From Infoshop.Org. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— I am going to start this off by saying I am a white guy and I am opposed to me getting beat up just because of it (even if I can come up with reasons why). That said, here we go. The article you will […]
Article by Kelley Vlahos. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Of the many revelations and questions still unresolved following the recent riots in Britain, a novel yet not altogether surprising thread has emerged but has hardly been noticed by the mainstream media: These riots were not dominated, driven nor taken advantage of by […]
Article by Philip Giraldi. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– The only change anyone can believe in in Washington is that nothing ever changes. The choice between Republican and Democrat in 2012 will likely boil down to who will be making what kind of cuts in social programs to support continuous warfare overseas. […]
Article by Nat Hentoff. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- By executive order on Aug. 4, President Barack Obama refused entry to the United States of war criminals and human-rights violators (jurist.org, Aug. 4). He ignored, as he often does, the deeply documented factual evidence of war crimes committed by the Bush-Cheney […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- iStockphoto Several weeks ago, a New York Times article by Noam Cohen examined the case of Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old copyright reform advocate who was arrested in July, after allegedly downloading academic articles that had been placed behind a paywall, thus making them available […]
Article by Stephen Walt. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– If memory serves, one of the lessons of Roger Fisher’s little book International Conflict for Beginners was “settle conflicts early and often.” This isn’t always possible, of course, but his basic insight was that unresolved conflicts are dangerous precisely because they provide opportunities […]
From Infoshop.Org. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Introduction: The meaning of the term ‘underclass’ The spontaneous uprising of the British ‘underclass’ was, of course, easily crushed by the massive force of the state amassed against it, illustrating one of the main lessons of History once more: that spontaneous uprisings can never overturn […]
Article by John Pilger. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Bankers loot the Treasury, MPs fiddle their expenses . . . and then the establishment turns on deprived young people in England’s inner cities and calls them criminals. The August disturbances weren’t riots: they were the revolt of the working class. On a […]
Article by Gavin McInnes. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– After getting screamed at by my liberal friends for doubting their doom and gloom predictions, one unavoidably oversized fact stuck in my slim, streamlined craw: People ARE getting fat. The average lifespan has been on a steady climb since we began recording it, […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– In the wake of Romney’s “corporations are people” gaffe, Reuters’ John F. Wasik points out what ought to be obvious, but may not be for many Americans. “The ‘people’ Washington helps most,” he argues, are “big corporations,” noting the “infinite amounts of money” […]
Corporations or the State? —————————————————————————————————————————————————- I’ve generally sided with those who claim business is more powerful than government; that the present-day nation-state functions basically as a rubber stamp for business, which is where the real Power resides. Admittedly the largest government, that of the United States, has a […]
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From Intifada: Voice of Palestine. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— “I am also absolutely certain as a strategic analyst that 9/11 itself, from which all else flows, was a classic Mossad-orchestrated operation. But Mossad did not do it alone.” By Dr. Alan Sabrosky* / Intifada Palestine Many years ago I read a […]
Article by Daniel Miller. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Months ago I made a prediction about Rick Perry’s run for President. Join TNM Today! http://www.texasnationalist.com/joinEven before it was a dead certain lock that Perry would run I stared into my political crystal ball and made this prognostication. […]
Ernst Junger’s classic essay. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Among the signs of the epoch we have now entered belongs the increased intrusion of danger into daily life. There is no accident concealing itself behind this fact but a comprehensive change of the inner and outer world. We see this dearly when […]
Article by David Bromwich. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Obama presidency? The record shows impressive continuities between the two administrations, and nowhere more than in the policy of “force projection” in the Arab world. With one war half-ended in Iraq, but another doubled in […]
Article by Charles Coulombe. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Bert and Ernie Maybe it’s my age—or maybe life really is getting crazier—but even for California, it feels ever more to me that we have slipped down a rabbit hole. The latest evidence for this is the push to have the characters Bert […]
Article by Charles Johnson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— For most of the 20th century, American libertarians were mostly seen as — and mostly saw themselves as — defenders of capitalism. Was that an accurate view of 20th century libertarians were about? If accurate, is that a good thing about libertarianism, or […]
Article by Ezra Klein. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– In 2006, Robert Putnam and David Campbell began a research project on political attitudes that included interviewing a nationally representative sample of 3,000 Americans. They then went back to talk to the same group of people over this summer. “As a result,” they […]
Article by Atika Shubert. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– London (CNN) — In the midst of the looting in north London, I saw a young man being arrested for attempting to steal a TV from a shopping mall. The plate glass windows had been smashed in and the steel shutters pried open. […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Lyndon Johnson: Father of Gun Control I’ve always been curious how American progressives got on the wrong – anti-civil liberties – side of gun control. In my mind this has been a grave strategic error. I have written elsewhere about the extreme difficulty […]
Article by Arthur Silber. —————————————————————————————————————————————- I can admit when I’ve made a mistake. I’ve made a whole bunch of ’em lately. A related realization, which comes tragically late in my life: just because I’m a limp-wristed, nelly faggot, that doesn’t mean I have to think like one. Lots […]
Article by Michel Bauwens. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Mira Luna writes in Shareable: “While mainstream America is hoping for federal economic reform, some social justice organizations have a radically different idea, and are organizing low-income communities to build a new economy from the grassroots up. Tired of asking for change from […]
Article by Ben Farmer. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The agreement would allow not only military trainers to stay to build up the Afghan army and police, but also American special forces soldiers and air power to remain. The prospect of such a deal has already been met with anger among Afghanistan’s […]
From PoliticusUSA. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- In every country on Earth, there are people who live in opulence because they were lucky enough to be born into wealth or fortunate enough to live in a society that rewards initiative and hard work. There are though, segments of every society that barely […]
