Article by Gary Chartier. ———————————————————————————————————- Apologists for the state often suggest that the state is essential if people are to be protected against deprivation resulting from accident, disaster, or injustice. I’m not persuaded that they’re right that state anti-poverty programs are needed to deal with the problem of […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————— I love hate to say I told you so, but not that much. Human Rights Watch reports that forces loyal to Moammar Gadhafi are not systematically slaughtering civilians, but are targeting the rebels. Civilians caught in the crossfire account for noncombatant deaths, and […]
Article by Lamara Perry. ——————————————————————————————————- For the past six weeks I have developed a close relationship with the topic of oppression through race, gende, and economic disenfranchisement, specifically within the framework of the United States. Although the exploitation of black women is not a newly discovered reality, this […]
Article by Ramona Africa. The MOVE sect has been relentlessly persecuted by the state for decades. ——————————————————————————————————— ONA MOVE! The MOVE Organization wants the press to know that this year marks twenty-six years since the bombing and murder of our innocent family members. This year also marks thirty-three […]
Article by William Norman Grigg. ——————————————————————————————— Within the space of about a day, New Jersey experienced two public displays of organized intimidation by paramilitary thugs. The first involved an armed assault by black-clad bullies whose conduct was indistinguishable from the criminal street violence of the Nazi SS. The […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. —————————————————————————————————— “The Davidian cult in Waco was dealt with by armored vehicles,” remarked Muammar Gaddafi in February, defending his own crackdowns in light of the U.S. government’s. April 19 marks eighteen years since the end of the Waco siege and exactly one month since […]
Article by Kirkpatrick Sale. —————————————————————————————————– It was not formally or informally, in the minds of either the Union armies or their civilian instigators, a war about slavery. The great myth that the Union was fighting for a high moral cause, the elimination of chattel slavery and freedom for […]
Article by Andy Nowicki. ——————————————————————————————————- While many people are, no doubt, sincerely opposed to wanton acts of cruelty and humiliation by the strong and well-placed against the weak and vulnerable, one must nevertheless be aware that taking a political stand against bullying is, at best, a bland, empty […]
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Article by Elena Becatoros in Keratea, Greece. ——————————————————————————————————- As Thessalonika riots, a town near Athens spins out of control with angry residents setting up massive roadblocks and hurling Molotov cocktails As explosions boom, the town’s loudspeakers blare: “Attention! Attention! We are under attack!” Air-raid sirens wail through the […]
A classic article from Jerome Tuccille. —————————————————————————————————— Nor is it any longer a question of libertarians criticizing conservatives for their “over-indulgence of state welfarism.” The issue of state warfarism took precedence over that one long ago. The responsibility for the national disgrace brought about by our military presence […]
An article on historic and contemporary anarchism from the flagship publication of our primary enemies, the neoconservatives. It’s actually a fairly decent article. Read it here. If both the neocons and Hillary Clinton feel threatened enough by us to call us out by name, we must be doing […]
Says famed attorney Geoffrey Fieger. —————————————————————————————————– Could Detroit be the new Amsterdam — a city where prostitution and marijuana are both legalized to help attract young people and turn the troubled city’s prospects around? Why not, barrister and occasional mayoral candidate Geoffrey Fieger said during a taping of […]
Yes! This critique sums up what’s wrong with the mainstream anarchist movement. ——————————————————————————————————– Why are these reformist tactics used? Because the neo-anarchist, like their Social Democrat and Leninist forbears, never really broke with liberalism. Today’s new ‘anarchist’ is simply the same old reformist but only dons a different […]
Article by Andrea Estes and Scott Allen. ——————————————————————————————————– It looked like Carl Lemon would be going back to jail for the 20th time. Saddled with a 25-year record of shoplifting, drug dealing, and assorted other crimes, not to mention eight aliases, Lemon had made it easy for prosecutors. […]
Chris George on the foolishness that still guides drug prohibitionists. —————————————————————————————————- NPR’s Planet Money has a podcast posted featuring segments of an interview with Freeway Rick Ross, a big name former cocaine and crack dealer in ’80s and ’90s Los Angeles. They compare and contrast his experiences with […]
No, says Chris George. ——————————————————————————————————- From The Economist: Faith in the free market is at a low in the world’s biggest free-market economy. In 2010, 59% of Americans asked by GlobeScan, a polling firm, agreed “strongly” or “somewhat” that the free market was the best system for the […]
