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Nexus X HumectressIran nuclear scale-down
Press TV. Watch here. In this edition of The Debate, Press TV interviews Keith Preston, chief editor at AttacktheSystem.com from Richmond, VA and Robert Fantina, author, activist, and journalist from Kitchener, on Iran’s scaling down of the JCPOA commitments, at a time the country’s uranium enrichment level exceeds […]
Incompetence not unique to trump but all previous US administrations
Press TV. Listen here. The incompetence and division in American politics is not unique to the administration of President Donald Trump and has rather spanned all US administrations, says a political analyst in Virginia. Keith Preston, chief editor of AttacktheSystem.com, made the comment in an interview with Press […]
Some Dem Candidates Are More Dangerous Than Trump
The Spectrum and History of Anarchy w/ Keith Preston
A recent interview with the Free Man Beyond the Wall podcast. Listen here. Pete invited Keith Preston to come on the show to talk about the history of anarchists, the different schools and a look back in history to see if anarchism “has ever been tried.” Keith has […]
What about the Workers? A Libertarian Answer
By Sean Gabb I was called this morning by the BBC. It wanted me to comment on the claims that Sports direct, a chain of sports clothing shops, mistreats its workers – keeping them on zero-hours contracts, sometimes not paying them even the minimum wage, scaring them out […]
The Revolt Against Adulthood
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Why don’t you grow up, Nicky? That’s the tried old refrain that never seems to get older than I do. It seems like I hear it from pretty much all the token adult figures in my life; my […]
A History of Decentralization
aragon.black Jun 11, 2019 14 minute read (full) First let’s decentralize history… This month’s thematic has been a real challenge for us and raised many questions in our minds. Why? The history of decentralization is complex and non-linear. But most of all, it is difficult to be considered from […]
81% of ‘suspects’ flagged by Met’s police facial recognition technology innocent
The force maintains its technology only makes a mistake in one in 1,000 cases, but it uses a different metric for gauging success. By Rowland Manthorpe and Alexander J Martin news.sky.com Four out of five people identified by the Metropolitan Police’s facial recognition technology as possible suspects are […]
The Dr. Strange of the American Revolution
nautil.us Brian Gallagher “I ascribe the Success of our Revolution to a Galaxy,” Benjamin Rush wrote to John Adams, in 1812. He wasn’t invoking the astrological. It was commonplace then to associate a bright assembly of people with the starry band in the night sky that Chaucer called […]
Big Tech, Big Banks Push for “Cashless Society”
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange The War on Cash isn’t a conspiracy theory. It’s an open agenda. It’s being driven by an alignment of interests among bankers, central bankers, politicians, and Silicon Valley moguls who stand to benefit from an all-digital economy. Last week, Facebook – in […]
Trump splits nation by politicizing 4th of July
What Would Civil War Two Look Like?
This is one of the best analyses I’ve seen to date on what an actual Civil War 2 would look like. It’s political, geographical, and cultural analysis is spot on, although its main weakness is that it largely leaves out social class (which is fragmenting both the Red […]
Tourist buses ‘no longer welcome’ in Paris city centre
france24.com AFP / Lionel Bonaventure (file photo) | A tourist double decker bus in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Paris aims to ban tourist buses from the city centre to spur visitors to walk, cycle or take public transport, tackling complaints about nuisances caused by mass […]
Neanderthals glued their tools together
arstechnica.com KIONA N. SMITH Neanderthals glued their stone tools into place on wooden handles, a new study suggests. Archaeologists found chemical traces of pine resin on 10 stone tools from Grotta del Fossellone and Grotta di Sant’Agostino, on the western coast of central Italy. That’s pretty solid evidence […]
Oregon’s Tsunami Risk
New article from the lady who wrote “The Really Big One,” that Pulitzer Prize winning article about the inevitable super earthquake that is supposedly going to destroy a nice chunk of the coastal Northwest. If this kind of stuff interests you I’d recommend reading this article before reading the […]
Why we disagree about human nature
Elizabeth Hannon & Tim Lewens (Eds) Why we disagree about human nature.Oxford University Press, 2018. 206 pp. £30 hbk. JULY 1, 2019 By Simon Jarrett If one day a disturbingly precocious child were to ask what part you had played in the nature/ nurture war, what would you reply? Were […]
Video Games That Made People Question Their Beliefs
Gita Jackson Kotaku When Scott Udall first played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance shortly after it came out in 2005, he was in a vulnerable spot. Udall, who grew up Mormon in Salt Lake City, Utah, was very religious, and his family were all politically active Republicans. His parents had […]
It took a decade for the Declaration of Independence to matter in American life
Stanford News Two Stanford historians discuss how the United States’ Declaration of Independence became one of the pillars of American civic life and other lesser-known historical facts about what happened on July 4, 1776. BY ALEX SHASHKEVICH On the historic day of July 4, 1776, when the Declaration […]
