By Kevin Carson Many Occupy supporters on the Left express concern that it could be coopted by the mainstream institutional Left and harnessed to a political agenda of NPR liberalism. The recent prominence of Van Johnson’s Rebuild the Dream and MoveOn.org seems to provide at least superficial justification […]
By Jason Brennan
I have some major areas of disagreement with Johnson but this is an interesting discussion. Listen to the podcast or read the text.
Watch the video. Some of this analysis is a bit elementary in quality, but the core question asked is the correct one: How can the multitude of anti-state factions collectively become an effective movement?
By Jonathan Bowden Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript by D. E. C. of Jonathan Bowden’s speech at the 12th meeting of the New Right in London on November 3, 2007. The audio is available on YouTube here. If you have any corrections, please contact me at editor@counter-currents.com or simply […]
By Gabriel Kolko Both Europe and the United States confront great crises; while they are different in certain regards they have important similarities too. America’s crisis is both military and economic; they are interrelated because America has a huge deficit, in large part because it has the chimerical ambition to be the world’s dominating military power, which costs […]
From UhuruNews.Com On the night of Wednesday, May 9, 2012, the Oakland Police Department (OPD) isolated the block on which the Oakland Uhuru House is located and searched all vehicles leaving the area for over ten hours. While organizers of the Oakland Freedom Summer Project were in the middle […]
By Jim Goad Greece, the cradle of Western Civilization, seems destined to become either the West’s coffin or the site of its rebirth. The nation’s debt crisis, combined with the fact that it’s a primary entry point for illegal immigration into Europe—in 2010, nine of every ten “migrant” […]
By Kevin Carson As a toddler Julia will begin a twenty-odd-year sentence in institutions designed to process her into a “human resource”: Someone encultured to view the existing institutional framework and power structure as natural and inevitable, who trusts and obeys the state and takes its self-justifications at face value. […]
By Kevin Carson The state’s main function has always been to set up tollgates between labor and consumption, between our skills and the ability to transform them into use-value for ourselves, so that a privileged minority could live off the rents on artificial scarcity. Under chattel slavery, that […]
From The Rising Seed Before reading the book “Red Republican’s and Lincoln’s Marxists” I have to admit I was a bit skeptical. Despite my predisposition to be wary of any fiber of genuine Christian morality flowing within the veins of Lincoln not to mention the founders of the […]
By Paul Gottfried The Italian political theorist and longtime socialist journalist Carlo Galli recently published a short volume called Perché ancora destra-sinistra (roughly translated, “Why is there still right and left?”). Galli’s definitions show scant evidence of semantic evenhandedness. He seems to identify with a perfumed definition of the left […]
Attack the System Interview with R.J. Jacob May 3, 2012Keith Preston interviews R.J. Jacob. Topics include: R.J.’s early experiences as a left-anarchist activist and his disappointment with the Left; The importance of the thought of Max Stirner and the need to develop an anarchism without slave morality; The […]
From the Patriot Newswire Officer who attacked 15-year-old Chad Holley cries in court Do you remember the Chad Holley case in Houston? You know, the one where the 15-year-old kid was out skipping school with friends and decided it was a good idea to break into a house? […]
By the CNN Wire Staff Saying he had no discretion under state law, a judge sentenced a Jacksonville, Florida, woman to 20 years in prison Friday for firing a warning shot in an effort to scare off her abusive husband. Marissa Alexander unsuccessfully tried to use Florida’s controversial “stand […]
By Michael at The Southern Nationalist RT America has an article out (complete with pictures) about the revealing dress of the Fox News ‘info-babes,’ the audience this is aimed towards and the lack of actual news that Fox produces: Distracting viewers with mis-information and ‘info-babes’
An interesting discussion of this question from Richard Spencer and Andy Nowicki
By Colin Liddell Liberté, égalité, sharia! The trouble with European politics is that the so-called “extreme” parties are not really extreme enough. This is especially clear from the case of France, where the comparatively mild policies of the Front National have been described throughout the campaign as “extreme” […]
By John Morgan If I had to put my finger on the defining feature of contemporary American life, it would be anger. Everyone is angry about something, and in many cases, it is often an individual’s most defining characteristic. Mainstream conservatives are convinced that they have somehow been […]
By Thomas Naylor It will not make one whit of difference who is elected president in November, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney. Either way, it will be business as usual. Both the silver-tongued, Nobel Peace Laureate, drone aficionado and the mean-spirited, Harvard MBA, venture capitalist shark are unwavering […]
