A highly relevant observation from “Kubrick Guy” at the Libertarian Alliance. “Where Libertarianism is going wrong IMHO, is that we have many discussing the finer theoretical, economic, academic and philosophical aspects of Libertarianism and few people actually politically active prepared to engage with the electorate, knock on doors […]
In case anyone doesn’t know, this quote is from President Eisenhower. So was Joe McCarthy correct when he accused Ike of being a pawn in the Communist Conspiracy? What turds the Republicans have become under the combined leadership of the arch-imperialist/Israel-first neoconservatives and the militarist/corporatist “movement conservative” ideologues. […]
By Robert Lindsay Benjamin Maggi, an Argentine, wrote the comments in italics below. I respond after the italics. Little of what Benjamin says is true. Chavez himself plotted a coup to overthrown the government in the late 90’s Now that is true, but he was arrested and put […]
Paul Marks of the Libertarian Alliance offers these comments in response to my earlier piece, “A Critique of the State of Libertarianism.” : A bit “inside baseball” – but there is some practical stuff here that interests me. No – nobody I know regards 19th century Britain or […]
An interesting critique of anarchism. It’s important for ideologues and ideological writers to fairly acknowledge or confront weaknesses in their own positions. Btw. TheRightStuff.Biz has a lot of interested, irreverent commentary that’s well worth checking out. By Ghoul TheRightStuff.Biz Let’s talk about anarchy for a moment. Which kind […]
An example of why it is essential for anarchists to insure that “anarchist rule” will be fair and tolerant. By Alex McDonald Middle East Eye Foreign volunteers fighting the Islamic State (IS) are leaving the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and joining other militia’s due to the group’s […]
By Jesse Walker Reason Reason has obtained the federal government’s recent report on the sovereign citizens, a largely unorganized subculture whose elaborate legal theories say they do not have to follow most laws. Members of the movement are infamous for filing nuisance lawsuits, making their own drivers’ licenses […]
An interesting question that no one ever seems to ask is this: How is it that on one hand we are treated to a never ending series of hysterias over someone having said a bad word pertaining to race, gender, homosexuality, or some other inflammatory topic, and yet […]
Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was […]
By Ruth Wilson Gilmore Social Justice Journal by Ruth Wilson Gilmore* After declining for three consecutive years, the US prison and jail population increased in 2013. The widely declared victory over mass incarceration was premature at best. Below I raise four areas of particular concern about the state […]
PJMedia.Com An ISIS e-book on how to accomplish their caliphate goal of sacking Rome stresses enlisting “the Islamic State’s secret weapon = secret white converts” to take on Italy. Much of the book, “Black Flags from Rome,” is dedicated to laying out a case for why Muslims in […]
By Graeme Wood The Atlantic Reuters/The Atlantic My cover story in The Atlantic’s March issue asked, as simply as possible, What does ISIS believe, and what are its ideological roots? I read every ISIS statement I could find, including fatwas and tweets and road signs, and I front-loaded […]
Franks Schaeffer presents an interesting historical narrative, but the question I always have for professional critics of the “religious right” is this: If the religious right is so powerful, why have they never scored any serious victories on any of their major issues in thirty-five years as a […]
Find the common denominator.
We chat about the propaganda ‘docudrama’ UKIP – The First 100 Days and what an absurd vision it promotes. We talk about UKIP generally and their policies and why we’re not UKIP supporters, the EU, the Scottish independence referendum and how the UK mainstream media try to shut […]
Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston about Pan-Secessionist Meta Politics Topics include: Keith’s Essay Taking the ATS Philosophy and Strategy to the Next Level: Building the Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party How a Pan-Secessionist Meta Party would be based practical goals toward decentralization as opposed to ideology The barriers to bringing together different […]
Charles Lincoln interviews Terry Trussell Guest host Charles Lincoln interviews Grand Jury Foreman Terry Trussell jailed for filing against Public Official Corruption in Dixie County Florida. Terry is facing 10-70 years in jail.
Video from the Mises Institute’s recent conference on secession. Secession and Liberty January 24, 2015 Ron Paul Read more Secession is Libertarian January 24, 2015 Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. Read more Secession: The Reasonable Option Everyone Resists January 24, 2015 Thomas E. Woods, Jr. Secession: The American Tradition […]
Add to this respect for the associational, religious, economic, property, privacy, free inquiry, free speech, and due process rights of others, and they just might have something.
