From the Huffington Post. Nice, Vlad! —————————————————————————————————— He’s been a pilot, a singer, a hockey star and even a shirtless beefcake. But now Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has become the ultimate object of veneration for an all-female religious sect whose members believe the premier is the reincarnation […]
From the Northwest Indiana Times. ——————————————————————————————————– INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes. In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing […]
From Shroomery.Org. —————————————————————————————————– A 125-year-old woman, said to be one of the oldest women in India, died at her home in Orissa, her family said Sunday. Fulla Nayak claimed that smoking cannabis every day was her secret to long life. Fulla Nayak, a resident of Kanarpur village in […]
Article by Allen Mendenhall. ——————————————————————————————————- For an attorney, Alan Dershowitz doesn’t argue very well, at least not in his recent attempt to take down Noam Chomsky for Chomsky’s recent op-ed, “My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death.” These men have a history. Dershowitz has called Chomsky a “Holocaust […]
Article by Douglas Lummis. ————————————————————————————————— The issue is not whether bin Laden was a very bad man (I suppose he was) or for that matter whether Barack Obama is also a very bad man (looking worse all the time), but what happens to the law when states violate […]
Article by Alexander Cockburn. ——————————————————————————————————- Pinko terror-symps and the “rule of law” gang may cavil and whine at the lack of legal propriety in the execution of Osama , but it’s not cutting much ice with liberal America. For long years what might be called the “progressive” segment […]
Review by Greg Johnson. ——————————————————————————————————– Reading through Jared Taylor’s splendid new book White Identity, I found myself thinking again and again of Allan Bloom’s 1987 book The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today’s Students. In content, the […]
From Infoshop. ——————————————————————————————————— by Anarcho Anarchist Writers May 12, 2011 Anarchists have long argued that capitalism is an economic system riddled with contradictions. These express themselves in recurring crisis, when these contradictions expose themselves for all to see in generalised misery they produce. Some of these contradictions can […]
From Infoshop. ——————————————————————————————————— Solidarity Unionism Before laws were passed in the ‘30s and ‘40s that institutionalized labor unions, the most effective organizing tactics avoided formal union recognition and automatic dues check-off. Unions were less of a faceless service provider and more connected to the shop-floor. Solidarity unionism affirms […]
From Uhuru News. ————————————————————————————————- After George W. Bush invaded Iraq in 2003, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets in the U.S. in protest. Although his successor Barack Obama has brutally expanded U.S. wars of occupation in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya and elsewhere, with U.S. forces stationed […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————- Spotlighting China as an example, BBC News reports that “[t]he Food and Agriculture Organization’s food price index is at its highest level since being created in 1990. As food prices rise,” the story adds, “so does poverty.” In just the first few months […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————– “Detentions of undocumented immigrants,” reports Fox News Latino, “have become big business for private companies operating prisons in states like Arizona … .” The story goes on to observe that “[c]ontractors come to Arizona attracted by the increase in militarization and the criminalization […]
Article by Dimitrios Papageorgiou. ——————————————————————————————————- A murder stirred up the trouble. For the past three days, Athens has been rocked by violence. It all began on Tuesday morning, when a 44-year-old man, Manolis Kantaris, was killed by three Mahgrebs (Morrocan or Algerian according to the police), as they […]
Article by Richard Spencer. ——————————————————————————————————- Matt Taibbi has emerged as one of the country’s most compelling writers on financial malfeasance, an achievement that is not limited to his legendary depiction of Goldman Sach as the “great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood […]
Article by Patrick Foy. ——————————————————————————————————- When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and effectively ended the Cold War, there was tremendous relief and a sense of hope for the future. One writer even boldly declared that it marked “The End of History” and, as a natural result, the […]
