Problems with the Private Production of Defense Part 2: Mobilization
Todd is joined by Keith Preston and Will Mclean to discuss the problems of privatizing mobilization of armed forces.
Problems with the Private Production of Defense Part 1: Financing
Todd Lewis joined by Logos to discuss the problems of financing problems of private defense.
Keith Preston: US war against North Korea would have ‘catastrophic consequences’
Press TV. Listen here. A military option by the US against North Korea to resolve the crisis on the Korean Peninsula would have “catastrophic consequences,” says a political analyst in Virginia. “An attempted invasion by the United States of the Korean Peninsula or the region of North Korea will certainly […]
Keith Preston: Republicans advancing interests of upper classes
Press TV. Listen here. Republican administrations in the United States have often been serving the interests of the upper classes, says a political analyst. US President Donald Trump told a group of his billionaire friends Friday shortly after signing the historic US tax bill into law that they […]
With the rise of the alt-right, Latino white supremacy may not be a contradiction in terms
Soon there will be articles in the press discussing the serious and imminent dangers posed by African-American white supremacists. “Clayton Bigsby is not just a fictional character!” By Gabriela Resto-Montero Mic White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the alt-right exchange insults with counterprotesters as they enter Emancipation […]
2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege
Prominent neocon Max Boot moves leftward. In the early 2000s, I predicted that eventually “conservatism” in the USA would look like today’s Democratic Party, and that “liberalism” would look like the present academic left/SJWs. This seems to be the direction in which things are increasingly heading. Boot says […]
The Man Who Gave White Nationalism A New Life
An interesting profile of Alain De Benoist. By J. Lester Feder and Pierre Buet Buzzfeed PARIS — The man the alt-right claims as its spiritual father is a 74-year-old who lives with four cats in a Paris apartment around the corner from a Creole restaurant, a West African […]
Even Republican Luminaries Admit the Police State is a Problem
This would be comical if it wasn’t so pathetic. A coalition of Republican luminaries admits that the police state and its related features are actually a problem. The list of signatories to this group’s manifesto includes many who were involved in creating the police state in the first […]
Universities Are Raising a Generation of Trumplets
By A. Barton Hinkle Reason That dull roar you heard a few days ago? It came from the countless gasps of horror when The Washington Post reported that the Centers for Disease Control had discouraged the use of certain words. According to The Post, policy analysts were told […]
Political correctness isn’t the problem
The problem I see with the line of argumentation that’s being made in this piece is the implicit assumption that because right-wing authoritarians actually exist (duh?) and that many representatives of the centrist establishment are scumbags (duh?), that left-wing authoritarianism does not exist, or is somehow not problematic. […]
Targeted – Transgender Woman Attacked by BAMN – Yvette Felarca
It’s interesting how the left/right divide is increasingly taking place across conventional ethnic, cultural, and socioeconomic boundaries. My guess is that as the techno-oligarchs and new clerisy increasingly become the dominant faction of the ruling class and the state, the Anti/SJW/neo-Communist configuration will attempt to piggyback on them […]
The Man Who Infiltrated BAMN/Antifa – Carlos
A Hispanic man who survived a Communist revolution infiltrates BAMN/Antifa.
Right-wing Celebrities Play Fast and Loose With History
Paul Gottfried on why neocon propagandists are idiots. By Paul Gottfried The American Conservative A new anthology of the writings of intellectual historian David Gordon contains a devastating review of Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism. Reading it reminded me how bad GOP propaganda dressed up as “history” can really […]
EEOC’s Enemy Of Religious Liberty
As I predicted, Trump has been the most liberal president the US has ever had on social issues, other than Obama. An appointment of this type would have never happened under any previous administration, except the Obama administration. By Rod Dreher The American Conservative Has the Trump Administration […]
Trump’s Tax Gambit: Hoping for a Reagan Repeat
When Trump was running for President, he said in an interview with Megyn Kelly that two of his main goals as Prez would be “rebuilding the military” and “tax cuts.” In other words, standard Republican talking points. By Robert E. Merry The American Conservative In March 1997, two […]
Trump and Military Intervention
On foreign policy, Trump more or less continues the Obama legacy, with a little bit of Republican hawkishness thrown in for good measure. In other words, more or less what Hillary what have done. Who could’ve guessed? By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Trump has had a more […]
The Republic Was Never Supposed to Be Forever
By Bradley J. Birzer The American Conservative As I write this second part of the series, the origins of the rise of the modern nation state, our own nation state looks—financially—nothing short of pathetic. At the end of 2017, the federal government’s official estimate for deficit spending is […]
The Exit Principle
If the objective of pan-anarchism/anarcho-pluralism is the replacement of states with societies organized on the basis of decentralized, voluntary associations, then a question that arises involves the issue of what kinds criteria individual communities would have to meet of qualify as legitimate voluntary associations of these kinds. The […]
China Releases Human Rights Report On US
Telesur REPORT) — On Thursday, China’s State Council Information Office released a human rights report on the U.S., noting that while that country continues to act as “the judge of human rights” it continues to ignore its own “terrible problems.” The report, called “Human Rights Record of the […]
Another Antifa “Anarchist” Against Diversity
In a collection of essays edited by Scott Crow, who is somewhat well-known in left-wing “anarchist” circles, one “J. Clark” weighs in against yours truly. How awful that some people might prefer a way of life other than the one J. Clark has chosen for them.