Devin Saucier thinks so. ——————————————————————————————————- Despite leftist rhetoric about the wonders of democracy, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the left’s worst enemy is true democracy, in its primary meaning as rule of the dêmos. As the West descends deeper into the once-outlandish fantasies of 1960s radicals, ordinary […]
F. Roger Devlin is interviewed by Tom Sunic. ————————————————————————————— Tom Sunic and F. Roger Devlin discuss: * How the anti-Russian character of the Bolshevik revolution parallels the anti-White movement in the West today; * Solzhenitsyn’s works, The Red Wheel and Two Hundred Years Together; * The Jewish involvement […]
No, I haven’t gone over to the side of the vulgar libertarians. But this article by Gavin McInnes has some great anti-PC swipes. ——————————————————————————————————— As Mark Steyn points out, “What’s about to hit America is not a ‘shock.’ It’s not an earthquake, it’s not a tsunami, it’s what […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————- Once upon a time, a major portion of the American economy centered on a peculiar institution, which depended on a certain bizarre “property right.” The peculiar institution was defended by preachers and politicians, by lobbyists, and by an army of editorialists, arguing that […]
Article by David D’Amato. —————————————————————————————————— “[T]he European Commission,” reports the New York Times, “[recently] proposed a dozen measures to dismantle barriers still obstructing the free flow of people, goods and services in the European Union.” The European Union, which has now taken on many of the attributes traditionally […]
Article by Jonathan Petre. ——————————————————————————————————- An electrician faces the sack for displaying a small palm cross on the dashboard of his company van. Former soldier Colin Atkinson has been summoned to a disciplinary hearing by the giant housing association where he has been employed for 15 years because […]
Good riddance. Watch Buchanan’s interview with Russia Today. —————————————————————————————————
Lecture by Paul Gottfried. —————————————————————————————————————————————— The senior and adjunct faculty of the Mises Institute discuss the history, theory, and contemporary meaning of the fascist temptation, and what the Austrian economists are doing to combat it. Mises Institute Supporters Summit 2005, October 7-8, Auburn, Alabama. http://mises.org Paul Edward Gottfried […]
Article by Stephen Walt. —————————————————————————————————— The United States started out as 13 small and vulnerable colonies clinging to the east coast of North America. Over the next century, those original 13 states expanded all the way across the continent, subjugating or exterminating the native population and wresting Texas, […]
Santa Cruz anarchists say no. ——————————————————————————————————– Without police, wouldn’t there be chaos?” “What about the bad people?” As anarchists we get asked these legit questions all the time. It’s time we began to wrestle with some possible answers. This workgroup is an attempt to put together a replicable […]
France declares war on the world’s oldest profession. ——————————————————————————————————- Now France, upending a century’s old tradition of tolerance, is contemplating making patronizing prostitution a crime. What’s the rationale? According to this report in France 24, “The new proposals would help demystify the trade, say the authors. ‘It would […]
Article by veteran libertarian Jerome Tuccille. —————————————————————————————————– But Trump for President? Let’s get real. This is not the first time Donald Trump has announced his intentions to run for the highest political office on Planet Earth. A few years back he all but shanghaied the Reform Party before […]
Article by Darian Worden. —————————————————————————————————– A New York Times article, “Prostitutes’ Disappearances Were Noticed Only When the First Bodies Were Found,” (Apr 7) reveals the danger of devaluing human life. Little attention was paid to missing people until their corpses were found. The Times report quotes Gary Ridgway, […]
Article by Gabe Pressman. ————————————————————————————————— Hunger is on the rise in the New York City. Seven hundred thousand more people get food stamps in the New York City today than did five years ago, according to Joel Berg of the Coalition Against Hunger. In all, the Coalition estimates, […]
Sounds like an interesting character. ————————————————————————————————— Walter Breuning’s earliest memories stretched back 111 years, before home entertainment came with a twist of the radio dial. They were of his grandfather’s tales of killing Southerners in the Civil War. Breuning was 3 and horrified: “I thought that was a […]
US communist leader challenged by the Greek communists. —————————————————————————————————— Sam Webb, who chairs the Communist Party, USA published an interesting thinkpiece in the party’s internet magazine Political Affairs with the title ‘A Party of Socialism in the 21st Century’. It is fair to say that this has created […]
Court upholds Orlando’s homeless feeding rules. —————————————————————————————————- A federal appeals court has upheld a Florida city’s ordinance that restricts the feeding of homeless people at city parks. The 2006 Orlando ordinance was challenged by the Orlando chapter of the group Food Not Bombs, which said the law restricted […]
