Victorian Pan Secessionism: Birmingham’s Civic Gospel
by Spencer Pearson
Could a tiny group of determined people challenge the power of the state and enact
Naturalnews.com: Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge
From Banoosh The reports are absolutely true. Facebook suspended the Natural News account earlier today after we posted an historical quote from Mohandas Gandhi. The quote reads: “Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms […]
The Politics of Thelema
From Far Right to Far Left — and Farther — With Karl Hess
By John Boyd This text was originally published in The New York Times Magazine, December 6, 1970. Many thanks to E. for sending me this text. — François-René Rideau James Boyd, a freelance writer, is executive director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Washington, D.C. On a […]
Hagel vs Totalitarian Humanism
By Paul Gottfried I’ve no idea how former Nebraska senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran Chuck Hagel became President Obama’s preferred nominee for the job of Secretary of Defense. But when I learned about Hagel’s prospects, I was delighted. A social conservative with a skeptical view of America’s […]
Ex-President George H.W. Bush in Intensive Care
Schwarzkopf’s former partner in crime isn’t doing so well, either. Voice of America Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has been moved to an intensive care unit at a hospital in Houston, Texas. The former president, 88, was admitted to the hospital last month suffering from bronchitis. His […]
Rot in Hell, Norman Schwarzkopf, Mass Murderer and War Criminal
MSN.Com 11 min ago By Lolita C. Baldor “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf commanded the U.S.-led international coalition in Desert Storm. He was 78.
Pedos in the Pentagon
It’s Time to Put Noam Chomsky Out to Pasture
Sorry, Noam, your previous efforts against the empire are appreciated, but it’s time for you to step aside, dude. ““Let’s move towards a kind of society where April 15 is a day of celebration.” -Noam Chomsky In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky, perhaps the most famous anarchist alive, […]
Saving the Free Market from Big Business and Big Government
By William Ruger Luigi Zingales photo: House Republican Conference (CC BY-NC 2.0) In 1934, University of Chicago economist Henry C. Simons published a seminal policy pamphlet titled A Positive Program for Laissez Faire. An early leader of the so-called Chicago School of economics, Simons laid out in this […]
The Coming Drone Attack on America
By Naomi Wolf People often ask me, in terms of my argument about “ten steps” that mark the descent to a police state or closed society, at what stage we are. I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of […]
How Blasphemy Laws Are Stifling Free Expression Worldwide
By Jillian C. York EFF.org December 24, 2012 As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012 and discussing where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. Click here to read […]
Gun Control and Genocide
By Gary North Sunday, April 24th marked the 90th anniversary of the first genocide of the twentieth century: the Turkish government’s slaughter of over a million unarmed Armenians. The key word is “unarmed.” The Turks got away with it under the cover of wartime. They suffered no greater […]
Letters to an Elf King
by Steven Saragian
I hope that everyone at Attack the System and all of our readers are enjoying the many feasts and festivals designed to stop people from killing themselves during this dark and dreary
Idle No More: Perspectives
by Vince Rinehart
In case you haven’t heard, a social movement among Native people has begun in Canada, protesting against the Conservative Government’s budget bill which would cut
Our people were always armed
From Lingit Latseen by Vince Rinehart Gun control is not for Native people. It is for people who can’t or won’t take on the sacred duty to protect their families, their people, their lands and their way of life. When I was 13 I attended a gathering of […]
Meanwhile, in Mexico: Thousands of Masked Zapatistas March
Warrior Purblications Zapatistas: “to be heard, we march in silence” by Leonidas Oikonomakis on December 21, 2012 The Zapatistas are back! Flowing like the water of the river that beats the sword. And while some were anticipating the Christmas holidays, some others the end of the Maya calendar, […]
Karl Hess’s “Anarchism Without Hyphens”
Why I Don’t Much Like Liberals
By Kevin Carson Although people like Bill O’Reilly habitually refer to establishment liberals as the “far Left,” they are two very different things. What we identify as mid-20th century, New Deal liberalism is rooted in the Progressivism of the turn of the 20th century. The Progressives came largely […]
Tennessee Is Considering A Plan To Secretly Arm Teachers
Evan McMorris-Santoro TPM Tennessee has emerged this week as a center of the “the answer is more guns in schools” sentiment following the Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting. A member of the Republican-controlled legislature plans during its upcoming session to introduce a bill that would allow the state […]
Mass shooting in Pennsylvania: At least four reported dead
rt.com Mass shooting in Pennsylvania: At least four reported dead (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar) At least four people are reported dead after a shooter opened fire early Friday in Frankstown Township in Central Pennsylvania.