China and Russia Train for War with U.S. if Trump Invades North Korea
The withering away of the antiwar movement during the Obama era, and the failure of the Left to oppose the Trump administration’s efforts to strengthen the position of the Atlanticist-Zionist-Wahhabi axis (or to even take notice) indicates that US imperialism will have to be defeated externally rather than […]
No Kings, No Feudal Lords
This a a great cartoon in the sense that is parodies the reflexive sentiments of “conservatives” in the vein of FOX News fans and “dittoheads,” who echo Ayn Rand’s claim that “big business is the most persecuted minority,” or Cool Hand Luke’s quip that, “Them poor ole bosses […]
Return of the city-state
By Jamie Bartlett If you’d been born 1,500 years ago in southern Europe, you’d have been convinced that the Roman empire would last forever. It had, after all, been around for 1,000 years. And yet, following a period of economic and military decline, it fell apart. By 476 […]
Why I left libertarianism: An ethical critique of a limited ideology
A critique of anarcho-capitalism/right-libertarianism from a left-anarchist/libertarian socialist perspective. By Will Moyer Salon I considered myself a libertarian for at least 10 years. The first time I heard the term was in 2000, watching Harry Browne in the third-party presidential debates. I knew next to nothing of libertarian philosophy, but […]
What the world’s religious landscape will look like in 2050
An interesting study on global trends among the world religions, and where trends will lead in the 21st century. By Raziye Akkoc Telegraph Islam is the world’s fastest growing religion but despite the increasing numbers, Christians will still outnumber Muslims in 2050, a new report has found. Religion, […]
The Left and Anti-Left Both Have Much Still to Learn
Prominent atheist scholar Richard Carrier discusses the recent dust up in the atheist milieu between left and right over Sargon’s appearance at an atheist conference. What a mess. Carrier, whose own politics appear to be a kind of pragmatic center-leftism has also had some interesting debates with both […]
Growing the Numbers of Pan-Anarchists: Reflections on Propaganda Techniques
About 20 years ago, I began to formulate ideas for the development of what I now call a “third wave” anarchist movement, with the “first wave” being the era of classical anarchism from the 19th and early 20th century, and the “second wave” being the forms of anarchism […]
Keith Preston: Drug abuse, poverty, wealth gap reducing US life expectancy
Press TV. Listen here. Deaths from drug overdoses, the growing wealth inequality, rising poverty and a poor diet are among the main factors reducing life expectancy in the United States in recent years, an American analyst says. “It’s rare that you see a country that’s classified as a […]
What Happens After a Computer Science Data Breach?
With tens of millions of websites being hacked every year, it’s important that entrepreneurs in all areas of business remain vigilant against attack. However, those working in the computer science industry (such as software programmers and IT consultants) may work with particularly sensitive data, which in the wrong […]
Why Both Left and Right Are Necessary
As a general rule, I lean more to the Left than to the Right. As many people know, the use of “Left” and “Right” in a political context originates from the seating arrangements in the French National Assembly in the late 18th century. The supporters of the king, […]
Scott Adams and Dave Rubin: Trump’s Persuasion and Presidency
This is a pretty good discussion of Trump’s performance thus far. Now that it’s apparent that Trump will more or less govern as a normal, moderate Republican, it appears the neocons have lessened their hostility to him, as the recent headlines and articles at Neocon Review attests. Scott […]
Are Startup Societies the Way Forward?
An interesting conference on startup societies is coming up next month at Georgetown University. Get the details here. Startup societies may be a way to develop the infrastructure that is needed for a broader pan-secessionist action against central governments and the global corporatocracy. Anarchist and other radical organizations […]
Drug-dealing welfare classes get your guns, form the army of the unemployed!
