By Anthony Gregory The generation of libertarians seen in such outfits as SFL excites and encourages me. I especially approve its efforts to cleanse the movement of the type of bigotry that emerged after years of the libertarian movement’s circumstantial alliance with conservatives to battle against New Deal […]
By Max Borders Truth carries within itself an element of coercion. —Hannah Arendt Identity politics has come to the freedom movement. But does it fit? Many newly minted libertarians have come out of America’s indoctrination factories feeling a mix of guilt and sanctimony. They’re still libertarians, but they […]
Global Post Born in Mexico but raised in barrios of Southern California, these rifle-slinging fighters are holding down the front line in Michoacan’s battle against a ruthless meth gang. NUEVA ITALIA, Mexico — Moises Verduzco says he learned how to handle himself in a fight from his teen […]
Attack the System Bitcoin Against the System: An Interview with M.K. Lords January 29, 2014 Keith Preston interviews Bitcoin and counter-economics activist M. K. Lords. Topics include: How Bitcoins can be used to bypass the warfare state and assist with social justice issues such as homelessness. The Ron […]
By Pat Buchanan “We’ve outsourced our manufacturing and much of our pollution, but some of it is blowing back across the Pacific to haunt us.” So says University of California scientist Steve Davis. Smog from Chinese factories has already saturated cities like Beijing, where residents go about in […]
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Mere Anti-Statism It occurs to me that part of the reason that anarchists/libertarians are woefully unproductive in winning people over to anarchism en masse is because they (I’m fairly sure I’ve been guilty of this as well) see themselves as being above using strategies and arguments that the […]
By Victor Kaine A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears to me, for now I will speak to you about the death of peoples. State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: […]
By Gilbert Cavanaugh for Alternative Right El Salvador: A War By Proxy Keith Preston, Black House Publishing, 145 Pages Available for purchase from Amazon here Reviewed by Gilbert Cavanaugh A few weeks ago, I was reading Sam Francis’s Essential Writings on Race at work, and a co-worker I […]
The D.C. Clothesline After being involved with the Kelly Thomas murder case for the last 2 1/2 years, protesting, attending council meetings, fundraiser involvement, writing letters and articles, videotaping and taking pictures, attending court dates, listening to the specifics of the murder by the DA (before the video […]
By Stephan Kinsella Like everyone, my political and ethical views have evolved over time. From a somewhat racialist milieu in rural Louisiana, I consciously rejected racism when I was in my young teens. From a devout Catholic youth I became a secularist and freethinker at a fairly young […]
PolicyMic.Com Why We Need Prison Reform: Victimless Crimes Are 86% of the Federal Prison Population When we talk about the war on drugs, which is increasingly turning into a real war, we often overlook the fact that the “criminals” involved in the drug trade aren’t actually violating anyone’s rights. […]
Zabalaza The Korean anarchist movement wanted to build an independent self-governing anarchist society, a cooperative system of the masses of the Korean people. They wanted to take civilisation from the capitalist class, and return it to the popular classes. By doing so, the capitalist and colonial society that […]
The Independent Kansas state sues Marotta for $6,000 in child support for four-year-old girl Heather Saul William Marotta, of Topeka, Kansas, had argued that he had waived his parental rights and did not intend to be a father to the child, who is now four-years-old. He said he […]
Russia Today Reuters/Larry Downing Despite the explicit protections of the First Amendment, a majority of US institutions of higher learning enforce rules that severely restrict free speech on campus, according to a new study. According to a report by the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), 59 […]
Tea Party News Network Forget the highly manipulated federal unemployment rate number under the Obama regime, says a Wall Street Adviser. The number is fraudulent. In a memo obtained by the Washington Examiner, David John Marotta makes the calculated case that the real unemployment number is 37.2%, not […]
By Justin Raimondo We haven’t seen anything like this since the Vietnam war era: an administration caught red-handed illegally and systematically spying on Americans in the midst of an increasingly unpopular war. At that time, too, the political class was badly divided, with the hard-liners circling their wagons […]
Is Putin gearing up the lead the resistance of traditional societies to Western liberal imperialism? Article by Matt Parrott James Kirchick, writing for Foreign Policy, rather accurately describes how Russia is creeping deeper and deeper into fulfilling Alexander Dugin’s vision for her as the world’s savior from American cosmopolitanism . . . The […]
