MRDA has Huckabee summed up in one word. My guess is that Huckabee, who has a reputation as a con man even among some pockets of “movement conservatives,” is trying to bolster his law and order credentials which were rather damaged by this debacle.
The latest from Paul Craig Roberts. Some publisher somewhere needs to put out a volume (or multiple volumes) of Roberts’ columns over the past years. There is arguably no greater critic of the U.S. empire around nowadays (his closest rival is probably Eric Margolis), and nobody cuts to […]
What our civilization has become.
Read all about it here . But the real question is why these national organizations have suddenly taken such an interest in Texas, and in particular why they suddenly feel a need to use Chicago-style blackmail politics to attack an organization they have long characterized as kooks? The […]
This is an old essay of mine that was originally a grad school paper for a course on the history of American religions. What I did in this is trace how deism went from being a dissident intellectual movement among radical intellectuals in the West centuries ago to […]
I’m not sure how I feel about this particular group. They seem a bit neoconnish on the surface at least. But it’s certainly an interesting model of blurring the left/right distinction.
Here’s the Wikipedia entry for third parties in the U.S. Read it here. Question: In their current forms, all of these parties are terrible failures, and that’s not likely to change. But to what degree might these parties be a vehicle for entryism by those of us in […]
Over the past six months or so, interest in the various alternative anarchist milieus seems to have grown exponentially. The number of blogs, websites, or local affinity groups devoted to such projects has proliferated to the point where I can no longer keep track of them all. It […]
Thanks to Jeremy for digging up this piece from David Graeber. As an anthropologist and active participant—particularly in the more radical, direct-action end of the movement—I may be able to clear up some common points of misunderstanding; but the news may not be gratefully received. Much of the […]
Don’t take your book tour overseas, George. Remember Pinochet.
Eric Margolis sums up the situation very well. For the entire twenty-five years of my political activism and writing, I have considered the defeat of the American empire to be the most pressing political question. Now, it finally seems to be happening. The empire is essentially bankrupt, and […]
Walter Williams on the latest manifestation of the therapeutic state. Notice that the proponents of the therapeutic state seem to be the most extreme and deeply entrenched in those regions of the U.S. where the general totalitarian humanist ideology is also the most influential. As totalitarian humanism advances, […]
from Jack Ross at The American Conservative. For those unfamiliar with Dwight MacDonald, be sure to look him up. He was one of the great American anarchists. Also, check out Jack’s new book on the anti-Zionist tradition within American liberal Judaism.
Read all about it here, here, here, and here. This guy has the right attitude.
Soon enough articles like this will probably be illegal in England.
Unbelievable.
A hero of anti-imperialism has also passed.
A hero of anti-statism has passed.
The winning essay in the Libertarian Alliance’s 2010 Chris R. Tame Memorial Prize. Congratulations to David Robert Gibson.
Paul Craig Roberts provides a concise but comprehensive overview of the authoritarian legal revolution that has transpired under the Bush and Obama regimes. Last February Cheney said on ABC’s This Week that “I was a big supporter of waterboarding.” US law has always regarded waterboarding as torture. The […]
The Gingerbread Person? The good news is that the more ridiculous this PC shit gets, the quicker people will turn against it, and the sooner it will fall. I look for this to be the major political fault line in the future: a rising new elite committed to […]
1984 is here, says civil liberties attorney John Whitehead.
A good tribute from Lew Rockwell.
Two great articles on the up and coming elites. Diagnosing “Passover Syndrome” Among White Liberals by Jim Goad The New Elite by Charles Murray
New group formed for the New York area. Check out their very well done blog.
