By Jordan Michael Smith Boston Globe The voters who put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of civil liberties and privacy, promising a dramatically different approach from his predecessor. […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/31/443931/US-military-aid-Israel-Obama/ “Israel continues to be by far the largest recipient of American foreign aid, American military aid and American weapons,” says Preston. US military and foreign assistance to Israel has “continued unabated” under President Barack Obama, despite disagreements on a number of issues, says […]
This looks to be an interesting book. In the past I have attempted to outline fairly meticulously calculated strategies concerning how to go about forming a constituency or coalition for the pan-anarchist, pan-secessionist, and pan-decentralist ideas we promote at ATS. However, given the growing fractiousness of US politics […]
An interesting article by James Kirkpatrick on the divisions that Trump is causing in the Republican Party. From a strategic perspective, I consider the destruction of the Republican Party as a competitive force in U.S. politics to be the most important objective at the present time. The GOP […]
By David Harsanyi The Federalist This incessant clamoring by voters and punditry for better “leaders” and more “leadership” is one of the most unsavory, dangerous, and un-American tendencies in political discourse. When Donald Trump was asked last week by Joe Scarborough what he made of an endorsement from Vladimir […]
The original Donald Trump. BBC News After years of successfully brushing off sex scandals, allegations of corruption and political setbacks, Silvio Berlusconi’s luck finally out when he was convicted of tax fraud in 2013. Berlusconi, 77, was sentenced to four years in prison and ejected from his seat […]
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society A think piece by Walter Frick at Harvard Business Review (“Understanding the Debate Over Inequality, Skills, and the Rise of the 1%,” Dec. 21) draws a line in the inequality debate between those (mostly CEOs and other corporate apologists) who […]
Opinion polls show these numbers pretty consistently. The question is how do we awaken this sleeping giant? Countercurrents News A startling new study reveals that more than 1 in 4 Americans now believes that the government is the enemy of its very citizens. The Pew Research Center concluded that […]
This headline is a bit goofy and misleading, but I actually cover a lot of important ground in the audio interview. Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/29/443626/us-police-brutality-black-lives-matter-gun-violence-racial-inequality/ Police brutality in the United States is not necessarily about “homicide” committed by American cops or even “racial disparity” but has deeper […]
This is an interesting debate between leftist anti-racist Tim Wise and race-realist/white nationalist Jared Taylor. This discussion covers most of the standard issues and arguments involved in these kinds of debates. I would suggest that these questions are largely irrelevant to the question of anarchist political theory generally, […]
Listen Here! Sean Gabb is the director of the Libertarian Alliance in the UK Topics include: The objectives of the Libertarian Alliance The divide between establishment libertarians and traditionalist leaning libertarians How there were originally laws against the publication of pornography under the Obscene Publications Act but there were no laws about possession How today […]
PC is the new Moral Majority, Legion for Decency, or Parents Music Resource Center. Guys like Carlin, Frank Zappa, and Abbie Hoffman would have never stood for this shit.
This is quite good. O’Neill describes PC as the new puritanism and a reactionary abandonment of classical liberal values, and PC environmentalism as an apocalyptic religion.
