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Nexus X HumectressAre We Next? China Unveils Nark App To Report On “Misinformed” Friends and Family
China is the test market.
Kerry And Biden Admit What Indy Media Has Said All Along, Israel Is Behind Attacks On Iran
Imagine that.
Chauvin trial and the end of Posse Comitatus
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.
GOP Throws Free Speech Concerns In Trash To Crack Down On Protesters
Host of The New York Times’ The Argument, Jane Coaston, discusses Florida governor, Ron DeSantis’ controversial ‘anti-riot’ law.
Miners STRIKE In Existential Battle With Private Equity Backed Coal Company
Krystal Ball breaks down the Warrior Met Coal strikes.
Biden To CAVE To Big Pharma On Drug Prices
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss President Biden caving to Big Pharma on negotiating drug prices.
Caitlyn Jenner Is WRONG Outsider For Our Times. Here Are The REAL Ones We Need
Saagar Enjeti warns about a new wave of celebrity involvement in politics.
Pharma Execs Are LYING About COVID Vaccine Patent Protection
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.
Biden Has Third-Lowest Approval Rating In MODERN HISTORY Outside Trump, Gerald Ford
Team Rising discusses President Biden’s latest approval rating according to a new poll from ABC News.
Dem Rep To INVESTIGATE Why List Of Greediest CEO’s Doesn’t Include More Women
Team Rising reacts to a New York Times’ piece on the American CEO’s who earned the most money during COVID.
Chris Christie Says Capital Gains Hike Is SOCIALISM
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.
We’re Getting a Lot Closer
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 […]
Melting Mountains of Ice: A No-Government Doctrine for the 21st Century
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 […]
The looming Democrat Civil War
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 […]
Is It Time to Cancel FDR?
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 […]
Rebel Youths: English-language anarchist periodicals of the Great Depression, 1932-9
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 […]
The Girl in the Kent State Photo: Where Is She Now?
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 […]
The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent: The Political Economy of the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
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 […]
Registration for the May 5 webinar on “Envisioning a Greener New Deal”
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 […]
Joe Biden’s Fabulous Fool’s Peace
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 […]
Interview: Glenn Greenwald, on “Securing Democracy,” Twitter, and the Media Business
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 […]
Krystal Kyle & Friends | Professor Richard Wolff
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.
What Really Happened to the Class of ’68?
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 […]
Free Country? Numerous Anti-Protest Bills Sweep The Nation
The state tries to strengthen its position.
Study Shows US Media Is Bias Toward COVID Bad News
Bad news attracts the highest ratings.
How Would UK Police Handle Knife Wielding Teen?
An interesting case study.
What the Media Didn’t Tell You about the Chauvin Case
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 […]
This Is America #138: Chauvin Trial Ends, Streets Explode
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 […]
Attack the System S2: E13
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 […]
REPORT, Department Stores On “Brink Of Extinction”
Krystal Ball reacts to the decline in department stores and breaks down the consequences of their extinction.
MILLIONS Turn Off Mainstream News As New Journalism Rises
Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim break down the failures of network morning shows that have resulted in lower ratings.
Matt Taibbi: Rachel Maddow Is The NEW Bill O’Reilly
Journalist, Matt Taibbi, discusses his latest piece on MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.
Should we cancel Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche?
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 […]
The YPU Debates Noam Chomsky — “Resolved: End the American Empire”
Noam vs. a bunch of dweebs from Yale. Chomsky’s opening statement in this is quite good.
Why Political Sectarianism Is a Growing Threat to American Democracy
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 […]
Keith Preston on whether Thomas Hobbes is right about the necessity of the state
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 […]
George W. Bush Says He’s Concerned About Lies Online
Hahahaha.
‘Asians Against Yang’ Ignore ASIAN SUPPORT For Yang
Team Rising discusses the new group, “Asian and Pacific Islander New Yorkers Against Andrew Yang.”
Can Biden ACTUALLY Transform America?
Transform into what? Ryan Grim and Saagar Enjeti debate Dems plans for a comprehensive child care program
Poverty SOARS During Last Month Of Pandemic
Class divisions keep widening. Saager Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to new poverty peaks in the pandemic.
The DCCC Blacklist Is Over But Their Efforts To Crush Left Insurgents Continue
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.
The Culture Wars Are KILLING US, Here’s How We Get Out
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.
Post Office CAUGHT SPYING On Americans’ ‘Inflammatory’ Social Media Posts
Saagar Enjeti and Ryan Grim react to reports that The Postal Service is running a covert operations program.
Did you hear the one about the anarchist manager?
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 […]
Bush SLAMS Republicans as “Isolationist, Protectionist, Nativist”
Whatever, dude. –Former Republican President George W. Bush slams the current Republican Party as “isolationist, protectionist, and nativist”
The New Democracy: Anarchist or Populist?
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 […]
The ‘Terrorists’ Of The Covid Religion
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 […]
The Enemy Is Always the State
By Lew Rockwell, Mises Institute The web loves nothing more than a good brawl, so people often write me to ask me to respond to a critic of LRC or the Mises Institute. There’s certainly no shortage of them, and they come from the Left, the Right, and […]
DC Medical Examiner: Sicknick Died from ‘natural causes’
It’s interesting how many people died of strokes and heart attacks during the Capitol riot, and apparently on “both sides.”
Fox News ERUPTS Over Chauvin Verdict
Team Rising reacts to Fox News host, Greg Gutfeld’s, comments on the Derek Chauvin verdict.
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