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Nexus X HumectressMy general take on this question, which is completely unscientific and based merely on observation, is that police are more likely to use violence against the Left than the Right at demonstrations, although the Left is also more likely to engage in violence. However, left-wing violence tends to […]
My general take on the Chicago Seven and anti-Vietnam War riots is that mob action in resistance to the Vietnam War was not extreme enough. If the US had been dissolved into, say, 50 independent nations in 1970 (like the independent nations of Latin America) we wouldn’t have […]
By Marshall Cohen, CNN Washington (CNN)One week after the deadly insurrection at the Capitol, there are still more questions than answers on whether any lawmakers or police assisted the pro-Trump rioters. The idea of an insurrection is unheard of in modern US history, and the possibility that lawmakers […]
By Andrew Korybko, One World The Trump-inspired “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement must either rehabilitate or purge the QAnon cultists in its ranks because they’re discrediting and potentially even dangerous, to say nothing of the fact that their very association with MAGA provides the “deep state” with […]
By Andrew Korybko, One World As someone who proudly associates himself with the Trump-inspired “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) movement, I feel obligated to help my fellow MAGA members better cope with what happened since quite a few of them aren’t taking recent events all that well, and […]
By Andrew Korybko, One World Trump sincerely thought that he could irreversibly effect significant long-term change to the way that America is run by “draining the swamp” that all of his supporters so deeply despise, but he ultimately lacked the strength time and again to take the decisive […]
I suspect it will be an uphill battle for unions in an era of extreme capital mobility and labor transience. Alex Gorowara, a software engineer for Google, discusses the union formed by hundreds of Google employees and explains their demands.
Supply-side economics is not going to sell well in a society with a shrinking middle class and rising poverty. Krystal Ball analyzes how passing stimulus checks has changed politics for the better.
After DiBlasio, Bloomberg, and Giuliani, New York has nowhere to go but up. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Andrew Yang’s first official New York City mayor campaign video.
Bye. Saagar Enjeti predicts what a Biden presidency will mean for the future of the Republican Party.
Trump makes history. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the second impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Politics is definitely going to be more interesting the more wingnuts get elected to offices as opposed to the usual boring corporate lawyers. Team Rising predicts how Trump Republicans might behave under the Biden administration.
Saagar Enjeti analyzes columnist, Ross Douthat’s, article in The New York Times titled, “How the Republican Party Could Break”.
Krystal Ball reacts to the elite class withdrawing their long-standing support for President Trump.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the latest updates on President Trump’s potential impeachment.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the latest FBI updates on the insurrection at the Capitol.
Deja vu! No one ever does anything different anymore. Tells the story of the hardhat riot, which no book has focused on before Draws from nearly two dozen boxes of NYPD records that were sealed for almost a half-century, effectively buried by city officials until now Combines archival […]
Crimethinc Politicians have come together across the aisle to decry the storming of the Capitol on January 6 as “lawless,” “anti-democratic,” and “extremist,” going so far as to misrepresent the result as “anarchy.” But the problem with the invasion of the Capitol was not that it was unlawful, […]
It’s Going Down A critical anarchist analysis and critique of the recent events in Washington DC and the response from the political Center and mass media. So much could be said about the spectacle recently witnessed at Washington, DC’s federal capitol building, however we will write a quick […]
In light of recent events, it is important to remember that politicians are merely managers who act directly or indirectly on behalf of the wider bodies of major shareholders and controlling interests in the power elite apparatus. If Congress were the “real power,” fruitbats like this chick (or, […]
It’s only been a week so it’s still a bit early to fully assess what the long-term effects of the “Beer Belly Putsch” are going to be, but so far it’s looking like these will be among the outcomes. The legitimacy of the present state will be undermined. […]
It’s possible to draw analogies to the Spanish Civil War anytime there is a major left/right cleavage. But in our case, I think the civil war in El Salvador is a better political analogy in terms of parties, factions, and their relationships, and I think the Lebanese Civil […]
We’re still a long way from actual civil war. I know of no evidence that state security or the ruling class is actually threatened. The stock market is thriving and the military industrial complex shows no sign of fracturing into warring factions. by Thierry Meyssan, VoltaireNet.Org The problem […]
If you can’t say anything nice… By Robert D. McFadden, New York Times Sheldon G. Adelson, a cabdriver’s son who built the world’s largest empire of casinos and resort hotels in Las Vegas, Macau, Singapore and other gambling meccas and used his vast wealth to promote right-wing political […]
By Daniel Lazare, Weekly Worker Evelyn Waugh supposedly once complained that Tories are forever promising to turn back the clock, but never really do. But there is a reason: the world moves on, the river continues to flow and, while change can be shaped and managed, it can […]
By Luke Savage, The Jacobin Joe Biden used to brag that he practically wrote the Patriot Act, the Bush-era law that massively increased government surveillance powers. Now he’s hoping to pass a further “domestic terrorism” law once in office. The danger is real that the January 6 Capitol […]
Team Rising reacts to new Vox and Quinnipiac University polls.
Here it comes.
By Laura Italiano, New York Post It’s high treason!
Alexandria comes through. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss a potential new domestic terror law following the insurrection at the Capitol.
The capitalist class strikes back at Trump. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the long list of people and corporations cutting ties with President Trump and other prominent Republicans following the insurrection at the Capitol.
By Mike Giglio, The Intercept I spent the last year talking with people from militant groups on the American right and always driving toward the same question: And then what? You’re armed and trained and linked up with your outfit. And then what? You’re ready to stand up […]
Listen here. On this edition of Parallax Views, C. Derick Varn of Zero Books makes his triumphant return to the program by providing a history lesson on the idea that “politics is downstream from culture” from the idea of cultural hegemony by the Italian Communist thinker Antonio Gramsci […]
By Erin Corbett, Refinery 29 In the aftermath of the violent siege of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, the FBI and D.C. Police are asking the public to help identify people who planned and participated in the attack. Like clockwork, many people have been quick to assume that […]
By Michael Warren Davis, The American Conservative On January 6th, a mob of Trump supporters staged a coup—a PR coup for the Democratic Party. Liberals have been calling Republicans “fascists” for as long as anyone can remember. The trouble is, there’s never been any real proof. There was […]
By Alan J. Devine, Chronicles It is no longer news that 2020 saw a collapse of political discourse and public behavior in the United States. Trends that developed over many years intensified last year. One major political party had as its candidate for president a magnetic figure who […]
So maybe the “new normal” will be that the summer season is for baseball and left-wing riots, and the winter season is for basketball and right-wing riots. Fair enough. By Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams
By Eric Boehm, Reason Shortly after reposting an article that criticized Twitter’s decision to ban President Donald Trump, former congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul says he was locked out of his own Facebook page. The page is still active and appears to be functioning normally for other […]
By Juan Dal Mosa and Warren Montag, Left Voices Some people argue that the far Right is small. Should we be reassured that “only” 45 percent of Republicans, that is, 30 million people, support the riot at the Capitol? We must reject facile economism to understand the Trump […]
From left: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey. by Don Fitz The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police over-funding to necessary social services, end economic and power divides, and replace […]
US politics right now (and to some degree Western politics generally) seems to be kind of repeat of what happened in the 19th century when the rising industrial bourgeois was eclipsing the traditional royal, aristocratic, an clerical elites as the dominant class. Right now we have this rising […]
This guy really needs to be the subject of a comic stip where the main character is some stereotypical anarcho-loser.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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