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Nexus X HumectressConservative Media REVERTS To Attacking Unions While AOC Joins Picket Line
That didn’t take long either. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the destruction of unions and discuss how it will negatively impact American workers.
Matt Taibbi: Why Trust In Media Is At RECORD Low
Media outlets are the new churches just like universities are the new seminaries. Journalist and author, Matt Taibbi, discusses Americans’ diminishing trust in traditional media.
Biden Considers THOUSANDS Of Troops To Iraq As Russiagate Takes Policy Toll
Well, that didn’t take long. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Biden’s foreign policy plans based on the early actions of the administration.
Biden and the Demonization of Anarchism
By Eric Fleischmann, Center for a Stateless Society This year, in response to nationwide protests against police brutality, President Donald Trump has repeatedly attempted to associate Black Lives Matter with anarchists and anarchism. He has tweeted such threatening posts as just the phrase “Anarchists, we see you!” with […]
Biden’s Cesar Chavez bust in the Oval Office signals a new era for Latinos, activists hope: ‘It shows that he’s authentic’
I can think of few things that more perfectly symbolize what the Democrats are about than Biden’s placing a bust of Cesar Chavez in the Oval Office (supposedly in the place of Winston Churchill) while recognizing Juan Gaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela. Of course, the Ben […]
Trump starting NEW Patriot Party to take REVENGE on Republicans?
The Trump Party would probably end up being like France’s National Assembly, a right-wing populist party where Uday, Qusay, or Ivanka would eventually succeed Trump as the party’s perennial candidate.
McConnell: ‘The Mob’ Was ‘Provoked’ By President Trump
The Republicans are in the precarious position of having to choose between their corporate donors and still-loyal Trumpists, which is about 40% of their base.
Anti-fascist protesters vandalize buildings in Portland and Seattle
Glad to see they are being non-partisan. (Reuters) – Anti-government and anti-fascist protesters in Portland and Seattle vandalized a Democratic Party office and other buildings and scuffled with police on Wednesday, protesting against President Joe Biden’s inauguration. People dressed in black and with their faces covered broke windows […]
Protesters march through downtown Seattle streets as demonstration turns chaotic
by Alfred Charles, KOMONews.com Executive Producer SEATTLE — Hours after President Joe Biden was sworn into office and implored the nation to come together, dozens of protesters gathered Wednesday afternoon in Seattle’s Occidental Park for a tense demonstration that included a march through downtown in which a flag […]
More than 100 Civil Rights Groups Agree: We Don’t Need New Domestic Terrorism Laws
I’m sure these “100 civil rights groups” will be taken very seriously by Sleepy Joe and Police State Kamala. By Scott Shackford, Reason Civil rights groups across the country are urging President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as Congressional Democrats, not to pass new […]
Nonviolent Activists Laid the Groundwork to Oppose a Coup. They May Have Saved the Republic
So if they have all of this infrastructure together why aren’t they doing something a little more radical like, I dunno, overthrowing the empire? By Stephen Zunes. Yes Magazine Since President-elect Joe Biden’s decisive win in November, there has been understandable consternation at the efforts by President Trump […]
John Brennan Says Biden Intel ALREADY Ramping Up Domestic Surveillance
The most serious domestic issue at present. The modern police state really began with Nixon’s war on drugs in the 1970s, which was expanded by Reagan and Poppy Bush in the 80s. It then became a general war on crime, guns, gangs, etc, in the 1990s, following by […]
GOP Focus Group GOES OFF THE RAILS, Is America Deceased?
Now the Red Tribe can form a “Resistance” of their own, I guess. Team Rising discusses a heated focus group conducted by Republican pollster, Frank Luntz.
