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Nexus X HumectressASSANGE: Joe Biden To Move Forward With Extradition
Of course.
Facebook To FORBID Science “Misinformation”
COVID Not From Wuhan Lab Says WHO
Larry Flynt, pornographer and self-styled First Amendment champion, dies at 78
Like him or not, he was genuinely important for the cause of free speech and freedom of the press, which we will need in the years and decades ahead. By Paul Valentine, Washington Post Larry Flynt, one of America’s most notorious pornographers and self-proclaimed champions of First Amendment […]
New Graphic Security Footage Of Capitol Riot
House impeachment managers presented newly-released security camera video showing the events of the pro-Trump Capitol riot unfolding from inside the building.
Is Biden Missing His Chance To Re-Enter Iran Deal?
He’s not “missing” it. He’s just ignoring it. Author and Georgetown professor, Dr. Trita Parsi, details the current tension between the US and Iran over sanctions.
Panel ERUPTS Over Biden CONTINUED Extradition Of Julian Assange
The two guys that were interviewed for this segment were morons. Team Rising discusses the Biden administration’s potential extradition of Julian Assange from the UK despite protests from civil liberties groups.
DEBUNKING Corporate Myths About $15 Minimum Wage
Another regrettable discussion of “economic reform” that ignores the hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of laws and policies that collectively have the effect of distributing wealth upward and creating the ruling class.
GOP Senators, Newsmax AGHAST At Trump’s Impeachment Defense
A bunch of moron lawyers making a case on behalf of a moron ex-president to a bunch of moron politicians. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the first day of Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial.
The Best of Times for the “Libertarian-Left”?
It seems that right now things could be considered better for the “libertarian-left” than at any point in the past, at least in US history. By “libertarian-left,” I mean that umbrella of philosophies with a generally anti-authoritarian ethos but which also do not deify corporate tycoons as Nietzschean […]
Health Care: 100 Years of Creeping Government Control
By John Matrix, Police State USA Editor’s note: A police state is a “state in which the government exercises rigid and repressive controls over the social, economic, and political life of the population.” The micromanagement and control over entire industries — such as health care — is categorically […]
An Actual Anarchist Approach to “Healthcare Reform”
This is more like it.
No Kings, No Plutocrats
Most leftists are actually pretty weak on the state, from Noam “I’d like to see the power of the federal government increased” Chomsky downward. It’s like medieval peasants who thought the king was going to save them from the landlords. Most libertarians are terrible on capitalism: “The state […]
Globalization is in retreat for the first time since the Second World War
By Douglas A. Irwing, Peterson Institute for International Economics World economic integration has been in decline since the 2008–10 financial crisis, ushering in an era of “slowbalization” or even deglobalization. Tracing global trade openness—the ratio of world exports to world GDP—reveals five distinct eras of globalization since 1870. […]
Globalization in Retreat
I generally lean toward the view that minus the institutional apparatus that has the effect of centralizing wealth and economic power, economic life would primarily be a matter of localized systems of production for localized use, intermeshed into larger horizontal networks for the facilitation of exchange. Although the […]
Power shift: How America’s retreat is reshaping global affairs
We have to be wary of mainstream claims of “American retreat,” which is often just a propagandistic tactic of the “indispensable nation” type. But it does look like the tides have very slowly started to turn away from unipolarity and globalization, a process that has been accelerated by […]
What life was like in ancient Greece: A 24-hour day from the lives of ancient Greeks
Greece High Definition Philip Matijak is a professor at the University of Cambridge and an expert on ancient history. He has more than 20 books to his credit and has devoted particular attention to the history of the ancient Greeks and Romans. From the temple guard and the […]
U.S. has world’s highest rate of children living in single-parent households
Interestingly, Russia, which is far more socially conservative than the USA, is number 2. By Stephanie Kramer, Pew Research Center For decades, the share of U.S. children living with a single parent has been rising, accompanied by a decline in marriage rates and a rise in births outside […]
Basic Income, a People’s Bank, and Police Reform
A People’s Bank? That sounds almost Proudhonian. Community Land Trusts? That’s almost Georgist. Krystal Ball and Kyle Kulinski interview Andrew Yang. Yang is a bit weak on foreign policy, particularly when it comes to a certain “special relationship,” but fortunately he’s only running for mayor, not prez, so […]
Keith Preston: Anarchist Communities Past, Present and Future
The full video of a talk I gave in England a few years ago. Watch here. Imagine the proliferation of hundreds of thousands of communities reflecting infinite diversity in infinite combination. One of the main problems many anarchists have is their prescriptive universalism. But real anarchy would look […]
Deep State Pressures Biden To Keep Endless Wars Going
I’m glad to see left-wing commentators like Kyle discussing the Deep State.
The Coming Intra-Left Civil War
The USA is rapidly becoming a society that has the social norms of the Western European ruling classes but the class structures of Latin America. This situation will likely lead to more civil unrest in the future, along with populist movements with demagogues of their own, left and […]
Liz Cheney On GOP Civil War: We Are “The Party Of Truth”
Now that’s funny. Hopefully, the “GOP Civil War” will turn violent.
Trump Impeached For Using Democrat’s Own “Fighting Words
Iran Should Break Stalemate To Prove US’s True Intentions
Dems Warn Putin Will Soon Get An American Puppet In Office
How (Not) To Stop Right-Wing Extremists
Trump unleashed his mob onto Congress on January 6, and the fallout continues. The biggest question on many minds is how to root out the hundreds of far-right, anti-government groups who saw the Trump presidency as their coming-out party. Some are floating the idea of using the so-called […]
Fox FIRES Lou Dobbs But NOTHING Can Save Them
Die, FOX, die! Krystal Ball reacts to the cancellation of Lou Dobbs show on Fox News.
