Keith Preston
OJ Simpson Planning to Become Televangelist
Christian Post Disgraced American football legend and retired actor O.J. Simpson is reportedly planning to become a televangelist after his release from a five year prison term some time this Christmas. The troubled star’s manager Norman Pardo told The Enquirer that Simpson found God in prison and has been […]
Off the Plutocrats…
Off the PIGS…
Los Angeles Times endorses censorship with ban on letters from climate skeptics
Fox News Scientists who are fine-tuning a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even as greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. (AP Photo/John McConnico) Censorship of skeptic global warming views by the […]
Book-burning; it’s back
John Kersey Didn’t we go through all this business of why we shouldn’t ban books fifty years ago, with Lady Chatterley? It seems that we need to revisit the issue, for the past fortnight has seen some rather disturbing suggestions that would amount to a return to literary […]
Nietzsche’s Olympian Synthesis
By Gwendolyn Taunton Dionysus with more than a hint of Apollo. Lucidity’s task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. Emil Cioran Understanding the role Tradition could or should play in the modern era is a central topic in the study of philosophy. Today, in a world […]
Embrace Your Inner Lion
The Rise of the New New Left
Peter Beinhart Maybe Bill de Blasio got lucky. Maybe he only won because he cut a sweet ad featuring his biracial son. Or because his rivals were either spectacularly boring, spectacularly pathological, or running for Michael Bloomberg’s fourth term. But I don’t think so. The deeper you look, […]
Is Peter Beinart Right About a ‘New New Left’?
Rick Perlstein Peter Beinart (AP Photo/David Goldman) Peter Beinart is out with a major new argument in The Daily Beast about what the political future might hold in store for us. The headline writer calls it “The Rise of the New New Left,” and it begins by citing […]
Protests Sweep Canada Following Paramilitary Assault on Indigenous Fracking Blockade
Common Dreams Police raid on New Brunswick fracking blockade (Photo: APTN reporter Ossie Michelin, via Twitter)Protests are sweeping Canada following Thursday’s assault by paramilitary-style police on members of indigenous Elsipogtog Mi’kmaq First Nation and local residents as they blockaded a New Brunswick fracking exploration site.
Study: Chemotherapy actually increases cancer growth, cancer cells becoming resistant to treatment
Natural News The cancer treatment scam that is chemotherapy has once again been shown in the scientific literature to be a major cause of, rather than a cure for, cancer. According to a new study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, chemotherapy not only promotes the growth […]
It’s the Banksters Who Need to Get a Real Job
PIGS Kill 90 Year Old Man in Mistaken Drug Raid
Libertarian Republic LOS ANGELES, CA – Robby Soave over at the DailyCaller is reporting that Los Angeles County Police performed a drug raid at the home of 80-year-old Eugene Mallory and his wife Tonya Pate, killing him in bed. He was suspected of being part of an illegal […]
A Balanced Breakfast! Take That, Health Fascists!
Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Having “Copious Amounts of Anarchist Publications”
Vice.Com Mark “Migs” Neiweem. An inmate in Illinois has been in solitary confinement since July for possessing “copious amounts of Anarchist publications” and “handwritten Anarchist related essays,” according to prison documents.
…But Not Constrained Enough
That’s why we need an anarchist revolution.
The Tea Party: Not as Dumb as They Seem?
“Whilst I think the Tea Party folk warrant critique along several lines, I’ve always found the general hatedom against them to be overblown and rooted in caricature. This seems to reinforce my view: “The shift to the right on the gray columns represents a positive correlation between tea […]
Book Review: National-Anarchism: A Reader, edited by Troy Southgate
By Brett Stevens National-Anarchism: A Reader edited by Troy Southgate 306 pages, Black Front Press (2012), $20 For two centuries people have looked for a way out of the political dichotomy that was created by the French Revolution, which set up the traditionalist party as a necessary opposition […]
Like Something Out of North Korea
Michelle Malkin Earlier this year, at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington Township, N.J., schoolchildren were instructed to memorize a paean to Barack Obama. A video uploaded to the YouTube account of Charisse Carney-Nunes, author of the children’s book “I Am Barack Obama” and a self-described […]
Say It Again, Noam!
The Next 30 Years of American Politics
Attack the System The Next 30 Years of American Politics October 13, 2013 Keith Preston discusses how American political culture will likely develop over the next few decades. Topics include: Why the American Empire will continue to implode due to loss of legitimacy and fiscal constraints. Why American […]
Is Red State America Seceding?