Susan Sarandon, Rose McGowan, and NFL Player Justin Jackson Join Cornel West on People’s Party Advisory Council
Do it. Hopefully, Bret Weinstein’s Unity movement will eventually get off the ground as well. The more parties the better, and at every level. What we need is a Holy Roman Empire type of situation where there are so many factions they all end up constraining each other. […]
Here’s How Donald Trump’s ‘Patriot Party’ Could Become a Political Force
Bring it on. And let’s get the proposed “Peoples’ Party” from the left going as well. Fracture, fracture, fracture… By Matt Welch, Reason “Goodbye. We love you. We will be back in some form,” Donald Trump said at the end of his final speech as president of the […]
The Micro-Tribes of the Red Macro-Tribe
There is an interesting new piece from the leftist “antifascist” writer Matthew Lyons. He could be considered a “Blue Tribe fundamentalist” (similar to Chomsky and Carson, but not as sleazy as Reid-Ross or crazy as Gillis) so his work is often ideologically tunnel-visioned but he has an encyclopedic […]
‘Opposite of unity’: Democrats’ identity politics pushes US towards conflict akin to Lebanese civil war, professor warns
I’m glad to see I am not the only one who recognizes this. A Lebanese professor of evolutionary psychology who lived through the civil war points out the parallels. Russia Today It’s the Democrats’ ideology-driven policy labeling the opposing camp ‘domestic terrorists’ and not Donald Trump’s legacy that’s […]
The Triumph of Totalitarian Humanism?
The term “totalitarian humanism” is the one I use for the self-legitimating ideological superstructure of the ruling classes, states, and power elites of developed (“First World”) countries. Totalitarian humanism’s core features would be the following: -masking imperialism under the guise of “human rights,” “collective security,” “duty to protect,” […]
Republicans Now Control More State Legislatures Than Any Point in U.S. History
We now have an interesting situation where the Democrats control the federal government and most large cities while the Republicans control a supermajority of the state governments. Qurom Last week the Republican Party established a federal trifecta and with wins in the Minnesota Senate, Kentucky House, and Iowa […]
Why Did The Security State Surrender The Capitol?
They surrendered the capital in order to provoke a patriot act 2.0.
Sorry, U.S. Government: That Was NOT a Coup
Richie Merino does NOT want people to call what happened on January 6 “a coup” or even attempted coup. Neither does Katie. And they have a slight disagreement with a viewer and friend of the show.
Glenn Greenwald: Neither political party is on your side
Democratic Party is planning a war on half of America
How Communism Will Come To America…It’s Not How You Think
White House: Biden ends federal funding for building US-Mexico border wall
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January 6: A Strategic Analysis
Bill Lind, a staunch paleoconservative and leading theoretician of fourth-generation warfare, calls for massive civil disobedience from the Right. I suspect that as the right-wing continues to shrink in size and lose power politically, it will increasingly adopt tactics like the 1960s radicals, including civil disobedience, mass demonstrations, […]
Descriptive Constitution of the Modern Regime
Mencius Moldbug argues the US is a “clerical oligarchy.” I agree half-way. My position is more like Joel Kotkin’s view of the US as a plutocratic-clerical oligarchy. By Mencius Moldbug Americans are used to a constitution which is a Constitution: half a holy document in a holy glass […]
Witless Ape Rides Helicopter
Now if we could just have a President who wrecks the Democratic Party as bad as Trump wrecked the Republican Party. The best thing about Trump was that he made the state look like what it actually is, i.e. the mafia writ large, and having a chaos agent […]
What We Will Miss With The End Of The Trump Presidency
By Stansfield Smith, One World With the exit of Trump, we can expect renewed threats against North Korea and increased military action in the Middle East. We will experience not just an end to presidential condemnations of the national security state, but its further unleashing on the US […]
Feds: Evidence shows well-laid plan by some Capitol insurrectionists
By KYLE CHENEY and JOSH GERSTEIN, Politico Federal investigators have begun piecing together evidence that some of the insurrectionists who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 were executing well-laid plans, deploying communications systems and issuing marching orders to rioters as they battled police. A new affidavit filed Tuesday […]
How Much Did “The Culture of Narcissism” Get Right?
By Matt Taibbi It is symptomatic of the underlying tenor of American life that vulgar terms for sexual intercourse also convey the sense of getting the better of someone, working him over, taking him in, imposing your will through guile, deception, or superior force. — Christopher Lasch, The […]
The Birth of a New American Mythology
The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 14 We are witnessing the birth of a new national mythology in America, and it is not good news. Imperfect as it was, the old one was better, warts and all, and it needs to be fought for. This new […]
Mississippi Legislator Introduces Measure to Remove Sales Taxes on Sound Money
By J. P. Cortez Introduced by Representative Zuber (R-Jackson), House Bill 375 removes sales and use tax against gold, silver, platinum, and palladium bullion and currency in Mississippi. Under current law, Mississippi citizens are discouraged from insuring their savings against the devaluation of the dollar because they are […]
Trump Floats THIRD PARTY On Last Day Of Presidency
That would render the Republicans permanently irrelevant. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to a WSJ report that President Trump is planning to start a third political party.