Open Letter From Steve Forbes To Mark Zuckerberg
by Steve Forbes Dear Mr. Zuckerberg: Your company made big headlines when it announced it would be launching a cryptocurrency called the Libra in 2020. Not surprisingly, given the nature of the times, the project has been greeted with intense criticism and skepticism. Don’t lose heart. In one […]
The Gap Between Rich and Poor Americans’ Health Is Widening
NPR by Susie Neilson Researchers compared Americans’ health status today with that of 25 years ago and found that health is worsening among lower-income Americans. Orbon Alija/Getty Images Income inequality in the U.S. has grown over the past several decades. And as the gap between rich and poor yawns, […]
Rising US Inequality: How We Got Here, Where We’re Going
Stanford Business Shana Lynch An economist and a business advisor discuss what might happen if the gap between rich and poor continues to grow. Inequality is on the rise in the United States. Stanford experts discuss possible solutions. | Reuters/Lucy Nicholson The U.S. economy hit a historic high […]
The Long, Slow Death of Venice
The local population is at its lowest since the 1950s, with no turnaround in sight, as tourists continue to chase locals out. by Chiara Albanese, Giovonni Salzano, and Federico Vespignani If you’ve been to Venice, you get it. Even the most jaded globetrotter can’t help but do a […]
11 Micronations in Europe You Never Knew Existed
This needs to become a global trend, like McDonald’s. By Harry Stewart The culture trip. We’ve all heard of places like Liechtenstein and the Vatican, tiny European nations with minuscule populations. Yet these are internationally recognized states—actual countries, if you will. Even more bizarre are Europe’s micronations: quirky […]
How to build your own country
By Joe Quirk CNN If you’d like to live in a country that caters to your values and lifestyle, why not build your own? Nearly half the earth’s surface is a blue frontier over which no country holds sovereignty, and startup cities that float permanently in international waters […]
There Is No Such Thing As A Moderate Mainstream Centrist
Caitlin Johnstone on why it is the “centrists” who are the real extremists. By Caitlin Johnstone Medium I just watched two mainstream political videos back-to-back from what is conventionally referred to as America’s political “center”, and just by coincidence they happened to completely contradict each other. The first […]
Democratic criticism of Trump-Kim meeting show deep division in US
Press TV. Listen here. US Democrats’ widespread criticism of President Donald Trump’s recent meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is indicative of a deep division in Washington, where political interests shape the foreign policy, says an American political analyst. Democratic presidential hopefuls and lawmakers launched a direct […]
“Horrifying” conditions at Texas detention facility
Taliban says peace talks with US in Qatar “critical”
Godspeed Justin Raimondo, You Brilliant Son of a Bitch
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The son of a bitch promised he wasn’t gonna go. That’s what goes through my grief wrenched mind tonight, as I learn that Justin Raimondo, easily the greatest writer of the Paleoconservative Movement and total unapologetic son of […]
Steve Forbes Exclusive: “A Monkey Throwing Darts” Is BETTER Than the Fed…
Mike Gleason: It is my great privilege now to be joined by Steve Forbes, Editor-in-Chief of Forbes Magazine, CEO of Forbes Media, and author of many fabulous books, including Flat Tax Revolution, How Capitalism Will Save Us, and Money: How the Destruction of the Dollar Threatens the Global […]
Trump threats against Iran are in line with his playbook
Press TV. Listen here. US President Donald Trump’s threats against Iran are in line with his playbook and should not be taken seriously, says an American political analyst in Virginia. “The comments that Donald Trump has made recently, as well as the particular policies that he has threatening […]
Tucker Carlson Tells Trump in Private: No War With Iran
Interesting if true. The Daily Beast In the upper echelons of the Trump administration, hawkish voices on Iran predominate—most notably Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and National Security Adviser John Bolton. But as tensions between the U.S. and Iran have escalated over the last few weeks, there’s been […]
Queer Power!: Because Pride is Not Enough
Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Once upon a time, somewhere over the rainbow, being Queer was dangerous. We were vile leather-clad degenerates, strutting down the cracked streets of neon drenched red light districts, lipstick smeared, basted in glitter, our self-manicured claws sharper than knives, […]
Why the “Far Left” (and “Far Right”) is Not Radical Enough
If there is one point that I have tried to make clear during the entire 20 years or so that I have been doing ATS, it is that the solution to globalization/globalism/imperialism/whatever one wants to call it is global revolutionary struggle, which is a struggle that (obviously) transcends […]
Tucker: US came within minutes of war with Iran
Tucker Carlson nails it. It’s interesting how he’s the most popular commentator on FOX which is otherwise Neocon Central. I’m sure Murdoch is regretting ever giving him a job there. But now he’s gotten too popular for the network to fire him without giving the game away. Paleocons […]
Lindsey Graham Says Israel Will Attack Iran, And The U.S. Will Follow
Although she gets into the Z-question in this one.
