By Ilana Mercer Libertarian Alliance “If we knew what we know today, we would not have gone into Iraq”: This is as good an apology Republicans vying for the highest office are willing to offer, 12 years after launching a war that was immoral and unjust from the […]
By Colin Todhunter Global Research Films for Action ment “Conspiracy Theories” In recent years, populist explanations for world events have become common and often taken the form of anti-establishment conspiracy theories. The contradiction between how people believe the world should be, according to the mainstream propaganda pertaining to liberty […]
By Greta Christina Raw Story “Well, I’m conservative, but I’m not one of those racist, homophobic, dripping-with-hate Tea Party bigots! I’m pro-choice! I’m pro-same-sex-marriage! I’m not a racist! I just want lower taxes, and smaller government, and less government regulation of business. I’m fiscally conservative, and socially liberal.” […]
Nick Gillespie Reason For the past 15 years or so, Gallup has charted how Americans describe themselves when it comes to social and economic issues. For the first time ever, equal percentages of us define ourselves as liberal and conservative on social issues: Gallup Even among Republicans, social […]
By Niraj Chokshi Washington Post People who identify as conservative outnumber those who call themselves liberal in 47 states, according to a new Gallup survey. Nationally, conservatives had a 14.6 percentage point lead on liberals, though that was more than a full point smaller than last year’s lead. […]
By Kevin Drum Mother Jones Via Ed Kilgore, here’s an interesting chart from the good folks at Gallup: What’s interesting about this is that the change is due almost entirely to Democrats and Democratic leaners. Since 1999, that group has gone from 35 percent socially liberal to 53 […]
By David Zucchino Los Angeles Times © AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Members of the military hold a giant U.S. flag before an MLS soccer match between the Seattle Sounders and Sporting Kansas City, in Seattle, May 23, 2015. REPORTING FROM FT. BRAGG, N.C. – Jovano Graves’ parents begged […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb The Barrister, May 2012 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 […]
By Lucy Steigerwald Antiwar.Com On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) “filibustered” for more than ten hours against the PATRIOT Act, the USA Freedom Act, and myriad government violations of the Fourth Amendment. He also daringly added some blistering critiques of the US prison state and its racial disparities. […]
By Alexander Ionov Stop-Imperialism.Com “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Neither […]
ty Beyond Capitalism By James Herod FilmsforAction.Org It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly and later concretely, a strategy for destroying capitalism. At its most basic, this strategy calls for pulling time, energy, and resources out of capitalist civilization and putting them into building a new […]
By Vince Rinehart “There’s a number of off base memes and ideas floating on the left regarding this incident. – Claims have been made that this was a shootout between “Skin Head Gangs.” A look at the mug shots of those arrested show whites, Hispanics, blacks and perhaps […]
Carson challenges libertarian orthodoxy on the minimum wage. Carson has tons of great articles on all kinds of stuff. Check out his archive at C4SS. (Caveat: I hear from a reliable source that my name is under a total ban from being mentioned whatsoever at C4SS, even in […]
An interesting and, I believe, accurate critique of Thomas Sowell by Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Once again — this time using the Baltimore uprising as a pretext — Thomas Sowell has pulled out the template for his favorite column dismissing what he calls […]
By Aleksey Bashatvenko “The presidency is the incarnation of the American people, in a sacrament resembling that in which the water and the wine are seen to be the body of Christ.” -Herman Finer In 1945, only 2 out of 10 people claimed that they were special or […]
