Keith Preston
Praise of Folly Podcast #23: Marxism
Todd Lewis and I discuss Marxism.
The Ruling Class Circles the Wagons? Anti-Trump Republican Evan McMullin to launch independent bid for presidency
The neocons throw out another jobber as an anti-Trump candidate. Read the article from Politico.Com here. It looks to me like what is happening is that the ruling class is circling the wagons. I’ve always thought there was no way in hell the power elite would ever let […]
The U.S. is at last facing the neocon captivity
By Philip Weiss The best thing about this political moment in the U.S. (if not for the good people of Iraq) is that the rise of ISIS and the Republican candidates’ embrace of the Iraq war is posing that deep and permanent question to the American public, Why […]
Bernie Sanders and the New Class Politics
An interesting discussion of Sanders vs. Clinton’s neoliberalism from a Marxist perspective. The apparently escalating divisions between centrist neoliberalism, the identity politics oriented Left and the socialist/labor Left are described in some detail. The only thing that unites the liberal and Left end of the spectrum is their […]
If Voting Made Any Difference, They Wouldn’t Let Us Do It
By John W. Whitehead August 1, 2016 “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.”—Joseph Stalin, dictator of the Soviet Union No, America, you don’t have to vote. In fact, vote or don’t vote, the police state will continue to […]
Keith Preston: Trump ‘conciliatory’ position on Russia against US hegemony
Press TV. Listen here. The “friendly” position towards Russia, adopted by GOP candidate Donald Trump, runs counter to the hegemony on top of the US foreign policy agenda, an American journalist says. Keith Preston, the chief editor and director of AttacktheSystem.com, made the remarks on Saturday, while commenting […]
Things That Anarchists Say to Me in Private But Never Repeat Publicly
Infoshop News From Reddit Can you relate? 1) “Call-out culture was developed to allow activist groups to confront leaders who abused their privilege, but now it is being used to settle petty scores on the level of interpersonal politics. I now have a hard time believing some people […]
Keith Preston: Both major political parties ‘cheat’ in US elections
Press TV. “Both sides cheat in American elections; Democrats and Republicans cheat and that’s been known for many years,” said Keith Preston. Both major political parties in the United States have cheated in previous presidential elections, a political analyst in Virginia says. “Both sides cheat in American […]
Pulling the Mask Off the System
States Must Help Restore Sound Money in America
By Jp Cortez and Stefan Gleason This article was originally published on Tenth Amendment Center Control the money and you control the people. The federal government has done just that in the United States. Over the last hundred years, the federal government and the Federal Reserve, a privately […]
10 Instances Of Anarchist Societies That Actually Worked
By Eamon McKeever Listverse.Com Although anarchy has long been seen as an ideological system impossible to implement (if not inherently contradictory) and as a direct cause of numerous acts of terrorism throughout history, its ideas have still been influential. In fact, during the 20th century, anarchism, like communism, […]
Social Justice Warriors: Who They Are, and How to Deal With Them
Vox Day is interviewed by Tom Woods. Listen here. This is a great discussion. What exactly is the ideology of the “Social Justice Warrior”? What do you do when you’re targeted by one, whether at work or in general? Vox Day — popular blogger, author, SJW slayer, and […]
Jeffersonian Governance, Burkean Conservatism, and Anarchism
By Chris Shaw Libertarian Alliance The conceptions of Jeffersonian governance pride equality before the law, the democratic will of the people tempered by intelligent argumentation and natural societal hierarchies, and a belief in limited, decentralised government. Within this tradition, governance should never truly invade the sensibilities and direction […]
Anarchism: History and Philosophy
An introduction to Anarchism intended for high school and college students. An accompanying video can be found at Study.Com Some form of government has been around for the entire period of recorded human history. However, some people don’t think government is necessary. In this lesson, you’ll learn about […]
Fighting for the future: The necessity and possibility of national political organization for our time
By The Collective Anarchist News From Black Rose Anarchist Federation This essay is an argument for moving towards national organization in the United States and was published in April 2013 during the opening of the process that led to the founding of what became Black Rose/Rosa Negra. It […]
Bill Lind on “Pussycats”–Martin van Creveld’s Important New Book
By William S. Lind Traditional Right Martin van Creveld’s latest book, Pussycats: Why the Rest Keeps Beating the West and What Can Be Done About It, is so important that it re-defines the military reform agenda. Previously, military reform has focused on the problems that have led to […]
Our political parties are based more and more on absurd tribalism
By Matthew Gagnon Pine Tree Politics The decline and fall of the Roman Empire is a fascinating moment in world history. Yet, the Roman Empire did not cease to exist in 476 as most people believe. Rome had long before been split into two administrative divisions — a […]
Questions Blacks Have For SJW’s
My videos are made under the U.S. Fair Use Law. Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise […]
Exploring Geo-Mutualist Panarchism w/ Will Schnack
Derrick Broze interviews writer, author, and activist Will Schnack. Will has been an organizer in North Texas for years, including co-founding the Black Cat Collective and the People’s Arcane School. Will runs the website Evolution of Consent which promotes his views on what he calls Geo-Mutualist Panarchism.
