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Nexus X HumectressHealth and safety first, say the masses. Will COVID-19 plus the George Floyd riots hasten the death of the GOP? Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down the highest and lowest ratings Governor’s received on their handling of Coronavirus.
Most people prefer safety and security first (see Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) over everything else. I don’t think the response of either Democrats or Republicans to COVID-19 has been optimal (to say the least). What people want is public health safety with economic compensation. Krystal Ball and Saagar […]
If and when the vaccine comes, the Trumpists will suddenly embrace scientism and the “liberals” will suddenly embrace anti-vaxxer conspiracism. Saagar Enjeti blasts Democrats for rejecting the idea of vaccines coming from a Trump administration.
Who needs the World Series or the Super Bowl when we’ve got this shitshow? The 2020 Presidential Election will be close, but what are the best case scenarios for both the Joe Biden and Donald Trump campaigns this November…
After the election, look for a crackdown on protestors. If Trump wins, the claim will be that the feds are fighting left-wing terrorism and ordinary crime. If Biden wins, the claim will be that the feds are fighting right-wing terrorism and “hate.” The goal will be to make […]
Fuck the Fire Department? In some “anti-fascist” circles, I’ve heard firefighters referred to as fire pigs, EMTs as medical pigs, school lunch supervisors as lunch pigs, etc. By Alexa Ashwell & Rachel Aragon FOX Baltimore BALTIMORE (WBFF) – A reported assault on two Baltimore City firefighters is contributing […]
Peter McWilliams’ classic from the early 90s. McWilliams himself later became a casualty of the state. The primary cause of police misconduct, mass incarceration, and related issues is overcriminalization, not lack of police “training,” lack of social worker cops, private prisons, or even racism in some abstract sense. […]
When the “War on Terrorism” started in 2001, I said at the time that the terror war was going to be a cover for a war of imperialist aggression against the rest of the world that rivaled the Third Reich’s. Of course, such views were met with much […]
Titania McGrath gets her rightful place on the Woke table at a bookstore that is anxious to prove its social justice bonafides! Tim and Lydia laugh their way through an absurd moment in virtue signaling gone wrong.
The Mindcrime liberty show discusses whether megacorps would dominate the freed market/Rothbardistan/ancapistan/private law society (or whatever parlance one wants to use).
A reenactment of the Ba’athist purge. This is what real fascism actually looks like.
The whole thing was televised. What a real fascist coup looks like.
A system of permanent one-party dominance within a formally democratic state is more likely than an actual coup from the left or right. Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party held power for 71 years in a formal multi-party democracy, and Sweden’s Social Democrats held power for 44 years. By Chris […]
I am constantly coming across media commentary where both Blue Tribers and Red Tribers accuse each other of planning a coup or to steal the election. They’re probably both partially correct.
Tom Woods interviews Kristan Harris Listen here. Opinion has been sharply divided about Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old who killed two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in what many say was an act of self-defense. In this episode I’m joined by Kristan Harris, the man whose footage from that night […]
A majority of both sides say they will not accept the election results if their guy loses. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti break down a recent poll showing Biden supporters would doubt the validity of Trump’s reelection, especially if he doesn’t win the popular vote.
Krystal Ball exposes Democratic leaders that are pushing to keep Green Party candidates off the ballots in November.
Executive editor for The American Prospect, David Dayen, explains why Election Day will signal the end of a campaign, but not the end of Donald Trump’s term in office.
By David Dayen American Prospect This is a horror story. Maybe you think that way about the past three years: the corrupt self-dealing, the fusillade of lies and ignorance, the corporate handover of the regulatory state, the authoritarian repression. The oncoming election may provide you with a crack […]
The conventional media and much of the dissident milieu are focused on Trump’s Nixonian authoritarianism because is Trump is both the President and the bane of dominant ruling class sectors, but other dangers lurk in the form of millenarian progressivism and neocon opportunism. What seems to be going […]
By Julian Borger The Guardian The former UK ambassador in Washington, Kim Darroch, has warned of a “genuine risk” of violence in the aftermath of a close-run US election in November. Darroch noted that although Joe Biden is maintaining a significant lead nationwide, the margins in some battleground […]
The real reason the majority of the power elite hates Trump. He’s a loose cannon, not a team player, too candid, and makes the state look like what it is, the mafia writ large. By Hunter Derensis The American Conservative Once again, the whispers of phantoms masquerading as […]
A lot of “anti-system” folks are focusing on Trump’s shenanigans while ignoring the neocons’ attempted comeback by colonizing the Democratic Party and embedding themselves in the Trump administration simultaneously while trying to ride the wave of protests to power. Gottfried predicts a minor league “Night of the Long […]
That would be hilarious. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the news that Trump is open to having podcast host Joe Rogan as a debate moderator for one of the presidential debates.
Imagine that. Radio Host and author, Cooper Lawrence, discusses her book, “Celebritocracy: The Misguided Agenda of Celebrity Politics in a Postmodern Democracy.”
