It’s good to see someone from the “conservative” end of the spectrum finally admit to this: “The Reagan Doctrine was one of the least impressive parts of Reagan’s record, and it inflicted enormous damage on the countries where it was put into practice. Moreover, it proved to be […]
Anarchists and libertarians, pay attention. This article argues conclusively that taking extremist positions on social issues is a political non-starter, as I have long suggested and as this Gallup poll points out. Excerpts: “But social issues are rating near the bottom of voter concerns heading into the 2014 election. Abortion […]
This is absolutely required reading for anarchists and libertarians. You cannot understand modern statecraft without understanding James Burnham. By Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative illustration by Michael Hogue America is badly governed. Congress has dismal approval ratings, sometimes as low as single digits. Presidential elections, settled by popular […]
Look for the entire spectrum of the radical right to start embracing some kind of libertarianism, anarchism, decentralism, or secession as its last hope. “I first really noticed the impact of godless libertarianism in the GOP in this year’s legislative session in Louisiana, when we couldn’t get together […]
Russia Today AFP Photo / Jewel Samad The American Dream is slipping further away from the vast majority of Americans than it has in a quarter century. Now 90 percent of US households are poorer than they were in 1987, according to both a new study and the […]
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This is important stuff regardless of your politics if you’re against the system. It’s an indication of what dissidents from all over the spectrum can expect in the future. Alternative Right Andy and Colin are joined by Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute to talk about his […]
Kevin Carson takes down the Progressive’s favorite economist, though I appreciate Sean’s effort to provide some nuance in his introduction. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Paul Krugman, in denouncing the excessive market power of Amazon (“Amazon’s Monopsony is Not OK,” New York Times, October 19), […]
If you ignore all of the personal attacks, this is actually a very interesting discussion of libertarian economics from two years ago on the Libertarian Alliance blog featuring Paul Marks, Ian B, Roderick Long, Kevin Carson, Bill Green and others. Check it out. Contrary to what many seem […]
By William T. Hathway Once again in election season the drums of patriotism are being beaten. Politicians on the stump and their Madison Avenue flacks are exhorting us to rally around the tattered flag. Their drumming sounds feeble and hollow, though, like cheerleaders trying to rouse the fans […]
By Ellis Riker Halford Libertarian Alliance We live in a world full of prejudices and inequality, where racist and sexist parties like Britain First can exist and where people will back these parties. In a world that has these many different types of prejudices, we call the people […]
By Ruth Padawer New York Times Hundreds of young women streamed into Wellesley College on the last Monday of August, many of them trailed by parents lugging suitcases and bins filled with folded towels, decorative pillows and Costco-size jugs of laundry detergent. The banner by the campus entranceway […]
The most sensible analysis of the Obama presidency published yet. By Bruce Bartlett The American Conservative illustration by Michael Hogue Back in 2008, Boston University professor Andrew Bacevich wrote an article for this magazine making a conservative case for Barack Obama. While much of it was based on […]
By Kirkpatrick Sale In the wake of the Scottish “no” vote on secession last month, former presidential contender Ron Paul has declared that this was inspirational for the cause of secession not only around the world but right here in the United States. It is here, he said, […]
By Keith Preston I recently suggested that the next necessary step in the cultivation of the pan-anarchist movement will be the coalescence of the many scattered factions and tendencies within anarchism and overlapping philosophies into a new “Gray” anarchist macro-tribe that maintains its own political and cultural identity […]
If you vote and live in Washington, D.C. consider Eugene Puryear. For those anarchists and libertarians who might look askance at endorsing a leftist and a socialist like Mr. Puryear, I would suggest taking a look at his track record. He’s on the right page concerning the biggest […]
Given that elections are coming up soon, I would suggest either one of two possible approaches for anarchists, libertarians, decentralists, secessionists, or dissidents and enemies of the system generally. One of these is to simply not vote at all. Boycotting a corrupt system has the effect of de-legitimizing […]
By Robert Parry Consortium News Exclusive: America’s neoconservatives, by stirring up trouble in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, are creating risks for the world’s economy that are surfacing now in the turbulent stock markets, threatening another global recession, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry If you’re nervously […]
By Welf Herfurth When one travels there is a lot of time spent thinking while on long transits between cities and places. Personal things and also the odd political thought. And while I was on a bus traveling in Argentina, I saw a news clip about ISIS, who […]
By Janet Biehl New Compass February 3-5, 2012, a a conference was organized in Hamburg, Germany. The theme was “Challenging Capitalist Modernity: Alternative concepts and the Kurdish Question.” The following text was delivered as a speech to the conference. … In February 1999, at the moment when Abdullah […]
By Michael Schmidt and Lucien Van der Walt Anarchist Library Introduction: Second-Generation Anarchism in Anatolia: The Kurdish National Question Back to the Beginnings: Alexandre Atabekian and the Rise of Anarchism in the Ottoman Empire The “Black International” and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Anarchist Anti-Imperialist Guerrillas in Thrace: Mikhail […]
Channel 4 News Brian Whelan The PKK could play a key role in the battle against Islamic State, but their roots as Marxist guerrillas leaves the west wary. Channel 4 News looks at how the group is pursuing a Kurdish Spring. After over 30 years of an anachronistic […]
Rafael Taylor RoarMag.Org As the prospect of Kurdish independence becomes ever more imminent, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party transforms itself into a force for radical democracy. Excluded from negotiations and betrayed by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne after having been promised a state of their own by the World […]
