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Nexus X HumectressTrump Legal Team Unravels As ‘Kraken’ Fails To Materialize, Court Losses Pile Up
Trump is trying to create his own “November criminals/stab in the back” legend in order to promote his new network and maybe even make a comeback in 2020.
MSNBC Whistleblower Reveals How Yang BLACKOUT Worked
Well, well, well… Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss MSNBC’s blacklisting of former presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
Establishment Media SHOOK By Success Of Substack
Good. It seems like an “alternative conservative social media” is forming with Parler, Gab, Substance, MeWe, etc, and “alternative dissident left media” is developing among left-leaning journalists that have had falling outs with the Left Inquisition. Journalist, Zaid Jilani, gives his thoughts on Ezra Klein and Matthew Yglesias’ […]
Vaccines Show Actually Big Government IS The Answer
Actually, the polio vaccine was developed by a non-profit foundation with funds provided by the March of Dimes. Whether that’s good or bad may be a value judgment, but it’s a blow against the “government is necessary” argument. Krystal and Saager are great journalists but their political ideal […]
Biden’s Cabinet Is FULL Of Deficit Hawks, War Lovers and Globalists
Imagine that. It really is a shame that these lame ass progressives and social democrats, not too mention anti-“big government” conservatives, do not recognize that the warfare state, welfare state, therapeutic state, police state, and corporate state are interconnected with and mutually supportive of each other.
Will Biden’s Cabinet Choices Ensure Trump Re-Election
The Biden administration will expand imperialism though they may be less hawkish on Iran because they will be less immediately in thrall to Israel and Saudi Arabia. But they are more directly in thrall to the arms merchants.
Conspiracy theories, explained
Instead, everyone should simply believe in the unending benevolence of the ruling class. By Aja Romano, Vox Eleanor’s dad loved science — or so she thought. Eleanor grew up listening to stories of the Apollo missions and audio clips from space expeditions. Every weekend, the two of them […]
What Thucydides Knew About the US Today
By Edward Mendelson, The New York Review of Books On the morning after the 2016 presidential election I tried to distract myself by reading some pages of Thucydides that I had assigned for a class the next day, and found myself reading the clearest explanation I had seen […]
Joe Biden’s Silence on Ending the Drone Wars
By Elise Swan, The Intercept President-elect Joe Biden has maintained silence for years on the controversial and continued use of so-called targeted killings — lethal strikes by drones, cruise missiles, and occasionally military special operations raids. Biden has never publicly disavowed or criticized former President Barack Obama’s legacy […]
Regrowing Indigenous Agriculture Could Nourish People, Cultures and the Land
By Christina Gish Hill, In These Times Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal with the pilgrims of Plymouth plantation in Massachusetts. And traditional Native American farming practices tell us that squash and beans likely were part […]
Death by racism
The SJWish terminology and rhetoric in this aside, this is actually a very good discussion of the class disparities associated with the impact of the pandemic. The impact of the responses to the pandemic has largely been to allow the upper-middle and upper classes to go on a […]
The Libertarian Party Will Never Have Political Power
I’ve noticed that a lot of libertarian-minded people, while well-intentioned, have a misunderstanding of how political and social change, at least the kind that moves in a more libertarian direction, actually works. Obviously, there is never going to be a Libertarian government elected to office that immediately says, […]
Constructing Anarchisms—Philosophy
Anarchist News Survey courses are peculiar things, particularly when they address subjects of more than just passing interest. The construction of a survey always seems to involve at least some claim regarding the exemplary nature of the materials chosen. And if we were more certain about the character […]
How Many Americans Are About to Die?
By Alexis C. Madrigal Whet Moser,The Atlantic The United States has made huge advances in fighting the coronavirus. The astonishingly high death rates the country saw during the spring have fallen, and Americans are much more likely now than they were then to survive a COVID-19 hospitalization. New […]
Dear Orange Man Bad: An Open Letter From the Enemy of Your Enemy
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well, winter is coming with a vengeance and I’m guessing that you’re feeling pretty bummed. I’ve noticed the dayglo orange has drained from your cheeks and your once histrionic tirades have taken on all the petty melodrama of […]
R.I.P. Infoshop, 1995-2020
Infoshop was the longest-running left-anarchist site on the web. It had been around almost as long as the Internet has been available for public use. However, its archives remain available. The following article by the recently deceased left-anarchist David Graeber on “The Twilight of Vanguardism” is interesting. “The […]
Second Wave: Another Lockdown, Another Rebellion What the Riots around Southern Europe Tell Us about the Pandemic and the State
It’s good to see that Crimethinc recognizes that opposition to medical martial law is not just some crazy right-wing idea. It’s happening in countries that are much further “left” than the USA. Many left-wing anarchists have seriously dropped the ball on this question, just as many right-wing anarchists […]
Cracks on the Right & the Shape of Trumpism to Come
A podcast from It’s Going Down. Some of the analysis is interesting. I wouldn’t consider a Trumpist third party to be “fascist” any more than I would consider the proposed Peoples Party being floated by some left-over Sandernistas to be “communist.” A Trumpist party would be to the […]
Is the Lebanese Civil War the Model for the Next American Civil War?