That’s quite an accomplishment. While FOX is a cesspool of Know-Nothing, MSNBC is arguably worse because it constantly beats the drums for greater hostility between the USA and nuclear-armed Russia. FOX is usually content to merely attack any state that Israel and Saudi Arabia don’t like. Krystal Ball […]
In “Third World” countries, and the US is rapidly becoming one, assassinations of extremists by rival extremists and extra-judicial assassinations of dissidents by the state are both very common. Be prepared for more of this in the future. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to the controversial statements […]
By Williamson M. Evers Independent Institute
By Daniel Bessner The Nation The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the glaring contradictions in American higher education. State research universities are preparing to decrease services in light of anticipated budget shortfalls as small liberal arts colleges teeter on the brink of financial ruin. Meanwhile, Ivy League and other […]
By Hans-Georg Maaßen and Johannes Eisleben TELOS Over the last fifty years, the West has witnessed a continuous decline in the quality of the state and its activities, along with a cultural deterioration of the public sphere. All OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) countries have also […]
By Norbet Bolz TELOS The rage about corona and its consequences has evidently elicited a mental disturbance with global reach. Every insanity has now become acceptable—on the condition that the insanity claims to be of the “left,” i.e., anti-fascist, anti-racist, anti-capitalist, etc. Whoever wants to keep it at […]
By Ariel Zilber Daily Mail Aria DiMezzo won GOP bid for sheriff of Cheshire County, New Hampshire She ran unopposed, though she said that she received no backing from party
Athens can be an-cap and Sparta can be an-com. Not a problem at all. In which Playwright, Journalist and Ringo-Nominated Comic Creator Brenton Lengel teams up with Emerican Johnson of NonCompete for an EPIC live debate against Dr. David D. Friedman (The son of economist Milton Friedman) and […]
It is never a good thing when people in a society start killing each other with a greater degree of frequency. But incidents of this type are the natural consequence of 50 years of economic and social policies that have turned the USA into a Third World society […]
The problem with “systemic racism” analysis of this kind is that, while not factually wrong on its face, no context is provided. The assumption is that the present system would be fine if only it were less racist, which has the effect of obscuring and obfuscating critiques of […]
An electoral contest between Nina Turner and Tucker Carlson would actually be something of an improvement over the norm. Not because it would make any difference in terms of state actions because Presidents are not the real bosses of the USA, only managers. But because it would elevate […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “The most interesting political questions throughout history have been whether or not humans will be ruled or free, whether they will be responsible for their actions as individuals or left irresponsible as members of society, and whether they can live in peace by volitional agreements alone.” -Karl Hess “We’ve got to […]
There would be certain tactical advantages to this. The Left always performs much, much better when a Republican is in office. The anti-establishment populist-right would continue to be rallied. The division between the Republican “base” and Republican establishment would continue to expand as would the divide between the […]
Fourth-generation warfare on the rise.
Founder of Articles of Union, Brett Weinstein, discusses how Twitter suspended their campaign account for promoting a non-partisan unity ticket.
This pedo/rapist/senile/police statist/bankster flunkie/warmonger is the supposed “lesser evil” our “progressive” friends want us to vote for. Democracy Now On the campaign trail, Joe Biden said Thursday that if elected president, he might increase military spending — even beyond the Pentagon’s current record budget of $738 billion. Biden […]
By Mike Gleason, Money Metals Exchange Over the past month, gold has traded in a range with support around $1,900. Bulls have made a couple unsuccessful attempts to retake and hold above the $2,000 level following the sharp plunge below it on August 11th. But we are likely […]
Trump has been more pro-Israel than any previous US president, and he is at least as pro-Saudi as the Bush family. Listen here. Gareth Porter discusses President Trump’s foreign policy as we near the end of his first term. The story of Trump’s time in office, as everyone […]
They’ve also embedded themselves in the Trump administration with most “progressives” being co-opted stooges. Listen here. Scott interviews James Carden about his latest article, which explores the recent return of many prominent neocons to the Democratic Party in opposition to Trump. Carden reminds us that during the 1960s […]
The Zionist/Sunni alliance strengthens. It’s also interesting how the neoliberals, Never Trumper neocons, and Trumpists all hold to an “Israel First” foreign policy paradigm with the social democrats usually being a bit wishy-washy at best. By Jason Ditz Antiwar.Com A joint statement between Bahrain and the United States […]
By Robert Mackey The Intercept Four police departments in parts of Oregon ravaged by wildfires — propelled by high winds across parched land during hot, dry weather in a changing climate — are pleading with the public to stop calling 911 to pass on unfounded rumors that antifascist […]
A couple years ago, I was interviewed by a supposed “post-left” podcast that ridiculed my suggestion that anti-imperialism should be the priority issue of North American anarchists on the grounds that the US empire is the world’s leading mass murderer. At the same time, the hosts of the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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