By Wayne Madsen The United States, which sought to capitalize politically, militarily, and financially from the break-up of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, Sudan, and Czechoslovakia and now seeks to reap the benefits from the similar potential fracturing of the Russian Federation, China, Libya, and Iraq, may receive a […]
By Jamie O’Hara and Craig Fitzgerald. National Anarchist Tribal Alliance – NY Anarchists with socialist leanings associate the terms “free market” and “capitalism” with oppression and exploitation. To anarcho-capitalists, the absence of state intervention in the market is the ultimate form of liberty. In both the underground and […]
Listen to the program. April 19, 2012 Keith Preston discusses the ideology of present day Western elites. Topics include: Why Keith prefers the term “totalitarian humanism” to describe Political Correctness; Various theories on the origins of the totalitarian humanist world view and the conflict between realist and other-worldly […]
From The Raw Story. The Tea Party, the Ron Paulistas, and the Occupiers represent the sinking middle class, the populist right, and the lumpen left respectively. A political movement that is able to tie these together under the same anti-state, anti-empire, anti-plutocratic umbrella will have something. —— […]
A 2006 article from one of the neocons’ flagship publications shows they know who their most effective opponents are likely to be. ——– Globalization is real, but its power to improve the lot of humankind has been madly oversold. Globalization enthralls and binds together a new aristocracy–the golden […]
From CNN. The FBI released photos of five men who allegedly plotted to blow up a bridge in Ohio. STORY HIGHLIGHTS The suspects’ initial plan, officials say, was to “topple financial institution signs atop high rise buildings” FBI: They conspired to acquire C-4 explosives and build improvised explosive […]
Interesting interview from the The Daily Bell. Introduction: Charles Johnson is a web developer, a prolific left-libertarian writer and book author, a student of philosophy, and sometime teacher of logic. He was born in San Antonio, Texas in 1981 and has lived most of his life in the […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. I watched a Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial candidate bring an evangelical crowd to their feet three years ago by announcing that “Owning a gun is a human right.” I mumbled to myself: “So is protection from body odor.” It’s not that I’m against people owning […]
Article by Thomas N. Naylor. When I first read Albert Camus’s The Stranger as a college student in 1957, it went right over my head. I was clueless as to what this book was about. When I re-visited it twenty-five years later, I was so taken by Camus that I […]
Article by Kevin Carson. I may be writing under false pretenses. Although I was invited here to make a case for the “occupancy-and-use” or usufructory land property theory of P.J. Proudhon, J.K. Ingalls andBenjamin Tucker, I’m going to devote most of this article to what it has in common with other […]
From MRDA’s Inferno. Who would’ve thought such a mild-mannered, bourgeois Englishman could ignite such a fibre-optic firestorm? A few weekends back, all right-thinking Left-leaners united for a hyperextended Two Minutes Hate session against one John Derbyshire, a Brit expat and paleocon pundit who occupies a comfy niche amongst […]
Hat tip to Troy Southgate. ne of the last remaining nomadic tribes of the Amazon faces extinction unless urgent action is taken to protect them from violent invaders intent on throwing them off their land, a leading human rights organisation has warned. The rarely glimpsed Awa of the […]
by Prof. James Petras http://www.GlobalResearch.ca (Editor’s note: Read this and spread it widely. Before you begin reading, you may not realize how desperately bad this potential war will be. We have talked about how the Dollar will collapse from either (1) China’s efforts to dethrone the Dollar as […]
Article by Darian Worden. While today’s states are very powerful, cracks in their power can open as they adapt to a changing world. Recession is not the only force of change. Economic and social practices and pressures that develop through increasing global contact will have a massive impact […]
Article by Kevin Carson. Several weeks ago, Julian Sanchez announced his intent to leave the Cato Institute if the Koch brothers’ attempted takeover was successful. Corey Robin seized the opportunity to chide libertarians for our alleged inconsistency on the job culture (“When Libertarians Go to Work,” March 7). Sanchez […]
Listen to the interview. April 12, 2012 Keith Preston interviews Attie Schutte. Topics include: Attie’s background as a native Afrikaner and his observations of the changes in the South African nation since the coming to power of the African National Congress; The current state of the South African […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. Nineteen years ago, just outside Waco, Texas, the FBI demonstrated once again that the state at its core is a killing machine. Monarchy, democracy, or republic – any government as conventionally defined is a legal monopoly on violence. The state is always inclined toward […]
Troy Southgate just announced that Jonathan Bowden has passed away at the age of 49. His keen intellect and penetrating criticisms of established paradigms will certainly be missed. Listen to his lecture on Marxism and the Frankfurt School here.
