by Larry Gambone. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— “Ideas have consequences” is a favorite mantra of the far-right. It’s usually sprung on some mildly pink college professor who happens to refer favorably to Marx in a lecture. “The ultimate result of the Marxist ideology you spout is the Gulag and Pol Pot”, […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. This is a particularly insightful passage from the article: “Spencer is a fake-“scholar” whose innumerable polemics are all about the same thing: the intractable evil and danger posed by Islam. He believes there is a conspiracy to impose Sharia law on America, and annex […]
Article by Jacob Sullum. ————————————————————————————————————————————- The New York Times tellsthe story of Queens restaurateur Seemona Sumasar, who spent seven months in jail after being framed by her vengeful former boyfriend for a series of armed robberies that never happened. While police and prosecutors portray the ex-boyfriend as a criminal […]
Article by K. R. Bolton. ————————————————————————————————————————————— Introduction The goodwill towards the Southern states that one might expect from monetary reformers has been clouded by the claim that the War of Secession was instigated by international bankers for the control of the USA, and specifically that it was the […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn joins the long list of CEOs calling Barack Obama “anti-business,” denouncing him as “the greatest wet blanket to business, progress and job creation in my lifetime.” Obama’s rhetoric is the kind of thing we hear only from […]
Article by William Norman Grigg. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Roughly a decade ago, Al Pacino starred in a movie entitled S1m0ne, a cyber-era updating of the Pygmalion myth in which a film director creates an uncannily realistic digital actress. Despite the fact that “Simone” was a computer-rendered composite fantasy, the lustrous […]
Article by Joe Bob Briggs. —————————————————————————————————————————————- NEW YORK—I tried. I really tried. I wanted to be the only person in America who didn’t know anything about the Caylee Anthony murder case. I intentionally avoided it whenever it would come on cable TV. I have such an aversion to […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- “Like a fire bell in the night,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, “this momentous question … awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.” Jefferson was writing of the sudden resurgence of the slavery […]
Article by Jim Goad. —————————————————————————————————————————————- When I first read Ted Kaczynski’s Industrial Society and its Future, better known as The Unabomber Manifesto, I was impressed with how logically dispassionate it was, especially its devastating dissection of leftist masochism and hostility. Each paragraph—sequentially numbered as if they were biblical […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. —————————————————————————————————————————————- “The US has stopped running its global network of secret prisons, CIA director Leon Panetta has announced. ‘CIA no longer operates detention facilities or black sites,’ Mr Panetta said in a letter to staff” – BBC, April 9, 2009 ____________ Earlier this week, […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————————————————- It had to happen: the rise of a “counter-jihadist” terrorist outfit that is the mirror image of al-Qaeda. That it first arose in Norway, rather than, say, in the US, is just a coincidence, although I’m sure Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of […]
This should be interesting. Apparently, Kevin is starting to “come out of the closet” so to speak and identify himself as a real person rather than as a mysterious blogger and author with no public voice or face. Cool.
