Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————— We already know Rick Perry uses words in a rather, um, idiosyncratic sense. For instance, he’s the kind of “pro-life” governor whose supporters cheer him on for executing an innocent man. So when he says he wants to “make government as inconsequential to […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————— (CNN)— U.S. Air Force officials called off their response late Friday afternoon at a Tucson, Arizona, base after reports that an armed man had entered an office building, the U.S. military branch said in a statement. Earlier in the day, a U.S. military official told […]
It can still be done! Primitivists, take lessons. ——————————————————————————————— Police say they’re investigating the story of an English-speaking teenager who appeared in the German capital last week saying he had lived the last five years in the woods with his father. “The boy speaks English and a little […]
Article by Gene Byrd. ———————————————————————————————– A teen woman who was arrested over the beating of a transgender woman at a McDonalds in Baltimore County Md. will face five years in prison for her crimes, a court decided this week. According to a CBS News report, the teen offender […]
John Derbyshire on Kevin MacDonald. ———————————————————————————————- One evening early on in my career as an opinion journalist in the USA, I found myself in a roomful of mainstream conservative types standing around in groups and gossiping. Because I was new to the scene, many of the names they […]
From ATS-UK. Some of our English readers may want to check this out. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Found on Facebook. Friday at 6:30pm – September 17 at 10:30pm Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies […]
Article by Andy Nowicki. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Everyone who hopes for the best but fears the worst cannot escape finding himself afflicted with a rather jarring, almost schizophrenic sense of psychic discombobulation from time to time. One who has fully abandoned himself to pessimism, on the other hand, has no […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ———————————————————————————————————————————— The complete failure of our law enforcement agencies to protect us from real threats of terrorism was confirmed on September 11, 2001, when – in spite of plentiful warnings, including from field offices of the Federal Bureau of Idiocy Investigation – nineteen hijackers armed only […]
Interview conducted by Tom Sunic. ————————————————————————————————————————————-
Article by William Robinson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Income inequality rose under Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva [GALLO/GETTY] The triumph of left-leaning former army officer Ollanta Humala in Peru’s presidential elections this past June has observers wondering if Peru could be the latest “Pink Tide” country in Latin America. […]
Article by Devika Patel. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Ten years ago, I watched the Twin Towers fall. A San Francisco Examiner headline the next day summed up my feelings fairly well: “Bastards!” Of course we had to fight back. I thought there’d be a bit of a scuffle, much like the […]
Article by David D’Amato. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Last month, the National Drug Intelligence Center at the U.S. Department of Justice released its “National Drug Threat Assessment” for this year. No doubt hoping no one will notice or care, the report itself observes that “[t]he abuse of several major illicit drugs, […]
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Article by Kim Hutcherson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— (CNN) – A group of Kentucky Amish men would prefer to do jail time rather than violate their religious beliefs, which they say forbids the placement of bright orange safety triangles on the backs of their buggies. The orange triangles are required on […]
Article by Bill Buppert. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— “All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.” – George Orwell We […]
Article by Justin Fisher. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Despite repeated assurances from President Obama and military leaders that the U.S. would not send uniformed military personnel into Libya, four U.S. service members arrived on the ground in Tripoli over the weekend. According to Pentagon spokesman Capt. John Kirby, the four unidentified […]
Article by Paul Bentley. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Sarah Palin snorted cocaine off a 55 gallon oil drum while snowmobiling with friends and had illicit affairs with a top NBA star and one of her husband’s business partners, a new book sensationally claims. In revelations which could strike a devastating blow […]
From the World National Anarchist Alliance. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Today as inflation is on the rise, both silver and gold are holding their value. What I mean is that they still have the same purchasing power. As of today, a silver dime is worth approximately $2.94 If I were to […]
Article by Chris Hedges. —————————————————————————————————————————————— I arrived in Times Square around 9:30 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. A large crowd was transfixed by the huge Jumbotron screens. Billows of smoke could be seen on the screens above us, pouring out of the two World Trade towers. […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. ————————————————————————————————————————————— “Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward,” said George W. Bush on September 11, 2011. “And freedom will be defended.” President Obama apparently agrees that the U.S. government’s response to 9/11 has been to defend freedom. This past Memorial Day he announced, […]
Article by Jack Hunter. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- I am not a libertarian. Though I am sympathetic to many libertarian views and believe its current popularity is pushing the GOP in a more limited-government direction, I have long considered myself simply a traditional conservative. Philosopher and author Russell Kirk had a […]
Article by Justin Elliot. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Last week, a 24-year-old Virginia man named Jubair Ahmad was arrested and charged with providing “material support” to an officially designated terrorist organization, the Pakistani group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). But Ahmad is not accused of sending money or weapons to LeT, or scouting out […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. ————————————————————————————————————————————— On September 10, 2001, many who thirsted for liberty smelled hope in the air. The Clinton era was over and the new Bush era showed signs of being less eventful, even more peaceful. The Republican had won on a platform of a humbler […]
Article by Michael Tennant. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The military-industrial complex is pulling out all the stops to ensure that not one dime of its vast federal largess is taken away even as the nation faces nearly $15 trillion in debt. Defense contractors, Representatives and Senators, and current and former Defense […]
Justin is on top of it. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- On the theory that the best defense is a good offense, the Obama cult is going on the attack – launching a special web site, and a twitter feed, attackwatch.com, which is devoted to refuting the “smears” being repeated by the […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— 1999 Battle of Seattle A tutor at our local polytech has asked me to do a 90 minute class in November on the antiglobalization movement. Preparing for this presentation is somewhat daunting. Apparently being the only veteran of the 1999 Battle of Seattle […]
