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Keith Preston

America is Going to the Dogs

From Youth for Western Civilization. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- By H.W. De Kryger They say children are the future. If that is true, then America — and most of the West for that matter — doesn’t have much of a future. Maybe time to put our children over our pets? Maybe […]

Has America Become a Corporate Police State?

Article by David Sirota. ————————————————————————————————— “Corporate Police State,” it’s a fraught — some might even say, overwrought — term. But in its purest, apolitical form, it simply describes the periodic commingling of state and corporate power to protect private interests. In the American psyche, any discussion of that […]

Special Report: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, and the Case for Anarchism

by Thomas Knapp ——————————————————————————————————————————————— C4SS Director Brad Spangler is addressing the Free Bradley Manning Rally in Leavenworth, KS today. In tandem with that event, we’re releasing Spangler’s special report, “Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, and the Case for Anarchism” [PDF]

Former LA Black Panther leader Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt dies at 63

Article by Tom Odula. —————————————————————————————————– Former Black Panther Party leader Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he maintained he did not commit, died early Friday from a medical ailment, an associate said. He was 63. Pratt […]

Anti-Poverty = Anti-State

Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– BBC News recently reported that “Brazil has launched a welfare scheme to lift millions out of extreme poverty by 2014.” The South American country’s plan will direct resources into already-established programs and toward those regions with the highest rates of poverty. In an […]

Bank of America Gets Pad Locked After Homeowner Forecloses On It

Justice at last! —————————————————————————————————— Collier County, Florida — Have you heard the one about a homeowner foreclosing on a bank? Well, it has happened in Florida and involves a North Carolina based bank. Instead of Bank of America foreclosing on some Florida homeowner, the homeowners had sheriff’s deputies foreclose […]

Why Slutwalk?

From The Gonzo Times. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- One morning, when I was in eighth grade, I got dressed for school and went outside to wait for my father to drive me. I was wearing a long knit skirt, sweater, and some boots. My outfit would have met the requirements for […]

Do the American people support the 'special relationship?'

Article by Stephen Walt. ——————————————————————————————————————————— A couple of weeks ago, Americans were treated to a remarkably clear demonstration of the power of the Israel lobby in the United States. First, Barack Obama gave a speech on Middle East policy at the State Department, which tried to position America […]

Let's Finally Dispense With 'Hero' Nonsense

Article by Steven Greenhut. ————————————————————————————————– Not only did Alameda firefighters and police stand around, watch and do nothing as a suicidal man, Raymond Zack, spent an hour in the San Francisco Bay, neck deep in water, they didn’t even go into the water to retrieve his lifeless body […]

Anarchy and Chaos in Black Communities

Article by Robert Wicks. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— People often use anarchy and chaos interchangeably. They refer to civil unrest as “anarchy, total chaos.” As an anarchist of the anarcho-libertarian variety myself, naturally, this habit irks me. Anarchy is simply the absence of forceful authority. Chaos is disorder. The two things […]

"A Cold Monster”: Nietzsche on the State

Article by Michael Kleen. I’ve posted this here before but it’s worth posting again. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Out of all modern philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was one of the most unique critics of the modern State, yet his views on the subject have been largely overshadowed by his more famous […]

How Europe Lost Faith in Its Own Civilization

Article by Fritz Bolkestein. Interesting to find something like this in the Wall Street Journal. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Europeans weren’t always so self-hating. The 19th century saw the high tide of imperialism, and Europe was brimming with self-confidence. What has happened? The past century witnessed the cataclysm of World War […]

Review of Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson

Article by Anthony Hilton. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- First of all, while not too sure where WC begins and ends, Ferguson certainly has a lot of positive things to say about it. By that he means not just “High Visual Culture”, art, architecture, and music, but all the cultural and technological […]

Half of Last Month's Job Growth Came from McDonald’s

Wow! This comes straight out of the Voice of the Neocons, The Weekly Standard. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— According to the unemployment data released this morning, the economy added only 54,000 jobs, pushing the unemployment rate up to 9.1 percent. However, this report from MarketWatch suggests the data is much worse […]

Iran Is Not Making Nuclear Weapons

Seymour Hersch interviewed by Scott Horton. —————————————————————————————————– Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter for The New Yorker magazine., discusses his article “Iran and the Bomb: How real is the nuclear threat;” the lack of evidence for Iran’s interest in nuclear weapons after 2003, despite extensive satellite and covert […]

