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Nexus X HumectressDebunking the presumptions of liberal democracy should be the main intellectual project of anarchists in the modern world. The majority of the world’s nations are now liberal democracies, and all of the developed countries. In the ancient world, the royals were worshipped as gods (which still takes place […]
In “we have always been at war with East Asia” news…this appeared in the WaPo in April. By Eliza McGraw People called them “flu fences” and “chin sails.” Gala attendees fastened theirs with gaudy earrings. Smokers cut flaps in them, and movie houses gave them away with tickets. […]
“The Left is now an upper-middle-class project against the ruling class. It is time for us Marxists to draw a clear line against them.” This Swedish Marxist gets it. The Left now plays the same role as liberals in the 19th century, i.e. the party of the rising […]
By Alexander Storrsson People seem to forget that the government can’t wish things into existence. There are processes which have to be undertaken for things to be established as law in this country – processes which seem to have been overridden at various points this year. Might I […]
Catholicism has come a long way since the days when they opposed usury. The Church seems to be repeating the period in its history when it was aligned with the Medici during the Renaissance. “Have you heard the one about the Pope, the Rothschild family, the United Nations, […]
The dominant culture in most any society typically tries to impose its own moral paradigm as a matter of law. Now that liberals have the cultural upper hand, they’re just doing what people do. All political factions seem to be terminally susceptible to this, including anarchists and libertarians, […]
Apparently, the Cayman Islands is now a Branch Covidian theocracy. By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — An 18-year-old college student from Georgia has been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands after breaking the British Caribbean territory’s Covid-19 protocol while visiting her boyfriend for a […]
The Zuck of the Right. Fair enough, I guess. Liberals have Soros and conservatives have the Kochs. Liberals have Zuck and Dorsey. Conservatives have this dragon lady. By Alexis Benveniste, CNN Business (CNN) — Rebekah Mercer, a prominent conservative donor, revealed Saturday that she is helping to bankroll Parler, […]
Why we need more rather than less rioting. By Jim Hoft, YourNews.Com While Americans suffered Nancy was getting her hair done. Then Nancy delayed any assistance to working Americans following the government initiated coronavirus lockdowns until after the elections. And now nine months later our betters in the […]
By David Marcus, The Federalist A Rubicon has been crossed in American political discourse. Long purveyors of Marxism, the nation’s leftists have now come to fully embrace something else; racism. Just in the last week in the areas of medicine, education, and journalism, well-intentioned institutional racists have insisted […]
I view student loans as a government sponsored, operated, or protected loan-sharking operation that amounts to modern indentured servitude in practice. So I don’t really have any problem with student loan “debt forgiveness.” But it goes without saying that many college degrees are useless. By Jordan Davidson, The […]
By Matthew Cunningham Cook, The Intercept In 2006, Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx had healthier patients, just enough nursing staff to take care of them, and a CEO who was earning $2 million a year, a senior nurse and union leader told The Intercept. Fifteen years later, its patients […]
Maria Theobald, TIME Marie Sanchez, chief tribal judge on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation, arrived in Geneva in 1977 with a clear message to deliver to the United Nations Convention on Indigenous Rights. American Indian women, she argued, were targets of the “modern form” of genocide—sterilization. Over the six-year […]
By Moe Tkacik, In These Times The Left has yet to properly absorb two major revelations of 2020: 1) The ruling class, for all its platitudes, decisively does not care about small business, and 2) We are all small businesses now. To the first point, a court-ordered Small Business […]
By Damian Finbar White and Gideon Kossoff Few intellectual currents have played as influen-tial a role in the development and shaping of mod-ern environmentalism as the anarchist andlibertarian tradition of social and political thought.Generalizations about common ideological rootsto a politics as diverse and internally divided asenvironmentalism are of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Maybe you missed it, but there is a second terrifying virus spreading like spilt milk across the media zeitgeist. A hip new mental illness plaguing that precious resource known as teenage girls. All across the country our precious […]
In case anyone cares… Another recent appearance on the same program. These are some pretty good discussions. These folks have a good show.
The problem I have with Pakman’s commentary in this is that both Left and Right have their favorite “billionaire bogeymen.” For the Right, it’s “big finance” and “big tech” moguls like Soros, Gates, Zuckerberg, etc. For the Left, it’s “big oil” or “big pharma” moguls like the Kochs, […]
What Vince says here is spot on. There is zero chance the “far-left” carried out a major insurrection in hundreds of cities spontaneously. The leftists’ protests were a side show to the main event. The main thing that most commentators (nearly all of whom are middle-class people) have […]
By Dan Robitzski, Futurism.Com A few months ago, a company called Capella Space launched a satellite capable of taking clear radar images of anywhere in the world, with incredible resolution — even through the walls of some buildings. And unlike most of the huge array of surveillance and observational […]
This “culture war” stuff has nothing to do with “socialism vs. capitalism” let alone “communism vs. fascism.” The Red Tribe/Blue Tribe “civil war” is quintessentially American in origins. The election amounted to a contest between two moderate Republicans. Both of our parties are center-right plutocratic-capitalist parties by world-historical […]
By John Whitehead, Rutherford Institute “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 It had the potential for disaster.
Geez, whoever heard of that? This commentary certainly applies to anarchists as well as the general libertarian/anti-state milieu.
This is pretty interesting.
Another day, another fuck up. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Pfizer’s claims that more vaccines are ready, they’re just awaiting instructions. They also discuss the king of Sweden’s remarks that his country has “failed” in its handling of Covid.
The economic policies that have been imposed on the poor countries for decades are now being imposed on the domestic population. Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, explains why “when it comes to austerity politics, Joe Biden, remains much more focused on delivering on his promise to […]
Even the most milquetoast forms of social democracy/populist are too much for the ruling class. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss President Trump’s reported calls for at least $1,200 stimulus checks for Americans. They also discuss Sen. Mark Warner’s criticism of Bernie Sanders and Ilhan Omar.
The “let them eat cake” news for today. As I have frequently said, Trump is actually to the left of the normal Republicans, and many Democrats. Washington Post White House economics reporter, Jeffrey Stein, details the latest stimulus negotiations taking place on Capitol Hill.
Praise the cosmos that I am neither a Democrat nor a Republican, nor a Blue Triber nor a Red Triber, but a Black Flag loyalist and Anarchy Firster.
2020 is hardly the only year in which elites have “failed.” Krystal Ball highlights what she believes were the worst moments of 2020.
“Mask up, you little asshole!” Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti detail the latest Covid number in the United States. They also share their thoughts on President Emmanuel Macron’s Coronavirus diagnosis.
Eliminating big tech’s intellectual property protections and encouraging worker occupation of big box stores would be a better idea but she’s got the right attitude at least.
Instead of begging for crumbs from the feds, the transport workers should be demanding the syndicalization of the public transportation system.
In the “let them eat cake” news for today… Morning Consult economist, John Leer, digs into the latest unemployment numbers and discusses consumer confidence.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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