Watch the video. This is interesting as Bookchin describes how he moved past the classical socialist theory of class exploitation when he realized that the working class had become a middle class, that unions had become status quo institutions, and Marxism simply a new form of statist oppression. […]
Bill Lind’s classic. Doesn’t this sound just like the anti-ATS chorus? The most deadly aspect of Cultural Marxism/Totalitarian Humanism is that it identifies broad categories of human beings that are undefined as evil by virtue of their mere existence as the principal enemy, as opposed to attacking specific […]
All about Distributivism. It’s always seemed to me that the appropriate economic paradigm for anarcho-pluralism/pan-secessionism would be a synthesis of distributivist ideas like John promotes and the ideas of classical libertarian socialism of the kind Larry Gambone has described in detail incorporated into a broader ideological framework of libertarian […]
Article by Larry Gambone. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— I see Occupy’s situation today as analogous to that of the Civil Rights Movement. As long as they stayed in the South Northern liberals loved them. But when the movement went North and started confronting racism there, it became “Dr. King, you are […]
Article by Alex Pareene. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Newt Gingrich (Credit: AP) TOPICS:NEWT GINGRICH, 2012 ELECTIONS, REPUBLICAN PARTY, DRUGS The thing reporters always loved about Newt Gingrich — and the thing that led many of them to mistake his free-associative rambling for intellect — is that he will just babble, at length, on any […]
So says a liberal writer from Salon. Com. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Ron Paul, phony populist (Credit: AP) TOPICS:RON PAUL, 2012 ELECTIONS, POPULISM To me, the epiphany of the most dreadful presidential campaign in history took place in Keene, New Hampshire, last week, when a Ron Paul town meeting was interrupted by some Occupy Wall Street […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Buried in the annual defense appropriations bill is a provision that would give the President the power to use the military to intern anyone – including American citizens– indefinitely, and hold them without charges or trial, anywhere in the world,including on American soil. The provision essentially […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— If you haven’t watched Annie Leonard’s “The Story of Stuff,” I suggest you do. These videos include detailed examinations of the waste economy, subsidized inefficiency and planned obsolescence. A recent installment, “The Story of Broke,” itemizes wasteful government spending on things like the […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– First it was Lt. John Pike of the UC Davis police, whose fast draw with the pepper spray relegated him to a lifetime of knowing everyone he interacts with secretly regards him as lower than a tapeworm in Satan’s colon. His nationally viewed […]
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From Veterans Today. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Our uniquely massive support for Israel has cost trillions of dollars and multitudes of lives. It has diminished our moral standing in the world, lessened our domestic freedoms, and exposed us to unnecessary and growing peril. The majority of Americans – as well as our diplomatic and military experts – […]
Article by Fred Reed. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Justice at Last by dumpdc Count’em by Fred Reed (Editor’s Note: Here is a somewhat tongue-in-cheek article about how legislation really works. This is the law of unintended consequences…blowback.) The Look Like America bill, originally H.R. 1533, seemed a perfectly ordinary piece of feel-good legislation […]
The neocons’ favorite Democrat makes an ass of himself again. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Senator Joe Lieberman’s latest battle is making sure that more things can be branded as terrorism on the Internet. Talking Points Memo obtained a letter written by Lieberman to Google CEO Larry Page requesting that Google implement […]
Article by Francois de Siebenthal. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– The following is a lecture given by Mr. François de Siebenthal — an economist and Consul General of the Philippines in Switzerland — at our headquarters in Rougemont, Quebec, Canada, on March 2005. Mr. de Siebenthal demonstrated to those present how easy […]
…and then says no to any further dialogue. In some ways, this discussion reminds me of the foreign policy debates between realists and liberal-humanist-universalists. Not coincidentally, the realist George Kennan became a supporter of something resembling pan-secessionism in his final years, whereas supporters of “human rights internationalism” typically […]
Watch the video. This is a great discussion, and an example of the kind of civil and intelligent dialogue between the radical Left and radical Right that there needs to be more of.
Article by Charles Coulombe. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The latest flap over a Benetton ad campaign is far from the first in that notoriously tasteless company’s history. Obama is shown kissing the President of China, French chief of State Nicolas Sarkozy liplocks with German Kanzlerin Angela Merkel, and the pope swaps spit with some […]
Article by Jim Goad. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— This has been the Year of the Vermin. With the Arab Spring, the black flash mobs, the London riots, and the OWS camper babies, we’ve had an eyeful of what “the people” really look like. It ain’t pretty. They don’t look nearly as […]
Article by Brian Foley. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- I marched with Occupy Oakland last Saturday, but I’ve had a change of heart. I’m joining the One Percent. The One Percent have fun. They have jobs and money. Or just money, because when you have a lot of money, you don’t need […]
Article by Alexander Cockburn. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- The last time we met Michael Bérubé on this site was back in 2007, and he was up to his neck in a rubbish dump, where I’d placed him, in the company of other promoters of the 2003 war on Iraq: where, I […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35 per cent of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands […]
From The New York Times. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Parallels between Iraq’s former nuclear weapons program and the Iranian nuclear program have shaped policy debates for nearly a decade. We are still paying the costs of failing in Iraq. Israel now seems determined to make similar mistakes in Iran.
Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Is there a single region of the world where the United States government isn’t scheming to grab more control, more influence, and have more of a military presence? In Pakistan, a memo has been unearthed from “President” Zardari to Admiral Mike Mullen, head of the joint chiefs […]
Ha! Talk about a Heel vs Heel match. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Sheriff Threatens Feds With SWAT Team As more people became dissatisfied with federal government controls and land grabs, it was inevitable that local law enforcement would eventually see the bigger picture. At the northern California fairgrounds of Yreka […]
Like him or not, has he committed any crime?