The IMMENSE Danger Of Biden, MSNBC War Drum For New Domestic Terror Law
Here it comes. January 6 gave the new regime the perfect pretext for escalating repression. Saagar Enjeti discusses how the media is prepping the American public for a Patriot Act 2.0.
CNN, Media Puts North Korean TV To SHAME With Fawning Biden Coverage
LOL Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti analyze the media’s treatment of President-elect Joe Biden.
Biden’s DAY ONE Shows Washington Hasn’t Learned A DAMN THING
Duh? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss how the Biden presidency will and will not change Washington.
Goodbye, Trump. Hello, War on Domestic Terror.
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason Today is President Donald Trump’s last day in office! A White House official said Trump plans to pardon or commute sentences for up to 100 people today. Whether it might include big-name whistleblowers (like Chelsea Manning, Reality Winner, and Julian Assange) or just […]
Twenty Years of Attack the System: Was 2020 a Vindication?
By Keith Preston It was 20 years ago this month, in January of 2001, that AttacktheSystem.Com first appeared. Previously, I had been involved in radical activities since the late 1980s. For about five years, I was a conventional left-wing anarchist, engaging in strike support (Eastern Airlines, Greyhound Bus, […]
Do You Remember Cuba’s Dedication to Angola?
by Don Fitz Cuban blood left its stamp on the conscience of the world after the Angolan Wars of 1975-1988. Corporate politicians are united in their desire for us to ignore this reality. * * * Fed up with foreign wars, Portuguese officers overthrew Prime Minister Marcello Caetano […]
New Documents Suggest J. Edgar Hoover Was Involved in Fred Hampton’s Murder
By Flint Taylor &Jeff Haas, Truthout In March 1976, we sat in a cavernous Chicago courtroom while FBI agent Roy Martin Mitchell testified in the federal civil rights case that we and our partners at the People’s Law Office had brought on behalf of the families of slain […]
Chomsky: Coup Attempt Hit Closer to Centers of Power Than Hitler’s 1923 Putsch
By C.J. Polychroniou, Truthout Even as the Biden administration takes the reins of power, the fact remains that authoritarianism and a fascist strain of political thinking have taken firm root on U.S. soil among a large proportion of its citizens. This utterly disturbing development will, according to Noam […]
Trump Approval Collapses to 29%
Trump Now Hated As Much As George W. Bush Was
Jonathan Haidt: The political chaos isn’t over yet
Freddie Sayers meets American social psychologist and NYU professor Jonathan Haidt to discuss how the Right and Left positions have evolved over the past few years. (1) Harm/care, (2) Fairness/reciprocity, (3) In-group/loyalty, (4) Authority/respect, (5) Purity/sanctity. Those are the five moral ‘foundations’ on which, according to moral psychologist […]
Jonathan Haidt: What makes someone a Republican or a Democrat?
Andrew Yang interviews Jonathan Haidt. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt joins the podcast to talk about moral foundations theory, human-centered capitalism, and how we can bridge today’s political divide.
Here’s What Trump Accomplished
Some “conservative” Trump fans explain what they like about him. The Daily Signal When trying to decide who to vote for in the next election, ask yourself what has President Donald Trump accomplished in office during his first four years. Has he been working for the American people? […]
A guide to the Trump administration’s biggest scandals, accomplishments, and policies
An assessment of Trump’s legacy from a left-liberal perspective. By Sean Rameswaram and Lauren Katz, Vox Four years ago, Donald Trump won the presidency and our shared reality hasn’t been the same since. The relentless pace of headlines, controversies, and tweets has rendered the country divided and unable […]
Americans Hate Each Other More Than Elites
Kyle discusses how the ruling class’s “divide and conquer” strategy is working.
What Is the “Great Reset”?
Tom Woods has what is probably the best discussion I have heard on this topic to date. Listen here. We’ve heard talk of something called the “Great Reset,” which the COVID crisis is said to have created a perfect opportunity to implement. Some have dismissed the very idea […]
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