March 20, 2013

Keith Preston reflects on recent violent conflicts within the anarchist milieu and discusses more constructive approaches.

Topics include:

• How the variety of hyphenated forms of anarchism will continue to grow as anarchism becomes a more prevalent political ideology.
• How the many hyphens within anarchism need not be a source of division but of strength and potential outreach to an ever greater number of constituencies.
• The need for leaders and activists to emerge in different anti-state movements who recognize the need for a united revolutionary front against common enemies.
• How a revolutionary anarchist movement would be the leadership of a larger libertarian-populist movement.
• The possibility of a political meta-party as the political arm of the anarchist movement.
• The need for anarchists to organize an international federation of regional independence movements.
• How the majority of anarchists are oriented towards the cultural fringes and the difficulties this presents when trying to radicalize the center.
• How anarchists can appeal to ordinary people by championing their basic economic interests.
• The need for a revolutionary movement that is both layered and compartmentalized, and strikes a healthy balance between the fringe and the middle, the bottom and the top.
• How the revolutionary struggle must be on all fronts: political, economic, social, and military.

Run time: 85:17

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March 13, 2013

Keith Preston offers a critical evaluation of the movement that shaped the cultural life of contemporary Western societies.

Topics include:

• The intellectual and political origins of the New Left as a “fourth way” movement beyond capitalism, fascism, and communism.
• The convergence of social forces during the 1960s that made the growth of the New Left possible.
• The success of the New Left at carrying out a comprehensive cultural revolution in Western civilization.
• The failure of the New Left at opposing American imperialism, challenging the hegemony of plutocratic capitalism, and preventing the subsequent growth of police state repression.
• The growth of New Left-inspired “repressive tolerance” as a new force for political oppression.
• The theoretical weaknesses of the New Left that contributed to its failures and how these might be corrected for by a new wave of radicalism.
• How the various anarchist, libertarian, and anti-state movements have failed to recognize and oppose contemporary forms of left-wing authoritarianism and how this is an obstacle to the growth of an effective anti-state radicalism.

Run time: 86:22

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March 5, 2013

Keith Preston interviews returning guest Ryan Faulk.

Topics include:

• Ryan’s latest project, the All Nations Party, a proposed political meta-party devoted to pan-secessionism.
• How such a party might be composed of sub-parties devoted to specific regional, ideological, or identitarian interests and how these might break down into constituent sub-interests of their own.
• How cultural conflict prevents the growth of effective opposition to the political class.
• Practical questions concerning the proposed decentralization of the United States into a collection of micronations.
• The likely geographical breakdown of pan-secessionism.
• The need to move past the cult of “America” and realize that the historic American nation no longer exists and that the present regime is an enemy occupational force.
• The probable media response to the emergence of a pan-secessionist movement.
• Ryan’s success at promoting ideas through online video channels.

Run time: 96:10

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April 28, 2013

Keith Preston offers a critical analysis of contemporary cultural and political conflict.

Topics include:

• The ideological roots of the culture wars in the historic conflict between classical liberalism and socialism.
• How the culture wars are a manifestation of class conflict between the traditional WASP elites and the rising, multicultural upper-middle class.
• How conservatives, liberals, the far left, and the far right maintain their own distinct narratives and interpretations of American history.
• Why the political philosophy of anarcho-pluralism and the related strategic concept of pan-secessionism transcend the convention left/right model of the political spectrum.
• Keith’s own unique position of being a political extremist and cultural centrist.
• Why anarchists and non-anarchists, leftists and rightists, moderates and radicals all share a common enemy in the form of the empire, international plutocracy, and police state and how culture war psychology prevents the mounting of effective resistance to these.
• The need for practical and peaceful alternatives to ideological, sectarian, and tribal conflict.
• The values of authentic tolerance.

Run time: 75:27

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April 21, 2013

The Attack the System radio program returns with host Keith Preston.