Tulsi Gabbard: Dove AND a Hawk. How is this Possible?
This is an excellent, concise explanation of the Imperialist/Wahhabi alliance and how it fuels jihadism. The only criticism I would have of this is that Kim never mentions the Z-word.
Freedom of Association-Yes, Ethnic Cleansing-No: Solidarity with All Enemies of the State
In my perfect world, there would be nothing but voluntary communities, and particular communities could be as open or closed as their members wanted. I tend to think that for utilitarian reasons within the current state-capitalist system there needs to be at least some limitation on both immigration […]
Trump says in no hurry to strike Iran
Libertarian presidential candidate looks to get rid of the federal government
Watch here. Adam Kokesh is running for the Libertarian Party nomination on a platform of ending the federal government for real. Not “enforcing the Tenth Amendment, ” not “going back to the Constitution,” not “reducing the size and scope of the federal government,” not “tax cuts and deregulation” […]
Why “the System” is Vilifying Iran
The Atlanticist-Zionist-Wahhabist axis regards Iran as the primary obstacle to its imperialist ambitions in the Middle East and Central Asia. To break it down more precisely, it’s a geopolitical rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, and between the kinds of Sunni fundamentalism that originate from Saudi Arabia and […]
Pretenses for US troop deployment dubious
Press TV. Listen here. The pretenses under which the US is sending troops to the Middle East are dubious, according to an American political analyst. Media reports said that the US was sending 1,000 more troops to Middle East for ‘defensive purposes’ amid tensions with Iran. PressTV-US sending […]
Trump formally launches campaign in Florida
US tanker story evades rational reasoning
Press TV. Listen here. The United States’ assertion that Iran was behind blasts on board two tankers in the Sea of Oman evades rational reasoning, says an American political analyst. Speaking to Press TV from Virginia on Sunday, Keith Preston said, “The story that the United States is spinning […]
The Spreading Antifa Virus
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There’s a storm brewing, dearest motherfuckers, or so I’m told. And I’m not talking about climate change. The wild wild world of the world wide web is ablaze with rumors, dark rumors, rumors told of a Fourth Reich, […]
Create Two, Three, Many Stonewalls
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’m sure I don’t have to tell anyone its Pride Month. Its been advertised everywhere from Google to Twitter. A coming out party for the wholesale corporate appropriation of an underground movement. Its not even Queer Pride Month […]
Rise of the Decadents: Notes From a Spenglerian Faggot
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In spite of my Freudo-Marxian syndicalist roots I pride myself on being something of a cafeteria philosopher, taking a little influence here, there, and everywhere, even from the fringes. Fuck, who am I kidding, especially from the fringes. […]
Towards a Third World Class System
A fan created a montage of audio clips from Kick the Puppy Season One showing how we are moving towards a third world model class system.
“The Gulf of Credibility“
By Craig Murray I really cannot begin to fathom how stupid you would have to be to believe that Iran would attack a Japanese oil tanker at the very moment that the Japanese Prime Minister was sitting down to friendly, US-disapproved talks in Tehran on economic cooperation that […]
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