From ABC News. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The U.S. Department of Justice is looking for fluent Ebonics speakers to fill nine drug enforcement jobs, giving merit to a dialect that experts say is often mimicked and little understood. The federal Drug Enforcment Administration translators would work out of the Atlanta field office according to […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Pastor Michael Stevens at a “Gathering of Solidarity with the State of Israel” event in Brooklyn, New York. November 26th, 2011 10:00 PM ET Share Comments (1,630 comments) Permalink Israel’s backers step up efforts to win African-American support By Heather M. Higgins, CNN Brooklyn, New York (CNN) […]
Article by Nicholas West. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Activist Post A new level of invasive screening is scheduled for airports this summer: a portable DNA scanner to conduct on-site, real-time genetic testing. This technology is being implemented under the cover of combating human trafficking, illegal immigration, and finding missing persons, but […]
Article by Naomi Wolf. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– November 26, 2011 “The Guardian” – – vUS citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the nation this past week. An elderly woman was pepper-sprayed in […]
From CNN. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— CNN) — NATO helicopters opened fire on a Pakistani checkpoint early Saturday, killing 26 soldiers, a provincial governor said. At least 14 soldiers were wounded in the attack in the Mohmand Agency area, said Syed Masood Kausar, governor of northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Mohmand Agency is […]
From Poor Richards Blog. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– While nearly all Americans head to family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Senate is gearing up for a vote on Monday or Tuesday that goes to the very heart of who we are as Americans. The Senate will be voting on […]
From Infowars.Com —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Thursday, November 24, 2011 We now know what those six Russian warships that reportedly entered Syrian territorial waters last week were carrying. Aside from representing a show of strength to discourage NATO powers from launching a military attack, on board were Russian technical experts ready […]
Bill would outlaw talking to representatives of Iran.
From DumpDC. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— If you believe that the United States is the “sole superpower” in the world, then you really need to read the rest of this article. Most Americans have very little idea what is actually going on in the rest of the world and how the […]
From Media Lens. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The IAEA, Iran And ‘Fantasy Land’ Earlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released its much-trailed report ‘presenting new evidence’, said the BBC, ‘suggesting that Iran is secretly working to obtain a nuclear weapon.’ Relying on ‘evidence provided by more than 10 member […]
Article by William Anderson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Several years ago, James Bovard wrote that large numbers of Americans working in government positions simply are not subject to obeying laws that other Americans must follow – or go to prison. Lest anyone doubt what he says, the recent recommendation by a special […]
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Buy the book online. This has gotten some pretty impressive endorsements: Alex Cockburn, Sean Gabb, Bill Kaufmann. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Markets Not Capitalism: Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty Ed. Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson Individualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic privilege. They […]
Black Friday Violence Reported at Stores Across the Country Despite a lagging economy and high unemployment rates, shoppers made a mad dash to stores this Black Friday even inciting moments of violence among bargain hunters this holiday season. Early reports suggest that bigger crowds were found at the […]
Article by David Ramsay Steele. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————— You’re the top! You’re the Great Houdini! You’re the top! You are Mussolini! (1) Soon after he arrived in Switzerland in 1902, 18 years old and looking for work, Benito Mussolini was starving and penniless. All he had in his pockets was a […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. There’s no political columnist around who hits harder than Dr. Roberts. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- November 23, 2011: The day before the Thanksgiving holiday brought three extraordinary news items. One was the report on the Republican presidential campaign debate. One was the Russian President’s statement about his […]
Interesting article about the factions that emerged in the period leading up to the southern secession. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- [Peter Brimelow writes: Needless to say, by no means all VDARE.com readers are Confederate sympathizers, or think that partition of the U.S. along demographic lines is desirable or inevitable—although this dark expectation is more widespread among Americans […]
Article by Derek Turner. This line from Derek’s article summarizes very well one of the principal problems with totalitarian humanism: Comparing past government performance with present, it seems as if the dearest wish of African National Congress MP Mario Rantho has already been realized: “It is imperative to […]
An important work of Alain De Benoist that has been translated into English. I hope to issue my own review of this book very soon. The ideas in this work are critical as wars for “democracy and human rights” are now the ideological justification of the empire’s militarism. […]
Article by the always interesting James J. O’Meara. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– “These ladies were so much of the place and the place so much of themselves that from the first of their being revealed to me I felt that nothing else at Brookbridge much mattered. They were what, for me, […]
Article by Eric Margolis. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— In October, 2002 I wrote in the first issue of The American Conservative an analysis of the impending Iraq War entitled “The Road to Folly.” I observed, “A war that fails to achieve clear political objectives is merely an exercise in violence and futility.” Having […]
Article by Andrew Bacevich. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— In every aspect of human existence, change is a constant. Yet change that actually matters occurs only rarely. Even then, except in retrospect, genuinely transformative change is difficult to identify. By attributing cosmic significance to every novelty and declaring every unexpected event a […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The PC police are at it again. According to a sympathetic Associated Press report on November 7 and a survey conducted by the American Association of University Women, “sexual harassment is pervasive in grades 7-12.” Such improprieties are taking place “in person or electronically via […]
Article by Conor Friedersdorf. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Jonathan Chait is the latest to write about the president as if his civil liberties abuses and executive power excesses never happened When I pleaded with liberals to stop ignoring President Obama’s failures on civil liberties, foreign policy, and the separation of powers, treating them […]
Article by Gary Kamiya. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– We’ve been through this before. As one of the most disastrous wars in our history is coming to an inglorious end, the same neoconservative hawks who dreamed it up are agitating for a new war that would make Iraq look like the invasion […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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