This stuff is an embarrassment to anarchists. With the rise of the Golden Dawn fascist group in Greece, and their attempts to build a base here in the U.S. (link) , anti-fascist strategies are becoming more and more crucial. I guess this is the Left’s version of the hysteria […]
Update From Leah’s tumblr leahxvx: First and foremost, do not panic. Leah wanted for us to express these points to you with this news:
This Carson piece makes for an interesting comparison/contrast with this article from Walter Williams. By Kevin Carson When it comes to the “outrageous” remarks of the week, it usually takes me a while to get a handle on what all the fuss is about. (Update–the best commentary I’ve […]
By Kevin Carson As Thomas L. Knapp observes in a recent column (Election 2012: “Oil’s Well That End’s Welfarish,” October 17), Mitt Romney — famous for complaining about the 47% who expect to be taken care of — “whined that the Obama administration has been insufficiently charitable with […]
Brookings Institute With Republican Mitt Romney now his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, both his campaign and President Obama’s re-election effort are barnstorming the nation for votes. For former Massachusetts Gov. Romney, this means recapturing the enthusiasm of the 2010 midterm GOP rout, especially among white Republican leaning voting […]
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Al Jazeera Pollsters have devised hundreds of ways to slice and dice the American electorate. Every election season, there is talk of a new demographic group — from “soccer moms” to “NASCAR dads” — who will supposedly decide the outcome. (“Waitress moms” appear to be this year’s latest […]
By Justin Raimondo Back in the early 1990s, before Antiwar.com was founded, I was a regular at a roundtable discussion group sponsored by the late Bill Rusher, a founding editor of National Review: these seminars were organized by a young man associated with a prominent conservative educational organization. […]
By Kurt Nimmo CNN is making a big deal out of Romney’s “right leaning” supporters. The corporate media branch of the Pentagon’s psyops program thinks there’s a good chance these “severely conservative” voters may push Romney over the top and get him installed in the White House as […]
By Paul Craig Roberts During the second half of the 20th century the United States was an opportunity society. The ladders of upward mobility were plentiful, and the middle class expanded. Incomes rose, and ordinary people were able to achieve old-age security. In the 21st century the opportunity […]
Patriot Newswire During an early morning raid in Billings, Montana a SWAT team stormed the home of Jackie Fasching , her husband and two little girls. During the raid the SWAT team like unit for the Billings Police Department decided it would be a good idea to use […]
Dean Menninger Jewish leaders gathered with local elected officials on Monday to denounce the NYPD after two officers were caught on surveillance video throwing punches at a man accused of resisting arrest inside a Brooklyn synagogue outreach center.
CNN A woman who was arrested says police paraded her around topless and chipped her teeth. Affiliate WESH has more. Watch the video.
By Martin Sieff Leon Trotsky Russia and China today both enjoy the same grand-strategic advantage against the United States that the United States enjoyed through the 44 years of the Cold War. The Soviet Union was then the superpower of the left, as the left had been globally […]
By Justin Raimondo In the first exchange of the presidential election season over foreign policy issues, the neocons — in the person of GOP vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan — got creamed. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Ryan got creamed by Joe Biden — […]
A Cold War era classic from Murray Rothbard This article first appeared in the Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought, Spring 1966. Revisionism as applied to World War II and its origins (as also for previous wars) has the general function of bringing historical truth to an American and […]
By Eric Margolis Welcome Mali, our newest crisis! Open your maps. Mali is a huge, arid nation extending from the Sahara Desert and Algeria’s border in the north to the steamy south along the Niger River. Most of Mali’s 14.5 million people eke out an existence farming and […]
Russia Today Leah Plante (Image from leahxvx.tumblr.com) A third self-described anarchist from the Pacific Northwest has been jailed by federal officials for refusing to speak before a secretive grand jury that the accused have called a politically-motivated modern-day witch-hunt.
By Colin Liddell “The beard stays” The Fourth Political Theory is a book that is clearly not short on ambition. I haven’t actually read it, but I already know more or less what is in it from past writings by its author Professor Alexander Dugin, as well as […]
Allgov.com The nation’s largest private prison company is offering cash-strapped state governments to buy up their penitentiaries and manage convicted criminals at a cost-savings. But there’s a catch…the states must guarantee that are there are enough prisoners to ensure that the venture is profitable to the company. Corrections […]
FOX News Two southeast companies that make U.S. military uniforms are shedding hundreds of jobs, as the government looks to federal inmates for the fatigues. American Power Source makes military clothing in Fayette, Ala., but its government contract expires in October. Federal Prison Industries – which also operates […]
By Adam Gopnik Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss.
Mother Jones By James Ridgeway A Kentucky inmate is admitted to the hospital. Click here to see more of Tim Gruber’s great photos from inside a prison nursing unit.