Article by John Derbyshire. ——————————————————————————————————— A toast, ladies and gentlemen, to Mr. Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay of Nepal, who shuffled off this mortal coil on Monday afternoon at age 82. Mr. Upadhyay was at 18,700 feet above sea level when he turned in his lunch pail, most of the […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. ——————————————————————————————————- That Barack Obama has continued the essence of the Bush/Cheney Terrorism architecture was once a provocative proposition but is now so self-evident that few dispute it (watch here as arch-neoconservative David Frum — Richard Perle’s co-author for the supreme 2004 neocon treatise — […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. ——————————————————————————————————– Senate Republicans yesterday filibustered the confirmation of James Cole, President Obama’s nominee to become Deputy Attorney General. There were a couple of reasons for their opposition, but it is principally grounded in the views Cole expressed when opposing Bush’s Terrorism policies. Specifically, a […]
Article by Danny Schechter. ——————————————————————————————————— First they came for Helen Thomas. After the veteran White House correspondent once spoke inelegantly about her feelings toward Israel – and apologised, to no effect – she was blackballed at the instigation of strident Israeli supporters and her career achievement-standing journalism awards […]
Article by Doug Bandow. —————————————————————————————————— After making Osama bin Laden U.S. Enemy Number One President George W. Bush botched the job. Yet officials from his administration are claiming credit for getting bin Laden. Torture maven John Yoo wrote that the recent raid “vindicates the Bush administration, whose intelligence […]
Article by Chris Floyd. ——————————————————————————————————- Why have a million innocent people been killed in Iraq by the cataclysm unleashed by the Anglo-American invasion and occupation? Here’s why: A top military intelligence official has said the discredited dossier on Iraq’s weapons programme was drawn up “to make the case […]
Article by William Pfaff. ——————————————————————————————————— PARIS — Many if not most Americans seem to think that the assassination of Osama bin Laden solved something. What did this accomplish? The man who organized the 9/11 attacks in New York and Washington is dead, but so what? He no doubt […]
Article by Andy Worthington. ——————————————————————————————————— With the death of Osama bin Laden, there is a perfect opportunity for the Obama administration to bring to an end the decade-long “war on terror” by withdrawing from Afghanistan and closing the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The justification for both the […]
Article by David Swanson. ——————————————————————————————————— Afghanistan was supposed to be the campaign promise that President Barack Obama actually kept. He said he would escalate that war, and sure enough he did. Is he now going back on promises he’s made as president, by proposing to withdraw 2.5% of […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————– Although assassination has become the leading cause of death among Iraqi males, the Iraqi government has its priorities straight: they’re enacting a ban on public smoking. As the New York Times reports, the law – already passed by the Parliament, and now up […]
Andy Duncan on Murray Rothbard. —————————————————————————————————– Fortunately, to shorten your quest, I now know the next one you should read; Egalitarianism As a Revolt Against Nature. It was a long time in the finding, but I finally got there. Where to begin? As Man, Economy, and State is […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. ——————————————————————————————————– “John Demjanjuk Guilty of Nazi Death Camp Murders,” ran the headline on the BBC. The lede began: “A German court has found John Demjanjuk guilty of helping to murder more than 28,000 Jews at a Nazi death camp in Poland.” Not until paragraph […]
The second part of the discussion. —————————————————————————————————— -Nader’s thought experiment of having support of the super-rich, and idea of applying the standard of “patriotism” to multinational corporations, and a discussion on some of his solutions; -Poll reports 80% of Americans open to independent or third party; -Distributist Hilaire […]
Hear the discussion with Robert Stark and Mike Conner. -Billionaire Koch brothers’ pernicious influence over the Tea Party; -Executive pay increases while middle class wages decline; -America’s economic doomsday trends; -Sam Francis‘s and Willis Cartos‘s critiques of capitalism from the Right; -Taxes and the distribution of political power; […]
Article by Daniele Mariani. —————————————————————————————————– A series of letter bombings and failed attacks over the past year point to the evolving threat posed by anarchist groups. Switzerland is particularly exposed. The group of anarchists from Italy believed to be behind the attacks are connected to three alleged eco-terrorists […]
A classic article from Joseph Stromberg.
