by P. R. Stephensen (The London Aphrodite, no. 6, July 1929, pp. 421–432.) (Stephenson regarded himself as a Nietzschean-Bakuninite. Hat tip to MP.) Only one man has lived dangerously—Michael Bakunin. While Nietzsche postulated the Fore-runner, here was a fore-runner in deed. “Everything about him was colossal,” says Richard Wagner […]
The Empire is summed up perfectly in two minutes and 41 seconds.
This is a question that is often debated by both sides of the conventional political spectrum. Here’s one person’s take on the issue. I’d say it depends on how you define “left” and “right.” For instance, the ostensible conservative George W. Bush sought to expand federal control over […]
Article by Thomas N. Naylor. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— “We are you, and you are us,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrogantly proclaimed to President Barack Obama in the White House recently. How is it possible that Israel, a tiny country with only eight million people, can have so much influence […]
From Patriot News. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Cell phone users might think that their phones can’t be searched without a warrant any more than their homes can be. But one judge just gave cops engaging in warrantless cell phone searches a foot in the door. Judge Richard Posner of the seventh […]
From Open Salon. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Once signed, HR 347 will empower federal agents to arrest and bring felony criminal charges against citizens engaged in political protests anywhere in the USA. OUTLAWING THE OCCUPY MOVEMENT: HR 347 MAKES FREE SPEECH A FELONY The First Amendment to the Constitution of the […]
Article by Stephen D. Foster. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Republicans in Indiana are taking self-defense too far. In a move supported by the National Rifle Association, the Indiana House passed Senate Bill 1, which allows homeowners to shoot and kill police officers they believe are unlawfully on their property or in […]
Some interesting data.
Anything to sue somebody. Sounds like sour grapes. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– A college student from New York is suing Stonehill College in Massachusetts, a Catholic Liberal Arts College, saying her roommate’s sex life drove her into a suicidal depression and that the school did nothing to address her concerns. Web Extra: Read The […]
From World Net Daily. This is one of the principal feature of totalitarian humanism: the state must control everything to insure that no one is ever being un-progressive. My guess is that most left-wing “anarchists” would approve of this. The struggle against “hate” trumps the struggle against the […]
Interesting monologue from historian of religion and mythology D.M. Murdoch. I don’t generally write on religious issues as I see the struggle against the state to be a non-sectarian enterprise. But it’s also true that one of the major enemy political factions of anti-state radicals in the contemporary […]
He had the fire. Read the obituary. Ronnie Montrose
This is the kind of thing that needs to happen more often. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Nicolas Sarkozy was forced to hide in a bar after a mob of protesters threatened to beat him up. The 57-year-old French President, who is standing for re-election in April, was campaigning in the Basque […]
From the New York Daily News. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– HANDOUT Andrea Fornella Abbott, 41, was arrested after she raged on TSA agents at Nashville airport for trying to give her daughter a pat down search. TAKE OUR POLL Child pat downs Should TSA agents be allowed to give children pat downs? […]
Article by Kevin MacDonald. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Israel Firster and Iraq War architect Paul Wolfowitz addresses soldiers wounded fighting in Iraq. Jews have always policed their own—a basic element of any successful group and a central idea behind the cultural group selection model of Judaism. A good example is the […]
Article by Tibor Machan. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Republican Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum has made an impassioned pitch in favor of rejecting the famous doctrine of the separation of church and state. He made his position clear on the ABC-TV program, “This Week,” on Sunday, February 26: “I don’t believe in […]
The Few, the Proud, the…nominee for the Darwin Award? ————————————————————————————————————————————————- A South Florida former marine will spend 15 years in prison for viciously pummeling his wife in front of a judge during a divorce court hearing last spring. Paul Gonzalez Jr., 29, had to be subdued with a stun […]
Listen to the podcast interview of Daryle. Daryle says quite a bit that I agree with in this interview. Apparently, we are both admirers of the documentary “Anarchism in America.” We agree that the U.S. was originally a federation of sovereign nations that were eventually incorporated into a […]
Listen to the interview. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Keith Preston interviews Craig Fitzgerald. Topics include: Craig’s experiences growing up around the patriot and militia movements of the 1990s; His participation in various youth subcultures and how these influenced his political ideas; His involvement with a wide variety of dissident movements from […]
Interview conducted by Bradley Coufal. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— For the sake of gaining some background on the both of you in order to contextualize your position, can you explain, briefly, where you see yourself politically, and where you see libertarianism proper (left-lib?) on the political spectrum? Along this same line can you […]
From The Daily Bell. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– A Staff Report by The Daily Bell (Editor’s Note: This article capsulizes the raison d’etre of this website. The entirety of human experience in today’s world is that of ubiquitous tyranny. Those less than 100 years old were born into tyranny as naturally […]
Article by Fred Reed. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Tangier, Morocco: Having passed the night in Gibraltar, Vi and I took the ferry across the Strait to Tangier in a state of grave trepidation, I more than she. We were going into the dark heartland of Islamic barbarity. I knew what Moslems […]
Article by Andrew Napolitano. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– (Editor’s Note: The answer to this entire article filled with questions is secession. Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence: “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish […]
From Distributist Review. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————-Ever since capitalism made its appearance in the late Middle Ages and came to dominate both production and politics in the late 18th century, there has been a vigorous debate on just what the nature of capitalism is. Central to these debates has been the question […]
From Economy In Crisis. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– There have been a lot of allegations of “class warfare” lately. Republicans screamed it when President Obama proposed a tax increase on the wealthiest Americans as part of the way to pay for his jobs plan. But the same Republicans who are quick […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— A vastly underexplored topic is the British government’s role in greasing the skids for World War I. Until recently it was hard to find scholars who would dispute the culturally comfortable judgment that “authoritarian Germany” unleashed the Great War out of militaristic arrogance. […]
From Terre and Peuple. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Martin Luther Many authors distinguish between, on the one hand Catholicism, which is supposed to be a negative Christianity incarnated by Rome and an anti-Germanic instrument, and, on the other hand, Protestantism, which is supposed to be a positive Christianity emancipated from the […]
Article by Greg Johnson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— In Ancient Athens, debtors who were unable to pay their creditors lost their land and were reduced to serfs who had to give their landlords one sixth of their produce in perpetuity. If the debt exceeded the debtor’s total assets, he and his […]
Richard Spencer and Jonathan Bowden discuss the Iraq War.
