Who better to fight the PC moralists than Dave Chappelle? By Nick Gillespie Reason A decade ago that Dave Chappelle was the hottest comedian on the planet. His Comedy Central show created riffs and routines (“I’m Rick James, bitch“) that still haunt the ether like old radio transmissions […]
Why the Republicans are the party of failed ideologies fronted by joke candidates. It appears that 2016 will be a Bush-Clinton election given that these are the two candidates that have the most financial backing. By Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com How worried should […]
By Pat Buchanan The American Conservative From first reactions, it appears that Hill Republicans will be near unanimous in voting a resolution of rejection of the Iran nuclear deal. They will then vote to override President Obama’s veto of their resolution. And if the GOP fails there, Gov. Scott […]
Under no circumstances should the Republican Party ever be allowed to return to power in the United States. By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Jacob Heilbrunn warns the GOP against rejecting the nuclear deal: It would be a profound mistake for the GOP to conclude that it can […]
By Scott McConnell The American Conservative Even as Obama was making peace with Iran, the U.S. moved into conflict with Russia on the side of neo-Nazis and Islamists. Most now assume that the defining foreign policy legacy of President Obama will be his Iran deal, which will seek […]
By Castro StopImperialism.Org «In order to turn the world around, you don’t need wealth or ultimate power, a warn soul is enough.». A.Ionov We live in uneasy time. Local conflicts threaten to turn into a new world war every moment. Shall this happen, no government or military will […]
By William T. Hathaway The invaders have surrounded and attacked us, conquered here and there, and built their bases in our lands. So we attack the invaders where we can, determined to retake our lands and drive them out. We would prefer not to be warriors. We would […]
Iran Nuclear Deal: World Powers Reach Historic Agreements to Lift Sanctions by Julian Borger Obama: Iran’s Pathways to a Nuclear Weapon Cut Off by Dave Boyer BRICS Putting in Place a Challenge to U.S. Economic Domination by Mike Whitney Donald Trump: The Idiocracy Candidate? by Matt Welch News […]
By Alexei Borovoy The Anarchist Library The Problem of Law and the State Imposed and Spontaneous Codes 1. Godwin 2. Proudhon 3. Bakunin 4. Kropotkin 5. Tucker and the Individualists Conclusion Biographical Note: Alexei Borovoy. Brilliant Russian Anarchist theoretician, writer and orator. Professor of Political Economy at Moscow […]
The “Euro Family” Has It is Capable of Real Cruelty by Suzanne Moore Israel Could Lose $40 Billion a Year if Subject to BDS Boycott by Michael Whitton Iran, 6 World Powers Agree to Partially Lift Arms Embargo Russia Today Alternative Right Podcast: The Greek Crisis and the […]
My statement to PressTV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/419917 The foreign policy of the United States is primarily directed by Israel’s interests and right-wing, extremist elements in the Republican Party, a political analyst from Virginia says. “American foreign policy is essentially guided by Israeli partisan interests within the domestic United […]
Iran Nuclear Deal Expected on Sunday by Kelly Cohen and Barbara Boland The U.S.-Russia Economic War Heats Up by Eric Draitser This Week in Police Brutality and Corruption by Randa Morris Man Dies After Getting Pepper-Sprayed by the Police by Holly Yan U.S. State Department Denies Visas for […]
By Tom Nichols The Federalist There’s a basic difference in the traditions of political science between “authoritarians” and “totalitaritarians.” People throw both of these words around, but as is so often the case, they’re using words they may not always understand. They have real meaning, however, and the […]
Obama to Be to the First President to Visit a Federal Prison by Chancellor Agard Tennessee Legalizes Breaking Into Cars to Save Pets Russian Today Civil Disobedience in the Disunited States by Patrick Buchanan Remembering the Scopes Monkey Trial on its 90th Anniversary Nashville Scene Former Virginia Governor […]
Followed by Jeb Bush and Rand Paul. Apparently nativists, libertarians, and neocons are now the dominant GOP factions. The religious right is apparently declining in influence. by Dartagnan The Daily Kos The Republican voters have finally embraced the core message of their Party platform, elevating unabashed racism against […]
Hows Donald Trump’s Immigration Stance Became a Liability by Peter Beinart South Carolina’s Confederate Flag Comes Down by Jeffery Collins and Meg Kinnard Remembering the U.S. Government’s Secret Human Experiments by Kevin Loria Cops Pulls Rifle on Protestors for Their “Constitutional Bullshit” Countercurrents News Teenage Girl Sentenced to […]
Read the story and watch the video here. On one hand, it looks like this guy was doing more than merely burning a flag that he happened to own. He apparently stole the flag from neighbors. So he’s at least guilty of trespassing, theft, and destruction of property. […]
Jill Stein: The Green Party is an Alternative to the “Lesser” Evil Mint Press ISIS Threatens Pyramids, Sphinx as It Begins Attack on Egypt by Jamie Seidel Time Warner Forced to Pay Woman $229, 500 for 153 Mistaken Robocalls by Janet Allon House Votes to Ban Confederate Flags […]
An absolute must listen for anarchists of any kind. Listen here: Traditional Right William S.Lind’s talk to the 2015 annual meeting of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters in Baltimore, Maryland on June 12, 2015, “The Four Generations of Modern War and their Implications for Foreign Policy.”