In this installment Keith discusses:

• The need for anarchists to reach out to new sources of potential supporters beyond the radical left and the anarchist youth subculture.
• How the ARV/ATS philosophy of anarcho-pluralism continues the traditions of anarchism without adjectives and synthesist anarchism established by classical anarchist luminaries such as Voltairine De Cleyre, the Magon brothers, and Voline.
• The observation that most people are not anarchists by nature and the implications of this for anarchist strategy.
• The Spanish anarchist movement of the 1930s as a prototype for an anarchist-led anti-state populism.
• The tactical concept of pan-secessionism and how this assists anarchists in bridging the gap between anarchists and non-anarchists, leftists and rights, radicals and moderates.
• How individualist, communitarian, and progressive versions of anarchist social morality can peacefully co-exist.
• Why it is a mistake for anarchists to absorbed in mainstream political and cultural battles which only strengthen the System as a whole.
• The possibility of building anarchist-led anti-state populist movements using the pan-secessionist strategy in multiple nations and continents simultaneously in a way that appeals to the historical, cultural, and political traditions of particular peoples.
• What trends research, demographic analysis, and military theory indicates the world of 2100 will look like and a vision of decentralized future civilizations where anarchism is the prevailing political current.

Run time: 75:24

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January 29, 2013

In this edition of Attack the System, Keith Preston discusses the results and voting patterns of the 2012 Presidential Election. Keith’s analysis got lost in the shuffle at Counter-Currents, but despite the time throw, it is still well worth listening to.

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December 4, 2012

In this edition of Attack the System, Keith Preston and Ryan Faulk discuss Faulk’s idea of “omniseparatism.”

Topics discussed:

• How Faulk went from being a theocrat to a Marxist-Leninist to a neo-Conservative to a White Nationalist before finally arriving at his current position of anti-Statist “omniseparatism”
• What steps would be necessary to put omniseparatism into effect, and what sort of difficulties are likely to arise and how to deal with them
• Current secessionist movements and how they relate to omniseparatism
• “Rights” language and how supposedly “oppressed” groups belie their status when they wield the power to get legislation passed in support of their “rights”.
• How Tim Wise is a actually white supremacist

Ryan Faulk is a thinker who has traversed the entire political spectrum. He is very active on YouTube.

58:31 / 155 words

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November 11, 2012

Keith Preston interviews musician and former activist Robert N. Taylor on Taylor’s vivid experiences with the revolutionary, anti-communist, Minutemen organization of the ’60s and ’70s, and his later work with the folk band Changes.

Topics discussed:

• Taylor’s background
• The type of people who made up the Minutemen organization
• Robert DePugh
• COINTELPRO and its infiltration of both left- and right-wing organizations
• Some of the techniques used by agitators during supposedly “spontaneous” protests
• How problems that existed in the 60s have continued to develop and evolve
• How former radical leftists and communists of the 60s went on to become the currrent “establishment”
• Taylor’s move away from politics and toward folk music and folk religion

Robert N. Taylor has played an active and influential role on the outsider Right for decades. In the 1960s, he was closely involved with The Minutemen, a grassroots anti-communist group headed by Robert Bolivar DePugh. Due to a variety of factors, including pressure from the FBI and other organizations, the paramilitary group widely known for its “Traitors Beware!” stickers eventually disbanded; but a template for many future militia groups had been formed. After leaving The Minutemen, Taylor turned to other interests and founded the first incarnation of his folk band Changes with cousin Nicholas Tesluk. In the ’70s, Taylor helped pioneer the growing Odinist/Ásatrú movement and remains involved with various organizations. In the late ’90s, Michael Moynihan—an editor of the radical traditionalist journal TyrTYR—rediscovered Changes and worked to release old and new material by the duo. Taylor continues to record and tour.

79:48 / 279 words

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October 22, 2012

In the latest installment of Attack the System, Keith Preston interviews National Anarchist activist and author Welf Herfurth.

Topics discussed:

• How National Anarchism has developed over the years
• The Left-Right paradigm becoming increasingly outdated
• Globalization and homogenization
• The Fascist & cult-like mindset of the “antifa”
• The State and Nationality
• How would NA address mass immigration?
• Should National Anarchists focus on local activism, or on organizing a movement that can contend in the political arena
• A Life in the Political Wilderness
• Supporting anyone who’s against the system, even if you don’t agree with everything he or she says.
• How to discuss dissident views with people in day-to-day life.
• How a National Anarchist society would deal with public issues like building roads, crime, a foreign invasion, etc.

