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Nexus X HumectressTransit Workers Union: Worker REBELLION INEVITABLE If Federal Aid For Transit Left Out
Instead of begging for crumbs from the feds, the transport workers should be demanding the syndicalization of the public transportation system.
Jobless Claims SPIKE As Poverty Increased By Lack Of Federal Aid
In the “let them eat cake” news for today… Morning Consult economist, John Leer, digs into the latest unemployment numbers and discusses consumer confidence.
Why Socialist Alternative Members are Joining DSA
Kshama Sawant’s Trotskyist party is infiltrating AOC’s social democratic party. Funny. Socialist Alternative National Committee We are in a new historical period, and socialists must adjust to this deeply changed situation. 2020 will be remembered as a crucial turning point worldwide with the pandemic, economic crash, the biggest […]
Billionaires Want to Be the Gatekeepers of the Solar System
Well, Marx did say that the capitalist class has generated enormous innovation even if it created a new system of oligarchical oppression in the process. By Eleanor Penny, In These Times Space is our birthright. “Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery and use […]
Fifty Years of Tax Cuts for Rich Didn’t Trickle Down, Study Says
I do not oppose tax cuts for the rich per se. Taxes are still the means of funding the state even if they are collected from the rich, a fact that many left-wing anarchists seem to lose sight of. But the state also creates the wider plutocratic economic […]
Instead of Propping Up a Dying Empire, It’s Time to Finally End US Wars
By Rebecca Gordon, TomDispatch It was the end of October 2001. Two friends, Max Elbaum and Bob Wing, had just dropped by. (Yes, children, believe it or not, people used to drop in on each other, maskless, once upon a time.) They had come to hang out with […]
Dozens of States Just Sued To Break Up Google. The Biggest Losers Would Be Consumers.
Regional principalities and magnates take on a techno-feudal manor. By Billy Binion, Reason A group of state attorneys general filed an antitrust lawsuit against Google today, alleging that the company maintains monopoly control over internet search via competition-squashing behavior. The complaint, brought by 38 states and U.S. territories, […]
Justin Amash Introduces Bill To End Civil Asset Forfeiture Nationwide
By Billy Binion, Reason Rep. Justin Amash (L–Mich.) on Thursday introduced a bill to end civil asset forfeiture, which allows the government to take property from someone without ever charging them with a crime. Law enforcement on the local, state, and federal levels can seize assets if they […]
What is the purpose of education? Money, class oppression, or indoctrination?
The Mindcrime liberty show discusses education, schooling, and the classroom. Why is it that the classroom at all levels is the least criticized institution in society? Is it because college professors and teachers have cushy and high status jobs and want to protect their privilege? Are professors and […]
Four Reasons Why College Degrees Are Becoming Useless
By Jonathan Newman, Intellectual Takeout Students are running out of reasons to pursue higher education. Here are four trends documented in recent articles: 1. Graduates have little to no improvement in critical thinking skills The Wall Street Journal reported on the troubling results of the College Learning Assessment Plus test […]
SCOTUS Rules That Federal Agents Can Be Sued When They Violate Your Rights
By Billy Binion, Reason The Supreme Court last week unanimously ruled in Tanzin v. Tanvir that a trio of Muslim men may sue a group of FBI agents for damages after the government officials put them on the no-fly list for refusing to spy on their own communities. […]
Report: Oath Keepers Plan ‘Bloody Civil War’ If Trump Leaves Office
But the flaw in their plan is that it will be their blood. By Michael Stone, Patheos Domestic terrorists: According to their leader Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers, an American far-right anti-government militia organization, will lead a “bloody civil war and revolution” if Trump leaves office and Joe […]
On Activist Scholarship: An Interview with Helen Pluckrose
By Jason D. Hill,Quillette In recent years, free speech and inquiry have come under attack on college campuses, ethical relativism has spread, and demands to decolonize syllabi and rid them of canonical white male texts and thinkers have become increasingly common. Hostility to reason, objectivity, and Enlightenment universalism […]
AOC Said “Sex Work Is Work” in Response to New York Post Hit Piece on a Paramedic With an OnlyFans
Glad to see AOC taking the actual libertarian position on this issue as opposed to the SWERFish feminazi position. By Lucy Diavola, Teen Vogue Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) joined the discussion around a viral New York Post hit piece targeting a New York City medic who started an […]
Ocasio-Cortez Warns Biden That War and Wall Street Appointees Are a ‘Huge Reason We Got Trump’
Alexandria ain’t wrong. Although Trump has done nothing except building his own personality cult. By Brett Wilkin, Common Dreams Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a stern warning for President-elect Joe Biden about filling his Cabinet with the types of war and Wall Street candidates that have come to characterize […]
Pro-Trump election conspiracist arrested for pulling gun on repairman in bogus vigilante ‘sting’
Yahoo News! A former Houston police captain has been arrested after running a man off the road and holding him at gunpoint in an attempt to prove his 2020 election conspiracy theories. The incident occurred in Harris County, Texas on Tuesday when Mark Anthony Aguirre, 63, ran his […]
Right-Wing Embrace Of Conspiracy Is ‘Mass Radicalization,’ Experts Warn
By Hannah Allam, National Public Radio The widespread embrace of conspiracy and disinformation amounts to a “mass radicalization” of Americans, and increases the risk of right-wing violence, veteran security officials and terrorism researchers warn. At conferences, in op-eds and at agency meetings, domestic terrorism analysts are raising concern […]
MAGA leaders call for the troops to keep Trump in office
By TINA NGUYEN, Politico An 1807 law invoked only in the most violent circumstances is now a rallying cry for the MAGA-ites most committed to the fantasy that Donald Trump will never leave office. The law, the Insurrection Act, allows the president to deploy troops to suppress domestic […]
As California I.C.U’s fill up, the dead are counted by the hour.
