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Nexus X HumectressAnti-Internet Surveillance Bill FAILS by ONE Vote.. GUESS WHO DIDN’T VOTE
The Republicans once again remind us of why they’re total scumbags, and Bernie Sanders reminds us of why social democrats are useless.
Are Socialists Against Greatness? Inequality, Rousseau, and Marx
The Jacobin boys come close to confronting the problem of “slave morality.”
Marijuana May Prevent Coronavirus Says New Study!
Have we found the “vaccine”?
Politics (with Kim Iversen)
Joshua and Ryan discuss local, national, and international politics; outrage and divisiveness in the current political climate; and the quagmire of disarray and turmoil created by tribalism and partisan politics with journalist and podcaster Kim Iversen. Watch “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at http://patreon.com/theminimalists Questions […]
House Dems Back Off Of Student Debt Relief
Imagine that. The student loan industry is a nationalized, state-run industry functioning in collusion with the banksters and the educationist wing of the new clerisy. Not being dischargeable through bankruptcy, student loans are modern-day indentured servitude. No way they’re going to give up that win-win scenario for the […]
Tucker breaks down the contenders to be Joe Biden’s running mate
Carlson’s tirade against the empty skirts that are trying to be the next Mike Pence (what a weenie that one is) is somewhat amusing. The election coming up is interesting but not for the reasons that are usually stated. The Republican Party elites seem generally satisfied with Trump […]
“Autonomy Versus Secession”?: An Example of How Anarcho-Progressives Fail
This article is an excellent demonstration of why the “anarcho-left” fails. Not everything said in this is “wrong,” and not every point being made is worthless, but it’s mostly just the standard mainstream “progressive” narrative with an anarchistic gloss. Most telling of all is that there is no […]
Krystal and Saagar Dissect: The Left says Josh Hawley is a fake populist
This is a pretty good critique of “culture war” politics but what they’re missing is that the “culture war” is primarily a rivalry within the middle-class, which is exploited by the ruling class, and where “both sides” regard working class issues as merely peripheral, if something they have […]
Britain First leader Paul Golding convicted of terror offence
Regrettably, a lot of our “progressives,” “civil libertarians,” and even “anarchists” will probably go along with this because he was such a fascist baddie n’all. By Lizzie Deardon The Independent The leader of far-right organisation Britain First has been convicted of a terror offence. Paul Golding refused to […]
Terror suspects could face indefinite curbs under new legislation
BBC Court orders restricting the movements of suspected terrorists could be renewed indefinitely under new legislation unveiled by the government. The bill would lower the standard of proof to impose the orders, known as TPims, and remove the current two-year limit that applies to them. Suspects would also […]
Walter Block on Reparations including Slavery, Israel, and the Americas.
We discuss reparations with longtime libertarian intellectual who is the author of now more then 500 plus papers and books Walter Block.
Aztec, Inc.
Many ancient cultures practiced human sacrifice.
The Moon Is Fake
How can we reconcile the no-mooners with the flat-earthers? 🙂
The Philosophy of Murray Bookchin: An Interview with Debbie Bookchin
Listen here. Debbie Bookchin is a widely-published journalist and author whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Nation, and numerous other publications. She served as press secretary to Bernie Sanders when he served in the U.S. House and she recently […]
How cable news BRAINWASHED liberals into abandoning their values
Right on, Krystal. The liberals that I remember from the 70s and 80s, whatever their flaws, were generally antiwar/anti-imperialist (Southeast Asia, Central America), pro-poor and working-class (despite the limitations of their welfarism and business unionism), pro-civil liberties (e.g. sexual revolutionaries and pro-free speech even for the Skokie Nazis), […]
The Conspiracy Theorists Are Winning
The problem with David’s analysis in this is that he seems fairly subjective and one-dimensional in his criticisms of “conspiracy theories.” The fact that the last three years of cable news (excluding FOX) was devoted to Russiagate hysteria shows that liberals and the Left are just as prone […]
17 Things We Don’t Know—And Shouldn’t Pretend To Know—About COVID-19
By Dr. Lissa Rankin, MD A few days ago on Facebook, I made a casual comment questioning part of the dominant narrative (that the anti-viral remdesivir is indeed worthy of Dr. Fauci’s optimism and a lightning speed rush to FDA approval.) A physician and medical director challenged me, […]
Estimating The Infection Fatality Rate Among Symptomatic COVID-19 Cases In The United States
According to this new study, while about 1 in 1000 people who get the ordinary flu actually die, with COVID-19 it’s about 1.2 per 100 of symptomatic cases. So COVID-19 is roughly 10 times more deadly than the conventional flu. Health Affairs Knowing the infection fatality rate (IFR) […]
What is the Christian right’s future in American politics?
