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Something you’re unlikely to ever be told by the mainstream media
Keith Preston
NBC forced to apologise after ill-timed ad features a monkey doing gymnastics – right after showing Gabby Douglas’ gold medal victory
A keen observation from Neil Hiatt of N-AM: “So it is racist to feature a monkey after a Black person but not an Asian, Oriental, or White person? Hmmmm, seems that the very same PC stormtrooper goon squads crying for an apology are actually the ones that think […]
New Hampshire Adopts Jury Nullification Law
By J. D. Tuccille Jury nullification, in which jurors refuse to convict defendants under laws they find objectionable or inappropriately applied, is a favored tactic of many libertarians who, rightly or wrongly perceive individual liberty as, at best, a minority taste among their neighbors. They like the idea […]
Roseanne Barr Gets Presidential Nomination Of The Peace And Freedom Party
By Josh Feldman You may recall that comedienne Roseanne Barrattempted to run for president on the Green Party ticket, and was even seriously considered as the party’s vice presidential nominee. Now Barr has joined up with another third party called the Peace and Freedom Party, and won the party’s nomination […]
Arranged marriage is not forced marriage
From the CNN Freedom Project Worldwide, every three seconds a girl under the age of 18 is married. In India, 90% of these marriages are arranged between families. And with a divorce rate of just above 1% proponents argue arranged marriage is an effective way for young people […]
Gore Vidal and Revisionism
By Jeff Riggenbach One of the forces involved in the recent heating up of the perennial American-history wars was the brilliant critical and popular success, during the 1970s and early 1980s, of the first three books in Gore Vidal’s six-volume[1] “American Chronicle” series of historical novels about the United […]
Rand Paul Pressures Authorities To Strip Journalist Of Her Press Credentials
Rand gets more sketchy all the time. I admire Ron Paul a great deal, even if I think running for president is not a viable political strategy, but I was always more skeptical of Rand and the more I observe him in action the more I distrust him. […]
Gore Vidal: The Last Jeffersonian
By Justin Raimondo The obituaries are coming in, and as usual they are filled with the trite things Americans are obsessed with: Gore Vidal’s sexuality, his “coldness,” his feuds, his quips. Andrew Sullivan is typical – and isn’t that typical – in ascribing what he views as Vidal’s flaws to his lack […]
Britain Abolishes Itself: Traditions working-class and aristocratic fade in Cameron’s UK.
By Brendan O’Neill Fedor Selivanov / shutterstock Outsiders tend to look upon the United Kingdom as a stiff, traditional little country whose grey-haired old Queen has just celebrated 60 years on the throne and where men in bowler hats will say, “Evening, sir,” as they pass you in […]
Murray Rothbard’s Practical Politics
By Jack Hunter Murray Rothbard (photo: mises.org) Norman Singleton is Rep. Ron Paul’s legislative director. He has worked for Dr. Paul since 1997. Once a month, Norm and I meet at Bailey’s Pub & Grill in Arlington, Virginia to discuss two subjects—pro wrestling and libertarian politics. The first is […]
Crow’s feet, grey hair and Parkinson’s: How your stressful job could be making you OLD and SICK before your time
From The Daily Mail A new study conducted by Finnish researchers has confirmed what many of us have known for years: our stressful jobs are making us age faster. The research led by Kirsi Ahola of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health measured the length of DNA sections […]
Interview with Alexander Dugin
From Counter-Currents Polish translation here 3,214 words Introduction In February 2012, Professor Alexander Dugin traveled to New Delhi, India to attend the 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, the theme of which was “After Western Hegemony: Social Science and its Publics.”Professor Dugin was kind enough to […]
Jenna Jameson Endorses Mitt Romney: ‘When You’re Rich, You Want A Republican In Office’
From the Huffington Post Retired porn star Jenna Jameson waded into the 2012 presidential race on Thursday, choosing a San Francisco strip club as the venue to announce her support for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. CBS San Francisco has her comments:
Can voting win justice and power for black people? Aug. 18-19 Black is Back Conference
From Uhuru News The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is holding our annual conference in Newark, New Jersey under the theme: “Obama, the election and the struggle for justice, peace, a better life and black power.” Most of us greeted the election of […]
“Immigration and Liberal Taboos”
By Edward Abbey Edward Abbey [1927-1989], the late novelist, essayist, and environmental activist, was a confirmed political “liberal” (perhaps even an extremist), who believed that the degradation of the land and culture of the American Southwest was a crime against nature, and that the least any one of […]
War Criminals in Our Midst
By Paul Craig Roberts The State Department has an office that hunts German war criminals. Bureaucracies being what they are, the office will exist into next century when any surviving German prison guards will be 200 years old. From time to time the State Department claims to have […]
Is Mitt Being Neoconned Into War?
