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Nexus X HumectressEdward Bernays and Group Psychology: Manipulating the Masses
A look at the ideas of the pioneer of modern propaganda techniques.
The Shining Path and the Ripple Effects of Violence: Peru, 1980-2016
A fairly interesting lecture on the history of the Shining Path insurgency.
The “March 4th” Crisis That Never Happened…
The Y2K of 2021?
Racist Riverdale
By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative Writing in the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Bion Bartning talks about when wokeness invaded his children’s posh New York City private school, Riverdale, which costs $58,000 per year to attend. Last fall, the school began to focus on privilege and white fragility. […]
US Officials Accuse Russia Of Another Targeted “Disinformation” Campaign
“The Russians are coming!”
Notes on “Post-Left” Anarchism
By Bob Black “Post-left” anarchism is an eclectic trend in contemporary anarchism which emerged in the 1970’s and, most sharply, in the 1980’s. The phrase first appeared in Bob Black, “Anarchy after Leftism” (1997). It has received wide discussion in the anarchist press, including several symposia in Anarchy: […]
Minneapolis approved funding to hire social media influencers to spread information about ex cop Derek Chauvin’s trial
By Taylor Ardrey The Minneapolis City Council greenlit funding to hire social media influencers to spread information to the public during the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd’s neck during an arrest last year. WCCO-TV reported that the city council approved more than $1.1 […]
Grow the Hell Up
Maoism vs. cancel culture. Is a new COINTELPRO operating?
Minneapolis Paid for Misinformation Surrounding Ex-cop Derek Chauvin’s Trial
Round Two on the way?
Dictatorship, Democracy, Effectiveness: Comments on Brussig
By Russell A. Berman, TELOS A distinctive feature of public debate in Germany involves prominent literary authors, especially novelists, expounding on current political matters in major newspapers. Thomas Brussig’s essay “Risk More Dictatorship,” translated here, belongs to this genre. Known especially for his satire of East Germany, Heroes […]
Risk More Dictatorship
By Thomas Russig, TELOS The corona crisis remains an experience of helplessness, even though infection rates are falling. Despite all the limitations on everyday life and despite the start of the vaccinations, an end to the restrictions is nowhere in sight—even though a few countries have succeeded in […]
New Dumb Culture War Battle Over Pepe Le Pew
I could seen Pepe Le Pew contributing to Francophobia.
Saagar Enjeti REVEALS The Full CNN, MSNBC Coverup For Cuomo Nursing Home Scandal
Saagar Enjeti explains how the media’s coverage of Gov. Andrew Cuomo throughout the past year allowed him to get away with damaging COVID policies and sexual harassment allegations.
Kentucky bill would make it a crime to insult police officers
By David Aaro | Fox News A bill advancing out of a Kentucky Senate committee on Thursday would make it a crime to insult or taunt a police officer to the point where the taunts provoke a violent response. Senate Bill 211 passed by a 7-3 vote, according to reports. The proposal […]
The Left, Vaush, and Previous Socialist Societies – Debating Ewoks Unhinged
Well, this looks absolutely horrid.
Social Justice Groups Hold MASSIVE Rally in Minneapolis Ahead of the Start of Derek Chauvin’s Trial
So far, the pattern seems to be that liberals and leftists riot in the Spring and Summer (like baseball and tennis), while conservatives and rightists riot in the Winter (like basketball and hockey). So the question is: Does that mean moderates and centrists are supposed to be rioting […]
Trump Sends CEASE AND DESIST For Likeness TO GOP, Are They Screwed?
Team Rising reacts to cease and desist orders sent out by Donald Trump’s attorneys.
MSNBC’s Malcolm Nance Proclaims Trump Will Lead ‘Violent Domestic Insurgency’
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to comments made by MSNBC anchor, Malcolm Nance about Trump’s political future.
Exposing MAGA Inc As The New Conservatism Inc
Pedro Gonzalez, assistant editor at American Greatness, discusses the problem with the new wave of Trump endorsements.
NYT SHOCKED At Latino Men Who Voted For Trump
A crack in the PC Coalition? Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses why Hispanic voters, specifically Latino men, are gravitating towards the Republican Party.
Krystal Ball DISMANTLES Kyrsten Sinema’s Sexism Defense Of Voting Down Minimum Wage
Kyrsten Sinema would seem to be the perfect name for a porn star. Krystal Ball reacts to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema’s vote to not include the $15 minimum wage raise in the stimulus package.
The Good, Bad, And DISAPPOINTING Parts Of Biden Stimulus Bill
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down what the new stimulus package contains and who benefits.
How Can A Global Conspiracy Work?
John writes in to ask how a global conspiracy can function and how it can be kept under wraps. Good question. Join James for this week’s edition of Questions For Corbett where he tackles the most common objections of the skeptics and their fallacious counter-arguments against the global […]
How the Hell Do Dems Win in Red States?
–Caller wants to know how Democrats can win in red states
Cancel Culture Has Become a Mind Virus for the Right
–Right wing media and politicians are now focusing on so-called “cancel culture” at any opportunity, including on Fox News, among members of Congress, and even Donald Trump himself
Total Free Speech is the Only Way to Prevent Extremism
Which is why the extreme left is attacking it.
Tom Laughlin AKA/ “Billy Jack” PBS Interview 1992 Presidential Run/ Raw Footage Tape
In 1992, I was a producer for the PBS show: “The 90’s” This was an Emmy Award winning production know as a kind of funky 60 minutes. During the Presidential race for that year, Tom Laughlin had thrown his hat into the race. I had been assigned the […]
Civil Unrest & Presidential Election Study (CUPES)
By Anondah Saide & Kevin McCaffree, Skeptic Research Center The purpose of our initial study, the Social and Political Attitudes Study (SPAS), was to discover which political issues most divide people, and also to discover how the most divided people see the world. In our new study, Civil […]
From QAnon to BlueAnon: How Many Americans Want a Military Coup?
