Portland mayor faces antifa supporter in runoff
A heel vs heel match brewing. I have no problem with Portland being a far-left micronation.
Majority Of Young Adults Living At Home As Economy Utterly FAILS Them
Instead of “workers of the world, unite!” it’s “mom’s basement dwellers of the world, unite!”
New Progressive Scheme To TAKE OVER State Of Rhode Island
I would have no problem with Rhode Island being a “progressive” micronation just as I would have no problem with CHAZ being a left-anarchist micronation or rural Pennsylvania being an Amish micronation.
65% of Americans Approve Of Labor Unions As Economy Implodes
But is the traditional labor union model capable of being replicated in a modern economy where labor is transient and capital is global? We are no longer in a world of company towns with life-long employees of a family-based national bourgeoisie.
Tucker: The COVID pandemic empowered mediocre politicians
Obviously. But are there any politicians who are not mediocre? Maybe a few here and there like Jill Stein, Cynthia McKinney, Ralph Nader, Mike Gravel, Jesse Ventura, Ron Paul, Tulsi Gabbard, Andrew Yang, and others on the margins. But “successful” politicians are mediocrities and scumbags almost to a […]
Big Brother Knows If You’ve Been Good or Bad, So You Better Overthrow the Government, for Goodness’ Sake?
Have you written your letter to Santa, kids?
Trump Military Story FALLS APART As War Machine Strikes BACK Over Afghanistan Plans
My respect for Trump would increase significantly if this story were true, but I suspect it’s probably just neocon/deep state/kept media-generated propaganda. I hope I’m wrong. Trump is a scumbag but the neocons are even bigger scumbags.
93% of Black Lives Matter Protests Have Been Peaceful, New Report Finds
Most of the violence has probably been instigated by Antifa, right-wing extremists, ordinary criminals, sports rioter-types, and cops. But the real problem is not that too many police stations have burned but too few. By Sanya Mansoor Time The vast majority of Black Lives Matter protests—more than 93%—have […]
Breonna Taylor’s Life Was Changing. Then the Police Came to Her Door
By Rukmini Callimachi New York Times LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Breonna Taylor had just done four overnight shifts at the hospital where she worked as an emergency room technician. To let off some steam, she and her boyfriend, Kenneth Walker, planned a date night: dinner at a steakhouse, followed […]
The Revolutionary Future
The Silence of the Falling Tree
By Troy Southgate I am not in favour of political correctness, but changing the way we use certain terminology will occasionally have a more positive effect. Take the term ‘invalid,’ for example. Whilst the word has long been used to describe people who require some form of physical […]
Anti-Woke Executive Order
One thing that is particularly concerning is the way that many critics of “wokeness” (totalitarian humanism, which is the manifestation of postmodern critical theory) have embraced Trumpism (e.g. this #Walkaway movement) or, even worse, drifted toward the neocons (like the circle around David Rubin). Of course, equally pathetic […]
The Staggering Strength of the Trump Economy
Styx is regrettably demonstrating that he doesn’t know the first thing about the actual condition of the economy. We are currently experiencing the Latin Americanization of the US economy, and the economies of the developed world are experiencing re-feudalization. This a process that transcends ordinary partisan or ideological […]
Kamala Crushes Interview, Pence Doesn’t Stand a Chance
Milquetoast social democrat David Pakman pumps up police state uber-bitch Kamala Harris merely because she knows how to talk, even if she’s telling lies every time she opens her mouth.
Trump: John McCain Was A “Loser,” Not a War Hero
Trump is the epitome of the broken clock that happens to be right twice a day. It’s pathetic that ostensible “left-wingers” like The Young Turks are coming to the defense of the late warmonger John McCain.
A Short Letter to a Misunderstanding Right
This is a pretty good summary of where postmodern critical theorists stand in relation to the rest of the Left. By Helen Pluckrose I find it very odd when people keep telling me that “the left” is doing something bad with regard to wokeness and applied postmodernism when […]
How Financialization Killed GE
This is a pretty good illustration of how industrial/managerial capitalism has undergone the transition to financial/digital capitalism. Benjamin Tucker demonstrated over century ago how to go about attacking all of this. Attack patent, copyright, and intellectual property law. Attack the currency monopoly and the centralization of control over […]
VAST MAJORITY Believe Media Is Corporate Controlled
In other news, Americans also believe the grass is green and the sky is blue.
