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During the 1990s, I began to realize that the American left was increasingly being incorporated into the institutional mainstream, and was becoming entirely co-opted by the ruling class. This was evidenced by, for example, the widespread left-wing support for the US government’s massacre at Waco in 1993, acquiescence […]
As the US Empire recedes due to overextension and internal implosion, it seems the emerging multipolar world order will look something like this: In North America, the US will obviously be the hegemon with Canada and Mexico as its satellites. In South America, the richest country, Argentina, will […]
Chris Hedges is way too much of a sanctimonious lefto-moralist for my tastes (he is a Presbyterian minister after all), but he’s good on imperialism and corporatism. It’s great the way Chris calls out Sanders as a Schumer-lackey in this.
So Trump presents the state in a realistic and accurate manner, minus all of the usual do-gooder pageantry.
The Tech Oligarchy works to block any opposition to the Bidenists. The Greens are milquetoast reformists overrun by SJWs, and not my cup of tea at all, but it’s funny how the Tech Oligarchy wants to makes sure things are rigged on behalf of Dementia Man.
By Barbara Demick New Yorker Amid reports of Kim Jong Un’s failing health, it appears that the most obvious successor to rule the country, despite its sexist political system, is his sister, Kim Yo Jong. Photograph from Bloomberg / Getty The conventional wisdom is that a woman could […]
“Important takeaways from this article: Many higher up Republicans secretly wish Trump would just keep his mouth shut for as long as possible. Many higher up Democrats secretly think there best chance of Biden winning is for him to stay in quarantined in his basement for as long […]
Max Nettlau’s classic is now available. Max Nettlau was the most proficient, and still is the most important, chronicler of anarchism. This one volume (at 400 pages) introduction to the history of anarchist ideas and early movements, summarizing the author’s monumental 9-volume history and several biographies, is the […]
By Jenny Graves The Conversation All over the world – in China, Italy, the United States and Australia – many more men than women are dying from COVID-19. Why? Is it genes, hormones, the immune system – or behaviour – that makes men more susceptible to the disease? […]
Teach your children well.
By Troy Southgate I began wondering about hypochondria and whether the present situation has enabled the average sufferer, or imagined sufferer, to overcome his or her neurosis. If you consider how making an appointment with the doctor may now provoke a degree of guilt in the sense that […]
By Troy Southgate Today marks the forty-sixth anniversary of the so-called Carnation Revolution (Revolução dos Cravos), but although large numbers of Portuguese continue to celebrate the events of April 25th, 1974, the entire occasion is but an annual display of collective psychosis. Not only was the possibility of […]
By Welf Herfurth Well, so far I have been quiet about this Corona virus hysteria because there are to many unknowns and fake news about it. I am totally aware that it is a serious matter and we all must do our thing to combat the spread of […]
By Vince Rinehart I am inherently distrustful of the government, but that doesn’t mean that global pandemics do not exist. My understanding is that we do not know enough about the Coronavirus, so we should be taking precautions. Early studies suggest that it as at least twice as […]
By Dartunorro Clark NBC News When the clock struck noon, the masks came off. It was Nov. 21, 1918, and San Francisco residents gathered in the streets to celebrate not only the recent end of World War I and the Allies’ victory, but also the end of an […]
The Republicans have two very serious strategic problems: First, their only reliable constituency (middle-aged to elderly white folks in the South, Midwest, rural areas, and small towns) is shrinking in size. Second, this constituency is sinking fast economically (which will be dramatically accelerated by the current crisis). Hence, […]
Milquetoast social democrat David Pakman embraces the “vote blue, no matter who” line. Lifelong New York liberal Donald Trump is not a fascist or a Nazi. He is, at most, a Blue Dog Democrat or Rudy Guiliani-like “liberal” Republican, which is bad enough without any need for wild […]
This is what Republicans have been doing for the past 40 years, i.e. crying about “debt” and “taxing and spending” while running up massive public debts while building a massive welfare state for the corporate class and military-industrial complex.
Pro-lockdown protests are now starting to happen. Anti-lockdown vs. Pro-lockdown: The next Charlottesville?
Democrats: “Let them eat cake!” Republicans: “Let them inject disinfectant!”
