Scott Horton interviews Will Grigg. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses Rep. Michael McCaul’s (R-Texas) attempt to include Mexican drug cartels in an expanded war on terrorism; the winners on both sides of prohibition, including the cartels that profit from a huge risk […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————— Some disconcerting facts, or at least disconcerting questions, are beginning to emerge regarding Obama’s Libyan intervention. First of all, the Asia Times reported on April 2 (“Exposed: The U.S.-Saudi Libya Deal“) that Saudi Arabia engineered an Arab League voting bloc to approve the […]
by Stuart Bramhall. —————————————————————————————————– Since the October 2008 economic collapse, American workers have faced an unprecedented “austerity cuts,” with major hits on their livelihoods and labor and pension rights. Yet Americans, unlike the rest of the world, don’t respond by taking to the street in the millions. Why […]
From Tech Dirt. ————————————————————————————————— For a while now, we’ve been quite concerned over the US’s treatment of Bradley Manning, the guy who has been accused of being the source for many of Wikileaks’ biggest leaks from the US government. Under most standard definitions of torture, it certainly appeared […]
From A New Kind of Mind. ——————————————————————————————————– A decent while back, the anarchism subreddit was getting me down with it’s lynch mobs and sectarianism. To find some sanity (and probably to confirm a couple biases), I asked fellow Reddit user BondsOfEarthAndFire — who describes himself as “a market-friendly, […]
by Ian Huyett http://www.kstatecollegian.com/opinion/mass-immigration-damages-u-s-culture-economy-1.2538266 Tibetan independence from China is a popular cause in the U.S. Fashionable among actors and musicians, it’s outspoken supporters range from Russell Brand to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. “Free Tibet” advocates raise a legitimate concern; that Tibet’s unique character will vanish beneath a […]
This looks to be an interesting journal. —————————————————————————————————– State of Collapse is an editorial site offering anarchist views on current events concerning political abuse of criminal justice systems, human rights atrocities, and the encroachment of the total surveillance society. We cover police and law issues from Ontario, Canada […]
A classic essay. ————————————————————————————————— Among the signs of the epoch we have now entered belongs the increased intrusion of danger into daily life. There is no accident concealing itself behind this tact but a comprehensive change of the inner and outer world. We see this dearly when we […]
By John Robb. ——————————————————————————————————- Here’s a compilation of the standing orders series for open source warfare from last year. Probably need to add some more. 1. Break Networks 2. Grow Black Economies 3. Virtualize your organization 4. Repetition is more important than scale 5. Coopetition 6. Don’t fork […]
A Rasmussen poll reports. —————————————————————————————————- Adults under the age of 50 are more inclined to agree that there would be less poverty if immigration laws were enforced than their elders. Despite the billions of dollars spent on government anti-poverty programs, a majority of Americans nationwide still believe there […]
Article by Chris Hedges. ————————————————————————————————– “Imagine,” said a public school teacher in New York City, who asked that I not use his name, “going to work each day knowing a great deal of what you are doing is fraudulent, knowing in no way are you preparing your students […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. ————————————————————————————————— Tribalism suddenly seems ascendant over globalism. Transnational institutions created to bring the world together — the IMF, World Bank, U.N., EU, NATO, WTO, G-8, Kyoto Protocol — are all under stress. The artificial countries are coming apart. Sudan is sundering as Ethiopia did. […]
Article by Yasha Levine. —————————————————————————————————— Michele Bachmann has become known as the Queen of the anti-government Tea Baggers, protesting health care reform and slamming every other government handout as “socialism.” But what her followers don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is also a queen of another kind—a welfare […]
Jesse Ventura is interviewed by Lew Rockwell. ————————————————————————————————— Jesse Ventura tells Lew Rockwell about The 63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read. Naked-body “microwave” machines target travelers in violation of the 4th Amendment, the Republican and Democratic parties make everything worse, the CIA is embedded in […]
by Keith Preston The title of this review essay may well serve to get my name placed in yet another official file somewhere, but two works recently published by Andy Nowicki, a Catholic traditionalist author and one of my colleagues at AlternativeRight.Com, prompts one to give a little […]
