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Nexus X Humectress“Any meaningful revolution would be, as a revolution, populated by idiots. You could have clever leadership, a clearly communicated message and you would still have millions of stupid followers with all kinds of silly ideas you don’t agree with. Exclude all but the purest of heart and you […]
Some pretty good economic analysis from Chris Hedges from 2018. Much of what he describes will be amped up on a mega-level following the present Great Depression Two. Hedges is a lot like Chomsky in the sense of offering a lot of succinct and astute analysis combined with […]
An interesting Amy Chua interview from Canadian television in 2018. Author and scholar Amy Chua talks to Steve Paikin about her latest book, “Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.” She discusses how American foreign policy has ignored the internal ethnic divisions in countries and conflicts […]
Who shall be the Pussy-Grabber-In-Chief? Bill Maher goes to bat for Dementia Man. Krystal and Saagar discuss Bill Maher’s rant about Tara Reade’s accusations, as he asks, “Why wait until Biden is our only hope against Trump?”
Vote for Dementia Man over Orange Man, says Obomber. Krystal and Saagar listen to former President Obama’s leaked call saying that ‘rule of law is at risk’ in Michael Flynn case. In the same chat, Obama also lashed out at the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic […]
The Republicans’ Chinahate vs. the Democrats’ Russiahate. Krystal and Saagar discuss The New Yorker’s interview with Chris Hayes, where the MSNBC host describes the network’s coverage of Russiagate as “craziness and paranoia.”
It makes sense that the poorest and most disadvantaged people in society would have the highest COVID-19 rates. The pandemic is a class issue. Krystal and Saagar give an update on coronavirus case numbers in the U.S. at 1,336,700, and 79,552 deaths; Navajo Nation experiences outbreak at rates […]
I do agree the Chinahate gets a little over the top, but no more so than the Russiahate. Krystal and Saagar discuss Former Senator and Ambassador to Beijing, Max Baucus, on CNN, where he likens Trump’s China rhetoric to Nazi Germany.
The problem with “The Squad” is not that they are “too radical” but that they are not radical enough. But that’s still too much for the System. D.C. Bureau Chief of The Intercept Ryan Grim shares insight on the primary races ‘the squad’ faces this November, and where […]
How the propaganda arms of neoliberalism actually work. Author and Host of VICE TV’s ‘Seat At The Table’ Anand Giridharadas discusses his new show, his experience at MSNBC and the New York Times, and how the coronavirus crisis sets the stage to rebuild society.
Who needs the working class when you have slaves? Krystal and Saagar discuss a ProPublica report that shows the S&P 500 is now up 30% from its lows in mid-March and back to where it was last October, as the government reported that 20.5 million people lost their […]
Societies with a large middle class tend to have higher marriage rates. Brad Wilcox shares insight on marriage rates in the US, and explains how on average married Americans are happier and make more money.
Great Depression Two will be worse than the previous Great Depression. Krystal and Saagar discuss Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari’s remarks that Americans should brace for further unemployment amid the coronavirus pandemic, and said Congress should consider providing more financial help.
The center-right, neoliberals, and neocons are circling the wagons to defeat Trump while deflecting the Left in the process. Interesting. Something similar happened in 1972 when “Democrats for Nixon” formed to ensure George McGovern lost the election. Krystal Ball comes down on Joe Biden for building a GOP-backed […]
Have the “Satanic panics” of neoliberalism have fizzled and discredited the propaganda arms of the new clerisy in the process? Saagar Enjeti discusses the media’s partisan coverage of Russiagate and the ‘Believe Women’ movement during the Trump era, highlighting their failure to cover Flynn’s recusal.
An interesting aspect of the last 40 years of US economic history is that the right-wing of the ruling class (remember Reaganomics, anyone?) implemented the policies that allowed for the present rise of the left-wing of the ruling class (the tech-oligarch/financier/new clerisy coalition), which is now overrunning the […]
A leader of an organized atheist group (the far left of organized religion) interviews a member of the liberal media class (the new clerisy) on the role of the religious right (clerical oligarchs manipulating naive peasants on behalf of the right-wing of the ruling class/dying WASP elite/Likudniks/war profiteers). […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Right Ruminations and Swithun Dobson to discuss the strategic and cultural impact on the USA of historic recruitment methods divided roughly into three periods: amateur volunteer forces (1607-1861); conscripts (1861-1973); Professional Volunteer forces (1973-Present).
