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Dystopia Nears

Who needs dystopian political science fiction in Amerika today? Real time nonfiction feels dystopian enough. The other morning I was awakened by the...

10.01.2025 5

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It’s Not About What Class Your From: It’s About What Class System You Serve

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens recently published a widely read opinion piece claiming that Brian Thompson, the United Health Group...

27.12.2024 30

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Capitalists Should Be Removed From All Our Systems, Not Just Health Care

Imagine that your household was regularly broken into by a sadist who systemically beat-up everyone in your home. He’d start by punching folks in...

19.12.2024 2

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Why Luigi is Not a Hero at FOX but Kyle Is

Fatherland/FOX News and the post-republican Republican party of the insurrectionist Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump embrace the legitimacy and...

13.12.2024 20

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Adam Gopnik’s “Going There With Donald Trump” Eight and a Half Years Later

The idea that it can be bounded in by honest conservatives in a Cabinet or restrained by normal constitutional limits is unsupported by history. —...

29.11.2024 6

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Capitulation: The Weimar Dems on Bended Knee

Behold the craven post-election capitulation of the dismal Weimar Democrats to the Hitler-channeling fascist Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump....

22.11.2024 5

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Ten Principles for the Coming Resistance to MAGA

The entire US system must be dismantled if burning children in a hospital is the lesser evil. – Hadi Nasrallah, October 15, 2024 Note to readers:...

18.10.2024 9

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The Coming Electoral Storm

So here is some of the latest evidence that the United States now for the third quadrennial bourgeois electoral extravaganza in a row given put up...

23.09.2024 7

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Dispatch on American Political Dystopia

There is seemingly no end to the lethal and dystopian absurdity of  US-American political life right now. Donald “Poisoning Our Blood” Trump not...

30.08.2024 10

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