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Nexus X HumectressBy 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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. […]
Duh? At least the public is getting an education about how the system really works.
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.”
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.
Fracture, fracture, fracture…
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Excellent. Now if we could only have a Democratic civil war.
By C.J. Ciaramella, Reason Chicago police burst into the apartment of an innocent woman based on a faulty tip and handcuffed her while she was naked, forcing her to stand in full view of male officers as they searched her home, newly revealed body camera footage shows. Local […]
By James Lindsay, New Discourses I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked why it is that the Woke won’t seem to have a debate or discussion about their views, and I’ve been meaning to write something about it for ages, probably a year at this […]
Hardly surprising. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss whether Edward Snowden should be pardoned by President Trump. They also weigh in on John Brennan and James Clappers’ opinions on the issue.
The new Asshole-in-Chief is already prepping for the job. He’s not going to let Trump upstage him in dickishness.
Believe it or not, I’ve actually seen left-anarchists rushing to defend Dr. Jill on this one because apparently nothing is more anarchist than fealty to the queen. Maybe it means the anarcho-left now recognizes anarcho-monarchism as a legitimate form of anarchism.
I don’t care the first thing about this issue, but apparently, it’s causing a lot of drama among the leftoids. I’ve seen prominent left-anarchists attacking Dore for being mean to AOC. Krystal Ball weighs in on the debate over Jimmy Dore’s statements on how to force a vote […]
Once again, if Trump manages to take down MSNBC, CNN, FOX, the GOP, the neocons, and the Christian Zionists down in flames with him, he really will have accomplished something. Team Rising discusses concerns at CNN and MSNBC about the future of their networks in a post-Trump news […]
If Trump manages to paralyze the GOP by turning it into a pro wrestling franchise like the WWE or WCW he really will be performing a “service to his nation.” Team Rising reacts to Donald Trump’s tentative 2024 plans and the acknowledgement from top Republicans that Joe Biden […]
A quarter of a billion people engaged in direct action. The main problem with this action so far is that the demands of the strikers amount to little more than pittances and handouts. They should be demanding the keys to the kingdom.
The daily “let them eat cake” report. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest stimulus negotiations, a reported wave of evictions threatening black and latino residents, and Tuesday’s cancelled house vote.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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