It’s certainly possible to argue that this was a “suicide by cop” situation but, as Jim Bell has pointed out in the forum, this is still an illegal shooting under constitutional jurisprudence. A civilian wouldn’t get away with this. Krystal’s commentary in this is good. Krystal and Saagar […]
That articles like this keep appearing in the New York Times clearly indicates that the elite strategy is to protect the state by making it appear as though police state excesses are merely a racial issue, as opposed to the race issue merely being a symptom of the […]
As I would have predicted. I have said before that the constant Red Tribe/Blue Tribe bickering over Supreme Court appointments is irrelevant. Contentious social issues are decided on the basis of the prevailing consensus of the dominant factions of the power elite and general managerial class. Period. The […]
This meme really sums up most of what anyone really needs to know about both domestic politics and international relations. All of these conflicts, while real and important to their participants, are merely on-the-ground forms of tribal/sectarian warfare that mean nothing to the oligarchs and overlords. It’s the […]
The right-wing of the ruling class seems to be divided over the issue of co-optation versus repression, while the left-wing of the ruling class clearly favors co-optation and is moving aggressively to do so. The Deep State and the uppermost strata of the power elite seem to prefer […]
The Robert E. Lee statue with Rainbow flag coloring and the Black Lives Matter acronym. Probably unacceptable to all sides.
Bye. This so funny. “I’ll show these ungrateful assholes. I’ll quit my job!” Uh, that’s kind of the goal, dude. By Daniel Villareal Newsweek
I’m not so sure that it did. What I find most fascinating about the recent low-intensity insurrection is not the insurrection itself but the near-total indifference of the ruling class combined with the immediate move of vast sectors of the ruling class to co-opt the insurgency, from the […]
While I agree with 99% of this article, I’m a bit suspicious as to why the New York Times (“Voice of the Ruling Class”-Abbie Hoffman) was willing to publish it. It seems like some kind of co-optation scheme is in the works. The left-wing of the ruling class […]
Did the Left and the neo-Confederates finally find something they can agree on? Hating on Father Abraham, lol. By Josh Brogadir WCVB5 BOSTON —The dismantling of controversial statues and monuments in the city of Boston is a mounting subject in the ongoing push for racial justice in the […]
Even Satan has a monument in his honor. By Gabbi Shaw Insider Not all monuments are universally beloved. While some simply took a while for locals to come around to, others still inspire controversy. That could be due to their subject matter, their histories, or their appearance. Monuments […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley White people hate to talk about race, even the supposedly woke ones. When they do, the entire conversation is almost inevitably governed by fear. With white conservatives, it’s usually the fear of being made irrelevant by darker bodies. […]
Michael A. Wood, Jr. is a retired Baltimore police officer and veteran of the USMC. He recently made the news for publicly speaking out against police brutality and has become a proponent of a new era of policing.
From 2015. This is interesting.
The late great Oderus Urungus (Dave Brockie) was one of the first people I met when I moved to Richmond 33 years ago. By Ed Mazza Huffington Post Out with Robert E. Lee and in with… Oderus Urungus? A new petition is calling for a statue of the late […]
Another thing that I have found interesting about recent events is how many police chiefs and high-ranking police officials seem to be female. Just like Trump actually has a record-high number of female “national security” advisors (imperial privy councils), the first-ever female CIA director, and a lot of […]
It is interesting how the protests have taken place in small towns, suburban areas, and deep red zones as well as in the cities. My best guess is that it’s because the police state is large enough and entrenched enough that at this point virtually everyone has a […]
“What part of ‘hold the mayonnaise’ did you not understand?” By Audrey Washington WSBTV Atlanta Protesters have taken to the streets of Atlanta for a third weekend after a dramatic 24 hours that saw the death of a black man at the hands of an Atlanta police officer […]
Reminds me of a co-worker I once had whose ex-husband was allowed to remain on the SWAT team as a sniper while she had a restraining order on him for stalking and domestic violence.
As Stirner and Bakunin noted in the 19th century, the lumpenproletariat is the rightful class vanguard of an anarchist revolution, as we have once again seen in recent weeks, as opposed to the conventional bourgeoisie, petite bourgeoisie, and conventional proletarian “protestors.” The most revolutionary sectors of the recent […]
Listen here. On this episode, Keith Preston joined us & gave an absolute master class on several schools of anarchism, from anarcho-communism, collectivism, syndicalism, platformism, national syndicalism, synthesism, Georgism & more. We also discussed current events, the CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) & a deep dive into historical […]
By Amita Sudhir Slate As states continue to open up, but COVID shows no signs of magically disappearing, many of us are asking ourselves: What is the safe and responsible thing for me to do? Even if my state says it’s legal for me and a hundred of […]
Most of this sounds like capitalist class co-optation efforts, celebrity self-promotion, symbolic gestures, token reformism, and totalitarian humanist opportunism. In other words, nothing much at all has changed, at least not yet. BBC There have been protests around the world over the way police treat black people and […]
By Joshua Nevett BBC When videos of controversial police encounters generate headlines, there’s an important figure in the story that we rarely hear about – the person filming.