When looking for historical models for what the next US civil war would look like, there are a number of interesting examples to look at like India and Pakistan during the 1947 partition, Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, or Rwanda in 1994. But the one I keep coming […]
Is a capitalist-socialist economy inevitable?
In the late 1980s, I used to hang out with a lot of Marxist-types who would talk about how the then-nascent era of globalization would be a return to the 19th century model of class relations. At the time, I figured they were exaggerating, but now I tend […]
Capitalism 2.0 Will Include a Healthy Dose of Socialism
Eric Weinstein’s discussion of the impact of digital capitalism sounds almost like Marx talking about the impact of industrial capitalism. I’d argue today’s capitalism is more like Capitalism 4.0 following mercantilism and the age of exploration, the industrial revolution, and the managerial revolution.
Chris Hedges on the task ahead: Will Biden surrender to plutocrats and paralysis?
To ask the question is to answer it. He was the plutocrats’ handpicked frontman to purge the Orange Man. Hedges is way too much of a conventional liberal ideologue for my tastes, and this interview contains a fair amount of obvious hyperbole, but he’s interesting is that he […]
The Republican Party’s future: Being terrorized by its unhinged base
So Republicans and Democrats share a similar future. Fair enough. The encouraging thing that has happened on the mainstream right-wing lately has been the signs of a split between FOX and the Trumpists and talk of a Trump TV network. Being a persistent thorn in the side to […]
Despite Media Blackout – The Elections Proved Americans Are Done With The Drug War
The changes that these victorious state and local initiatives represent are less than 1% of what needs to be done regarding the so-called “criminal justice system.” But it represents a major turning of the tides. This is arguably the most important libertarian moment since the draft was ended […]
Marijuana Legalization Got More Votes Than Trump, Biden And Other Officials In Multiple States
Those of us with libertarian-inclined political leanings were the real winners in the 2020 election. The “war on drugs,” along with general overcriminalization is probably the most extreme form of statism that exists in the modern United States, at least on a large scale. By Kyle Jaeger The […]
Power & Panic: The Last Days for Christian Nationalism
This is a pretty good critique of the “flag and a pie and a mom and a Bible” crowd. Although it’s obvious weakness is that it fails to take totalitarian humanism and its relationship to the digital capitalist revolution seriously. “Christian nationalists” are a minority political faction in […]
Obama Cops To Reading Marx & Foucault To Get Laid
Obama: “As a college student, I was a shallow loser.” In many ways, Obama personifies the values of woke capitalism in the sense of espousing a duplicitous cultural leftism on the surface level while fully embracing the values of the corporate class and serving as a functionary for […]
Loathe Your Loved One’s Politics? Here’s Some Advice
The appropriate advice would be “Get a life!” By Elizabeth Bernstein, Wall Street Journal Want to throttle someone you know over politics? You’re not alone. Two weeks from an election that has fueled more bitter divisions than America has seen in decades, it feels harder than ever to […]
Artificial Intelligence and Resocialization
By Troy Southgate It is foolish to assume that various forms of political correctness are part of a Marxist plot. In reality, the systematic reinterpretation of controversial issues such as race and gender is a means of re-socialisation. A new model of civic organisation is required to meet […]
Van Jones: Exposing Liberal Hypocrisy and Conservative Close-Mindedness
This is some pretty good commentary FWIW but Van Jones was still the dude that was crying tears of joy when his team won the Super Bowl…err…election…so he’s still playing with a handicap.