Rojava: statelessness in a time of pandemic
By Anya Briya Open Democracy The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), commonly known as Rojava, has illuminated the plight of the stateless—even though statelessness in the AANES’s case defies the narrow definition of international law. Despite comprising almost a third of Syrian territory, the AANES […]
Education and the Coronavirus: A Farewell to Schooling?
Another silver lining? By Sean Gabb The latest turn in an increasingly dull coverage of the Coronavirus panic is a proposed reopening of the schools. The Government wants them open as soon as possible for at least some of their students. The teaching unions are bleating that no […]
Fmr Goldman Sachs CEO says we need to risk people get COVID to save economy
Some pretty good class/economic analysis. The intra-ruling class debate seems to be between those who think the peasants should be forced to stay at home under de facto house arrest and starve (the position of liberal partisans of the therapeutic state) and those who think the peasants should […]
FBI REVEALS Saudi sponsored attack on US soil, Trump and media ignore
This is a pretty good discussion of the US-Saudi relationship. Now, if Krystal and Saager would critique the US-Israel relationship. Yeah, right…lol Th Krystal and Saagar discuss the FBI’s recent discovery of a link between al Qaeda and a Saudi military trainee who killed three U.S. sailors in […]
Are Left and Right Experiencing Two Different Pandemics?
Tom Woods and Jeff Deist discuss how Left and Right have different interpretations of reality. Listen here ———————————————————– Jeff Deist, chairman of the Mises Institute, joins me to try to get to the bottom of why the response to COVID-19 (and the lockdowns) seems for the most part […]
Will the Coronavirus Make Us Rethink Mass Incarceration?
By Sarah Stillman The New Yorker On March 14th, Roslyn Crouch, a mother of twelve, left her house in New Orleans to stock up on toilet paper and canned goods, and didn’t return. Crouch, who is forty-two, with slender braids down to her knees, had been feeling anxious […]
Defending the Undefendable 1 & 2: Two Hilarious Books
Apparently, there is now a third volume to this series. I was doing an interview with an anarcho-capitalist podcast the other night where these two books were mentioned. They’re two of my favorite libertarian/an-cap oriented works. Walter Block is more of a right-libertarian than I am on economics […]
The Richest Neighborhoods Emptied Out Most as Coronavirus Hit New York City
That’s probably how the coronavirus was spread. What we should have done as soon as COVID-19 appeared was build one of Trump’s walls around New York, LA, DC, the Bay Area, Chicago, and DC (i.e. all the ruling class havens), shut down flights from those cities, and be […]
Should America Aspire To Be More Like China?
A Marxist-Leninist commie-worshiper makes his case for Xi Jinping’s neo-Maoism. To Western leftists who want to live under state-communism, I always say join the military where you are guaranteed a job and all your basic needs (food, shelter, clothes, healthcare) are provided. Or if the military is not […]
Will Biden go all in for the military industrial complex?
Of course, he will. To ask the question is to answer it. When Daniel Marans says that “foreign policy wasn’t really an issue” in the Democratic primaries, he totally nails it. The antiwar vote in the US is basically non-existent. The Democrats and Republicans are both two uber-imperialist […]
Don’t Vote “Blue No Matter Who”, Vote Anti-Establishment No Matter Who
This is 3 months old but it’s totally on point. I would generally prefer that voter turnout in US elections eventually dwindles to, say, the 30 percent range with the ruling class parties getting 20 percent of the vote and the fringe/freakazoid parties getting maybe 10 percent, with […]
The “Vote Blue No Matter Who” Crowd Shows the Ideological Weakness of the Democrats
My political perspective is somewhat different from Styx’s (who is a something of a right-libertarian Trumpist). But I generally agree with his analysis in this. For all practical purposes, the US now has three political parties: Trumpists, neoliberals, and social democrats (all completely lame, of course).
There is no “Libertarian” Socialism
Actually, there is. And it has nothing to do with centralized control over resources. But whatever. Although it’s interesting that he recognizes that “capitalism” requires the state (I consider honest anarcho-capitalists to be merely a variation of individualist-anarchists, not “capitalists” proper).
Media tries to spin ‘Biden is the new FDR,’ ignores all signs of reality
President Biden would be more like President Reagan, i.e. a senile old fool that sleeps through most of his presidency.
