Frankenstein: The Ideal GOP Candidate
It’s fitting that a monster should be the candidate of the Part of War and Plutocracy “Brooks acknowledged that the field is using rhetoric “that’s not very libertarian, that’s a lot more aggressive on foreign policy than we’ve seen in a long time.” “Kristol issued a cautionary note: […]
News Digest June 30, 2105
SWAT Raids Wrong Home, Breaks Windows, Then Issues Citation for Broken Windows Free Thought Project Rand Paul Becomes the First Major Party Presidential Candidate to Court Pot Donors Rare.Us Hillary Clinton is a Gift to the Global Elite by W. James Antle III How Campus Feminism Infantilizes Women […]
Liberty From A Scottish Perspective With Antony Sammeroff
Caity and Dan welcome back Antony Sammeroff for a second time to the show. Antony begins by explaining the difference between ‘libertarianism’ and ‘voluntaryism’ and moral philosophies versus political philosophies. We talk about labels and how they are used in society. We get into terms like ‘anarchist’ and […]
40th Anniversary of Pine Ridge Shootout
By Ed Krayewski Reason Today is the 40th anniversary of the June 26, 1975, shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota between two FBI agents who drove in with unmarked cars and several members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a Native American rights group operating out […]
News Digest June 29, 2015
Should We Lower the Age of Consent to Protect Teenagers? by Amanda Hess Congress Hopes to Tackle Criminal Justice Reform This Year Liberty Unyielding Almost 90 Percent of US Wiretaps Listen for Suspected Drug Deals by Brian Anderson The ACLU Now Opposes Religious Freedom Because Christians Need It […]
The Real War Heroes
Chapter 1 of the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway “That must be them.” Petra took one hand off the steering wheel and pointed to a group of soldiers about two hundred meters away, standing along our road next to a high chainlink fence […]
Robert Stark interviews Robert Lindsay about the Charleston Church Shooting
Robert Stark interviews Robert Lindsay about the Charleston Church Shooting Topics include: Racist Mass Shooting in Charleston, South Carolina The shooters Motivations The characteristics and causes of mass shooters Dylann Roof’s Manifesto White Nationalism, Sex and Gender On Sluthate Why People Say Looks Don’t Matter for Men
Robert Stark interviews Matt Forney about Social Justice Warriors & Bella and the Bulldogs
Robert Stark interviews Matt Forney about Social Justice Warriors & Bella and the Bulldogs Topics include: “NAACP President Rachel Dolezal Outed as White Woman” “5 Modern Day Social Justice Warriors Who Would Have Been Institutionalized in the Past” Bella and the Bulldogs Cuckold Show Matt experience at the […]
California State Assembly passes resolution equating criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism
The Zionist wing of totalitarian humanism strikes! By Annie Robbins and Matthew Taylor Mondoweiss School’s out, but that didn’t stop California’s state assembly from passing Resolution HR35 buttressing a controversial report commissioned by the University of California that accuses students and faculty of contributing to an environment fostering […]
News Digest June 28, 2015
Here’s How Much Corporations Paid U.S. Senators to Fast Track the TPP Bill by Nick Sorrentino After Same-Sex Marriage, What’s Next? by Robert P. Jones Should Religious Schools Worry About Losing Their Tax-Exempt Status Over Gay Marriage? by Jason Russell What Happened When Portugal Decriminalized Drugs by Sophie […]
No joke: Iceland’s Pirate Party surges into first place in the polls
By Stephen Wolf Daily Kos The Icelandic Pirate Party Iceland has long been one of the more right-leaning Nordic countries. In contrast to Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, which all have a long tradition of electing Social Democratic governments, Iceland’s parliament has been dominated by right-of-center parties for […]
Gay Marriage, Good News and Bad: Some Thoughts on “Marriage Equality”
If during the course of some Twilight Zone moment I had found myself on the Supreme Court this past term here’s how I would have approached the gay marriage issue before the Court: First, the objections to gay marriage. 1. Gay marriage is against religious teachings. Perhaps, but […]
War and revolution in the trenches of Rojava: Position of the revolutionary anarchists
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Our Enemy, the State
News Digest June 27, 2015
Are Leftist, Feminist Kurds About to Deliver the Coup de Grace to ISIL in Syria? by Juan Cole Topple the Cult of the Presidency by Lucy Steigerwald It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy by Fredrik DeBoer Rand Paul Takes a Stand by Justin Raimondo Keynes, the Great Depression, and […]
Robert Stark interviews Aleksey Bashtavenko about Introversion & Extroversion
Robert Stark interviews Aleksey Bashtavenko about Introversion & Extroversion http://www.starktruthradio.com/?p=1339 Robert Stark and co-host Robert Lindsay talk to Aleksey Bashtavenko about the differences between introversion and extroversion Topics include: How few people are purely introverted or extroverted but rather have tendencies to one or the other Carl Jung’s Theory of […]
My Flag is the Black Flag: Some Thoughts on Charleston, Gun Control and the Confederate Flag
The recent murder of nine African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina by a deranged white supremacist has generated something of a backlash against the Confederate flag, long a symbolic target of the Left in America’s ongoing culture wars. Massacres carried out by a mentally disturbed lone gunman are hardly […]
News Digest June 26, 2015
Guest Column by Vladimir Putin by Paul Craig Robers No Joke: Iceland’s Pirate Party Surges into First Place in the Polls by Stephen Wolf Charleston and Gun Rights by Sheldon Richman Gun Control’s Racist Reality: The Liberal Argument against Giving Police More Power by Alex Gourevitch Rothbard’s Perversion […]
Is ISIS Coming to Damascus?
