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Nexus X HumectressBy David P. Goldman, Asia Times Delusions die hard. The obsession of American foreign policy after the fall of communism was pro-Western democracy in Russia, and the foreign policy establishment has never forgiven Vladimir Putin for returning Russia to the sort of authoritarian governance it has endured for […]
By Uri Gordon, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory An interesting back issue from 2004. This issue of Perspectives goes to press to the relentless sounds of empire encroaching. It is the sound of USfighter planes bombing cities across occupied Iraq, and the drone of the helicopters that shadow our […]
By Matt Taibbi Review of Killed Cartoons, edited by David Wallis, and White, by Bret Easton Ellis The French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo won the condemnation of the whole world again, with the cover pictured above. Reactions ranged from “abhorrent” to “hateful” to “wrong on every level,” with […]
By Michael Paul Williams, Richmond Times Dispatch For seven years, Evans Hopkins lived above the death chamber of the Virginia State Penitentiary in Richmond, where he was serving a life sentence dispensed by an all-white Danville jury for armed robbery. This proximity compelled him to write about the […]
By Matt Taibbi As Congress once again demands that Silicon Valley crack down on speech, the Director of Research at the American Economic Liberties Project outlines the real problem – and better solutions. Led by Chairman Frank Pallone, the House Energy and Commerce Committee Thursday held a five-hour […]
By Peter R. Quinones I was turned on to the Netflix series “Black Mirror” a few months after the first season was released. If you started with Season 1, Episode 1 – “The National Anthem” – as I did, you instantly knew this was a different kind of […]
A Newsletter from Sean Gabb View this email in your browser (https://mailchi.mp/cca13977a77e/boris-johnson-5121314?e=52821aac48) Sean Gabb Newsletter, 28th March 2021 (See Below for Republication Rights) Dear All, My teaching is over for a few weeks. Here is the whole series of my lectures on the Decay of the Roman Republic […]
By Matt Taibbi “Morning Joe” says those who reported on Russia errors are a “joke” and might be “on Russia’s payroll.” MSNBC should break its four-year freeze-out and invite a skeptic to respond. Joe Scarborough just had this to say on Morning Joe: READ MORE
By Peter R. Quinones If you haven’t figured it out by now, calling out the Left on their hypocrisy when debating them is useless. Sure, pointing out the most recent inconsistency to those on your side is helpful for their arguments, but you have to realize that hypocrite […]
By Jp Cortez There has been considerable discussion in recent weeks about the prospect and threat of rising inflation. This inflationary scare comes at a time when the government is unleashing massive stimulus measures to bailout states, businesses, and consumers – all in the name of combatting the […]
Saagar Enjeti analyzes the theory that the coronavirus was made in a Chinese laboratory.
A reminder of why Marianne was my 2nd favorite presidential candidate after Tulsi. Yang was third.
Yang is fine for a mayor but as a president, he would be weak on foreign policy, particularly Israel. He’s clearly going out of his way not to offend the Israel lobby. The test as to whether someone is on the right track concerning foreign policy is whether […]
Back to the 19th century. Investigative reporter at The Intercept, Ken Klippenstein, discusses horrific working conditions in Amazon warehouses.
As the system continues to unravel in the future, the political class and the ruling class will try to pacify unrest with social democratic buy-off/pacification efforts like UBIs, healthcare, college tuition, student loan debt forgiveness, etc. I doubt we will become as social democratic as, say, Sweden, but […]
It can reasonably be said that most of the media is merely the propaganda arm of the DNC at this point with the obvious exceptions being, FOX, evangelical TV, talk radio, a few print publications, and startups like Newsmax and OANN. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to […]
This is so 19th century. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the ongoing battle between Amazon and Senator Bernie Sanders.
“It Takes a Police State to Raise a Child.” By Lenore Skenazy, Reason When 10 -year-old Braylin Harvey was picked up seven minutes late from his Chicago public school, the school called the Department of Child and Family Services to report a case of neglect. Two days later, […]
Orthodox libertarianism vs. the “freed market.” I generally like the “freed market” idea even if I don’t like many of its proponents. I generally take the same position on anarchist economics that I do with different schools of anarchism generally. Let a thousand flowers bloom and let the […]
By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society Wayne Price. “Kevin Carson’s Revival of Individualist Anarchist Economic Theory” Anarkismo.net, November 30, 2014. Wayne Price’s overall summary of my approach in Studies in Mutualist Political Economy (also available online) is quite even-handed and fair (unlike some others, e.g. the […]
By Wayne Price, Anarchist Library Kevin Carson is attempting to resurrect anarchist economic theory. This is interesting because most current anarchist political economy is speculation about a post-capitalist, post-revolutionary, economy—what it would look like and how it might work. There is little or nothing of an analysis of […]
By Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society Most of the hatred directed at Center for a Stateless Society these days comes from the paleo-conservatives at Mises.org and LewRockwell.com, and their almost indistinguishable friends on the alt.right. So it’s kind of refreshing to get some negative attention from […]
By Greg R & Bryer Sousa, Ideas and Action As of late, those of us based in the US, who attend to internet-based discussion threads as well as chat forums concerning ‘radical’ social, political, and economic philosophies may be taken aback by the relatively recent degree of attention […]
It seems that the principal differences between libertarian capitalists and libertarian socialists amount to five basic considerations: 1) how should legitimate ownership be defined and 2) what is the most optimal form of economic organization? 3) the desirability/optimality of “democracy” 4) whether social democracy is an improvement over […]
Bill Kristol’s buddy David French worries the system is collapsing. By Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservative Divided We Fall: America’s Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation, by David French (St. Martin’s Press: 2021), 288 pages. David French should write TV shows. He’d be good at it. […]
By Zachary Folk, New York Post More than a hundred California artists will be guaranteed $1,000 a month in no-strings-attached cash, the latest in a series of universal basic income pilot programs being rolled out across the state, according to a report. Starting sometime in May, 130 local […]
By Jonathan Snyder, The American Conservative Farming has always been considered a rural activity, but investors backing urban farming companies are hoping to bring farms into our cities. Supporters say urban farms eliminate many of the problems with contemporary agriculture, creating a stable alternative to already strained supply […]
The Tom Woods Show We’re familiar with the arguments regarding why Christians should view the state in a positive light. Are there countervailing arguments? (You know the answer!) Gary Chartier joins me to discuss. Related Episodes Ep. 1426 Can You Be Christian and Libertarian? Ep. 767 Romans 13: […]
Rapper Killer Mike torched ‘evil’ Jeff Bezos for using slave labor at Amazon warehouses. Killer Mike rallied with Amazon warehouse workers attempting to unionize.