Interview with Edwin Vieira, Jr by Anthony Wile. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Introduction: Dr. Vieira holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), A.M. and Ph.D. (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and J.D. (Harvard Law School). For over thirty-six years he has been a practicing attorney, specializing in cases […]
Article by Andy Nowicki. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Some occurrences have a touch of unreality about them. They seem so unlikely that an alternative explanation must be in order. Indeed, last week’s Oslo massacre has many speculating about a vast conspiracy of some sort orchestrated by a shadowy, all-powerful cabal to […]
Article by Jess Leber. —————————————————————————————————————————————— Update: We’ve just arranged for this petition to be personally delivered to the judge at Raquel Nelson’s sentencing hearing on Tuesday. Please sign and share widely so we can show the national outrage over her prosecution. The unjust prosecution and conviction of Raquel […]
From Reality Sandwhich. —————————————————————————————————————————————— In the wake of a recent Supreme Court case (Citizens United v. FEC) that gave broad free speech rights to publically-chartered corporations, a grassroots movement is seeking to constitutionally limit what has become an unreasonable legal deference to these powerful, artificial entities. In the […]
Justin Raimondo explains why the Left is absolutely impotent when it comes to opposing U.S. imperialism. ————————————————————————————————————————————– The last person we need to hear from on the state of the antiwar movement is surely Todd Gitlin, the has-been “New” Left leader now a college professor of something-or-other. After […]
Article by James Petras. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Introduction Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only […]
Article by Ray Medeiros. ———————————————————————————————————————————— In a previous post I used some information that has since been corrected on the original site, Business Insider due to in-depth research into the actual OECD numbers by myself and others. It turns out that the United States spends 16.2% of our […]
Article by Jeffrey Tucker. This is rather embarrassing. —————————————————————————————————————————————- The nice folks at the local McDonald’s know me well, but even they were puzzled when I snapped a dozen images of their newly restored interior, which is absolutely beautiful. Like most fast-food places, the management is used to […]
Article by Richard Spencer. ———————————————————————————————————————————— What kind of “ultra-nationalist” murders the children of his own people? The answer is one who is truly deranged. That said, unlike Jared Loughner, whose various writings on politics and economics were non-sensical and seemingly based on free-association, Anders Behring Breivik’s work (if this […]
From Democracy Now! ——————————————————————————————————————————- President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both congressional Democrats […]
Article by Greg Johnson. —————————————————————————————————————————————– White Nationalists, European nationalists, counter-jihadists, immigration restrictionists, even the Tea Party are being smeared by being “linked” and “associated” with accused Norwegian spree-killer Anders Behring Breivik. Most of these links exist only in the minds of dishonest leftists seeking to squeeze political advantage […]
Interesting exchange between Kevin and a Marxist. —————————————————————————————————————————— Jehu Eaves has written a thoughtful, multipart “critical examination of Kevin Carson’s mutualism” at Gonzo Times. Eaves begins in Part One by acknowledging the truth of my account of the state’s indispensible role in the primitive accumulation process and the […]
Anthony Gregory describes the Republicans for what they are. I’m proud to say that back when I used to vote occasionally, I never voted for a Republican in a general election and only once in a primary. I wanted to vote against voice-hearing, theo-psycho Pat Robertson in the […]
Article by Ian Huyett. ————————————————————————————————————————————— “If you mess with Israel, you’re messing with the United States of America”, says Herman Cain. So much for that “Declaration of Independence” thing, huh? Like Dick Armey, Cain’s first loyalty is to a foreign country – Israel – and not the United […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. —————————————————————————————————————————————— The prime ministers of China and Pakistan China’s Strategic Alliance with Pakistan Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s recent threats against Pakistan for allegedly promoting Taliban terrorism are pure rhetoric. Their purpose is to conceal the strategic importance of Pakistan (and Afghanistan) in US competition […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. ———————————————————————————————————————————— Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade US Treasury bonds if the White House and Congress did not reach a deficit reduction deal and debt ceiling increase. The downgrade threat is not credible, and neither […]
From UhuruNews.Com. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Preamble Be It Resolved, That the Negro people of the world, through their chosen representatives in convention assembled in Liberty Hall, in the City of New York and United States of America, from August 1 to August 31, in the year of Our Lord one […]
Article by Richard Spencer. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– No, America is not about to default on its debts. And, no, Grandma’s August Social Security check won’t bounce. Nor would a failure to raise the debt ceiling result in a financial breakdown and ensuing Mad Max-style societal collapse. (This latter fact will, […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. ————————————————————————————————————————————- Ilana Mercer, author of Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, is persona non grata to the established media culture, which features debating partners who look and sound remarkably similar. Ilana’s book would be anathema to such nonstop celebrants […]
