind, Tablet Seventy-six years ago today, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, serving his fourth term in office, died in his “little White House” in […]
By Morris Brodie This article examines the function of anarchist periodicals in the United States during the Great Depression. Periodicals acted as forums for debate, where ideas were constantly challenged and important theoretical issues were aired. This was both within anarchism and between the wider radical movement. In […]
By Patricia McCormick, Washington Post In 1970, an image of a dead protester immediately became iconic. But what happened to the 14-year-old kneeling next to him? Last May, when Mary Ann Vecchio watched the video of George Floyd’s dying moments, she felt herself plummet through time and space […]
By Cory Morningstar, Wrong Kind of Green “What’s infuriating about manipulations by the Non Profit Industrial Complex is that they harvest the goodwill of the people, especially young people. They target those who were not given the skills and knowledge to truly think for themselves by institutions which […]
Black & Green Wednesday Program on Envisioning a Greener New Deal 7:00 pm CT, Wednesday, May 5, 2021 We must halt environmental destruction while providing a better quality of life for everyone on Earth. Since our hope has been that alternative energy can replace fossil fuels, it can […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Oh sweet lord Satan, is this it? Is this really how it ends? With Joe Biden struggling to pronounce Pashtun words on badly shuffled cue cards. Is this it? After twenty long years that could only accurately be […]
By Matt Taibbi “I tend to have a pretty polarizing effect on the discourse,” says the author, in a free-ranging talk about Bolsonaro’s Brazil, his time at The Intercept, and critics who accuse him of being pro-Trump. “That’s what journalism is, you have to inform the public. If […]
There is a lot of interesting discussion in this episode. Wolff’s ideal system amounts to social democracy plus workers’ capitalism. It’s funny that Kyle and Krystal act like these are new and previously unfamiliar ideas. Wolff doesn’t say anything that I didn’t already know 30 years ago.
I saw one of the Hoffman/Rubin debates in the 80s. Rubin was fairly prophetic in predicting a fusion of the cultural left with the business and political class, though Hoffman was right that the “enlightenment” of the boomers was actually pretty benighted. In the 1960s, the former New […]
The state tries to strengthen its position.
Bad news attracts the highest ratings.
An interesting case study.
An interesting assessment of the Chauvin case from an anti-Chauvin, but pro-cop, “conservative” perspective. By Andrew McCarthy, National Review If you did not watch the Derek Chauvin trial, but only heard the inflammatory comments spewing out of the White House and the media-Democrat complex, there are things about […]
It’s Going Down On today’s episode we speak with Kieran, President of CWA Local 7250 and long-time organizer in the Minneapolis area about how rank-n-file union members kicked the National Guard out of a union controlled Labor Center building. We talk about the National Guard on the streets […]
Another police killing in the Minneapolis area, Duante Wright, a cop who supposedly didn’t know the difference between a gun and a taser, bulk of police training is firearms training, the problems with hiring combat veterans as police officers, Joe Rogan’s interview with ex-cop Mike Wood, cops who […]
Krystal Ball reacts to the decline in department stores and breaks down the consequences of their extinction.
Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim break down the failures of network morning shows that have resulted in lower ratings.
Journalist, Matt Taibbi, discusses his latest piece on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
But what about Marx and Engels? Lots of political incorrectness there. All past cultures and many world cultures today would be considered racist, sexist, ableist, ageist, homophobic, overly religious, etc. etc. by contemporary standards of the kind now found in Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. To eliminate any […]
Noam vs. a bunch of dweebs from Yale. Chomsky’s opening statement in this is quite good.
I’ve been using the Shia/Sunni analogy for around 15 years. It’s interesting that it is now making its way into mainstream discourse. What I find most regrettable is that most anarchists and libertarians, who should be standing apart from this stuff, seem to not only buy into but […]
The Mindcrime liberty show is joined by Keith Preston to discuss whether Thomas Hobbes, the author of the leviathan, is right about the necessity of the state. Is it true that without the state/leviathan humans’ life would be short, brute, and nasty? What would an anarchist criticism of […]
Hahahaha.
Team Rising discusses the new group, “Asian and Pacific Islander New Yorkers Against Andrew Yang.”
Transform into what? Ryan Grim and Saagar Enjeti debate Dems plans for a comprehensive child care program
Class divisions keep widening. Saager Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to new poverty peaks in the pandemic.
Fragment, fragment, fragment…We really do have three parties now: neoliberal Dems, social-democratic Dems, and Trumpian populist-nationalist Republicans functioning as stooges for neoliberal/neocon Republicans. Huffington Post reporter, Daniel Marans, discusses moderate House Dems who are asking for help against progressive Dems in the upcoming midterms.
It’s interesting that a mainstream commentatory is using an analogy to Iraq. I’ve been using that analogy for 15 years. Saagar Enjeti discusses how politically divided the country truly is.
Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to reports that The Postal Service is running a covert operations program.
By Thomas Swann How many anarchists does it take to start a conversation about anarchism in a business school? Perhaps the most appropriate punchline is that such a conversation shouldn’t ever take place at all, never mind the number of participants. And yet just that conversation did take […]
Whatever, dude. –Former Republican President George W. Bush slams the current Republican Party as “isolationist, protectionist, and nativist”
By Paul Raekstad The meaning of political concepts is always tied to the practices that develop, sustain, and change them through time. Democracy is no different. One of the most interesting recent chapters in the history of democracy is the New Democracy Movement, which includes the wave of […]
By Peter R. Quinones Last year when I first heard that the NBA was ending their season due to a virus commonly known as COVID-19 (CV19), I knew the world was about to change. And boy did it. Governors mandated lockdowns of certain businesses with no rhyme or […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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