The “dictatorship of the lumpenproletariat.” Refreshing. No doubt many of today’s progressives are champions of gun control because they secretly fear arms in the hands of the lumpens. I once heard a leftoid say “gun control is an anti-racist issue,” presumably on the assumption that people of color […]
Terr’ism
Anarcho-Dictator Instead of a Blog If you don’t like what we tell you to believe in we’ll kill ya. – Misquotation of G. W. Bush After 9/11 a lot of ‘terrorism’ think-tankery poured out of academia and media, most of which was totally garbage. Atheologians and Objectivists wrote […]
Zizek and Chomsky against anti-fascist hysteria
Read the original Italian version of this post here. It’s good to see there are still some serious thinkers on the Left. By di Roberto Vivaldelli The paranoia of recent times imposed by liberal public opinion is marking the political debate, from the United States to the Old […]
A journey through a land of extreme poverty: Welcome to America
By Ed Pilkington The Guardian Los Angeles, California, 5 December “You got a choice to make, man. You could go straight on to heaven. Or you could turn right, into that.” We are in Los Angeles, in the heart of one of America’s wealthiest cities, and General Dogon, […]
Free Association is Not Fascism: How Many Times Does it Have to be Said?
“Fascists are divided into two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists.” – Ennio Flaiano, Recently, I’ve reading Shane Burley’s “Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It.” (An interview with Burley is available here.)Works of this kind are becoming a small cottage industry, although these authors […]
The Origins of the Modern State: A Conservative View
By Bradley J. Birzer The American Conservative Part I Over the last several years, amidst the swirls of overt corruption, immigrant “hordes,” rising “national security” concerns, police militarization, bloated empire, and the so-called deepening of the “deep state,” conservatives and libertarians of all stripes have pondered the meaning […]
Debate: Can the Free Market Provide National Defense?
This is a great discussion between Todd Lewis and Bob Murphy about the viability of non-state/private “national defense” services. I have an old essay about this topic here. Economist Bob Murphy (Ph.D., NYU) and podcaster Todd Lewis square off in the central debate of anarcho-capitalism: is government truly […]
Whither the Antiwar Movement?
This article provides a pretty good overview of why the antiwar movement is so tiny and ineffectual. The antiwar movement of the early 2000s was a cover for an anti-Republican movement, that quickly disappeared when Barack Obama was elected, even if there were no substantive changes in US […]
SJW vs. Sargon: Showdown at Milwaukee Atheist Conference
This Smith guy sounds like a weenie and a crybaby, although I’m not a huge fan of Sargon’s centrist “conservative libertarianism,” either. By Andy Ngo Areomagazine.Com Sparks flew at the 2017 MythCon conference on Saturday when British YouTuber and cultural critic Carl Benjamin, aka Sargon of Akkad, exchanged […]
Move Over, Jehovah’s Witnesses! The SJWs Are On the Way!
Cliches of Statism, and How to Answer Them
Tom Woods and Stefan Molyneux discuss many of the cliches libertarians find themselves having to answer, involving child labor, labor unions, monopolies, the environment, and more. Listen here. I generally agree with the content of this discussion, except, like most mainstream libertarians, they’re going far too easy on […]
Zappa defines “Fascist Theocracy”
How times have changed. The real danger turned out to be not a Reagan/Falwell “fascist theocracy” but but a PC “leftist” secular theocracy. Nowadays, it’s guys like Dave Rubin who have picked up the torch from Frank.
Ouch!
I think I would take the opinion of a guy who was wounded fighting with the anarchist militias in Spain over our present day “anti-fascists.”
Pure Black: An Emerging Consensus Among Some Comrades?
Apparently, there is a new form of anarchism developing that is a hybrid of post-left anarchism and anarchism without adjectives called “black anarchism,” not to be confused with another kind of “black anarchism” associated with African-American anarchists. This tendency has been described to me as “like how you […]
Would Libertarianism Make People Fat?
In the spirit of Paul LaFargue and Bob Black. This is precisely the kind of libertarianism we need, not bourgeois priggishness or woke ninnyism. Critics: “But freedom will make people lazy and decadent!” Response: “Yeah? What of it?” Anarcho-Dictator Without all the taxes and regulations that force people […]
The Rebel Left Has Vanished—and Diversity of Thought Has Vanished With It
The Left as it should be. In many ways it is defamatory of the historic Left to refer to the trash that passes for “leftism” today as actual “leftism.” Today’s “left” consists of two basic wings. One is the mainstream Democratic Party center-left. This “left” is rooted in […]
Shane Burley & Mark Bray on Fascism Today and Antifa
What’s most interesting about this presentation is that these guys admit that “fascism” is a very small, marginal, and unpopular tendency in mainstream society. And yet it’s somehow a grave threat to civilization. Being an “anti-fascist” in 21st century Western civilization is about as sensible as being a […]
Calling for Radical Alliances Among Anti Authoritarians
From Ancaps and Ancoms, to Syndicalists and Individualists, Mutualists and Agorists, Voluntaryists and Market Anarchists, Panarchists and Anarchists without Adjectives, and other self-identified radicals – this talk is aimed at those who are against Authoritarianism, Statism, and Oppression in all forms. This talk is aimed at those who […]
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