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Nexus X HumectressBy Helen Buyniski Russia Today As the massive anti-police-brutality protests sweeping the US are diverted into calls to “defund the police” and to replace them with community-based enforcers, Americans would be wise to keep an eye on “who benefits.” There’s no question US police departments have become too […]
I seriously doubt it is only anarchists or Antifa who are involved in this even in a deep blue zone like Seattle. The uprisings over the past couple of weeks are too massive to be driven by “extremist” groups of any kind. I’ve been observing movements like that […]
Apparently, a lot of these “white power” types failed drivers’ ed. By JUSTIN MATTINGLY and REED WILLIAMS Richmond Times-Dispatch The Hanover County man arrested Sunday for driving his truck into a crowd of protesters “is an admitted leader of the Ku Klux Klan and a propagandist for Confederate […]
This park is about a 10-minute drive from my residence. I know some of the people mentioned in this article, one of whom I’ve known for over 30 years. By ALI SULLIVAN AND ZACH JOACHIM Richmond Times-Dispatch About a thousand protesters gathered around the city’s monument to Christopher […]
The Chinese have their problems but they’re being used by the US regime to deflect Americans’ attention from the fact that they’re being ruled by incompetent morons. William Jones is the Washington Bureau Chief for the Executive Intelligence Review (EIR). He is also a Non-Resident Fellow of the […]
WHO announces asymptomatic people who have COVID-19 are at very low risk of spreading the disease.
This is an interesting discussion. They both have unusual perspectives given their unusual backgrounds. John Wood, Jr. is a former Republican nominee for Congress, contributor at Quillette and Areo Magazines, and a national spokesperson for Braver Angels. Read his compelling op-ed about his experience growing up Black in […]
Police have retreated from Seattle’s East Precinct and protesters have established an autonomous zone in the neighborhood. Following Monday’s retreat of police and national guard, protesters have begun erecting barricades after a week-long blockade of the East Precinct. Read more about it at Capitol Hill Seattle Blog.
Krystal’s commentary in this is pretty “radical” for a mainstream social democrat. She’s nowhere near where I am but this isn’t bad. Though she takes the standard “less money for police, more for social services” line, similar to the “less money for war, more for whatever” line many […]
This is pathetic. Even Krystal and Saager can hardly keep a straight face when they discuss this. It’s also apparent the neocons are now colonizing the Democraps now that the Repugnicans are fully Trumpized. As I have long predicted, neoconservatism and totalitarian humanism are bending towards each other. […]
This statue is located about a block from my residence. There is a row of Confederate monuments that line the avenue where the Lee statue is located, and which have predictably been vandalized and tagged with graffiti in recent days. Kyle generally strikes me as a reasonable leftist. […]
One of the very first college classes I ever had (around 37 years ago) was a “history of Western civilization” course where the professor showed a film with actors playing the parts of Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, and reenacting this classic “debate.” The assignment was to choose […]
Current faux Sinophobic rhetoric aside, China is just a province in global capitalism, a loan and labor mine for Western governments and corporations, and a test market in state repression. Far too many Western radicals promote China, Russia, Syria, Iran, North Korea, etc. as model societies or as […]
The Antifa always run away or lose when they actually get into a confrontation with those who know how to fight. They got into it with some Nazis in Sacramento a few years ago, and even though the Antifa outnumbered their opponents 6 to1 they ended taking casualties […]
I am 100% in favor of many of the ideas being pushed by criminal justice “reformers” such as the abolition of cash bail, repealing mandatory minimum sentencing, civilian review boards, body cameras, police accountability, de-escalation training, etc. But let’s not pretend these are “radical” ideas or even particular […]
Because the police don’t care if someone is filming them if the wider apparatus of the state is backing them up. Why does anyone think Derek Chauvin choked George Floyd to death knowing full well he was being filmed the whole time? Because he thought the department, prosecutor’s […]
by Don Fitz Beginning in December 1951, Ernesto “Che” Guevara took a nine-month break from medical school to travel by motorcycle through Argentina, Chile, Peru, Colombia, and Venezuela. One of his goals was gaining practical experience with leprosy. On the night of his twenty-fourth birthday, Che was at […]