Article by David D’Amato. This is about an able a defense of the “open borders libertarian” position as anyone will likely find. It also makes for an interesting comparison/contrast with the article I did for LewRockwell.Com a few years ago outlining the case for immigration skepticism from an […]
Article by Juan Williams. ——————————————————————————————————– Here’s a news bulletin — it is becoming increasingly clear that we are living in a time when Republican politics are being shaped by a 75-year-old, 12-term Texas congressman with a son in the Senate. And incredibly, it is no longer out of […]
A report from Russia Today. RT is infinitely superior to the American media as a source of news and information. —————————————————————————————————- As America’s joblessness and poverty remain at a peak, RT’s Anastasia Churkina delves deep into the sorrows of the country’s middle class to find out if its […]
Jim Goad reviews Jared Taylor’s new book. ———————————————————————————————————- As if the unprecedented social experiment of pouring several dissimilar schools of fish into the same aquarium and pretending they won’t fight over food and territory wasn’t foolhardy enough, Taylor sees special danger in the severely unequal application of cultural […]
Article by Mike Whitney. ————————————————————————————————– House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon (R-CA) is pushing a bill through congress that will repeal due process and give the President nearly-unlimited powers to wage war wherever and whenever he chooses without congressional approval. Because the language in the so-called Detainee […]
Gavin McInnes explains how. ————————————————————————————————— While getting drunk last night, I noticed a young man had plonked his sports bottle down on the bar like it was a gun and we were in the Wild West. I asked him what the fuck was up with that, and he […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. —————————————————————————————————— Anyone but a movement conservative groupie might wonder what George III, who reigned from 1760 to 1820, is doing on the same list with Hitler and Stalin. George was a constitutional monarch who went along with his parliamentary government when it imposed the […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————— Among the terms of a so-called “free trade agreement” between the European Union and India is a requirement for “data exclusivity” which will eviscerate India’s generic drug industry. “Data exclusivity” means that clinical trials conducted before marketing by the company that originally produced […]
Article by James Joyner. ——————————————————————————————————- The United States has found itself in a seemingly endless series of wars over the past two decades. Despite frequent opposition by the party not controlling the presidency and often that of the American public, the foreign policy elite operates on a consensus […]
Article by Ron Holland. —————————————————————————————————- Get ready as secession is coming soon to a failed union near you. Over the weekend, the news has been full of reports about Scotland getting ready to vote on independence from the United Kingdom after the election victory by the Scottish National […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. —————————————————————————————————— One of the wishes that readers often express to me came true today (May 11). I was on the mainstream media. It was a program with a worldwide reach – the BBC World Service. There were others on the program as well, […]
How long before it becomes a criminal offense? Article by Randy Ludlow. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Two Canal Winchester Middle School students were booted off the school bus last week for, well, passing gas. James Nichols and Kristine Kuzora are upset that their son’s flatulence was […]
An interesting discussion of indigenous peoples’ issues on the ROL Community Forums. Check it out.
Article by David Conway. Hat tip to David Heleniak.
Article by Tim Dionisopoulos. ——————————————————————————————————— I am enclosing a link to an article on the Daily Mail that details that Muslims, who I can only assume are English citizens, staged a funeral and protest for Osama Bin Laden in front of the US Embassy in London. While […]
Article by Kevin DeAnna. A while back, I wrote an article that asked the question “What is to be done?” and pointed to the growing libertarian movement as a good example to follow. This doesn’t mean being party line Republicans or dumbing down our ideas. It means forming […]
Some interesting references.
Article by Michael Brendan Dougherty. ——————————————————————————————————- The frustration religious conservatives often encounter in politics—particularly where key social issues are concerned—may owe less to unreliable partners in the GOP than to an unconvinced American public. Laws that would impose stringent constraints on abortion rarely achieve more than 40 percent […]
Article by Julian Aguilar. This is an interesting example of how pan-secessionism and radical decentralization would often benefit the Left as much as the Right. Presumably, with anarcho-pluralism the “sanctuary cities” in question could have any immigration policy they wished. It’s interesting how that’s an aspect of my […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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