Paul Gottfried on the theocratic institutions of our time. The student posted an anonymous note including a shockingly abusive fact. Matzeliger, it seems, was being honored on Thomas Edison’s birthday. The note implied it might be inappropriate to lavish attention on Matzeliger while ignoring a much more famous […]
Stephen Baskerville of The American Conservative describes Julian Assange’s ordeal in the Saudi Arabia of feminism: Sweden. Accounts of Assange’s experience bear out the politics very clearly: His first accuser is a professional feminist. “While a research assistant at a local university she had not only been the […]
Paul Craig Roberts explains how the state’s thirst for bloodshed is never satisfied. The Pentagon needs some more wars so there can be some more “reconstruction.” Reconstruction is very lucrative, especially as Washington has privatized so many of the projects, thus turning over to well-placed friends many opportunities […]
The state and the ruling class enemy prepare for a clampdown. Peter Dale Scott explains.
A number of readers have asked for my opinion on the current union battle in Wisconsin. Here it is. Some libertarians and conservatives have portrayed the conflict as one pitting parasitical government workers against beleaguered taxpayers being threatened by ever expanding public budget deficits. Predictably, Pat Buchanan makes […]
Laurence Vance on the biggest fraud of the 21st century. But what if Iraq had weapons of mass destruction? What if every other rationale for the war against Iraq was a lie, but Iraq really did have weapons of mass destruction.What should the United States have done? Should […]
John Pilger on the Evil Empire. As the Washington historian William Blum has documented, since 1945, the US has destroyed or subverted more than 50 governments, many of them democracies, and used mass murderers like Suharto, Mobutu and Pinochet to dominate by proxy. In the Middle East, every […]
by Ian Huyett http://www.kstatecollegian.com/opinion/voters-not-happy-with-unmet-campaign-promises-1.2476766 People are often surprised to hear that I voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Obama and McCain, however, had nearly identical policies on the environment, the drug war, gay marriage, Israel, immigration and Iran. I decided on Obama after I heard the candidates’ differing […]
A surprising article from The Economist.
Seattle restaurant refuses to serve TSA agents.
A new book from Dan Miller of the Texas Nationalist Movement. In “Line in the Sand,” Daniel Miller tackles the concepts of what ‘political will’ and ‘nationalism’ is and what they mean to Texans. He eloquently removes all reason for doubt concerning Texas independence and explains that maintaining […]
Thomas Naylor on the absurdities of the overlords of the empire. Life is absurd said French existentialist writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre back in the 1950s. But surely there is no more appropriate description of life in the American Empire sixty years later. Our lives are meaningless. […]
Thomas Naylor on why the Left and Right both get it wrong on secession. Unfortunately, the premise underlying the tea party, tenth amendment, and nullification movements is that the U.S. government is indeed fixable. All one need do is return to the Constitution and everything will be just […]
Kevin Carson on the failures of the “progressive” regulatory state. But even after the economy became dominated by giant corporations, argued Gabriel Kolko in The Triumph of Conservatism, attempts to establish cartels by purely private means were largely failures. The big trusts immediately began losing market share to […]
The second installment of David D’Amato’s article. The meaningful division is between those who use coercive manipulation of the bounds within which economic activities take place, and those who rely on voluntary, cooperative courses of action. Any number of organizational structures, including unions, would occupy a free market, […]
Kelley Vlahos and Gene Healy on the growing challenge to neocon hegemony. John Walsh discusses the prospect of a Left/Right antiwar alliance. What do the Right and Left bring to the antiwar movement? At this time, the Left brings greater numbers because the Cold War has led the […]
David D’Amato on the class conflict being played out in Wisconsin. In the political phraseology of the United States, bogged down in the vacuous false choice of Republican versus Democrat, proponents of the “free market” are allegedly not supposed to concern themselves with scoundrels like government workers’ unions. […]
David D’Amato provides a very good summary of the events of the Middle East. These countries’ productive majorities are no longer content to prop up and underwrite the dissolute culture of their “leaders,” to work their fingers to the bone while palace parties rage in their capital cities. […]
Kevin DeAnna is interviewed by The New American.
Interesting article from London’s Evening Standard.
Will Grigg on the anti-imperialist revolution in the Middle East. Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the connection between Federal Reserve monetary policy and increased food prices around the world; the unprecedented scope of US empire (and the correspondingly large payroll); the Jeffersonian, rather […]
On Al-Jazeera English.
