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Nexus X HumectressTucker: Our leaders dither as our cities burn
There’s some pretty hard-core riot footage in this.
The Real Reason Protests Are Sweeping The Nation
Kim predictably nails. What we are experiencing right now is a class-based insurrection against an authoritarian state. The ruling class media (the new clerisy) is trying to deflect attention from that by fueling political/racial/cultural divisions.
Violence ERUPTS In The Streets Of Imperial Decline America
There is some pretty hard-core footage of police brutality in this. Apparently, the cops at a police station in Cincinnatti took down the US flag and put up a “thin blue line” flag. Fourth-generation warfare and tribalism have arrived.
Trump to governors: ‘You’re weak’
They are. And it’s hilarious. By Colin A. Young Metrowest Daily News After a weekend that saw police clash with demonstrators across the country and in downtown Boston, President Donald Trump told governors on a conference call Monday morning that many of them are “weak” and need to […]
Zaid Jilani: History says rioting doesn’t work
The big question is how will the state hit back when the dust clears? Journalist Zaid Jilani compares the looting in the U.S. to the looting that took place in Baghdad after the Iraqi army was disbanded by the Bush administration.
Nina Turner: Dr. Cornel West is right, we need more than black faces in high places
I really hope they’re not just now realizing that. I don’t really consider poor, urban (or rural) blacks to be part of the Blue Tribe. The Red/Blue tribal civil war is between the left and right wings of the upper-middle class, with both sides aligning themselves different factions […]
AOC: “Let’s do away with this mythology that the ultra-wealthy move away due to high taxes.”
Who cares if they move away? Fuck ’em. Good riddance. I’m not at all someone who thinks that “tax the rich” is that way to solve the problem of plutocracy. Taxes are merely a means through which the state extracts surplus value from subjects (extortion) in the same […]
Big business tries to co-opt uprising
Of course. That’s what they did with the uprisings of the 1960s and 1970s. Ryan Grim offers some pretty good commentary on how the corporate class has co-opted the cultural left. I’m glad to see someone who is not on the far right besides me is finally noticing […]
Does Wall Street looting lead to street looting?
Of course. “Stimulus plans” and “bailouts” work at all levels. Krystal Ball discusses the systematic inequalities as the catalyst of the mass riots over George Floyd’s death.
Panicked Dems try to blame RUSSIA for looting, violence
That’s what the Bircher-types used to say about the urban riots of the 1960s. The Democraps are blaming the insurrection on Russians and white nationalists while Donald Milhous Trump is blaming Antifa and anarchists. Saagar Enjeti blasts the mainstream media for identifying the riots over George Floyd’s death […]
Krystal and Saagar react as worst rioting engulfs America since MLK’s death
This really is so 1968. Riots, chaos, and space travel. They are absolutely right when they talk about the total abrogation of leadership, “left, right, federal, state, and local,” which they lament but which I think is great. The ruling class is falling.
The Alt Right Increasingly Embraces Communism, is Destroying Itself
A few years back, when I used to speak to Alt-Right groups, leftist friends would ask me why I was interested in them. I used to always say, “Just think of them as the Communist Party of the Right.” I even presented what was essentially a Maoist interpretation […]
The funky academic breaks down white feminism, Karens and Amy Cooper
An emerging crack in the left-coalition? Welcome to America, where everybody hates everyone else. Funky academic and doctoral student at the University of Georgia Irami Osei-Frimpong explains his perspective on Central Park ‘Karen’ Amy Cooper and white feminism.
Newt Gingrich: This is a war against American civilization
Newt, what is happening now is blowback against policies that people like you put in place. Remember the “crime bill” passed when you were Speaker of the House? Remember NAFTA, also passed when you were Speaker? Remember the “war on drugs,” of which you were a major champion? […]
Is working class condemned to serfdom in America after coronavirus?
Wow. Rising actually interviewed Joel Kotkin. I’m impressed.
Officials see extremist groups, disinformation in protests
The usual finger-pointing begins. Antifa, “Boogaloos,” Three Percenters, Proud Boys, and, of course, the Russians. By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials are seeking to determine whether extremist groups had infiltrated police brutality protests across the country and deliberately tipped […]
Burn a Police Station for Julian
From what I have seen so far, many of the attacks have been directed at localized municipal police targets but where are the attacks on the federal alphabet soup agencies?
More Police Defections?