By Pat Buchanan Antiwar.Com That question, which has bedeviled U.S. experts on the Middle East, may need updating to read: Who rises when Assad falls? For the war is going badly for Bashar Assad, whose family has ruled Syria since Richard Nixon was president. Assad’s situation seems more […]
Reflections on Anarcho-Syndicalism
By Vrijdag 20 National Revolutionary Voice of the Netherlands Anarcho-Syndicalism is not left wing The terms “left”, “right” and “centre” are, in the purest sense of the words, parliamentary concepts. These “directions” within the political spectrum are derived from the perspective of the representatives in parliament. On the […]
What is Fascism?
By Woensdag National Revolutionary Voice of the Netherlands On the 23rd of May, 1919 the former revolutionary Marxist Benito Mussolini established the “Fascio di Combattimento” (combat union) with a small group of sympathizers in Italy. Until 1920 it remained a marginal group in the extreme leftwing of the […]
The Civic Bank: The Geo-Mutual Bank as Revolutionary Instrument, Political Mobilizer, and Provider of Welfare and Security
By William Schnack The Evolution of Consent In this essay, we will take a deeper look at the characteristics of the geo-mutual bank. More specifically, we will discuss the ability of the bank to mobilize populations, establish itself as sovereign, and to ensure people’s safety and well-being. In […]
What Is White Supremacy?
By Elizabeth Martinez Films for Action White Supremacy is an historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of exploitation and oppression of continents, nations, and peoples of color by white peoples and nations of the European continent, for the purpose of maintaining and defending a system of wealth, power, and […]
White Privilege? A Black Libertarian Says No
Listen to Dr. Walter Williams interview with Tom Woods here. The irreplaceable Walter Williams smacks down the conventional wisdom on everything from so-called white privilege to education, government spending and debt, and much more. About the Guest Walter Williams, a nationally syndicated columnist, is the author of ten […]
Demoralizing Moralism: The Futility of Fetishized Values
By Jason McQuinn Anarchist Library Introduction Most anarchists — just like most other people on the planet — remain relatively naive concerning the many problems with theories and practices of compulsory morality and moralism. Positive, uncritical references to various forms of compulsory morality are nearly ubiquitous in both […]
Keith Preston: US pushing NATO up to Russia’s borders to encircle it
My statement to PressTV Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/416561 The United States is trying to encircle Russia by pushing NATO right up to the country’s borders as well as establishing American military bases throughout Central Asia, says a political commentator. “When we look at what the United States has done […]
The Pecking Disorder: Social Justice Warriors Gone Wild
By Cathy Young Observer The ordeal of Northwestern University film professor Laura Kipnis, hauled before a campus gender equity tribunal for publishing a critique of academia’s current obsession with sexual misconduct, has brought the backlash against “political correctness” to reliably left-of-center venues such as Vox. But this is […]
Socialists are rejecting Bernie Sanders like libertarians are rejecting Rand Paul
Revolution is the only solution. “They thought all along that they could call me a libertarian and hang that label around my neck like an albatross,” Rand Paul told TIME Magazine back in 2010, “but I’m not a libertarian.” Three years later, as reported by the Washington Post, Rand Paul reiterated this position: “I’m […]
Who is the Real Power Elite?
UKIP and the Gay Pride March (2015), by Sean Gabb
The views Dr. Gabb expresses in this piece are essentially the same as my own. I could have written this piece, almost word for word.-KP By Dr. Sean Gabb On the 6th June 2015, the organisers of the Gay Pride March in London announced that they had rejected […]
Are Wars Inevitable?
By William T. Hathaway “We’ve always had wars. Humans are a warring species. Without an army to defend us, someone will always try to conquer us.” These assumptions have become axioms of our culture. They generate despair but also a certain comfort because they relieve us of the […]
Kurdish Anarchists Inflict the First Major Defeats on the Islamic State
Urfa, Turkey – Subsequent to fierce battles with militants of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS), the joint forces of People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Burkan al-Furat, supported by the U.S.-led coalition’s warplanes, regained major parts of the strategic city of Tel Abyad (Gire Spi) in Raqqa province, northeastern Syria, YPG sources reported […]
The Deep State
My recent interview with Richard Spencer at Radix Journal concerning the surveillance state. Listen here. NOTES: Rand Paul’s Stand Section 215 of Patriot Act expires The unprounceable name formerly known as Blackwater Keith Preston on Rand Paul Rand Paul signs Tom Cotton’s stupid Iran letter Paul visits Israel […]
The “real threat” of “fascist organizing”
Take an aspirin before reading this one. LibCom.Org As the far right begins to rise in the United States, what is the real threat that they hold? The numbers quickly broke three hundred as the Rose City Antifa called for an action to stop the White Man’s March […]
Social Justice Warriors vs Reactionary Conservatives
By Scott Alexander SlateStarCodex.Com The social justice narrative describes a political-economic elite dominated by white males persecuting anybody who doesn’t fit into their culture, like blacks, women, and gays. The anti-social-justice narrative describes an intellectual-cultural elite dominated by social justice activists persecuting anybody who doesn’t fit into their […]
Diversity Among CEOs and Corporate Directors: Has the Heyday Come and Gone?