Majority Of Americans Think Government Does NOT Work For Them
Build the Alliance of 100 Million! Boycott the System! Let’s give the power elite the Ceausescu treatment.
How Suburbanites Have Remade The Democratic Party
The Democrats are the party of the financial elites and tech-oligarchs, with the professional-managerial class and their primary constituents, and the Republicans of the part of old capitalism, with the with post-bourgeois proletariat (the dying working to middle classes) as their primary constituents. The kind of old-fashioned 19th/20th […]
How Classism Is The ONLY Allowed Bias By The Elites
As I have said many times, partisanship and/or culture war politics is merely a manufactured effort by the power elite to obfuscate any recognition of either class oppression or state repression. The conflicts over cultural and social questions are real in the sense of US society being divided […]
In Memoriam: David Graeber, 1961-2020
You don’t understand anarchist economics until you have read David Graeber and Kevin Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society It’s conventional to start an obituary article with a brief biographical summary, so here it is.
Peaceful Transfer of Power?
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Swithun Dobson, and Terminal Philosophy to discuss the 2020 US election. Will power be peacefully transferred or will the break down?
The Lonesome Death of the Liberal Social Justice Warrior
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Joseph Biden killed the liberal social justice warrior with a cane that he twirled around his diamond ring finger at the Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, and blue lives were called in to matter, and his weapon took […]
Postmodernism, Critical Theory, and What’s Wrong With (Much of) Academia
Tom Woods interviews James Lindsay. Academia, media, science, and technology are the new theocracy. Listen here. James Lindsay joins me to discuss postmodernism, critical theory, and the various fields — like “queer studies,” “disabled studies” and the like — that have made academia into a minefield of untouchable […]
Hair salon told it ‘cannot advertise for a happy stylist’
Sad folks are people, too, dammit! BBC The owner of a hair salon was told she could not run a job advert for a “happy” stylist as it “discriminated against unhappy people”.
Rome: The Cradle of Western Imperialism
By David Davis Well, he probably didn’t “enslave” more than, I’d guess, about 25,000 to 35,000. I’d take guidance from Dr. Sean Gabb, of The Centre For Ancient Studies here, on this historical matter here. It would have been beyond the manpower resources of his deployed legions in […]
Scientism: America’s State Religion
By Edward Feser We are hostages to the clerics of an intolerant faith. As our nation finds itself wracked by violence and threatened with regime failure, questions of authority become ever more urgent. We believe authority in a free society rests with the people and their representatives, and […]
Overcoming Our Ideological Tribal Biases
This commentary relates to the article that is adjacent to this one concerning “New Age Nazis.” By Adam Ormes For the most part, this is a hideously shallow analysis, written by someone who appears to identify with the bankrupt position of liberal centrism. But even so, the author […]
Nazi hippies: when the New Age and Far-Right overlap
By Jules Evans Medium A protestor at the anti-lockdown rally in Berlin last month, making a heart sign while carrying a Nazi flag Last week, there were rallies in London, Berlin and LA against lockdown measures, and what was noticeable was they attracted both New Agers and far-right […]
Medicare-for-All Is a Beginning, Not the End Point
What Can We Learn From Cuba? By Don Fitz As a coup de grâce to the Bernie Sanders campaign Joe Biden declared that he would veto Medicare-for-All. This could drive a dedicated health care advocate to relentlessly pursue Med-4-All as a final goal. However, it is not the […]
A former Democrat explains why centrists, moderates, and sane liberals should vote for Donald Trump
Bad idea. Taking the electoral system seriously is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Media Falsely Claims Lockdown Protestors Are “Right Wing”
One thing that I have found interesting about the pandemic is the way that so many anarchists have acquiesced to the supposed authority and expertise of scientism or the white coat priesthood, or passively accepted media narratives. In others words, they have simply deferred to the authority of […]
Tucker: Why Silicon Valley is doing all it can to help the Biden-Harris ticket
Because the Democraps are the party of the techno-oligarch sector of neoliberal “woke” state-capitalism, just as the Republicans are the party of fossil fuels and “old capitalism,” and the social democrats pushing ideas like the “Green New Deal” are the party of “progressive-capitalism.”