Chapter 3 of the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Merna al-Marjan is a young Iraqi who is currently in Germany studying European history. We talked in her dormitory room, a spartan but functional cubicle in a building that embodies a hopeful change in […]
Everything will be better when we’ve achieved gender equality in mass homicide, right? By Dominique Mosbergen Huffington Post the first woman to fly the F-35 Lightning II fighter jet. Lt. Col. Christine Mau, 33rd Operations Group deputy commander, puts on her helmet before taking her first flight in […]
Everything will be better when we’ve achieved racial equality among the leadership of the police state, right? By Justin Glawe The Daily Beast Hope for change in Mike Brown’s hometown lies with voters, but just changing the color of government isn’t enough: Just look down the road. Ferguson, […]
I have said in the past that Kevin Carson should eventually replace Noam Chomsky as the leading intellectual of the American Left. While Carson has much of the same critique of U.S. imperialism and neo-liberalism as Chomsky, he surpasses Chomsky in a number of ways. Carson has moved […]
By Wayne Price Anarkismo.Net Review of David Graeber, Revolutions in Reverse: Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination. (2011) A review of David Graeber’s book, Revolutions in Reverse. The author has some intelligent insights, such as the importance of recognizing where the justice movements have won victories. In […]
By Kerry Bolton Foreign Policy Journal Download this essay (PDF) While psychiatry as a means of repressing political dissent was well-known for its use the USSR, this occurred no less and perhaps more so in the West, and particularly in the USA. While the case of Ezra Pound […]
By John Chuckman Foreign Policy Journal When I think of America’s place in the world today, the image that comes to mind is of a very large animal, perhaps a huge bull elephant or even prehistoric mammoth, which long roamed as the unchallenged king of its domain, but […]
By Paul Craig Roberts and John Whitehead During the time that Western legal norms were evolving in the direction of equality under law, which means the application of the same laws to all social classes, aristocrats answered to different laws than did commoners. Some offenses were not punished […]
Listen to my recent interview with Justin Garcia of The Pressure Project here.
The one thing the Red Tribe and the Blue Tribe agree on is that the police state is out of control. What does that say about the System’s level of perniciousness? The U.S. accounts for just 5 percent of the world’s population, but it houses more than 20 […]
By Conor Friedorsdorf The Atlantic There is overwhelming evidence of widespread civil-rights violations and unlawful brutality. Yet the movement’s reflex is still to ignore or deny the problem. Nearly a quarter century ago, the libertarian magazine Reason published an essay on civil unrest suffused with an insight that […]
Al Sharpton’s calls for a federalizing local police represents the latest trend in totalitarian humanism. By David S. D’Amato Center for a Stateless Society In his call for the nationalization of police forces, Al Sharpton perfectly encapsulates the mainstream left — frequently dead on target in the diagnosis, […]
An interesting take on the climate change issue from Kevin Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society It’s been a pretty bad couple of weeks on the climate front. Two separate teams of climate scientists warn that the collapse of the western Antarctic ice sheet has […]
By John Ellerby Transcribed by Luke Dodson Originally published in Anarchy 54 (Vol 5 No 8) August I965 (Freedom Press) Martin Buber, who died in Jerusalem on June 13 at the age of 87, belonged to a generation of central European Jews for whom it was a privilege […]
It’s hard to tell them apart. The pan-anarchist movement is the way to oppose the mainstream system while moving past this kind of stupidity on the margins.