Good stuff on the neocon nature of the Tea Partiers from my friend Jack Ross at the American Conservative. But even he seems to take a misguidedly benighted view of the tea parties, as implied by the notion that they have been merely co-opted by the neocons. I […]
This article is a couple of years old, but this guy is on the right track. Gentrification usually brings with it higher rents, more laws, and more police repression, not to much attacks on economic and cultural activities that don’t jibe with the yuppie lifestyle. Mr. Manning, who […]
Justin sums it up pretty well in this one. Now that Bush’s wars are Obama’s wars, the antiwar left is silent. Oh, they still maintain they oppose the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, but that’s only in theory. In practice, they seek to subordinate the antiwar issue to […]
America’s Devolution Into Dictatorship The fact remains that Nixon was driven from office because of the Watergate burglary. No one was harmed. Nixon did not kill anyone or claim the right to kill, without proof or accountability, American citizens. If the dastardly President Nixon had a Justice (sic) […]
Kevin Carson on the real Obama. Yeah, Obama’s been imposing a regular Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution on the country, all right. A continuation of the Bush version of TARP, a doubling down on the war in Afghanistan, a scorched earth battle to defend Bush era war criminals against […]
Interesting article on President Bush II (aka President Alfred E. Neuman I) from Russia Today. Vincent Bugliosi has the right idea on what to do with this asshole: “If Bush, in fact, intentionally misled this nation into war, what is the proper punishment for him? Since many Americans […]
This is pretty good. It’s a much more objective, analytical, and intelligently written examination of the Alternative Right than what is typical among most “ant-fascist” types. Some highlights with my comments: Paleoconservatives don’t have a mass following or much in the way of institutional power these days, but […]
Good posts on the PIC by Stuart Bramhall. Part One and Part Two.
Radley Balko is one of the very best critics of the American police state of anyone who is relatively mainstream. Here he discusses what he considers to be the baffling situation of liberal media support for the drug war and opposition to marijuana legalization. His answer is that […]
Interesting and, I think, accurate history of the modern Left from Paul Gottfried.
After 9/11, the fear of another attack on U.S. soil cleanly supplanted the fear of having one`s penis chopped off by a vengeful lover in the pantheon of irrational American fears. While we`re constantly being told that another attack is imminent and that radical Islamic fundamentalists are two […]
On six different occasions between 1984 and 1994, I cast a ballot in an American election, including five general elections and one primary. Of my five general election votes, four were for Democrats and one for a Libertarian. I’ve only voted for a Republican once, in the 1988 […]
The Phantom Left by Chris Hedges, representing the “good” Left The two comics evoked the phantom left, as the liberal class always does, in defense of moderation, which might better be described as apathy. If the right wing is crazy and if the left wing is crazy, the […]
Yes! says Gonzalo Lira. A police-state is not necessarily a dictatorship. On the contrary, it can even take the form of a representative democracy. A police-state is not defined by its leadership structure, but rather, by its self-protection against the individual. A definition of “fascism” is tougher to […]
Historian Bruce Levine says no, but Walter Williams thinks the evidence says otherwise. This is a question I used to discuss with a history professor of mine who was a Civil War expert. He got his Phd from Berkeley in the 1970s and Eric Foner was on his […]
He revoked his consent to be governed but they arrested him anyway. Imagine that.
by Jeff Prager For about a decade and a half, crime rates in the United States have generally fallen. That is the good news. The bad news is that even during those “good” years, the United States still had the most car thefts, the most rapes and the […]
by Kirkpatrick Sale There’s much talk these days, particularly by the Tea Party types, about getting back to the “real” Constitution, forcing the Obama government to honor the “original intent” of the Founding Fathers, and “understanding the Constitution through the eyes of its creators,” as one contributor to […]
Has anyone read this book? It looks rather interesting. Some of this stuff would seem to be a possible prototype for replacing the state’s social welfare system. Presumably, these models could be utilized by separatist or decentralist movements of any type.
Apparently the Democrats are getting a little nervous about the Second Vermont Republic.
Interesting talk at a meeting of the London New Right. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
Yes, the Rent Really Is Too Damn High!! by Kevin Carson Obamacare Feeds Insurance Oligarchs by David D’Amato Why Building Codes and Licensing Boards Are Bad for You by Nicole Paluszek If the Supply Trucks Stop Rolling In, What Will You Be Eating? by Nicole Paluszek Time to […]
Tonight, I had a conversation with a woman who has worked in a clerical capacity for the court system in three different jurisdictions in my state. She told me that during her time as a court employee she observed that if drug cases were eliminated from the court […]
Interesting talk by Bowden. I’m not that big on Evola, I prefer Nietzsche, but either way this is a great discussion of religion, philosophy, and society. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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