From Infoshop.Org. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Last month, Tiffany White,an African American mother of two, and union leader and organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World Starbucks Workers Union, was terminated without justification from a New York Starbucks. The practice of targeting female union members continues in Nebraska, with recent […]
Article by John Whitehead. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— “Certain journalists use ‘dominionist’ the way some folks on Fox News use the word ‘sharia.’ Its strangeness scares people. Without history or context, the word creates a siege mentality in which ‘we’ need to guard against ‘them.’”–Lisa Miller, “‘Dominionism’ beliefs among conservative Christians […]
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So sang Steppenwolf. Maybe they were referring to Rev. Zachery Tims. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Times Square has cleaned up a lot over the last 20 years or so! But there’s still no better place on earth to die with drugs in your pocket. Especially if you’re the pastor of […]
Listen Here. Part Two of this interview will be aired on Robert’s program next week at the same time. Robert Stark interviews returning guest Keith Preston. Topics include: Keith’s upcoming speech at the NPI conference; Keith’s essay on liberty and populism. Keith Preston was born in Lynchburg, […]
Article by Michael Parish. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- This article reminded me of one of the things I dislike most about liberalism, its mistaking beauracratic management of social ills with organic community. This is accomplished by phrasing questions of poverty in a binary opposition of “free market” versus “welfare state”, equating […]
From The Daily Anarchist. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— For those of you with children now and those who will have children in the future, guard them. As precious as a child is to a parent they are equally so to the state. Children are the future, as the old saying goes. […]
Article by Steven Greenhut. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Six Fullerton cops, responding to a phone call alleging that someone in the downtown area might be breaking into cars, approached a 130-pound homeless man named Kelly Thomas, grabbed his backpack and, according to eyewitnesses, began Tasering him and beating him into a […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Sativex – marijuana by prescription This is the last of three posts on ending the War on Drugs. Unlike the federal government, states aren’t allowed to run deficits. Since the 2008 economic collapse, both Democratic and Republican dominated states have been extremely proactive […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Free culture activist Nina Paley, in one of her cartoons, parodied the philosophy behind “intellectual property.” EUNICE: “Copying a song instead of buying a copy is stealing!” MIMI: “Doing for yourself what you could pay someone else to do is stealing!” BOTH: “Competition […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Watching two intellectually challenged Ken dolls with “executive-style hair” — Mitt Romney and Rick Perry — preparing to fight it out reminds me how much I miss Dan Quayle. Oddly enough, just before I heard about Romney’s latest blooper, I was reading about […]
Article by Donald Livingston. —————————————————————————————————————————————– The conservative political tradition is usually thought to begin with Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. Burke observed that the Revolution did not aim at reforming society but at overturning the entire social and political order and replacing it with one […]
Article by Steven Hargreaves. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Minimizing the armed forces’ dependence on oil saves soldiers’ lives and the move towards renewables is a lifeline like no other for the green energy industry. (Click the image for more information.) NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — One out of eight U.S. Army casualties […]
From Voice of Reason. Robert interviews John Médaille. Topics include: Flaws of current monopoly based economic situtation; Introduction to distributism; Distributist success stories; Distributist solutions to government, taxes, & healthcare. Implementing & promoting distributism. John Médaille is a retired businessman who teaches in the Theology and Business departments […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— In Oakland, California, where I live, urban homesteading – growing food on private land for small-scale trade and consumption – has become so common the city government has backed off a bit. In a rare triumph for sanity and freedom, anachronistic zoning ordinances […]
Article by John Whitehead. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- “The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.” ~ Bryan Stevenson, death row lawyer “Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. […]
Article by Bill Anderson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– This past year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down much of the “Honest Services Fraud” law that federal prosecutors were using as the catch-all for targeting whomever they wanted to have thrown into prison. As I wrote two years ago, this law was […]
Article by Carol Cratty. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– U.S. officials warn the threat posed by a lone gunman or a group with small arms is a serious concern to law enforcement. A joint intelligence bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI cites the July attack in Norway […]
Article by Russell Longcore. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Jesus Christ could not get elected in America in 2012. My point is that it’s not the character, morals or honesty of any human being that wants to be President that matter. It is all about who will prostitute themselves more than all […]
From CNN Money. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– The United States is making a special bulk purchase of poultry products that’s partly aimed at shrinking the glut of chicken in the market and keeping producers in business. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The United States is stepping in to help bail out another […]
Now that’s efficiency. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- (CNN) — A “flash mob” believed to have been organized on the Internet robbed a Maryland convenience store in less than a minute, police said Tuesday, and now authorities are using the same tool to identify participants in the crime. Surveillance video shows a […]
I had to read this headline three times to fully get what I was reading. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Six years ago, Areleh Harel, an Orthodox rabbi from the West Bank, devised a plan to help an Orthodox Jewish gay man fulfill his dream of becoming a husband and father while […]
Congressman Pat Meehan shows whose side he’s really on. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Next week, I will be traveling to Israel as a member of a Congressional delegation that will meet with senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders to discuss the security situation in the Middle East. The last several months have […]
Article by Ann Wright. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. —————————————————————————————————————————————— Larry Toenjes, 74, from Clear Lake Shores, Texas, is sailing his 39-foot sailboat, the s/v Liberty, to the coordinates of the June 8, 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 sailors and wounded another 173. […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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