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Nexus X HumectressLocal Control: Karl Hess in the World of Ideas (2018)
A must watch.
When will a second wave of the coronavirus hit, and what will it look like?
By Elizabeth Weise USA TODAY Even before the first horrific phase of the COVID-19 pandemic has run its course, scientists are worried about the second wave of the disease. It could crash worse than the first, killing tens of thousands of people who did such a good job of […]
Just Write-In Your Cat
Fear and Loathing in Coronaville Volume 5: The Patriot Act and Maximum Security Healthcare (Cuz Every Day Is 9/11)
Check out Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4. By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s such a played out cliché that it’s downright corny, but if you were born sometime before the mid-Nineties, you really do remember exactly where you were […]
The White Coat Priesthood
“The latest American soap opera now playing to a captive audience – in the most literal sense – involves corporate puppet, Donald Trump, and fellow New Yorker Dr. Anthony Fauci. As you can see from the photographs, the presidential performer who professed to drag his heels over the […]
Green Party Chaos w/ Ian Schlakman
The Green Party is mostly just milquetoast left-progressive/social democratic/SJWish bullshit on domestic policy. They’re pretty good on foreign policy, although at times they seem to straddle the fence between actual anti-imperialism and Samantha Poweresque “human rights imperialism.” On foreign policy, I’m generally inclined to agree more with full-blown […]
Peter Zeihan | Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World
Peter Zeihan is one of the very best, if not the best, geopolitical analysts I have encountered in years. I disagree with his politics a great deal (he’s very pro-imperialist and regrets that recent US presidents have not been imperialist enough-WTF?) but as an analyst he’s fantastic. The […]
Special: Third-Party Politics? Part 1 ft. Adolph Reed, Jr.
Now that the Sandernistas have gotten totally fucked by the DNC and neoliberals, hopefully at least some leftists will start moving toward third partyism and extra-parliamentary agitation. That’s not nearly where they need to be but it’s something.
Glenn Greenwald on Noam Chomsky Favouring Biden Over Trump & Voting for Lesser of Two Evils
Glenn nails it down pretty well in this. He’s not quite where I am but he’s moving along.
Should The Left Support Biden In 2020?
This is a rather tortured discussion, and I disagree with some of the political analysis, but it’s an interesting illustration of where the intellectually serious reformist-left is now.
Italians launched fireworks at a police helicopter sent to break up an Easter rooftop barbecue
To appropriate an expression from the Obama era: Yes, we can. By David Cenciotti, The Aviationist Helicopters belonging to the Italian Police, Armed Forces and Armed Corps are regularly involved in Covid-19 patrol missions: When they spot suspect gatherings of people possibly breaching social distancing regulations and being […]
Crass Guy for Strategic Advantage?
Can Biden win over Sanders supporters?
Not if Sanders supporters are worth anything at all. Sanders supporters need to renounce the state and become anarchists.
