It’s Real: Trump TV To Declare War On Fox News!
Excellent. Now, if only something comparable could happen on the progressive side. Fragment, fragment, fragment…
“Situating Hardt and Negri'”
By David Bates To what extent is it possible to situate Hardt and Negri’s thought? Are they best regarded as ‘anarchists’, ‘socialists’, ‘communists’, ‘marxists’, ‘leninists’, ‘postmarxists’ or ‘postanarchists’? Answering this question is no mere intellectual exercise. As Wittgenstein once remarked, ‘words are deeds’. On the radical left, much […]
Before Jihadists There Were Anarchists: A Failed Case of Transnational Violence
By Ersel Aydinli With the wave of violent jihadist activities in recent years, the world’s attention hasshifted away from a traditional prioritizing of state forms of formal violence toward one focusing on an apparently “new” phenomenon of transnational violence. Yet transnational violence itself is not a new phenomenon; it in […]
Anarchism and business ethics: the social responsibility of the anarchist is to destroy business
Only on ATS will you find a “let’s destroy business” article right next to a “let’s bring back the gold standard” article. By Benjamin Franks ‘Anarcho’-capitalism has for decades occupied a small but significant position within ‘business ethics’, while the anarchism associated with the larger traditions of workers […]
Media Celebrates after Trump’s Pro-Gold Fed Nominee Gets Blocked
By Stefan Gleason, Money Metals Exchange It was only after he entered politics that President Donald Trump began to fully grasp the bias, dishonesty, and fakeness that runs throughout the so-called mainstream media. But gold bugs and sound money advocates have long known to distrust the reporting of […]
What Are So-Called “Second Amendment Sanctuaries?”
Based on everything that has happened in 2020, I’d say the ATS position has largely been vindicated. On an international level, unipolarity seems to be moving toward retreat. Domestically, the lumpenproletariat has clearly demonstrated itself to be the vanguard class of the anarchist revolution. Pan-secessionism seems to be […]
Sanctuary Cities, Counties, and States
Center for Immigration Studies The sanctuary jurisdictions are listed below. These cities, counties, and states have laws, ordinances, regulations, resolutions, policies, or other practices that obstruct immigration enforcement and shield criminals from ICE — either by refusing to or prohibiting agencies from complying with ICE detainers, imposing unreasonable […]
Armed Struggle
Anarchist News/Anathema Comparisons to the worldwide uprisings of 1968 have been drawn over the last several years as we’ve seen a resurgence of revolt the world over. Finally, this year, the United States began catching up after the murder of George Floyd, followed by many more murders of […]
The Next Step
The insurrection of 2020 indicated that the lumpenproletariat is capable of directly and successfully targeting state/ruling class outposts. What will be the next step in the escalation of the armed struggle? Potentially, an escalation of the conflict from a focus on the lowest level and most immediately visible […]
Kiddie Concentration Camps
By Haley “In June of 2016, at 4 am, two days before the end of my freshman year in high school, two large men burst into my room and asked if I wanted to do this, “the easy way or the hard way.” My mom was crying hysterically […]
Workshop: Constructing Anarchisms
This looks interesting. Shawn Wilbur is very knowledgeable of classical anarchism. By Shawn Wilbur, Libertarian Labyrinth ’ve been contemplating hosting some sort of introductory course on anarchist history and theory for a long time now—and have put it off for a variety of reasons, not least of which […]
Marianne Williamson: New Age Spiritual Types Getting Sucked In To QAnon
Marianne Williamson reminds me of Carol Burnett’s “Nora Desmond” character.
Jon Voight: Leftists Are Satan & Biden Stole The Election
Jon Voight is apparently drifting off into Jim Jones-level insanity.
The State’s Crisis of Legitimacy Intensifies
By Bill Lind, Traditional Right As of this writing, the outcome of the Presidential election is uncertain although it appears Biden will “win”, thanks to questionable vote totals from urban areas. The Senate looks as if it will remain Republican, and the Democrats have held onto the House […]
Stop Advocating For Lockdowns. Our Ancestors Risked Their Lives For Economic Opportunity
I always thought Kim is too intelligent and independently minded to be a party-line leftist.
Zuckerberg CONFRONTED Over Secret Facebook Surveillance, Censorship Tools
The Zuck sucks. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss the tech hearings taking place on Capitol Hill.
Pandemic Winter Will Cause ‘MASS SOCIAL DISLOCATION’
Hopefully, a grim winter will lead to some nice springtime insurrections. Professor of Economics, Richard Wolff, discusses how the lack of a stimulus will impact the American people.