America's Deep State

John Glaser interviewed by Scott Horton. ——————————————————————————————————- John Glaser, editorial assistant at The American Conservative magazine, discusses his article “The American Deep State,” about Eli Lake’s New Republic article “Enemy of the State: Are we at war with Pakistan’s intelligence service;” how Lake’s premise equally applies to the […]

Dead Center: The Republican establishment courts the left and repudiates the right

Article by Paul Gottfried. ——————————————————————————————————– There are two compelling reasons that the Republicans keep trotting out faceless moderates who turn leftward once the primaries are over. First, being Republican is a sociological more than ideological choice. The party is predominantly white Protestant; and according to the Pew survey, […]

Guy Who Got Laid Off Just Glad Multi-National Corporation Will Make It

From The Onion. ——————————————————————————————————- DANBURY, CT—After learning that he had been laid off Friday by global conglomerate Honeywell International, senior sales associate Edward Morway expressed relief that his employer of 14 years would be able to scrape by. “When [department head] John [Condos] called me into his office […]

If This Is the Free Market, Why Do I Feel So Unfree?

Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————- It’s remarkable, considering how frequently our politicians and cable news commentariat remind us of the “free market” we live in, just how existentially unfree things seem down here where the rubber meets the road. We constantly see the Washington Consensus and the neoliberal […]

Libya and G8 Hypocrisy: The State Must Go

Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————— A few days ago, the G8 — that cabal of states with the world’s most powerful economies — issued an appropriately preachy statement saying, among other things, “[Gaddafi] has no future in a free, democratic Libya. He must go.” That statement follows after […]

10 Great Things About Old Men

Article by Gavin McInnes. ——————————————————————————————————– Ever hang out with an old dude? They’re pretty great. They’re not self-obsessed the way boomers are. They’re not “over it” the way Generation X is, and they’re not completely tuned-out like the kids today. Here are ten more great things about them: […]

Tom Sunic Interviews Jim Goad

Jim Goad kicks ass as always. ——————————————————————————————————- Jim Goad is the author of The Redneck Manifesto and a contributor to Taki Magazine. Mr. Goad explains different taboos in modern society and why and how the word redneck has become the symbol of evil for liberal do -gooders and […]

Benjamin Tucker’s Four Monopolies

From The Gonzo Times. —————————————————————————————————— 1 – The Land Monopoly – The enforcement by government of land titles which do not rest upon occupancy and use. This monopoly is immoral for various reasons since it violates just ownership. Just ownership over a natural resource is validated when an […]

Worse Than a Bush Third Term?

Article by Anthony Gregory. This is what I was telling all of my liberal and progressive friends back in 2008. —————————————————————————————————— If in 2008 someone had said that Obama’s war policy would be more belligerent and costlier than another round of Bush’s, nearly no one would have believed […]

The Japanese Internment and the Betrayal of the ‘Progressives’

Article by Justin Raimondo. The progressives haven’t changed much. ——————————————————————————————————- Roger Baldwin, ACLU chairman, was instructed by the ACLU Board that “local committees are not free to sponsor cases in which the position taken is that the government has no constitutional right to remove citizens from military areas.” […]

Whose Nation-State Exactly?

Article by Jack Ross. ——————————————————————————————————— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s newest tactic in advancing the Likud Party’s hawkish approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is his demand, first enunciated in his response to Barack Obama’s June 2009 Cairo Speech and now an ubiquitous talking point, that Israel be recognized by […]

18 Signs That Life In U.S. Public Schools Is Now Essentially Equivalent to Life In U.S. Prisons

From EndoftheAmericanDream.Com: ——————————————————————————————————— In the United States today, our public schools are not very good at educating our students, but they sure are great training grounds for learning how to live in a Big Brother police state control grid. Sadly, life in many U.S. public schools is now […]

The Corporations and the State: In a Relationship, and It's Complicated

Article by Anthony Gregory. —————————————————————————————————— The idea that corporate interests, banking elites, and politicians conspire to set US policy is at once obvious and beyond the pale. Everyone knows that the military-industrial complex is fat and corrupt, that presidents bestow money and privilege on their donors and favored […]

Global leaders call for a major shift to decriminalize drugs

Article by Liz Goodwin. ——————————————————————————————————– A slew of big-name former politicians are endorsing a report that says the war on drugs is not working and that drug enforcement policy needs to fundamentally change. The Global Commission on Drug Policy will urge a “paradigm shift” that emphasizes public health […]

Does Amerika Have A Culture?