It’s 1776 in the Islamic world. Rashid Khalidi, author and professor of Middle East history and politics, discusses the spectacle of protesters from Morocco to Malaysia echoing the leaders of the American Revolution; how genuine reformist movements in Iran are undermined by US support; the endgame of US […]
Eric Margolis on why the Iraq War critics were right from the start. The US Congress and media bayed for action against Iraq. As war fever swept over the United States, this writer, an old Iraq hand and war correspondent, warned Powell’s claims were absurd and that Iraq […]
Pro-lifer James Banks explains why the pro-choice camp has mostly won the abortion debate. Even if certain states passed rigidly anti-abortion laws, state borders are porous; back in the 1980s, in my native state of Idaho, the drinking age was 18, while the drinking age in neighboring Washington […]
James Leroy Wilson explains. There are people, Democrat and Republican alike, who believe “the system” does make sense, and is fundamentally good. They also believe it is sustainable; the only problem is sin. Democrats and Republicans differ only on what the sins happen to be. For Democrats, the […]
by Michael Parish http://quagmire-abeautifulmind.blogspot.com/2011/02/clarification.html Libertarians, movement “conservatives”, and other heirs to the classical liberal tradition view society through the binary opposition of “individualism” and “collectivism”; the two are reified into near-Platonic forms and pitted in a permanent opposition recalling Judeo-Christian dualism. Both are mental absracta, but in a society based on economic reductionism, they […]
Warplanes bomb demonstrators.
Neve Gordon explains why. Dan Margalit, a well-known commentator, made this point clear when he explained that Israel does not disapprove of a democracy in the largest Arab country but simply privileges Israel’s peace agreement with Egypt over internal Arab affairs. Israel, one should note, is not alone […]
Sheldon Richman wants to know. It would have been bad enough to torture people actually suspected of wrongdoing, but the Bush administration went well beyond that. Many people subjected to hideous treatment were picked up on the flimsiest of “evidence.” People were offered bounties to turn others in; […]
Thomas Naylor describes a sad day in Vermont history. Is it possible that out of the ashes of the First Vermont Republic a Second Vermont Republic might emerge? Might not Vermont experience a kind of resurrection from the dead, or at least from its two-century long slumber, resulting […]
Andrew Bacevich offers his analysis in the Los Angeles Times. When first conceived in the wake of 9/11, two convictions underpinned that war. According to the first, precluding further attacks on the United States meant that the Islamic world needed to change. According to the second, because Muslims […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. As events in Libya continue to race forward, I think my initial analysis is roughly accurate: while the Eastern provinces have rid themselves of Gadhafi, in Tripoli pro-government mobs are taking to the streets, and the dictator and his equally daffy son seem to […]
Article by Andy Worthington. It was, however, a third piece of news that particularly brightened up my last few days in Poland, when I was able to tell audiences that George W. Bush had just cancelled a proposed trip to Switzerland on February 12 because two former victims […]
After 42 years in power, is the Colonel on his way out?
by John Payne http://www.amconmag.com/postright/2011/02/15/bizarro-history-repeating/ The most famous battle in the long, internecine war on the right between libertarians and traditionalists was fought over Labor Day weekend, 1969 at the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) convention in Saint Louis. The two groups argued semi-peacefully over a number of proposed […]
Is the Islamic world finally catching up with the 19th century? Charles Glass thinks so.
Conducted by Alex Kurtagic. This is an interesting quote: To return to your provocative question, in my fantasyland, there would still be a Left and a Right—and granolas and libertarians and animal rights activists and Mormons, et al.—but they would operate within Western unity and natural hierarchy. Some, […]
A writer for the right-wing isolationist JBS has some bone to pick with the left-wing anti-imperialist Chomsky. And they both think modern America parallels Weimar Germany, but for different reasons. See the article. So who is it that threatens America? Fascists of the Left or fascists of the […]
Unions: heroes or villains? Murray Rothbard thought it was the latter. What do you think? Back during my serious leftist-anarchist days, I used to do strike support work for unions including the Greyhound strike Rothbard discusses. My experience was that most strikers couldn’t be bothered to even show […]
Kevin Carson explains. Also, be sure to check out this classic from Joseph Stromberg.
Ron Paul wants to end foreign aid to all Middle Eastern countries. Sensible enough. Read all about it. And David Horowitz goes off his meds in response. Horowitz’s rants have about as much rationality or coherence as the typical Weather Underground communique circa 1969. So much for his […]
One puppet state after another is falling or going its own way. Pat Buchanan explains.
Paul Gottfried gives an overview. Is what Krauthammer proposes really self-rule for other countries, or is it acceptance of a permanent American suzerainty? He seems far less willing to allow Egypt to go its own way than to have Egyptians live according to his wishes. Why not describe […]
Pat Buchanan wonders.
Paul Craig Roberts explains. Does democracy really exist in a land where the media is incompetent and the government is unaccountable and lies through its teeth every time if opens its mouth? “Curveball” represents a new level of immorality. Rafid al-Janabi shares responsibility for one million dead Iraqis, […]
Burn Your School! John Whitehead explains why.
Kevin Zeese talks about the Come Home America project. Listen to the interview with Scott Horton. Check out the website. This is really good stuff.
It figures. Read the statement from the Libertarian Party. WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party criticizes the Obama administration’s recent statement demanding more military spending from House Republicans. The administration claims that the Republican spending bill currently under debate does not provide enough military funding. According to the administration, […]
Good for them. Read all about it.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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