From the BBC. _____________ By Owen Bowcott Julian Assange has lost his appeal against extradition to Sweden at the supreme court. By a majority of five to two, the justices decided that a public prosecutor was “judicial authority” and that therefore his arrest warrant had been lawfully issued. […]
Salon reports on the latest Stateside sin tax. ________________ By Tracy Clark-Flory It used to be that strip clubs were merely blamed for society’s ills. Now they’re actually being charged for it. In recent years, measures have been introduced in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Texas, Illinois and, most recently, California […]
wired.com Robert Beckhusen The logo for Sabritas, a Mexican snack chip subsidiary of PepsiCo, which saw dozens of vehicles and five warehouses burned by a drug cartel this month. Photo: chrizar/Flickr Mexican drug cartels are not strictly drug cartels. One of their fastest-growing markets is extortion of private […]
From the Guardian. In other news, Gary Glitter has been appointed chairman of UNICEF… _______________ by David Smith With a line-up that includes Drew Barrymore, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, and Ricky Martin, the UN’s choice of ambassadors has been known to cause raised eyebrows or the odd smirk. […]
RT.com Around 12,000 troops from more than 19 nations are wrapping up a massive military training drill in the Middle East. But for some of those servicemen, these exercises might be just the beginning of something much bigger to come. The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan are […]
http://vimeo.com/9984373 Blow Back – The Costs and Consequences of American Empire
By C. Derick Varn An Open Letter To Much of the So-Called Left: I am a man of the left. Make no mistake about it, I am a man of the fair left even. I have vaguely liberal social sensibilities, and a hard left politics. I have, however, […]
By Rob Urie Renewed criticism of Black Bloc anarchists (link) ties in a tangential way to the arrest on terrorism charges of three youths in Chicago prior to recent anti-NATO protests. The anarchists raise the question of the legitimate use of violence to achieve political ends. The arrest […]
By Laura Flanders Noam Chomsky has not just been watching the Occupy movement. A veteran of the civil rights, anti-war, and anti-intervention movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, he’s given lectures at Occupy Boston and talked with occupiers across the US. A new publication from theOccupied Media […]
From the Daily Mail. Fuck the State, fuck these Stasi cunts, and fuck the Olympics! _________________ By James Slack Police have been handed ‘Chinese-style’ powers to enter private homes and seize political posters during the London 2012 Olympics. Little-noticed measures passed by the Government will allow officers and […]
From the Guardian. Such views always remind me of this cartoon… I’m sure the Jacobin paternalists on the Continent would love to tell Nadiya how “oppressed” she is… _______________ by Nadiya Takolia When you think of the hijab, you probably don’t think “political”. Or “independent”. Or “empowered”. Feminist? […]
By Gavin McInnes Like the French language, the liberal brain works in reverse. Where we say “the red book,” the French say “le livre rouge.” They start with a blank book and work backwards to fill it in with rouge. Liberals start with, “All men are created equal” […]
By Jim Goad I have trouble accepting the idea that Hitler was a vegetarian. He just didn’t seem that pushy. Apparently others feel the same way. When I started typing “pushy vegetarians” on Google, it auto-filled the rest after “pushy v—.” Of all the annoying identity movements under […]
By Sean Gabb At the beginning of April 2012, the BBC and a couple of newspapers reported that the British Government was considering a new surveillance law. This would allow it to monitor the telephone calls, text messages, e-mails and website visits of everyone in the United Kingdom. […]
By Justin Raimondo We might as well get rid of Memorial Day, for all the good it does us. Originally “Decoration Day,” the last Monday in May has been the designated time for us to remember the war dead and honor their sacrifice – while, perhaps, taking in […]
By David McElroy It’s Memorial Day in the United States, a day we set aside to remember men and women who’ve died in wars. Politicians make a lot of speeches today and lay a lot of wreaths, but the best way to honor the fallen would be to […]
From the Tehran Times KUALA LUMPUR — It’s official — George W. Bush is a war criminal. In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former president of the United States and seven key members of his administration were found guilty […]
By David Swanson (Remarks prepared for Richmond Peace Education Center Event in Richmond, Va., May 24, 2012) I have a friend who’s a compulsive liar. OK it’s not a friend. It’s my television. And my newspaper. According to them, the United States, as one among equals, in coalition […]
By Glenn Greenwald President Barack Obama waves upon his arrival at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) In 2006, The New York Times‘ James Risen and Eric Lichtblau wonthe Pulitzer Prize for their December, 2005 article revealing that the Bush administration was eavesdropping on the […]
By Jim Goad American culture reached Peak Beta last week as three privileged white-male pundits wrote essays declaring that privileged white males suck. Lifelong morbidly obese bitchy lesbian Roger Ebert apparently dismantled the presumably elaborate series of pulleys and harnesses that enable him to orally service his adiposely domineering, melanin-drenched wife in […]
By Hannah Rand An eleventh grader in Texas was thrown in jail – just for missing school. However, honour student Diane Tran, 17, is no lazy truant. In fact, she’s quite the opposite. Since her parents divorced and left her and her two siblings, she has been the […]
