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The online magazine  Quillette  recently found itself at the center of a heated controversy concerning free speech, academic integrity and journalistic ethics. In response to a tweet castigating the magazine and those who write for it, University of British Columbia Professor Katja Thieme responded with “YES. If you’re an academic and you publish with  Quillette  we see you. We fucking see you. And we are looking right at you.” These comments provoked a firestorm of anger—individuals and outlets accused Thieme of everything from suppressing academic  diversity  to not caring about free speech.  Quillette ’ s founder, Claire Lehman, responded by emphasizing that the magazine was created to  combat  the institutional dominance of certain forms of left-wing analysis in universities, whether called  grievance studies, identity politics  or  postmodern neo-Marxism . Professor Thieme later responded with a nuanced rebuttal. Sh...

Craig Murray - Muellergate and the Discreet Lies of the Bourgeoisie Since the Mueller report confirmed that the investigation had been unable to uncover any evidence of Russiagate collusion, the media has been astonishingly unrepentant about the absolute rubbish they have been churning out for years.

A Russiagate Requiem So the Mueller report is finally in, and it appears that hundreds of millions of Americans have, once again, been woefully bamboozled. Weird, how this just keeps on happening. At this point, Americans have to be the most frequently woefully bamboozled people in the entire history of woeful bamboozlement. If you didn’t know better, you’d think we were all a bunch of hopelessly credulous imbeciles that you could con into believing almost anything, or that our brains had been bombarded with so much propaganda from the time we were born that we couldn’t really even think anymore. That’s right, as I’m sure you’re aware by now, it turns out President Donald Trump, a pompous former reality TV star who can barely string three sentences together without totally losing his train of thought and barking like an elephant seal, is not, in fact, a secret agent conspiring with the Russian intelligence services to destroy the fabric of Western democracy. After two long yea...

https://www.dissentmagazine.org/blog/the-christchurch-massacre-and-the-white-power-movement "The horrific attack in New Zealand was not the work a lone wolf or a few isolated radicals. It’s the latest in a series of violent events carried out by a transnational movement that wants to foment race war. Kathleen Belew  ▪ March 17, 2019 Outside the Al Noor mosque in Christchurch (Carl Court/Getty Images) "The attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand this week that left forty-nine people dead and scores more injured was not a lone wolf attack or the work of a few isolated radicals. It was part of the white power movement, a broad groundswell that has joined people together in common purpose, social relationships, and political ideology. This movement formed in the United States after the Vietnam War, using narratives of violence and the symbols and weapons of that conflict to bring together Klansmen, neo-Nazis, skinheads, and other white radicals. The materials ...

"Fresh off a strike in Erie, PA, the United Electrical Workers are a model of the working-class internationalism that can build a more just world. fter nine days of picketing in below freezing temperatures, striking workers in Erie, Pennsylvania returned to work recently under a 90-day agreement. The 1,700 strong United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America (UE) strike quickly drew national attention. Senator Bernie Sanders declared his support for the union and even invited the president of the local to speak at his campaign rally. As “the  first  major U.S. manufacturing strike of the Trump era,” according to  The Nation , Erie brought renewed focus to the struggles of American industrial workers who have faced job loss, wage stagnation, and weakened bargaining power as a result of corporate globalization. But Erie isn’t just a reminder of the problem. It also points us toward the solution. For decades, UE  has  been a leading example of g...

Posted on March 31, 2019 Last night, I saw some images from this year’s flooding in the Midwest float by, and I remembered my grade school classes on FDR, and that the New Deal actually had a significant flood control component. So I thought I would recapture a little bit of that history, and then put the Green New Deal ( here ;  here ) in that context. Spoiler alert: Problematic. First, I’ll survey the scale and scope of the flooding, then I’ll look briefly at the New Deal flood control programs, and finally I’ll look at the Green New Deal (“ DRAFT TEXT FOR PROPOSED ADDENDUM TO HOUSE RULES FOR 116TH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES “). The Midwest Floods of 2019 (So Far) Here is  a handy map of current flooding from the the United States Geological Survey . As you can see, there’s rather a lot of it: Weather Underground  describes the causes of the flooding: The flooding was triggered after an intense “ bomb cyclone ” pushed strong winds, mild temperatures, an...

First Posted December 30, 2014 March 28, 2019 " Information Clearing House "   -  " - Some people enjoy having the Big Picture laid out in front of them—the biggest possible—on what is happening in the world at large, and I am happy to oblige. The largest development of 2014 is, very broadly, this: the Anglo-imperialists are finally being forced out of Eurasia. How can we tell? Well, here is the Big Picture—the biggest I could find. I found it thanks to  Nikolai Starikov  and  a recent article of his. Now, let's first define our terms. By Anglo-imperialists I mean the combination of Britain and the United States. The latter took over for the former as it failed, turning it into a protectorate. Now the latter is failing too, and there are no new up-and-coming Anglo-imperialists to take over for it. But throughout this process their common playbook had remained the same: pseudoliberal pseudocapitalism for the insiders and military domination and economic exploit...