Stunning NRA Press Conference Blames Shooting On Media, Video Games, Movies And Calls On Congress To Put Cop In Every School
Business Insider In what was a rather stunning, half-hour press conference, the National Rifle Association called on Congress to put armed police officers in every school in America. The highly anticipated press conference came one week after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., last week. CEO Wayne LaPierre blamed […]
Newt Gingrich urges Republicans to rethink opposition to gay marriage
He knows which way the winds are blowing. The Guardian Former presidential candidate – who previously called same-sex marriage ‘pagan behavior’ – says his party needs to change. Gingrich: ‘The reality is going to be that in a number of American states – and it will be more […]
Obama named TIME’s ‘Person of the Year’ for second time in four years
what a guy —- dailymail.co.uk Iconic: President Barack Obama has been named as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2012
Free Speech & Leadership at Sonoma State University: Practice What You Teach!
By Shepherd Bliss
The creation of the Mario Savio Speakers’ Corner this semester was my favorite event
A broader-based response to shootings
By Chris Uggen I’ve been reluctant to write about the terrible events at Sandy Hook Elementary School because the wounds are still too fresh for any kind of dispassionate analysis. As a social scientist, however, I’m disappointed by the fear-mongering and selective presentations of the research evidence I’ve […]
Free Cascadia!
Reuters: Obama will use the executive against gunowners rights
Council of Conservative Citizens Now Reuters, a major news wire, is saying Obama plans to bypass Congress and use executive policy to take your rights away! From Reuters… Obama was not expected to unveil policy decisions but outline how his administration will proceed, White House aides said. The […]
$PLC Attacks Anarcho-Capitalists
In recent times, the SPLC has moved past attacking organized white supremacist or violent right-wing extremist groups and has begun targeting un-PC groups of virtually any kind including those with “un-leftist” views on abortion, gay rights, immigration, guns, and, apparently, economics. I have long predicted this. Look for […]
The 15 Most Dangerous People in the World
wired.com The Staff of Danger Room There used to be an established order to the world. A structure to things. You couldn’t print a gun like a term paper. It was impossible to wreck a nuclear production plant with a few lines of code. Flying robots didn’t descend […]
The Paranoid Style of the Israel Lobby
original.antiwar.com Justin Raimondo The anti-Hagel campaign reveals the psychopathology of radical Zionism The campaign to demonize Chuck Hagel in the run up to his possible confirmation hearings as Secretary of Defense is going full swing. As I told my readers the other day, “get ready for a mudslide […]
On banning assault rifles
According to the FBI’s uniform crime report, rifles are the least used class of weapon by any kind of killer in the United States. Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia reported ZERO killings by […]
Obama to support ban on assault weapon sales
rt.com U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters/Larry Downing) US President Barack Obama supports a proposal from Senator Diane Feinstein (D-California) that would reinstate a ban on the sale of assault weapons in the United States.
