On the whole and in general, anti-establishment circles are just another nerdy hobby group. Leftist groups, populist groups, conspiracy analysis groups, groups centered around revolutionary ideas--if you actually look at them and look at what's actually happening in the discussions therein, most of the time
Do not show me a young rebel, whose eyes are bright and whose tail is bushy.Young rebels are fine and good, but they are merely doing what the young are meant to do.Show me an old rebel. One who keeps punching when his hands are arthritic, when her hair is white, when his
Revolution--the real kind--is an inside job.This is not a click-friendly fact to highlight. Whenever I talk about revolution as having more to do with sincere inner work than with demonstrations and pitchforks and the proletariat rising up against the bourgeoisie, I get met with a
A slumbering giant began to stir and awaken."Something's wrong," he mumbled."Now, now, just you relax," said a small voice. "Everything's fine."The giant cracked an eye open to find a small man in a lab coat holding a needle and syringe half his size."I need to
You start out in the first womb and it's alright. There's not much to do but you don't get any bills, you never have to worry about where your next meal's going to come from, and you don't have to read anybody sharing their opinions
If we're honest with ourselves, electoral politics has failed and we need a revolution.If we're really honest with ourselves, revolution will fail until propaganda is eliminated.If we're really really honest with ourselves, everything will fail without a mass-scale awakening.~The most revolutionary thing you can do
So as of right now it's Trump versus Biden. An incompetent plutocrat president selling himself as an anti-establishment people's champion while simultaneously advancing garden variety Republican sociopathy, versus a warmongering authoritarian who is too demented to string a coherent sentence together and who is looking more
The propagandists have all gone dead silent on the WikiLeaks founder they previously were smearing with relentless viciousness, because they no longer have an argument. The facts are all in, and yes, it turns out the US government is certainly and undeniably working to exploit
Today's Caitlin Johnstone essay has been replaced with an op-ed by Snooty McCentrist of the National News Conglomerate. NNC: Obey.Oh my God, stop this. Just stop. I've had it up to here with you insolent peasants and your would-be revolution. Stop this nonsense immediately before
The Trump administration has released its official statement to Congress justifying its drone assassination of Iran's top military official Qassem Soleimani last month. Surprising exactly zero people, the formal notification makes no mention whatsoever of any imminent threat posed by Soleimani, a direct contradiction of