CountercurrentNews.Com In a move reminiscent of the Los Angeles gang truce during the Rodney King protests, Baltimore area Bloods and Crips have agreed to put aside their rivalry and focus on fighting rogue police officers. Last Saturday, both Bloods and Crips marched side by side in the Baltimore […]
Electronic Urban Report *Baltimore police say three separate gangs are now working together to “take out” law enforcement officers. In a statement Monday, the department called it a “credible threat” and said members of the Black Guerilla Family, the Bloods and the Crips have formed an alliance against […]
By Sheldon Richman Reason In 1970 country singer Lynn Anderson had a hit recording of a Joe South song that opened with the line: “I beg your pardon. I never promised you a rose garden.” I often think of that song in connection with the libertarian philosophy. You […]
This is a must watch. Matt Welch provides a very thorough description of how the hard Left has gone from being defenders of free speech on campuses in the 1960s to enemies of free speech comparable to 1960s-era reactionaries or Eastern European Communists. By Matt Welch and Amanda […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition John Dewey famously argued that an educated populace is the backbone of a Democratic society. The school of thought he espoused has been known as “progressive education” which promoted egalitarianism, intellectual creativity and above all, a pro-Democratic mentality. Dewey stood fiercely opposed to […]
Jeff is interviewed by the inestimable Chris Cantwell for Some Garbage Podcast, topics include: police state savagery, victimless crimes, US foreign intervention, apalling state worship in the west, fight or flight with the US, expatriation, the Anarchapulco conference, police aggression not tolerated in Mexico, Mexico in an economic […]
An absolute must listen. Tom Woods interviews John Whitehead. Listen here. John Whitehead is an attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights. He established the Rutherford Institute back in 1982 and still serves as President and […]
By Ilana Mercer Libertarian Alliance April the 15th marked Holocaust Memorial Day. Nearly everyone knows about the industrial killing of 6 million Jews, for no other reason than that they were Jews. “Serious historiography” of the subject has ensured that The Shoah, Holocaust in Hebrew, is “consigned to […]
Paul Gottfried sets the historical record straight in this interview with Tom Woods. Listen here. Terms like fascist and fascism get thrown around indiscriminately by people who know how toxic they are and who want to demonize their opponents. But almost nothing and no one accused of fascism […]
Delivered by Professor Denis McManus (Head of Philosophy, Head of Research) Anarchism has taken many different forms over the centuries but this talk will look at one way in which modern anarchists can be seen as falling into two broad camps: individualistic and communal anarchists. While sharing some […]
This fits with The American Conservative‘s description Obama as a Nixon Republican. By Paul R. Pillar Consortium News President Obama is what might be called a “closet realist” who often pounds his fists upon the table while shaking hands under the table. He has to pull off this […]
In this edition of the BoilingFrogsPost.com Roundtable, James Corbett, Sibel Edmonds and Peter B. Collins welcome Andrew Gavin Marshall for a discussion of his recent podcast on “Anarchy, Socialism and Free Markets.” We talk about anarchism as a philosophy and what it really entails, as well as how […]
This is an interesting critique of the neo-reactionary movement by social scientist Scott Alexander, who also postulates the emergence of a libertarian “Grey Tribe” as a third force beyond the “conservative” Red Tribe and the “liberal” Blue Tribe. Alexander is very much in the progressive camp, although not […]
The New Reaction by Rachel Haywire Arktos Media, 66 pages Available for purchase from Amazon here Reviewed by Keith Preston Rachel Haywire’s The New Reaction is a collection of fifteen relatively short writings offering amusingly iconoclastic bits of cultural criticism from the perspective of someone with a well-developed […]
An interesting new work by Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Center for a Stateless Society Paper No. 19 (Winter 2015) [PDF] The Cult of Mass, Lionization of Protest Culture & Other Industrial Age Holdovers Protest Culture. The so-called “cargo cults” of New Guinea, Micronesia and […]
And we’ll never ditch foreign intervention as long as we have this government. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com Why should advocates of limited government support a non-interventionist foreign policy? This web site was founded some 20 years ago by libertarians perplexed and disturbed at the sight of ever-expanding government […]
Another “ally” that needs to go. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com While the Israel lobby is blanketing the US media with propaganda to the effect that Iran cannot be trusted to adhere to the terms of any agreement limiting its nuclear research and development, back in Tel Aviv Bibi […]
It’s time the US gave these Bronze Age douchebags the toss. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com Let’s get this straight: Saudi Arabia is Al Qaeda. If there was any doubt about that, the Kingdom’s invasion of Yemen makes it plain as day. The Los Angeles Times reports: “A brazen […]
While approximately 70% of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty, the “freest nation on earth” and “symbol of democracy” remains one of the world’s leading executioner states along with China, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, North Korea, Cuba, Indonesia, the oil fiefdoms of the Persian Gulf, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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