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Nexus X HumectressKamala Snubs Medicare For All & Green New Deal In Infuriating Interview
“Don’t worry. I don’t really stand for anything at all except self-promotion…just like Trump.”
Why Excess Death Numbers Are Misleading
Trump Supporter Pulls Gun On Group Of Pro-Biden Teen Girls During Heated Confrontation
By Adrian Garcia, The Daily Grind A man wearing a “Trump: Keep America Great” hat was caught on camera Saturday pulling a gun on a group of teen girls showing their support for former Vice President Joe Biden after the man claims he was splashed by an unknown […]
Millennials all over the world have lost faith in democracy
Wonderful. But the big question is what comes next? By Rhys Blakely, The Times Millennials in democracies throughout the world are more disillusioned with their system of government than any young generation in living memory, a study has found. A survey of nearly five million people showed that […]
How The Progressive Caucus Is Tooling Up For A Joe Biden Presidency
D.C. Bureau Chief at The Intercept, Ryan Grim, discusses how the Congressional Progressive Caucus is restructuring in order to shape itself into a more cohesive fighting force come 2021.
HALF say WORST is YET TO COME regarding coronavirus
On today’s What America’s Thinking, a new Hill-HarrisX poll finds half of voters believe cases will continue to rise. Featuring Rising’s Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti. This survey was conducted online within the United States from October 19-22 among 2,822 registered voters by HarrisX. The sampling margin of […]
Dems FAILURES With Latino Voters Could Cost Them On Election Day
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti weigh in on the latest polling in the presidential race. They also discuss reporting that Joe Biden is trailing in Texas.
Jared Kushner Blames Black Voters For Not Supporting Trump
Kushner has a Bulworth moment.
Park Avenue GOES ALL IN For Joe Biden As The GOP’s Only Path Forward Becomes Clear
Saager’s class analysis in this is pretty good although Krystal points out the limitations of the de facto “Sailer Strategy” that Saager is advocating. Saagar Enjeti digs into a New York Times report that details who is donating to Joe Biden’s campaign.
Here’s The REAL Worst Case Scenario For Trump’s Second Term
Krystal nails it. Krystal Ball lays out the best and worse case scenarios of Donald Trump wins the November presidential election.
Labor Prepares for Last-Minute General Strike If Trump Tries to Steal Election
The labor aristocracy threatens a tantrum if their favorite Tweedledee doesn’t win. Why aren’t these fuckfaces organizing a general strike REGARDLESS of who wins the idiotic election? By Candice Bernd, Truthout The 100,000-member MLK Labor Council, an AFL-CIO regional body of labor groups representing more than 150 unions […]
Election 2020: The Up Side of Undivided Government
I’m of two minds on this question. Divided government is wonderful. My voting advice would be to not vote at all. If you must vote, vote third party. If you must vote major party, vote for whatever will fuel division. If you live in a red zone, vote […]
The Case for Trump?
This is a pretty good overview of what Trump’s serious fans like about him. Most of this is stuff I don’t agree with, don’t care about, and think lacks context or is rooted in ulterior motives. But it’s pretty thorough. The point is that I can’t see how […]
Trump Unbound: Visions for a Second Term
Thomas Sowell once said that a problem with intellectuals is because they are experts in certain very narrow areas, they think they are automatically qualified to give expert opinions on everything else. This article is a good example. As brilliant a military theorist as Bill Lind, this article […]
Republicans and Democrats Will Never Deliver Peace
Nothing like stating the obvious. By Jo Jorgensen, The American Conservative The 2016 Republican presidential primary debates revealed a sea change. From 2008 to 2012, then-congressman Ron Paul was routinely booed for his criticism of America’s foreign policy. It was even common to hear Republican office holders, commentators, […]
The Coming Biden-Harris Law and Order Regime
Prediction: A Biden/Harris regime will crack down harder on BLM, Antifa, left-wing protestors, and their right-wing counterparts than a Trump-Pence-Barr regime. The “Biden administration” will merely be a euphemism for a ruling class unity regime without the distraction of the Orange Man daily freak show. A certain amount […]
Is Trump the Second Coming?
An anarchist fellow on social media has a pretty good assessment of the evangelical/pro-life Trump-worshipers. “Pro-Life Republicans – stop crowing about that Barret woman. She is NEVER going to overturn Roe v. Wade. None of the GOP will EVER do that, because none of them actually care about […]
The Neocon-Maoist Axis
From a social media post. This may be the first time Trotskyists and Maoists have ever manage to get along. “The coalition behind Biden is ridiculous – Lincoln Project “Never Trumper” Republicans and most of the leadership of the Democratic Socialists of America, Silicon Valley tech giants and […]
Summarizing the last seven months
Facebook Loves Imperialist War Crimes
The following comments were banned from Facebook as “hate speech.” I originally posted these comments in response to a news story about Yemen’s retaliatory strike against the Saudis.