By Pat Buchanan Has Mitt Romney given Israel a blank check for war? So it seemed from the declaration in Jerusalem by his adviser Dan Senor, who all but flashed Israel a green light for war, signaling the Israelis that, if you go, Mitt’s got your back: “If […]
The Importance of Proudhon
By Shawn Wilbur Anarchists can be touchy about any sort of authority, so we are frequently at pains to say that we are not followers of any particular leader or historical figure. That’s good. Among other things, the historical figures we’re most likely to follow were almost all […]
Chick-fil-A, anyone?
Conspiracy Theories as Modern Mythology
By Larry Gambone The term “conspiracy theory” is used by the media to suppress critical thought. The fact is, where you have coercive power, you will automatically have conspiracies – by those with power to maintain and increase it, by those without power to gain it. These are […]
The Bashing of Joe Paterno
By Paul Gottfried Last week the NCAA saddled Penn State with penalties that may mean the university’s end as a leading football competitor. Paterno’s name came up in the proceedings as someone who contributed to the outrage. Despite his recent death of lung cancer, his humiliation continues. His name has […]
Paths to Liberation
By Anna Morgenstern What if they built a factory and no one came? A lot of people in the broader anarchist movement seem to focus more on goals or endpoints and ignore or underemphasize the means to achieving them. This is understandable, in that statists are constantly challenging […]
Shut up Chick-Fil-A? Gays and lesbians should know how it feels to be intimidated, silenced
A whiff of common sense. RICHMOND, Va (WTVR)- This Chick-fil-A thing is oh-so simple if you believe in the Constitution. The firm’s president has every right to voice his opinion on gay marriage. Those who disagree have every right to not eat there and encourage others to join […]
The Subjectivity of Virtue
Gay-Marriage Foes Give Chick-Fil-A “Record-Setting Day”
It looks like the boycott backfired. UPDATE: Seems like quite a few chicken-loving, same-sex marriage foes turned out for Wednesday’s Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. Based on reports from around the country, many Chick-fil-As had lines out the door come lunchtime. Attendees emphasized a mix of support for the company’s […]
How the War on Drugs Became a War on Milk
Extending for four decades now, the war on drugs has ingrained a certain ideology into society. What was sold as an initiative to get dangerous drugs off the streets has conceived a totalitarian mindset that government has the authority to control everything you eat and drink and, […]
Buckley vs Chomsky
It’s interesting how these videos reveal that Buckley was hardly the persona of conservative, civilized virtue and religious piety he pretended to be.
William Buckley Vs Gore Vidal
Buckley was good on some questions but horrific on foreign policy.
Student Scholarships Available for 2012 H. L. Mencken Club
By Keith Preston
I’m looking for currently active university or graduate students to sponsor for this year’s conference of the HLMC. If you’re interested in applying, please contact me to let me know and fill out this online application.
The H. L. Mencken Club is interested in attracting young scholars…
Requiem for The American Empire
Gore Vidal’s classic 1986 essay from The Nation On September 16, 1985, when the Commerce Department announced that the United States had become a debtor nation, the American Empire died. The empire was seventy-one years old and had been in ill health since 1968. Like most modern empires, ours […]
Zionism vs Judaism
Netanyahu Tells Panetta US Threats Toward Iran Not Enough
Netanyahu: Another guy who just needs to go fuck himself. By John Glaser Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said US threats of military options against Iran are not enough, suggesting the Obama administration ought to prepare for war against Iran’s imaginary nuclear weapons program. “Right now the […]
Tupac Had It Right
Brain imaging can predict how intelligent you are, study finds
From Medical Xpress August 1, 2012 By Gerry Everding New research suggests as much as 10 percent of individual variances in human intelligence can be predicted based on the strength of neural connections between the left prefrontal cortex and other regions of the brain.
