From The Onion. ——————————————————————————————————- DANBURY, CT—After learning that he had been laid off Friday by global conglomerate Honeywell International, senior sales associate Edward Morway expressed relief that his employer of 14 years would be able to scrape by. “When [department head] John [Condos] called me into his office […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. —————————————————————————————————– These are discouraging times, but once in a blue moon a bit of hope appears. I am pleased to report on the bit of hope delivered in March of 2011 by Michael Spence, a Nobel prize-winning economist, assisted by Sandile Hlatshwayo, a […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————- It’s remarkable, considering how frequently our politicians and cable news commentariat remind us of the “free market” we live in, just how existentially unfree things seem down here where the rubber meets the road. We constantly see the Washington Consensus and the neoliberal […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————— A few days ago, the G8 — that cabal of states with the world’s most powerful economies — issued an appropriately preachy statement saying, among other things, “[Gaddafi] has no future in a free, democratic Libya. He must go.” That statement follows after […]
Article by Gavin McInnes. ——————————————————————————————————– Ever hang out with an old dude? They’re pretty great. They’re not self-obsessed the way boomers are. They’re not “over it” the way Generation X is, and they’re not completely tuned-out like the kids today. Here are ten more great things about them: […]
Jim Goad kicks ass as always. ——————————————————————————————————- Jim Goad is the author of The Redneck Manifesto and a contributor to Taki Magazine. Mr. Goad explains different taboos in modern society and why and how the word redneck has become the symbol of evil for liberal do -gooders and […]
From The Gonzo Times. —————————————————————————————————— 1 – The Land Monopoly – The enforcement by government of land titles which do not rest upon occupancy and use. This monopoly is immoral for various reasons since it violates just ownership. Just ownership over a natural resource is validated when an […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. This is what I was telling all of my liberal and progressive friends back in 2008. —————————————————————————————————— If in 2008 someone had said that Obama’s war policy would be more belligerent and costlier than another round of Bush’s, nearly no one would have believed […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. The progressives haven’t changed much. ——————————————————————————————————- Roger Baldwin, ACLU chairman, was instructed by the ACLU Board that “local committees are not free to sponsor cases in which the position taken is that the government has no constitutional right to remove citizens from military areas.” […]
Article by Jack Ross. ——————————————————————————————————— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s newest tactic in advancing the Likud Party’s hawkish approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is his demand, first enunciated in his response to Barack Obama’s June 2009 Cairo Speech and now an ubiquitous talking point, that Israel be recognized by […]
From EndoftheAmericanDream.Com: ——————————————————————————————————— In the United States today, our public schools are not very good at educating our students, but they sure are great training grounds for learning how to live in a Big Brother police state control grid. Sadly, life in many U.S. public schools is now […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. —————————————————————————————————— The idea that corporate interests, banking elites, and politicians conspire to set US policy is at once obvious and beyond the pale. Everyone knows that the military-industrial complex is fat and corrupt, that presidents bestow money and privilege on their donors and favored […]
Article by Liz Goodwin. ——————————————————————————————————– A slew of big-name former politicians are endorsing a report that says the war on drugs is not working and that drug enforcement policy needs to fundamentally change. The Global Commission on Drug Policy will urge a “paradigm shift” that emphasizes public health […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. —————————————————————————————————– The culture of the United States is said to be a youth culture, which is defined in terms of entertainment: sex, rock music or its current equivalent, violent video games, sports, and TV reality shows. This culture has transformed the country and […]
Article by Gavin McInnes. ——————————————————————————————————— All these sad truths were racing through my head the other night when my buddy Curtis Brown told me the story of Clifford King. Curtis owned a Mexican restaurant in LA called Territory Barbecue & Records. During smoke breaks out back, he got […]
From MRDA’s Inferno. —————————————————————————————————— Now, I don’t deny that certain faces ‘n’ figures elicit more—sometimes many more—raised cocks and/or moistened cunts than others; neither will I contest that some folks inspire forlorn gazes and filthy fantasies wherever on the globe they go. However such popularity, even on a […]
Article by Stephen Walt. —————————————————————————————————– All told, this has not been a good month for war criminals, international terrorists, and tyrannical despots. To be specific: Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, Ratko Mladic has been captured in Serbia, Muammar Qaddafi’s forces are gradually wilting (and it’s hard […]
Lew Rockwell interviews William Norman Grigg. Paramilitary police are a relatively recent state invention. They’ve metastasized into a domestic occupation force, enhancing government, institutionalizing injustice, plundering with permission, Tasing with perversion, cloaked in full immunity, and not protecting people. Whatever you do, don’t call 911. As a mundane, […]
So much for small town America as citadels of prejudice and intolerance. ——————————————————————————————————— Becoming prom queen at Blacksburg High got harder this year. Young women aspiring to wear the tiara don’t just have to worry about the other girls anymore – guys can become prom queen at the […]
Article by Xeni Jardin. ——————————————————————————————————- Via CNN and other sources today, the revolting news that a senior Egyptian general admits so-called “virginity checks” (presumably, forcible examination of the hymen) were performed on women arrested in at least one demonstration this spring. Previously, military authorities denied it. Now, […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————— The Political Compass, a popular online quiz, was supposedly designed to remedy the simple-mindedness of the left-right spectrum by replacing it with two axes: political and social libertarianism vs. authoritarianism, and economic Left vs. Right. Basically, everything nice you say about big business […]
Article by Darian Worden. ——————————————————————————————————- A report in the Guardian reveals that the British Ministry of Defense has trained, and continues to train, the Saudi Arabian force that helped suppress demonstrations in Bahrain earlier this year (“UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring,” 28 May 2011). […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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