Salon.Com NYPD officers (Credit: Reuters/Carlo Allegri) This article originally appeared on AlterNet. The NYPD is the biggest police force in the country, with over 34,000 uniformed officers patrolling New York’s streets, and 51,000 employees overall — more than the FBI. It has a proposed budget of $4.6 billion for 2013, […]
SecretsoftheFed.Com An 83 year old woman in VA allegedly used a handgun to fire a warning shot to scare off a burglar late at night. The woman, Delma Towler, also called police to report the break in.
By Kevin Carson Since Hugo Chavez’s death last week, predictably, the cable news talking head shows and the editorial pages of the major newspapers of record have been full of head-shaking about the dictatorial nature of his regime. To be sure, the Chavez regime was dictatorial. But another […]
By Justin Raimondo The response to Rand Paul’s historic filibuster against the nomination of John Brennan met with rapturous applause from civil libertarians and anti-interventionists on the right and the left – followed by harsh denunciations from Democratic party partisans and their neocon allies. It was a moment […]
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By Daniel Larison jcolman / Flickr Rod looks back on the Iraq war debate and acknowledges that its “radical” opponents got the main question right: I don’t think this makes radicals always right, or beyond mockery. But I learned that sometimes, radicals of the left and the right […]
By Vikrant P. Reddy and Marc A. Levin vgm8383 / Flickr Since the 1980s, the United States has built prisons at a furious pace, and America now has the highest incarceration rate in the developed world. 716 out of every 100,000 Americans are behind bars. By comparison, in […]
The LA Times is pissed. Demonstrators rally outside the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. to assert their right to own firearms and to denounce recent gun-control efforts. (Tim Roske / Associated Press / January 19, 2013) Related photos » Photos: The 10 trigger-happiest states in America Can bipartisanship break out […]
By Dr. Stephen Sniegoski phen Sniegoski March 8, 2013 6 While traditional conservatives welcomed neoconservatives as allies in their fight against Soviet Communism and domestic liberalism, the neocons in effect acted as a Trojan Horse within conservatism: they managed to secure dominant positions in the conservative political and […]
Interesting insights from Robert Kaplan Ancient and medieval mapmakers would better understand the world of 2100 than would the politicians of 2000. Nations as we know them have existed for only a few hundred years. But cities have been with us since the dawn of civilization. And while […]
Trendsimwatching.com Trend: Nation-states may be losing power to smaller entities as globalization sorts cultures into regions based on city-states. VC Confidential describes a dinner talk by futurist Paul Saffo. Excerpts below. Link: VC Confidential: A Global Evening with Paul Saffo …our world is moving from one of nation-states […]
By Parag Khanna The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This […]
San Francisco Chronicle In this photo taken Feb. 14, 2013, Peter Bensinger, a former Drug Enforcement Administration chief under Presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, speaks at a news conference in Chicago. Bensinger is one of eight former DEA chiefs that say the federal government needs […]
By Dave Hummels Do you ever get the feeling that progressives have run out of ideas? This thought crossed my mind when I read Thom Hartmann’s “The Draft: A War-Killer” on Truthout. Hartmann advocates reinstatement of conscription in a “new and improved form.” He proclaims that the military […]
Here’s a comment I made recently in a discussion where I was calling out some anarchists for their lack of boldness when it comes to embracing the implications of their ideas. Thoughts? “I’ve long believed that when Anarchistan finally arrives it will probably have a lot of internal […]
Take out the anti-Semitic, anti-gay, and anti-abortion stuff and you have modern left-liberalism. TotalFascism.Com Fascism: It’s about getting things done.
By Dave Hummels While reflecting on recent episodes of police misconduct in my community and beyond, I began to think about how much law enforcement agencies resemble the Catholic Church. And no, this is not a pre-St. Patrick’s day Irish joke. Consider the following: The Church and police departments […]
By Mary Theroux “Bread and circuses” anyone? The culmination of last night’s Oscars broadcast with a Live! feed from the White House with Mrs. Obama (hangin’ with her military BFs) marks the official recognition of the Presidency as theater: like the old Western sets, no substance required.
