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Nexus X HumectressAn interesting discussion of how unipolarity and globalization are receding and a multi-order order of networks based on “shared values” is gradually emerging in its place. “Globalization is on its deathbed,” says economist Mike O’Sullivan. The question now is: What’s next? Tracing the historical successes and failures of […]
By Richard J. Evans, New Statesman A number of prominent commentators, including the historians Timothy Snyder and Sarah Churchwell, the former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, and the Berkeley public policy professor Robert Reich has been arguing for some time that Donald Trump is a fascist. The […]
Listen here. Travel back to the very birth of fascism in this episode about the March on Rome. You’ll learn how the first trailblazing fascist dictator took power and destroyed a democracy. There’s a reason the History Channel has produced hundreds of documentaries about Hitler but only a […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s pretty much an open secret at this point that all American presidents are certifiable war criminals, even the supposedly good ones. Thomas Jefferson killed the Indians he admired and raped his slaves when he wasn’t busy denouncing […]
US officials say 25 domestic terrorism cases have been opened regarding last week’s attack on the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston and Derrick Jensen to discuss the limits of technology and how technology supports the authoritarian technocratic dictatorship.
About nine minutes in, Bret and Heather discuss David Graeber, although they predictably have an ambiguous view of Graeber’s work.
Eric Weinstein explains the kayfabe nature of US politics using pro-wrestling analogies.
“Wokeness” resembles Leninism in its more extreme form. In its more mainstream form, it’s more like social purity. By Gary Du and Jan Jekielek, Epoch Times Dr. James Lindsay, an American-born author and political commentator, called the “woke” ideology and movement embraced by Black Lives Matter organizations and […]
By Douglas Ernst, Washington Times Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard says Silicon Valley is fomenting division and planting seeds for future wars thanks to members of Congress who can’t resist Big Tech’s big bucks. The Hawaii Democrat told The Daily Caller this week that many politicians give lip service […]
Derick Varn and Douglas Lain discuss last week’s riot at the Capitol Building and the AOC vs. Jimmy Dore debate. Along the way the topics of standpoint epistemology, class consciousness, and the difference between a coup and a revolution will be explored.
Listen here. On this edition of Parallax Views, National Security scholar Nicholas Grossman recently penned an open letter to QAnon believers entitled “QAnon Woke Up the Real Deep State” warning them that the Capitol Hill riots is going to trigger a harsh
I’m generally not inclined to make Trump=Hitler comparisons (I’m more in the Trump=Nixon camp) but the way Trump is tossing Pence and Giuliani at the final moments is reminiscent of Hitler dismissing Goering and Himmler from all state offices while hiding in his bunker as the Russians advanced […]
It’s funny how Rudy was initially being groomed to be the neocons’ frontman after George W. Bush until he got sidelined with health issues, with the neocons going with McCain instead and Rudy ending up being a Trump flunkie that’s getting thrown under the bus during the final […]
The relevant part starts about 30 minutes in.
Weinstein compares US politics and media to kayfabe in wrestling. Good man. Managing Director of Thiel Capital, Eric Weinstein, discusses how we can heal the country after a tumultuous year.
This is pretty funny. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to new rumors about Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner.
I always thought that as the “right-wing” in its various forms continued to shrink in size and lose power politically, it would move in two directions. Some would be co-opted by totalitarian humanism (like the neocons, corporate Republicans, and Never Trumpers). Others would become more militant and even […]
A left-wing anarchist has offered the following reply to right-libertarian/an-cap sympathizers with the Beer Belly Putsch. It’s equally true of Hoppean and paleo types who think that because the putsch attempt was against “the government” and its targets were members of Congress, the perpetrators were somehow “anarchist” or […]
My 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 […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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