What The Nigerian #ENDSARS Protests Are All About
Nigeria’s police state sounds like ours in the sense of not being something anyone paid attention to until it started spilling over into the middle class. Co-host of the Low Society podcast, Angie Speaks, weighs in on the unrest taking place in Nigeria over a police unit called […]
Belief In ‘American Exceptionalism’ PLUMMETS As Young People Reject Endless Wars
Hopefully, these young people will retain such attitudes as they get older. Senior fellow at The Eurasia Group Foundation, Mark Hannah, explains why the belief in “American exceptionalism” is dwindling.
21st Century Authoritarianism
By John Robb, Global Guerrillas Here’s a question you should be asking yourself: What does 21st Century authoritarianism look like? Given what we’ve seen so far, it isn’t likely that we’re going to see a return to the 20th Century model, with its absolute dictators, industrial scale bureaucracies, […]
Anarchy & Morality
Anarchist News Heroes go above and beyond the call of duty, acting boldly in the face of fear, defying it. Cowards fail to do what they’re expected, giving in to fear, shying away from action. Is your anarchism duty-free, or duty-bound? What are the countless duties imposed by […]
Freedom to All Beings
By Mark Petrakis A fairly long one, in response to some of the regular harangues and criticisms that I receive… Have I ever said that you or anyone should vote for Trump? Have I? Of course, I haven’t. You just ASSUME, that because I am so critical of […]
Coleman Hughes – Race & Identity Politics
Whenever I examine the laundry list of ism-archy-phobia issues (racism, patriarchy, homophobia, etc.), I try to look at these from the perspective of what the social science/economic/political science data actually shows in a way that is devoid of ideological or moral value judgments. What Coleman Hughes talks about […]
When Facts Are Not Enough | Climate Change
This is a pretty good overview of the problems with the eco-cultists and their opponents. The only viable alternative to fossil fuels is either a reduction in the use of technology, and a return to early 19th century levels of technological development (and the resulting consequences for living […]
Tipper Gore’s Revenge?
What do Trumpists, Alt-Rightists, Jacobin magazine, and Brett Weinstein all have in common? They’re all considered to be enemies of the techno-oligarch/new clerisy rising ruling class, and they’ve all been banned by certain powers that be. Jacobin is pro the “pink tide” movements in Latin America so that […]
The end of democracy? To many Americans, the future looks dark if the other side wins.
Some people are taking the WWE Smackdown a little too seriously. First, what we have going on now is not “democracy,” but an oligarchy, and a rather deeply entrenched one. Second, to call what we do “elections” is to stretch the definition of elections. What we have are […]
Between Electoral Politics and Civil War
Crimethinc As Election Day approaches in a context of anxiety about the prospect of Donald Trump attempting to hold onto power by force or cunning, the revolutionary potential that was palpable in early June has receded almost beyond the horizon. Anarchism, abolitionism, and direct action tactics have gained […]
Covid-19 could kill more people through hunger than the virus itself, warns Oxfam
By Harriet Barber, Telegraph More people will die of hunger caused by the pandemic than of coronavirus this year, according to a report from Oxfam. An estimated 122 million of the world’s poorest people could be plunged deeper into hunger and poverty, equating to 12,000 extra deaths a […]
The WASP Roots of the Social Justice Movement
I am skeptical as to whether “social justice” fundamentalism could have developed outside of the context of WASP culture. And “totalitarian humanism” generally seems to be the most heavily entrenched in historically Protestant countries (the Anglosphere, Germany, the “Lowlands,” and Scandinavia). It seems to be a substitute for […]
More Scary Movies for Anarchists to Watch in the Dark
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It has been one supremely horrific year since I wrote the virgin instillation of this list last October, what with apocalyptic plagues, dystopian police death squads, and collapsing empires. In many ways life has come to resemble many […]
Feds say far-right group coordinated attack on Minneapolis police precinct during protest
By Celine Castronuovo, The Hill The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota on Friday announced that the FBI brought charges against a member of the far-right “Boogaloo Bois” group for organizing and participating in an effort to “incite a riot” outside a Minneapolis police precinct in […]
Episode 35: Bonus episode with Keith Preston by listener request
Listen here. Mr. Preston joined us again per a listener request to cover the subject of right wing anarchism, with many famous names coming up in the discussion such as Proudhon, Kropotkin, Tucker, Stirner, Rothbard and Junger. Keith also per listener request discussed what Friedrich Nietzsche’s ideas have […]