Tom Naylor is interviewed by Anthony Wile The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas H. Naylor (left). Introduction: Thomas H. Naylor, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, is a writer and a political activist who has taught at Middlebury College and the University of […]
TEACHER YELLS AT STUDENT: CRIMINAL OFFENSE TO CRITICIZE OBAMA An audio recording of an exchange between a teacher and a student at North Rowan High School in North Carolina serves as a reminder that the school system is becoming a training ground for teaching kids to be […]
By Declan McCullagh The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications. The establishment of the Quantico, Va.-based unit, which is also staffed by agents from the U.S. Marshals […]
By Kevin Carson I’m not a Marxist, but I find a lot of Marx’s ideas useful. Old Karl certainly had a gift for turning a phrase. Nobody who could come up with something as Proudhonian as “the associated producers” could be all bad. One of his best in […]
By Larry Welborn and Lou Ponsi THE LATEST: Dr. Michael Lekawa, a trauma surgeon at UCI Medical Center in Orange, spent most of the morning on the witness stand in the preliminary hearing into the death of transient Kelly Thomas. John Barnett, the attorney for Fullerton police Officer […]
By John Robb Hat tip to NATA-NY. There’s no question that the Occupy groups have done a great job with constructing the outlines ofresilient communities in the heart of many of our most dense urban areas. People pitch in to do work. They are considerate despite the difficulty of […]
Tim Minchin’s wet dreams may yet *ahem* come to fruition. Not content with importing their daytime soaps, the UK looks set to contract AIDS (Acquired Imperative Democracy Syndrome) from the Aussies. Will Airstrip One become another Saudi Arabia of Democracy? It certainly seems to be on that road… […]
The boys (and girls) who cried Wolfsangel…. From Taki Mag… _______________ by Gavin McInnes It was a tough week for racial witch hunters. In fact, it’s been a tough quarter-century for them. Reality keeps knocking the liberal media off its high horse. When they picked up the Trayvon […]
By Justin Raimondo A recent Rasmussen poll has 51 percent of Americans favoring the pullout of all US troops from Europe – and yet not a single major American politician would even consider endorsing such a move. Why is that? I thought politicians were supposed to be consummate opportunists, whose […]
By Anthony Gregory If President Obama has his way, the last U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan could be Americans born five years after 9/11. The administration has signed a pact to maintain a military presence there until 2024. After initially claiming the rumors of such a deal were false, the administration […]
By Paul Gottfried Jonah Goldberg in his new collection of meditations, The Tyranny of Clichés: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas and Andrew Ferguson in his latest Weekly Standard opinion piece “The New Phrenology” complain how the other side gets nasty when depicting its well-meaning opponents. This bothers our “conservative” […]
By Kevin Carson A Twitter friend of mine recently recounted a conversation with another friend — not a self-described anarchist — who spontaneously concluded that voting was useless. “I think it’s insane to think that people who are in the kind of power that only government and capitalism […]
Well, it certainly lived up to its name: gotta respect HAG’s integrity! From Yahoo UK… _______________ By Vanessa Green For the second time in two months a customer has collapsed at the infamous Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas mid-meal, and been carted off to hospital. The unlucky […]
This amuses me on many a level. From the Huffington Post… _____________ Over five centuries after the famed explorer’s death, historians are taking a fresh look at what motivated Christopher Columbus to make his voyage across the Atlantic — and how his faith may have played into those […]
By Alexander Cockburn The news is in. White births are no longer a majority in the United States. The Bureau of the Census confirms that non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 of all births in the year ending July, 2011, while minorities including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of […]
By Jake Olzen The old trope of the bomb-throwing anarchist is back in the news, with a round-up in Ohio on May 1 and the three would-be NATO protesters arrested on Wednesday who are now charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism. While the impression that appears in the media is […]
By Paul Atwood The Great Recession is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and, like the aftermath of Katrina, or the BP calamity, or the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, is a man-made disaster. Many signs point to worse tidings. Many of us who live in this […]
By Paul Craig Roberts The US financial system and, probably, the financial system of Europe, like the police, no longer serves a useful social purpose. In the US the police have proven themselves to be a greater threat to public safety than private sector criminals. I just googled […]
By Kevin Carson Many Occupy supporters on the Left express concern that it could be coopted by the mainstream institutional Left and harnessed to a political agenda of NPR liberalism. The recent prominence of Van Johnson’s Rebuild the Dream and MoveOn.org seems to provide at least superficial justification […]
By David D’Amato “President Barack Obama,” Fox News reports, “says the big trading loss at JPMorgan Chase shows the need for Congress to put more teeth into Wall Street reforms.” Touting the new rules, the President stated that the goal is to “discourage big banks and financial institutions from […]
By Kevin Carson Rob Reiner, in a recent interview with Chris Matthews, showed that while he may have moved on to directing and producing, he’s still a comedic actor at heart. Reiner, best known as Archie’s son-in-law “Meathead” on “All in the Family,” told Matthews — with a […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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