What about the Workers? A Libertarian Answer
By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance I was called this morning by the BBC. It wanted me to comment on the claims that Sports direct, a chain of sports clothing shops, mistreats its workers – keeping them on zero-hours contracts, sometimes not paying them even the minimum wage, scaring […]
Twitter Bans Milo Yiannopoulos, Initiates Major Internet Free Speech War
It’s interesting how when a Christian bakery refuses to bake a gay wedding cake, the Left calls for compulsory association in the name of equality. When a private media company denies it own services to outspoken conservatives, the Right calls for compulsory association in the name of free […]
L.A. Times Suggests Military Coup Against President Trump
By Joel Pollack Breitbart.Com Jamie Kirchick, writing in the Los Angeles Times, asks readers to imagine a military coup against a future President Donald Trump — and argues why one would be necessary. Kirchick cites the example of the recent failed coup in Turkey as a source of inspiration: […]
Trump Doctrine: Work with Russia, Draw Back NATO, Stop Arming Syrian Rebels
About the only worthwhile thing about Trump is that he seems to genuinely disagree with the more extreme elements of the neocons’ foreign policy agenda and the neoliberal economic agenda. Sputnik News “We will have a very good relationship with Russia” promises the mercurial Republican nominee for president […]
Trump wants 800K police officers trained to fight terrorism, Giuliani says
The right-wing will likely criticize Obama for wanting to nationalize law enforcement, and then vote for Trump so he can actually make it happen. By Claude Brodessor-Akner NJ.Com Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump may soon call for the federal government to provide the nation’s 800,000 police officers with training […]
The world is taking its revenge against elites. When will America’s wake up?
By Thomas Frank The Guardian snapshot of America in the middle of June 2016. It is several days before the first great shock of the summer, the Brexit vote, and here in America, all is serene. The threat posed by Senator Bernie Sanders has been suppressed. The Republicans […]
The Making of the American Police State
This is a very good overview of how the present state of affairs came into being. By Christian Parenti The Jacobin Three girls at a juvenile facility in Racine, Wisconsin. Richard Ross How did we get here? The numbers are chilling: 2.2 million people behind bars, another 4.7 […]
PKK on Turkey Coup: No Democracy in ‘Fascist’ Erdogan’s Govt
Telesurtv.Net. “This coup attempt makes it necessary for us to not slow down the struggle against AKP fascism, but to enhance it,” read the KCK statement. In a statement published Saturday, the PKK’s political affiliate, the KCK, said the real and more dangerous coup is the one being led by President Recep […]
Keith Preston: Russia disrupting US plans to topple Syria’s Assad
Press TV. Listen here. “The Americans do not like the Russians getting in the way” of toppling Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, says US journalist Keith Preston. The US seeks to push Russia out of Syria because it views Moscow as a huge hurdle in its plans to topple […]
Living Utopia
Attack the System: For a World Without the State
Available from Amazon.Com Review by Alex von Goldstein Imagine, if you will, a classroom at a community college in the contemporary United States. The make-up of the students offers a sense of true diversity: you have a few Somali Muslims with sympathies towards Radical Islam, a National Socialist […]
Foucault the Power
By Felicity Sharpe Michel Foucault (1926–1984) not a philosopher in the normal sense. Even so, at once stage, he was called ‘the new Kant’ – a very large estimation. Foucault was born in France to very upper-middle class parents, his father was a doctor and put a lot […]
Keith Preston: To Russia, Assad is ‘bulwark against terrorism’
Press TV. Listen here.Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) shakes hands with US Secretary of State John Kerry after their press conference in Moscow on July 15, 2016. (AFP) As US and Russian top diplomats speak of steps the two countries are taking to end the conflict in […]
The Curious Case of Vanishing Lady Liberty; Only Gold and Silver Remember Her
By Guy Christopher, Originally Published on Money Metals Exchange The very first word anyone ever saw on a circulating United States coin was the word “LIBERTY.” From half-cents to silver dollars, each featured the likeness of an unnamed woman. The images varied, thanks to different engravers, but together […]
Murray Bookchin’s New Life
By Damian White The Jacobin Murray Bookchin. aqua mars / Flickr Murray Bookchin spent fifty years articulating a new emancipatory project, one that would place ecology and the creative human subject at the center of a new vision of socialism. Here is a thinker, who in the early […]
Keith Preston: US hypocritical in fight on Daesh
