Russell Means: Welcome to the Reservation

Watch the video.

Houston Shuts Down Homeless Feeding Program

This sucks. This is also the kind of economic activism we alternative anarchists could work to build political coalitions around. No doubt these kinds of state actions are offensive to a wide assortment of political groups as well as private individuals. Perhaps our organizing opposition to economic repression […]

An Acceptable Form of Bigotry

Seema Jilani on the outgroup that the enlightened, respectable folks hate.

That Damn Mr. Rogers!

The PMRC of the Left

…strikes in Canada. Tipper would be proud.

China-A Paper Tiger

Justin Raimondo explains why. The “Yellow Peril” is a convenient scapegoat for politicians and their partisan followers eager to divert popular anger toward a foreign – and non-white and non-black – scapegoat. Oldsters will recall another yellowish peril, Japan, which supposedly threatened to upend American economic supremacy by […]

Know Your Rights: What to do If Stopped by the Police

From the ACLU website. YOUR RIGHTS – You have the right to remain silent. If you wish to exercise that right, say so out loud. – You have the right to refuse to consent to a search of yourself, your car or your home. – If you are […]

Totalitarian Humanism: Neo-Calvinist Puritanism with a Little Spice of Maoism

Fantastic discussion of the origin and nature of political correctness with Derek Turner.

The Original Homeland Security

Dissent!

Maybe Paul Krugman Isn't So Bad After All

Kevin Carson explains why. Krugman is entirely correct in arguing that, as the economy is currently structured, there is no way to achieve full employment other than government spending to make up the demand shortfall.  But there’s no plausible scenario in which the economy, once kick-started by Keynesian […]

The State Against Blacks

The Wall Street Journal interviews black libertarian Walter Williams. For those interested in how race, class, and the state really intersect, Williams’ book The State Against Blacks is a must read.

The Limits of Libertarianism

An interesting and sympathetic critique of libertarianism from someone who appears to be paleocon-leaning. Read it here. It’s actually the second part of a critique that began here. This writer identifies what I consider to one of the core weaknesses of anti-state radicals, i.e. their inability to develop […]

Bill Kauffman on the Secessionist Movements of North America

Kaufmann’s new book is reviewed at The American Conservative. Philosophical anarchism provides us with the ideology. Secession provides us with the methodology.

An Right-Wing Extremist Under Every Bed?

The $PLC and other professional hate-watchers think so. Jesse Walker fills us in. We also know, for example, that Loughner was deeply interested in lucid dreaming, in reality-bending movies such as Waking Life and Donnie Darko, and in the science-fiction novels of Philip K. Dick, a writer whose […]

Pre-Meditated Murder, Not "Insanity": Thomas Szasz on the Tucson Massacre

From The Freeman. E. Fuller Torrey, a recognized expert on schizophrenic murderers, agrees. He refers to Loughner as “the alleged shooter” and states that he “is reported to have had symptoms associated with schizophrenia … and almost certainly was seriously mentally ill and untreated…. These tragedies are the […]

GI Jane and the End of Conservatism

So argues James Kirkpatrick. I disagree with this author’s argument that women make inherently incompetent soldiers. See here, here, here, here, here, and here. But the important part of this writer’s argument is that even the supposedly most conservative institution in the U.S. is itself thoroughly penetrated by […]

Paul Gottfried on Totalitarian Humanism as Neo-Christianity

Watch the interview with Craig Bodeker. Also, Srdja Trifovic contrasts soft and hard totalitarianism.

Ike Was Right About the Military-Industrial Complex

From The Independent In his speech, Eisenhower warned about the growth of a ‘military-industrial complex,’ and the risks it could pose. “The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power,” Ike said, “exists and will persist.” His anxieties back then were prompted by the ten-fold expansion of the […]

Secession or Depression: Which Will It Be?

Ron Holland on impending economic meltdown.

PIGS Terrorize Family

Geez, what else is new? Radley Balko gives the rundown on another routine incident of servin’ and protectin’.