Reopening The Economy Is About Crushing Labor
As usual, the Right is better at criticizing the government and the media (see the Tucker Carlson video I just posted) while the Left (like these Jacobin boys) are better are criticizing the corporations/capitalist class. Fortunately, it’s not a question of either/or. We should be attacking ridiculous government […]
Tucker: Lockdowns, Stacey Abrams, FBI/CIA, China/5G
Carlson’s program for tonight was pretty interesting. He calls out government overreach per the lockdowns, exposing the empty skirt Stacey Abrams as a fraud, explores the interesting falling out between the Republican Party and the FBI/CIA, plus the usual heavy dose of Sinophobia where he comes close to […]
That Was Quick: Libertarian Justin Amash Drops Out Of Presidential Race
I don’t really think Justin Amash is all that bad for a Republican (which is an extraordinarily low standard). But he’s still just a Tea Party-type, Koch-flunkie. I’m also not a Libertarian Party member, so I don’t get a say, but I would prefer than the LP not […]
Best Shot At A Vaccine Is Still One Year Away
Are Sunshine and Vitamin D a Cure For COVID-19?
Time to Break up the FBI?
By William S. Smith The American Conservative Fittingly, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was founded by a grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte, during the Progressive Era. Bonaparte was a Harvard-educated crusader. As the FBI’s official history states, “Many progressives, including (Teddy) Roosevelt, believed […]
Hometown Hero
By Susan McWilliams The American Conservative The town of Maricopa, in the southwestern corner of California’s San Joaquin Valley, has one diner and one gas station. Its landscape is all oil wells and sagebrush, grit and heat and dust, just as it was a century ago when the […]
The man who predicted 2020
By Aris Roussinos What does Michael Gove have in common with Ukraine’s Azov movement? Not much, one would think. There is surely very little commonality between the published work of the liberal Conservative statesman and the ideology of the armed group, far to the right of any Right-wing […]
Travelling at ‘frightening speed’, coronavirus has hit 38 Indigenous groups in Brazil
SBS NEW The coronavirus pandemic has hit 38 Indigenous groups in Brazil, raising fears for populations that have a history of being decimated by outside diseases, the Brazilian Indigenous Peoples’ Association (APIB) said Friday. “The virus is reaching Indigenous territories across Brazil with frightening speed,” the association said […]
Soaring Beyond the Green New Deal
By Don Fitz When Stan Cox was writing his book, The Green New Deal and Beyond: Ending the Climate Emergency While We Still Can, he scripted these prophetic words: “The oft-predicted national decline in use of fossil fuels is nowhere to be seen, and it is unlikely to […]
The Hardline Trotskyist Running a 2020 Campaign That Makes Bernie Look Centrist
The candidate of the Butchers of Kronstadt Party? But at least these commie-types have the number on the liberal Democrats and the social democrats. By Maxwell Strachan Jeff Mackler is to the left of the left of the left. A self-proclaimed Trotskyist, he believes Bernie Sanders and the […]
Media can’t understand why Left won’t fall in line as Bernie advocates for Biden
Sanders pretty much showed what he was about when he endorsed the Kosovo War in 1999.
Marianne Williamson SHOCKS by endorsing Pelosi challenger
Of all the Democratic candidates, Marianne was the second favorite (after Tulsi, with Yang being third) of my anti-electoralist self. Krystal and Saagar discuss Marianne Williamson’s endorsement of progressive congressional candidates including Pelosi challenger, Shahid Buttar
CNN anchor STUNS, hits media for shaming lockdown protestors
Krystal and Saager, lame statist-reformists that they are, still do decent reporting on class issues. They really call out the mass media wing of the new clerisy in this. Krystal and Saagar watch CNN’s Fareed Zakaria blast elites for controlling the narrative on reopening the economy, and discuss […]
A Single Meme Says More Than a Million Treatises on Political Economy
A Debt Jubilee is the Only Way to Avoid a Depression
By Michael Hudson Counterpunch Even before the novel coronavirus appeared, many American families were falling behind on student loans, auto loans, credit cards and other payments. America’s debt overhead was pricing its labor and industry out of world markets. A debt crisis was inevitable eventually, but covid-19 has […]
Some 42% Of Jobs Lost In Pandemic Are Gone For Good
George Soros says he worries about the future of globalization. Another silver lining. Btw, in the interest of heresy for heresy’s sake, I actually agree with Soros on certain things, just as I agree with the Kochs on certain things (as opposed to, for example, Sheldon Adelson with […]
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