A reader writes: Re: the Taibbi article you shared today on the Myanmar coup and censorship going on there — one thing I’ve noticed over the past few years are more and more Americans entertaining the idea of a military coup here in the US, to “save the […]
Imperial Suicide by Taliban
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Sometimes I have this dream. A terrible dream. A dream about a war. It begins like any other war, with a big country attacking a weaker one. An empire chases an army of starving ghosts into a deep […]
THE FALL OF THE AMERICAN SUPERPOWER
All of us have been born and raised in an era in which the United States of America was the most powerful country in the world and it was in a position to determine many things on the global stage. The USA has been the one and only […]
The US Military is EVERYWHERE
I attempted to map every US Military base, and it was not easy.
What Would WW3 Be Like?
Would the species even survive?
China’s Reckoning: Demographic Collapse
China is way overrated.
Texas’s power disaster is a warning sign for the US
Just wait until the SHTF. America’s power grid is not ready.
Marianne Williamson: How Democrats Abuse Voters With Their False Promises
She was my second favorite candidate after Tulsi, with Yang being third. Author and activist, Marianne Williamson, discusses raising the minimum wage and explains how it reveals what is wrong with the core of the U.S. economy.
Why U.S. Malls Are Disappearing
Shopping malls in the U.S. were already in decline before the Covid-19 pandemic as consumers shifted away from traditional brick-and-mortar stores to e-commerce. The outbreak has only exacerbated the challenges at malls as social distancing has placed restrictions on stores, movie theaters and restaurants. So what will become […]
Cut off from the rest of America, a small town endures lockdown
Point Roberts, Wash., on a peninsula jutting out from Canada beneath the 49th parallel, is a tiny piece of America separate from the U.S. mainland. Its isolation helped protect the community from the spread of COVID-19, but restrictions at the border have effectively trapped residents there – and […]
What’s Driving California’s Mass Exodus?
California’s model of combining Western European social norms with Latin American class structures is what the future of the USA will look like, and we’ve already moved a good ways in that direction, particularly since the pandemic began. As Oracle, Palantir and Hewlett-Packard Enterprise move their headquarters out […]
How Public Universities Became So Expensive
This nails it. Tuition at America’s public universities has nearly tripled since 1990. With President Biden looking to ease the burden for some students, experts explain how federal financial aid programs can actually contribute to rising costs.
Gay poly throuple makes history, lists 3 dads on a birth certificate
I’ve often pissed off social conservatives by defending the rights of cultural groups who favor these kinds of “alternative” family arrangments to do their own thing, just as I have pissed off leftists and progressives by defending the rights of cultural groups who favor polygamy, arranged marriages, and […]
Anarchy First or Progressive Universalism First?
The two articles from Center for a Stateless Society linked to below illustrate very well the primary basis of the conflict between myself and the mainstream left-anarchist milieu. The first article calls for the creation of more nations, but only if they all have a liberal government, and […]
Grand old warrior
An interesting article on Ernst Junger. By Nigel Jones, The Critic In 1983 I was writing my first book The War Walk, a travelogue about World War One, when I read an article by Bruce Chatwin in the New York Review of Books detailing his encounter with the […]
Aurora Police Killed Without Consequence, Now Their Protestors Face 48 Years for “Kidnapping” Cops
By Alan McLeod DENVER — Elijah McClain would have turned 25 last week. However, in 2019, the introverted Black massage therapist was killed on the street by police in his native Aurora (a part of the Denver metropolitan area). None of the officers involved have faced charges for […]
Glenn Greenwald Says ‘I Consider Tucker Carlson To Be A Socialist’
Okay, this does merit “criticism.” It’s interesting how the left and FOX News are now converging in their definition of “socialism.” Carlson is not a socialist. He’s an economic nationalist. Glenn’s not a socialist either. He’s a progressive liberal. Given that it’s now once again fashionable for a […]
The Moment Glenn Greenwald Went Off The Rails
And here are the Sedarites attacking Greenwald. I also find Glenn’s politics to be a bit milquetoast, like Jimmy Dore’s, but he at least makes the effort. This is the guy who broke the Snowden case after all. Glenn Greenwald just seems to be going off the rails […]
Jimmy Dore Desperately Tries To Siphon New Fans From Fox News
The Sedarites attack Jimmy. I’m not a fan of Jimmy’s progressivism, which I think is far too milquetoast, statist, and reformist. But it’s interesting how folks like Dore or Glenn Greenwald or others on the left who make any effort at all to build working class solidarity, anti-imperialism, […]
Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality
If even Sam Sedar is at least partially aware of this problem, it must be bad. Sam host Denver University Professor of Law Nancy Leong to discuss her new book, Identity Capitalists: The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality, on how the powerful wield diversity to ensconce their […]
Saudi-led coalition launches air strikes on Yemeni capital after foiling drone attacks
SANAA (Reuters) – The Saudi-led military coalition battling Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Sunday it conducted air strikes on Houthi military targets in Sanaa and other regions after the group launched armed drones towards Saudi Arabia. The coalition, which said it had destroyed 10 armed drones, said […]
Defending Standing Rock, Combating State Repression: An Interview with Lauren Regan
It’s Going Down Interview between Perilous Chronicle and Lauren Regan of the Civil Liberties Defense Center. To listen to the latest It’s Going Down interview with Lauren Regan, go here. By Ryan Fatica On February 3, Standing Rock protester Steve Martinez appeared before a grand jury in North […]
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