Violence vs. non-violence is another false dichotomy.
A lot of “police reform” ideas I come across strike me as token reformist bullshit or an effort to deflect the conversation toward liberal pet projects like expanding the welfare state, but eliminating no-knock warrants, like eliminating qualified immunity, might actually count for something. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, […]
Ukrainian anarchists claim Minneapolis as an inspiration. a2day.Net On the night of June 10, 2020 the building of Criminal Investigations Department (Kyiv, 25, Naberezhne highway) was attacked by petrol bomb. The other day appalling news came from Kagarlyk, Ukraine, where on the night of May 24, police officers […]
They’re doing this with the acquiescence of the Mexican President, just as CHAZ is existing with the apparent acquiescence of local and state governments of Seattle and Washington, which raises some interesting questions about anarchist strategy. Mexico News Daily The Zapatistas are on the move in Chiapas, extending […]
Paul Gottfried recently published a new anthology through Cornell to which I have a contribution. A collection of high-brow conservative scholars (plus crazy anarchist me) explains why the FOX News-type conservatives and neocons are a bunch of scam artists.
If these FOX News reactionaries were as “anti-establishment” or “anti-big government” as they pretend they would be creating “autonomous zones” of their own. What a shame they’re really just mouthpieces for the right-wing of the ruling class.
If only it were true. Roadblocks, checkpoints, barricades, armed vigilantes: Anyone with a functioning brain knows this is unacceptable.
Indeed it is. But not in the way that Carlson means. This is hilarious. During the heydey of the militia movement of the 1990s, there were “freemen” and “sovereign citizen” groups that did stuff like this.
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston and Derrick Jensen to discuss the nature of authority, justified vs. unjustified authority; and how tyrannical systems are maintained.
The most interesting aspect of the insurrection has been the way that the actual Deep State and MIC leadership has told Trump to fuck off over the idea of using US troops to suppress the uprising. This confirms my longstanding argument that the formal political government, including the […]
Obviously, I’m getting old because I didn’t recognize a single one of these celebrities.
I have the unique perspective of favoring the autonomous zone in Seattle AND the Bundys’ standoff AND the Antifa threats against ICE. I like Krystal’s comment that “if you’re against the police state, be against the police state.” Krystal and Saagar discuss the bizarre response from Gov. Jay […]
Krystal’s “capitalists are going to capitalist” line is hilarious. Krystal and Saagar discuss Starbuck’s ban on Black Lives Matter merchandise for their employees, Apple CEO Tim Cook announces $100M commitment for racial equality and justice.
It’s interesting that the four lead articles on ATS right now are from an anarcho-capitalist, a conservative libertarian, a left-communist, and a social anarchist. There’s another writer with a piece on the way arguing against the insurrection from a Hobbes-Burkean-Schmittian perspective.
If Native American tribes were states they would be the top 5 states in terms of COVID-19 infection rate.
By Stratton J. Davis Looking at the daily news these past couples of weeks one may have the pessimistic opinion that what was left of liberty will soon be gone. Even before the recent riots, which has President Trump and his GOP goons threatening the US people with […]
By Alan Bickley Ludwig von Mises Centre According to The Daily Mail, Madeline Odent is the Curator of the Royston Museum in Hertfordshire. This museum is funded by Royston Council. In the past few days, Mrs Odent has taken to Twitter, giving expert advice on how to use […]
This George Floyd/Derek Chauvin thing is starting to sound like the Botham Jean/Amber Guyger situation where it seems like more than police malevolence/incompetence was involved. My guess is that the former co-worker of these two was paid a visit and told to keep their mouth shut.
Kyle’s commentary in this is pretty good. Most of the “police reforms” Kyle is discussing are a good idea, but the two big ones are ending overcriminalization and holding the police to the same standards as civilians. One point where I would agree with the NYPD police union […]
Western civilization doesn’t really exist anymore. It died during the two world wars. “The West” today is basically just the American Empire, and it’s not the America of Nathaniel Hawthorne or Mark Twain. It’s the America of McDonald’s, Wal-Mart, and Amazon. Western Europe is the most far gone, […]
Recent events were the equivalent of a large scale prison riot with inmates attacking the guards (kinda sorta) but with the prison administration and prison labor profiteers remaining unscathed.
Dr. Michael Datcher is the author of the Ferguson-area historical novel AMERICUS and the critically-acclaimed New York Times Bestseller RAISING FENCES as well as the author of ANIMATING BLACK AND BROWN LIBERATION. http://michaeldatcher.com/
This isn’t a bad discussion of the financial system but the solutions are predictably milquetoast. Anti-banksters need to rediscover Proudhon. Ellen Brown is an attorney, chair of the Public Banking Institute, and author of thirteen books including Web of Debt and Banking on the People: Democratizing Money in […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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