A good critique of Biden from the actual hard left. By April Holcombe Red Flag The only thing Joe Biden and Donald Trump should be battling over is the top bunk of a prison cell. Instead, these two crooks are vying for the presidency of the United States. […]
This “open letter” is a farce and a joke. Former luminaries of the New Left from the 1960s (including some ex-Weathermen and SDSers, along with a lot of other names that I recognize and have heard of for decades) make a Chomskyian plea on behalf of Biden. Notice […]
This is one of the very best commentaries Krystal has ever done. Krystal Ball responds to critics who accused her of treating racism like, “some type of minor policy difference that can just be hand waved away,” for calling Tucker Carlson, an “independent thinker,” for being willing to […]
Todd Lewis and Nexus discuss issues that pertain to dissident intellectuals with a decentralized bent.
Ya gotta get over that pathological right-wingophobia, Alexandria. If you must vote, then vote Libertarian, Green, Constitution, Transhumanist, Pirate, Peace and Freedom, SPUSA, PSL, SA, Workers World, whomever, but boycott the ruling class parties.
Krystal and Saagar discuss Joe Rogan’s comments on Joe Biden, comparing him to a broken school house with poor infrastructure, discuss Biden’s #SOULSaturday this weekend, which shows a similar messaging strategy as Hillary Clinton in 2016.
During the House debate and vote for the $484 billion COVID-19 relief package, Reps. Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Rashida Tlaib made impassioned speeches.
Krystal and Saagar discuss a New York Times story, that says black leaders close to Biden have publicly and privately pushed him to select a black woman to fuel black voter excitement.
Latinos are going to be the “new white ethnics,” i.e. minorities that move from left to right as they become more integrated into US society, like the Germans, Irish, Italians, Poles, Czechs, etc. before them. Krystal and Saagar discuss a number of polls including an Economist YouGov poll […]
Retail feudalism is on the way if it wasn’t already here. We’re going back to the days of company towns. Krystal and Saagar discuss the massive and permanent changes to retail stores due to coronavirus that include 100,000 store closures, and growth of online shares on retail […]
Anarchists do not necessarily need to “take sides” in geopolitical rivalries between states. I also consider the standard left-wing categories of “progressive” and “reactionary” to be based on a false dichotomy that is rooted in Manichean dualism. But all things considered, Iran and its “axis of resistance” are […]
On one hand, anarchists will generally argue that the exercise of direct action and social pressure outside the state is an effective means of upholding social order without relying on political and legal institutions. On the other hand, this is kind of wacked. By Tina Burnside and Leah […]
This is an interesting debate about the degree to which the US will remain the world’s leading power in the future. The participants are all far more establishmentarian than I am (who isn’t?). What I think the actual trends show on this question is that while the US […]
Many of those who are engaged in civil disobedience regarding the shelter-in-place orders are misguided in a lot of their thinking, but they are still a necessary counterpart to the state. The state must be challenged in all circumstances. It is for this same reason that oppositional subcultures […]
I generally think Greg Gutfield is a moron who is mostly just about regurgitating the standard FOX News hand-wringing about “socialism,” as if there were an actual socialist movement of any significance in the US (and, no, recycled New Dealer Bernie Sanders and McGoverite liberal AOC are not […]
More “Let them eat cake” attitudes coming from Congress. That tends to not work out well for ruling classes in the long run.
By Whitney Webb The Last American Vagabond Last year, a U.S. government body dedicated to examining how artificial intelligence can “address the national security and defense needs of the United States” discussed in detail the “structural” changes that the American economy and society must undergo in order to […]
This is what our “anti-fascists” really need to be worried about, not Donald Trump, the Proudboys, or the Alt-Right.
It is almost certain that governments all over the world will attempt to maintain the powers they have seized during the course of the pandemic. The anarchist critique of the state is vitally important at this time. The anarchist view is that the state is nothing more than […]
I generally don’t agree with Tucker Carlson’s Sinophobia. Yes, China is probably as close to being an actual “fascist” regime of any country in the world today in the sense of being a one-party state, with a cult of personality built around the leader, a state-directed system of […]
By UN Extinction Nowhere News Keeping track of the latest developments in the ever-blossoming wisdom of our leaders and protectors has been a trying task for those of us that still haven’t learned to trust the decrees of corporate and state propaganda outlets. With the huge volumes of […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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