Read the article. This guy’s got the right idea. Impeach all presidents until there are no presidents any more. —————————————————————————————————– A prominent libertarian constitutional lawyer and civil libertarian has drafted an article of impeachment against President Obama over his attack on Libya, throwing down a legal gauntlet that […]
Fight food repression. ——————————————————————————————————— The city of Oakland, Calif., which is marked largely by blight and crime, has decided to go after a backyard gardener for growing and occasionally selling the fruits of her labor. According to a recent report in the San Francisco Chronicle (SFC), Oakland city […]
Article by Charles Coulombe. —————————————————————————————————- I love tobacco. I have been a pipe and cigar smoker since my 16th birthday. (My father had offered to buy me both if I abstained from cigarettes until that date). On that memorable occasion, he took me down to Santa Monica’s storied […]
Articles by Michael Kleen. Part 1 and Part 2. —————————————————————————————————- In my opinion, a sweatshop is an antiquated form of wage slavery that does not belong in a free society any more than conscription or the Atlantic slave trade. Economists like Paul Krugman have provided an ideological foundation […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————– Arguably the majority of Fortune 500 profits result from taxpayer subsidies, government-conferred monopolies like “intellectual property,” special protections, and entry barriers, rather than from peaceful exchange on the free market. So why would it be so inconceivable that a lot of businesses in […]
Dennis Mangan reviews Steven Farron’s The Affirmative Action Hoax. I haven’t read Farron’s book myself, but if this reviewer’s summary of it contents is accurate, it makes a pretty convincing case that affirmative action is a messy hodge-podge of policies whose real purpose is to keep bureaucrats in […]
Article by Dan La Botz. Hat tip to Miles Joyner. —————————————————————————————————– Ten years ago, after the police killing of a teenager named Timothy Thomas, Cincinnati erupted in what some called vicious riots and others a righteous rebellion. The uprising over a string of police killings of black men […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————— According to historian Thomas E. Woods, during the debate at the Constitutional Convention over the War Powers clause, only a single delegate – Pierce Butler, of South Carolina — rose to argue in favor of giving the President the power to make war […]
Article by George Will. ————————————————————————————————— At about this point in foreign policy misadventures, the usual question is: What is Plan B? Today’s question is: What was Plan A? When Obama inserted America into what was, and ostensibly still is, a preemptive war to protect Libyan civilians from Libya’s […]
Article by Bernie DeGroat. Hat tip to Peter Bjorn Perls. ——————————————————————————————————– The anti-war movement in the US may have become more anti-Republican than antiwar since 2003, say U-Michigan researchers. Since 2003, the antiwar movement in the United States has had much to protest with Americans fighting in Iraq, […]
Article by Earl Ofari Hutchinson. The information in this article has important implications for race and class theory in 21st century America. Hat tip to Miles Joyner at the ARV Facebook page. Miles is doing a great job with that page. Be sure to give it a regular […]
Article by Michael Kleen. —————————————————————————————————- “Where the state ends—look there, my brothers! Do you not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the overman?” Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is one of the most famous of the modern philosophers. A prolific writer on just about every subject, his views […]
Article by Michael Kleen. Hat tip to David Heleniak. Kleen has also been interview by Tom Sunic on VOR. Listen here and here. ——————————————————————————————————- José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) was the preeminent Spanish philosopher of the first half of the 20th Century. A complex figure, he was at […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. A hilarious dissection of the neo-Jacobin wing of the US political establishment. ——————————————————————————————————– According to Joel Klein’s March 21 Newsweek column, “conservatives” went ballistic at their annual CPAC meeting in Washington because Obama had dared to question the holy doctrine of “American exceptionalism.” Supposedly […]
Article by Roderick Long. I’m not an Austro-libertarian, and my differences with Long’s brand of left-libertarianism are well-known, but this is a great paper.
An Asian woman is sentenced to indefinite jury duty for alleged racist comments. Read the article. This is a very important case because it shows that PC is not just a “white male” issue. No one is immune to persecution under PC, not even its supposed beneficiaries, e.g., […]
Watch the interview from the Today Show. What would this mean for U.S. politics?