By Jesse Walker Reason.Com The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has been active in the Kurdish parts of Turkey since the ’70s. It has a sometimes sordid history: Its politics were Marxist-Leninist, and its willingness to kill prisoners and civilians earned a rebuke from Amnesty International. Its leader, […]
Yes! The Bookchinites of Kurdistan are making their mark. By Alia Malek’ Al-Jazeera Members of the PKK wait to greet the body of a slain Iraqi Kurdish PKK fighter on the road from Erbil.Ayman Oghanna for Al Jazeera America ERBIL, Iraq — The body of Zanyar Kawa is […]
Resolved:Opposition to so-called “victimless crimes” or “consensual crimes” has long been a hallmark of libertarian and anarchist thought. It’s time the ball started rolling a little bit faster on this question. These kinds of laws are the primary reason why the U.S. police state has grown dramatically in […]
By David D’Amato Center for a Stateless Society In a new article for Rolling Stone, “Inside the Koch Brothers’ Toxic Empire,” Tim Dickinson attempts to present the frequently demonized brothers Koch as essentially hardline libertarians, whose radical free market ideology is thoroughly mixed into their business philosophy and […]
Russia Today Image from facebook.com/Azad.Onepercenter Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria have received a surprising accession. While allied forces refuse to take part in military action on the ground, several German bikers have reportedly joined the fight against the jihadists. Kawan A., the club […]
By Wendy Call Yes Magazine Javier Sicilia stopped writing poetry after his son was murdered by drug traffickers. He has turned his attention full time to protesting the drug wars. Seattle’s South Park neighborhood has seen its share of drug-related crime and violence. Many of its residents are […]
I think that ARV-ATS has to a great degree developed to the point where we are ready to enter a new stage of our development. Over the years, I have made an effort to assess the limitations of previously existing anarchist movements, and to formulate a new theoretical […]
By Eric Draitser New Eastern Outlook In the midst of the war against ISIS (Islamic State) now taking place in both Iraq and Syria, a possible shifting of alliances that could fundamentally alter the balance of power in the region is taking place, and no one seems to […]
Navid Nasr Sukant Chandan: “Here you can see a rough sketch of how nato has mobilised death squads from around the world & subjected Syria to these rapists, slavers of women, mutilators & generally nato’s razor blades against our peoples. They are being fought back by a formal […]
Anarkismo.Net What you read below is the experience of my visit, for a couple of weeks in May this year, 2014, to the North-East of Syria or Syrian Kurdistan (West of Kurdistan) with a close friend of mine. Throughout the visit we had the total freedom and opportunity […]
By Kevin Carson Counterpunch.Org The Obama administration recently announced a policy of limited intervention in Iraq, using drone strikes to stave off conquest of Kurdish autonomous areas by ISIS. The main US ally on the ground is Massoud Barzani’s Kurdistan Regional Government, and US support against ISIS is […]
This was originally posted on the Libertarian Alliance blog. The general theory of political economy I hold to is roughly the same as Carson’s, and I wrote an essay for LA back in 2008 outlining my perspective. Since you don’t like links, I won’t provide one. But it’s […]
Some observations from “Ian B.” at the Libertarian Alliance blog. ————————— My major problem Keith is that I don’t think any form of separatism or communitarianism is going to work. The problem with any proposed alternative to the [current dispensation] is actually getting the chance to implement it. […]
How many anarchists even know that the PKK is an anarchist group whose main influence is Murray Bookchin. Anarchists the world over need to rally behind the PKK. Form protests outside Turkish embassies and consulates everywhere. BBC News An F-4 Phantom jet: Turkey says the bombing was a […]
I was so ahead of my time, lol. Yahoo News The Hague (AFP) – The Dutch public prosecutor said on Tuesday that motorbike gang members who have reportedly joined Kurds battling the Islamic State group in Iraq are not necessarily committing any crime. “Joining a foreign armed force […]
From the Libertarian Alliance blog. The discussion that follows is interesting. By Keith Preston I am going chance the risk of offending everyone by offering a defense of both the National Policy Institute and C4SS. I spoke to an NPI gathering a few years ago, and I am […]
By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Note by Sean Gabb: I prefer to avoid commenting on foreign affairs that do not immediately concern my own country. One exception is things that happen in the United States, which is our imperial overlord. Things that happen in other member states of […]
By David Graeber The Guardian Demonstrators hold flags of Kurdistan and a flag with a portrait of jailed PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan outside the UN headquarters in Geneva. Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters In 1937, my father volunteered to fight in the International Brigades in defence of the Spanish Republic. […]
It’s always a good plan to consider weaknesses in one’s own position. By Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative Rich Koele / Shutterstock.com Ron Paul has stirred a media buzz by praising Scotland’s secession effort—an effort the Scots themselves rejected. Dr. Paul’s views are shared by many libertarians and […]
If only the cause of overthrowing the Empire would proceed as rapidly as gay marriage. Richmond Times-Dispatch Gov. Terry McAuliffe today signed an executive order that directs state agencies to comply with the U.S. Supreme Court’s action that legalized same-sex marriage in Virginia. The governor signed Executive Order […]
Daniel McCarthy tells what is basically the truth about America’s founding. It was led by continental imperialists who resented the British for getting in the way of their own expansionist designs on the Indian lands. Leftist historians like Howard Zinn have long pointed this out. By Daniel McCarthy […]
By Yasmin Nair Alternet The United States has five percent of the world’s population, but houses 25 percent of the world’s prisoners. Conventional wisdom has it that it is the systemic, widening, and tightening grip of conservatives, particularly racist Republicans and Southern Democrats, over the years that led […]
It seems like Joel Kotkin and I are pretty much on the same page in terms of our analysis of the present state of U.S. class relations. By Joel Kotkin An Excerpt from Joel Kotkin’s Forthcoming book The New Class Conflict available for pre-order now from Telos Press […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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