It’s time for anarchists to abandon hysterical critiques of classical fascism and develop a more nuanced, scholarly, and historical view. This discussion by Paul Gottfried and Richard Spencer exposes some of the myths and misconception. Listen here. ——————————————————————————————————————————— “Fascism” is everywhere and nowhere. It’s “everywhere” in the sense […]
By Ron Holland This is the fourth of the “12 Axioms of Freedom Restoration” set forth in my introductory article on this topic, “How to Restore the West.” The restoration of America’s first and legitimate government will not be a quick or easy task but it is necessary […]
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By Devon Douglas-Bowers A number of occurrences have taken place over the past 13 years since the rise of the new millennium; we have seen and are seeing the rise of popular movements all over the world and a resistance to the forces of imperialism, capitalism, and subjugation, […]
By Jesse Walker According to National Review‘s Betsy Woodruff, Hill aides are telling her that “we’re on the cusp of getting bipartisan prison-sentencing reform.” If they’re right, that’s a tribute, as Woodruff’s article shows, to carefully crafted left/right alliances. In this case, the team includes not just the civil […]
By Daniel McCarthy I recently reviewed Paul Gottfried’s Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America for the University Bookman. Paul responds to my review here. Note that in addition to Paul’s book being available as an affordable paperback, the Kindle edition is now going for just $12.49—if […]
By Conor Friedersdorf Reuters A group of hawks is called a cast, an aerie, a kettle—or, if John Bolton gets his way, the 114th United States Congress. The one-time U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has set up a PAC and a super PAC to help hawks in […]
By Chase Madar Does the human rights industry adore war? Samantha Power, the U.S. representative to the United Nations, testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in July 2013 in Washington.Win McNamee/Getty Images The human rights industry does a lot of noble work around the world. And yet […]
By Jesselyn Radack While the controversy surrounding Edward Snowden‘s dissemination of National Security Agency information continues, members of Congress, journalists and advocacy groups keep repeating the same argument: Mr. Snowden should turn himself in, mount a solid defense and all will be righted at trial. That’s a fantasy. […]
Daily Mail Poverty, prostitutes and the long, slow death of the Soviet Union: Haunting pictures show desperate struggle to survive in last days of USSR These shocking pictures may look like something out of the Great Depression – but in fact they show life in the last years […]
Russia Today A federal appeals court has ruled that bloggers and the general public have the same protection of the First Amendment as journalists when sued for defamation. Should the issue be of public concern, the claimant has to prove negligence to win the case. “It’s not a […]
By Fred Reed In a paroxysm of patriotic musing, I reflected that Washington is an insular, incestuous, inward-looking city, chiefly interested in itself, so politically inbred as to be in danger of hemophilia, out of touch with reality, having remarkably little understanding of or interest in the rest […]
Rolling Stone Charles Manson at Corcoran State Prison. MansonDirect.com By Erik Hedegaard In California’s San Joaquin Valley, about halfway between Bakersfield and Fresno, on the outskirts of the fly-infested, windblown, stink-soaked, dry-mouth town of Corcoran, sits the squat, sprawling expanse of Corcoran State Prison, where Charlie Manson is serving […]
Peter Marshall’s excellent book on historic anarchism. Lively and authoritative, this study of a widely misunderstood subject skillfully navigates the rough waters of anarchistic concepts—from Taoism to Situationism, ranters to punk rockers, individualists to communists, and anarcho-syndicalists to anarcha-feminists. Exploring key anarchist ideas of society and the state, […]
An excellent critique of atheist fundamentalism. By Robert M. Price “My disagreement with religion and religious people is, I hope, a gentleman’s disagreement. As a humanist, I cannot despise the cultural fruits of religion, including the art, literature, music, and even the fascinating theology it has given rise […]
Commentary by David Theroux of the Independent Institute. Duck Dynasty and the Secular Theocracy, Part I Duck Dynasty and the Secular Theocracy, Part II “As was the case with such earlier TV shows as Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction, as well as NPR’s long-running Prairie Home […]
For the new year, I have a dream…. A.D. 2014, and it seems obvious that the highfaluting notion of “progress” remains almost purely a technological phenomenon. Whilst the denizens of Slave Britannia cow under the yoke of political correctness and media censorship, those further south of the sphere […]
Listen here. Guest: Keith Preston, author of Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century. Keith discusses the fundamental illegitimacy of the state, the pseudo-religious aura surrounding “the government” and “the law,” and the permutations of statist idolatry in history. Other assertions: *The system props […]
An interesting new book by Jeff Taylor. Check it out.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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