Truth Axis The Paris terrorist attacks and San Bernardino shootings have ushered in a new era of urban terror. The combined death toll of both attacks was 146 dead with hundreds wounded. The response from American politicians, law enforcement and intelligence departments has varied, but is unified in […]
Originally posted at Lingit Latseen I’ve finally picked up Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. The book is an attack on the legitimizing ideology and narrative of the United States’s subjugation of the indigenous people of North America. Though I have only just […]
This is a really shabbily written article on the “alternative right” from The Weekly Standard. But if the alternative right is getting a mention in one of the neocons’ in-house journals, it must be really growing in influence. I’ve heard the alternative right actually got a mention on […]
My recent interview with the Tasnim News Agency. TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An American political analyst said the second letter penned by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei to Western youth aims to inform the younger generation of Westerners’ misconceptions about Islam and Muslims. “The […]
In recent years, I have noticed that the number of people accepting the label of “anarchist” for their political identity has grown considerably. Equally important is that I have also noticed that an increasing number of people who identify as anarchists are beginning to reject the leftist fanaticism […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko As I neared completion of my academic program in 2009, I was surrounded by professors who ascribed the economic crisis to “unfettered capitalism”. One of my instructors lamented “if only we had the state sponsor all of our classes, we ought to treat students […]
From an article on “Anti-Fascist News” called “Why We Fight: What is the Real Threat of Fascist Organizing?” It sounds like they almost get it. “The far right has staked much of its claims to the left’s demise on things like political correctness, personal anecdotes of bigotry disconnected […]
A critique of Bookchin from a classical anarcho-syndicalist/anarcho-communist perspective. By Wayne Price Anarchism Needs a Working Class Revolution Murray Bookchin was an influential and prolific writer and thinker on anarchism. Recently his work has been in the news. While he made significant contributions, he made a major error […]
By Codi Bott Thought Catalog Racism is a prevailing issue in the modern day world. But what many people fail to realize, or perhaps more accurately, fail to acknowledge, is that racism towards white people does in fact exist. Now I know that your first bigoted instinct is […]
A pretty big one, says a poster on an anarchist social media forum. “•Constitutions affirms the fact that African Americans are only 3/5 human • While people of color only make up 30% of the total population, they are 60% of the total prison population. • Blacks are […]
By Kathy Caprino Forbes Sheryl WuDunn Last month, I had the honor of speaking with Sheryl WuDunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, and investment banker. Co-author of the national bestselling book Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide with her husband, New York Times columnist Nicholas […]
By Roosh V. Successful political and social agitation by the progressive movement has cemented such gains that men can now be considered institutionally oppressed in America, even according to feminist definitions of oppression. Here are three definitions: From a Slutwalk Wiki: Institutional oppression is the systematic mistreatment of […]
Thought Catalog t truly is amazing how things have “progressed” in this day and age. For all of the advancements in science, technology, medicine, and various other things, it seems when it comes to the social foray, things have degenerated quite significantly. There is more hypersensitivity about…well…pretty much […]
Distractify 1 . We associate rape with accidents Source: rawstory.com Barbara Listing, an anti-abortion leader, argued that Michigan women should be forced to pay extra for health insurance to cover the cost of rape. According to Barbara, no one plans to get into a car accident or to […]
An interesting piece from a liberal “race realist” who argues that many of the conventional claims of race realists would justify liberal social policies. By Anatoly Carlin This may be the article I’ve hesitated longest over publishing. Its subject matter has always hovered as a specter over my […]
This is an interesting discussion of Carol Swain’s book on white nationalism from Patheos. See here. Carol Swain is a black law professor at Vanderbilt whose book is the best book I know of on white nationalism from a non-white nationalist perspective (and possibly the best book on […]
In my judgment, this is the most serious domestic issue that the United States currently faces, and one that transcends the normal barriers of class, race, gender, and political ideology. The police state is the enemy of all Americans. John Whitehead is one of the very best writers […]
Reuploaded video since the original video titled “Athens: Anarchist Riot Greetings for 2015 [Jingle Bells]” combined the sound of the Streets and Jingle Bells by Frank Sinatra, but on 25/9/2015 UMG (Universal Music Group) muted the video on copyright claiming grounds, so the song was forced to be […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/20/442472/US-China-South-China-Sea The United States wants access to oil and gas reserves in the South China Sea, Keith Preston said. The United States’ dispute with China in the contested South China Sea is over access to the vast oil and gas reserves in the strategic […]
