Article by William Van Nostrand. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— In his 1981 book, The Nine Nations of North America, Joel Garreau argues that, because of the vast differences between several parts of North America, the many national borders are irrelevant, and, that indeed, the United States and Canada are not just two […]
Hat tip to Lew Rockwell. What a shame Frank is not still around to bash the system.
Article by Jim Goad. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Prostitution is the world’s oldest profession, and last Wednesday police in Phoenix arrested what appear to be some of the world’s oldest prostitutes. Judging from their mug shots, they may rank among the world’s unseemliest strumpets, too. At least fifteen accused “sex workers” […]
From Propaganda Lalaland. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Ten years ago, the violence that the US perpetrates all over the globe finally came back to its shores. I don’t remember where I was exactly when “I heard what happened”, and I couldn’t really care. What happened that day happens all the time […]
From The Prime Directive. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-
Article by Darian Worden. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- It’s not uncommon to hear that “everything changed” on September 11, 2001. While it is not true that policies that came after September 11 were always different from what was done before, the tragic attacks on that day did lead to major changes. […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– In a recent address to the VFW, Mitt Romney denounced proposals for so-called “Defense” cuts as motivated by a desire for America to be a “lesser power” — which, in turn, “flows from the conviction that if we are weak, tyrants will choose […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————–
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Michael Lind, at Salon (“Why libertarians apologize for autocracy,” Aug. 30,) charges libertarians with an affinity for authoritarian regimes when it comes to implementing “free market reform.” Of course he produces the obligatory quote from Mises on Mussolini having “saved European civilization,” along […]
Article by David D’Amato. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— For many Americans, comfortably situated at the heart of the empire, September 11th was a rude awakening, and not just in the most obvious way; to those who took the time to really consider the harrowing events of that day ten years ago, […]
Article by Guy Somerset. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– The day John Kennedy was killed, few thought it was anything other than exactly what it seemed to be. Most believed that the crime was committed by the party named as the perpetrator. A weapon was used that, although having lethal properties, was […]
Article by Patrick Foy. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- With the 9/11 anniversary upon us once again, Middle East expert Robert Fisk in Beirut has written an instructive article about our predicament. He says that we have lied to ourselves for 10 years to avoid asking the one real question: Why did […]
Article by Jim Kalb. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millenium, by Paul Edward Gottfried (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2005). (SDM) Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt: Toward a Secular Theocracy, by Paul Edward Gottfried (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002). […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————– Kabul (CNN) — The Taliban have accused the United States of killing tens of thousands of Afghans and brutally torturing others in a defiant statement marking the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks against the United States. The statement accuses the United States of […]
From CNN. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- Cairo (CNN) — Egypt’s military leaders on Saturday promised to re-establish order, a day after an attack on the Israeli Embassy heightened tensions in Egypt and Israel. Officials reactivated the country’s emergency law, according to Mohamed Hegazy, spokesman for the prime minister. The move makes […]
Article by Russell Longcore. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————— Legendary comedian Jack Benny, known to be a skinflint, was met one night by an armed thug. “Your money or your life,” said the thug. Benny was silent. The thug said, “Well, what’s it going to be?” I’m thinking…I’m thinking!” was Benny’s reply. […]
Article by Mike Adams. —————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- This is an urgent message that departs from the usual health freedom focus of NaturalNews. I apologize in advance for NaturalNews readers who do not wish to read about these issues, as they can be uncomfortable for some who prefer to simply not […]
Article by Tom Engelhardt. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- September 08, 2011 “Tom Dispatch” – – Let’s bag it. I’m talking about the tenth anniversary ceremonies for 9/11, and everything that goes with them: the solemn reading of the names of the dead, the tolling of bells, the honoring of first responders, […]
Article by Sean Gabb. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- A police officer during rioting in London. Both liberals and conservatives are mistaken in their approach to the justice system. Picture: AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis Published on Thursday 1 September 2011 19:00 // THE big test of a criminal justice system is how […]
Interesting website.
See the Washington Post report.