Wow! ——————————————————————————————————- Family members of a man who was stabbed in his home April 3 say he died Wednesday evening. Crystal Mangum, the Durham woman who falsely accused three Duke University lacrosse players of rape in 2006, has been charged with assaulting him. Durham police confirmed Thursday morning […]
Food fascism in Illinois. —————————————————————————————————— The Illinois House today passed a ban on the use of artery clogging trans fats in food served in restaurants and in school vending machines starting in 2013. Although many cities and counties have passed bans, if the bill passes the state Senate […]
Article by Paul Deussen. ——————————————————————————————————– It is probably asking a lot of alternative Right writers to appear loyal to, let alone adoring of, the gods of multiculturalism, diversity, and egalitarianism, but employing such a strategy when writing for politically correct audiences would be far more effective than directly […]
James Kirkpatrick reviews the film version of Atlas Shrugged. I was never an Ayn Rand fan anyway, but this sounds awful. ——————————————————————————————————- Even the promotional literature distributed by the makers of the movie doesn’t really reflect reality. It says, “What would happen if our producers disappear—Steve Jobs, Sergey […]
Article by Scott Lazarowitz. ——————————————————————————————————- With Peace Prize Laureate Barack Obama’s new war of Orwellian peaceful violence in Libya, this is yet another reminder of why socialism and central planning in security is a bad idea. The conservatives who are the most outspoken opponents of “socialism” are the […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————- In an article for Business Insider entitled Is Capitalism Dead?, Larry Doyle bemoans “the incestuous nature of the Wall Street-Washington relationship.” Observing that a “few gigantic banks dominate our markets,” Doyle reflects that “Wall Street as it currently exists is an oligopoly,” and […]
Article by David Montgomery. —————————————————————————————————— A blistering review of historian Manning Marable’s best-selling new biography of Malcolm X was rejected this week by TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine devoted to African American perspectives whose editor in chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., is an admirer of Marable’s work. “ […]
Check out the Subsidy Tracker. —————————————————————————————————— A growing number of state governments are disclosing which companies they are giving tax breaks and other subsidies in the name of job creation and economic development. Yet much of that information is being disseminated through hard-to-find reports and web pages. SUBSIDY […]
Video from the hilarious Sonja Schmidt. —————————————————————————————————— Are men all just sexual abusers, and oppressors? Find out as Sonja points out the contradictions of the 007/James Bond PSA. See Sonja’s own PSA defending the integrity of all things male on this episode of Left Exposed.
From American Indian/Alaska Native – Attack The System. ——————————————————————————————————- Over at the Republic of Lakotah website, there’s a brief outline of a strategy for developing an independent network of largely self sufficient villages. 1. Joining the Republic of Lakotah isn’t about having American Indian blood, it’s about wanting […]
by Michael Bakunin We have repelled energetically every alliance with bourgeois politics, even of the most radical nature. It has been pretended, foolishly and slanderously, that we repudiated all such Political connivance because we were indifferent to the great question of Liberty, and considered only the economic or […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. ————————————————————————————————- On December 15, when I first reported the inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention, I did not assign any blame to — or even mention — Barack Obama. Although, as Commander-in-Chief, Obama was technically responsible for Manning’s treatment, there was no evidence that […]
Anthony Gregory is interviewed by Scott Horton. ——————————————————————————————————— Anthony Gregory, Editor in Chief of Campaign for Liberty, discusses the case for anarcho-capitalism – pushing beyond “limited government” to eliminate the last vestiges of “essential” state functions like police, courts and national defense; the possible market alternatives that, while […]
I’m glad to see Thomas Sowell bashing corporate welfare. He often leans way too much towards vulgar libertarianism for my tastes. ————————————————————————————————— Since everybody else seems to be coming up with plans on how to cope with the skyrocketing national debt, let me try my hand at it […]
Article by David D’Amato. —————————————————————————————————– On Wednesday (April 13), reports BBC News, “[a]n international summit on Libya [began] in Qatar, with delegates being told there is a ‘race against time’ to help Libyan civilians.” Comprising representatives from, among others, the United Nations, the European Union, and Nato, the […]
Article by Stephen Smith. ——————————————————————————————————- Anthony Ling, an excellent Brazilian blogger who also happens to be an avowed market urbanism, gives us an interesting look at the politics and economics of low-income housing in Brazil: In Brazil there is a vast regulation defining what are the minimum requirements […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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