How Both Parties FAILED Us On Stimulus Guaranteeing Mass Unemployment, Business Death
Some good economic commentary in this. The bad news is that the Third Worldization of the US class system will be complete once this pandemic thing passes. The good news is that more lumpenproletarian insurrections are on the way. Saagar Enjeti explains how the government’s response to Covid-19 […]
Watch Dem Senator’s DUMBEST Defense Yet Of Forever War In Afghanistan
The full range of opinion among the ruling class and its functionaries is that the empire must never cede an inch. And 99% of Americans either agree or are indifferent as evidenced by the total rejection of Tulsi Gabbard by the Democrapic Party. Unipolarity will have to be […]
Email Question: Kim, Are You A Dave Rubin Style Grifter?
Dave Rubin’s program has interesting interviews at times, but he’s just become a neocon puppet at this point. He’s being used by the neocons to create the “next conservatism.” Kim’s critique of the Left is spot on although, fortunately, we don’t need the Left. We just need the […]
Did Trump Really Look To Strike Iran?
Trump’s worst flaw is his total subservience to Israel and Saudi Arabia and his wink and a nod to Turkey have been his worst flaws. Trump’s Iran policy seems to be mostly about pandering to the hawks while stopping short of actual war.
They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45
When Obama was the prez, I knew FOX News cultists who would recommend this book saying, “It’s happening here,” apparently on the grounds that both Obama and Austrian Charlie Chaplin favored public healthcare or something or other. Nowadays, I’m seeing left-cultists circulate this book, apparently on the grounds […]
America’s largest militia says it will refuse to recognise Biden as president and ‘resist’ his administration
I doubt Biden is much concerned about this. In the last five decades, I’ve spent time in or around the religious right, left-wing anarchism, the far-left, right-wing libertarianism, the militia movement/preppers, the far-right, and the alt-right. My general conclusion is that all of these milieus are mostly just […]
Will Trump Bring Home Troops And End Wars In Final Days In Office?
Trump seems to be working the hawks and doves against each other by claiming he wants to withdraw from Afghanistan while escalating hostilities against Iran. The former is popular with the isolationists and libertarians and the latter is popular with the neocons and Christian Zionists.
Trump Floats Troop Draw Down In Afghanistan, Republicans FREAK Out
The system wants a Roman-style imperium. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti react to Mitch McConnell’s announcement that President Trump will issue an Executive Order to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
Workers vs. Wokeness: Recognizing Campus Social Justice as a Luxury Good
By Jonathan Kay, Quillette “While art has long maintained a symbiotic relationship with bourgeois state power, there’s still something deeply unsettling about our supposedly ‘radical’ artists manufacturing consent on behalf of one of our two entrenched capitalist parties,” wrote artist and self-described “culturally agnostic Marxist” Adam Lehrer in […]
Obama tries to defend his assassination US drone strikes
The CEO of Mass Murder, Inc. Press TV Former US President Barack Obama has attempted to defend the unlawful use of assassination drones in his latest book. In an excerpt from the book, A Promised Land, published in the Sunday Times ahead of its release on Tuesday, Obama said the evolving face of warfare meant […]
Obama Thinks His Only Mistake Was Being Too Nice
Obama is the epitome of the ambitious yuppie whose only objective was to make it to the CEO’s chair. DC Bureau Chief of The Intercept, Ryan Grim, discusses Barack Obama’s new book “A Promised Land.”
Will Biden Follow Fauci On Lockdowns Or Go His Own Way?
It will interesting to see if a Bidenist regime imposes a national lockdown and/or mask mandate and what kind of protests that will provoke. Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss newly imposed restrictions nationwide aimed at combating the spread of the Coronavirus.