Welf Herfurth is a founder and chairman of the Sydney Forum, an organization that promotes the ideology of national anarchism, anti-globalization and the right of people for self-determination and preserving their culture. He is a speaker who has addressed numerous political groups in Australia, the USA and Europe. He is an author whose writing has appeared in many publications world wide.

65:33 / 149 words

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October 15, 2012

In the latest installment of Attack the System, Keith Preston uses observations and statistical data from the past and present of American politics to make convincing predictions about what to expect in the future.

Topics discussed:

• The increasing polarization evident even within the Republican and Democratic parties
• The traditional “binding force” uniting the Left in America
• The traditional “binding force” uniting the Right in America
• The Tea Party, the Militia Movement, and Secessionist movements
• The Politically Correct Left and when it will show its fangs
• What to expect as America declines, and how we can be ahead of the game
• Tim Wise’s moment of honesty
• The pervasiveness of instant gratification
• What will happen when the Left can no longer rally its constituent groups around the “WASP boogeyman”
• Much more

62:00 / 149 words

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October 3, 2012

Keith Preston interviews Craig FitzGerald. Topics include:

• Why nationalists aught to consider National Anarchism
• Craig’s progression from Left-wing Anarchism to National Anarchism
• The degree to which the State can actually be abolished in a viable society
• The degree to which National Anarchism can accomodate those who believe in a State but oppose the current State.
• Agorism and shadow economies
• Institutions local communities can form
• Homesteading and self-sufficiency
• The pervasiveness of instant gratification
• Is National Anarchism against technology and urban societies?
• National Anarchism and cultural preservation

Craig FitzGerald is a native New Yorker who has been involved in dissident politics since his youth. His analysis is rooted in nationalist, localist and anarchist philosophies and his activism centers around anti-globalization, anti-zionism, and individual and community autonomy and self-sufficiency. He has worked with a varied selection of activist organizations and is an instrumental member of We Are Change NYC. In early 2011, Craig co-founded National Anarchist Tribal Alliance – New York (NATA-NY). He recently moved to the Adirondack Mountains to homestead with fellow NATA-NY members.

66:49 / 119 words

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September 28, 2012

In today’s edition of Attack the System, Keith Preston offers his views on emerging radicalism in American society. Topics include:

• What can one accomplish to change society
• The Left’s loss of momentum
• Trends in political apathy and political dissent
• The long-term impact of the Tea Party and OWS
• Social alienation and polarization in society
• The Alternative Right
• Infighting within and between dissident movements

52:36 minutes / 135 words

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Keith Preston interviews Tia Foster about her experiences on the Left and her exploration of some intellectual currents of the New Right. Topics include:

• Occupy Wall Street
• political correctness
• white guilt
• animal rights and deep ecology
• feminism
• Holocaust revisionism
• Jewish harassment techniques
• the New Right
• National Anarchism
• Being of mixed Iranian-European ancestry
• Psychedelic drugs
• Mysticism and religion
• Charles Manson and ATWA
• Cracks in the Left coalition
• Che Guevara
• Male feminists
• Zoophiles and their demands for inclusion and tolerance
• Left-wing politics as therapeutic self-affirmation for the damaged and neurotic
• veganism

Tia Foster is an animal rights activist in upstate New York

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August 02, 2012

Keith Preston interviews Southern nationalist Michael Cushman. Topics include:

• The Southern people as a distinct national identity;
• Why the South had a closer relationship to the traditional European civilization of the Caribbean than to the bourgeois Protestant culture of the North;
• How the Civil War was related to the growth of the state in the nineteenth century and resulted in the creation of a centralized, Jacobin regime in the United States;
• How Southern nationalism was reborn in the 1970s;

Michael Cushman is a South Carolinian with family in the State going back to the early Colonial period of mixed Ulster-Scots and German heritage. He has a bachelors degree in history and is currently working on a masters in teaching. Michael taught English for four years in Spain, primarily for the military. He is now back home in South Carolina working to promote the Southern nationalist movement and has organized a number of secession rallies across the State since returning. His website is Southern Nationalist Network.

