![]() ![]() Communities, Immigration, and Decentralization.Can Anyone Define “Woke”? As in “Wokeness”?.Beyond Conservatism: Reclaiming the Radical Roots of Libertarianism.Because Killing Them All Is Not An Option.ATS Predictions That Have Actually Happened and/or Are Happening.Armed Revolution Possible and Not So Difficult.Are Pan-Anarchism and Pan-Secessionism Enough? The Case for Pan-Socratism Against Dogma.Antony Sammeroff Archives: Healthcare and Economics.Anti-Imperialists of the World, Unite! Towards an Anarchist Theory of Geopolitics. ![]() Anarcho-Populism: Not Economically Left/Culturally Right.Anarcho-Pluralism and Pan-Secessionism: What They Are and What They Are Not.Anarchists, Get Up Off Your Asses and Get Moving!.An Anarchist National Defense and Foreign Policy.An Alternative to the American Empire of the New World.American Revolutionary Vanguard Twenty-Five Point Program.America 2021: “Woke Capitalism” and Its Enemies.Am I A Fascist?: An Open Letter to the Left-Wing Anarchist Movement.Always Critique the Dominant Ruling Class’s Ideological Superstructure.Against the State: Anarchist Meta-Politics and Meta-Strategy in the Twenty-First Century.Against Anarcho-Sectarianism: Why All Forms of Anti-Authoritarianism Should Be Embraced.A Calm Anarchist Look at Race, Culture, and Immigration.The demographic picture was only going to get less white going forward, leaving Republicans, as the New York Times put it on Election Night, “contemplating where they now stand in American politics.” Pundits were convinced merely competent leadership by Obama would leave Democrats with a permanent supermajority. ![]() Conventional wisdom held that the combination of massive youth and minority turnout and Obama’s re-conquest of so-called “Reagan Democrat” districts was a knockout blow to Republicans from which they’d never recover. Obama’s “realigning” victory put his party in full control of the state, armed with a whopping 78-seat advantage in the House and a 59-41 edge in the Senate. When Barack Obama was elected on November 4th, 2008, America’s political landscape appeared altered permanently. But first, a few words about Meltdown, whose central themes I covered for nearly a decade in Rolling Stone, and in books like Griftopia and The Divide. In the interview below, you’ll hear the Useful Idiots interview of David about the series. I consulted on the project and you’ll hear my voice on several of the episodes, along with contemporary witnesses like Neil Barofsky, the former Inspector General of the TARP bailout. ![]() The subject is one of the great taboos in modern mainstream media, which makes the sheer breadth of the series all the more satisfying: the Democratic Party’s botched response to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, and the political consequences that followed. He developed it in conjunction with Oscar-winning documentarian Alex Gibney, of Taxi to the Dark Side and Client 9 fame. Meltdown, released on Audible yesterday, is an investigative audio series that’s been an obsession of my friend David’s for years. “When this comes out, I’ll have absolutely none.” “What’s really cool is I have very few friends in DC,” says Meltdown podcast creator David Sirota. Interview with David Sirota, creator of the new Audible podcast series about the aftereffects of the 2008 financial crash, produced by Oscar-winner Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions. ![]()
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