Bernie: NOT Voting Biden is “Irresponsible,” Distances from Staffer
As if electing an Alzheimer’s patient who is just a ventriloquist dummy for the banksters as head of state is the “responsible” thing to do. I actually agree with Pakman that Bernie is being “consistent,” i.e. the consistently lame social democrat that he’s always been since I first […]
Stimulus checks and other coronavirus relief hindered by dated technology and rocky government rollout
It’s government, folks. It’s government. By Heather Long, Jeff Stein, Lisa Rein, Tony Romm Washington Post The national effort to get coronavirus relief money to Americans is at risk of being overwhelmed by the worst economic downturn in 80 years, as understaffed and underfunded agencies struggle to deliver […]
Fewer inmates in Virginia as state reduces jail population by 17% amid pandemic
Regrettably, many people have a mistaken view of what “crime” actually is. Yes, there is certainly such a thing as “crime” in the sense of harm to others (murders, robberies, rapes, etc) but most “crime” merely involves offenses against the state or other ruling class institutions, not other […]
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Won’t Release Prisoners Over COVID Risks
So much for supposedly “progressive” Oregon and its LGBTQ governor. Seriously, how much evidence do we need that “progress,” “diversity,” and “inclusion” outside of any serious critique of and opposition to the state, capital, or imperialism is worthless? By Conrad Wilson Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Tuesday she […]
Amid coronavirus, tribes say they aren’t getting help they need from federal government
Imagine that. Duh? By Lauren Fox and Ellie Kaufman CNN Navajo Nation has lost more to coronavirus than 13 states (CNN)The health care crisis on reservations around the country is mounting with Navajo Nation, a vast 27,000 square miles spanning three states, facing more than 1,000 cases of […]
Racial toll of virus grows even starker as more data emerges
By KAT STAFFORD, MEGHAN HOYER and AARON MORRISON, Associated Press As a clearer picture emerges of COVID-19’s decidedly deadly toll on black Americans, leaders are demanding a reckoning of the systemic policies they say have made many African Americans far more vulnerable to the virus, including inequity in […]
Putin leverages coronavirus chaos to make a direct play to Trump
Right on schedule, CNN is fueling Russophobia, just like FOX has been fueling Sinophobia. As I have said many times, Russia and China are merely backwater but occasionally rebellious provinces in the global capitalist empire. They are no more significant to the world order than major US states […]
Ilhan Omar unveils bill to cancel rent and mortgage payments amid pandemic
Is Ilhan coming through? By Sophie Kasakove The Guardian The Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar has unveiled a bill that would cancel rent and mortgage payments for millions of Americans struggling amid the coronavirus pandemic. Under the legislation announced on Friday, landlords and mortgage holders would be able to […]
The Modern Rome on the Potomac
In some ways, Americans have more freedom than they did in Voltairine’s day, and in some ways, they don’t, but I can only imagine what Voltairine would think of the state we have today.
Memory Hole?
Thanks to Lockdowns, State and Local Tax Revenues Are Plummeting
Always a silver lining. By Ryan McMaken Mises.Org Unlike the federal government, state and local governments in America can’t just create money out of thin air. So when tax revenues go down, that money is simply not available to the state legislatures and city councils anymore. These governments […]
Anthony Fauci, the “Learned Ignoramus”
In the technocratic, therapeutic, public administration states of modernity, the media, the educational system, and “think-tanks” assume the role of the “New Church,” i.e. the institution responsible for formulating and disseminating the dominant values of the society. And it is the “knowledge industries” (science, medicine, law, technology) that […]
Governments Make Us More Vulnerable in a Pandemic
By Lee Friday Mises.Org This article focuses on Canada, but the analysis applies in every country to varying degrees, and in most countries to a very significant degree. Even before COVID-19, Canada’s socialized healthcare system was characterized by a decades-long failure to make good on a government promise “to […]
In Bid to Extend Lockdowns, Leftist Governors Embrace “States’ Rights”
In the past, I have thought that the strategically “ideal” situation partisanship-wise would be to have a Republican presidency, Senate, and Supreme Court, a Democratic House (in order to ensure divisiveness at the federal level), and as many Democratic administrations as possible in heavily populated states and large […]
‘It’s positively alpine!’: Disbelief in big cities as air pollution falls
The ghost of Pentti Linkola and the imprisoned Ted Kaczynski are now happy as nature corrects itself. by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi, Rebecca Ratcliffe in Bangkok, Sam Cowie in São Paulo, Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá and Lily Kuo in Beijing The Guardian The screenshots began to circulate […]
The Limits of Clean Energy
Big Green is simply the left-wing of capital in the energy sector mounting a challenge to the traditional hegemony of Big Oil. The “Green New Deal” is merely about shifting the focus of state-capitalism/crony-capitalism from Big Oil to Big Green. It’s amazing how many “left-wingers” are falling for […]
Noam Chomsky On Bernie Sanders Ending His Campaign
Chomsky has a far more favorable assessment of Sanders than I do but I’m also more radical than Chomsky. The main thing Sanders has achieved is demonstrating that electoralism/reformism fails, which I guess counts for something.
