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Nexus X HumectressBy Peter R. Quinones I’ve been contacted by many people who have heard me talk about Machiavellianism but have no clear understanding of what I’m trying to communicate. As we weren’t taught this in government schools, that’s understandable. This is information that “the powers that be” benefit from […]
Why stop at the Senate? Why not the whole fucking government? Once again, social democrats display their appalling lack of vision. By Daniel Lazare, The Jacobin With Republican Senate victories in Montana, South Dakota, Iowa, Arkansas, Colorado, North Carolina, and West Virginia, Democrats are reeling from their worst […]
It looks like China is conducting a purge of the disfavored sectors of its ruling class. China functions in roughly the same way as a traditional royalist/feudal society. An absolute monarch, Xi Jinping, is the head of state, and occasionally offs royal ministers, aristocrats, capitalists, or clerics that […]
The New York Times is and always has been, as Abbie Hoffman said, “the voice of the ruling class,” particularly the northeastern based financial elites who have always been the dominant sector of the US ruling class (and which has now merged with the tech elite). The WaPo […]
By Grace Hauck, USA TODAY CHICAGO – Bodycam videos released by a local activist Tuesday show how a Chicago police officer drove into a woman more than a year ago, knocking her to the ground and crushing her leg beneath the SUV for more than eight minutes as she bled in the […]
Excellent. I generally have a favorable view of all who fight pigs in the street, irrespective of who they are or how idiotic their cause is. By Sinead Baker, Business Insider Supporters of President Trump clashed with police and at least six were arrested on Tuesday night. The […]
A new turn in the rookie league gang wars?
Hahahaha. Good one.
The historical overview of US “progressivism” Kim outlines in this is fairly accurate. It’s true there used to be plenty of Republican progressives. They were around when I was a kid. Although as an anarchist, I obviously have zero regard for Teddy Roosevelt.
This “Force the Vote” dustup among progressoids arguing about how to go about begging the ruling class for more crumbs has been a hilarious site to behold.
Tulsi has got to be planning something with these moves. I think if she defected to the Republicans she might actually develop a larger following there. She is one of the few liberals that conservatives tend to respect.
LOL. I disagree with all of these guys are certain things but I also respect all of them. I view all of them a distant cousins from the same collection of ancestral tribes.
Here we go again. When the pandemic started, I was sure it was going to last for years, with multiple waves, and subsequent waves being worse than the ones before. Sometimes it sucks to be right. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the latest coronavirus luckdowns enforced in […]
The worst thing about Trump has been his complete fealty to Israel and Saudi Arabia. But the declining prestige of Saudi Arabia and to a lesser degree Israel in the US is welcome news. DC Bureau Chief at The Intercept, Ryan Grim, discusses the current tensions in the […]
Thank goodness. I was beginning to be concerning that riots are going out of style. “Oh, rioting is so 2020…” Right now, businesses are boarding up and roads are being blocked ahead of expected protests that are set to occur tomorrow in Washington, D.C.
LOL. Team Rising discusses Vice President Elect Kamala Harris allegedly plagiarizing a story from Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in an interview with Elle Magazine in October of 2020.
I wish AOC luck on this one. Team Rising discusses the possibility of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez running against Sen. Chuck Schumer in the New York Senate primary.
Duh? Krystal Ball describes what’s at stake for Democratic Party in the Georgia Senate elections, particularly $2000 stimulus checks. She analyzes the likelihood that President Elect Biden will push for more checks if Democrats have a majority in the Senate.
Saagar Enjeti analyzes the real motivations of the congressmen supporting the “stop the steal” movement, by objecting to the certification of the Electoral College vote.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti give an overview on the Georgia Senate elections taking place today. They analyze the impact of President Trump’s public criticism of election security.
By Angela Chen, The Atlantic David Jay is the oldest of 12 cousins on one side of his family and the third-oldest of 24 cousins on the other. As a kid, family to Jay meant having a lot of people around, a feeling of community, and crucially, a […]
By James Lindsay, New Discourses As unlikely as it seems, a highly obscure academic theory known as Critical Race Theory has completely mainstreamed in society, and now everyone is discussing it. While Critical Race Theory has the noble goal of pointing out problems that can be hard to […]
By Thomas L. Knapp “When polls said only about half of all Americans would take a vaccine, I was saying herd immunity would take 70 to 75 percent,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and public face of the federal […]
By Nick Hardinges, LBC Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio has been arrested in Washington DC on suspicion of burning a Black Lives Matter (BLM) flag last month. The banner was torn down from a historic church in downtown Washington during a pro-Trump rally that ended in violent […]
By Josh Marcus, The Independent Attached to the 5,593-page coronavirus relief bill the president signed on Sunday is an unexpected proposition: a request for the Pentagon to brief Congress on all it knows about unidentified flying objects within 180 days. Though not in the text of the law […]
2021: The Year of the Extraterrestrial? By Eve Peyser Are we truly alone in the universe? You and I might not know the answer to that question, but a handful of people at the highest echelons of government have started to publicly talk about how seriously they take […]
By: Mike Maharrey,Tenth Amendment Center Dear Gun People, I know a lot of you are pretty upset about the prospects of a Joe Biden presidency. He’s promised to be tough on guns and you think he might start an all-out assault on the Second Amendment. We could see […]
Reuters MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexico’s government is ready to offer political asylum to Julian Assange and supports the decision of a British judge to deny extradition of the WikiLeaks founder to the United States, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said on Monday. “I’m going to ask the […]
It looks like the CCP may have disappeared Jack Ma. China has been moving toward neo-Maoism in recent years. By Allana Akhtar Yahoo Finance reported that Jack Ma, the Chinese billionaire who founded Alibaba and Ant Group, hasn’t been seen publicly in more than two months. Late last […]
By Jacob J, International Business Times Reports from China indicate that the Chinese government may be working on a plan to nationalize Jack Ma’s Alibaba and the Ant Group. China’s ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has gone further ahead with the antitrust investigation into e-commerce giant Alibaba. “Based […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti criticize the distribution of the coronavirus vaccines. They also discuss how the slow rollout of the drugs might impact future lockdowns.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti analyze the decision by a British judge to deny WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, extradition to the US, based on potential mental health issues and risk of suicide.