The Supreme Court Has a Chance To End Qualified Immunity and Prevent Cases Like George Floyd’s
Giving cops “qualified immunity” is like giving physicians exemptions from malpractice lawsuits. By C.J. Ciaramella Reason The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer on Monday has reignited calls for national reforms to policing, including ending qualified immunity, a legal doctrine that civil liberties groups say has […]
Don’t Attack Small Businesses
From the owner of an Iranian-American owned restaurant that was vandalized by rioters. As a small business, we’ve been hit very hard during this pandemic. Last night, we were hit even harder. I came to the U.S over 50 years ago from Iran, a country where there is […]
Black and White: Unite and Fight!
By Troy Southgate People have every right to fight back against the corrupt US system and its brutal mercenaries, but let’s not pretend that police violence is reserved for Black people. At the same time, the Right’s predictable response to Black Lives Matter is to claim that most […]
Louisville TV Reporter Shot By Police During Live Broadcast Covering Street Protests
By Bruce Harin Deadline UPDATED 4 PM with SAG-AFTRA Statement: A reporter for an NBC affiliate station in Louisville, KY was fired upon by police Friday night during a live broadcast covering street protests in that city. Kaitlin Rust, a journalist at WAVE 3, was live on the […]
Curfews go into effect in cities around the country as George Floyd protests continue
There is an 8 pm curfew in my city that virtually no one is paying any attention to. A strip mall a block away got looted and torched two nights ago. There was a shooting three blocks from my residence along with a series of dumpster fires and […]
Protests over death of George Floyd, police killings spread to London, Berlin, Toronto
Why not? Those places are mostly just colonies of US Empire anyway. By William Booth and Loveday Morris Washington Post Street protests over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis went global over the weekend, as demonstrators in London, Berlin and Toronto gathered under banners declaring that Black […]
Famed DC monuments defaced after night of protests
These kinds of things happen during uprisings. Here in Richmond, there was been a predictable wave of vandalism against Confederate monuments. I don’t think these kinds of actions are a good idea. Attacking and destroying the monuments, flags, places of worship or veneration, temples, sacred books and artifacts, […]
Seattle police officer caught kneeling on the necks of multiple George Floyd protesters
Serious facepalm. By Chris Riotta The Independent A Seattle police officer was seen kneeling on the necks of suspected looters amid protests against the death of George Floyd, who died after an officer kneeled on his neck in now-viral footage. The police department was responding to reports of […]
National Guard, Now Authorized to Use Live Ammo, Flood America’s Streets
Between the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns, Great Depression Two, the current joke of an election campaign, and now the uprising, is a military dictatorship on the way? It looks like the whole system is failing. By Alan McLeod MintPress News The national security state and the military are […]
Camden Police Department marches in solidarity with protestors
Apparently, some cops are defecting to “the other side.” FOX29 Philadelphia CAMDEN COUNTY, N.J. – A very different scene and approach to the protests witnessed in recent days was observed in Camden. In a show of solidarity with protestors, the Camden County Police Department marched alongside activists seeking […]
‘We want to be with y’all’: Michigan sheriff leads law enforcement to march alongside protesters
By Austin Williams FOX 29 FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. – As demonstrations condemning the death of George Floyd continue across the U.S., some local officers and deputies are being praised for crossing the lines and participating in the protests. Marchers in Flint Township, Michigan, arrived at a police station […]
Rioters destroy police vehicles, loot stores in West Philadelphia
Footage was taken of people stealing cop cars and using them for bumper cars. FOX29 Philadelphia Crowds of people in West Philadelphia are vandalizing police vehicles and looting stores as riots continue throughout the city in response to the death of George Floyd. SKYFOX flew over the scene […]
Dallas police shootings: 5 officers dead in ‘ambush’ at protest
This is getting to be a full-blown civil war. Today At least five officers are dead and six others wounded in Dallas after police were reportedly ambushed by at least two snipers during what began as a peaceful protest of the recent officer-involved shootings of Alton Sterling and […]
De Blasio now says some ‘anarchist’ protesters are local amid continued defense of NYPD
When are anarchists going to learn that neoliberals are just as much the enemy as anyone on the Right? By Michelle Bocanegra Politico NEW YORK — Mayor Bill de Blasio on Sunday blamed an organized group of anarchists for inciting violence and vandalism amid protests over the killing […]
What Is Antifa, the Movement Trump Wants to Declare a Terror Group?