The website of William Domhoff, a leading proponent and scholar of “elite theory,” is well worth checking out. By Richard L. Zweigenhaft Who Rules America? For many years now, Bill Domhoff and I have kept an eye on and tried to understand diversity in the corporate elite. Why […]
Academic Mob Chases ‘Climate Change Contrarian’ Bjorn Lomborg Off Campus
By Brendan O’Neill Reason “Are you now or have you ever been a climate contrarian?” How long before this McCarthyite question is asked of everyone who enters into academia, in order to weed out those who refuse to bow and scrape before green orthodoxy? If you think this […]
The Illiberal Persecution of Tim Hunt
By Brendan O’Neill Reason If you were in any doubt that a dark cloud of illiberalism has descended over the Western academy, then the case of Tim Hunt should put you straight. Hunt is a British biochemist. A really good one. In 2001 he won the Nobel Prize […]
American Empire Imploding Both at Home & Abroad
By John Wright Russia Today Reuters / Eric Thayer The crisis and chaos engulfing the Middle East and Ukraine is evidence of US imperial decline, as Washington learns the harsh lesson that no empire lasts forever. In the wake of the Vietnam War – the end of which […]
Varieties of Violence
By William T. Hathaway Terrorists, serial killers, domestic murderers — their ghoulish deeds fill our news and popular entertainment, interspersed with wars, riots, and brutal repressions. Violence surrounds us. Where does it come from? The answer propagated by the mass media is that violence is human nature. It’s […]
A Conversation with President Obama and The Wire Creator David Simon
“The way we treat non-violent drug crimes is problematic, and from a fiscal perspective, it’s breaking the bank.” “It’s draconian, and it doesn’t work,” Simon told the president. That was “The Wire” creator David Simon in a video posted to the White House YouTube channel about the war […]
It Begins! Montana Man Being Prosecuted for ‘Hate Speech’ and Holocaust Denial
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason Via Volokh Conspiracy, a disturbing criminal case out of Montana, where Flathead County resident David Lenio, 28, is being prosecuted for making disparaging remarks about Jews on Twitter and denying that the Holocaust happened. Say what? While this sort of prosecution is common […]
Keith Preston: Hillary Clinton’s corruption is legendary
Listen to my recent statement to PressTV here. http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/414791 The increase in exports of chemical and biological weapons from the United States to totalitarian regimes in the Middle East and Africa during the Arab Spring comes as no surprise because “corrupt” Hillary Clinton was the secretary of state […]
Is the New Political Correctness Already Dying?
Let’s face it. “Social Justice” is the new social conservatism, the Comstockery, the Prohibition movement or the Moral Majority of the 21st century. It’s time for all serious radicals to toss it in the garbage can. By Jonathan Chait New York Magazine The bizarre Title IX investigation of […]
20 Big Ideas From Bernie Sanders to Reverse Inequality, Expand Safety Nets and Stop America’s Plutocrats
If indeed Bernie Sanders becomes the “Ron Paul of the Left” I would suggest that those with a genuine alternative economic outlook like anarcho-communists, syndicalists, free market anti-capitalists, and libertarian socialists start crashing Sanders events and spreading information for the purpose of popularizing their ideas. Maybe the Sanders […]
“The Ron Paul of the left”: Why Bernie Sanders is the cranky socialist 2016 needs
I’m not a Sanders supporter. He’s too much of a social democrat for my tastes. But it will be interesting to see if his campaign has the same effect as the Ron Paul campaign. I wrote a number of articles expressing sympathy for Ron Paul back in 2007 […]
Rand Paul vs. the Libertarians: Is libertarian-ish good enough?
A reader recently posted on my personal Facebook page: “Rand Paul besides the Patriot act is pretty much wrong on everything these days it seems… He is essentially the same as mcCain on foreign policy, he supports bombing Iraq and Syria, sanctions against Iran, supporting Ukrainian neo-nazis, and […]
The Redemption of Rand Paul: He stands almost alone against the Surveillance State
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com If one of the very worst provisions of the Patriot Act – which the government has erroneously and illegally interpreted to gather the phone records of each and every American – expires, we’ll have Senator Rand Paul to thank. And the truth is, we […]
Keith Preston: US anti-terror forces defecting to ISIL
My recent interview with PressTV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/413640 The forces trained by the United States to fight against terrorist groups like ISIL are increasingly “defecting to the other side,” says a political analyst from Virginia. Keith Preston made the remarks when asked about a report that an ISIL […]
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