Government Silently Positions for Martial Law as Financial Collapse Arrives in America
From OccupyCorporatism Susanne Posel Occupy Corporatism Aug 1, 2012 The US government has been scheming on how to provide for continuity of government for many decades now. According to Peter Santilli, an informant who is an ex-marine and worked on portions of the contingency plans known as Rex […]
A Note About the “Attack the System” Radio Program on Voice of Reason
Apparently, the network is experiencing some technical problems and I am currently unable to record additional programs until further notice. I have already recorded several programs that will be posted in the future including shows on Hezbollah, the U.S.-Israel relationship, dissenting views in the scientific and medical community […]
Illinois governor wants ban on assault weapons
From MSN CHICAGO — Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on Tuesday proposed a state ban on assault weapons in the aftermath of the July 20 movie theater massacre in Colorado in which a former graduate student is charged with killing 12 people with guns including a semi-automatic rifle. Quinn, […]
4-year-old’s chalk art gets mom 50 hours of community service
From MSN A 4-year-old’s drawing of a “door to a magic land” earned a Richmond, Virginia mom a $325 fine, a ban from all city parks and a whopping 50 hours of community service. Susan Mortensen was ticketed in March for allowing her daughter to draw with chalk on […]
Why is Romney Losing? Because Immigration Is Electing A New People
By Peter Bradley Ominously, although national presidential polls show a neck-and-neck race for the Presidency, or even a slight lead for GOP presidential nominee-presumptive Mitt Romney, the Electoral College maps tell a much grimmer story. According to the CNN electoral map projections, Obama leads the race by 247 […]
On Patriotism: Examining the Firmware of War
By Fred Reed Patriotism is everywhere thought to be a virtue rather than a mental disorder. I don’t get it. If I told the Rotarians or an American Legion hall that “John is a patriot,” all would approve greatly of John. If I told them that patriotism was […]
GC 33: Breaking the Golden Circle
From Southern Nationalist Network Today, on the Golden Circle podcast, we take a look at Hunter Wallace’s recent review of Andrew Jackson O’Shaughnessy’s book An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean. The book argues the same point we have made many times on this site – that Dixie was the […]
The 13 Most Evil U.S. Government Experiments on Humans
From BlacklistedNews.Com 1 Mind Control, Child Abuse – Project MKULTRA, Subproject 68 This is the stuff of nightmares.The CIA-ran Project MKULTRA paid Dr. Donald Ewen Cameron for Subproject 68, which would be experiments involving mind-altering substances. The entire goal of the project was to probe examination into methods […]
R.I.P. Gore Vidal, Enemy of the Empire
By Elaine Woo Gore Vidal was impossible to categorize, which was exactly the way he liked it. The reading public knew him as a literary juggernaut who wrote 25 novels —from the historical “Lincoln” to the satirical “Myra Breckinridge” — and volumes of essays critics consider among the most […]
Go-Go Live: Banned in Chevy Chase
By Natalie Hopkinson I was joking on Twitter the day before I was scheduled to read and sign “Go-Go Live: The Musical Life and Death of a Chocolate City” at Politics & Prose, the legendary bookstore near the Chevy Chase neighborhood, one of the city’s whitest and wealthiest corners of D.C. […]
We Are All Iraqis Now
Interview with Craig Fitzgerald of NATA-NY
Hat tip to Gabriel Brown. Today’s episode of The Conscious Resistance w/ Derrick Brozefeaturing Craig FitzGerald of WAC-NYC and NATA-NY talking about National Anarchism and more. Starts at 60 minutes in.http://www.blogtalkradio.com/freedomizerradio/2012/07/30/cthepowerconscious-resistance This interview should be good folks.
Police refuse to save drowning man due to lack of training
By Rob Parsons Police officers refused to get into the water to save a man drowning in a London canal because they had not had the right training, an inquest heard. Unemployed Panayiotis Petrou, 30, died after getting into the Grand Union canal near King’s Cross station while […]
Mayor Bloomberg’s infant formula plan aimed at promoting breast-feeding in NYC hospitals
This guy just really needs to go fuck himself. From CBS News First he took on big servings of soda. Next on Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s agenda is infant formula. Going into effect on September 3, New York City’s mayor will implement his voluntary Latch On NYC initiative in which infant […]
Real World Facts vs. Drug Warrior Superstitions
From BrassCheckTV.Com Drug warriors often contend that drug use would skyrocket if we were to legalize or decriminalize drugs in the United States. Fortunately, we have a real-world example of the actual effects of ending the violent, expensive War on Drugs and replacing it with a system of […]
U.S. Army Purchases Riot Gear As Fears Over Civil Unrest Grow
By Paul Joseph Watson It’s not just the Department of Homeland Security that is gearing up for the prospect of civil unrest in America. The U.S. Army also recently purchased a stock of riot gear including batons, face masks and body shields. As we reported last week, the […]
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