A New Era of Extremist Politics in Greece by Daphne Halikiopoulou YPG/YPJ Fighters Detained in Spain by Angry Tumblr Person FBI, DOJ, IRS Plot Against Political Opponents? by Michael Schaus U.S. Muslim Groups Launch Fundraiser to Help Rebuild Burned Black Churches by Renee Lewis Man Released from Jail […]
As I have been saying for the past fifteen years. On the question of totalitarian humanism, one can theoretically be a cultural far leftist without being a totalitarian humanist, just as in past times one could advocate social justice for the working class without being a Marxist-Leninist. And […]
Anarchists need to develop a perspective on racial issues that goes beyond ideological finger-pointing or moralistic sermonizing about white privilege delivered by do-gooder white people. The bottom line is that black Americans are a distinctively occupied and colonized caste within the American system. Always have been and always […]
This is welcome news. The more that the different strands of the “far right” continue to lose power politically within the context of the mainstream political system, the more they will turn their back on the “American way.” As revolutionary anarchists, we should encourage the entire spectrum of […]
New Book: Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice by Adam Benforado The Necessity of Greece’s Separation by Noah Millman Gay Marriage and the Pursuit of Happiness by Noah Millman Arizona Cops Publicize All Phone Contacts of Suspected Sex Businesses by Elizabeth Nolan Brown Why Hardly Anyone Dies […]
Greece-What You Are Not Being Told by the Media by Chris Kanthan Greece Just Taught Capitalists a Lesson About What Capitalism Really Means by Jim Edwards Trump and the Myth of Immigrant Crime by Steve Chapman Police Report Says Natasha McKenna Was Killed While Handcuffed and Shackled Countercurrents […]
By William Schnack The Evolution of Consent Introduction Upon learning about anarchism for the first time, many questions pop into the head of the initiate; questions about law, money, and general civility. That is, questions about the welfare of society spring up. Who will build the roads? The […]
Some reflection is needed on what the proper relationship should be between the pan-anarchist movement and the movement(s) commonly labeled as “conspiracy theorists,” “truthers,” and the like. Technically, the “anti-conspiracy” milieu is not a movement as much as it is a collection of ideas pertaining to a wide […]
His Benefits Were Cut, So He Robbed a Bank South Wales Evening Post Marijuana for Veterans with PTSD is Finally Going to Be Legal Countercurrents News While Americans Enjoy 4th, Government Wants to Regulate Fireworks, BBQ, Sparklers by Mike Miller The Forgotten Story of Iran Air Flight 655 […]
My latest interview with PressTV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/418841 The 2016 US presidential candidates, including Hilary Clinton, are competing against one another by using strong language against China and Russia in order to receive campaign funding from wealthy neoconservative groups, a political analyst from Virginia says. “The way that […]
By David Priestland The Guardian Ed Miliband’s late-night pilgrimage to Russell Brand’s loft apartment, days before the last election, was seen by supporters as a canny bid for the youth vote, and by critics as a cringe-worthy attempt to harness the Shoreditch Messiah’s charisma. Yet neither view captures […]
For a number of years now, I have attacked sectors of the anarchist milieu for either explicitly or implicitly failing to distinguish between anarchism (a stateless anti-authoritarian society) and what I call “totalitarian humanism” (an all pervasive state that ostensibly rules in the name of enforcing “progressive” values, […]
U.S. Public Opinion is Gradually Turning Against the Death Penalty by Christina Sturbenz Owners of Oregon Bakery That Refused to Bake Gay Wedding Cake Fined $135,000 by Oliver Darcy 200 Years of U.S. Military Interventions by Jennifer Baker Islamic State Posts Photos of Militants Taking a Sledgehammer to […]
A documentary from PressTV featuring commentary from yours truly. Watch the documentary here. The EU ambassador to Iraq accuses European countries of purchasing oil from ISIL terrorists. European countries are unwittingly funding the ISIL terror campaign by buying oil from ISIL-controlled oil fields, including those in Iraq. Reports […]