These FOX News dumbasses are so predictable. They spring into action right on cue, lol. Don’t worry, Greg. Your police state is safe. Like I said, the Prussian-inspired “progressives” merely want to have an army of social worker police. The real purpose of the welfare state has always […]
LOL. This is so predictable. The progressives insincerely co-opt a genuinely radical idea, and then the right-wing actually takes them seriously, and points the finger saying, “Look at those extremists over there!” What’s interesting about Carlson is that on economics and foreign policy he often sounds like Bernie […]
Our own Vince describes what is really happening with the “defund the police” movement. This is entirely predictable. This is a huge issue nationwide: the movement being co-opted by liberal/democratic forces. Essentially what has happened is the movement is being forked. There are heavy government resources being thrown […]
Well, that didn’t take long. When America’s own Prince Andrew picks up on “defund the police” we know something’s up. This is like some regional feudal overlord or lower strata royalty from the Middle Ages saying, “Defund the King’s knights!” in the aftermath of a peasant revolt. Obviously, […]
David Pakman is obviously concerned that “abolish the police” rhetoric is going to scare the hell out of suburban swing voters and undermine Biden’s electoral chances. I would agree with that if I gave a shit about Biden’s electoral chances. Predictably, the policing system that David is advocating […]
Ironically, she’s not really that radical. She’s just a McGovernite liberal. When and where have all these supposed “radicals” like AOC, Sanders, “the Squad,” Keith Ellison, DSA, etc. called for, I dunno, abolishing the state, overthrowing the ruling class, or global anti-imperialist struggle against the empire? Nowhere, as […]
Tom Woods raises some important questions about “defunding the police” that left, right, and center libertarians (along with honest socialists and dissident rightists) should consider. The “progressives” aren’t going to give up on their beloved managerial state and social engineering this easily. And the now-hated suburbanite “Karens” are […]
Modern policing systems were developed in England in the early 19th century, during the early period of the Industrial Revolution, for the purpose of controlling what were called the “dangerous classes,” i.e. workers. In America, the racial caste system was enacted parallel to the system of class stratification, […]
Brian Bean Rampart Mag Today marks two weeks since George Floyd was murdered by the Minneapolis police and two weeks of revolt that spread into a nation-wide and ongoing American uprising against policing and anti-Black racism. As flames engulfed buildings and cruisers were destroyed alongside police precincts, some […]
Hint: It ain’t the Commies. Yours truly gets mentioned a few times in this. One thing I would add to this discussion is that the forces of totalitarian humanism will gladly purge this Antifa trash as soon as they have fully consolidated their position, just as Hitler purged […]
By Michael Safi The Guardian Restaurants are opening, parks are full and people are getting back to work: parts of Europe, Asia and much of the Middle East are enjoying the benefits of flattened coronavirus curves. Meanwhile, parts of the US, India and Latin America are still recording […]
Krystal and Saagar discuss Mitt Romney and Jamie Dimon’s public support for Black Lives Matter.
I would add that Zaid Jilani is only focusing on partisan or ideological donors like Soros or Steyer and the Kochs or Adelson. The super-elite (like Goldman-Sachs) have their hands in both parties. Journalist Zaid Jilani contrasts the political agenda between campaign donors versus voters.
This doesn’t really sound like “defunding police” at all. It sounds like merely shifting some of the resources used for municipal policing to social services, and perhaps easing on the enforcement end on some things. Basically, the European model. In other words, very mild reformism (at best). And […]
It’s regrettable that even reasonable social democrats like Krystal and Kyle Kulinski are now falling for the “vote blue, no matter who” line. Her idea of a DSA-neoliberal-Never Trumper coalition is absurd. Basically, all it would mean is the further co-option of the Left by not only neoliberals […]
It’s interesting how en vogue anti-capitalism is now, from these national-populists and Nazbols on the right to the Berniebots and neo-commies on the left. Saagar Enjeti blasts the GOP’s economic policy as unemployment numbers stabilize at a rate higher than the great recession.