Press TV. Listen here “The United States has sought to use Daesh as a means of toppling Assad,” Keith Preston says. The United States is pursuing a hypocritical policy towards its fight against Daesh in the Middle East, says political analyst Keith Preston. Washington is letting Daesh […]
The Case for American Secession
By Michael Malice Observer Listen to an interview with the author here. Even when we were united ideologically as a country, we have never been united culturally. (Photo: PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images) The United States of America has spent very few years truly unified. There was the Era of […]
When Everything is a Crime
Few people understand the price of overregulation like Harvey Silverglate. Over his long career as an attorney and journalist, Silverglate has seen the rising bureaucratic class enact hundreds of thousands of federal regulations and vaguely-worded statutes. The result has been the criminalization of everyday life. From university campuses […]
Corrupt Politicians and Corrupted Money Go Hand in Hand
“Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing […]
Greenspan, Gold, and the Banality of Evil
By Stefan Gleason and Jp Cortez, Originally Published on Money Metals Exchange Under certain circumstances, seemingly decent human beings are capable of horrific things. So it is with Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, who parlayed his sound money bona fides into the top post at America’s private […]
A Practical Solution: Run Police Departments Like Fire Departments
By Tom Mullen Huffington Post jacomstephens via Getty Images Do you lie awake at night in constant fear a fire will break out and nothing will be done to put it out? For the 99% of the population not suffering from pyrophobia or a similar neurosis, the answer […]
The Sniper Shooting in Dallas Was Both Murder and Blowback
By Dan Sanchez Foundation for Economic Education ve police officers were killed and six were injured in Dallas yesterday when snipers opened fire during a protest of the recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. This mass shooting was a despicable act of murder. It was […]
Cycle of Insurgency: What an insurgency in the US would look like
By Justin King TheFifthColumnNews.Com Dallas, Texas (TFC) – The cycle of insurgency is a historical pattern. The Fifth Column’s journalists don’t have crystal balls. The accuracy of the predictions in this series of articles has relied entirely on applying the historical cycles to current events. Until this point, the series has […]
Cycle of Insurgency: The realities of “Martial Law”
By Justin King TheFifthColumnNews.Com Washington, DC (TFC) – The term “martial law” is thrown around so much that it seems to have lost its meaning. Martial law is military control of normal judicial functions. It doesn’t mean a curfew is in effect. It doesn’t mean the militarization of police. […]
Neither Brussels nor Washington: Arguments for a British Foreign Policy
By Sean Gabb This book is available at Amazon.Com. “The British Government is little more than a branch of the Pentagon” So argues Sean Gabb in this controversial and stimulating book. He calls for a British foreign policy that is completely independent of both the European Union and […]
Praise of Folly Podcast Episode #21: Is Self Ownership and NAP True?
Stephan Kinsella and Todd Lewis debate Self-Ownership and the Non-Aggression Principle with Keith Preston as moderator.
One Law for Them, Another for Us
The anarchist position is vindicated once again. By Daniel Larison The American Conservative FBI Director Comey announced the findings of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server earlier today. While he won’t be recommending criminal charges against Clinton, he did say this: Although we did not find […]
Fernando Cortés: “Massive Mexican Immigration—a Business of Crooks”
An interesting take on immigration, economics, and US-Mexican relations from a Mexican nationalist. The economic analysis he gave was quite good. I wish these identitarian folks would emphasize that more. Often they sound like ordinary Republicans grousing about “colored folks on welfare.” He didn’t say anything Ralph Nader […]
American Secessionists Dream of Declaring Independence
By Clare Foran The Atlantic Secessionists across the United States are taking heart. The United Kingdom’s historic vote to leave the European Union last month has sparked interest in the far-fetched idea that U.S. states might win independence from Washington, D.C. Separatist groups are especially optimistic that Americans […]
No, the American Revolution was not a mistake
By Jeff Stein Vox The American Revolution “was a mistake,” Dylan Matthews argued last week. He lists three reasons that, in his telling, millions of American Indians and black Americans would’ve been better off had the Founding Fathers never declared independence: Slavery would’ve been abolished earlier, American Indians […]
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