Article by Laurence Vance. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————- “Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly terrorist acts. . . . America was targeted for attack because we’re the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.” […]
Read the obituary. The State is our eternal enemy. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————-
Article by Laurence Vance. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– “Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.” ~ George W. Bush, September 11, 2001 We have heard it repeated loudly and continuously since 9/11 – the troops are defending our freedoms. This claim is made […]
Check it out! Nice work, Luke! ———————————————————————————————— ATS-UK is a blog founded to promote alternative-anarchism within a UK-specific context. Our intention is to form a coalition of dissident tendencies from across the left/right spectrum united in opposition to the British state. Alternative-anarchism is a return to anarchism’s core […]
Totalitarian Humanism strikes in France. Take note, “anarchists.” ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Famously flamboyant fashion designer John Galliano seen here earlier this year. September 8th, 2011 [Updated at 8:57 a.m.] Flamboyant fashion designer John Galliano was found guilty Thursday on charges of making anti-Semitic comments against at least three people in […]
Watch the Video. —————————————————————————————————————————————- Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 — December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was killed as he lay in bed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Once, it was a Labor Day tradition for Democrats to go to Cadillac Square in Detroit to launch their campaigns in that forge and furnace of American democracy, the greatest industrial center on earth. Democrats may still honor the tradition. But Detroit is […]
Article by Scott Locklin. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Conservatives like to talk about the causes of Western Civilization’s downfall: feminism, loose morality, drug abuse, Christianity’s decline, reality TV. Blaming civilization’s downfall on lardy hagfish such as Andrea Dworkin is like a doctor diagnosing senility by an old person’s wrinkles. The fact […]
Article by John Whitehead. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not […]
From The Gawker. ————————————————————————————————————————————— Think of it as Thelma & Louise 2: F2M. Two employees of a Phoenix Wal-Mart are in police custody after having robbed the store of $45,000. Half of the money was spent on a getaway car; the other half was set aside so that […]
From Gawker.Com ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Since this is Back to School time, we asked for all of your horror stories from those school days, school days, good old golden rule days. We were shocked by the number of gross, embarrassing, depressing, and hilarious tales that we got. But there can […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Two of my fellow STR writers and guest editors that I much enjoy to read, weebies and John deLaubenfels, have each come out with a column on the eternally contentious abortion issue. On first glance, one might say that weebies’ article is pro-life, […]
From the Green Star. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- By Andrew Kreig (about the author) Christopher Edley, Jr. by University of California President-Elect Obama’s advisers feared in 2008 that authorities would oust him in a coup and that Republicans would block his policy agenda if he prosecuted Bush-era war crimes, according to […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- I’ve written frequently on the federal regulatory state as a source of monopoly rents to big business. But the true nature of regulations as a naked power grab by incumbent businesses is nowhere more apparent than at the local level. At the state […]
Watch the video.
CNN’s Ben Wedeman and Ingrid Formanek reporting from Tripoli, Libya – ——————————————————————————————————————————————– TRIPOLI, Libya (CNN) – A potent stash of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles is missing from a huge Tripoli weapons warehouse amid reports of weapons looting across war-torn Libya. They are Grinch SA-24 shoulder-launched missiles, also known as Igla-S […]
Article by Ivan Eland. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Documents found in the files of Muammar Gadhafi’s intelligence services in Libya, which indicated that the now overthrown dictator cooperated closely with U.S. rendition of terrorist suspects to his torture chambers, should prompt questions about how much President Barack Obama has improved civil […]
Hell, no! ————————————————————————————————————————————— of 9/11? Unfortunately, it may be how the American people have responded to that event. 10 years after 9/11, is America a better place? Sadly, the answer clearly is no. In the ten years that have passed, a fundamental shift in our culture has occurred. […]
Article by Tom Engelhardt and Noam Chomsky. Glad to see Professor Noam is still hitting home runs well into his eighties. ————————————————————————————————————————————— This is, of course, the week before the tenth anniversary of the day that “changed everything.” And enough was indeed changed that it’s easy to forget […]
Article by Walter Williams. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- At one of last month’s Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored “job fairs,” Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told the audience: “This is the effort that we’re seeing of Jim Crow. Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. […]
Part Two is now available. Listen to it here. Listen to Part One here. The entire two hours is a discussion of my article “Liberty and Populism: Building an Effective Resistance Movement for North America.“
From the Green Star. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Anarchists trying to stop evictions at Europe’s largest illegal travellers’ site are stockpiling rocks on a watchtower, raising fears they are planning to hurl them at bailiffs and police. Protesters used a wire basket to haul lumps of masonry on to a 50ft […]
Article by Glenn Reynolds. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- All over America, police have been arresting people for taking video or making sound recordings of them, even though such arrests are pretty clearly illegal. Usually, the charges are dropped once the case becomes public, and usually that’s the end of it. But […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. ———————————————————————————————————————————– Five years ago, antiwar liberals calling the Bush administration fascist were labeled as kooks, marginalized by their own party leadership, accused by conservatives of treasonous thoughts worthy of federal punishment, even deportation. A few years pass, the policies hardly change, and the political […]
From the Corbett Report. —————————————————————————————————————————————- This week GRTV talks to Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary Treasury, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, author and researcher, about the significance of 9/11 on the brink of the tenth anniversary of those events. We discuss the many points […]
Article by Ian Huyett. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Most of the 4,000 Americans who die in fires each year are asphyxiated, often in their sleep, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Of the 30,000 Americans killed in car accidents in 2009, more than 6,000 were passengers and more than 4,000 […]
Article by Steve Szkotak. So much for the notion of the South as a bastion of reactionary conservatism. This doesn’t say much for the League of the South’s chances. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- LEXINGTON, Va. — A rural Virginia city where Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson are buried on Thursday […]
Article by Jeffrey Goldberg. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- It was an extraordinary scene: President Barack Obama, sitting impassively in the Oval Office in May as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured him, at considerable length and at times condescendingly, on Jewish history, Arab perfidy and the existential challenges facing his country. […]
From American Renaissance. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- The American Renaissance conference planned for February 2010 had to be cancelled because three successive hotels that had agreed to host the conference were intimidated by “anti-fascist” thugs. We are pleased to learn that one of the speakers scheduled for the conference, David Yeagley, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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