Trump Waves Student Loan Payments During Crisis
Once again, Orange Man and the Faux Populists outmaneuver the Democrats.
Your Bank Can Take Your Corona Stimulus Check
The bankstas is gangstas. Actually, that’s an insult to gangsters.
The Steady March of Liberal Hypocrisy
Here’s the money quote: “Where, one wants to ask Kofman and her co-authors, is the “tolerance” on which liberals pride themselves? Whatever happened to those old leftists, like Noam Chomsky and Peter Singer, who were averse to “gatekeepers,” stressing that absurd ideas and “hate speech” are the price […]
The DNC Rigged The Primary: Convo with The Convo Couch
The Left has the choice of either rolling over and taking it or boycotting.
AOC’s Hypocrisy Over Biden Support Laid Bare
Alexandria strikes me as a generally well-intentioned person who just can’t shake the partisanship and the SJWism. As I have said before, in order to be fully competitive, the Left needs to do five things: 1) recognize neoliberals as the primary enemy; 2) forget Democratic Party loyalty; 3) […]
AOC rips Lindsey Graham, Steve Mnuchin, argues for better standards of living, access to healthcare
Biden Destroys His Own Electability Case In SHOCKING New Comments
LOL
Biden literally INCOMPREHENSIBLE live on CNN
Billionaire Mark Cuban calls out bank profiteering off small business loans
Krystal and Saagar discuss Mark Cuban’s tweet in which the Shark Tank billionaire calls out lawmakers over payment protection programs.
Washington Post journalist uncovers millionaires benefit HIDDEN in bailout bill
Washington Post economics reporter Jeffrey Stein discusses provisions, including tax cuts, in the next stimulus bill that benefit the wealthy.
Billionaire Investor: Why I argued billionaires, speculators should get wiped out
Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO of Social Capital gives insight on how Congress should approach the bailout bills, after his CNBC interview went viral.
Is Kamala Harris the perfect VP pick for Joe Biden?
Of course. Biden’s ongoing cognitive decline will result in his resignation and the new leader of the imperialist-plutocratic-police state will be a woman of color, providing a perfect cover for the ruling class and its ideological superstructure.
Media, Dems unable to admit WHO has big China problem
As I have said before, China and Russia merely represent the leading factions within the global capitalist-financier empire (see Antony Sutton from the right or Hardt and Negri from the left). Their role within the empire is that of rebellious provinces in relation to the dominant American-Atlanticist-Zionist-Wahhabi axis […]
Biden’s deplorables 2.0 Hillary strategy puts everything in Trump’s hands
Yep. During the period between the 1970s and 1990, liberal and left opinion decides that backwater peasants with their retrograde social views were the “real enemy” rather than the actual ruling class, and Donald Trump is what they got in response. A billionaire carnival barker marshaled the populist-right, […]
Exposing Trump’s phony populism, no friend of workers
This is some pretty impressive economic/class/political analysis. It’s amazing that a former MSNBC journalist and a former White House correspondent actually get this stuff and are willing to say so. Krystal Ball exposes the Trump administration’s corporate interest in reopening the economy, explains how tax cuts for the […]
Promising COVID treatment, DC Whole Foods outbreak highlights workers’ risk
Krystal and Saagar give updates on coronavirus case numbers, share the number of reported deaths from Wuhan, and discuss a trial on a promising therapeutic medication for Covid-19 patients.
Anarcho-Progressivism + Pathological Right-Wingophobia=First World Privilege?
Signs suggest 2nd virus outbreak; Internal document reveals CCP knew about virus long before public
A second wave, just like 1918.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “It’s legitimate to talk about” allegations against Joe Biden
It’s interesting how the neoliberals are using both the carrot and the stick against Alexandria, trying to coopt her on one hand, and bankrolling her opponents on the other. By Eleanor Watson and Bo Erickson CBS News New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday night said the Democratic […]
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