I personally find the practice of bestiality to be utterly revolting, only a half step above pedophilia, and I hardly consider a ban on the practice in the name of curbing animal abuse to be any kind of human rights violation. But I do worry when things start […]
I cautiously predict that the SCOTUS will use this case to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. This will likely be the Roe v Wade of gay marriage. I say “cautiously” because I’m not 100% certain in my prediction. There may be one or two liberal or centrist justices who […]
By John Whitehead “The unspoken power dynamics in a police/civilian encounter will generally favor the police, unless the civilian is a local sports hero, the mayor, or a giant who is impervious to bullets.” ~ Journalist Justin Peters From time to time throughout history, individuals have been subjected […]
by Keith Preston
Perhaps the principal source of divsion between anarcho-capitalists and socialist-anarchists in the classical tradition relates to the question of who should control what the Marxists call the “means of production.” Anarcho-capitalists
If only all leaders of resistance movements had the level of competence and vision as this man. The Blaze The Minister Louis Farrakhan, 79, delivered his annual Saviors’ Day sermon on Sunday. As is usually the case, the three-hour address covered a variety of topics ranging from current […]
by Keith Preston
Like the libertarians and anarcho-capitalists, I very much recognize the importance of non-state property rights as a bulwark against the ongoing centralization and accumulation of state power. But where I part company with
By Dani Pettas “”Women account for $7 trillion in consumer and business spending… account for 85% of all consumer purchases… control more than 60% of all personal wealth in the U.S.” On top of this, 2011 data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics showed women comprising 51.8 […]
By Rad Geek Last month there was a research report from Ruth Milkman, Stephanie Luce and Penny Lewis on the economic background of people who participated in some #OWS events in New York City. The New York Times and other press outlets picked up on one of the […]
By Taylor Berman Last August, the NYPD announced they’d partnered with Microsoft to create an elaborate city-wide spying/surveillance program, called the Domain Awareness System. The program provides the department with access to over 3,000 public and private security cameras, information that’s then instantly cross-referenced with criminal and terrorist […]
This article unintentionally gets to the point. This is why I am pro-Second Amendment. I don’t give a damn about hunting or burglars. I hate the NRA as much as most liberals do. Most conservative gun rights advocates are also cop-loving, flag-waving jingoists. Fuck ’em. The purpose of […]
Good post from Anthony on a FB forum. “I think bourgeois Americans are not as conservative as Hoppe assumes that are in some of his writings. Even with today’s dominant social values, most Americans would not want to live by rules as strict and culturally rightwing as he […]
By Legionscatz To provide a quick background to the slave morality/master morality dichotomy. Firstly, this concept was described by Friedrich Nietzsche to explain a dichotomy between deontological ethics and consequentialism in relation to how Nietzsche viewed aspects of human behavior. To Nietzsche master morality was the morality of the powerful. It emphasizes individual autonomy, […]
By Justin Raimondo Bradley Manning has slipped off the media’s radar, and not because he isn’t newsworthy: his “trial”—which has now reached its 1000th day – has been conducted largely in secret, with motions classified and testimony not available to the general public. This underscores the significance of […]
By Kevin Vallier Libertarians regularly argue about the relationship between their political commitments and their “moral views.” The disagreement seems to proceed by answers to two questions. 1. Do libertarian political commitments imply moral commitments? 2. If yes, which moral commitments?
A recent exchange between some leftists and myself on the FB page of libertarian exemplar Anthony Gregory. Check it out if you wish.
By Khadijah Umayyad I myself am an ardent reader of antiwar.com and have spent untold hours listening to the Scott Horton show. As my initial post on WWI historical revisionism might indicate I take war-revisionism, historical and theoretical, to be of great importance to breaking down a primary […]
By Khadijah Umayyed I believe that children can divorce themselves from their parents. The argument of “unable to make decisions” is true of half of the witless retards on this planet. I don’t believe in ‘rights’, but I do believe in the presumption of liberty in any coherent […]
Infowars.Com Washington’s Blog Feb 21, 2013 Preface: I was raised to be against guns. My parents hated guns, and believed that they only lead to crime and accidental shootings. I was raised in a blue state, and I have long been deeply influenced by leading voices for non-violence, […]
Natural News I really didn’t want to cover this subject, but a warning has to be issued to Natural News readers. Infowars writer Paul Joseph Watson has uncovered proof that a U.S. based company called “Law Enforcement Training, Inc.” has been selling millions of dollars worth of “no […]
Patriot-Newswire Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) wants to bring back the military draft and require women to register for the Selective Service. On Friday, Rangel reintroduced the so-called “draft bill,” known officially as “The National Universal Service Act” (H.R. 747), and “The All American Selective Service Act” (H.R. 748), […]
Herald-Sun BARACK Obama will become the first serving US president to receive Israel’s presidential medal, from his Israeli counterpart Shimon Peres on a visit to the Jewish state next month, Peres’s office says. Barack Obama will become the first serving US president to receive Israel’s presidential medal. AAP
Voices Newspaper Some shocking figures: On average, each Wisconsin’s 5,700,000 residents gives $268 dollars to subsidize business — corporate welfare. Ten cents of every dollar in the state budget subsidizes business — 10 percent of Wisconsin’s budget is corporate welfare. Scott Walker’s Wisconsin leads America in corporate welfare […]
February 22, 1943 – Members of the White Rose Resistance movement, including Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans Scholl and their friend Christoph Probst, are executed in Nazi Germany.RIP Martyrs ♥http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rose
By Jacob Hornberger Article 2, Section 4, of the U.S. Constitution reads as follows: The President, Vice President and all civil officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors.”
Signed copies of NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: METHODOLOGY AND APPLICATION are now available to pre-order. The book is 150 pages in length and costs just £15 with free postage to anywhere in the world. The Paypal address is: blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk More details below.
By Kevin Carson The Freeman editor Sheldon Richman, speaking at George Mason University, raised the question of just what mainstream libertarians mean when they call a country “capitalist.” What qualifies a country as “capitalist”? A lot of countries with relatively low indices of economic freedom (including those ranked […]
By Jon Queally Like Nixon, Bush, and others the law is suspended for the president, but “applies for the rest of us”
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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