Will the combined reboots of 1918, 1929, and 1968 have the effect of marking the final defeat of the traditional right-wing of the ruling class, and the full consolidation of totalitarian humanism? Thus far, it appears that the left-wing of capital is riding the wave of popular rebellion […]
This dust-up between the upper strata of the new clerisy and Sunbelt/MIC/Zionist mouthpiece piece Tom Cotton is hilarious. Intra-ruling class fragmentation is always wonderful.
Cuccinelli is both a Republican and an Italian Catholic, neither of which are known for their love of black folks. But the real issue with this kind of stuff seems to be a matter of status. All other variables being equal, I’d say that it is still more […]
As I would have predicted, the System’s response to the insurrection is to call for greater centralization of the police state, which “progressives” are happy to oblige. Some examples from the article: Charles H. Ramsey, a former chief in the District and Philadelphia and co-chair of President Barack […]
The conflict between the US and Iran is an international equivalent of when the Scarfo crime family and Pagans motorcycle club went to war over control of methamphetamine markets in Philadelphia. Iran’s successful expulsion of the US in 1979, expropriation of Western petroleum interests, leadership of the resistance […]
The most interesting thing that is going on within the state right now is the way in which the right-wing of the ruling class, represented by these traditional Republican scumbags like William Barr, are aligning themselves with Trump, while the Deep State proper is aligning itself with the […]
Neocon David Frum predictably gets it ass-backward in this. He writes: “But the more relevant truth, as Ziblatt teaches us, is that Trump arose because of the hollowing out of conservative institutions. The Republican party could not stop him. Now it cannot restrain him. ” Actually, just the […]
Trump is slipping in the polls. The best thing the Democraps can do for themselves is to merely let Trump be Trump and keep Joe hidden away as much as possible.
By Nicole Fisher Forbes What’s happening around the globe is both new and old. While SARS-CoV-2 is new, pandemics and the effects of infectious disease are as old as mankind. And when we think about how to grapple with the situation in front of us, we should be looking to […]
The Defense Post Libya’s UN-recognised unity government said Thursday that it was back in full control of the capital and its suburbs after more than a year of fighting off an offensive by eastern strongman Khalifa Haftar. “Our heroic forces have full control of Greater Tripoli right up […]
Because the US is run by serial war criminals. Duh? By Janea Wilson In These Times On June 2, President Trump threatened to deploy military troops against Americans in response to nationwide protests after the recent murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Trump’s suggestion to use military force […]
By Tomas Navia and Sam Donnenberg VICE As protests surrounding the killing of George Floyd and police brutality entered their eighth night, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the historic Stonewall Inn in New York Tuesday yelling the name of another black man killed in a confrontation […]
By Maya Rao Minneapolis Star Tribune As fire and riots raged around Lake Street and Hiawatha Avenue last week, several employees of an American Indian nonprofit called Migizi stayed behind to guard their building. They wrote “native youth center” on the window to discourage attacks. Members of the […]
The gift economy? By Hannah Lindstrom Near Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis, on Saturday May 30, extemporaneous community cooperation for clean up, resource redistribution, and free ice cream from La Michoacana Purepecha. We don’t need the state to organize! Labor for love not money! READ MORE
The Onion WASHINGTON—In response to continued unrest in the devastated region, Republican leaders reportedly claimed Thursday that New Yorkers would greet the United States military as liberators. “We have every reason to believe that the people of New York will welcome the American military as saviors,” said senator […]
By Adam Gabbatt The Guardian The nationwide anti-police brutality protests sparked by the killing of George Floyd in the US have been marked by widespread incidents of police violence, including punching, kicking, gassing, pepper-spraying and driving vehicles at often peaceful protesters in states across the country. The actions […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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