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Nexus X HumectressIt must be awfully frustrating to be someone like this author who actually takes this shit seriously. Here’s the money quote: “Mr. Biden, and the Democrats he may carry with him into government, are likely to do more good for women and the nation than his competition, the […]
I disagree politically with Virginia’s governor on many things, though not everything, but I think his performance during all of this has been reasonable, probably because he’s an MD who actually understands the medical science behind COVID-19. What he’s saying here is appropriate. One of the main mistakes […]
Kids are certainly not immune but the disease does seem to be much rarer among kids. By Audrey McNamara Officials said on Wednesday that the number of children who have been hospitalized in New York City with symptoms consistent with a rare disease possibly linked to the coronavirus has […]
This is what real poverty looks like, folks. No electricity, no plumbing, no Internet, no television, no healthcare. The same kinds of conditions you find in rural South Asian, sub-Saharan African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and South Pacific regions. By Kurtis Lee Los Angeles Times Road closures, mask […]
Unlike the Marxists, I generally regard the lumpenproletariat (for example, folks conventionally categorized as “criminals”), declasse’ sectors (for example, the youth of middle-class origins inclined toward violence), and the neo-peasantry (for example, rural gun nuts or the present-day anti-lockdown protestors), along with associated petite bourgeois and conventional proletarian […]
The therapeutic state vs. bourgeois economism? An interesting matchup. Tom Woods interviews Sheriff Richard Mack. Listen here. Sheriff Richard Mack of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association, who has a Supreme Court victory under his belt, joins me to discuss recent events involving American sheriffs and what […]
People Two months in to near-nationwide stay-at-home orders, Americans are ready to get back to their pre-pandemic lives. Those who are non-essential workers (and followed the rules) have been at home all day, every day, save for trips to the grocery store or for socially distant walks. And […]
They want you to shut up, obey and do what you’re told.
Warren Norred, attorney for Shelley Luther, joins Tucker Carlson to discuss the decision by a Texas judge to jail his client for reopening her salon during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Thrills. Although I’ve actually been seeing mixed reports on this.
By Holly Otterbein Politico Jess Scarane is campaigning for Joe Biden’s old Senate seat with a striking message for a Delaware Democrat: She believes his accuser, Tara Reade. Scarane, who said she is a victim of sexual assault, tweeted in March that when she listened to Reade talk […]
By Anthony Faiola, Karen DeYoung, Ana Vanessa Herrero Washington Post Inside a glittering Miami high-rise, representatives of the Venezuelan opposition sat in a room adorned with samurai swords and listened to a pitch. They had been appointed by opposition leader Juan Guaidó to explore all options in their […]
Under Trump, US foreign policy in the Middle East has basically amounted to allowing Saudi Arabia, Israel and Turkey (the “triumvirate of evil”) to expand their respective spheres of influence while working to undermine Iran’s axis of resistance. By Connor O’Brien Politico President Donald Trump on Wednesday vetoed […]
A virtual end to the petite bourgeoise and “small capitalist” classes will result in an even wider disparity in wealth distribution than before thereby hastening the re-proletarianization of labor and the widening of class divisions. This is comparable to what happened to the artisan classes during the industrial […]
Consumer confidence is going to be shot to hell for a couple years.
Not bad, Krystal. Krystal Ball reviews Michelle Obama’s ‘Becoming’ documentary trailer and breaks down why the Obama administration failed to make structural change within the establishment.
The Republicans could best be described as a hybrid of the right-wing plutocratic parties of Latin American (like El Salvador’s ARENA) and Israel’s Likud Party (militarists and Zionist expansionists). Under Trump, they’ve at times tried to recast themselves as LePenism-lite. The question is whether their exoteric doctrine will […]
This is an interesting discussion of how the neocons and their allies have recolonized the Democratic Party from whence they came. Krystal and Saagar discuss the Lincoln Project’s smear ad against Donald Trump after expense reports showed $1.08M of $1.14M went to Lincoln Project executives. The hosts also […]
At present, the United States (the mother country of a world empire that is the most expansive and powerful in history) is in a position that might be considered a very minor league version of what the Europeans faced in the early modern period. From the fourth century […]
It seems that most people even on the far left and far right have a limited perception and definition of what concepts like the “state,” “ruling class,” or “power elite” actually mean. It would also seem that we need a much more modernized and expansive definition of these […]
The ATS masthead contains the slogan “Pan-Anarchism Against, Pan-Secessionism Against the Empire” which is merely an expression of a very simple concept, and which is predictably misunderstood by many people (because many people are dumbasses).
In recent times, I have seen a number of commentators calling for one or another kind of left/right hybrid populism. Some years ago, Ralph Nader was pushing this idea (obviously unsuccessfully). More recently, Krystal Ball (social democrat) and Saager Enjeti (economic nationalist) of The Hill’s Rising have promoted […]
Score one for the Chinese on this one. By Shashank Bengali and Alice Su Los Angeles Times BEIJING — The newscast blares from a television set in a Beijing apartment, carrying through an open window and echoing across the compound. The refrain is the same every evening: praise […]
It’s interesting how the Left and Right have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and related shutdowns. The Left has an abiding faith in the managerial state, worships at the altar of the therapeutic state, professes scientism, never misses an opportunity to call for expanding the welfare state, dislikes […]
Keystone warriors. Were they merely dumbasses who acted alone or part of a Bay of Pigs II operation? By John Otis, Kejal Vyas, and Jessica Donati Wall Street Journal OGOTÁ, Colombia—Seasick and vomiting aboard fishing boats packed with guns, ammo and two-way radios, the ragtag band of fighters—including […]
Did he know too much? By Tim Stelloh NBC News A medical researcher said to be on the “verge of making very significant” coronavirus findings was found shot to death over the weekend in Pennsylvania, officials said. Bing Liu, 37, a researcher for the University of Pittsburgh School […]
Mutual aid. By Melissa Godin CNN A Native American community severely impacted by the COVID-19 outbreak has received an outpour of donations from Irish people, who are returning a historic favor from 173 years ago. In 1847, the Native American Choctaw nation sent $170 ($5,000 today) of relief […]
Krystal and Saagar give coronavirus updates with case numbers up to 1,186,900 in the US; internal Trump administration analysis says coronavirus deaths could increase to 3,000 deaths a day by June; LA Times reports virus mutations makes it more contagious.