Notice the hammer and sickle. Once again, left-anarchists are getting overrun by Bolshies. When are left-anarchists going to start heeding Bakunin? By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Sandra E. Garcia New York Times Seeking to assign blame for the protests that have convulsed cities across the country this week, President […]
Because Imperialists Rape: Anarcha-Feminism In the Ashes of the MeToo Era
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The MeToo Movement died last month. It bled out slowly as it limped to the barn. It’s hard to say who the triggerman was behind the coup de grace, but it wasn’t Joe Biden. That derelict beast is […]
The Looting Started Before George Floyd Was Killed
Just think of the looters as implementing their own grassroots-level stimulus plan.
Yes, Indeed
Although I really don’t care what happens to modern sweatshops like McDonald’s and Target.
150 Years Ago, a Philosopher Showed Why It’s Pointless to Start Arguments on the Internet
Good old John Stuart Mill. By Olivia Goldhill Quartz Wildly inaccurate facts and spurious arguments are unavoidable features of social media. Yet no matter how infuriatingly wrong someone is, or just how much counter-evidence you have at your disposal, starting arguments on the internet rarely gets anyone to […]
How the Rich Reacted to the Bubonic Plague Has Eerie Similarities to Today’s Pandemic
The more things change, the more they stay the same. By Kathryn McKinley The Conversation The coronavirus can infect anyone, but recent reporting has shown your socioeconomic status can play a big role, with a combination of job security, access to health care and mobility widening the gap […]
Preserve Architecture, But Smash the State
I’m actually in favor of preserving historic architecture. Preferably, anarchist or anarchist-friendly militias and guerrillas would simply surround these places, order their inhabitants to leave, never to come back. These landmark architectural structures can then serve as museums that chronicle and memorialize the depravity of the past. Attacking […]
Anyone Can Be a Victim of the Police State
Both of these memes make some important points. Anyone, from any socioeconomic or demographic group, can be a victim of the police state. Numerically, there may be more white victims, because whites are the largest group (about 60-70% of the US population). But, per capita, it is blacks, […]
Direct Action Wins Again
Good work. This guy would have been sitting duck. Not only would another pointless murder have occurred, but the political/racial antagonisms would have intensified. This officer got separated from other officers and this group of protestors created a human shield to protect him.
Trudeau: Canadians watching US unrest and police violence in ‘shock and horror’
A Canadian once said that being Canadian and living to the north of the USA is like living above neighbors with a meth lab in their apartment. Although Canada is not the “liberal” permissive society that many Americans think it is. I witnessed a riot in Toronto in […]
On Misrepresenting One’s Opponents
At long as I have known of national-anarchism, I have considered it be to a legitimate, interesting, and important form of anarchism. If other anarchists feel different, fine. The venerable anarchist principles of voluntary association and decentralization are our collective way around such conflicts. “We do not consider […]
Red vs. Blue on Blue vs. Black and White
These memes make some very important points in the sense that people of virtually all ethnic and even socioeconomic backgrounds can be victims of police brutality, whose ranks include everyone from mayors, professional athletes, suburban teenagers, upper-middle-class white women, active-duty military personnel and off-duty cops, to the poorest […]
Into the Void
This reminds me of the lyrics to the Black Sabbath song “Into the Void.”
White House Locked Down as Police Scuffle With Protesters Demanding Trump Resignation
This should happen with every presidential administration. An important question is this: Would the protests at the White House be taking place if Biden were President? Probably not, even though Biden is more personally responsible for the present American police state than Trump. Trump has merely inherited a […]
Volunteers flock to Twin Cities neighborhoods to clean up ravaged streets
More direct action, though they should probably wait until the uprising is over. Otherwise, they’re just wasting their time. MPR News Staff Volunteers gathered in Minneapolis Saturday morning, cleaning up Lake Street at Nicollet Avenue, near the epicenter of Friday night’s protests over the killing of George Floyd. […]
Why We Need the Right to Bear Arms
An anarchist in Minneapolis writes: “Both protesters/rioters and police/national guard are currently roaming south Minneapolis with firearms, including machine guns. There have been reports of shots fired. Both sides seem to be highly mobile, with groups forming and dissolving in a very fluid way.” An illustration of why […]
Direct Action Wins Again
An anarchist in Minneapolis who is observing these events on the ground writes: “There’s now a number of different armed groups of residents out there defending their homes and small business owners defending their businesses. I think that this is great. Just because the police say that they […]
PIGS Attack Medics in Minneapolis
Tonight the Minneapolis Police Department Opened fire on our first aid station with no regard for the wounded people we had inside.
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