By Peter Kreko Open Democracy In an earlier post this year, Marley Morris and myself were writing about the importance of conspiracy theories in populist discourses and ideologies based on the French, Hungarian and Slovakian cases. This post will focus instead on the extremist threat of conspiracy theories. […]
By Jan Willem van Prooijen London School of Economics Whenever threatening, high profile events take place, conspiracy theories offering alternative explanations to the official narrative tend to emerge. One does not need to look far on social media to find sweeping statements about recent events, such as ‘Israel’s […]
By Tony Sobrado Huffington Post As any Philosopher of Science will tell you formal theories serve as explanations to observed phenomena, an association between the explanandum – the object of phenomena to be explained; and the explanans – the framework, concept or theory to be used as an […]
Bernie Sanders: Populist or Opportunist? by Stephen Lendman U.S. Police Killings Headed for 1100 This Year, Blacks Twice as Likely to Die The Guardian Julian Assange Seeks Asylum in France Russia Today How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Run America by Sara Robinson Is […]
It’s time for anarchists to drop all this “privilege theory” nonsense. Our struggle is against the global power elite, not any race,religion, gender, nationality, etc, etc, etc. By Keith Preston Libertarian Alliance Libertarians of whatever stripe tend to focus primarily on political theory, law, economics, ethics, and philosophy. […]
Many Applies for Marriage License to Have Two Wives by Jon Street German Ethics Council Calls for Incest Between Siblings to be Legalized Zurmat.Com For Anarchist, Details of Life as an FBI Target by Colin Moynihan and Scott Shane This Professor Was Fired for Saying “Fuck No” in […]
Marriage Equality: Don’t Let the Perfect Become the Enemy of the Good by Cory Massimo Inequality, the State, and the Left by Chris Dillow Can You Be a Waitress and a Feminist? by Brittany Bronson Private Prisons to Sue States Unless They Get More Inmates Free Labor Countercurrents […]
It’s fitting that a monster should be the candidate of the Part of War and Plutocracy “Brooks acknowledged that the field is using rhetoric “that’s not very libertarian, that’s a lot more aggressive on foreign policy than we’ve seen in a long time.” “Kristol issued a cautionary note: […]
SWAT Raids Wrong Home, Breaks Windows, Then Issues Citation for Broken Windows Free Thought Project Rand Paul Becomes the First Major Party Presidential Candidate to Court Pot Donors Rare.Us Hillary Clinton is a Gift to the Global Elite by W. James Antle III How Campus Feminism Infantilizes Women […]
By Ed Krayewski Reason Today is the 40th anniversary of the June 26, 1975, shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota between two FBI agents who drove in with unmarked cars and several members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a Native American rights group operating out […]
Should We Lower the Age of Consent to Protect Teenagers? by Amanda Hess Congress Hopes to Tackle Criminal Justice Reform This Year Liberty Unyielding Almost 90 Percent of US Wiretaps Listen for Suspected Drug Deals by Brian Anderson The ACLU Now Opposes Religious Freedom Because Christians Need It […]
Chapter 1 of the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway “That must be them.” Petra took one hand off the steering wheel and pointed to a group of soldiers about two hundred meters away, standing along our road next to a high chainlink fence […]
The Zionist wing of totalitarian humanism strikes! By Annie Robbins and Matthew Taylor Mondoweiss School’s out, but that didn’t stop California’s state assembly from passing Resolution HR35 buttressing a controversial report commissioned by the University of California that accuses students and faculty of contributing to an environment fostering […]
Here’s How Much Corporations Paid U.S. Senators to Fast Track the TPP Bill by Nick Sorrentino After Same-Sex Marriage, What’s Next? by Robert P. Jones Should Religious Schools Worry About Losing Their Tax-Exempt Status Over Gay Marriage? by Jason Russell What Happened When Portugal Decriminalized Drugs by Sophie […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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