I was just informed by Max Alvarez, the Editor-in-Chief at The Real News, that they will no longer run my show. The reason for the cancellation, he said, is that my critiques of Biden, especially for the genocide in Gaza, jeopardizes his nonprofit status. My last show with Dennis Kucinich, who is running as an independent for Congress in Ohio, was removed from the site.

We must fight the evil of empire in every way possible, especially given the genocide in Gaza. Win or lose. What matters is resistance.

Sometimes you change the subject, and sometimes the subject changes you

Trump’s VP Search and the Politics of Impotence

Wars rarely go to plan, especially if you believe your own rhetoric

An Israeli soldier takes up a position in front of a battery of an Iron Dome air defence system near Jerusalem on April 15, 2024. Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images ‘With war, if you don’t try it, you can’t know how it will turn out’

On the days of revelation

The Scriptorium, Book Two

Change is in the air. I’ve written previously on the panic currently effervescing through the global elites, made viscerally apparent at conclaves like the Davos forum earlier this year. But in America particularly, a deep worry is now consciously gnawing the ruling class—they can see it, feel it: that the American Empire is on its last legs, close to collapse.

Let’s start off with the debate which indirectly segues us into Ukrainian war developments. First off, we all know the debate is inconsequential and nothing more than a charade. That being said, it’s obvious a large psyop was pulled off given the fact that Biden was in no way any worse in the debate than he has been in any of his recent interviews or speeches. In fact, if you really had to objectively score it, it’s arguable he won the debate against Trump, given that despite his obvious mental decline, he at least was able to recite the memorized facts given him after CNN undoubtedly leaked all the questions to his camp. But even despite those advantages, Trump rarely cited any facts or semblance of a plan, and merely squandered his time defensively backbiting, repeating the same three talking points or tediously boasting how everything associated with his administration was ‘the greatest ever’ and anything of his opponent’s is ‘the worst ever’.

What the reaction to Nigel Farage and Reform reveals about our out-of-touch elites

The latest from an 18-24-year-old member of Gen-Z

Ministry confirms funding pulled for new insulin pumps & glucose monitors, raising carer fears of 'Dead in Bed syndrome'; Simmonds didn't tell Cabinet of funding halt designed to help pay for tax cuts

After four years, we have over 20,600 subscribers, including 2,520 who pay; We’ll stay focused on housing, climate & poverty in Aotearoa-NZ, but with less news curation & more exploration of solutions

15 May was no 'party'... but the inquiry should look at 20 May... MPs should learn and enforce PUBLICATION of covid 'plans'

Lessons from/for the deep state for those thinking about AI, power, geopolitics and security

The scale of Ottawa's defeat is a jarring and continuing indictment of the capacity of the Canadian state, and the state must reverse this situation, decisively.

Enjoy Canada Day everyone. Get a good rest. You're going to need it.

For Trump and MAGA, violence is a way to change history, just as it was for the Fascists.

My exchanges with Nicolle Wallace and Ali Velshi on MSNBC

The End of Media, Chapter 2: Everything Everywhere

At Montreal's jazz festival, adventures in the unknown

Ingen i uppropet för Gaza brydde sig när den största massakern på judar sedan Förintelsen ägde rum. Inte heller bryr de sig om barnen som Hamas tagit som gisslan. Dubbelmoralen är kväljande.

Författaren Bengt G Nilsson gjorde en helomvändning. Från att stötta palestinierna till att helhjärtat stödja Israel. Alternativet är utplånandet av Israel och dess befolkning, menar han.

Many people in the West have been surprised by the events of the last week in which American TV presenter Tucker Carlson followed his interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin with a series of increasingly bizarre videos. Tucker discovers that Moscow Metro stations are grand and impressive, that Russian supermarkets have shopping carts that can be rented with a coin that you can retrieve on returning the cart, and that food is cheaper in Russia. I don’t wish to bore the time-starved reader by addressing this silliness but if you’re interested, read this footnote

The predictable success of so-called "far right" parties in elections across Europe in recent days–combined with the Reform Party leapfrogging the Tories in one of the latest polls–has, naturally, produced a glut of hyperventilating commentary from the world's media led, as usual, by

The US assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani heaps substantial tension onto an already very tense US-Iranian relationship.

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It told us nothing about the Royal Family and much more about Meghan, Harry and America

Forget left v right. The divide now is between fantasists and realists

This week, the Federal Court of Australia will hear a case with profound implications for women's rights and trans rights. It involves a women's app whose creator is being sued for discrimination by a trans woman because the app is exclusively for biological females. Here, the defendant shares her story.

President Biden’s catastrophic debate performance has left many people worried about his electoral chances against Donald Trump. At this late stage, is there any way out? Here, you get a double feature. In the first half-hour, Josh shares his reaction to the debate and his advice on Democratic messaging. Then the iconic political scientist Yascha Mounk -…

About those truckers…

A response to old guard conservatism

Part 1: How feminine aggression works

My guest today is Elizabeth Oldfield, host of 'The Sacred' podcast and author of a new book, 'Fully Alive: Tending to the Soul in Turbulent Times.' We spoke about the attraction of charismatic Christianity, the ways in which Christianity works in both a feminine and a masculine register, and the joys and challenges of living in intentional communities.…

Do Any Of You Even Remember What You Tried To Do To Us All?

Plus WARRIOR CREED Podcast

How Cancerous Ideas Infiltrated Your Home

Jamaal Bowman, the Representative for New York’s 16th congressional district, has lost his primary election. Bowman was defeated by Westchester County Executive George Latimer, a Democrat, to be sure, but one a little more in tune with the policy preferences of his affluent soon-to-be constituents. This makes Bowman the first member of the infamous “Squad,” a cadre of far-left Democrats including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, to lose his seat. If we are lucky, perhaps this is the beginning of a positive trend. Bowman was a rising star in progressive politics, known for willfully pulling a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C. to delay a budget vote, for which he was formally censured.

US-Russian joint tactical victory, European and Ukrainian defeat

Macron's Massive Gamble, Former AfD Member Krah on European Crisis, Losing Turkey?, Those Darn Post-Liberal Catholics, Rediscovering Fun and the Need For It

Jonathan Haidt thinks so. I’m not so sure.

Listen now | 1:19 Dementia vs senility 5:16 Biden’s brain: a post-debate diagnosis 15:32 Who’s to blame for the Biden problem? 25:40 Biden’s most baffling debate moment 32:40 Will Biden step down? Bob and Paul place their bets 38:37 Has Nick Bostrom flipped on AI doomerism? 42:53 The earthly side of a meditation retreat 49:33 Heading to OvertimeRobert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Paul Bloom (https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net, University of Toronto, The Sweet Spot, Against Empathy). Recorded July 01, 2024.Twitter: https://twitter.com/NonzeroPodsPaul’s Substack: https://smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net

Also: OYL race heats up, Hazel scalpers, close but no cigar on health deal, a ministerial puppy and loads more

Ford Fest is back

This week: some notable Christmases, and some festive maps. But first: sorry, I’m going to get soppy on you.

The general election means the inbox of every journalist in Britain is bursting at the seams.

And roars in the face of collectivist parasites at the World Economic Forum in Davos

French voters reject Macron and the Eurocrats as the Republic falls to riots