By Murray Rothbard Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, volume 2, chapter 3: “James Mill, Ricardo, and the Ricardian System.” An MP3 audio file of this chapter, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach, is available for download. The theory of class conflict as a key to political history did […]
This is an interesting take on the question. By Barry Lyndon I’m starting to think I must be the only voice in an avalanche of Paulites who wasn’t outraged by Senator Rand Paul’s endorsement of Mitt Romney. As a libertarian with a perspective of the Scottish independence movement […]
By Justin Raimondo On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, proffered a resolution declaring: “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all […]
By Kevin Carson Last Tuesday’s vote to recall (or not) Wisconsin governor Scott Walker is just the latest illustration of a positive feedback loop we’ve been in for some time. Capitalism — the 500-year-old historic system of political economy we actually live under — had heavily depended on […]
By Thomas Francis During his sophomore year in high school, Cody Beck finally got fed up with hearing homophobic cracks. If his classmates thought being gay was weird (Beck was openly bisexual), he had a confession that would blow their minds. He told them he is sexually attracted to dogs […]
This article and my recent broadcast at VOR, “Electing a New People,” explain why the Left will be dominant in Western politics for the foreseeable future and why any serious anti-state movement should identify the pro-state Left rather than the reactionary Right as its primary enemy. By Ruy […]
By Dave Lindorff A new trove of heavily redacted documents provided by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund (PCJF) on behalf of filmmaker Michael Moore and the National Lawyers […]
By Alexander Cockburn A heart in love will decipher every squiggle in a letter as a kiss. In the final days of the 2008 campaign and in the opening ones of his administration, Obama and his top legal aides seemed to the eager ears of marijuana legalizers on […]
Kevin Carson, Senior Fellow and Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory at Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS), was interviewed June 1 by Kevin Barrett on Truth Jihad, American Freedom Radio. The interview, which takes up the the first hour and continues for part of the second, centers on the […]
On June 5, 2012, In Podcast, By egarris Standard Podcast Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download Ryan McMaken interviews Lew on the history and prospects for liberty.
By Matt Zwolinski Roderick Long raises some important concerns about my defense of sweatshops. I’m short on time, preparing for the symposium on John Tomasi’s book next week, but I wanted to get in at least a quick initial response. I trust and hope that we will have plenty of time to continue […]
By Gavin McInnes After leaving dinner with my in-laws here in Brooklyn on Monday, I saw two men standing on the curb looking very righteous. One was Asian and the other was white, which in this area usually signifies they’re yuppie gentrifiers. Sitting on the sidewalk next to […]
Officials Confirm: Obama Decides Who Lives and Who Dies: The President has put himself at the helm of the drone assassination program and directly oversees lengthy ‘kill lists’ which include several U.S. citizens. Construction Activities at Military Site Fuel Latest Round of Iranian Nuclear Fears: A satellite image […]
Listen to the interview. May 25, 2012 Robert Stark interviews Paul Craig Roberts. Topics include: PCR’s role in the Reagan administration and supply-side economics; How job outsourcing was engineered by Wall Street and corporations; The military-industrial complex; Neoconservatives, foreign policy in the Middle East, and war with Iran; […]
June 8th, 2012 Libertarian Party [Prediction: The Ron Paul movement will eventually split into two camps. One will be a more system-friendly movement for whom Rand Paul is the figurehead. The other will be a more radically anti-state movement whose radicalism surpasses that of Ron Paul. The latter […]
By Paul Gottfried Although the adjective “fascist,” as George Orwell pointed out during and right after World War II, was a slur applied to “those we don’t like,” the indiscriminate use of the “F” word seems more common now than it was in 1945. Political correctness drives this […]
Says a new Rasmussen poll. Twenty-four percent of Americans now agree with us. Sixteen percent are undecided. We’re getting there. Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:18:45 AM by CNSNews.com (CNSNews.com) – Nearly one-quarter of Americans believe that states have the right to secede, according to a recent […]
By Doug Casey There have been a fair number of references to the subject of “phyles” in this publication. But it occurs to me that I’ve never discussed the topic myself in any detail. Especially how phyles are likely to replace the nation-state, one of mankind’s worst inventions. […]
By Wayne John Sturgeon Richard Hunt, former editor of the UK based “Green Anarchist” and “Alternative Green” magazines, died may 2nd 2012. He was 79 years old. Green Anarchist, a publication he launched in the mid to late 80s, was a very beautifully illustrated magazine (Richard was an excellent […]