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July 19, 2012

Keith Preston discusses dissenting opinions in the medical and scientific community concerning HIV/AIDS orthodoxy. Topics include:

• The need to maintain freedom of inquiry and a healthy sense of skepticism in all fields, including science and medicine;
• The need to differentiate between legitimate critics of HIV/AIDS orthodoxy and outlandish conspiracy theories involving AIDS;
• Anomalies in the statistical data concerning HIV/AIDS;
• How the toxic drug AZT likely killed a generation of AIDS patients;
• Why AIDS in Western countries assumes different characteristics than in the Third World;
• The ideas of HIV/AIDS dissidents such as Dr. Peter Duesberg and the ideas outlined in the documentary House of Numbers
• How the therapeutic state has attempted to silence those who challenge the conventional wisdom concerning AIDS.

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July 5, 2012

Keith Preston discusses American-Israeli relations. Topics include:

• A critique of the standard leftist view of Israel as a mere puppet state within the U.S. empire as advanced by leading left intellectuals such as Noam Chomsky and the limitations of this analysis;
• The ongoing conflict within the American ruling class between Israeli partisans and the Big Oil/military-industrial complex alliance;
• The analysis of the “Zionist Power Configuration” provided by left-wing Marxist James Petras and how this differs from that of traditional anti-Semites such as David Duke and William Pierce;
• The stranglehold that the Israel lobby holds over the U.S. Congress and why the Israel lobby is more powerful than that of conventional political interest groups;
• The roots of the power of Israel in the United States in the concentration of Israeli nationalists in the U.S. plutocracy and mass media;

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June 21, 2012

Keith Preston continues his discussion of fourth generation warfare. Topics include:

• The characteristics of each of the four generations of war that have emerged since the Peace of Westphalia and how these developed;
• How the U.S. Civil War was a prototype for the ideologically driven total wars of the twentieth century;
• The origins of modern terrorism in the French Revolution and the anarchist assassinations of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries;
• The prevalence of terrorist groups in Europe and Latin America during the postwar era and how these were prototypes for fourth generation warfare forces;
• How fourth generation warfare grew out of the anti-colonial movements of the mid to late twentieth century;
• The role of Islamic revolutionary forces such as Hezbollah and the Muslim Brotherhood as definitive fourth generation forces.

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June 14, 2012

Keith Preston discusses the concept of fourth generation warfare. Topics include:

• How the nature of war has been transformed since the end of WW2 from a focus on states to a focus on non-state actors;
• How the modern state is a uniquely Western phenomenon that emerged out of the historic medieval order;
• The characteristics of the modern state that distinguish it from pre-modern forms of government;
• How the state achieved its monopoly on warfare at the conclusion of the Thirty Years War and how that monopoly is now being lost;
• The major reasons for the decline of the state in the present era.

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June 7, 2012

Keith Preston interviews Miles Joyner. Topics include:

• How Miles’s experiences with the left-wing establishment led to his disillusionment with the Left;
• His move away from conventional Black nationalism towards a greater emphasis on indigenous self-determination;
• The ideas of black anarchism and how Black anarchism often conflicts with the white liberal-left;
• The need for local self-reliance and self-determination for black communities;
• The excesses of the “anti-fascist” Left and why the Left is no longer a truly radical force.

Miles Joyner is a proponent of Black anarchism and an associate editor of AttackTheSystem.com.

