A Brief History of Global Capitalism
The Left — and I mean ‘the Left’ broadly, so liberals, and both serious and Brooklyn leftists — are in an ideological double-bind. Either they align with an increasingly totalitarian GloboCap or they align with the reactionary backlash against it.
Dangerous Times for Online Free Speech
This isn’t just about Durov or Telegram. This is about the battle lines being drawn between governments that want absolute control and a shrinking pool of platforms still willing to fight for freedom.
Both Trumpism And Anti-Trumpism Are Fake, Decoy Revolutions
Trump has been made the central figure in US politics around whom everything revolves, and whether the election is won by those who support him or those who oppose him, the imperial status quo is guaranteed to remain unchanged.
Preface to Beyond Leviathan
The realization of humanity’s emancipation is inconceivable without an appropriate period of consciously regulated transition from the existing order to a qualitatively different one.
What Is the State & the Challenge To Transcend It?
John Bellamy Foster points to “Beyond Leviathan” by István Mészáros for insights into the ancient origins of the state and nature of its evolution over thousands of years, the necessity to move beyond the state and how to meet that challenge.
UK Geoengineering: The Chemtrail Paper Trail – Part I
Geoengineering was already underway before this report was issued in 2010. In the usual paternalistic style of these memos from our overlords, we are assured that this testing has been “very small scale”.
Kennedy-Trump: Did ‘Integral Populism’ Just Happen?
In an ‘integral’ populist movement, the left has to figure out how to get beyond thinking of and calling the right ‘fascists’ and the right has to get beyond thinking of and calling the left ‘communists.’
Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Arrested in France
Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of the encrypted messaging app Telegram, was arrested this Saturday evening, according to French media.