On Election Night, the Real Winner Was Drugs
This is probably the most important victory in the fight against the state in 50 years, since the draft was ended and the US withdrew from Vietnam in the early 1970s. This is the most important news to come out of the election, and not which asshole gets […]
Election Day was a major rejection of the war on drugs
The collapse of the war on drugs will probably continue to rapidly escalate in the years ahead. Drug policy reform seems to be picking up momentum the same way the gay rights movement started out on the margins and rapidly gained victories once a certain tipping point was […]
How the State Enables Ecocide
By Joseph Parampathu, Center for a Stateless Society In the first year of constant quarantine, rocked by worldwide social unrest, extreme tropical weather, and widespread government ineptitude, the complete inability and unwillingness of the ruling classes to make any substantive changes is clear. There will not be any […]
Against the Criminal Justice System, Pt. I: No One Should Ever Be Punished
By Jason Lee Byas, Center for a Stateless Society As the pain, suffering, and sheer cost incurred by the criminal justice system in America spirals further and further out of control, more and more people have come to push for reform. Even Texas Governor Rick Perry, who once […]
AOC couldn’t run for president in 2020 but could in 2024
The most “left-wing” an AOC administration would be might be something comparable to the mild social-democratic populism of Cristina de Kirchner. More likely, it would be similar to what a Ted Kennedy regime might have been if Mr. Chappaquiddick had ever gotten himself elected president. The best thing […]
Here’s What We Learned About the Far Right From Donald Trump’s Presidency
The gist of this article is that Trumpism actually has nothing to do with fascism but could possibly, kinda sorta, be a stepping stone to fascism, maybe. Sometimes I think these “anti-fascist” people actually want fascism to happen so they can have something to feel heroic and/or self-righteous […]
How Latinos Voted Their Class Interests
Jacobin contributing editor, Matt Karp, discusses what shifts in the Democratic coalition mean for the future of the party.
How Biden May SCREW Working Class By Bailing Out HIS Voters, Inciting Class Warfare
The socioeconomic data in this is interesting. Saagar Enjeti explains why a media landscape without Donald Trump is “boring,” he also predicts the future political landscape.
Why Kamala’s Yasss Queen Identity Politics FAILED To Deliver
This a good takedown of the Democrats. Krystal Ball explains why candidates shouldn’t be judged by the diversity box they check, but by their records, views, and commitments to voters.
Charles Koch REGRETS Driving Partisanship With His Billions
Actually, “driving partisanship” was the best thing Koch ever did. Thanks, Charlie. Team Rising discusses Charles Koch’s new book and his statements about partisanship.
Oregon Decriminalizes ALL Drugs In Watershed Moment
The universal victory of anti-police state referendums was the most important thing to come out of the election, much more so than the presidential contest. But the big question is what will the state attack as it loses the drug war as a tool? Executive Director of the […]
Trump Allies Raise $200 Million For Trump TV, Will It Work?
Trump TV would be hilarious, particularly if it created a major split between FAUX and the Trumpists. Divide, divide, divide… Team Rising gives their take on reported plans by Trump allies to buyout Newsmax TV as a Fox News Alternative.
Fox News Anchors At War With Themselves Over Election Fraud Coverage
A split between the neocons and Trumpists at FAUX News. Hopefully, some serious bloodletting takes place.
Has The ACLU Forgotten About Free Speech Under Trump?
I belonged to the ACLU briefly in the 1990s. They’ve always had a big internal debate over “Should we be progressives or should we be actual civil libertarians?” Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses how the ACLU’s platforms could change in a post-Trump era.
Prepare for the Coming Multi-Order World
The end of American unilateral hegemony will not be merely a return to the multi-polar order of the liberal era prior to the two world wars. Nor will it be the kind of multi-partner system envisioned by the liberal internationalists or the multicultural “global community” envisioned by the […]
Fascism, newnormalism and the left
This article nails it down pretty down. The main thing I would add is the left’s embrace of scientism (“science” is not merely a process capable of generating error like anything else but the modern version of a papal bull) and therapeutism (“health” is the highest value and […]
Why Artsakh Still Matters to American Anarchism
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The news broke like a fever last Monday night. A deal had been signed by Armenia and Azerbaijan to end the bloody month long war in Nagorno-Karabakh which had claimed the lives of thousands on both sides. This […]
America is NOT a Developing Nation for Most People
I’ve generally noticed that the people with the best foreign policy analysis tend to be hardcore libertarians/an-caps or hardcore Marxist-Leninists/Maoists. The same is true of class analysis. Both will point out that a middle-class American is within the global 1% of income level. Jason also explains how most […]
What Happened to the Anti-War Movement?
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston and Logos to discuss the near-total collapse of the anti-war movement. This is the Jason Unruhe video I referenced in this. This more or less explains why there is no constituency for anti-imperialism in the US,
The Next Decade Could Be Even Worse
By Graeme Wood, The Atlantic Peter Turchin, one of the world’s experts on pine beetles and possibly also on human beings, met me reluctantly this summer on the campus of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, where he teaches. Like many people during the pandemic, he preferred to […]
The 2020 Election Had the Highest Voter Turnout in Modern History
Usually about half of eligible voters actually participate. This time it was two-thirds. By Annie Goldsmith, Town and Country record number of Americans turned out to vote in this year’s presidential race between President Donald Trump and now President-Elect Joe Biden. Biden just won the presidency with over […]
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