Journalist Zaid Jilani discusses the millions of dollars in speaker fees paid to Biden Treasury Secretary nominee, Janet Yellen. He explains how this newly unveiled information might affect her nomination process.
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the leaked audio from Washington Post between Trump and Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger. The audio reveals Trump’s latest attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential election results.
By Jordan Alexander Hill, Quillette In mid-November, just two weeks after one of the most contentious elections in American history, Democratic National Committee member David Atkins took to Twitter. “No seriously… how *do* you deprogram 75 million people?” he wondered, sounding more like a member of the Politburo […]
I consider this to be a far more important and far-reaching outcome of the 2020 election than the ouster of Trump by the neoliberals. 2020 was the year of the lumpen proletarian uprising in the streets and a Tet Offensive against the War on Drugs in the voting […]
I strongly suspect that the neocons are grooming this douchebag to be their new post-Trump frontman and that he will have enough appeal to the know-nothing right to make it happen. Trump’s torch will probably be passed to his kids or Mike Pence, or maybe Josh Hawley, and […]
The frontmen for the ruling class and managers of the Deep State articulate the consensus of power elite opinion. “Sorry, Don, but…You’re Fired!” Opinion by Ashton Carter, Dick Cheney, William Cohen, Mark Esper, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, James Mattis, Leon Panetta, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld Washington Post As former secretaries of defense, we hold a common […]
By Jean-Marie Rouart, TELOS In the face of a very real Islamist threat that has led to violence and which the proposed law on “separatism” attempts to address, it is interesting to try to raise the level of the debate. It is necessary to inquire calmly into a […]
By Matt Taibbi Mark Crispin Miller, author and longtime New York University professor, has unconventional views. Even work he’s done that’s won mainstream praise is unconventional, upon close examination. If you came of political age during the Iraq war years, you probably remember him for The Bush Dyslexicon, […]
By James Bovard, The American Conservative Why did a Montgomery County, Maryland SWAT team kill 21-year-old Duncan Lemp, in a no-knock predawn raid on March 12? The county released an official report yesterday stating that a violent no-knock raid was justified “due to Lemp being ‘anti-government,’ ‘anti-police,’ currently […]
You can usually count on Bacevich to get to the point. By Andrew Bacevich, The American Conservative Writing in the journal Palladium, Richard Hanania has produced the first must-read essay of 2021. A research fellow at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies, Hanania is part […]
This is the Wikipedia description of the Powell Memorandum described in the Sam Sedar video in the post adjacent to this one. It is particularly interesting to compare the Powell Memorandum with the Dutton Strategy that was developed at precisely the same time. In many ways, Powell defined […]
Some fairly interesting commentary on modern American cultural history in this. One thing I often find interesting is the way in which the rhetoric of the socially conservative “right” and the progressive liberal “left” frequently mirror each other. Social conservatives tend to be nostalgic for the social mores […]
By Yuval Abraham 972 Magazine On Friday afternoon, an Israeli soldier shot a 26-year-old Palestinian named Harun Abu Aram in the neck from point blank range. Abu Aram is now in critical condition in a hospital in Hebron in the occupied West Bank. According to the Palestinian Health […]
With blunt unvarnished realism, it is high-time anarchist-communism steps out from amongst the shadows and finally asserts itself as the most viable revolutionary option and antithesis to totalitarian-capitalism, that is, techno-capitalist-feudalism. After its 150 year long-march, through dense theoretical jungles, voluminous analyses, and multiple pragmatic interventions, anarchist-communism […]
By Glenn Greenwald Persecution is not typically doled out to those who recite mainstream pieties, or refrain from posing meaningful threats to those who wield institutional power, or obediently stay within the lines of permissible speech and activism imposed by the ruling class. Those who render themselves acquiescent and […]
By Jeff Groom, The American Conservative Over the holiday weekend the United States turned 244 years old. Time flies. But is this old for a nation? Do nations have lifespans like organisms? Aren’t ideas and principles immortal? It’s natural to speak of our nation as something that will […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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