By Remy Tumin and Jill Cowan, New York Times Just two weeks ago, Gov. Gavin Newsom warned Californians that the state’s intensive care beds might be full before Christmas. Now, it appears that dire projection is being borne out. How bad is the coronavirus surge in California? In […]
Don’t Throw Away ‘Acceptable’ Because You Won’t Get ‘Perfection’
By Peter R. Quinones, Substack In episode #511 of my podcast, Jeff Deist states that with the control of the levers of power firmly in the hands of Left AND Right Progressives, “separation” is the only solution. I interpret his use of the term separation as radical decentralization […]
How can a disease with 1% mortality shut down the United States?
By Franklin Veaux, Quora.Com There are two problems with this question. It neglects the law of large numbers; and It assumes that one of two things happen: you die or you’re 100% fine. The US has a population of 328,200,000. If one percent of the population dies, that’s […]
Is the Hospital System Overwhelmed?
By Tom Woods Remember how awful Thanksgiving was supposed to be? Well, here’s what happened in the Midwest: Was everyone in every single one of those states behaving recklessly, and then suddenly, right at Thanksgiving, they thought better of it? Or might the virus do its thing no […]
Madeline Swegle breaks 110-year record and becomes the Navy’s first Black female fighter pilot
By Harmony Hobbs, Upworthy When Madeline Swegle was a little girl growing up in Burke, VA, she loved watching the Blue Angels zip through the sky. Her family went to see the display every time it was in town, and it was her parents’ encouragement to pursue her […]
Fed Recommits to Misleading the Public About Inflation
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Did the Federal Reserve just usher in the next phase of the U.S. dollar’s decline? On Wednesday, the central bank recommitted to leaving its benchmark interest rate near zero for the foreseeable future. Fed officials also vowed to keep pumping cash into […]
Biden picks first Native American as Cabinet secretary, source says
Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico has been picked to be Biden’s interior secretary, a source says. If confirmed, she would become the first Native American Cabinet secretary.
Pete Buttigieg makes history again for LGBTQ Americans as first gay cabinet nominee
By Marc Ramirez, USA Today Nearly a year ago in Des Moines, Pete Buttigieg hugged his husband onstage after his win in the Iowa caucuses made him the first openly LGBTQ candidate to earn delegates toward a major political party’s presidential nomination.
A New Bill Aims to End Police Raids Like the One That Killed Breonna Taylor
By Alice Speri, The Intercept The police killing of Breonna Taylor, who was fatally shot in Kentucky in March when plainclothes officers barged into her apartment in the middle of the night, has set off a series of state and local efforts to ban “no-knock” raids — the […]
Why Are Americans So Distrustful of Each Other?