Anarchist Philosophy in the Time of CV19 and Mass Riots w/ Keith Preston
My recent interview with Pete Quinones. Keith Preston is the proprietor of AttackTheSystem.com and an expert on the history of anarchism. Keith talks about his path to anarchism, some anarchist history and then discusses any hope for liberty and anarchism in the age of CV19 and mass rioting. […]
Tucker: What to expect after the November election
No matter who wins, the other side will likely claim the winner cheated, with endless legal maneuvering and probable violence being the result.
Did Trump Say Fallen Soldiers Are ‘Losers’ Or Is It A Plot?
Team Rising reacts to recent allegations of Trump belittling fallen soldiers, and polling revealing who most service members are supporting.
Andrew Cuomo Says 4,000-Person NYPD Social-Distancing Taskforce Needed Before He’ll Allow Indoor Dining in NYC
The therapeutic police state. By Christian Britschgi, Reason New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said on a press call today that he would not allow indoor dining to return in New York City unless local politicians devoted significant police resources to enforcing social distancing and other reopening conditions. […]
Twitter Silences Third Party Options
The modern ruling class doesn’t bother with state-imposed censorship and instead farms it out to corporations, social media companies, and universities, which is why the First Amendment needs to be expanded to include all of these institutions. It’s the same as when they don’t bother setting up a […]
Now That’s Woke Capitalism
At least if it’s true.
Smash the Oligarchy
For some time, I have thought that The American Conservative is the most “left-wing” of any mainstream US publication. TAC is a lot closer to Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin or even Dwight McDonald, Gore Vidal, and Normal Mailer than the FOX News creeps. Most formally “liberal” or […]
Another Opinion Columnist Pushing War With Iran Who Doesn’t Actually Exist
The neocons’ Iranian MEK allies, an Islamo-Marxist cult, create fake journalists who publish opinion pieces calling for war with Iran. By Paul Brian and Arthur Bloom The American Conservative There is at least one more foreign policy opinion writer from the Mujahideen-eKhalq (MEK) whose existence is dubious, based […]
Not Weimar America, But Dark Times All the Same
Are we reliving Weimar…or Bleeding Kansas? By Matt Purple The American Conservative There’s a scene in Christopher Isherwood’s novel Goodbye to Berlin where the author goes to visit Bernhard Landauer, the owner of a prosperous department store in Germany. The year is 1933 and Bernhard shows Christopher a vicious […]
The Anarchist Case for Small Business
Remember that Commies have always denounced anarchists as “petite bourgeoisie.” By Will Collins The American Conservative It’s been a brutal year for locally owned shops and restaurants. The COVID-19 outbreak and the accompanying lockdowns shuttered storefronts and exiled customers. Pandemic relief efforts aimed at small businesses were ruthlessly […]
Portland suffers serious street violence as far right return ‘prepared to fight’
From what I can tell, there is literally no one in any of the factions of US politics that has the slightest interest in anti-authoritarian values of any kind, except for isolated individuals. Obviously, this is true of the ruling class parties, but it is apparent enough that […]
Greek City-States
When looking at alternative political models, the one that I keep coming back to is ancient Greece. Many anarchists will cite models like communes that only existed in isolated enclaves for brief periods, as opposed to systems like the Greek cities, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman millet […]
William Barr, of All People, Accuses Black Lives Matter Protesters of Being “Fascistic”
This is like a hilarious replay of the J. Edgar Hoover vs. the Black Panthers battles of the 60s. Fat Billy goes full J. Edna. Ironically, I don’t disagree with some of his criticisms of the “Left” (broadly defined) even if he is a scumbag who was behind […]
Marianne Williamson: Why I Spoke At People’s Party Convention
I’m curious to see how these People’s Party advocates think they are going to get around the financial and legal limitations on upstart parties, or why they think their party is going to perform any better than other minor parties. The only way the People’s Party could become […]
Trump: Americans Who Died in War Are ‘Losers’ and ‘Suckers’
I’ve been developing a theory that Trump is actually a crypto-anarchist who is actually doing his part for the cause by making the state look ridiculous. And now this. This is priceless. When McCain died, in August 2018, Trump told his senior staff, according to three sources with […]
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