Attack the System- The Sunday — August 23 24th August 2026The Sunday — August 23 By Tangle Staff • 23 Aug 2026 View in browser This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading. What the right is doodling. Gary Varvel | Creators Syndicate […] The post The Sunday — August […]Keith Preston
- Is the US—Israel’s Golem—Being Booted Out of West Asia? 24th August 2026Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now Is the US—Israel’s Golem—Being Booted Out of West Asia? New regional security arrangements exclude US, focus on threat from Greater Israel Kevin Barrett Aug 23 READ IN APP Rumble link Bitchute link Press TV Iran says it has received […] The post Is the US—Israel’s Golem—Being […]Keith Preston
- Build an anti-imperialist movement! The only option 24th August 2026Join the Center for Political Innovation: https://www.cpiusa.org/join-cpi NEW BOOK “Imperialism & Anti-Imperialism: Key Writings and Lectures” https://amazon.com/dp/B0H2F6L19H Join Caleb Maupin for a live discussion on why building a powerful anti-imperialist movement is the only way forward in an era of escalating wars, economic instability, and a rapidly changing […] The post Build an anti-imperialist movement! […]Keith Preston
- The Sunday — August 23 24th August 2026
- Samizdata
- Infantile fantasists run our economy 23rd August 2026Liam Halligan lays out a lot of home truths.Thomas Fairfax (Yorkshire)
- Samizdata quote of the day – It’s not a mystery why so many hate the BBC 22nd August 2026I can answer this simply. William Shakespeare doesn’t send me a monthly letter threatening to send the boys round if I don’t give him money for something I don’t want, don’t need and don’t use. However, less flippantly, the BBC’s bias is blindingly obvious to anyone who takes even a passing look. The most egregious […]Thomas Fairfax (Yorkshire)
- Samizdata quote of the day – thou shalt not say ‘nigger’ if white (even if asked to) 21st August 2026The N-word is very much the ultimate trigger-word right now. Despite this being a full article about this precise epithet, I am unable to easily use it. Just to be safe from malicious prosecution or algorithmic suppression, even free speech websites like the Daily Sceptic will generally use asterisks to obscure it as ‘n****r’, even […]Samizdata Illuminatus (Arkham, Massachusetts)
- Infantile fantasists run our economy 23rd August 2026
- Wisdom Dancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them(An extension of a few points I mentioned in this video concerning education.) So-called educational systems teach young students what to believe, how to behave, and perhaps skills deemed necessary—not to question. (To a considerable degree, teaching what to believe … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Excerpt: a chorus of the living, an orchestra of echoesA brief excerpt taken from Book III of Volume I of The Constellation of Man. These metaphors, like others I use in the book, introduce realism concerning the novelty of our personal appearance on preconstructed stages of history and human culture, atop mind … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- The Liberating Value of ReconciliationTwo things amaze me, again and again, about American enthusiasm for rancor in politics. I. Vengeance welcomes and relishes any opportunities to humiliate or oppress one’s opponents, but shows no foresight of how this creates a precedent—a legal and cultural … Continue reading →Wisdomdancer
- Systems indoctrinate, deprecate questioning and doubt, produce reactive citizens, and blame them
- Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John GrauerholzThere are particular geographic locations that, for one inexplicable reason or another, seem […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- YOUR OWN MEDICAL RECORD WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU 29th April 2021by John Grauerholz Your medical record is something that will always be used against you. Your medical history only exists to record your physical humiliations. A doctor is not there to cure you, but to cause you as much consternation as possible. A physician’s role is not to heal a patient of your ilk, but […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- THE FUTURE OPPRESSES US 24th March 2021Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:8.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:107%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} by John Grauerholz It is the future that persecutes us. The communitarians would have us break […]Mr. Mean-Spirited
- VISITING THE REMAINS OF BENJAMIN DECASSERES IN TUCSON 31st May 2021
- The Hoover Hog
- Wandering Near Sawtry
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020One might think that few people were more annoyed by the 2019 British general election than the conservative author and commentator Ed West. Here he was, preparing to publish his book Small Men on the Wrong Side of History (Little, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- In Defence of Andrew Sabisky… 16th February 2020The first time I met Andrew Sabisky we walked through central London for hours and neither his energy or my interest flagged. This is a rare combination. There are people who can talk for a long time and there are … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- 2019 14th December 2019I began this decade in London, a physical wreck, mentally ruined, almost friendless and facing the grim realisation that not only was “creative writing” a titanically stupid course to pick but my writing sucked. As bad as all this was, … Continue reading →bsixsmith
- A Review of Ed West’s “Small Men on the Wrong Side of History”… 21st February 2020
- Razib Khan
- Collin Hogue-Spears: How AI Works in China 23rd August 2026Today, Razib talks to Collin Hogue-Spears, a cybersecurity and artificial intelligence governance expert with more than 20 years of experience in technology, product management, federal compliance and software security. Hogue-Spears is an independent researcher and the author of From Lab to Life: How AI Works in China. His analysis has appeared in publications including The Wall Street Journal and Politico. […]Razib Khan, Collin Hogue-Spears
- Gabriel Rossman: the late marvelous Dr. Arday and the state of sociology 21st August 2026What Arday says about academiaRazib Khan
- The rise of the hopeful monsters: the true story of humanity 20th August 2026New revelations in human origins through genomicsRazib Khan
- Collin Hogue-Spears: How AI Works in China 23rd August 2026
- Entitled to an Opinion