A good article on ISIS, its ideology, and objectives. By Graeme Wood The Atlantic The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here’s what that means […]
Some thoughts I originally posted in an online discussion concerning the various libertarian by-ways” There’s a big rivalry right now between the paleolibertarians, left-libertarians and “mainstream” LP/Cato/Reason type libertarians. The paleos and the leftists view the latter tendencies as establishment brown-nosers, and the mainstreamers view the radicals as […]
Somehow I can’t really picture these folks overthrowing any actual governments. By David Weigel “I’m on that f*** Jim Crow flow,” says Matthew La Corte. “I’m Thoreau meets Van Gogh after doing three lines of blow.” It’s Saturday night—Valentine’s Day, if you want to make an easy joke out […]
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society One of the grievances of the so-called GamerGate movement last August was an article by Dan Golding titled “The End of Gamers” (August 28, 2014). The title referred, not to the literal extinction of gamers as individuals, but of the […]
There is no one whose cultural leftist credentials are more impeccable than Peter Tatchell. One question the “social justice warriors” never seem to be able to answer is exactly how much “social justice” do we need? Already, in most Western countries, people who express even the most casually […]
The big question that divides socialists and free marketers concerns the nature of markets themselves. Are markets merely a means to peaceful cooperation and exchange between human beings? Or do markets merely involve predatory competition between self-interested individuals seeking to maximize profitability at all costs? My answer: Obviously […]
By William T. Hathaway A former student of mine works as a janitor. After graduating from college he worked as a market researcher and an advertising salesperson, but both jobs soured him on the corporate world. He hated being a junior suit, and the thought of becoming a […]
Caity and Dan have a very interesting conversation with Keir Martland. Keir is Director of Youth Affairs for the Libertarian Alliance is an A-level student in the north west of England studying History, Philosophy, Economics, and Maths, who has been a member of the Committee since August 2014. […]
Join Caity and Dan as we start by complaining about their internet going down for a few days in the Greening Out household then get on to how bad customer service can be very frustrating and can lead to some people thinking that certain industries would work better if they […]
By Keith Preston In the essay, “Liberty and Populism: Building an Effective Resistance Movement for North America,” written in 2006, I made the following observation: Ultimately, we may at some point be able to combine the Green, Libertarian, Populist, Constitution, Natural Law and other minor parties into a […]
By Lorenzo Del Savio and Matteo Mamelli Open Democracy The ideas of the Five Star Movement are best understood through their commitment to anti-representive democracy – a radical stance against traditional structures and institutions of representative democracy. Five Star Movement leader, Beppe Grillo. Demotix/eidon photographers. Some rights reserved. […]
By Alexander Kolokotronis New Politics In what many outside of the territory are referring to as the Rojava Revolution, a major shift in political philosophy and political programmatics has taken place in Kurdistan. Yet, this shift is not limited to the region of Rojava, or what many call […]
Caity and Dan welcome Brett Veinotte from the School Sucks Project to the show or a very fun and interesting conversation about history in academia, public school and movie. We begin by talking about historical research and the great man theory and the problems with it, we also […]
Written by S. Wess Moss and published originally on High-right.com here. “The fairest part of childhood passes without the necessity of coming to blows with reason. We care nothing at all about it, do not meddle with it, admit no reason. We are not to be persuaded to […]
By Gar Alperovitz and Thomas M. Hanna Truthout As America moves more deeply into its growing systemic crisis, it is becoming increasingly important for activists and theorists to distinguish clearly between important projects and “institutional elements,” on the one hand, and systemic change and systemic design, on the […]
Donald Scott National Humanities Center When Mormonism, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as it came to be officially designated, first emerged on the religious scene in 1830, it was simply one of the many, often short-lived, new religious groups born amidst the spiritual ferment […]
By Rhiann Sasseen “Farming women,” reads a page from a 1977 issue of Country Women Magazine. “Who are we? Young and old? What are the realities of our lives, our history, our farms?” The same questions could as easily be asked today, when more U.S. women are entering […]
By Silvia Boarini Al Jazeera Native Australians demonstrate for their rights [Al Jazeera] Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders activists hope 2014 will be remembered as the year they said: “Enough is enough.” Rosalie Kunoth-Monks has no doubt about it. “We are under assault,” she tells Al Jazeera. […]
By Pumza Fihlani BBC News In the sparsely populated Karoo desert in the heart of South Africa’s Northern Cape, the spirit of apartheid lives on. I spent a few days in Orania, a town established in 1991 where no black people live. I was part of a BBC […]
By Jade Small The OpenMind.Com With virtually no police, crime or unemployment, meet the Spanish town described as a democratic, socialist utopia. Unemployment is non-existent in Marinaleda, an Andalusian village in southern Spain that is prosperous thanks to its farming cooperative. READ MORE
By Emmy Favilla Buzzfeed This is Christiania. Stig Nygaard / Creative Commons / Via Flickr: stignygaard Its 84 acres sit on an abandoned military base, and it was founded in 1971 by squatters and artists as a “social experiment.” READ MORE
Veterans Today We are the global village bully that’s hated by much of the world. …by Joachim Hagopian for Veterans Today America loses all its wars because it seems we’ve always been on the wrong side of history. Morally nor legally should any nation have the right to […]
Well, it looks like the PC coalition cracked a lot sooner than I thought it would. Both the radical left (e.g. the left-anarchists) and the center-left coalition that is the foundation of the Democratic Party’s electoral base seem to be falling apart due to the rivalries among their […]
On the 7th of January, three Islamic gunmen stormed the offices of left-wing satirical mag Charlie Hebdo, killing eleven staff members in the ensuing bullet shower. The magazine had previously made an international name for itself by printing the Mohammed cartoons of 2006, and continuing to satirise Islam […]
By Gareth Watkins CvltNation.Com The Middle East today is the last place anyone in mainstream western thought would think to look for progressive political thought, and even less to see those thoughts translated into action. Our image of the region is one of dictatorships, military juntas and theocracies […]
Perhaps one of the most problematic issues I have encountered when attempting to communicate the ATS message is the fact that I frequently comment on a variety of topics that are only casually related or even unrelated to the essential features of the ATS message. For example, I […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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