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Nexus X HumectressThe current crisis hasn’t only produced bad things. It has also produced many good things: school cancelations, prisoner releases, reductions in pollution, fewer traffic accidents, the oil industry tanking, rising class consciousness, politicians increasingly exposed as petty tyrants and incompetent morons, pro-civil liberties protests, greater levels of mutual […]
To what degree will the State attempt to make medical martial law permanent? By Hristina Byrnes Most of the United States is in lockdown as people are staying inside, keeping clear of the novel coronavirus that has killed about 41,000 Americans as of April 20. Nonessential businesses are […]
By Peter Kakol Infoshop Anarchism is greatly misunderstood in the English speaking world where, due to a successful and long-standing propaganda campaign by the wealthy and their servants, anarchism is equated with irrational violence, terrorism, lawlessness, and the misdefinition of the word ‘anarchy’ to make it synonymous with […]
This guy’s commentary on the Biden-bootlickers is pretty good. Interestingly, he admits that a Trump presidency is likely strategically preferable.
The actual commentary in this isn’t bad, but Laura predictably mars the presentation with the standard hysteria over “socialism.” No, Laura, so-called “progressives” who line up behind bankster-puppet Joe Biden are not “socialists.”
Expressing your views about the decisions that politicians make is protected under the Constitution. #FoxNews #Tucker
Bannon spinning the Sinophobia line. It’s interesting how the right-wing of the ruling class is now using a backwater province in the global capitalist empire, whose primary function is to provide cheap labor and cheap loans to Western corporations and governments, as a whipping boy.
Great Depression Two.
It’s good to see some of these more independently-minded progressives like Kyle Kulinski, Jimmy Dore, Krystal Ball, and Kim Iverson questioning the sanctity of voting. The argument that Chomsky presents for Biden is rooted in nothing other pathological right-wingophobia. Trump is a con man, glorified carnival barker, and […]
By Irina Ivanova CBS News The number of Americans struggling to pay their mortgages has skyrocketed as the economy reels from the coronavirus pandemic, with nearly 3 million Americans behind by at least one month on their mortgage payments in the week ending April 12, according to the […]
By Jeremy Peters New York Times This is what it looks like when a pandemic collides with the culture wars in America. The mayor of Louisville, Ky., warned churches that holding services on Easter Sunday would defy the city’s social distancing guidelines. Mitch McConnell, the Kentucky Republican and […]
By Annie Palmer CNBC Amazon warehouse workers are planning a “mass call out” this week to call attention to what they call a lack of protections for employees who continue to come to work amid the coronavirus outbreak. © Provided by CNBC Amazon workers at Amazon’s Staten Island […]
by Anarcho via Anarchist Writers I thought I would discuss the current coronavirus crisis and how an anarchist society would deal with it. This will be speculative but hopefully convincing as far as any discussion of a future society can be – although I do end with a […]
Infoshop.Org via Elle By Jessica Roy In the Kurdish region of northeast Syria, a female-only ecological commune has sprung up as a place for women displaced by the Syrian revolution and the rise of the Islamic State. The cooperative is called Jinwar—Kurdish for “Women’s Land”—and it’s home to […]
Kyle calls out Chomsky and totally nails it in this.
Trump vs. Cuomo? Two obnoxious New Yorkers pitted against each other. I suspect Paul Gottfried is correct that if Biden wins, he will be quietly shipped off to the nursing home with his vice-present (Kamala Harris, Stacey Abrams, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Gretchen Whitmer) acting informally as the […]
Dick Morris on the Alzheimer’s Man vs. Orange Man matchup. Ironically, the only thing the Republicans have going for them is the Democrats. Trumpism more or less pushed the old guard Republicans aside, and they now have to go along to get along, and the only reliable Republican […]
Peter Zeihan is a private intelligence analyst who literally makes his living offering hard-nosed, realistic advice to the capitalist class. In his lectures, Zeihan explains why the American Empire is going down, why the Russophobia of the DNC/MSNBC crowd and the Sinophobia of the Republican/FOX crowd is misplaced, […]
Krystal is coming along in her ideological evolution. Attack the System is a far-left revolutionary anarchist tendency that embraces all forms of anti-authoritarianism (pan-anarchism/anarcho-pluralism), crosses over to the radical center (class-based populism, the people vs. the elites), the populist-right (isolationism, anti-state/local control, free association, pro-gun, pro-free speech, anti-tax, […]
A must watch.
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 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 […]
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 nails it down pretty well in this. He’s not quite where I am but he’s moving along.
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.
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 […]
Not if Sanders supporters are worth anything at all. Sanders supporters need to renounce the state and become anarchists.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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