Here we have totalitarian humanism at its finest. This is an example why a serious radical movement must effectively purge political correctness. This stuff is simply the modern version of bluenoses like Anthony Comstock, Carrie Nation, Billy James Hargis, the Moral Majority or Rev. Fred Phelps. Anyone with […]
This is why serious radicals need to attack the system on its left flank rather than its right flank. The Left is a rising force, the Right is a dying force. Why waste time on an enemy that’s on it’s deathbed? By Sean Illing Salon.Com (Credit: Reuters/Joshua Lott) […]
This article’s analysis is consistency with what I have long been saying about the trajectory the New Left has followed. In the post-Vietnam War period, the New Left abandoned whatever radical inclinations it ever had, and gradually became incorporated into the apparatus of the Democratic Party and traditional […]
By Joris Leverink ROAR Magazine In 2004, Kurdish leader Öcalan reached out to Murray Bookchin from his prison cell, where he had been studying the work of the American radical thinker. Their correspondence is now made public for the first time. The Bookchin-Öcalan correspondence has been published as […]
When it comes to electoral politics, I’m generally of the “worse is better” school. For instance, I’m inclined to root for Mrs. Clinton in 2016, for the simple reason that she is a reviled figure across the entire spectrum of the Right and the genuine (anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist) Left. […]
About a year ago, I published a piece calling for the creation of a coalition against consensual crime laws, which have long been a pet peeve of Libertarians. I was thinking of this earlier when a social media friend made the following observation concerning Libertarians: No one will […]
As virtually everyone knows, I am a radical pan-anarchist that favors breaking up the global corporatocracy and the nation-states that are its component parts into autonomous regions, federations, cities, communes, and local communities. As an anarchist, I don’t much care for government of any kind, but I prefer […]
A piece by Colin Liddell from 2012 on the growth of the National Front in France. I have a cautiously qualified sympathy for the National Front, and I consider them to be among the most left-wing of any European political party with any kind of influence. The FN […]
This is a talk by Sam Dickson from the NPI meeting a couple months ago where Sam describes the people of the American South as a unique ethnic identity, and how the South was among the early victims of U.S. imperialism. For obvious reasons, the inclusion of the […]
David Brin raises what I think are some of the better criticisms of the neo-reactionary philosophy. I appreciate the neo-reactionaries. Mass democracy and “democratic equality” are the state religions of modern liberal-capitalist regimes, and the core component of their self-legitimating ideological superstructure. When folks ranging from the neocons […]
Many of my right-wing readers will no doubt consider this piece by leftist anti-racist Tim Wise to be blasphemy, but it’s an interesting summary of the arguments for “race realism” and the counter arguments offered by the Left. By Tim Wise Some things are so predictable that you […]
A lengthy symposium from the Center for a Stateless Society on anarchist economics. LOL, most of these guys hate my guts but I’m pleased to see this debate about anarchist economics going on. By Cory Massimino Center for a Stateless Society Introducing the November 2015 Mutual Exchange Symposium […]
This is an interesting critique of Kevin Carson’s individualist-anarchism/mutualism by former Trotskyist turned anarcho-communist Wayne Price. Carson’s reply to Price’s review can be found here. By Wayne Price Anarkismo.Net This is a review of Kevin Carson’s “Studies in Mutualist Political Economy”. Carson seeks to revive individualist anarchist economic […]
This really nails it. World Socialist Website After over 14 years of unending US wars of aggression waged in the name of fighting terrorism, humanitarian intervention and promoting “democracy,” the threat posed to mankind by the eruption of American militarism has never been so acute. In Syria, Washington […]
This is what anarchists and other radicals should be focusing on, not “microaggressions.” Abby Martin interviews retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations. Today, he […]
During the peak of my ultra-leftist phase about 25 years ago, I recall telling a friend of the Republican persuasion that the ideal GOP society would have the foreign policy of Nazi Germany, the economy of Guatemala, and the civil liberties of the Soviet Union. Regrettably, I seem […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Writing in the Daily Telegraph on the 10th December 2015, two Members of Parliament – Frank Field and Nicholas Soames – regret the cancellation, in 2010, of the previous Labour Government’s identity card scheme. They argue that the threat of terrorism requires […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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