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Nexus X HumectressBy Matt Taibbi I collect Soviet newspapers. Years ago, I used to travel to Moscow’s Izmailovsky flea market every few weeks, hooking up with a dealer who crisscrossed the country digging up front pages from the Cold War era. I have Izvestia’s celebration of Gagarin’s flight, a Pravda […]
By Wolfgang Thierse, TELOS Community membership used to be a matter of religion and, after that, ideology. Today this function has been taken over by the concept of identity. Religion and ideology in the past led repeatedly to serious and even bloody conflicts. Will this history repeat itself […]
Author, Ross Douthat, discusses his book, The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to results of a new Stockton study.
Seems fair enough. View the entire report here.
Former mayor of Stockton, California, Michael Tubbs, discusses the results of his historical city-led universal basic income experiment.
It’s obvious enough as to why Biden’s handlers are keeping him from out in front of the press. Team Rising discusses President Biden’s lack of press conferences in the first few months of his presidency.
Saagar Enjeti reacts to Piers Morgan’s departure from Good Morning Britain and explains why the First Amendment is vital.
Krystal Ball breaks down the content of the PRO Act and predicts whether or not it will pass.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the passage of Biden’s stimulus package.
Rep. Ilhan Omar introduced legislation to cancel rent and mortgage payments until April 2022.
In regions and localities where the cultural Right still holds substantial sway, right-wing political correctness has emerged. By Jeffrey Sachs, Arcdigital Media State and national governments try to suppress critical race theory, social justice, and related concepts. “Unlawful propagation of divisive concepts.” That’s the subheading of a bill […]
Is Russia Fascist? (Cornell University Press), author Marlene Laruelle argues that the charge of “fascism” has become a strategic narrative of the current world order. Vladimir Putin’s regime has increasingly been accused of embracing fascism, supposedly evidenced by Russia’s annexation of Crimea, its historical revisionism, attacks on liberal […]
Team Rising discusses President Biden’s approval rating and Republican’s focus on culture war over policy.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to reports that the National Guard will remain at the Capitol through May 23rd.
The real winner of the war in Afghanistan was Osama bin Laden, albeit posthumously. Saagar Enjeti discusses where President Biden stands on his campaign promise to end the war in Afghanistan.
This is a pretty good description of intra-ruling class dynamics. Krystal Ball breaks down the establishment plot to block Bernie Sanders from receiving the Democratic Party nomination in 2020.
Not sure about the source on this but the story seems to be legitimate. Snake Baker, Daily Stormer I wish we could say “at least we’re getting funny headlines in 2021,” but these are all headlines we could have had going all the way back to 2017. Other […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest in the Andrew Cuomo sexual harassment scandal.
By Rachel Schallom, Fortune This week marks the first anniversary of Fortune’s decision to ask all U.S.- and Europe-based staffers to work from home. Looking back on the email announcement is like looking at a time capsule. There was a strong focus on cleaning and sanitization, which we now […]
This is a fantastic piece written from a conservative Christian perspective that describes the present-day US political spectrum perfectly. Proto-Protestantism Most Conservatives will insist that the American political spectrum has shifted rapidly to the Left over the past fifty years and will make the case by appealing to […]
A Collective of Anarchist Geographers This paper is comprised of a series of short, conversational or polemical interventions reflecting on the political ‘moment’ that has emerged in the wake of the rise of right-populist politics, particularly in the Global North. We position the UK’s ‘Brexit’ vote and the […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss British viewers’ reactions to the advertisements played during the Oprah interview with Meghan Markle and Prince Harry.
Apparently, a lot of Republican politicians know their ship is sinking. Team Rising discusses the implications of Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri retiring.
Now if only Bernie would take the same position from the other side. Team Rising reacts to Donald Trump encouraging his base to donate money to the Save America PAC instead of directly to the Republican Party.
The SJW lunatics at DSA attack the neoliberals from the left and the Trumpist lunatics attack the neoliberals from the right. Sounds good. D.C. bureau chief at The Intercept, Ryan Grim, discusses the Nevada Democratic Party.
This is news? Saagar Enjeti explains how the establishment is using the January 6th insurrection as a pretext to erode civil norms.
