Month: November 2012

10 Myths About Obama and the Democrats

Delusions of the Liberal Intelligentsia By Jason Hirthler Counterpunch As we head into The Chosen One’s second term, it might be useful to explode a few of the chronic myths that cling to the man more tightly than his shadow. Myths that have helped liberal intelligentsia justify its […]

Radical right joins in secession frenzy

White nationalists, neo-Nazis and Klan sympathizers are now casting their lot with disgruntled conservatives By Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center Salon Hundreds of thousands of disgruntled conservatives, still smarting from the re-election of President Obama last week, are signing petitions to allow more than 30 states to […]

The Sun Sets on American Empire

By Daniel Larison Throughout the campaign season, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama alike insisted that the 21st century must be another American century—that the U.S. should continue to be the world’s predominant military, economic, and political power for generations to come. After ten years of shattered hegemonic dreams, […]

Voting By Sex, Age, Race, Money, And Education

businessinsider.com Henry Blodget 270 to Win The New York Times has an awesome graphical breakdown of voting data from the 2012 Presidential election. In case you had any doubt about how the country breaks down along gender, age, race, financial status, religion, education, and community lines, just have […]

Education and Agorism II: The Road Forward

by The Radical Reconstructor

In my last article I outlined some of the ways that statist ideology represents an obstacle to the agorist project- specifically in the realm of education. I argued that cultural obstacles obstruct heterodox action just as fully as the threat of state violence. Imprisonment, isolation from loved ones, solitary confinement, torture, gang rape, contraction of disease, etc.

The Zetas Model

nsfwcorp.com Pancho Montana Nuevo León, Mexico: Hola. My name is Pancho Montana and I’m writing from deep inside Mexico. Pancho Montana’s not my real name. And I’m not a “real journalist,” because that would be a real stupid profession for me to be in here in Mexico, tops […]

Communists of the Right.

By Utility Maximiser. ___________ Quite a few of my libertarian associates on YouTube have been endorsing nationalism and nationalist channels. Interaction with nationalists has led me to believe that most of them are not only wrong, but are fundamentally weak in their thinking. A good demonstration of this […]

Walter Kaufmann on “Equality of Opportunity”

From the Inferno… ____________ Right now, I’m having an enjoyable time reading through my years-long-neglected hardcover copy of Without Guilt and Justice: From Decidophobia to Autonomy, a relatively obscure work by prominent Fritz-translator Walter Kaufmann. I’m thinking about dedicating a post or two to this work, which could […]

The Physical Appearance of Liberals

by Rachel Haywire

“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” That is the old cliche, isn’t it? Of course many of us know better than to completely discount physical appearances. We look at Asians and assume they are smart. We look at African Americans and assume they are athletic. Biodiversity is an important part of human existence and to pretend like it doesn’t exist is to ignore the complexity of genetics.

A Vote of “No Confidence?”

Jack Donovan I fully expected Barack Obama to be elected to a second term as President of the United States of America. On Electorbation Day, I voted with my ass. Apparently, so did a lot of people, and that’s exactly the outcome I was hoping for.

How to Survive a Natural Disaster? Get Yourself A Tribe.

I won’t go into the standard disaster preparedness checklist. That’s pretty basic stuff that you can find anywhere. Everyone knows the material items they’ll need to survive, the things you can buy at the store and keep in your basement or garage and forget all about until the day arrives. But in the event of a real disaster, whether it’s modern fast zombies, old school shambling zombies, or an unprecedented subtropical storm, there is one essential – and totally Primal – factor that many of us are in danger of overlooking:

The importance of having people nearby on whom you can rely (and they you).

Body Pieces

By Pat Chaffee Awake to Drones “We are still finding body pieces.” My job was to gather the body pieces after an IED explosion, trying to keep pieces on one body together.” “My uncles were cut in pieces.” I heard the first statement when I volunteered at the […]

The Lull Before the Social Storm

By Jack D. Douglas Lew Rockwell Vast social revolutions and wars are often preceded by periods of giving up on reforms, despairing withdrawal from public life by the best and brightest, and even peacefulness which seems to have become the normal condition in spite of deep conflicts and […]

When Supply Lines Go Down

by R.J. Jacob

Hurricane Sandy serves as yet another example of how federal, state and local government entities including the military are utterly dependent upon US infrastructure and a vibrant local economy to coordinate supply routes to major cities in times of catastrophic disaster.

Even with practiced and prepared FEMA centers, the Red Cross, the National Guard, and other emergency

Fascism Under the Cloak of Liberalism

By Norman Pollack I use “fascism” here not as a cliché, but as an historical-structural formation principally rooted in the mature stage of capitalism, in which business-government interpenetration (what the Japanese political scientist Masao Maryuma called the “close-embrace” system) has created hierarchical social classes of wide differences in […]

The Conservative Vote: A Symposium

Mortimer62/flickr Independently minded conservatives may have no obvious candidate in this election, which pits two major-party exponents of the welfare-warfare state against one another, as well as a handful of minor-party contenders. Obamacare or Romneycare? Guantanamo or double Guantanamo? In this symposium, 29 of our writers confront the […]

Romney’s Neocons

By Justin Raimondo   Dov Zakheim, Mitt Romney’s top foreign policy advisor, wants us to know the neocons aren’t in charge of RomneyWorld: “One of the favorite canards that Obama activists and surrogates hurl at Mitt Romney is that he is surrounded by a group of wild-eyed George […]

Video: Dog Shot By Omaha Police Officer

Watch the video An Omaha police officer shot and killed a dog on a public sidewalk. The officer’s report claims the shooting was justified; however, the owners call the incident an execution of a friendly, family pet. Mike McKnight obtained surveillance video of the incident for a Fact […]

This Is What Happens to a Disarmed Populace: Mexican Mass Murder Edition

Throughout the six years of Calderon’s Presidency, thousands of bodies have been buried in obscurity. Several more bodies are added every week: They are migrants, innocents, homeless, homeless families, criminals, and victims of homicide. There are bones and bodily remains apparently unclaimed without owners, which are often buried and stacked in cemeteries across the country from the U.S. border to the Yucatan Peninsula. These faceless corpses are listed in official records only as NN. No Name.

Occupy Sandy Relief NYC

We are not only bringing in relief to areas that are not experiencing government aid, but also working with existing organizations to build strong community centers. We are building a relief effort that will still give communities access to necessary resources 5 yrs from now. People who’s homes were lost and businesses destroyed may not have the resources to rebuild their lives. These are the people who are forgotten by short-term shelters and Red Cross tents, because they require a sustainable, local, long-term approach.