Article by Jesse Walker. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Carl Oglesby, president of the New Left group Students for a Democratic Society from 1965 to 1966, has died at age 76. As the mid-’60s melted into the fiercer, harsher end of the decade, another SDS leader tried to sum up the mix […]
From The Agitator. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– In case you had any doubts… Wednesday, September 14th, 2011 . . . why Rick Perry replaced those members of the Texas Forensics Commission, this ought to put them to rest. In 2008, the Commission held a meeting to determine what cases to investigate, […]
PC undermines international diplomacy. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- NEW YORK, Sept. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Jewish civil rights group Shurat HaDin – Israel Law Center has sent a warning letter to Columbia University President Lee Bollinger advising him that Columbia’s plan to host a banquet for visiting Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad […]
Unbelievable. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Six insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic rifles attacked the heart of the U.S. presence in Kabul, Afghanistan. They fired grenades into the grounds of the U.S. embassy, killed three Afghans and injured 21 others over a 20-hour period. The six men held off a […]
Article by Charles Eisenstein. —————————————————————————————————————————————- Suppose you give me a million dollars with the instructions, “Invest this profitably, and I’ll pay you well.” I’m a sharp dresser — why not? So I go out onto the street and hand out stacks of bills to random passers-by. Ten thousand […]
We have met the enemy and this is it. Heil the President! Liberal jingoism. What a bunch of morons. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– The smears didn’t end with the 2008 election. President Obama’s opponents are still using false allegations against the President and his record in an attempt to derail the […]
Article by Vinay Gupta. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— or, the hippies were right, but too soon. Scroll down to the Epilog (last page) if you want the tl;dr summary. But there are some good bits in the rest. Drugs Personal safety experts say that in a crisis one should never run […]
From The Gawker. ———————————————————————————————– justice Texas shouldn’t be the only U.S. state that gets to execute innocent people, right? That’s what the jealous state of Georgia seems to be saying in planning to execute Troy Davis, convicted of murdering a police officer in 1991 and possibly innocent of […]
Article by Mike King. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Another young, unarmed black man, Kenneth Harding, has been gunned down, shot numerous times in the back as he fled, his empty hands in the air in broad daylight. His crime had been a simple train fare evasion for which San Francisco police […]
Article by K. R. Bolton. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Orthodox economists and those with vested interests in maintaining the financial status quo often refer to any scheme that challenges that orthodoxy as ‘funny money’. In a way the term is apt: there have been many examples of states and communities that […]
Interview with Michael Scheuer. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Michael Scheuer, 22-year veteran of the CIA and former head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit, discusses why terrorism is a predictable response to an interventionist US foreign policy; how Osama bin Laden lured the US into Afghanistan and radicalized a good […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– New York is a city under siege. As I write on the morning of the tenth anniversary of 9/11, thousands of police, federal agents, and the National Guard are swarming over the panicked metropolis, as reports proliferate that three suspected terrorists who entered […]
From The Green Star. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— The ANONYMOUS video using a female robot voice, starts off with the following statement: “People of the world, join us. Please forward this message to all embassies of green Libya, the UN, NATO, your governments, paliaments, [indistinct] etc. We are ANONYMOUS, we recognize […]
Article by Kathy Shaidle. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Immigration is a hot topic up here in Canada right now. It has been that way for decades if you’re a white, working-class “citizen” of Trudeaupia. But by order of our elite betters, our candid chatter about “those foreigners taking over the country” […]
Article by Kevin MacDonald. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— An article in the Financial Times adds some interesting details about Rogozin and the situation in Russia (“Medvedev appeals for ethnic tolerance“). First, things are definitely heating up: Opinion polls show that 55-60 per cent of Russians support the slogan “Russia for the […]
Article by Walter Williams. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Too much of anything is just as much a misallocation of resources as it is too little, and that applies to higher education just as it applies to everything else. A recent study from The Center for College Affordability and Productivity titled “From […]
Article by Eric Margolis. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— We Americans become like the moribund Hapsburg Empire which was said to have forgotten nothing and learned nothing. Watching 9/11 commemorations, which have by now become an annual religious-political event, reminds us of this old adage. One of the biggest tragedies within the […]
Article by Lewis Lehrman. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- (Editor’s Note: Lewis E. Lehrman has written a stunning article about the financial relationship between the US (Washington) and China. He asserts that, despite China’s status as the Number One creditor for Washington, it is actually an captive financial colony to the USA, […]
Article by Alana Goodman. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Campus anti-Semitism is a tricky issue to tackle, and not just because it usually hides behind the mask of anti-Zionism. Pro-Israel students on campus also grapple with a lot of other issues: should they respond to the insane and baseless attacks on Israel […]
Article by Jim Cook. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- In a statement on January 26 2011, House Judiciary Chair Lamar Smith declared that the extension of Patriot Act surveillance powers is necessary to stop terrorists: The intelligence and law enforcement communities that are responsible for preventing terrorist attacks need to know that […]
Article by Fred Reed. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— The night closes in. Read the surveys of what children know, what students in universities know. Approximately nothing. We have become wanton morons. As the intellectual shadows fall again, as literacy declines and minds grow dim in the new twilight, who will copy […]
From the Seattle Times. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— ROMULUS, Mich. — Amid anxiety over the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, police detained three passengers at Detroit’s Metropolitan Airport on Sunday after the crew of the Frontier Airlines flight from Denver reported suspicious activity on board, and NORAD sent two F-16 […]
Article by Thomas DiLorenzo. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- The phrase “collective responsibility” is rather pleasant sounding, with its implication that, perhaps, we should all collectively take responsibility for our own actions. What parents should not teach their children such things? But for at least the past 150 years “collective responsibility” also […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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