A new scramble for Africa

As I’ve said before, we’re moving back to the 19th century’s world of unprecedented technological advancement, massive socioeconomic disparities, and multi-order geopolitics. Three new trans-Mediterranean corridors are emerging that will glue #Europe​ and #Africa​. However, the routes will traverse North Africa’s gatekeepers.

The Ghost of Empires Past

By William S. Lind, The American Conservative President Joe Biden was working late in his private office in the White House. At the end of the day his chief of staff had handed him a somewhat unfortunate report from the Justice Department. It seemed Hunter recently sold the […]

Why America Throws the Poor in Prison

America built mass incarceration: the wholesale imprisonment of entire populations. Why, exactly, are so many people in prison – more than the entire population of New Mexico? That’s our focus for this week’s video: how a crisis of capitalism created a surplus population of former workers concentrated in […]

Daily Beast thrashed over op-ed that ‘dirtbag left’ is actively courting the far-right

By Claire Goforth, Daily Dot The Daily Beast is facing intense backlash over an op-ed that claims members from the “dirtbag left”—a collection of leftist podcasters and Twitter personalities—are cozying up with right-wing extremists. The roughly 4,500-word article posits that leftist media personalities are legitimizing and even adopting […]