Month: July 2015

News Digest July 13, 2015

The “Euro Family” Has It is Capable of Real Cruelty by Suzanne Moore Israel Could Lose $40 Billion a Year if Subject to BDS Boycott by Michael Whitton Iran, 6 World Powers Agree to Partially Lift Arms Embargo Russia Today Alternative Right Podcast: The Greek Crisis and the […]

News Digest July 12, 2015

Iran Nuclear Deal Expected on Sunday by Kelly Cohen and Barbara Boland The U.S.-Russia Economic War Heats Up by Eric Draitser This Week in Police Brutality and Corruption by Randa Morris Man Dies After Getting Pepper-Sprayed by the Police by Holly Yan U.S. State Department Denies Visas for […]

The New Totalitarians Are Here

By Tom Nichols The Federalist There’s a basic difference in the traditions of political science between “authoritarians” and “totalitaritarians.” People throw both of these words around, but as is so often the case, they’re using words they may not always understand. They have real meaning, however, and the […]

News Digest July 11, 2015

Obama to Be to the First President to Visit a Federal Prison by Chancellor Agard Tennessee Legalizes Breaking Into Cars to Save Pets Russian Today Civil Disobedience in the Disunited States by Patrick Buchanan Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial on its 90th Anniversary Nashville Scene Former Virginia Governor […]

Donald Trump is Now the Most Popular GOP Candidate

Followed by Jeb Bush and Rand Paul. Apparently nativists, libertarians, and neocons are now the dominant GOP factions. The religious right is apparently declining in influence. by Dartagnan The Daily Kos The Republican voters have finally embraced the core message of their Party platform, elevating unabashed racism against […]

News Digest July 10, 2015

Hows Donald Trump’s Immigration Stance Became a Liability by Peter Beinart South Carolina’s Confederate Flag Comes Down by Jeffery Collins and Meg Kinnard Remembering the U.S. Government’s Secret Human Experiments by Kevin Loria Cops Pulls Rifle on Protestors for Their “Constitutional Bullshit” Countercurrents News Teenage Girl Sentenced to […]

News Digest July 9, 2015

Jill Stein: The Green Party is an Alternative to the “Lesser” Evil Mint Press ISIS Threatens Pyramids, Sphinx as It Begins Attack on Egypt by Jamie Seidel Time Warner Forced to Pay Woman $229, 500 for 153 Mistaken Robocalls by  Janet Allon House Votes to Ban Confederate Flags […]

News Digest July 8, 2015

A New Era of Extremist Politics in Greece by Daphne Halikiopoulou YPG/YPJ Fighters Detained in Spain by Angry Tumblr Person FBI, DOJ, IRS Plot Against Political Opponents? by Michael Schaus U.S. Muslim Groups Launch Fundraiser to Help Rebuild Burned Black Churches by Renee Lewis Man Released from Jail […]

Is Racism Over Yet?

Anarchists need to develop a perspective on racial issues that goes beyond ideological finger-pointing or moralistic sermonizing about white privilege delivered by do-gooder white people. The bottom line is that black Americans are a distinctively occupied and colonized caste within the American system. Always have been and always […]

News Digest July 7, 2015

New Book: Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado The Necessity of Greece’s Separation by Noah Millman Gay Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness by Noah Millman Arizona Cops Publicize All Phone Contacts of Suspected Sex Businesses by Elizabeth Nolan Brown Why Hardly Anyone Dies […]

News Digest July 6, 2015

Greece-What You Are Not Being Told by the Media by Chris Kanthan Greece Just Taught Capitalists a Lesson About What Capitalism Really Means by Jim Edwards Trump and the Myth of Immigrant Crime by Steve Chapman Police Report Says Natasha McKenna Was Killed While Handcuffed and Shackled Countercurrents […]

Welfare, Minus the State

By William Schnack The Evolution of Consent Introduction Upon learning about anarchism for the first time, many questions pop into the head of the initiate; questions about law, money, and general civility. That is, questions about the welfare of society spring up. Who will build the roads? The […]

News Digest July 5, 2015

His Benefits Were Cut, So He Robbed a Bank South Wales Evening Post Marijuana for Veterans with PTSD is Finally Going to Be Legal Countercurrents News While Americans Enjoy 4th, Government Wants to Regulate Fireworks, BBQ, Sparklers by Mike Miller The Forgotten Story of Iran Air Flight 655 […]

Clinton, other candidates competing on hard-line stance against China, Russia

My latest interview with PressTV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/418841 The 2016 US presidential candidates, including Hilary Clinton, are competing against one another by using strong language against China and Russia in order to receive campaign funding from wealthy neoconservative groups, a political analyst from Virginia says. “The way that […]

News Digest July 4, 2015

U.S. Public Opinion is Gradually Turning Against the Death Penalty by Christina Sturbenz Owners of Oregon Bakery That Refused to Bake Gay Wedding Cake Fined $135,000 by Oliver Darcy 200 Years of U.S. Military Interventions by Jennifer Baker Islamic State Posts Photos of Militants Taking a Sledgehammer to […]

Libya, Iraq’s Oil Being Plundered

A documentary from PressTV featuring commentary from yours truly. Watch the documentary here. The EU ambassador to Iraq accuses European countries of purchasing oil from ISIL terrorists. European countries are unwittingly funding the ISIL terror campaign by buying oil from ISIL-controlled oil fields, including those in Iraq. Reports […]

News Digest July 3, 2015

Bernie Sanders: Populist or Opportunist? by Stephen Lendman U.S. Police Killings Headed for 1100 This Year, Blacks Twice as Likely to Die The Guardian Julian Assange Seeks Asylum in France Russia Today How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Run America by Sara Robinson Is […]

White Privilege and Other Hot Air

It’s time for anarchists to drop all this “privilege theory” nonsense. Our struggle is against the global power elite, not any race,religion, gender, nationality, etc, etc, etc. By Keith Preston Libertarian Alliance Libertarians of whatever stripe tend to focus primarily on political theory, law, economics, ethics, and philosophy. […]

News Digest July 2, 2015

Many Applies for Marriage License to Have Two Wives by Jon Street German Ethics Council Calls for Incest Between Siblings to be Legalized Zurmat.Com For Anarchist, Details of Life as an FBI Target by Colin Moynihan and Scott Shane This Professor Was Fired for Saying “Fuck No” in […]

News Digest July 1, 2015

Marriage Equality: Don’t Let the Perfect Become the Enemy of the Good by Cory Massimo Inequality, the State, and the Left by Chris Dillow Can You Be a Waitress and a Feminist? by Brittany Bronson Private Prisons to Sue States Unless They Get More Inmates Free Labor Countercurrents […]