News of the Week Weekly News Update July 23, 2013 July 28, 2013 Keith Preston reviews recent articles that indicate ARV-ATS ideas are now moving into the mainstream. Topics include: Chris Hedges’ admission that the liberal class is a failure and has abandoned the poor in favor of […]
Attack the System The Growth of Black Anarchism July 28, 2013 ATS senior editors Miles Joyner and Keith Preston discuss anarchist influences on radical tendencies in black communities. Topics include: The reaction of the black community to the Zimmerman verdict. The obscuring of the Bradley Manning trial by […]
by Spencer Pearson
Zoltan Dani should be your hero, you should reflect on what Dani achieved, and how, every single day of your life. You should keep a picture of Dani under your pillow at night and the first
By Justin Raimondo The rise of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) as an alternative to Bush era GOP dead-enders has the two principal anti-libertarian factions in American politics snarling and spitting in fury – and real fear. The progressives – in the drivers’ seat at the moment – are […]
By John R. MacArthur merican democracy now seems to be dead. Yet while party bosses backed by billionaires and corporate lobbyists snuff out any effort at serious reform, and President Obama prevaricates on all the great issues of the day, two vital national arguments have erupted that might […]
Attack the System “First They Came for the Fascists…”: Reflections on White Nationalism July 21, 2013 Keith Preston strives for an objective analysis of the most taboo political philosophy. Topics include: The need to defend freedom of opinion and association for everyone. The lack of objective scholarly analysis […]
No, they can’t. But we can. It looks like some folks at The American Conservative have been reading AttacktheSystem.Com. By W. James Antle III One step forward, two steps back. The Republican Party is like an alcoholic in recovery, with periods of sobriety punctuated by long, destructive benders […]
An interesting article by a gay libertarian on the alleged “homophobia” of Han Hermann-Hoppe By Ludwig Von As a gay person who considers himself a right-wing libertarian, the “problem” of time preferences among gays (as mentioned by Hans Hermann-Hoppe) has come up a few times, enough for it […]
What follows is a letter I received from a reader, Mr. Todd Lewis. I believe this to be the most accurate yet thorough critique of my own work issued to date. It is certainly the most thorough critique I have received from the Right, and makes an excellent […]
News of the Week Zimmerman Acquittal, Kokesh, and the Coerced Sterilization of Female Inmates July 14, 2013 ATS Weekly News Update July 14, 2013 Topics include: The acquittal of George Zimmerman and the reasons for the media’s showering of attention on what was essentially a routine murder trial. […]
People who are into radical politics are rarely interested in military technology. All the radical generally needs to know is that the bad guys have got all the cool planes, bombs, tanks, submarines and aircraft carriers while our team maintains an edge only in raw hats and distressed […]
From Lingit Latseen r by Frank Hopper As the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman was announced on July 13 I couldn’t help thinking about a similar shooting here in Seattle that was also caused by racial profiling, the shooting of First Nations carver John T. Williams by […]
From Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Proposed Next Steps for the National Justice for Trayvon Martin Movement Tuesday, July 16, 2013 Major Action We call for a massive mobilization to shut down either Tallahassee or Sanford, Florida in August or September to: a) present a comprehensive set of structural […]
ATS Roundtable Gangs and the Lumpenproletarian Class Base of Anti-System Struggle July 14, 2013 ATS senior editors Miles Joyner, Vince Rinehart, and Keith Preston discuss the political potential of organized outlaws. Topics include: The misperception of gangs as a distinctively lower class social phenomenon. The enormous size of […]
Democracy Now Today Vermont is set to make history by becoming the first state in the nation to offer universal, single-payer healthcare when Gov. Peter Shumlin signs its healthcare reform bill into law. The Vermont plan, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will attempt to stem […]
By Eric W. Dolan Public polls and voter registrations may be underestimating the number of liberals and independents in the United States. Young conservatives believe they are more conservative than they actually are, according to a study published June 13 in Social Psychological and Personality Science. Ethan Zell […]
Radley Balko is interviewed by Lucy Steigerwald High-profile police response to terrorism threats – as in the case of the Boston bombing – grab headlines, but it wasn’t the paranoias of our post-9/11 world that made cops often indistinguishable from an army. It started earlier. It started with […]
By Jim Lobe If one thing has become clear in the wake of last week’s military coup d’etat against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, it’s that democracy promotion is not a core principle of neoconservatism. Unlike protecting Israeli security and preserving its military superiority over any and all possible […]