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Good morning dearest motherfuckers, it is spring time in this the plague besotted year of our lord Satan, twenty-hundred-and-twenty, and both major party candidates for the highest office of the greatest democracy imperialism can buy are confirmed geriatric […]
As good an example as any of why the liberal class is worthless. Keep in mind that the liberal class concentrated in the “ideas industries” are simply the new clergy whose purpose is to issue secular papal bulls on what is considered acceptable opinion and what is not […]
John Pilger’s new documentary. Russiahate didn’t get saluted when the Deep State/neoliberal wing of the ruling class/new clerisy alliance ran it up the flagpole. Now the right-wing of the ruling class is countering with Chinahate, and the neoliberal Bidenists are moving “out-Chinahate” the Trumpians. There’s not going to […]
By Rutger Bregman The Guardian For centuries western culture has been permeated by the idea that humans are selfish creatures. That cynical image of humanity has been proclaimed in films and novels, history books and scientific research. But in the last 20 years, something extraordinary has happened. Scientists […]
“It is only by the abolition of the State, by the conquest of perfect liberty by the individual, by free agreement, association, and absolute free federation that we can reach Anarchism – the possession in common of our social inheritance, and the production in common of all riches.” […]
By Harmeet Kaur CNN Fifty years ago today, the Ohio National Guard fired on Kent State University students as they protested against the Vietnam War. Four students were killed. Nine were injured. The incident on May 4, 1970, now known as the Kent State massacre, dramatically changed the […]
This is from 2016 before Trump was elected. Trump might be considered “WASP America’s Last Stand” and he was only elected by rhetorically moving leftward on foreign policy and economic issues. A problem with our anarcho-progressive friends, and the general left, is that they have not updated their […]
This essay and the accompanying annotated bibliography seem to be a decent overview of the indigenous peoples’ rights movements around the world. I’d argue that support for indigenous movements is really the foundation of anti-imperialism because the expropriation of indigenous people is really how modern (and many pre-modern) […]
Carlson calls out the federal police state about 3 minutes into this. Ilhan Omar’s response is disappointing and regrettably rooted in partisan/cultural/tribal politics than actual opposition to the system. From Trump-loyaltist three percenters to Democrat-voting Marxists, it’s interesting how few supposed “radicals” actually oppose the system.
By Tom Woods How about that: Locking down a whole society has negative consequences. Benjamin Miller of the Well Being Trust in Oakland, California, is co-author of a study that seeks to determine how many “deaths of despair” (from drug or alcohol abuse or suicide) will occur as […]
Pakman is right that the coronavirus shutdowns are exacerbating the Red/Blue rural-suburban-urban divide, and that other countries have often been even stricter than the US.
By Troy Southgate Tens of millions are labouring under the false impression that the current state of emergency is about to come to an end and that things will soon return to ‘normal’. If these people had paid more attention to history, rather than eagerly consuming anything which […]
By Troy Southgate When governments impose a state of emergency it is simply a method of regaining or increasing control. Following on from that, I would even argue that we entered this precarious stage in our history during the insurrections of the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when […]
Ivanka Trump’s personal assistant is among the latest at the White House to test positive for the coronavirus. Vice President Pence’s press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive this week, as well as a White House valet. The White House insists it is taking precautions, but President Trump was […]
Economist Andrew I. Friedson says they flattened the curve. Economist Lyman Stone disagrees.
An an anarchist, I approach modern secular theocracy, or state-worship, in the same way that an atheist might have approached traditional theocracy in the period before church and state were separated. For instance, let’s say that the sectarian warfare between Catholics and Lutherans that occurred in the early […]
Here, Gills once again illustrates why the mainstream anarchist movement is as great a failure as it is. He emphatically states that his primary commitment is not to fight the state, the ruling class, or the global capitalist/American empire. Instead, his primary commitment is to fight with other […]
The battle for the title of Pussy Grabber-in-Chief rolls on.
Hat tip to Robert Smith for finding this. I can’t say I really disagree with any of it. The only thing I might add is that anarchists should not only carve out an independent political identity for themselves but also nurture anti-authoritarian tendencies wherever they appear, left, right, […]
Put that mask on, Mikey.
Krystal and Saagar discuss recent arrests of the father and son that shot Ahmaud Arbery, after newly released video from Feb. went viral this week that showed them hunt Arbery down and kill him.
Marcus Arbery Sr. recalls the memory of his son on the day of his 26th birthday. Arbery Sr. called his son’s death a “modern-day lynching” following the arrest of two men charged with Ahmaud Arbery’s murder.
His Goofiness throws in his two cents worth. This is actually a pretty good article, and I agree with most of its contents, the usual Goofy Gillis hysteria that someone, somehow, somewhere might do something “reactionary” or un-progressive aside. Given that I am an anarcho-pluralist/pan-anarchist, I am sometimes […]
The re-feudalization of the US economy and the re-proletarianization of the working class is now complete, which is what the power elite had in mind all along. The finally succeeded. I imagine many of them are behind closed doors saying, “This coronavirus thing is fucking awesome, man!” By […]
One interesting aspect of this segment is where Michael Brooks describes himself as having been a “Chomsky kid” (#metoo, Michael) and how the far-left in the US is largely just “progressive liberalism with an anarchist tinge.” Amen, brother. Michael seems to have since moved to something along the […]
It’s interesting how the Left and Right are spinning their own narratives on the coronavirus fallout. The Left is depicting a situation where greedy business owners and right-wing conspiracy nuts want to endanger everyone’s health by reopening the economy so they can make money. The Right is depicting […]
The Intra-Left civil wars really are becoming as divisive as the Left/Right Red/Blue civil war. Funny.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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