By Alexander Cockburn A heart in love will decipher every squiggle in a letter as a kiss. In the final days of the 2008 campaign and in the opening ones of his administration, Obama and his top legal aides seemed to the eager ears of marijuana legalizers on […]
Kevin Carson, Senior Fellow and Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory at Center for a Stateless Society (C4SS), was interviewed June 1 by Kevin Barrett on Truth Jihad, American Freedom Radio. The interview, which takes up the the first hour and continues for part of the second, centers on the […]
On June 5, 2012, In Podcast, By egarris Standard Podcast Hide Player | Play in Popup | Download Ryan McMaken interviews Lew on the history and prospects for liberty.
By Matt Zwolinski Roderick Long raises some important concerns about my defense of sweatshops. I’m short on time, preparing for the symposium on John Tomasi’s book next week, but I wanted to get in at least a quick initial response. I trust and hope that we will have plenty of time to continue […]
By Gavin McInnes After leaving dinner with my in-laws here in Brooklyn on Monday, I saw two men standing on the curb looking very righteous. One was Asian and the other was white, which in this area usually signifies they’re yuppie gentrifiers. Sitting on the sidewalk next to […]
Officials Confirm: Obama Decides Who Lives and Who Dies: The President has put himself at the helm of the drone assassination program and directly oversees lengthy ‘kill lists’ which include several U.S. citizens. Construction Activities at Military Site Fuel Latest Round of Iranian Nuclear Fears: A satellite image […]
Listen to the interview. May 25, 2012 Robert Stark interviews Paul Craig Roberts. Topics include: PCR’s role in the Reagan administration and supply-side economics; How job outsourcing was engineered by Wall Street and corporations; The military-industrial complex; Neoconservatives, foreign policy in the Middle East, and war with Iran; […]
June 8th, 2012 Libertarian Party [Prediction: The Ron Paul movement will eventually split into two camps. One will be a more system-friendly movement for whom Rand Paul is the figurehead. The other will be a more radically anti-state movement whose radicalism surpasses that of Ron Paul. The latter […]
By Paul Gottfried Although the adjective “fascist,” as George Orwell pointed out during and right after World War II, was a slur applied to “those we don’t like,” the indiscriminate use of the “F” word seems more common now than it was in 1945. Political correctness drives this […]
Says a new Rasmussen poll. Twenty-four percent of Americans now agree with us. Sixteen percent are undecided. We’re getting there. Posted on Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:18:45 AM by CNSNews.com (CNSNews.com) – Nearly one-quarter of Americans believe that states have the right to secede, according to a recent […]
By Doug Casey There have been a fair number of references to the subject of “phyles” in this publication. But it occurs to me that I’ve never discussed the topic myself in any detail. Especially how phyles are likely to replace the nation-state, one of mankind’s worst inventions. […]
By Wayne John Sturgeon Richard Hunt, former editor of the UK based “Green Anarchist” and “Alternative Green” magazines, died may 2nd 2012. He was 79 years old. Green Anarchist, a publication he launched in the mid to late 80s, was a very beautifully illustrated magazine (Richard was an excellent […]
Laurence Vance explains why. In the Gary Johnson interview with Robert Wenzel, when asked about what a libertarian was, Johnson said that, speaking with a broad brush, most Americans are fiscally responsible and socially tolerant and that, with a broad brush, that is what libertarians are about. What planet is […]
This article by Sigmund Knag and published by the Independent Institute goes a long way towards helping us understand the internal dynamics of modern states. It can be read in full here. I have long argued that it is not sufficient for anarchists and other anti-statists to simply attack […]
By Kevin Carson On a recent episode of PBS Newshour, economist Richard Freeman and futurist Ray Kurzweil argued the significance of technological progress. Freeman warned “We don’t want it to be that there’ll 20 or 30 billionaires controlling everything, and the rest of us struggling for the one or […]
By Meghan Neal
By J. Neal Schulman Been watching the news? Greece? Spain? Ireland? Egypt? Iran? Mexico? Revolution is in the air all over the place. Agorism Poster by thorsmitersaw Back in the early 1970′s Samuel Edward Konkin III, a libertarian activist, editor, and writer — began looking for alternatives to traditional […]
By Roy Childs First published in 1969 in SIL’s Individualist newsletter, Mr. Childs (1949 – 1992) was a brilliant libertarian author who wrote with outstanding passion and eloquence on the ideas of liberty. Nineteen of his essays are collected in Liberty Against Power Dear Miss Rand: The purpose of this letter […]
By Dave Smith The Internet has been on high alert for zombies since last Saturday, when a 31-year-old homeless man from Miami named Rudy Eugene was discovered chomping on another homeless man’s face and neck before he was shot and killed by police.