FreeAdam.Net Here are some news updates for Adam Kokesh for July 11, 2013. I will keep this post updated with any further news that comes out today. Adam was forcibly arraigned very early this morning. He is being held without bail pending a probable cause hearing. Early this […]
USA Today George Zimmerman, the man accused of murdering Trayvon Martin, was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter Saturday night. The verdict is the culmination of a case that captured the nation’s attention and will undoubtedly be imprinted in America’s history. For Zimmerman, it means trying […]
The Guardian Hello. My name is Ed Snowden. A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in great comfort. I also had the capability without any warrant to search for, seize, and read your communications. Anyone’s communications at any time. […]
By Thomas DiLorenzo Historian and novelist Thomas Fleming is the author of more than fifty books, including two very good revisionist histories of the two world wars: The New Dealers’ War, and The Illusion of Victory in World War I. He has authored biographies of George Washington and […]
by Spencer Pearson
One of the major objections to the idea of pan secessionism deployed by critics is that it is “unrealistic”. Which is to suggest
Attack the System ATS and the Question of Identity July 8, 2013 Keith Preston discusses the theories of Daniel Byman of the RAND Corporation on the development of insurgent movements. Topics include: The identity of ARV/ATS as a challenge to the stagnant political ideas of the anarchist establishment […]
News of the Week Update July 8, 2013 July 8, 2013 ATS News of the Week Commentary with Keith Preston. Topics include: The overthrow of Egypt’s president Mohammed Morsi and why the introduction of Western liberal democracy in Middle Eastern nations ironically tends to fuel the creation of […]
Washington Times Earlier this year, Jeb Bush told ABC that both his father George H.W. Bush, and brother George W. recommended he run for president in 2016. Mama Barbara Bush is not keen on the idea, declaring in April that “the nation’s probably had enough Bushes.” But in […]
American Civil Liberties Union As Congress considers the nomination of James B. Comey to lead the FBI for the next ten years, lawmakers should examine measures to rein in a bureau that has undermined civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism. This is a false trade off: […]
washingtonpost.com By Juan Forero Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, October 5, 2009 Julio Cesar Rivas, 22, spent about three weeks in jail after taking part in a protest. He was released last Monday and launched a hunger strike to protest jailings of dissenters. (By Juan Forero — The […]
The Guardian Army Pfc Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland. Photograph: Jose Luis Magana/AP The lack of contemporaneous access to court documents has caused irreparable harm to the American public’s right to scrutinize the conduct of military prosecutors and the rulings of […]
By Stephen Walt Every year on the Fourth of July I sit down and read the Declaration of Independence. It’s a habit I got into some years ago, but I take a peculiar pleasure in reading through the founding principles of the American Revolution, archaic language and all. […]
By Jason Ditz US whistleblower Edward Snowden is stuck in the international section of a Moscow airport today, but that problem may be coming to an end as three nations have offered him asylum in the past 24 hours, all of them South American. Venezuela and Nicaragua came […]
By Diana Johnstone The Snowden affair has revealed even more about Europe than about the United States. Certainly, the facts of NSA spying are significant. But many people suspected that something of the sort was going on. The refusal of France, Italy and Portugal to allow the private […]
By Gary Leupp I don’t have a weak stomach, but I confess that watching TV news does get me nauseated. So I do so sparingly. I have of course been following the coverage of the Edward Snowden story, just to see how opinion is being shaped. In the […]
Tadayuki Sakai moved to an Internet cafe in Tokyo shortly after leaving his job at a credit card company, where he worked for 20 years. Image by Shiho Fukada. Japan, 2012. Shiho Fukada Story by Brett Roegiers, CNN Fumiya has learned to sleep with a blanket over his […]
By Michael Grabell, ProPublica Temps pay to ride to work on a bus owned by a raitero, or local labor broker. It’s 4:18 a.m., and the strip mall in Hanover Park, Ill., is deserted. But tucked in back, next to a closed-down video store, an employment agency is […]
Today we celebrate the last time that American insurgents successfully overthrew their government. Unfortunately, they installed a new one right after. Let’s get it right this time around!
Al Jazeera The Egyptian army has overthrown President Mohamed Morsi, announcing a roadmap for the country’s political future that will be implemented by a national reconciliation committee. According to a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi is being held in a military facility with top aides.
by Michael Cushman
The beautiful thing about pan-secessionism is that it greatly limits the extent to which one culture can impose
by Keith Preston
A reader writes asking me to briefly describe what my own political views actually are. My views are rather complicated and are certainly outside the paradigms
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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