Article by Clancy Sigal. ————————————————————————————————— One night, when I was editor of a news wire service on the graveyard shift in downtown Los Angeles, a respectable, middle-aged man in a neat business suit, calling himself Mr Wilson, approached me with a strange tale. We overnighters on duty alone […]
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Article by Thomas Knapp. —————————————————————————————————– Bernard von NotHaus, reports Tom Lovett of the Evansville, Indiana Courier & Press, stands convicted, as of last month, of “making coins resembling and similar to United States coins; of issuing, passing, selling and possessing Liberty Dollar coins; of issuing and passing Liberty […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————- BBC News reports that “[p]rotests in more than 20 Mexican cities against drug-related violence have been interrupted by news of the discovery of 59 bodies.” Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon called on the military to combat the drug cartels in 2006, an estimated […]
Mass immigration is subsidized by the state. ————————————————————————————————— Surprise, surprise; Census Bureau data reveals that most U.S. families headed by illegal immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on behalf of their American-born anchor babies. Even before the recession, immigrant households with children used welfare programs at consistently higher rates […]
http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2011/04/06/survey_maine_nh_vermont_most_peaceful/ PORTLAND, Maine—While U.S. military forces continue to be engaged in conflicts abroad, a survey of the home front by an international think tank finds that U.S. states have become more peaceful since 1995. In a report released Wednesday, the Institute for Economics and Peace says Maine is […]
Interesting article on the latest System hysteria. —————————————————————————————————- Attorney General Eric Holden is concerned about the number of law enforcement deaths that have occurred so far this year. In fact, he is so concerned that he has announced a new Law Enforcement Safety Initiative. This is not the […]
The recording is now available. The Stark Truth: Interview with Keith Preston April 7, 2011 · Print This Article Robert Stark and Keith Preston discuss political movements and ideologies, and how Keith’s views have evolved. Topics include: Why White Nationalism is not enough; Separation of race and state; […]
Hat tip to David Heleniak for digging this up. These maps were originally taken from Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s “Liberty or Equality.” K-L was an aristocratic Catholic liberal-monarchist who argued that Nazism was the direct outgrowth of the influence of Protestantism in Germany, particularly the millenarianism and apocaplyptism of […]
Hat tip to David Heleniak for digging this up. These maps were originally taken from Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn’s “Liberty or Equality.” K-L was an aristocratic Catholic liberal-monarchist who argued that Nazism was the direct outgrowth of the influence of Protestantism in Germany, particularly the millenarianism and apocaplyptism of […]
This has understandably been getting a lot of ridicule in some circles, but they actually have a point. Sluts of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your panties. Watch the video.
From Chris George’s blog.
The thin blue line protects us from predatory 8 yr olds.
By Farah Jasmine Griffin. —————————————————————————————————– Scholar, Activist, Mentor, Teacher, Editor, Institution Builder, Manning Marable was one of those rare individuals who succeeded in a number of arenas. His intellectual and political vision and work can be described as nothing less than a calling, one he met with extraordinary […]
http://reasonradionetwork.com/ The Stark Truth Robert Stark brings you news, analysis and guest interviews dealing with American politics, demographics, culture, and history. Wed., Apr. 6: Interview with Keith Preston Robert Stark and Keith Preston discuss political movements and ideologies; economic alternatives to current system; economic and political localism
From the National Anarchist Tribal Alliance of New York. —————————————————————————————————– As reported by American Free Press, the Trilateral Commission will be meeting this April 8-10 in Washington D.C. This quasi secret conference is just as or more important than the G20 or WTO meetings. WeAreChangeNYC & NATA-NY is […]
Article from Infoshop.Org. —————————————————————————————————– he dramatic armed actions of groups like the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) and the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire continue to attract international attention and reflect political positions with a certain degree of influence among rebellious proletarians. Positions which are to say the least […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————- The imposition of a legal framework on the intricate web of relationships that have previously existed in the realm of freedom—that is, outside the law and entirely dependent on the trust and compliance of the individuals involved—would not only be a setback for […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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