Gun sales surge after Connecticut massacre
foxnews.com William La Jeunesse The prospect of a renewed assault weapons ban in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre has set of a round of buying, as thousands of Americans head to their local gun store to secure the popular AR-15 — the model used by the […]
Who Will Control The Guns?
jack-donovan.com Jack Donovan When people talk about guns in the aftermath of a public shooting tragedy, they argue about what “we” should do about guns in America. “We should limit the capacity of magazines. No one needs the ability to fire off hundreds of rounds.” “We should ban […]
Minorities and Gay Marriage: It’s Evolving
I’d like to see some data on how immigration rates affect this issue. National Journal Gay rights pioneer Lilli Vincenz, 74 (right) and her partner Nancy Ruth Davis, 75, pose in their Virginia home. One potential complication for President Obama’s embrace of gay marriage is that minority voters […]
More Support for Gun Rights, Gay Marriage than in 2008 or 2004
It will be interesting to see how the latest school massacre affects this trend regarding gun rights. Pew Research Center Opinions about a pair of contentious social issues, gun control and gay marriage, have changed substantially since previous presidential campaigns. On gun control, Americans have become more conservative; […]
Why Gay Marriage Divides the World
More on the psychological origins of political beliefs: “Other research has found that liberals tend to see moral issues in terms of individual suffering or unfairness, whereas conservatives have more group-level concerns, such as loyalty, patriotism and respect for authority and tradition. Across dozens of countries, liberals are […]
Smoking Pot and Tying the Knot: The Growth of Popular Support for Marijuana Legalization and Gay Marriage
By Jacob Sullum The U.S. Supreme Court agreed for the first time to take on the issue of gay marriage. No matter how it rules in the two cases it will hear next spring, polling data suggest it is only a matter of time before legal recognition of […]
Americans Need a New “Go” Button: Defending Against Mass Killings
By Vincent Rinehart
If you are ever faced with extreme violence, you will have to make the decision to act.
Veterans Explore ‘Moral Injury’
by Shepherd Bliss
Our Veterans Writing Group met the morning after Pearl Harbor Day for our regular winter gathering, as we have convened seasonally for twenty years. Two dozen of us came from throughout Northern California to a spacious redwood home in the Sebastopol countryside.
The Libertarian Mind
A new study of the psychology of political beliefs indicates that Pareto was correct when he said that an individual’s political views are as much an indication of their own innate personality type and psychological makeup as much as anything else. In other words, we may be “hard-wired” […]
The State Problem In National Security Policy
This is the kind of scholarship that anarchists, libertarians, anti-statists, decentralists, and anti-authoritarians of every kind should be studying. The emerging global trends are on our side. It’s not like the 20th century when anarchists were swimming against the historical tides and ever greater centralization and statism were […]
At least 50 shots fired at Fashion Island. Shoppers started screaming and scrambling
ocregister.com by SALVADOR HERNANDEZ, MIKE REICHER, SARAH de CRESCENZO, JOSH FRANCIS and KEITH SHARON / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER NEWPORT BEACH Sadness for far away victims turned to up-close terror Saturday evening as shots rang out at Fashion Island, sending holiday shoppers scrambling for their lives.
Okla. teen arrested in school shooting plot
bigstory.ap.org BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him. Police in Bartlesville, a community about 40 miles north of […]
ESPN Refrained From Using Term ‘Pistol Formation’ During Yesterday’s Bowl Game
From Paul Myerberg of USA Today’s Twitter:
NRA bombarded on Facebook and Twitter after Conn. shooting
dailydot.com Kevin Collier For the overwhelming majority of Americans, there’s nothing to do in response to the horrific news of a gunman who killed 18 children in a Connecticut elementary school. So, in what’s becoming an emerging trend in response to news of mass shootings, many gun control […]
Canadian Makeup Artist Faces Real Trial for Fake Violence
The Canadian justice system: moralfags extraordinaire! From Reason.org. ______________ This week the trial of Rémy Couture, the Canadian special-effects artist charged with “corrupting morals” by illegally combining sex and gore, began in Montreal. The evidence against him includes two short films depicting the crimes of a necrophiliac serial […]
A Fucking Good Time
From the Inferno. ____________ Ostensibly, she’s a horny, hyper-enhanced, insatiable fuckpig, ready to give hummers to all cummers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year, 3 holes per session… …until the director yells “cut”, upon which she reverts to a hollow, empty, used-up […]
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