by Sheldon Richman http://www.fff.org/comment/com1101o.asp What is American politics coming to? I just watched a joint interview with Ralph Nader and Rep. Ron Paul — and they were mostly on the same side! Nader has spent his life promoting government intervention in the economy. Paul has spent his life […]
Raimondo reflects on the events transpiring in the Middle East. The revolutionary wave now sweeping the world will not exempt America, in spite of the myth of “American exceptionalism.” We cannot and will not be excepted from the iron laws of economics, which mandate that you can’t consume […]
Analysis by civil liberties attorney John Whitehead. Most Americans have been lulled into thinking that the pressing issues are voting in the next election or repealing health care. This is largely due to the media hoopla over the Tea Party, the recent elections and the health care law, […]
An Irish Anarcho-Syndicalist shares his impression of the left-wing anarchist movement in North America. See the interview here. What he describes is pretty much the same thing that I observed during my time in that movement during the 80s. Some highlights with my comments: In total I spoke […]
Jack Ross has some interesting commentaries on the state of affairs in the Middle East at The American Conservative. Some Blunt Truths about Iran That 1989 Feeling Obama and the Palestine Papers Trade Unionism and the Arab Revolt The Neocon Hitler-Stalin Pact Moment The Neocon Hitler-Stalin Pact Moment
Murray Rothbard’s classic. Twenty years ago I was an extreme right-wing Republican, a young and lone “Neanderthal” (as the liberals used to call us) who believed, as one friend pungently put it, that “Senator Taft had sold out to the socialists.” Today, I am most likely to be […]
Now, this really is something I thought I’d never see.
The youth are the future. A statistic from PPP that got little play from liberal commentaries showed that American youths — not the tea parties — are more inclined to think of violence against the US government as acceptable. A full 17 percent of those ages 18-29 said […]
by Andrew Yeoman http://www.bayareanationalanarchists.com/?p=273 “There is a distinction to be made between a principled anti-Zionism, and legitimate critique of Jewish influence, political & economic power, and the Judeo-Obsessiveness of many ‘Rightists’ and Nationalists who trace everything and anything back to the Great Jewish Conspiracy, unbroken and relentless, going […]
I’m not one who buys into the FOX News conspiracy theory about how Obama is a Marxist revolutionary acting as a puppet for Bill Ayers, but this critique of Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn is interesting. Today, the wily Ayers and his wife sit pretty atop American […]
In 2005, the NCAA began its crusade against universities with racially “hostile or abusive” logos and nicknames. Among its targets: Florida State’s Seminoles, the University of Illinois’ Chief Illiniwek, and yes, UND’s Fighting Sioux. Last year, the North Dakota State Board of Education voted to retire the nickname completely, which will happen […]
Lew Rockwell interviews Roderick Long. Long articulates the anarchist position very well in this. Professor Long stresses that the state is just a bunch of people, not supermen. Its power is an illusion, coercing us only because we consent to be ruled. But education about the State, and […]
Lew Rockwell interviews revisionist historian Thaddeus Russell. This is great stuff. Professor Russell’s new Renegade History of the United States speaks volumes to the eternal conflict between those who hold power and all the ordinary peoples. The Founding Fathers wanted the British regime without the King. The wonderfully […]
…As if they needed anymore dumbing down. Maury2Ktakes down the Republicans. The original Tea Party came out of the Ron Paul for President movement. At the early demonstrations, “Audit the FED” signs were always prominent. That was then, this is now. Where are those signs today? Ask Palin […]
Maury2K takes down the Democrats. What was truly shameful was not drug-addled carnival barker Rush Limbaugh saying on his radio show that America’s health insurance system is perfect, but, rather, Democrats on the floor of the House, maintaining that the solution to the health care crisis is pouring […]
An article on Italy’s third positionist movement. It’s obviously written from a hard left perspective, so some of the analysis has to be taken with a grain of salt. (thanks, Jim!) “You’d be forgiven for thinking that a group of zine-publishing techie squatters into rock music, baiting the […]
The great William Norman Grigg tells it like it is. Every week — actually, every day — innocent people across the country are harassed, abused, brutalized, tortured, and murdered by armed strangers in government-issued costumes. Most of the assailants are never held accountable. Often, they are placed on […]
My latest column at Alternative Right.
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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 […]
Seema Jilani on the outgroup that the enlightened, respectable folks hate.
…strikes in Canada. Tipper would be proud.
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 […]
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 […]
Fantastic discussion of the origin and nature of political correctness with Derek Turner.
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 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.
A Leftist who uses the name of “Equus” has posted a limited critique of ATS on Royce Christian’s blog. Read it here. My response: Equus begins his rebuttal by offering a concise and helpful summary of the points of his refutation. I repeat it in full: My objection […]
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 […]
Kaufmann’s new book is reviewed at The American Conservative. Philosophical anarchism provides us with the ideology. Secession provides us with the methodology.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Watch the interview with Craig Bodeker. Also, Srdja Trifovic contrasts soft and hard totalitarianism.
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 […]
Ron Holland on impending economic meltdown.
Geez, what else is new? Radley Balko gives the rundown on another routine incident of servin’ and protectin’.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
Will others be inspired? Also, some interesting observations from Chris Kennedy at LewRockwell.Com.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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