Article by Paul Craig Roberts. —————————————————————————————————– The culture of the United States is said to be a youth culture, which is defined in terms of entertainment: sex, rock music or its current equivalent, violent video games, sports, and TV reality shows. This culture has transformed the country and […]

Never Stand in the Way of Failure

Article by Gavin McInnes. ——————————————————————————————————— All these sad truths were racing through my head the other night when my buddy Curtis Brown told me the story of Clifford King. Curtis owned a Mexican restaurant in LA called Territory Barbecue & Records. During smoke breaks out back, he got […]

Asserting Taste As Truth

From MRDA’s Inferno. —————————————————————————————————— Now, I don’t deny that certain faces ‘n’ figures elicit more—sometimes many more—raised cocks and/or moistened cunts than others; neither will I contest that some folks inspire forlorn gazes and filthy fantasies wherever on the globe they go. However such popularity, even on a […]

Why American leaders like being #1

Article by Stephen Walt. —————————————————————————————————– All told, this has not been a good month for war criminals, international terrorists, and tyrannical despots. To be specific: Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, Ratko Mladic has been captured in Serbia, Muammar Qaddafi’s forces are gradually wilting (and it’s hard […]

Police Epidemic

Lew Rockwell interviews William Norman Grigg. Paramilitary police are a relatively recent state invention. They’ve metastasized into a domestic occupation force, enhancing government, institutionalizing injustice, plundering with permission, Tasing with perversion, cloaked in full immunity, and not protecting people. Whatever you do, don’t call 911. As a mundane, […]

Gay Student Crowned Prom Queen at Va. High School

So much for small town America as citadels of prejudice and intolerance. ——————————————————————————————————— Becoming prom queen at Blacksburg High got harder this year. Young women aspiring to wear the tiara don’t just have to worry about the other girls anymore – guys can become prom queen at the […]

Egypt: general confirms "virginity checks" forced on female protesters by military

Article by Xeni Jardin. ——————————————————————————————————-   Via CNN and other sources today, the revolting news that a senior Egyptian general admits so-called “virginity checks” (presumably, forcible examination of the hymen) were performed on women arrested in at least one demonstration this spring. Previously, military authorities denied it. Now, […]

The Political Compass: Don’t Waste Your Time

Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————— The Political Compass, a popular online quiz, was supposedly designed to remedy the simple-mindedness of the left-right spectrum by replacing it with two axes: political and social libertarianism vs. authoritarianism, and economic Left vs. Right. Basically, everything nice you say about big business […]

Exporting Thuggery

Article by Darian Worden. ——————————————————————————————————- A report in the Guardian reveals that the British Ministry of Defense has trained, and continues to train, the Saudi Arabian force that helped suppress demonstrations in Bahrain earlier this year (“UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring,” 28 May 2011). […]

NIETZSCHE: THOUGHTS & PERSPECTIVES, VOLUME THREE

FRIEDRICH Nietzsche, despite being one of the world’s most brilliant and influential philosophers, is still grossly misrepresented by political theoreticians and court academics alike. His ideas, which are notoriously hard-hitting and uncompromising, have often been used to justify or legitimise anything from capitalist exploitation and social-darwinism right through […]

Book review: Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870—1940

Review by Wayne Price. ——————————————————————————————————– It is widely believed on the radical left that anarchism has been solely a movement of Europe and North America. Marxists and liberals state that anarchism has never had anything to offer the majority of humanity in the oppressed and impoverished nations (the […]

Chris Hedges on corporate liberalism

From Roderick Long’s blog. This is what I’ve been saying for years: That the Left has sold out to the state-corporate-military power elite in exchange for establishment support for the Left’s social agenda. ———————————————————————————————————– The pillars of the liberal establishment – the press, the church, culture, the university, […]

The Sky Really Is Falling

Article by Chris Hedges. What do our eco-inclined readers make of this? ——————————————————————————————————— The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite […]