By Chloe Benoist Albawaba.Com Elbits provides the surveillance system for the Israeli-built wall in the West Bank (File Archive) An Israeli military contractor, whose surveillance technology is used along Israel’s apartheid wall constructed in the Palestinian West Bank, has been chosen by the United States to provide similar […]
Neither a sacrament nor a threat to civilization. Richard Blake Interviewed by by an Irish Gay Magazine that was so shocked by the Attendant Vulgarity that the Magazine Cannot be Named! March 2014 You’re a historical novelist, which confuses some people when they come across it first! What […]
By Rahul Kanwar The Conscious Resistance This essay will focus on the two largest philosophical movements, American libertarianism (or the libertarian right) and European libertarianism (or the libertarian left). This essay will not address any movement to centralize power further, such as Maoism or minarchist capitalism. The importance of solidarity between these […]
By Justin Raimondo When the Berlin Wall fell, and the Soviet Union imploded shortly afterward, the world breathed a sigh of relief—except in the faculty lounges of our more exclusive universities, the last bastion of Marxism in the developed world. But these hothouse exotics weren’t the […]
By David McElroy by David McElroy We do a very poor job of disagreeing in this country. You’d think we would be experts at it, because we do so much of it. But we’ve developed a culture in which most people are far more eager to tell everyone […]
By Pat Buchanan LewRockwell.Com With Vladimir Putin’s dispatch of Russian troops into Crimea, our war hawks are breathing fire. Russophobia is rampant and the op-ed pages are ablaze here. Barack Obama should tune them out, and reflect on how Cold War presidents dealt with far graver clashes with […]
By Ivan Eland Independent Institute President Obama’s defense plan has positive aspects, but is not part of a coherent strategic vision for the nation. With this failing, Obama, as commander-in-chief, is not unique. Ever since the end of the Cold War in 1991, the United States has lacked […]
Advance the Struggle Occupy Oakland rally in front of Lakeview Elementary school. Photo Cred: https://oaklandnorth.net/2011/11/19/occupy-oakland-marches-again-sets-up-tents-in-new-downtown-site/
“Libertarians arguing over whose libertarianism is best reminds me of the scene from American Psycho where everyone is trying to one-up each other using the colors of their stupid business cards when they all work for the same firm.” -RJ Jacob
Religious liberty is a deeply radical concept. It was at this country’s founding and it hasn’t become less so. Preserving it has always been a full-time battle. But it’s important, because religion is at the core of people’s identity. A government that tramples religious liberty is not a […]
Now I remember why I didn’t vote in the 2004 election. What kind of deluded moron makes comments like this one? “It’s an incredible act of aggression. It is really a stunning, willful choice by President Putin to invade another country,’ Kerry said on ‘Face the Nation’ Sunday, […]
I see no reason why traditionalists and leftist cannot peacefully co-exist within the context of decentralized political systems and autonomous enclaves. Those who object to such arrangements merely expose themselves for what they are: either aspiring totalitarians or just plain intolerant assholes. “As I see it, there are […]
LibCom.Org An open letter to anarchists in Chile and Venezuela, taking a nuanced look at the wave of protests against the Maduro government. Two weeks ago, Nosotros los Pobres had the good fortune to host a presentation by two members of the Federacion de Estudiantes Libertarias of Chile, […]
A note to my paleo-leaning friends: Immigration restriction is a failed movement, a political dead end. Americans are becoming more immigration-friendly, as they have with marijuana decriminalization and gay marriage. Still, there are alternatives to both compulsory multiculturalism and totalitarian humanism from the Left and old-fashioned nationalism (or […]
One thing many of my fans and critics alike often have difficulty understanding is that I really don’t care about any of the sectarian intramural in-fighting that goes on between the various tribes of anarchism, the left and right wings of the wider libertarian movement, or even in […]
A damn good idea. By Dave Lindorff Ukraine’s new rulers, in one of their first acts, have disbanded that country’s riot police. Now without getting into the complex politics of the ongoing struggles in that country, or into the question of the covert role of the US in […]
My take on the question of discrimination law: Genuinely private and voluntary associations (i.e. those with no connection to the state) should be allowed to discriminate against anyone they wish for any reason they wish. However, government agencies (funded by the taxpayers), private cartels allied with the state […]
In the last couple of years, I have noticed that just as the anti-drug hysteria of past decades has started to wane and the War on Drugs is becoming more unpopular, a corresponding and comparable hysteria over “sex trafficking” has emerged to take its place and repression of […]
Clearly, Americans very much need the message of pan-anarchism. It’s up to us to make it happen. Of course, a big question is the degree to which the left/right divide will be altered by rising class polarization. By Paul Waldman The American Prospect This morning, one of my […]
This article was written before the 2012 election, but it makes the same argument I’ve seen elsewhere from liberal commentators: The “inevitable Democratic majority due to demographics” is not a sure thing, because the major wild card is that more and more Hispanics may come to regard themselves […]
By Dave Hodges D.C. Clothesline We no longer have to ask foreign refugees what it is like living inside a police state. All we have to do is to read the daily accounts of innocent Americans being abused and murdered through the excessive use of force being used […]
What does it mean to live in a society where weed and gay marriage will soon be legalized nationwide, and discrimination against homosexuals and transexuals is increasingly prohibited, but where due process is increasingly non-existent and where the police rob, murder, and maim with impunity? By Damon Root […]
By Alexander McNabb TheRightStuff.Biz Occasionally I wander over to Center For a Stateless Society, which operates under the tag line “Left Anarchist Think Tank and Media Center.” Aside from the mostly harmless pontifications of the relatively boring and uninspiring writer Kevin Carson, C4SS has proven to be more […]
These Right Stuff guys are harder on the left-libertarians than I am. Sheesh. By Michael Enoch TheRightStuff.Biz Many harsh criticisms have been made on this site, by myself and others, of the more autistic, neckbeardy and fedoraish strains of Libertarianism. Bulbasaur in particular has gained a reputation for […]
By Bulbasaur TheRightStuff.Biz I. Discrimination To discriminate, or not to discriminate? That is the question. …That is to say, this is the distortion of reality presented by a modern media. Support gay sex or face gay sex in prison. The argument is typically framed as one side discriminating […]
By Sheldon Richman Should the government coercively sanction business owners who, out of apparent religious conviction, refuse to serve particular customers? While such behavior is repugnant, the refusal to serve someone because of his or her race, ethnicity, or sexual orientation is nevertheless an exercise of self-ownership and […]
By Michael Enoch TheRightStuff.Biz “If you want to see Libertarians go full retard, compare them to Marxists.” –Bulbasaur If you are like me and you have spent more time than is probably healthy in libertarian political and intellectual circles you have probably taken note of various irritating and […]
A very good piece on the Ukraine by my uber-critic Matthew Lyons. My take on the conflict in the Ukraine is that the United States should stay out of it. Beyond that, I have no position on what’s going on there. It’s none of my business. By Matthew […]
Hunter Schwarz Buzz Feed Abby Carney got a call from MTV to be in a docuseries about virgins in August. The 23-year-old Austin freelance writer caught the attention of producers for a still-untitled virgin-themed show after she wrote a piece about waiting to have sex for XOJane, but […]
“The anti-cannabis campaign is a cancerous tissue of lies, undermining law enforcement, aggravating the drug problem, depriving the sick of needed help, and suckering well-intentioned conservatives and countless frightened parents” ~ William F. Buckley, 1983
By Meghan Lords With the media frenzy in full tilt after the closing of MtGox, there have been quite a few articles coming out declaring the death of bitcoin and an equal number reassuring us that it will be just fine. I won’t link to the former ones […]
I was giving an interview yesterday, and the subject of Bakunin came up at one point. The general remarks I made were along the lines of recognizing Bakunin as an inspiring rhetorician and militant activist, but largely agreeing with the common view of Bakunin scholars that he actually […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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