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May 31, 2012

Keith Preston continues his discussion of the concept of tribal anarchism. Topics include:

• The need to synthesize the major anarchist traditions into a comprehensive anarchist meta-politics and incorporate the scattered anarchist tendencies as “tribes” within the wider meta-anarchist paradigm;
• How tribal anarchism provides a framework where both contending anarchist tribes and stateless tribes of non-anarchists can peacefully co-exist and unify against the totalitarian liberal-humanist empire;
• How anarchist polities might deal with practical questions such as defense, economics, crime, or immigration and how the non-aggression principle establishes a basic foundation for anarchist common law;
• How race issues might be handled on the model of “separation of race and state” akin to the concept of “separation of church and state” and how co-existing racial-ideological tribes might form within such a model;
• The need to forge a pan-anarchist front that unites anti-state radicals as the leadership corps of a larger libertarian-populist movement that creates alternative infrastructure towards the goal of pan-secession as its primary strategic vehicle;
• The ten core demographics and wider agglomeration of political interest groups that might become the constituency for pan-anarchism and pan-secessionism;
• Past prototypes for such a movement including the American Revolution, the eclipsing of the Whig Party by the Republicans, the Confederate secession, the pre-WW2 Spanish anarchist movement, and Hezbollah’s successful defenses Lebanon against Israeli occupation.

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May 24, 2012

Keith Preston discusses the concept of tribal anarchism. Topics include:

• The origins of the political philosophy of anarchism and its critique of the state as a uniquely and inherently parasitical institution;
• The three major traditions within anarchism: the leftist-socialist tradition, the Anglo-American libertarian tradition, and elitist-individualist “anarchism of the right”;
• The many different sects and tendencies within anarchism and how the meta-political theory of tribal anarchism allows for a synthesis of these divergent strands;
• How anarchism might work on a practical level and how common objections to the anarchist viewpoint might be answered;
• How anarchism properly understood is a polar opposite political philosophy to the prevailing totalitarian humanist ideology of the existing Western ruling classes;
• Why the Left is currently a greater threat to anarchism than the Right and how “political correctness” is a continuation of the tradition of authoritarian leftism associated with Marxism.

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May 17, 2012

Keith Preston discusses recent European election results and how these are a manifestation of the Left’s strategy of a “electing a new people.” Topics include:

• How the victories of the center-left in recent French, English, and German elections are best explained as resulting from the Left’ strategy of creating a permanent power base for itself through radical demographic change and expansion of the public sector bureaucracy;
• Why Obama will likely win re-election due to the Left’s pursuit of the same strategy in the United States;
• How the Left’s strategy will likely keep the Left in power for decades to come regardless of actual performance;
• Why Euronationalist parties like Marine Le Pen’s National Front and Nick Griffin’s British National Party will be unable to curb the hegemony of the Left;
• The need for a new kind of politics that is able to crack the Left’s coalition and build a new political majority through the promotion of secession and decentralization as alternatives to both political correctness and totalitarian government.

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May 10, 2012

Keith Preston interviews Anthony Gregory. Topics include:

• An assessment of the Obama administration’s impact on foreign policy and civil liberties;
• Why the antiwar movement dried up after the election of Obama;
• How the police state continues to expand regardless of which party is in power;
• Why economic law and social ideology are the two factors that contribute most to the curbing of state power;
• Libertarianism as an ideology that is neither left nor right, nor egalitarian or anti-egalitarian;
• Why left-libertarian critiques of big business are valid yet have their limitations.

Anthony Gregory [send him mail at anthony1791@yahoo.com] is research editor at the Independent Institute. He lives in Oakland, California. See his Web page for more articles and personal information.

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May 3, 2012

Keith Preston interviews R.J. Jacob. Topics include:

• R.J.’s early experiences as a left-anarchist activist and his disappointment with the Left;
• The importance of the thought of Max Stirner and the need to develop an anarchism without slave morality;
• The efforts of American Revolutionary Vanguard and AttacktheSystem.Com to develop an alternative to archaic proletarian anarchism and PC-riddled left-anarchism;
• How different forms of anarchism represent the levels of economic and social development of the countries from which they originate;
• How the sectarian leftism of the mainstream anarchist movement unnecessarily inhibits the growth of anarchism and the contributions of anarcho-capitalism and national-anarchism to anarchist thought;
• Why anarchists need to adjust their perspective given the stagnation of the Left and the increasing dynamism of the Right;
• The need to preserve the nation while opposing the state.

R.J. Jacob is an independent filmmaker and radical anarchist living in Las Vegas, Nevada. R.J. runs TheDailyAttack.com and is an associate editor at AttacktheSystem.com

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