Why I am an Anarchist, Part II
Gabriel Brown continues.
Keith Preston
Why I am an Anarchist, Part I
Gabriel Brown explains.
Manning, Snowden and Assange were the ones who took risks to expose crime
By Amy Goodman Bradley Manning during his trial. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP
Daniel Chong, forgotten in DEA cell, settles suit for $4.1 million
CNN.Com A University of California San Diego student left unmonitored in a holding cell for five days by the Drug Enforcement Administration has settled a lawsuit for $4.1 million, his attorney said. “This was a mistake of unbelievable and unimaginable proportions,” attorney Julia Yoo said on Tuesday.
Florida deputies shoot man they mistook for car thief in his own driveway
CNN.Com Was he a suspect or a victim? A Florida sheriff says an unarmed man — mistaken for a car thief and shot by deputies in his own driveway — is both. He refused to obey commands and lunged at the deputies who fired their weapons 15 times […]
Smithsonian Eyes Trayvon Martin Hoodie for Museum Exhibit
ABC News Why not? It’s part of history.
Agents raid shelter, kill baby fawn
CNN.Com On the eve of being transferred to a wildlife reservation, a fawn was sought out and killed by DNR agents.
Weekly News Update July 23, 2013
News of the Week Weekly News Update July 23, 2013 July 28, 2013 Keith Preston reviews recent articles that indicate ARV-ATS ideas are now moving into the mainstream. Topics include: Chris Hedges’ admission that the liberal class is a failure and has abandoned the poor in favor of […]
The Growth of Black Anarchism
Attack the System The Growth of Black Anarchism July 28, 2013 ATS senior editors Miles Joyner and Keith Preston discuss anarchist influences on radical tendencies in black communities. Topics include: The reaction of the black community to the Zimmerman verdict. The obscuring of the Bradley Manning trial by […]
Why They Hate Rand Paul
By Justin Raimondo The rise of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky) as an alternative to Bush era GOP dead-enders has the two principal anti-libertarian factions in American politics snarling and spitting in fury – and real fear. The progressives – in the drivers’ seat at the moment – are […]
The Party of Wilson, Wiretaps, and War
By John R. MacArthur merican democracy now seems to be dead. Yet while party bosses backed by billionaires and corporate lobbyists snuff out any effort at serious reform, and President Obama prevaricates on all the great issues of the day, two vital national arguments have erupted that might […]
Hedges: The Liberal Elite has Betrayed the People They Claim to Defend
The Farm Bill & ‘Libertarian Populism’: Can the GOP be pro-worker and anti-government?
No, they can’t. But we can. It looks like some folks at The American Conservative have been reading AttacktheSystem.Com. By W. James Antle III One step forward, two steps back. The Republican Party is like an alcoholic in recovery, with periods of sobriety punctuated by long, destructive benders […]
Homosexuality, Hoppe, and Time Preferences
An interesting article by a gay libertarian on the alleged “homophobia” of Han Hermann-Hoppe By Ludwig Von As a gay person who considers himself a right-wing libertarian, the “problem” of time preferences among gays (as mentioned by Hans Hermann-Hoppe) has come up a few times, enough for it […]
Where Keith Preston Falls Short: A Critique from the Right
What follows is a letter I received from a reader, Mr. Todd Lewis. I believe this to be the most accurate yet thorough critique of my own work issued to date. It is certainly the most thorough critique I have received from the Right, and makes an excellent […]
ATS News of the Week: Zimmerman Acquittal, Kokesh, and the Coerced Sterilization of Female Inmates
News of the Week Zimmerman Acquittal, Kokesh, and the Coerced Sterilization of Female Inmates July 14, 2013 ATS Weekly News Update July 14, 2013 Topics include: The acquittal of George Zimmerman and the reasons for the media’s showering of attention on what was essentially a routine murder trial. […]
Vermont Poised to Become 1st State to Enact Single-Payer Healthcare
Democracy Now Today Vermont is set to make history by becoming the first state in the nation to offer universal, single-payer healthcare when Gov. Peter Shumlin signs its healthcare reform bill into law. The Vermont plan, called the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, will attempt to stem […]
Young self-described ‘conservatives’ underestimate their liberalism
By Eric W. Dolan Public polls and voter registrations may be underestimating the number of liberals and independents in the United States. Young conservatives believe they are more conservative than they actually are, according to a study published June 13 in Social Psychological and Personality Science. Ethan Zell […]
How We Got Warrior Cops
Radley Balko is interviewed by Lucy Steigerwald High-profile police response to terrorism threats – as in the case of the Boston bombing – grab headlines, but it wasn’t the paranoias of our post-9/11 world that made cops often indistinguishable from an army. It started earlier. It started with […]
Neocons and Democracy: Egypt as a Case Study
By Jim Lobe If one thing has become clear in the wake of last week’s military coup d’etat against Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, it’s that democracy promotion is not a core principle of neoconservatism. Unlike protecting Israeli security and preserving its military superiority over any and all possible […]
Will Adam Kokesh Face Charges of Armed Sedition?
FreeAdam.Net Here are some news updates for Adam Kokesh for July 11, 2013. I will keep this post updated with any further news that comes out today. Adam was forcibly arraigned very early this morning. He is being held without bail pending a probable cause hearing. Early this […]
George Zimmerman found not guilty
USA Today George Zimmerman, the man accused of murdering Trayvon Martin, was found not guilty of second-degree murder and manslaughter Saturday night. The verdict is the culmination of a case that captured the nation’s attention and will undoubtedly be imprinted in America’s history. For Zimmerman, it means trying […]
Edward Snowden Statement: ‘It Was The Right Thing to do and I Have No Regrets’
The Guardian Hello. My name is Ed Snowden. A little over one month ago, I had family, a home in paradise, and I lived in great comfort. I also had the capability without any warrant to search for, seize, and read your communications. Anyone’s communications at any time. […]
The American Jacobins and the roots of the U. S. Civil War
By Thomas DiLorenzo Historian and novelist Thomas Fleming is the author of more than fifty books, including two very good revisionist histories of the two world wars: The New Dealers’ War, and The Illusion of Victory in World War I. He has authored biographies of George Washington and […]
2016: Another Bush in the White House?
Washington Times Earlier this year, Jeb Bush told ABC that both his father George H.W. Bush, and brother George W. recommended he run for president in 2016. Mama Barbara Bush is not keen on the idea, declaring in April that “the nation’s probably had enough Bushes.” But in […]
The Ten Most Disturbing Things You Should Know About the FBI Since 9/11
American Civil Liberties Union As Congress considers the nomination of James B. Comey to lead the FBI for the next ten years, lawmakers should examine measures to rein in a bureau that has undermined civil liberties in the name of fighting terrorism. This is a false trade off: […]
Lack of transparency means tainted justice for Bradley Manning
The Guardian Army Pfc Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland. Photograph: Jose Luis Magana/AP The lack of contemporaneous access to court documents has caused irreparable harm to the American public’s right to scrutinize the conduct of military prosecutors and the rulings of […]
A Salute to Edward Snowden
By Stephen Walt Every year on the Fourth of July I sit down and read the Declaration of Independence. It’s a habit I got into some years ago, but I take a peculiar pleasure in reading through the founding principles of the American Revolution, archaic language and all. […]
Bolivia Joins Venezuela, Nicaragua in Offering Snowden Asylum
By Jason Ditz US whistleblower Edward Snowden is stuck in the international section of a Moscow airport today, but that problem may be coming to an end as three nations have offered him asylum in the past 24 hours, all of them South American. Venezuela and Nicaragua came […]
Snowden and the Servility of U.S. Puppet States in Europe
By Diana Johnstone The Snowden affair has revealed even more about Europe than about the United States. Certainly, the facts of NSA spying are significant. But many people suspected that something of the sort was going on. The refusal of France, Italy and Portugal to allow the private […]
The American Stasi: Why the Ruling Class is So Upset About Edward Snowden
By Gary Leupp I don’t have a weak stomach, but I confess that watching TV news does get me nauseated. So I do so sparingly. I have of course been following the coverage of the Edward Snowden story, just to see how opinion is being shaped. In the […]
My Political Philosophy in a Nutshell
by Keith Preston
A reader writes asking me to briefly describe what my own political views actually are. My views are rather complicated and are certainly outside the paradigms
9,000 years of anarchy in Ireland?