If so, it was probably the most positive thing Trump managed to achieve, however inadvertently. Though I disagree with much of Krystal’s economic analysis in this. Krystal Ball outlines how the pandemic has shifted public opinion on government involvement and deficit hawkery.
The possibility of Yang actually getting elected mayor of NYC definitely indicates a shift in the political winds. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss a new Emerson poll on the New York City mayoral race.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to President Biden’s stance on the filibuster.
The White House has been forced into damage control after President Joe Biden seemingly forgot the name of his own Defense Secretary during an event to mark International Women’s Day. Speaking after unveiling two more nominees to fill his cabinet, the president failed to remember the name of […]
Switzerland votes to kill grandma? A proposal to ban face coverings in public places in Switzerland has been narrowly approved by Swiss voters.
Geez, how many hundreds of thousands of reasons do we need? Oh, those social democrats….lame as ever. Matt Bruenig, founder and president of People’s Policy Project, joins the show to talk about building a functioning welfare state, the Family Fun Pack, and what’s wrong with how we think […]
The new version of the “white man’s burden.”
Actually, while I haven’t been a smoker in over 30 years, Limbaugh’s lampooning of the anti-smoking hysterics was one of the few things I agreed with him on. The problem with Limbaugh was not his lack of political correctness. His playing the role of Joseph Goebbels for the […]
By Jamie Ducharme, Time Magazine U.S. suicide rates are at their highest since World War II, according to federal data—and the opioid crisis, widespread social media use and high rates of stress may be among the myriad contributing factors. In 2017, 14 out of every 100,000 Americans died […]
I’m glad to see Tulsi calling out the Biden-imperialists even if she foolishly endorsed him in the election. I’m glad that some of my former colleagues in Congress are speaking out against the recent unconstitutional airstrikes in Syria – but they’re ignoring the bigger issue: the regime change […]
In the event of a regime collapse, how would we keep basic utilities like electrical power going? Those are the questions that actual revolutionaries (as opposed to LARPers and do-gooders) need to be thinking about. Julianna welcomes back Professor of Economics Richard D. Wolff to the show, to […]
It looks like the battles between the anti-imperialist (or at least anti-Western imperialist) tankieish left and the totalitarian humanist left are heating up, along with the battles between the class reductionist and intersectional sectors of the left, the scientistic and conspiracist sectors, the anti-Zionist and anti-anti-Semitic sectors, the […]
Not so much moving left as much as escalating faux populist rhetoric.
Alexander Reid-Ross on the latest maneuverings of the Learned Elders of Thule. By Alexander Reid-Ross, The Daily Beast Over the past year, as the far right trafficked in wild anti-masker and pro-Donald Trump fantasies that led to the Jan. 6 putsch on the Capitol, some prominent members of […]
Story #1: How the Biden Administration Can Help Solve Our Reality Crisis https://archive.is/WuDeW Kevin Roose https://bit.ly/2LhoaHX Your Problem Is Not With Section 230, But The 1st Amendment https://archive.vn/pxqgq The Mysterious Case of the Lady Gaga Inauguration Bird and ‘The Hunger Games’ https://archive.is/zidpU NWNW Flashback: #CreepyJoeBiden and Lady Gaga […]
A look at the ideas of the pioneer of modern propaganda techniques.
A fairly interesting lecture on the history of the Shining Path insurgency.
The Y2K of 2021?
By Rod Dreher, The American Conservative Writing in the Wall Street Journal (paywalled), Bion Bartning talks about when wokeness invaded his children’s posh New York City private school, Riverdale, which costs $58,000 per year to attend. Last fall, the school began to focus on privilege and white fragility. […]
“The Russians are coming!”
By Bob Black “Post-left” anarchism is an eclectic trend in contemporary anarchism which emerged in the 1970’s and, most sharply, in the 1980’s. The phrase first appeared in Bob Black, “Anarchy after Leftism” (1997). It has received wide discussion in the anarchist press, including several symposia in Anarchy: […]
By Taylor Ardrey The Minneapolis City Council greenlit funding to hire social media influencers to spread information to the public during the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, who knelt on George Floyd’s neck during an arrest last year. WCCO-TV reported that the city council approved more than $1.1 […]
Maoism vs. cancel culture. Is a new COINTELPRO operating?
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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