From UhuruNews. Com. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— On February 7, police in riot gear came to arrest Fred Reio and said the “probable cause” was the music video here was the reason they locked him up. The guns in the video are just props and ain’t even real. They also had […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- In this Dec. 29, 2011, file photo, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly speaks at a news conference with New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, left, in Brooklyn, N.Y. (Credit: AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams, File) (updated below) The NYPD spying program exposed by Associated Press […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— In a recent column (“Should Occupy Use Violence? I Dunno — Should the Cops?” Center for a Stateless Society, February 10) I deny that the state is a morally privileged entity. State violence — and police violence in particular — is subject to the […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————
Article by Andy Nowicki. Glad to see I’m not the only one who always thought Whitney’s music was torturously unlistenable. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- After several painful years of committing what may be called slow-motion suicide, pop singer Whitney Houston has perished at the age of 48, another wretchedly pitiful casualty of […]
A little something to offend everyone. I’m impressed. An ABC pilot called “Good Christian Bitches” has religious and women’s groups up in arms over what they describe as an extremely offensive and distasteful show title. The dramedy, based on Kim Gatlin’s novel of the same name, will be […]
Article by Paul Kersey. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The 54th Daytona 500, the granddaddy of all NASCAR races, kicks off the 2012 calendar season on Sunday, February 26. During the last thirty years, NASCAR’s devoted fan base helped propel it to become the unquestioned king of American motor sports. Less than a […]
Article by Roderick Long. Nature of a Ruling Class We tend to think of the “ruling class” as a Marxist concept; but the notion has a long history before Marx, particularly in the ancient Greek and Roman historians, and class analysis played a central role in 18th and […]
Article by Ariel Schneller. On December 31, 2011, President Barack Obama signed the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) into law. Many of you may not have heard of it because the holidays aren’t exactly conducive to keeping up with current events, but the NDAA represents one of […]
Article by Scott Locklin. From Francis Fukuyama to Barack Obama to The New Yorker, nobody to the left of Joe Bageant seems to understand why poor white hillbillies prefer Republican oligarchs to the glorious rainbow coalition of the condescending. They wonder why the white working class lost the loving feeling they used to have for […]
Article by Jello Biafra. Israel’s wall is intended to permanently enclose Palestinians [GALLO/GETTY] Last summer, punk rock icon Jello Biafra and his band decided to cancel a show they had planned on playing at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv. At the time, Biafra wrote that ‘the toll […]
Article by F. Roger Devlin. Coming Apart: The State of White America 1960-2010 By Charles Murray New York, NY: Crown Forum, 2012 Reviewed by F. Roger Devlin At 416 pages, Coming Apart is Charles Murray’s most substantial offering since 2003’sHuman Accomplishment. It continues a theme familiar to readers […]
Article by Paul Farrell. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Welcome, you’re now on the new “Innovation Saves the World” team. We’re working together, searching for positive solutions. If you’d rather complain about what’s wrong, stop reading. Otherwise, imagine you’re now a member of a “skunk works” […]
News of the weird. —————- FOOTBALL FANS in the central African state of Congo were hurling accusations of witchcraft at each other yesterday after a freak blast of lightning struck dead an entire team on the playing field while their opponents were left completely untouched. The bizarre blow […]
Article by Robert Naimon. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- For all it has done to promote confrontation between the United States and Iran, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee has worked to avoid the public perception that AIPAC is openly promoting war. In AIPAC’s public documents, the emphasis has always been on […]
This article sums up pretty well what American electoral politics is all about. One plutocrat offers to buy the election for the neocons and says he’s only countering the efforts of another plutocrat (Soros) to buy the election for the progressives. This is simply an intramural battle between […]
From FOX News. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– A New Hampshire man who fired his handgun into the ground to scare an alleged burglar he caught crawling out of a neighbor’s window is now facing a felony charge — and the same potential prison sentence as the man he stopped. Dennis Fleming, […]
From the New York Sun. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Of all the constitutional questions working their way up through the federal courts — and there are some big ones — the case that has our attention at the moment is the motion by Bernard Von NotHaus to have set aside his […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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