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The Ghost of Ali Shariati Dances with the Epstein Empire

Trump has seriously fucked up in the Middle East this time, and even he knows it. In the first two weeks alone of Bibi and Donald’s latest savage...

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Queer Requiem

If it’s February, then some liberal white dude is probably telling you about Black history and he’s probably totally missing the point, going on...

05.03.2026 4

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It’s the Epstein Files, Stupid: Using Empire to Distract from Vice

One might be forgiven for assuming that the man in the White House is a lunatic and Donald J. Trump certainly couldn’t be confused with the picture...

20.02.2026 40

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From Greenland to the Great Lakes, Secession is Our Best Hope for Escaping Tyranny

“We will have everything we want; we’re getting everything we want, at no cost!” the President of Babylon barked triumphantly over his latest...

13.02.2026 10

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We All Need to Have a Serious Conversation About Revolution

Well, it’s official dearest motherfuckers, America has become the world’s largest third world dictatorship. If the first two months of 2026...

09.02.2026 10

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Palestine Doesn’t Need Another Oslo: Could Hamas Become the New Fatah?

It stuck. Donald Trump nailed it. The impossible peace deal that will remake the Middle East in his own gawdy gilded image. After just over two years...

26.11.2025 6

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You Don’t Have to Be a Lefty to Stand with Venezuela

Once upon a time, not so long ago, I was a goddamn commie, and I’m not talking Bernie Sanders here. I’m talking hardcore, blood-red,...

14.11.2025 10

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A Samhain Message to an Embattled Trans Youth

Thousands of years ago, on the sacred rock from which my ancestors fled, this season of the year was celebrated as Samhain, an ancient Celtic festival...

07.11.2025 10

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Harsh Lessons Christian Nationalists Could Learn from Folk Horror

Christianity is back and it’s more violent than ever. I speak, of course, of the late capitalist tent house revival of Christian Nationalism amongst...

24.10.2025 7

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The Project for a New Israeli Century

In case you haven’t noticed, Israel seems to be at war with pretty much fucking everybody right now and they show little sign of slowing down...

26.09.2025 8

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American Radicals Cannot Afford to Ignore the Epstein Scandal

Not long after Donald Trump had the Department of Justice unceremoniously torpedo its own investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the President’s...

05.09.2025 10

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Youth Rights Are Queer Rights

2025 has been a hard year to be Queer in this necrotic empire but it has been a downright horrific year to be a Queer kid and tragically, in many...

27.06.2025 9

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Why I Can’t Celebrate Pride This Year

If you’ve read more than a few of my rants, then you are probably already painfully aware that I am a Queer person and that I take this identity...

20.06.2025 6

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Meet the New Pope, Same as the Last Pope (…and the Last Pope)

Ana Maria was a nine-year-old girl from a little town called Chiclayo, Peru in 2007 when the Catholic Church robbed her of her childhood. She didn’t...

23.05.2025 5

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Panarchy is the Universal Peace Deal

The winds of March are roaring and everywhere you look peace is in the air, or at least that’s the impression you might get from eyeballing the...

04.04.2025 4

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Martin’s Dream Has Become Malcolm’s Nightmare

Dr. Martin Luther King had a dream, and it sounded pretty fucking sweet on the radio. Even a bitter post-everything anarchist like me gets a little...

21.02.2025 6

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A Depressed Anarchist’s Guide Surviving Winter

In case you haven’t noticed, dearest motherfuckers, my mental health is kind of a hot mess. OCD, ADHD, CPTSD, OSDID, all on top of LGBT and just a...

17.01.2025 8

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In 2025 We Must All Fight Like the Few People Who Didn’t Suck in 2024

I have been writing this annual post celebrating a handful of people who have achieved the impossible and miraculously failed to suck over the last...

10.01.2025 6

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How Imperialism Stole Christianity and Why We Should Steal It Back

I haven’t exactly kept my fraught history with organized Christianity a secret. In fact, in keeping with my weird tradition of publishing my...

03.01.2025 9

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A Few Lessons that Anti-Imperialists Should Learn from the Collapse of Assad

I’ve been closely following the labyrinthine chaos in the Levant for most of my adult life now and I honestly didn’t see this latest twist coming,...

27.12.2024 10

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How Holocaust Survivors Become Holocaust Revivors

I realize that I’ve said this before but there really is no more room left for interpretation. Israel is engaged in a concerted effort to...

20.12.2024 8

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