By Richard Spencer The cloyingly named “Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act” (HR3541) failed in the House on Thursday, despite gaining overwhelming Republican support. If passed, the bill would have outlawed racial and sexual discrimination in abortion, jailing any doctor who helped a woman end a pregnancy […]
By Andy Nowicki Vile: anagram is an energy In chronicling the ongoing anti-White, anti-male, anti-heteronormative ideological full-court-press of our judicial, media, and governmental overlords, it is all-too easy to find oneself flogged into a perpetual state of spluttering outrage, or thrust towards a inveterate inclination to indulge in […]
By C. Derick Varn An Open Letter To Much of the So-Called Left: I am a man of the left. Make no mistake about it, I am a man of the fair left even. I have vaguely liberal social sensibilities, and a hard left politics. I have, however, […]
By Rob Urie Renewed criticism of Black Bloc anarchists (link) ties in a tangential way to the arrest on terrorism charges of three youths in Chicago prior to recent anti-NATO protests. The anarchists raise the question of the legitimate use of violence to achieve political ends. The arrest […]
By Laura Flanders Noam Chomsky has not just been watching the Occupy movement. A veteran of the civil rights, anti-war, and anti-intervention movements of the 1960s through the 1980s, he’s given lectures at Occupy Boston and talked with occupiers across the US. A new publication from theOccupied Media […]
By Gavin McInnes Like the French language, the liberal brain works in reverse. Where we say “the red book,” the French say “le livre rouge.” They start with a blank book and work backwards to fill it in with rouge. Liberals start with, “All men are created equal” […]
By Jim Goad I have trouble accepting the idea that Hitler was a vegetarian. He just didn’t seem that pushy. Apparently others feel the same way. When I started typing “pushy vegetarians” on Google, it auto-filled the rest after “pushy v—.” Of all the annoying identity movements under […]
By Sean Gabb At the beginning of April 2012, the BBC and a couple of newspapers reported that the British Government was considering a new surveillance law. This would allow it to monitor the telephone calls, text messages, e-mails and website visits of everyone in the United Kingdom. […]
By Justin Raimondo We might as well get rid of Memorial Day, for all the good it does us. Originally “Decoration Day,” the last Monday in May has been the designated time for us to remember the war dead and honor their sacrifice – while, perhaps, taking in […]
By David McElroy It’s Memorial Day in the United States, a day we set aside to remember men and women who’ve died in wars. Politicians make a lot of speeches today and lay a lot of wreaths, but the best way to honor the fallen would be to […]
From the Tehran Times KUALA LUMPUR — It’s official — George W. Bush is a war criminal. In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former president of the United States and seven key members of his administration were found guilty […]
By David Swanson (Remarks prepared for Richmond Peace Education Center Event in Richmond, Va., May 24, 2012) I have a friend who’s a compulsive liar. OK it’s not a friend. It’s my television. And my newspaper. According to them, the United States, as one among equals, in coalition […]
By Glenn Greenwald President Barack Obama waves upon his arrival at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo., Wednesday, May 23, 2012. (Credit: AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) In 2006, The New York Times‘ James Risen and Eric Lichtblau wonthe Pulitzer Prize for their December, 2005 article revealing that the Bush administration was eavesdropping on the […]
By Jim Goad American culture reached Peak Beta last week as three privileged white-male pundits wrote essays declaring that privileged white males suck. Lifelong morbidly obese bitchy lesbian Roger Ebert apparently dismantled the presumably elaborate series of pulleys and harnesses that enable him to orally service his adiposely domineering, melanin-drenched wife in […]
By Hannah Rand An eleventh grader in Texas was thrown in jail – just for missing school. However, honour student Diane Tran, 17, is no lazy truant. In fact, she’s quite the opposite. Since her parents divorced and left her and her two siblings, she has been the […]
Tom Naylor is interviewed by Anthony Wile The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas H. Naylor (left). Introduction: Thomas H. Naylor, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, is a writer and a political activist who has taught at Middlebury College and the University of […]
TEACHER YELLS AT STUDENT: CRIMINAL OFFENSE TO CRITICIZE OBAMA An audio recording of an exchange between a teacher and a student at North Rowan High School in North Carolina serves as a reminder that the school system is becoming a training ground for teaching kids to be […]
By Declan McCullagh The FBI has recently formed a secretive surveillance unit with an ambitious goal: to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications. The establishment of the Quantico, Va.-based unit, which is also staffed by agents from the U.S. Marshals […]
By Kevin Carson I’m not a Marxist, but I find a lot of Marx’s ideas useful. Old Karl certainly had a gift for turning a phrase. Nobody who could come up with something as Proudhonian as “the associated producers” could be all bad. One of his best in […]
By Larry Welborn and Lou Ponsi THE LATEST: Dr. Michael Lekawa, a trauma surgeon at UCI Medical Center in Orange, spent most of the morning on the witness stand in the preliminary hearing into the death of transient Kelly Thomas. John Barnett, the attorney for Fullerton police Officer […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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