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 […]
Article by Jeremy Pelzer. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— CHEYENNE — State representatives on Friday advanced legislation to launch a study into what Wyoming should do in the event of a complete economic or political collapse in the United States. House Bill 85 passed on first reading by a voice vote. It […]
From Farm Wars. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Customers and Other Supporters Stand with Farmer! Submitted by Kimberly Hartke The FDA reign of terror against family farms who are serving the needs of private buying clubs is culminating in one Wisconsin farmer facing federal charges. Citizens deserve the freedom to choose, and […]
From The Daily Mail. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— As David Jones passed through airport security, his thoughts were turning to lunch with his daughters, who were already ‘airside’. But a light-hearted remark as he placed his scarf through the X-ray scanner led to Mr Jones, the creator of the animated children’s […]
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Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————– In a recent post at the UK’s Libertarian Alliance Blog, Director Sean Gabb points out that “government charters, grants personhood to, mandates sales for, creates price floors for, regulates industries to eliminate competition for, allows former employees to regulate their own, responds to […]
Article by David D’Amato. ————————————————————————————————– According to USA Today, “A gunman killed two American military advisers with shots to the back of the head Saturday [February 25] inside a heavily guarded ministry building.” The story notes that the Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the killings and cited them […]
From Tyler Durden. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Earlier today, Wikileaks made its latest startling release on Twitter, telling the media world to standby for a ‘major announcement’. Alas, in keeping with the recent tradition from Wikileaks, the “release” was a dud and is merely the collected dump of all the emails […]
Article by Thomas N. Naylor. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— From the very outset I was an enthusiastic supporter of Occupy Wall Street. To me it represented the reawakening of the political left after four decades of uninterrupted slumber. Maybe the radicalization of America had finally begun. Americans might soon opt for […]
By Dr. Lasha Darkmoon. Maybe Hal Lindsey was right-LOL. 🙂 —————————————————————————————————————————————————— “An Israeli attack on Iran would create a disaster.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski “The entire lake will become a killing field…the Gulf will run red with American blood.” — Military specialist Mark Gaffney. Bombing Iran could be the final nail in […]
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From GreenwichTime.Com. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The Greenwich police officer arrested Monday and charged with stalking a town woman allegedly harassed her for nearly a year, according to an affidavit filed in State Superior Court. A 32-year-old woman filed a complaint against Officer Donnell Fludd on Nov. 6, stating that she had tried unsuccessfully […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Most participants in online debates are familiar with Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” The implicit corollary, of course, is that the first person to descend to such a comparison […]
Listen to the interview. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Keith Preston interviews Welf Herfurth. Topics include: Welf’s background as an activist in German and Australian nationalist politics; His conclusion that participation in electoral politics is a futile effort; The development of his interest in the philosophy of national anarchism; Welf’s travels around […]
Article by Chuck Baldwin. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- There may have been a time when the words “conservative” and “liberal” meant something, but that time is no more. Today, “conservatives” in government are doing as much to promote Big Government, as are “liberals.” In fact, if one were to honestly evaluate […]
From The Daily Telegraph. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Jean-Marie Le Pen, center, with his daughter, Marine Photo: AP 5:55PM GMT 16 Feb 2012 An appeals court in Paris upheld a three-month suspended jail sentence against former far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen. The punishment, which also included a 10,000 euro ($13,000) fine, was […]
Article by James Halpin. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Staff writer A Raleigh police officer was accused Thursday of having sex with an underage prostitute who proceeded to steal a police-issued computer and other property afterward at a Fayetteville hotel, Fayetteville police said. Jason Brandon Hoyle, 34, of the 8600 block of […]
From the Los Angeles Times. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. A confrontation between law enforcement agents erupted in gunfire Thursday evening at the federal building in Long Beach, leaving one dead and one seriously injured, authorities said. The incident […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Washington (CNN) — A 29-year-old man from Morocco was arrested Friday and charged with attempting to bomb the U.S. Capitol building in a suicide attack, authorities said. Suspect Amine El Khalifi made an initial appearance in court and, if convicted, faces a maximum penalty of life […]
From The Daily Mail. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— The French president has caused an outcry after dozens of infant school children were forced to chant ‘Long Live Sarkozy!’ when he visited their school. Parents complained about the youngsters being used as ‘propaganda tools’ after they were made to treat Nicolas Sarkozy […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Last week, in a speech in Grand Rapids and accompanying op-ed in the Detroit News, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney delivered what may have been his ultimate “pot meet kettle” moment. Rewinding a few years, Romney called the ’09 Chrysler bailout “a major taste of crony […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- The rule of centralized state and bureaucratic machines is one of those things that the cultural reproduction apparatus teaches people to accept as “natural” or “inevitable” (“it must be more efficient, or it wouldn’t be this way;” “the people in charge make these […]
I will be interviewing Welf Herfurth Thursday night at 8 pm Eastern US time on Voice of Reason. Tune in here.