By Pat Buchanan In the last decade of the 20th century, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated so, too, did that prison house of nations, the USSR. Out of the decomposing carcass came Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova, all in Europe; Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in […]
NBC/WSJ Poll: GOP Approval Rating At All Time Low
Talking Points Memo AP Photo / Harry Hamburg Caitlin MacNeal – October 10, 2013, 7:00 PM EDT36015 Just 24 percent of Americans have a positive opinion of the Republican party, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday. The survey reflects a record low in approval […]
The tea party is giving anarchism a bad name
Washington Post (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) OPINION | In a recent impassioned speech, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren used the word “anarchy” repeatedly to describe the tea party’s role in the ongoing government shutdown. So did Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said on the Senate floor that […]
California’s Model for 21st Century American Feudalism
By Joel Kotkin California has been the source of much innovation, from agribusiness and oil to fashion and the digital world. Historically much richer than the rest of the country, it was also the birthplace, along with Levittown, of the mass-produced suburb, freeways, much of our modern entrepreneurial […]
Why Golden Dawn is the only Anti-Fascist Party in Greece
Excellent article by Greg Palast. I agree with every word. On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi. But I don’t believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife: The confessed killer is […]
2.3 Million Americans Rot in Prison — Meet the Corporations Exploiting Them for Profit
Alternet “Global Tel* Link. You have a collect call from: ‘Tim.’ An inmate in Shelby County Correctional Facility…. If you wish to accept and pay for this call, dial zero now.” I don’t know how many times I heard the same robotic voice speak these words since last fall. I […]
Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Movement: Land, Nationhood, and Autonomy
By Jamie O’Hara and Craig Fitzgerald This essay is included in the recently released NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: HEROES AND VILLAINS, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. By Jamie O’Hara and Craig FitzGerald In order for decentralized autonomy to flourish, independent communities must be internally cohesive. This […]
Greenwald interviewed by idiot TV news anchor
U.S. Senator: “We Are Not a Country of Anarchists”
Not yet, but give us time. We Are Not a Country of Anarchists By Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News 04 October 13 f you watch the anarchist tirades coming from extremist Republicans in the House, you’d think they believe that the government that governs best is […]
Yippie vs Yuppie: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin debate in 1986
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The True State of the U.S. Economy
By Mike Whitney “Slumping asset prices show a recession is probably on its way. … Stocks tend to fall more frequently and further than property values, so they are better recession-predictors.” – IMF research paper by economists John C. Bluedorn, Joerg Decressin and Marco E. Terrones. The fact that […]
Leopold Kohr: The first anarcho-pluralist/pan-secessionist?
By Paul Kingsnorth Illustration by Andrzej Krauze Living through a collapse is a curious experience. Perhaps the most curious part is that nobody wants to admit it’s a collapse. The results of half a century of debt-fuelled “growth” are becoming impossible to convincingly deny, but even as economies […]
The World According to ARV-ATS
Attack the System The World According to ARV-ATS September 29, 2013 Keith Preston discusses contemporary events from the perspective of the ARV-ATS philosophy and strategy. Topics include: How Putin’s upstaging of Obama over Syria indicates the American state’s loss of legitimacy. The possibility of a bloc of “rogue […]
Did Putin Quietly Play the Debt Card Over Syria?
By Ron Holland “They are living beyond their means and shifting a part of the weight of their problems to the world economy. They are living like parasites off the global economy and their monopoly of the dollar. If [in America] there is a systemic malfunction, this will […]
Average American Families Pays $6K a Year in Big Business Subsidies
BillMoyers.Com $6,000. That’s over and above our payments to the big companies for energy and food and housing and health care and all our tech devices. It’s $6,000 that no family would have to pay if we truly lived in a competitive but well-regulated free-market economy. The $6,000 […]
Twice as many Americans think Putin is more effective than Obama on Syria
Read the poll results. Many Americans think that Vladimir Putin was the most effective leader during the Syrian chemical weapons crisis, while approval for how Obama handled the crisis is still low. Although Syria appears to have met the first deadline in its agreement with the United States […]
First, They Came for the Fascists…
. The leader of the far-right Golden Dawn party, Nikolaos Michaloliakos, has been formally charged with belonging to a criminal organisation. Four more Golden Dawn MPs, a party leader in an Athens suburb and 15 other people face the same charges.
Another Northern California county votes to secede from state
FOX News FILE: This image shows the California Pines subdivision, located about 35 miles southwest of Alturas, Calif.AP A second far Northern California county has voted to secede from the state after Modoc County supervisors voted 4-0 in favor of secession. The vote on Friday comes just weeks […]
The Sixth Annual H.L. Mencken Club Conference
I’ll be moderating a panel on social decadence at this years H.L. Mencken Club conference. I’m particularly looking forward to hearing Richard Spencer’s defense of decadence. The Sixth Annual H.L. Mencken Club Conference Decadence November 1-3, 2013
Football Player Slaughtered by PIGS
Huffington Post A 911 call shortly before Jonathan Ferrell’s death could help prove that North Carolina police officers knew he was unarmed before opening fire, a lawyer for his family says. “[Ferrell] made no threatening comments. It was clearly apparent he had no weapons,” attorney Chris Chestnut told […]
Response by a Syrian anarchist to the First of May statement on Syria
LibCom.Org A Syrian anarchist responds to Toward an anarchist policy on Syria by the First of May Anarchist Alliance, largely correcting misconceptions and historical inaccuracies in the document.
The Panthers Were Right and Reagan Was Wrong on Gun Control
By Anthony Gregory I suppose it takes a true radical these days to question the progressive’s sacred cow: Ronald Reagan. You read that right. This paradigm of modern conservatism was one of the most important American champions of gun control in recent decades, and so he has become […]
Cop holds entire family on ground with Taser
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Keith Preston: The Many Disciplines of Anarchy
Bristol arson attack linked to anarchist terror network
Channel4.Com An anarchist cell linked to a Europe-wide network of “insurrectionists” claims to have struck again in Bristol – Channel 4 News can reveal their history of sabotage and arson attacks in the UK. Avon and Somerset police are investigating a possible arson attack at the site of […]
Toward an anarchist policy on Syria – First of May Anarchist Alliance
LibCom.Org Given the centrality of Syria to global politics, it is essential that anarchists understand what is going on there and develop a critical attitude toward the events that are unfolding. This is a position paper on the struggle in Syria by the First of May Anarchist Alliance. […]
Keith Preston Still Doesn’t Get It: A Reply to a Reply
By Todd Lewis Read the original critique by Mr. Lewis and the responding podcast here. Mr. Preston, thank you for wrestling with my work and giving me a voice, as well as for being open-minded in dealing with these subjects. However, I believe that your response was misdirected […]
The Prescient Proudhon
“Let us seek together, if you wish, the laws of society, the manner in which these laws are realized, the process by which we shall succeed in discovering them; but, for God’s sake, after having demolished all the a priori dogmatisms, do not let us in our turn […]
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