What Mao called the “enlightened bourgeoisie”?
Saagar Enjeti explains how the Biden campaign plans to target the suburban vote through “Facebook empathy moms,” virtually ignoring the youth vote, Latino vote, and black vote; blasts George W. Bush for posting a video that calls for unity.
This is funny. The elite think that they are above the rules they set for the masses.
Another billionaire tries to buy the presidency? First, Trump. Then Bloomberg. Now Cuban. Fuck a “federal jobs guarantee.” Who needs a bunch of makework bullshit jobs? We need reparations from the ruling class. Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban shares his thoughts on economic stimulus spending, and explains how […]
It would be hilarious if third party and/or independent candidates actually did well in this election.
By William S. Lind Traditional Right As I write this in late April, the most probable course of the coronavirus (a.k.a. Flu Manchu) is that it is at or past its peak medically and case numbers, hospitalizations, and deaths will decline steadily hereafter. Economically, the country will have […]
Protests to go back to work, protests to keep from going back to work, tenants threaten rent strikes, landlords threat tax strikes, debt strikes, labor strikes…This is all starting to look kind of like pan-secessionism, actually. Everyone protests whatever they feel like protesting but withdraws consent from the […]
H.L. Mencken used to say that the “progressives” of his day would denounce the trusts publicly while promising them favors behind closed doors. Apparently, nothing much has changed.
This is good. A great takedown of the liberal class. Krystal and Saagar talk about ‘Morning Joe’ praising George W. Bush as he calls for unity. ‘Morning Joe’ says “a lot of people miss having a president like that.”
Krystal and Saagar discuss a Morning Consult poll that shows 61% of voters say they do not want to select a different Democratic nominee after Joe Biden’s denial of Tara Reade’s allegation, while 26% say the party should select a different nominee, and 13% are undecided.
#Metoo, Saager, you milquetoast statist-reformist Ross Douthat-loving nerdboy. The commentary and analysis in this is pretty good. They admit the Republican and Democratic “establishment” are on the same side while the left and right engage in tribal warfare over nonsense.
Hopefully, but whoever replaces him will be just as big a shithead. One of the great things about being an anarchist is that I don’t have to take any of this electoralist crap seriously other than to make fun of it all. Krystal Ball discusses Mitch McConnell’s priority […]
#Metoo was never anything more than a media/corporate/Democratic Party-fueled “satanic panic” that was used to advance the interests of the left-wing of capitalism, the Democratic Party, and cultural war tribalism. Sexual assault is a real issue and involves real crimes of aggression, but one that was merely exploited […]
The Mindcrime Liberty Show with Swithun Dobson and Tim Patton interviews Keith Preston on the left and there relationship with the Police state. Our guest, Keith Preston, is the author of books such as Thinkers against Modernity as well as Attack the System who can be found at […]
The far-left (Marxist and left-anarchist) critique of mass democracy is that it is merely a mask for rule by a plutocratic capitalist class. The libertarian critique is that democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. The far-right view is that democracy […]
First, the coronavirus. Then a depression and mass unemployment. And now this. Will the tragedies never end? By Alicia Lee CNN While the outer packaging says the cracker sandwiches are cheese-flavored, the individually-wrapped packs within the box are actually of the peanut butter variety, according to Mondelēz International, […]
One thing some of the Asian countries did right was starting to wear masks as soon as the epidemic started. Asian culture is much more “mask-friendly.” Every year during allergy season I see Asian international students wearing masks on university campuses. Meanwhile, the dumbass USG was telling everyone […]
Supposedly, the world is comprised of 200 sovereign nations. In reality, it’s more of a case where the USA has 50 formal states and 150 informal states, with another 50 functioning as provinces within the G20-dominated global capitalist empire that is maintained by the US military empire (see […]
The Deep State apparently feared that a Trumpian insurgency within the ranks of the ruling class would end up pushing US foreign policy in “too far” of an “isolationist” direction. There seems to be an intra-ruling class civil war going on concerning the future of the empire between […]
The ACLU and other similar groups are good at defending civil liberties valued by liberals and leftists. There are other groups that defend civil liberties that are valued by conservatives and libertarians. Ideally, an anarchist mass movement would have the defense of ALL civil liberties as its primary […]
This is a very, very basic high school level overview of different theories of how the state actually works in terms of the distribution of power. Unfortunately, most Americans do not have even a high school level education in the social sciences and political science (they have more […]
C. Wright Mills theory of the “power elite” tends to be the dominant paradigm among radical social scientists today (the ones who aren’t as radical tend to be pluralists). Although I tend to think Mills’ theory is too narrowly constructed as it describes only the right-wing of the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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