Moon of Alabama Early this week a few amateur stock trading nerds decided to promote a stock that was heavily shorted by certain hedge funds. The idea was to raise the stock price of Game Stop Corp., a vendor for computer games, by having lots of small stock traders to buy into it. The hedge […]

Max Blumenthal [January 29, 2021] A movement that formed on Reddit groups to challenge challenge billionaire hedge funders with coordinated buys of failing companies has exposed the un-democratic foundations of US capitalism. Max Blumenthal visits a spontaneous protest outside the Securities and Exchange Commission after online investing companies like Robinhood blocked trades in Gamestop to […]

David Matthews is a writer whose work has appeared in The Sunday Times, The Mail on Sunday and the Observer, and on the BBC and Channel 4. He is the author of several books, including Voices of the Windrush Generation. Follow him on Twitter @mrdavematthews. The vituperative game of accusation and counter-accusation being played out online by […]

Tucker Carlson warns Democrats’ suppression of dissent, divisive rhetoric will lead to ‘scary’ repercussions. #FoxNews​ #Tucker https://youtu.be/xdA-4eiCIe8

RT Internet commenters have decried the rise of social justice-fueled intolerance, after a woman was purportedly fired from her job simply for having accounts on conservative-leaning social media platforms. Colleen Oefelein, an associate literary agent with the New York City-based Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, was sacked after her boss learned that she owned accounts […]

Jim Hoft [The Gateway Pundit] (Photo: The “Killing Fields” of Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. During that time millions of Cambodians died of starvation, execution, disease or overwork during the reeducation and “transformation” of Cambodia into the “ideal” society. Pol Pot was ideologically a Marxist–Leninist and a Khmer nationalist. He […]

RT Panelists on ABC struggled to one-up each other in over-the-top comparisons between the end of Trump’s presidency and the downfalls of infamous totalitarian regimes, pushing the usual Trump-as-Hitler comparisons to the limit. <snip> “Other countries have gone through this before – Germany, Japan, South Africa,” Republican political strategist Matthew Dowd insisted during Sunday’s ‘This […]

Helen Buyniski [RT} A former FBI profiler recently took to NBC to complain that while Big Tech restricting Americans’ ability to freely communicate was all well and good, it was making it harder for the US intelligence apparatus to properly snoop on every aspect of these people’s lives. FBI alum Clint Van Zandt complained that […]

https://off-guardian.org/2021/01/20/discuss-inauguration-day/ Sample comment below: Schmitz Katze Jan 21, 2021 7:58 AM Americans know how to put on a show, one has to give it to them. One could almost be fooled into thinking it was a normal inauguration. They had the chutzpah to call it „celebrating America“. My husband stayed up to watch Bruce Springsteen […]

  ‘Imagine a new form of totalitarian government, composed of people who have been educated into believing that they hold a superior intellect and morality to their own constituents. Imagine a new form of government so convinced of its virtue mandate, that its own constituents are now the enemy, and no longer foreign invaders or […]