Federal Judge Allows 21 Businesses to Sue Seattle Over Harms Caused by CHOP
One thing that really annoyed me was the CHOPophobia of many on the “cold dead fingers” right-wing, including many who had been pushing secession for years. So there were a few murders and other crimes in CHOP? Big fucking deal. Like that never happens in state-controlled territory? One […]
Hundreds protest, clash with police in Naples over new coronavirus curfew
No early bedtime for us, say the Italians. France 24 Hundreds of protesters in Naples threw projectiles at police and set rubbish bins on fire late Friday during a demonstration against coronavirus restrictions in the southern Italian city. Calls were issued on social media to challenge a curfew […]
Joe Biden supporter who was installing BLM sign arrested for allegedly shooting at passing Trump supporter and son
Of all the worthless crap to pick up a gun over… By Justin Vallejo, Independent A father and son in a pickup truck waving a Trump campaign flag were shot at after honking at a Joe Biden supporter installing a Black Lives Matter sign, police allege. Douglas Kuhn, […]
‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study
Like most Americans, most English people are actually sane. By Michael Savage, The Guardian The desire to fight a “culture war” is the preserve of a small group on the political extremes that does not represent most British voters, according to a major new project on political polarisation […]
White Noise: Inside the Racist Right
The Atlantic has a documentary out on the Alt-Right. This looks interesting, and many of the criticisms of the Alt-Right that are probably expressed in this are obviously justified, though much of it looks to be the standard right-wingophobia porn. The Project Veritas of the neoliberals. “White Noise” […]
Twitter and Facebook have gone crazy with censorship. What’s next?
The Legion of Decency has returned, although in “woke” rather than Catholic traditionalist form. Tech companies are simply the new Standard Oil of the 21st century.
Biden Goes Right Of Trump On Foreign Policy
Kyle Kulinski is usually pretty good at geopolitics and foreign policy. But he’s missing a few things here. First, the silliness of his UN apologetics is obvious enough. Also, Trump’s hawkish stance toward Iran and dovish stance toward the DPRK is not just about random personal impulses and […]
Nationalism: Left, Right, and Black
More white folks trying to instruct black folks in the “proper” way to go about being black. Kristian Williams, a left-wing anarchist hated by left-wing anarchists though not as much as yours truly, has a pretty interesting discussion of the ideas and influences of Clarence Thomas. The opening […]
Do Not Vote!
The Ax, National Reformation The problem Once again, the quadrennial dog and pony show under the rubric of “elections” rolls out 3 November 2020 demonstrating the fraud of democracy. It is fraudulent because to work as intended, democracy assumes the equal ability of the voters to make decisions. […]
The Foreign Policy Choice this November
“Neither Trump nor Biden is a reliable realist on foreign policy, but neither one has the standard record of a hawk, either.” This is really grasping at straws here. Based on my observations of how the neocons have responded to the present political situations, it seems the neocons […]
Activists Build Facial Recognition to ID Cops Who Hide Their Badges
By Dan Robitzski, Futurism In order to hold police accountable when they try to hide their identities, a growing number of activists are developing facial recognition tools that identify cops, The New York Times reports — a striking inversion of the way cops tend to use facial recognition […]
No Really, What is Anarchism?
There is no one “anarchism.” There are many anarchisms, quasi-anarchisms, semi-anarchisms, proto-anarchisms, tactical anarchisms, situational anarchists, philosophical anarchisms, implicit anarchisms, anarchist cousins, etc. etc, etc. By Eric Fleischmann The terms ‘anarchist’ and ‘anarchism’ are returning to the center stage of political lingo in the twenty-first century. To quote my […]
Most People Arrested at Protests Aren’t Leftist Radicals
Notice that Pakman says that most of the serious arrests were for arson and firearms, i.e. actual insurgent activity like torching perceived enemy outposts and armed expropriation of enemy goods. I have identified seven major factions in the events of the last five months, but only one of […]
Iran blacklists US ambassador in Iraq over role in acts of terrorism against Iranian interests
Iran announced on Friday that it has sanctioned the United States’ Ambassador to Iraq Matthew Tueller and two other diplomats over their key role in carrying out acts of terror, violating the fundamental principles of human rights and imposing ‘cruel and illegal sanctions’ against the Islamic Republic.
Panel: Why This Debate May Actually Have Massive Consequences
People who give a shit about this stuff have already decided who they are going to vote for. Team Rising reacts to the final presidential debate and analyze the candidates’ performance.
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