Sodahead.Com The Global Commission on HIV and the Law issued a report suggesting that nations eliminate laws banning “consensual sex work” — i.e., prostitution. It’s an interesting claim coming from an organization aimed at preventing sexually transmitted disease, but their hope is that legalization would lead to regulation […]
The Washington Times U.S. government investigators in May interviewed the Colombia prostitute Dania Londono Suarez, at the center of the Secret Service affair that cost eight officers and supervisors their jobs and became an election-year embarrassment for the Obama administration. Suarez is pictured here speaking of the issue […]
By Mike Riggs Today brings more evidence of a large shift in public opinion regarding drug policy, this time from AngusReid Public Opinion. The polling firm reports that “two-thirds of adults in the United States believe the ‘War on Drugs’ has been futile, and a majority continue to call for the […]
Perhaps stoners should consider pan-secessionism. By Paul Armentano More Americans and local politicians than ever before are demanding an end to marijuana prohibition — but for change to happen, we need federal officials to start listening. July 10, 2012 |
CBS News Bruce Davis, a former member of the Manson Family, waits moments before the start of his parole hearing / AP Photo/The Tribune, Joe Johnston (CBS/AP) LOS ANGELES – A former Charles Manson follower who was imprisoned for a double murder engineered by Manson won a recommendation […]
By Laurence Vance Introduction to Laurence M. Vance, The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom (Vance Publications, 2012), xvi + 103 pgs., paperback, $9.95. This is not a book about the benefits of drugs; this is a book about the benefits of freedom. I neither use […]
CNN Tunisian women protest Tuesday, October 2, in front of a courthouse in Tunis where a young woman faces charges of indecency by two police officers accused of raping her.
Affiliate KTVK reports on a student fighting felony assault charges resulting from a high school food fight. Watch the video.
Business Insider The Obama Administration will argue today that warrantless tracking of the location of Americans’ mobile devices is perfectly legal, Declan McCullagh of CNET reports. In 2010 a court ruled against government requests for mobile location data, declaring that “[c]ompelled warrantless disclosure of cell site data violates the […]
CNN A 61-year-old Army veteran is suing the U.S. government for $10 million, claiming negligent care resulted in severe frostbite on his penis, leading to its partial amputation. Michael D. Nash of Louisville, Kentucky, filed suit in federal court Monday. He is asking for damages for what his […]
By Jessica Testa Photo by @daneyvilla. Via: instagram.com About 650 people protested a major Walmart distribution center Monday in Elwood, Illinois, the Chicago Tribute reports. At Walmart contractor Roadlink, workers have been on strike since mid-September, claiming unsafe working conditions and unfair wages. From the movement’s website: No […]
Listen to the interview. On Thursday, the 9th August 2012, Sean Gabb spoke in Bratislava to the Institute of Economic and Social Studies (INESS) on the subject of “Libertarianism: Left or Right?” He made the following points: 1. That libertarianism is a child of the Enlightenment, and is […]
The future constituents for pan-secessionism on a global scale. This looks to be an excellent book. Amazon.Com What do Mexico’s Zapatistas, the French National Front, Slow Food, rave subculture, and al-Qaeda all have in common? From right-wing to left-wing to no-wing, they all proudly proclaim their mission to […]
Excellent documentary from a paleoconservative/paleolibertarian perspective. This is a good video to show social conservatives as a alternative to neocon talk radio and FOX News crap.
LiveLeak.Com Duluth Police released surveillance video on Friday of an alleged assault that took place between Officer Richard Jouppi and a 50-year-old wheelchair bound man. The incident happened Friday, September 21st at detox.
CNN Video from Pittsburgh Co. Sheriff’s office shows a woman in handcuffs being Tasered by a police officer.
Freedom Outpost The Department of Justice funded a training manual used in the State and Local Anti-terrorism Training (SLATT) program for law enforcement. Apparently certain political bumper stickers can put you on the “could be a terrorist” list, including opposition to the United Nations and support for the […]
By Kevin Vallier Libertarians have often opposed what philosophers sometimes call welfare rights, or rights to various goods and serves that promote or safeguard human well-being. These include rights to healthcare and education. Libertarians don’t like welfare rights because they appear to give some the moral permission to […]
The case for Georgism. By D. J. Webb Libertarians support low taxation on principle, in order to free people and the economy from the burden of the state. If the writings of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill are anything to go by, however, there is an important […]
By Thomas Naylor When I moved to Vermont in 1993, it was considered to be the most radical state in the Union. A few years earlier, when Ronald Reagan was still president, 180 Vermont towns passed nuclear-freeze resolutions in their town meetings. Burlington’s socialist mayor Bernie Sanders had […]
By Lawrence Wittner In the midst of a nationwide election campaign in which many politicians trumpet their support for the buildup and employment of U.S. military power around the world, the American public’s disagreement with such measures is quite remarkable. Indeed, many signs point to the fact that […]
Alternet Chris Hedges Tells Dinesh D’Souza That His Obama Film Is ‘Void of Facts, Reality, Intellectual Depth’ In a debate with D’Souza, Hedges argues the film “shows how impoverished our intellectual life has become in a kind of national level.” September 23, 2012 |
I predicted in one of my VOR broadcasts that the Repugs would cease to be a competitive political party at the national level, but could still possibly dominate in some of the redder regions. This data would seem to be consistent with that. By Daniel McCarthy 2004 Presidential […]
By Connor Boyack The Republican Party has become bipolar. This is the only logical conclusion to draw after reviewing its treatment of the swelling ranks of Ron Paul supporters who have long been dismissed as insignificant, yet who are now being courted by commentators hoping to prevent another […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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