On the Mark I posted once before on Ireland and their anarchy that lasted for more than a thousand years: This most remarkable historical example of a society of libertarian law and courts first came to my attention while reading Murray Rothbard’s For a New Liberty. This was […]
Do You Know Your Rights When Approached by the Police?
The Libertarian Republic Don’t talk to cops! But if you do, this is what you say… It seems like every day we see a new video emerge where a citizen almost immediately surrenders their 4th or 5th amendment rights. Free people need to know their rights in order […]
Black holes are ‘portals to other universes,’ according to new quantum results
MNN.Com Photo: Phil Plait/Flickr
Daring to Speak the Unspeakable
“In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proud—crime, doesn’t it rumble in the distant thunder, and don’t you see […]
Americans Don’t Give A Damn About Global Warming
DeclineoftheEmpire.Com On Tuesday the President laid out his plan to end-run the Congress and allow the EPA to regulate carbon emissions from existing coal plants. The plan didn’t get much attention in the press because the Supremes were very busy this week eviscerating the Voting Rights act and […]
This is What Budget Cuts Have Done to Detroit … And It’s Freaking Awesome
PolicyMic.Com This is What Budget Cuts Have Done to Detroit … And It’s Freaking Awesome
Mars Had An Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere 4 Billion Years Ago
Altering-Perspectives.Com Scientists inferred the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere by comparing Martian meteorites with data from rocks examined by Nasa’s Spirit Mars rover. Image: Nasa
Republicans Weep as Survey Shows 18-30 Year-Olds Prefer No Religion
Mad Mike’s America For the past two decades, there has been a rapid national shift away from identification with organized religion. Last year, according to the best available measurement of long-term trends in American religious identification, a new milestone was reached as more Americans between the ages of […]
North Carolina Becomes First State To Eliminate Unemployment Benefits
Talking Points Memo EMERY P. DALESIO June 28, 2013, 10:54 AM 33182 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With changes to its unemployment law taking effect this weekend, North Carolina not only is cutting benefits for those who file new claims, it will become the first state disqualified from a […]
Ireland: Stateless for 2000 Years?
Bradley Manning should win the Nobel Peace Prize
The Guardian Army Pfc Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse at Fort Meade on the third day of his court martial. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP
The Supreme Court’s Gay-Marriage Gradualism
By Daniel McCarthy The Supreme Court’s rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act (struck down) and California’s Proposition 8 (the court disclaimed jurisdiction) were about the only rulings one could expect from a court of four liberals, four conservatives, and Anthony Kennedy. It would have overturned everything we […]
Teenager in jail since March for sarcastic Internet comment faces 8 years in prison
Russia Today A teenager from Texas could spend the next eight years in prison if a court decides that the sarcastic comment he made during an online argument is enough to convict him of issuing a terroristic threat. Justin Carter was only 18 years old when he and […]
The Supreme Court: Corporate America’s Employees of the Month
Business Week In its marquee cases on issues such as gay marriage and race relations, the Supreme Court wrestles with the meaning of majestic constitutional phrases—“equal protection of the laws” and that sort of thing. In the cases that matter the most to businesses, however, the justices address […]
Blue State Fascism
By Justin Raimondo Amid all the drama over Edward Snowden‘s flight from “justice” – the media stakeout at a Moscow airport, the smear campaign aimed not only at Snowden but at Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke the PRISM/eavesdropping story, and the obsessive media focus on Snowden as […]
Woman Naxal with rifle held off 250 commandos for six hours: Police
Indian Express For 10 hours on Saturday, around 30 Naxals held off 250 police commandos in this village, killing three cops. One of the Maoists was Raneeta, 32, who, the police said, fought the elite CoBRA commandos for six hours single-handedly, using a .303 rifle, hiding in a […]
The American Herd Creature
I’m not going to lie to you: I’m an American. I was born in the very cultural heart and soul of this blessed land — I mean Oklahoma, of course — and I have lived here for nearly seventy years, never residing abroad for more than six months […]
I Never Meant to be a Feminist
By Wendy McElroy A twenty-year old version of myself would laugh at anyone who suggested I would become a feminist. I was a libertarian verging on anarchism, and I thought feminism contradicted one of my core beliefs. Namely, every individual has an equal and identical claim to their […]
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