Quite a few channels are reporting on recent attacks against Bernie Sanders, claiming he is again an underdog, and is not the best candidate to defeat Trump in 2020. See for example David Packman's recent

Just got given Yuval Noah Harari's book "21 Lessons" as a Christmas prezzie. Faaaaarrrrrk. Had a good skim read of it, and thanks to a bookstore return card I'll exchange it tomorrow for a decent

While it is depressing that so many people are already psychologically locked-in to YouTube and Facebook and Instagram, seemingly ignorant of free open source software alternatives like Diaspora, Mastadon,

Just caught an episode of David Doel's podcast where he clips some MSNBC segments of an interview with Richard Ojeda. While I think Ojeda has the right tone needed for our times, I think there is a lot

Professor Yochai Benkler and colleagues have published detailed accounts of news media producer and consumer network analysis studies proving that the political right wing is in an extreme bubble of unreality

This is the second part of a long essay I had to write after reading through Kill All Normies. The first part posted earlier was a lament which I am so disgusted by I could almost disown it, but I stand

This is the first part of a long essay I had to write after reading through Kill All Normies. The second part to be posted next is more optimistic. "Radical Conservatism" is not related to political

I also have to say, I've started reading "Kill All Normies", and ironically my first impression is that Nagle is possibly suffering a bit from her own mild leftist reactionary attitudes to the

"New Atheism" or militant atheism comes across as irrational and just as belligerent as many supposedly "faith based" arguments. I am a practising scientist and a former agnostic, and

Just listening to Heather 'Digby' Parton on The Majority Report. Bit disappointed with how those lefties are marvelling at the naked corruption surrounding the current US administration. They seem amazed

There is a school of thought that would say maybe Donny Tinnyhands does know what he's doing and it is that he is acting as an agent for collapsing the entire system of capitalism... it's not remotely

Remarks on "Kill All Normies - with Angela Nagle | Virtual Futures Salon" Lovely moment in an interview with Angela Nagle of "Kill All Normies" authorship fame. She was asked why the

In a truly lovely recent interview with singer Nellie McKay on the Jimmy Dore Show, McKay does a great job of telling it how it is on the political left in the USA these days. Completely crushed by corporate

Caveat: I am a mathematical physicist who has over the past 25 years grown to see a bit more of the world than can be gleaned from fresh smelling textbooks and reams of computer code. So my only credentials

Phreakin neoliberalism just gets worse the more I read about the whole sordid history and modern day practises of neoclassical economics, the Mont Pelerin Society, all It's satellites and the capitalist

Disclaimer: I am not a US citizen but my daughter is, so the plight of the citizens of the USA has deep affect for me. So when I see some genuine grass roots political campaigning like my father used to

A couple of entertainingly serious Zero Books podcasts, one recent the other going back a few moths, are: "Zero Squared #134: Sci-Fi Utopias and the Far Right" and "Are Video Games and Gamers

In "TMBS - 42 - The Color Of Money ft. Mehrsa Baradaran & Felix Biederman" Biederman talks to Michael Brooks about the massive credit being extended to African nations, both fuelling their

Before you get too mad, I am not going to answer that question directly. I want to plug a nice brief talk by Yannis Varoufakis on this question: "Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?"

Under a Tweet by The Onion about this article: was a comment to the effect, "I know it was only supposed to be a joke, but with what's going on it's distasteful." Below which was Tweet: "That's