Laurence Vance explains why. In the Gary Johnson interview with Robert Wenzel, when asked about what a libertarian was, Johnson said that, speaking with a broad brush, most Americans are fiscally responsible and socially tolerant and that, with a broad brush, that is what libertarians are about. What planet is […]
This article by Sigmund Knag and published by the Independent Institute goes a long way towards helping us understand the internal dynamics of modern states. It can be read in full here. I have long argued that it is not sufficient for anarchists and other anti-statists to simply attack […]
By Kevin Carson On a recent episode of PBS Newshour, economist Richard Freeman and futurist Ray Kurzweil argued the significance of technological progress. Freeman warned “We don’t want it to be that there’ll 20 or 30 billionaires controlling everything, and the rest of us struggling for the one or […]
By Meghan Neal
By J. Neal Schulman Been watching the news? Greece? Spain? Ireland? Egypt? Iran? Mexico? Revolution is in the air all over the place. Agorism Poster by thorsmitersaw Back in the early 1970′s Samuel Edward Konkin III, a libertarian activist, editor, and writer — began looking for alternatives to traditional […]
By Roy Childs First published in 1969 in SIL’s Individualist newsletter, Mr. Childs (1949 – 1992) was a brilliant libertarian author who wrote with outstanding passion and eloquence on the ideas of liberty. Nineteen of his essays are collected in Liberty Against Power Dear Miss Rand: The purpose of this letter […]
By Dave Smith The Internet has been on high alert for zombies since last Saturday, when a 31-year-old homeless man from Miami named Rudy Eugene was discovered chomping on another homeless man’s face and neck before he was shot and killed by police.
By Richard Spencer The cloyingly named “Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act” (HR3541) failed in the House on Thursday, despite gaining overwhelming Republican support. If passed, the bill would have outlawed racial and sexual discrimination in abortion, jailing any doctor who helped a woman end a pregnancy […]
By Andy Nowicki Vile: anagram is an energy In chronicling the ongoing anti-White, anti-male, anti-heteronormative ideological full-court-press of our judicial, media, and governmental overlords, it is all-too easy to find oneself flogged into a perpetual state of spluttering outrage, or thrust towards a inveterate inclination to indulge in […]
By C. Derick Varn An Open Letter To Much of the So-Called Left: I am a man of the left. Make no mistake about it, I am a man of the fair left even. I have vaguely liberal social sensibilities, and a hard left politics. I have, however, […]
By Rob Urie Renewed criticism of Black Bloc anarchists (link) ties in a tangential way to the arrest on terrorism charges of three youths in Chicago prior to recent anti-NATO protests. The anarchists raise the question of the legitimate use of violence to achieve political ends. The arrest […]
By Laura Flanders Noam Chomsky has not just been watching the Occupy movement. A veteran of the civil rights, anti-war, and anti-intervention movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, he’s given lectures at Occupy Boston and talked with occupiers across the US. A new publication from theOccupied Media […]
By Gavin McInnes Like the French language, the liberal brain works in reverse. Where we say “the red book,” the French say “le livre rouge.” They start with a blank book and work backwards to fill it in with rouge. Liberals start with, “All men are created equal” […]
By Jim Goad I have trouble accepting the idea that Hitler was a vegetarian. He just didn’t seem that pushy. Apparently others feel the same way. When I started typing “pushy vegetarians” on Google, it auto-filled the rest after “pushy v—.” Of all the annoying identity movements under […]
By Sean Gabb At the beginning of April 2012, the BBC and a couple of newspapers reported that the British Government was considering a new surveillance law. This would allow it to monitor the telephone calls, text messages, e-mails and website visits of everyone in the United Kingdom. […]
By Justin Raimondo We might as well get rid of Memorial Day, for all the good it does us. Originally “Decoration Day,” the last Monday in May has been the designated time for us to remember the war dead and honor their sacrifice – while, perhaps, taking in […]
By David McElroy It’s Memorial Day in the United States, a day we set aside to remember men and women who’ve died in wars. Politicians make a lot of speeches today and lay a lot of wreaths, but the best way to honor the fallen would be to […]
From the Tehran Times KUALA LUMPUR — It’s official — George W. Bush is a war criminal. In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former president of the United States and seven key members of his administration were found guilty […]
By David Swanson (Remarks prepared for Richmond Peace Education Center Event in Richmond, Va., May 24, 2012) I have a friend who’s a compulsive liar. OK it’s not a friend. It’s my television. And my newspaper. According to them, the United States, as one among equals, in coalition […]
By Glenn Greenwald President Barack Obama waves upon his arrival at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) In 2006, The New York Times‘ James Risen and Eric Lichtblau wonthe Pulitzer Prize for their December, 2005 article revealing that the Bush administration was eavesdropping on the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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