I remember people laughing 20 years ago when I said that eventually, the USA would more closely resemble Brazil. I guess I had the last laugh, kinda sorta. The Latin Americanization of the USA with the related class stratification, institutional corruption, social conflict, and high rates of violence […]
Americans Are in Full Revolt Against Pandemic Lockdowns
J.D. Tuccille, Reason (Steve Sanchez/Sipa USA/Newscom) Echoing New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned city residents this week to prepare for a “full shutdown” as part of ongoing efforts to slow the spread of COVID-19. The two elected officials better not hold […]
South Carolina Bills Would Set the Foundation to Nullify Federal Mask or Vaccine Mandates
By: Mike Maharrey , Tenth Amendment Center COLUMBIA, S.C. (Dec. 16, 2020) – Two bills introduced in the South Carolina House would ban the enforcement of any federal mask mandate and prohibit the state from taking any federal funding connected to a federal mask or vaccine mandate. Passage […]
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Bans Sale of Confederate Flags, Despite Knowing This Has First Amendment Problems
If this stands, look for the anarchist circle A symbol to eventually be banned as a hate symbol. By Robby Soave, Reason New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, signed legislation on Tuesday prohibiting the sale of Confederate flags on public property, including at state and local fairs. […]
Congressman Thomas Massie Joins Kennedy 12/16/2020: Ross Ulbricht & Patriot Act Repeal
In case you missed it, I was a guest on Fox Business’s “Kennedy” on 12/16/2020. We discussed why Ross Ulbricht should receive clemency from President Trump and the legislation I introduced with Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard that repeals the PATRIOT Act. Ulbricht’s sentence is the greatest violation of the […]
Join my fight to free Julian Assange and stop US extradition
Donate to help Julian if you can. By Stella Morris I am the partner of Julian Assange and the mother of his two sons. I am fighting against his extradition to the United States. My partner, the journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, is fighting extradition to the […]
Violent riot at Indian iPhone factory over unpaid wages
As it should be. Imore.Com A violent riot has broken out at an iPhone factory in India over allegations of unpaid wages. Employees can be seen on video attacking a Wistron iPhone plant in Bengaluru, images show broken glass, overturned cars and fires being started. Update, December 14 […]
What Is The Great Reset and Will It Impact You?
What this speaker in this video is describing sounds fairly accurate in the sense of merely recognizing prevailing trends. What’s going on now is a repeat of what happened in the Industrial Revolution with unprecedented technological expansion and the emergence of elites with unprecedented wealth, combined with the […]
Boarding Houses: Co-Living In Cities Becoming Normalized Again
The postwar West was a historically unique time of unprecedented economic expansion, technological development, and economic reforms that allowed the working class to live like an upper middle class. All of that is disappearing now, and we’re becoming “normal” societies once again with traditional levels of social stratification. […]
Defense Ghouls Get A Bailout While Americans Get Scraps
Duh? At least the public is getting an education about how the system really works.
THE MYTH Of A Working Class Republican Party
The actual leadership (ownership) of the Republican Party (American ARENA/American Likudniks) is actually to the right of both New York liberal Trump and the know-nothing populist “basis.”
Tulsi Gabbard introduces bill to REPEAL PATRIOT Act
If we must have presidents, it should have been Tulsi. Although, interestingly, she’s too conservative for liberals, too liberal for conservatives, too moderate for radicals, and too radical for moderates.
NeverTrump Republicans SPLIT Over Becoming Democrats, Starting Third Party
Fracture, fracture, fracture…
Correcting Our Initial Report Of Wall Street CEO Boasting About Pandemic Rent Profits
Joe Biden accuses Trump of refusing to respect will of Americans
https://media.urmedium.com/video//2020/12/15/637436382594261337video.mp4
The US Electoral Nightmare Discredits Anti-Russian Rhetoric
The most dangerous form of rhetorical excess in US politics is not the standard hate rhetoric between Red/Blue tribal loyalists but the enmity that is directed toward two backwater but nuclear-armed provinces in global capitalism, Russia and China, and a nation that is actually under siege by the […]
Where Did the New Mad Left Come From?
This article combines some of the usual right-wing howlers (like the Democrats and Antifa being on the same team, or the mayors of New York and Seattle being anarchists) with some actual insights, like the relationship between big tech and the rising sectors of the capitalist class and […]
Tribal Authority
A pretty good assessment of the partisan/tribal “civil war” from Williamson, proving that even a neocon mouthpiece can be right twice a day. By Kevin Williamson, National Review In an interview with Jake Tapper on CNN, Bill Gates said he expects that there will be an ugly wave of […]
How Donald Trump Rescued the “Blob”
This article begins by asking a really dumb question. Maintaining the empire is the purpose of foreign policy. Joe is the new CEO of Imperialism, Inc. It’s like asking why the CEO of McDonald’s hasn’t converted the chain into vegan restaurants. By Blaise Malley, The American Conservative Joe […]
Virus Avoidance Is Not the Whole of Life
Remember Thomas Szasz’s warning about therapeutic totalitarianism? By Jenin Younes, American Institute for Economic Research Lest you were hopeful that some semblance of normal life will return in 2021, either due to the development of vaccines or the pandemic fizzling out on its own, the New York Times […]
Imperialism 2.0: Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
One thing that most “radicals” in North America (other than tankies, Third Worldists, a few libertarians, and some far-rightists) do not understand is that there is only one system, i.e. the global capitalist-imperialist empire in which the American ruling class is the senior partner. Even a cursory look […]
Calls For Alex Jones Arrest Over Vile Biden Threat
This is hilarious. The best thing about Trump is that he is a chaos agent who has more or less left the Republican Party in shambles. Now we need a Democratic Trump.
Republican CIVIL WAR: MAGA Protesters Chant “Destroy Republican Party”
Excellent. Now if we could only have a Democratic civil war.
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