The Trouble with Liberty

A critique of libertarianism from New York magazine by Christopher Beam. This critique is limited solely to the modern postwar American version of libertarianism. It doesn’t reference classical anarchism or even modern left-anarchism at all. So it’s focus is pretty narrow. A much more comprehensive treatment of anti-state […]

Strauss, Beyond Left and Right

by Jack Ross http://www.amconmag.com/postright/2011/01/13/strauss-beyond-left-and-right/ Paul Gottfried has paid me the high compliment of writing an extended response to a message board comment I made of his essay on the critics of Leo Strauss.  Though I’m amused that Gottfried seems to be taken in by the argument of some […]

That 1918 Feeling

by Jack Ross http://www.amconmag.com/postright/2011/01/13/that-1918-feeling/ Though it may well be too soon to assume any real significance to the withdrawal of Hezbollah from the Lebanese government, it is nevertheless suggestive of what I have argued for a while – that we are on the brink of an uprising across […]

Drug War Kabuki Theater

Kevin Carson on the modern version of the Baptist/Bootlegger alliance. The ostensible opposing sides in the so-called Drug War have a similar relationship.  In the real world, the private drug cartels derive their power from the existence of a lucrative black market which the state plays a central […]

The Rent's Still Too Damn High-Here's How to Lower It

Kevin Carson tells us how to do it. These are the kinds of economic policies I envision future pan-secessionist and alternative anarchist organizations bringing into the arena of public debate and into the political mainstream.

The Revolution in Tunisia

Will others be inspired? Also, some interesting observations from Chris Kennedy at LewRockwell.Com.

Some Drugs Are More Equal Than Others

So says “Thoreau.” As a helpful guide to our readers, I have prepared a detailed classification scheme for illegal drugs: Class Ia:  The drugs that you used when you were young and wild.  Not as potent as today’s drugs, and nothing to get judgmental about.  Sometimes worth getting […]

The New White Nationalism in America

Scott McConnell of The American Conservative reviewed this book by Vanderbilt law professor Carol Swain. I consider this book to be the very best scholarly work on the question of American white nationalism. In fact, it is probably the only such work of any genuine quality. Dr. Swain […]

Yeah, They Might Evolve Into Athens or Florence

James J. O’Meara discusses homosexuality in Islamic culture, and the false dichotomy of the “progressive” West and “benighted” Islam promoted by the Neocons. I’ve discussed this false dichotomy with regards to other issues in the past. See here.

The Contradictions of Noam Chomsky

Excellent, comprehensive take down of the High Priest of Left-Anarchism by left-anarchist Roderick T. Long. I will always acknowledge my intellectual debt to Chomsky, whose writings more than those of anyone else helped me to develop a thorough understanding of the history and nature of U.S. imperialism. But […]

Secession: TIME Magazine's Top Ten Aspiring Nations

Congratulations to the Second Vermont Republic and the Republic of Cascadia! (thanks, Jim)

*Note on Racial Separatism

One of the biggest controversies surrounding myself is my association with the national-anarchists, my recognition of them as a legitimate branch of anarchism, and efforts to include them as part of a pan-secessionist alliance. This statement by the National Anarchist Tribal Alliance of New York provides what is […]

Left and Right Against Fascism

This interview with Naomi Wolf gives a good overview of the real problems with the police state that has arisen from the terror war. Read it here. Wolf is actually a pretty good antidote to the histrionics of the Glenn Beck and/or Alex Jones crowd. She actually provides […]

Sociopaths All Look Alike

Modern Utopians-Communes of the 60s and 70s

Interesting article from Alternet on the utopian communities during the Age of Aquarius.

Self-Ownership and Mutualist Property Theory

Shawn Wilbur on the C4SS symposium. Wilbur has done some great work making Proudhon’s stuff more accessible.

Community Resilience in Detroit

Achieving economic self-determination in one of America’s most depressed cities. Read the article.

Why the Right Was Blamed

by James Leroy Wilson http://www.partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=3564&RSS=1 It was to be expected, right from the day of Barack Obama’s election as Presdient. As the Tea Party grew, it became not a question of “if” but of “when.” Some lunatic was going to shoot a Democratic (or even moderate Republican) politician, […]

Greenwashed Corporatism is Still Corporatism

Kevin Carson explains why.

The Latest Shootings in America: An English View

Dr. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance offers one.

Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents

1 Christianity: 2.1 billion 2 Islam: 1.5 billion 3 Agnostic/Atheist: 1.1 billion 4 Hinduism: 900 million 5 Chinese religion: 394 million 6 Buddhism: 376 million 7 Primal-indigenous: 300 million 8 African Traditional: 100 million 9 Sikhism: 23 million 10 Juche: 19 million 11 Spiritism: 15 million 12 Judaism: […]

Talking Common Sense on the Gabrielle Giffords Incident

“Most the people who knew the AZ shooter called him a “nut” and a “Left wing pothead”. It’s interesting to watch all the Left TV shows and read the Leftist blogs, They are all trying to blame this kid’s actions on the “Right wing” and gun ownership. It’s […]

The Kingdom in the Closet

Interesting article from The Atlantic on Saudi Arabia’s gay subculture.

Land Tenure and Anarchic Common Law

A symposium on property and ownership theory at the  Center for a Stateless Society. Looks interesting,