- Band of Brothers 18th July 2026More than a decade prior to reading Stephen Ambrose’s book about Easy Company, I had seen the miniseries. That was so good that when I subsequently binged the 21st century reboot of Battlestar Galactica, I enjoyed it far less than most and repeatedly thought that, by comparison, those fictional characters in an existential struggle were […]teageegeepea
- The Monkey Cage is archived 9th June 2026I would occassionally link to the group blog by Andrew Gelman and other political scientists, but at some point it was acquired by the Washington Post and went behind a paywall, and eventually went defunct while I wasn’t reading it. Now Andrew points out that somebody has archived it (or at least much of it) […]teageegeepea
- Double Star 2nd June 2026The last time I reviewed a Heinlein novel, I linked to Josh Wimmer’s “Blogging the Hugos” review in the comments, but in this case I will do so in this first sentence because that is how I heard of Double Star in the first place. In that review Wimmer refers to it as “the first […]teageegeepea
- Band of Brothers 18th July 2026
- Evolutionist X
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021Like the uncollapsed quantum state holding Schrodinger’s cat in a state of simultaneous life and death, whether a school is “teaching critical race theory” or not seems to depend entirely on whether the inquiring person wants them to. Are you anti-CRT? Then, you may rest assured, American schools most certainly aren’t teaching CRT. (If you […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, by T. E. Lawrence 26th June 2021Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. — Proverbs 9:1 T. E. Lawrence is the Lawrence, of Arabia, and Seven Pillars of Wisdom is his autobiographical account of his time spent serving in the British and Arab armies during World War One. If you’ve seen the movie, you’ve got the […]evolutiontheorist
- Review: Lawrence in Arabia 10th June 2021Scott Anderson’s Lawrence in Arabia is, quite obviously, about the famous T. E. Lawrence “of” Arabia. The book ranges significantly wider than Lawrence’s personal account, however, shifting between the perspectives of Ottoman officials, German spies, American spies, Zionist spies, and of course British spies. I read this book concurrently with The Berlin-Baghdad Express, so my […]evolutiontheorist
- To Critical Race Theory, or not to Critical Race Theory? 5th July 2021
- Human Stupidity
- Der Geist (Union of Egoists)
- The Real Meaning of Sabotage: A 1913 IWW Classic by Gerald O. Desmond 10th February 2026This essay, “The Significance of Sabotage,” is reprinted from Industrial Worker, Volume 5, Issue 12, June 12, 1913. The Industrial Worker was the official newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.). The author, Gerald O. Desmond, is believed to be one of the many pseudonyms used by Arthur Desmond, who is best known […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- The Freewoman by Rebecca West 9th October 2025From Time and Tide for July 16, 1926 pp. 648-649 I have been asked to write an account of the Freewoman, and those who asked me were wise, for that paper, unimportant as it was in content, – and amateurish in form, had an immense effect on its time. But unfortunately, I have forgotten nearly […]Trevor Blake
- Little Black Cart/Ardent Press (R.I.P.) + Union of Egoists + Underworld Amusements 27th June 2024On December 31, 2023 the Berkeley anarchist publisher and distributor Little Black Cart / Ardent Press closed shop after many years of the project producing fascinating and challenging work, often finding it brought them at odds with many in the anarchist milieu they operated in. After the Underworld Amusements edition of The Unique and Its […]Kevin I. Slaughter
- The Real Meaning of Sabotage: A 1913 IWW Classic by Gerald O. Desmond 10th February 2026
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Be a Law-Abiding, Carbon-Free Citizen – or ELSE!!
Jeez, can these politicos snivel ever the more sanctimoniously? I watched Question Time last night, listening to the bleeding-heart parliament peons joust on the subject of global warming. "Only a fool would contest that this a man-made phenomenon…." "We should … Continue reading
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Protected: Unbelievable!! My Friends Become Enemies Whilst Enemies Could Become…..Friends ?!?
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Big Brother Britain: Episode 23,655,656,989 (aka The Case of the Fucked-Up Fine)
There should never…ever…be a ban on cursing…fucking ever… – Mistress Strangelove (aka Meli) It amazes me what a little conversation between friends brings up…. As my friend Al Dogg and I returned from seeing Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (which comes … Continue reading
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Tragicomic TV!! Does NHS stand for ‘Necrophiliac Health Service’?
Now I know what the spoils of my payslip’s rape (i.e. income tax) contribute toward…. I see that the NHS has revived its ‘Giving Up Smoking’ campaign – hmm, I wonder what spurred that, eh? My first exposure to it? … Continue reading
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Puff-etic!
Looks like the smoking ban I mentioned in an earlier post has now gone and got the big OK from the pious prigs of Parliament . A clear and unambiguous margin of 200 – don’t you just love democracy, ladies … Continue reading
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Summation! The Past Week Justifies the Great Contempt!
It seems that a richness of the contemptible characterized many of the major news stories which broke over the past week…. Nonce-nse First in my line of fire stands Ruth Kelly, the British Secretary of State for Education; it would … Continue reading
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Smoked-Out…..
This is probably a week late, but what-the-hey….. I’m sure that most, if not all, of my UK readers know of the public smoking ban, due to take effect within the next year or two. Now I could go into … Continue reading
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Anarchy, Authoritarianism & Autonomy with Violence Jack
In light of recent events, I decided to review an animé often overlooked and dismissed as brainless trash and give it the justice it duly deserves…. Imagine the town, city or country you live in is hit by a natural … Continue reading
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Protectors or Predators?
I doubt I’m the only one more than a little disturbed by the police shooting dead that Brazilian bloke last week. Three things stuck out: 1) He had nada to do with any terrorist activity, as was suspected by the … Continue reading