Newsmax SLOBBERS Over Marjorie Taylor Greene
The more freakish the people who get elected to Congress, the better. I’m looking forward to battle royales in Congress between the Squad and QAnon. It’s also great to see these conspiracy nuts undermining the Reaganites and neocons. Sick ’em! Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a […]
How Remote Work Revolution Will TRANSFORM Cities And Could Screw GOP
Once again, the tech revolution fuels the growing hegemony of the Blue Tribe. Atlantic reporter, Derek Thompson, discusses the future of metropolitan areas in the United States following the pandemic.
After OUTRAGE On $2,000 Checks, Biden Backs Down On Lowering Means Testing
Americans: “Motherfuckers, you better have my money!” Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the likelihood of Dems passing a $1400 stimulus bill and raising the national minimum wage to $15.
The Rise of Illiberalism
South Dakota GOP introduces legislation that would allow state to nullify Biden executive orders
By Michael Lee, Washington Examiner South Dakota’s Republican-controlled House is introducing legislation that would allow the state to nullify President Biden’s executive orders if it determines they are unconstitutional. “The Executive Board of the Legislative Research Council may review any executive order issued by the President of the […]
John McWhorter: The Neoracists
By John McWhorter One can divide antiracism into three waves. First Wave Antiracism battled slavery and segregation. Second Wave Antiracism, in the 1970s and 1980s, battled racist attitudes and taught America that being racist was a flaw. Third Wave Antiracism, becoming mainstream in the 2010s, teaches that racism […]
The Case for Blue-State Secession
By Nathan Newman, The Nation On January 6, an armed mob sought to overturn an election and install a president who had lost the popular vote. But this was just a violent version of the pervasive constitutional embedment of minority rule in our country. The Confederate flags waved […]
What Are The Chances Candace Owens Becomes President?
Confessions of a Right-Wing Liberal
Murray Rothbard’s classic article from 1968 outlines perfectly what is wrong with American-style “conservatism” of the Buckleyite/neocon variety. After 53 years, nothing much has changed. By Murray Rothbard Twenty years ago I was an extreme right-wing Republican, a young and lone “Neanderthal” (as the liberals used to call […]
A Message to Trump supporters from a Communist
I agree with his analysis but not his solutions. NEW BOOK “Kamala Harris & The Future of America” https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08HGZK7P4 Caleb Maupin is a widely acclaimed speaker, writer, journalist, and political analyst. He has traveled extensively in the Middle East and in Latin America. He was involved with the […]
Self-Sufficiency: the Ultimate Stoic Virtue
The Daily Stoic Above all else, the Stoics were masters at assigning things their proper value. The great Stoic philosophers knew the importance of identifying what was within their control, what was beyond, and what fell in-between. And they maintained an unwavering sense of focus on the things […]
The Past and Future of Incitement
By Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative You can only make up your own definition of “incitement” on Twitter and at presidential impeachment trials. Otherwise, the actual law is going to have to do. The context is clear: As they geared up for an impeachment, Democrats and mainstream […]
Mutual aid: Kropotkin’s theory of human capacity
By Ruth Kinna, ROAR Magazine In March 1889 Peter Kropotkin agreed to give six lectures to William Morris’s Socialist Society in Hammersmith, London. Labeling the series “Social Evolution,” he planned to explore “the grounds” of socialism. As it turned out, he never delivered the talks, but the title […]
64% of Republicans Would QUIT Party, Join Trump Party
Perhaps Trump’s next product line will be “Trump Kool-Aid.”
THE CHURCH OF WOKE
Know Your Parasites
The War on Privacy
By Matt Taibbi My colleague Glenn Greenwald hit the nail on the head this weekend when he wrote about “tattletale journalism,” in which media reporters for the largest companies spend their time attacking speech, instead of defending it. The miserable trend just reached its apex when Taylor Lorenz […]
Learning from Venezuela’s Missteps in Building Urban Popular Power: Decentralization, Participatory Budgeting, Communal Councils and Comunes
By María Pilar García Guadilla and Carlos G. Torrealba COMMUNES in Venezuela, once hopeful experiments in local direct democracy and popular power under the socialism of the XXI century have largely succumbed to the crushing crisis gripping the country. . What can we learn from their demise? READ […]
Why Inciting an Insurrection Isn’t Considered Treason, Even if Found Guilty
By Jenni Fink, Newsweek Former President Donald Trump‘s impeachment trial will focus on whether he incited an insurrection, a charge that in a criminal court falls short of treason, the highest crime in the United States, and is easier to prove. Treason is an impeachable offense but not […]
Man killed after cannon explodes at baby shower
ABC News A man was killed Saturday evening after shrapnel from an exploding cannon used at a baby shower in Michigan struck him, police said. A homeowner in Genesee County fired a small cannon-type device in the backyard around 7:30 p.m. to celebrate the baby’s pending arrival, according […]
Virginia woman dies after taking Pfizer vaccine, investigation underway
NBC News RICHMOND, Va. (NBC News) – Federal and state officials are investigating after a woman from Gloucester died shortly after receiving Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine. Last Saturday, 58-year-old Drene Keyes received the shot. Keye’s daughter says her mother started vomiting, had trouble breathing and then died hours later. […]
Feds charge over 200 in Capitol riot. We’ve learned a lot about why it happened.
Maybe this will be the Chicago Conspiracy Trial of the Right. By Pete Williams, NBC WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors have now filed charges against more than 200 people accused of taking part in the assault on the U.S. Capitol last month, alleging a wide range of motives and […]
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