Article by Andrew Bacevich. —————————————————————————————————————————- By Andrew J. Bacevich As someone who teaches both history and international relations, I have one foot in each camp. I’m interested in what has already happened. And I’m interested in what will happen next. In my teaching and my writing, I try […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ———————————————————————————————————————— The idea that the United States government should not intervene in the internal affairs of other nations is heresy. After World War II, both political parties and nearly all the nation’s elites agreed on one thing: we have an “obligation” to pursue and […]
From Free Association. ——————————————————————————————————————————- Two days ago was the 70th anniversary of President Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the internment in “War Relocation Camps” (aka concentration camps) of some 110,000 Japanese Americans and Japanese who lived along the Pacific coast. Two years later the […]
Listen to the interview. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Keith Preston interviews Andy Nowicki. Topics include: Andy’s intellectual migration away from liberalism and the left towards the alternative right; His career as a writer and author of four books including his latest, Under the Nihil; His affinity for Catholic traditionalism and the current […]
Now there’s only two left. ————————————————————————————————— MC5, circa 1969: Fred Smith, Wayne Kramer, Rob Tyner, Wayne Kramer, Dennis Thompson and Michael Davis // Getty Images MC5 Ted Nugent As word of his Feb. 17 death spread, musical colleagues remembered MC5 bassist Michael Davis of the MC5 as a […]
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Article by Pat Buchanan. Pat needs to stick to the foreign policy analysis and stay out of the natural sciences. ————————————————————————————————– The political beliefs of Barack Obama, said Rick Santorum last week, come out of “some phony theology. … Not a theology based on the Bible, a different […]
Article by Roderick Long. This is required reading for anyone who wants to move past the left-right, conservative-progressive, or free-market libertarian-social anarchist paradigms. This attacks and demolishes the entire range of left/right thinking on questions of the relationship between state and capital. ————————————————————————————————
From The Daily Mail. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– The mother of a seven-year-old boy was told to sign a school form admitting he was racist after he asked another pupil about the colour of his skin. Elliott Dearlove had asked a five-year-old boy in the playground whether he was ‘brown because […]
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From the Ecologist. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Tension is mounting in one of the remotest regions in the Peruvian Amazon over plans to build a highway through the country’s biggest national park The Alto Purus park is inhabited by at least two ‘uncontacted’ tribes, one of which was photographed on a […]
So he says in his latest column. Seriously, do Republicans ever campaign on anything other than “War is wonderful and gay marriage sucks!”? ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Through 11 presidential elections, beginning with the Democrats’ nomination of George McGovern in 1972, Republicans have enjoyed a presumption of superiority regarding national security. […]
An exchange between Shawn Wilbur and myself is in the comments section. ————————————————————————————————– There is a lesson about anarchism that seems extraordinarily hard to learn, even though we are constantly confronted with it: As a tradition and as an idea, anarchism is essentially ungovernable. As an idea, it […]
Article by Robert C. Koehler. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- “Thirty seconds to zero . . . six, five, four, three, two, one.” “Castle Bravo” — Bikini Atoll, March 1, 1954Suddenly a big orange blossom fills the screen, accompanied by ukuleles and lovely — I mean Strangelovian — Polynesian music. The blossom […]
Article by Stephen Walt. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— If you are someone who is inclined to favor hawkish responses to foreign policy problems, then your choice for president should be Barack Obama. Not because Obama is especially hawkish himself, or interested in prolonging costly and failed commitments in Iraq or Afghanistan. […]
Article by Andrew Bacevich. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————- Not long ago, Greg Jaffe, the Washington Post’s military correspondent, wrote that ‘this is the American era of endless war.’ Endless war manifestly does not suggest any eagerness to use military power with an eye towards liberating or pacifying countries governed by regimes that Washington […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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