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Why Particularism is a Defense Against Tyranny

1968: Scarcity and Decade Analysis

Article by Peter Augustine Lawler. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The “Occupy Wall Street” protesters are at the very least occupying a lot of the media’s attention—this despite the fact that it’s nearly impossible to tell what the movement wants, with practically every protester issuing his own unique list of demands and […]

Police State Targets Occupy Movements

Article by Allison Kilkenny. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- On October 17, hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters gathered in Liberty Park around cakes that had been donated by local businesses. The group was celebrating the one-month anniversary of the occupation, but the moment was simultaneously both joyous and somber. Though OWS […]

Why Homelessness Is Becoming an Occupy Wall Street Issue

Article by Barbara Ehrenreich. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems. Large numbers of people must be fed and kept reasonably warm and dry. Trash has to be […]

After Nearly Nine Years of War and Occupation, America to Withdraw All Troops From Iraq

Article by Tom Hayden. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- In a stunning and largely unexpected victory for the American peace movement and Iraqi opponents of the US occupation, virtually all US troops will withdraw from Iraq as scheduled by this December 31. First reported by the Associated Press on October 16, the […]

The Return of Barbarism

Article by Justin Raimondo. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– “We came, we saw, he died,” babbled our notoriously bloodthirsty Secretary of State as news of Moammar Gadhafi’s grisly murder hit the headlines. Throwing her arms up in a gesture of mock-triumph, she averred – perhaps sarcastically – that she was “sure” her recent visit to Tripoli had […]

New York Cops Defy Order to Arrest Hundreds of ‘Occupy Albany’ Protesters

Defection from the ranks of the PIGS? I think state autonomy theory has much to be said for it. The police and the military are the backbone of the state. When soldiers and cops walk off the job, the state is finished. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Occupy Albany protesters in New […]

Battle for the Heart of the Occupy Movement

Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Center for a Stateless Society Media Coordinator Tom Knapp, summarizing his experience with the Occupy St. Louis movement, reported a movement “with an ideological center of gravity somewhere in the neighborhood of ‘mild reform Democrat.’”  Most of the people there, apparently, were basically […]

How Video of Police Behaving Badly Made Occupy Wall Street a Global Phenomenon

Article by Joshua Holland. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Photo Credit: Paul Stein “This is the most heavily documented protest in the history of the world by a longshot,” says Jesse LaGreca, 31, an underemployed restaurant manager who has been at Occupy Wall Street since the beginning. “And It really serves two purposes. […]

The Vatican Calls for Global Usury

Article by Richard Spencer. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Beginning with the Council of Nicaea, the Catholic Church has forbidden usury, in some way or form, for most of its history. (And usury was most often strictly defined as charging any kind of interest on a loan (“making money from money”), and […]

What Happened to Probable Cause?

Article by Robert M. Smith. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— It seems Tennessee is the first state to allow TSA agents to inspect citizens during traffic stops. They have road blocks set up and are inspecting all vehicles, both commercial vehicles and private cars for possible terrorist activities, with no probable cause. I […]

Six white police officers sue Scotland Yard for race discrimination

It’s keeps on getting crazier. Fragmentation of the police along political, racial, or whatever lines is a desirable development. Disunity among the PIGS makes their defeat more obtainable. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Six white police officers are suing Scotland Yard for racial discrimination  claiming they are victims of ‘political correctness gone […]

Neocons Retain Control of GOP Foreign Policy Apparatus

Article by Kevin MacDonald. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Yet another glimpse into the massive Jewish ethnic infrastructure, the infrastructure that undergirds the power of the Israel Lobby. A column by Justin Logan in The National Interest (“Memo to Leslie Gelb: The neocons never left“) points out that neocons are alive and well, dominating […]

Police State Fascism Is Now Rampant: Martial Law Is Next!

Article by Gary D. Barnett. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume…that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for […]

Interview – Naomi Wolf – The End of America

Watch the interview here.

Is America a Democracy?

Another home run. —————————————————————————————————————————————————–  

Over Incarceration in America

Another great video from Adam Bilzerian.

Do Jewish Americans Control the Media?

Watch the video. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Author Adam Bilzerian forever ends the debate about whether or not Jewish Americans control the media by providing names and titles of the CEOs and owners of the major media networks. He also investigates AIPAC, the Federal Reserve, the cause of Sept 11, 2001, […]

The First Amendment and the Obligation to Peacefully Disrupt in a Free Society

Article by Naomi Wolf. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Mayor Bloomberg is planning Draconian new measures to crack down on what he calls the “disruption” caused by the protesters at Zuccotti Park, and he is citing neighbors’ complaints about noise and mess. This set of talking points, and this strategy, is being […]

Junior Considers His Career Options

Insightful Observation

A Fatally Misled Civilization: Gottfried Reviews Buchanan

Article by Paul Gottfried. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Pat Buchanan may be the only self-described paleoconservative whose last six books have reached The New York Times Best Seller list. Pat did this despite the established conservative movement’s slanders and the Murdoch media empire’s inattention. His books have come out with topline commercial presses […]

Is the National Security Complex Too Big to Fail?

Article by Tom Engelhardt. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Think of Iraq as the AIG of wars — the only difference being that the bailout there didn’t involve just three payouts.  More than eight years after the Bush administration invaded that country, the bailout is, unbelievably enough, still going.  Even as the U.S. […]

Is America Disintegrating?

Article by Pat Buchanan. “In Suicide of a Superpower, out this week, I argue that the America we grew up in is disintegrating, breaking apart along the fault lines of politics, race, ethnicity, culture and faith; that the centrifugal forces in society have now become the dominant forces. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— In […]

Robbing Us Blind

Article by David D’Amato. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Calling attention to the crises spawned by contemporary global capitalism, the Occupy movement provides an opportunity for more than mere response to the symptoms of that system. Just as doctors would be remiss to merely attend to symptoms on an ad hoc basis, […]

Jews and the Occupy Wall St. Protests: Bill Handel says “My Tribe Controls Wall St.”

Article by Kevin MacDonald. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Occupy Wall St. movement and its many offshoots have clearly become creatures of the left. Although it’s hard to say what it was originally, it is becoming the left’s answer to the Tea Party’s angry middle-aged and middle-class White people: angry young, […]

The 'Shit Happens' Foreign Policy

Article by Colin Liddell. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Can’t wait to Twitter this “The West is the best and we’ll do the rest,” sang Jim Morrison on that damning 1967 indictment of poor parenting and pharmacological excess, The End. Despite it’s intended irony, the lyric nevertheless reflected the realities underlying US foreign […]

Is the "1 Percent" Becoming the "2 Percent"?

By Colin Liddell. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Not every Occupy Wall Street protester is trying to relive the 1960s. At least some want to return to the 1360s, or some other lost decade from the Middle Ages, when public consciousness of ethnic patterns in the world of credit and finance was […]

The Baby-Boomer Establishment..

…and their allies. By Richard Spencer. —————————————————————————————————————————————————-

What OWS is Saying

By Richard Spencer. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— I instinctively dislike “Occupy Wall Street,” and its primitive, let’s hold-hands-with-the-99%” egalitarianism. That said, it’s hard not to conclude that the OWSs have a more penetrating critique of the American elite than the Tea Party.

The Evil 1%

Article by Lew Rockwell. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The “occupy” protest movement is thriving off the claim that the 99% are being exploited by the 1%, and there is truth in what they say. But they have the identities of the groups wrong. They imagine that it is the 1% of […]

U.S. Embassy warns of imminent terror threat in Kenya

Hide under you bed. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————   Kenyan soldiers pursue Islamic militants near Liboi, Somalia, on October 18. STORY HIGHLIGHTS The embassy urges citizens to consider deferring travel Kenya has sent troops across the border into Somalia to pursue suspected Islamic militants Recent abductions of tourists and aid workers […]

U.S. Government Creates 500 Jobs…….

…..in Finland. This is the kind of stuff I will bring up when debating with friends of a conservative, Republican, pro-war, “patriotic” perspective. Their typical refrain will be something like: “Don’t you want your country to be a superpower? Don’t you want to live in the most powerful […]

Gadhafi's last moments alive

Watch the video. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– CNN’s Tim Lister reports on the graphic images that have emerged from Gadhafi’s final moments alive.

Ahmadinejad: U.S. hated around the world

Watch the video. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says the United States is getting weaker and weaker and is hated around the world.

Are You Owned by the Government?

Article by Andrew Napolitano. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Does the government work for us or do we work for the government? If the government exists to serve us and if freedom is part of our humanity, how can the government take freedom from us? Tonight, is human freedom in America a […]

Moammar Gadhafi, R.I.P.

Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————– The grisly scenes of Gadhafi’s body being dragged through the streets of Sirte, and the unseemly celebrations of the Libyan dictator’s death in the Western media, are enough to make any decent person wince. Yes, he was a brutal dictator, and I hold no brief […]

The War on Drugs Has Become the War on the American People

Article by John W. Whitehead. ———————————————————————————————- “On July 29, 2008, my family and I were terrorized by an errant Prince George’s County SWAT team. This unit forced entry into my home without a proper warrant, executed our beloved black Labradors, Payton and Chase, and bound and interrogated my […]

The Stark Truth: Interview with Michael Parish

 Listen to the interview here. Robert Stark interviews Michael Parish. Topics include: The origins & psychology of modern liberalism; Alternatives to liberalism after the system’s decline; The reasons for the Right‘s current malaise; Activist strategies; The American New Right; Economic and political alternatives. Michael Parish is an independent journalist and blogger based in Appleton, Wisconsin, […]

Noam Chomsky, anarchist, on the impossibility of anarchism

Article by Charles Davis. I’ll always respect Noam as the leading critic of U.S. foreign policy during the latter Cold War period. He also has a much better understanding of the relationship between the state and business power than many leftists do.  He rejects the “Israel exception” ethos […]

Gar Alperovitz on the Evolutionary Reconstruction strategy for social change

Article by Michel Bauwens. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— In Dissent magazine, Gar Alperovitz proposes and describes a political/policy strategy for radical change, which is based neither reform within the system (reformism), nor replacement of the system (revolution), but transformation within the system through the use of innovative institutional frameworks. Below, we excerpt […]

Detroit as the Exemplar of the Next Revolution

Article by Michel Bauwens. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Boggs sees Detroit as the forefront of changes sweeping the industrialized world. Once the front line of industrialization, Detroit could be the model of what the future of the deindustrialized world looks like. That thought has led her to work on seemingly small […]

Yet Another Crack in the PC Coalition

An African-American public school teacher in New Jersey comes under attack for negative comments about gays.  ————————————————————————————————————————————————— UNION TOWNSHIP, N.J. (The Blaze/AP) — The husband of an embattled, New Jersey high school teacher accused of posting anti-gay messages on her Facebook page is defending his wife’s comments. Gene […]

Gaddafi and American Empire

Article by Richard Spencer. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– In some ways, I’m glad that Colonel Gaddafi has (apparently, at least) been captured and killed in his hometown of Sirte by the barbaric hordes that he had kept at bay for so long. I don’t say this because I have much hope for the […]

Another Crack in the PC Coalition?

An African-American public school teacher in L.A. is fired for anti-Zionist comments. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Patricia McAllister, a substitute teacher in Los Angeles was recently caught making the following anti-Semitic statement at the Occupy Los Angeles protest: “Patricia McAllister, I’m here representing myself but I do work for the Los […]

2011 Index of Economic Freedom

As determined by the collection of neocons, theocons, vulgar libertarians, and stooges for the military-industrial complex that comprise the Heritage Foundation. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– world rankcountryfreedom scorechange from previous world rankcountryfreedom scorechange from previous   1Hong Kong89.70.0 93Morocco59.6+0.4 2Singapore87.2+1.1 94Mongolia59.5-0.5 3Australia82.5-0.1 95Ghana59.4-0.8 4New Zealand82.3+0.2 96Egypt59.1+0.1 5Switzerland81.9+0.8 97Swaziland59.1+1.7 6Canada80.8+0.4 98Nicaragua58.8+0.5 7Ireland78.7-2.6 […]

Qaddafi Is Dead, Libyan Officials Say

From the New York Times. ————————————————————————————————- Esam Omran Al-Fetori/Reuters Libyan government fighters celebrated after routing the last remaining forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi from the coastal town of Surt on Thursday. More Photos » TRIPOLI, Libya — Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the former Libyan strongman who fled into […]

AWA: Americans With Attitude

From DumpDC.Com. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— by Bob Moriarty (Editor’s note: The penultimate paragraph is one of the most sobering I’ve read in many months. And it’s nearly impossible to argue with the author’s conclusions. Blood will likely be spilled, and that may just be the beginning of the end.) It […]