The Possibilities of Anarchist History: Rethinking the Canon and Writing History
By Matthew Adams While the study of anarchism has undergone a renaissance in recent years, historical scholarship has been a relatively minor aspect of this renewed focus. Presenting an historiographical examination of the main forms of writing on anarchist ideas, this article argues that the predominance of ‘canonistic’ […]
Fox AOC Bashing Accidentally Makes Her Look Amazing
One of the worst things about mainstream “conservatives” is that they give criticism of “big government” or “statism” a bad name. The US energy sector functions on the standard state-capitalist crony-capitalist corporate-welfarist model. Proponents of the “Green New Deal” merely want to shift its focus away from fossil […]
How Progressives Can Push Biden Further Left
Krystal and Saager totally lose me with their affirmation of Richard Wolff’s praise for China’s response to COVID-19. China is a test market for the kinds of state repression global and US national elites want to bring to the West. Unfortunately, if you scratch a right-wing populist like […]
China’s new world order
A genuine “multi-order world order” would probably look a lot like the world between 1500 and 1800 before the full consolidation of modern imperialism. Not any kind of anarchistic golden age to be sure, but one where there were distinctive civilizations and cultures with their own spheres of […]
The “singleton hypothesis” predicts the future of humanity
I consider the most serious issue that currently faces humanity to be the ongoing concentration of power on an unprecedented level: political, economic, military, technological, cultural, medical, scientific, communicational, and legal, with the environment being the wild card in all of this. Anyone with libertarian values of any […]
Anarchism/ Syndicalism as a Vision, Strategy and Experience of Bottom-up Socialist Democracy
By Lucien van der Walt Examining the theory and practice of ‘mass’ anarchism and syndicalism, this paper argues against Daryl Glaser’s views that workers’ council democracy fails basic democratic benchmarks and that, envisaged as a simple instrument of a revolution imagined in utopian ‘year zero’ terms, it will […]
Utopianism and Prefiguration
By Ruth Kinna This paper explores the ways in which radical utopian themes have been taken up in contemporary anarchist thought and, in particular, the relationship between utopianism and prefiguration. Prefiguration has become a definitional concept in anarchist political thinking, though the meaning of the term is not […]
Biden’s Reported Budget Pick Tried To CUT Social Security
So much for the Democrats’ “socialism.” Founder of The Daily Poster, David Sirota, weighs in on Joe Biden’s potential pick to run the Office of Budget and Management.
AOC Destroys Nikki Haley’s Weak Attack On Paying People To Stay Home
Only a Republican could somehow manage to make Alexandria look like a genius in comparison. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti weigh in on the Twitter spat between AOC and Nikki Haley over paying Americans to stay home. They also discuss spending trends that reveal people are spending more […]
Parler, MeWe, Gab gain momentum as conservative social media alternatives in post-Trump age
By Nathan Bomey, USA TODAY America’s crisis of political segregation – we increasingly don’t live alongside, associate with or even marry people who think differently from us – is increasingly leading conservatives to congregate together on social media outlets designed specifically for people who think like them. The […]
Tucker: Big Tech’s coordinated suppression amounts to a ‘censorship cartel’
Eventually, social media companies may end up like television networks where different tech companies simply pander to different audiences. We will have Parler, MeWe, and Gab for conservatives and Facebook, Twiter, and Google for liberals, just we have CNN and MSNBC for liberals and FOX and CBN for […]
Tucker Carlson, Fox News TRASH Giuliani Press Conference
FOX is throwing Trump under the bus now that he’s no longer useful. A split between FOX and the Trumpists would be great. A four-way ruling class splintering between Trumpists, neocons, neoliberals,and progressives is exactly what we need, hopefully with more splintering coming after that.
Giuliani, Sidney Powell ‘Election Fraud’ Press Conference GOES OFF THE RAILS
Plenty of Trumpists have contacted me since yesterday saying Giuliani’s press conference proved the Democrats stole the election. Whatever, folks. The Russiagate of the Right.
Transition of Balance of Power from Unipolar to Multipolar World Order
By Fatima Arif The international system may be described as a complex system of social, scientific, political, military and technological systems. This dynamic structure is very difficult to evaluate and it is even more difficult to predict its future. The distribution of power potential in the international system […]
Moving Towards Multipolarity: End of a Unipolar World
By Abdul Rasool Syed “Make America great again” – a slogan that formed the nucleus of Trump’s electoral campaign vividly suggests that America is no more a great country. It is, in fact, an implicit admission that U.S is gradually losing its clout in international politics and hence, […]
FAILED STATE — Breadlines of Capitalism
Krystal Ball: Time To Admit Affirmative Action FAILED
This is a pretty good discussion of the relationship between race and class. Krystal Ball weighs in on California voter’s rejection of affirmative action.
Fox Host: Biden Is Acting Like A Dictator
Now it’s the Repugnicans turn to spend four years whining about a moderate Republican is really a dictator is on the horizon. The same way the Democraps did for the past four years.
It’s Real: Trump TV To Declare War On Fox News!
Excellent. Now, if only something comparable could happen on the progressive side. Fragment, fragment, fragment…
“Situating Hardt and Negri'”
By David Bates To what extent is it possible to situate Hardt and Negri’s thought? Are they best regarded as ‘anarchists’, ‘socialists’, ‘communists’, ‘marxists’, ‘leninists’, ‘postmarxists’ or ‘postanarchists’? Answering this question is no mere intellectual exercise. As Wittgenstein once remarked, ‘words are deeds’. On the radical left, much […]
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