Article by Oliver Nathan. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Introduction Worker co-operatives in post apartheid South Africa have all too often been championed by certain sections of the labour movement and some on the left as part of the solution to the ‘structural unemployment’ facing the popular classes in the current dispensation. […]
Article by Iain McKay. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- A vision of a co-operative commonwealth has always been at the heart of socialism. The earliest socialists suggested co-operative villages, workplaces and consumer societies. This was echoed by libertarian socialists. Bakunin was “convinced that the co-operative will be the preponderant form of social […]
Article by Gavin McInnes. —————————————————————————————————————————— The left gets a serious going-over on this site. Not that they don’t deserve it. If you come screaming into the room with an aluminum water bottle on your backpack and start ridiculing everyone for being ignorant, people are going to make fun […]
The therapeutic state is doing what it is supposed to do: Create a society of cowards, crybabies, and subservient weaklings. ————————————————————————————————————— When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York’s playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox. As the city’s parks commissioner […]
Watch the Video and understand why the “conservative movment” is a scam. Since Dwight Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961 – 5 different Republicans have been President of the United States. And every single one of them – from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush – have been […]
From the Huffington Post. ———————————————————————————————————————————— Inmates in a third of California’s prisons are conducting a hunger strike in protest of solitary confinement policy. Recent reports show that many inmates, who are in their third week of the strike, have shown dramatic weight loss and are collapsing from starvation, […]
Watch the video. This is an interesting analysis of “right-wing” conspiracy theories from a Marxist perspective. I think this guy is correct in the sense of criticizing conspiracists for their narrow focus on individual personalities, unsubstantiated myths, and exaggerated roles for particular institutions and ideological factions they especially […]
Article by Jack Hunter. —————————————————————————————————————————————- Like many American teenage boys, I grew up listening to heavy metal music. In 1989, a favorite album was “Kill’em All” by Metallica and my favorite song on that album was “Am I Evil?” (a cover of a song by the British metal […]
Wednesday, Jul 13, 2011 08:14 ET Glenn Greenwald US more unpopular in the Arab world than under Bush By Glenn Greenwald AP Anti-American sentiment among Pakistani protestors (updated below) I’ve written numerous times over the last year about rapidly worsening perceptions of the U.S. in the Muslim world, including […]
Article by Charles Glass. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Try to see it from the other guy’s point of view. He may be wrong. He may be, at least partly, right. Today, I am trying hard to see life from the point of view of an Israeli settler in the occupied West […]
Pat Buchanan inadvertently explains why the only viable course of action for the anti-state Left is to completely differentiate itself from the statist Left and work to cultivate anti-authoritarian and decentralist tendencies from across the ideological spectrum: For, from Greece to Ireland to Portugal to Italy, from California […]
Article by Ken Ward Jr. ———————————————————————————————————————— Birth defects study: More inconvenient facts about the impact of mountaintop removal coal mining June 30, 2011 by Ken Ward Jr. I was out of town last week when news broke of the latest major scientific study about the serious public health […]
Book review by David Z This is a great book. I first read it over twenty years ago. —————————————————————————————————————————————- As the old saying goes, “Desperate times call for desperate measures,” and there are few times more desperate for a majority of laborers living hand-to-mouth, than being put out […]
From Radley Balko. Over the weekend I linked to an excellent essay from a police officer explaining why good cops have no need to worry about citizen-shot video. Jonathan Last now points to a less encouraging blog entry on the same topic, from a guy who claims to […]
From Techdirt. Why Hasn’t ICE Been Talking About Its Latest Domain Seizures? from the the-new-quiet-strategy? dept In the last few weeks, Homeland Security’s ICE division has once again been seizing servers. TorrentFreak noticed a group of five domains seized recently, and SD pointed us to details of five […]
by James K In my last post I made something of a throwaway comment that liberal and libertarians had a lot to learn from each other. Herb asked, quite reasonably, for details. I gave him a quick comment at the time, but since I’m the guy who’s always […]
Article by Laura Donovan. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Most teens and pre-teens go through passing phases. For Prussian Blue songbirds Lamb and Lynx Gaede, Nazism was a short-lived childhood interest. In an exclusive interview with The Daily, the 19-year-old twins revealed that they have abandoned most of their highly publicized white […]
From Terry Frieden and Susan Candiotti, CNN New York (CNN) — Fourteen people have been arrested as part of an ongoing operation targeting the notorious hacking collective known as Anonymous, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI said on Tuesday. The individuals were arrested by FBI […]
Watch the video. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ———————————————————————————————————————————— London (CNN) — One of the first journalists to go on the record and allege phone hacking at News of the World was found dead Monday, the British Press Association said. Sean Hoare, a former News of the World […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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