Listen to the interview. April 5, 2012 Keith Preston interviews Russell Longcore. Topics include: How Russell’s political thinking shifted from the Republican Party to the Libertarians to anarchism. His experiences with the Republican Party of Cobb County, Georgia and his up-close observations of Newt Gingrich. The prospects and […]
From Free Association. Today is Tom Szasz’s 92 birthday. I hope he’s having a great day with his family. Remarkably, Tom continues to publish a book a year. His awesome work is recommended to anyone who loves liberty. It’s a mistake to think his work is fundamentally about […]
Article by David D’Amato. Former New York governor Eliot Spitzer, once in headlines over a prostitution scandal, is in the news again. President Obama, Spitzer says, talks tough on Wall Street, yet shrinks from attempts at real reform. Spitzer adds that, with this president, “you have to distinguish between […]
By Andy Nowicki. (Note: Most loyal Alternative Right readers are aware that I extensively researched the Columbine High School massacre of April 20, 1999 en route to composing my novel The Columbine Pilgrim.While studying Columbine, I’ve befriended many other people, who for one reason or another find themselves drawn […]
Article by John Glaser. I knew what Johnson was about years ago when as governor of New Mexico he said he opposed the drug war but refused to grant pardons to drug war prisoners because “they broke the law” or some such nonsense. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– In an interview with the […]
Article by Thomas Sowell. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Apparently the soaring national debt and the threat of a nuclear Iran are not enough to occupy the government’s time, because the Obama administration is pushing to force Westchester County, N.Y., to create more low-income housing, in order to mix and match classes […]
Article by William S. Lind. Required reading. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— n 1914 the Houses of Hapsburg and Romanov sat transfixed, mesmerized by the central question: which would win this latest round in their old quarrel? But the paradigm had changed and both would lose, while the winners would be a […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Multitude, by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, adds enormous clarity to the libertarian worldview. The Westphalian nation-state’s sovereignty rested on its sole right to define the legitimacy of both use of violence within its boundaries and the exercise of violence against other nation-states. […]
From NPR. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Steve Dunwell/Getty ImagesLone Star Nation: Today, the Texas capitol flies both the American and Texas flags, but after independence the Lone Star flag would fly on its own. March 30, 2012 It’s a popular idea in Texas that the Lone Star State — once an independent […]
From the Los Angeles Times. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Patrick Burke with his wife, Elise, and their son, Jackson. In a drunk driving and auto theft case last year, the Air Force pilot was found not guilty “by reason of lack of mental responsibility” — a result of the prescription drugs […]
Article by Walter Williams. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— When NBC’s “Today” show played the audio of George Zimmerman’s call to a Sanford, Fla., police dispatcher about Trayvon Martin, the editors made him appear to be a racist who says: “This guy looks like he’s up to no good. He looks black.” […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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