Is a right-wing revolt on the way? The potential danger from the right is the possible eventual emergence of an Erdogan, Bolsonaro, or Duterte. By William S. Lind, Traditional Right Great historic currents are often set in motion by small events. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand did […]
Bezos is the John D. Rockefeller of the 21st century. Sen. Bernie Sanders joined a rally in Alabama with Amazon workers who are attempting to unionize.
Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar delivers remarks at the southern border.
This is getting started just in time for some more summer rioting. Derek Chauvin is being charged with two counts of murder and one count of manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.
St. Louis police detective Luther Hall was brutally beaten while working undercover at a protest against police brutality in September 2017. Now three fellow officers are on trial for the assault, which they claim was a case of mistaken identify. One of the officers already pleaded guilty and […]
I always thought the totalitarian human revolution would be complete when it came to dominate the ideology of the military. The troops go to sensitivity training while the drone attacks continue. The totalitarian humanist revolution is now complete. ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ examines the Pentagon’s war on ‘domestic extremism.’
By Sean Illing, Vox One of the greatest challenges facing democratic societies in the 21st century is the loss of faith in public institutions. The internet has been a marvelous invention in lots of ways, but it has also unleashed a tsunami of misinformation and destabilized political systems […]
“Sheldon Adelson, the late owner of Israel Hayom, provided a private plane for Pollard to fly to Israel.” Sheldon Adelson, the late owner of the Republican Party. The Israelis have their hands in the full spectrum of US politics from the Alexander Reid-Ross Left to the Trumpist Right, […]
I’ve noticed this over and over again. When politically incorrect crimes are involved (gun law violations, hate speech, hate crimes, rape accusations, domestic violence, this-or-that denialism, accusations of sex trafficking, right-wing rioting), the “soft on crime” progressives suddenly do an about-face and start to rival Lee Kuan Yew […]
By Jo Ward, The Observer A bad neighborhood. That’s what a few residents on Liberty Street in Fredonia are feeling about where they live as an individual at 140 Porter Road keeps posting political signs of questionable nature. It is offensive and inappropriate for the school buses that […]
By Annie Lowery, The Atlantic A year ago, Siren Saricca, a cocktail server at one of Detroit’s casinos, heard that some of her low-income, elderly neighbors were too afraid to go out to get groceries because of the pandemic. Although she was temporarily out of work because of […]
Glad to see there are some Trotskyists who actually criticize human rights imperialism. “In the interview, Ocasio-Cortez presents the Democratic Party as having been completely transformed into a working class party.” Whatever. The Republicans are far-right plutocrats and militarists (the perfect ARENA/Likud hybrid) and the Democrats center-right neoliberals […]
It was Bill Bishop who originally developed the “Big Sort” theory as well. Some research shows that education level is the primary dividing line in voting patterns, although on a cultural level I think it’s more a matter of WASPs vs. anti-WASPs with the most elite WASPs being […]
By Erik London, World Socialist Web Site An initial examination of the voting data in the 2020 presidential election exposes as false the racialist narrative of American politics that is relentlessly promoted by the Democratic Party. Several aspects of the election data are particularly significant in showing the […]
Many years ago, I started to notice that the emerging geographical divisions in US politics would be between the right in the rural areas, the center in the suburbs, and the left in the urban centers. By Richard Florida, Marie Patino and Rachael Dottle, Bloomberg America’s political map […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley What is a woman in 2021? Once upon a time, that was an easy question to answer. Boys had a penis and girls had a vagina and nothing in between existed. Then Western Society collectively woke the fuck […]
Anarchist News It has now been more than one year since the world that we have known all of our lives came screeching to a halt. And what a year’s it’s been. The collective unconscious roils in the throes of a bad acid trip, the realization seeps slow […]
Andrew Yang is head and shoulders above many US politicians (obviously, a low standard) and brings many interesting ideas to the table. That said, it’s obvious he knows which lines you can’t cross in US politics. Notice that none of the politicians and mainstream media figures who are […]
Next up: “Today, the Biden administration announced plans to draft migrant children into the US military.” A Pentagon spokesman noted, “Our child soldiers represent the commitment to age diversity in our armed forces.”
By J.C. Tuccille, Reason Predictive policing—a concept seemingly pulled straight from the 2002 popcorn flick Minority Report—has become increasingly hot with law enforcement agencies over the past decade. The field tempts budget-minded officeholders and cops alike with its science-y promise to forecast where crimes will occur in the […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Bill Kristol’s Cuba tweet.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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