Article by Xeni Jardin. ——————————————————————————————————- Via CNN and other sources today, the revolting news that a senior Egyptian general admits so-called “virginity checks” (presumably, forcible examination of the hymen) were performed on women arrested in at least one demonstration this spring. Previously, military authorities denied it. Now, […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————— The Political Compass, a popular online quiz, was supposedly designed to remedy the simple-mindedness of the left-right spectrum by replacing it with two axes: political and social libertarianism vs. authoritarianism, and economic Left vs. Right. Basically, everything nice you say about big business […]
Article by Darian Worden. ——————————————————————————————————- A report in the Guardian reveals that the British Ministry of Defense has trained, and continues to train, the Saudi Arabian force that helped suppress demonstrations in Bahrain earlier this year (“UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring,” 28 May 2011). […]
FRIEDRICH Nietzsche, despite being one of the world’s most brilliant and influential philosophers, is still grossly misrepresented by political theoreticians and court academics alike. His ideas, which are notoriously hard-hitting and uncompromising, have often been used to justify or legitimise anything from capitalist exploitation and social-darwinism right through […]
Review by Wayne Price. ——————————————————————————————————– It is widely believed on the radical left that anarchism has been solely a movement of Europe and North America. Marxists and liberals state that anarchism has never had anything to offer the majority of humanity in the oppressed and impoverished nations (the […]
From Roderick Long’s blog. This is what I’ve been saying for years: That the Left has sold out to the state-corporate-military power elite in exchange for establishment support for the Left’s social agenda. ———————————————————————————————————– The pillars of the liberal establishment – the press, the church, culture, the university, […]
Article by Chris Hedges. What do our eco-inclined readers make of this? ——————————————————————————————————— The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite […]
Watch the excerpt.
Article by Andrew Bacevich. —————————————————————————————————— Everyone claims to “Support Our Troops.” But as Andrew J. Bacevich explains, telling the military it can do whatever it wants works for everyone—except for the soldiers themselves. Riders on Boston subways and trolleys are accustomed to seeing placards that advertise research being […]
Article by Gavin McInnes. ——————————————————————————————————- Like firing a fetus from a slingshot, feminism catapulted women out of the kitchen and onto the streets, where they were invited to do anything a man can do—but better. This was a blessing for the few women meant to lead a man’s […]
From the New York Times. —————————————————————————————————- A fat sheaf of F.B.I. reports meticulously details the surveillance that counterterrorism agents directed at the one-story house in East Austin. For at least three years, they traced the license plates of cars parked out front, recorded the comings and goings of […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. ——————————————————————————————————- With the end of the Cold War in 1991, it seemed the world was moving toward unity. The post-Cold War era saw the expansion of the European Union, NAFTA and GATT, the creation of a World Trade Organization, the Rome Treaty for the […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. ——————————————————————————————————– Not since Nikita Khrushchev berated Dwight Eisenhower over Gary Powers’ U-2 spy flight over Russia only weeks earlier has an American president been subjected to a dressing down like the one Barack Obama received from Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday. With this crucial difference. […]
Article from Newsweek. ——————————————————————————————————– weden has revealed the future direction of Europe, and not for the first time. For decades, Sweden led the way in defining the mixed model of free trade and social solidarity that became the European ideal. Not anymore. In the election this month Swedish […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. ——————————————————————————————————– Several days ago I noted that Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell had agreed to a four-year extension of the most controversial provisions of the Patriot Act — a bill Democrats everywhere once claimed to revile — without a single reform (despite the long […]
From Cracked.Com ————————————————————————————————– Being poor is like a game of poker where if you lose, the other players get to fuck you. And if you win, the dealer fucks you. A bunch of you reading this are among the 45 million “working poor” in America, and if you’re […]
Article by Jim Abrams. ———————————————————————————————————- Minutes before a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama signed into law a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. “It’s an important tool for us to continue dealing with an ongoing terrorist threat,” […]
Interview with Jeremy Scahill. It’s the likes of Blackwater we will have to fight in the streets when the Revolution comes. ———————————————————————————————————- The United Arab Emirates has confirmed hiring a company headed by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of the military firm Blackwater. According to the New York […]
“Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany is a horror; Adolf Hitler at a town meeting would be an asshole.” -Karl Hess
So says Ronald Reagan’s former budget director. See Part One and Part Two —————————————————————————————————— Finally, thanks to Republican policies that let us “live beyond our means for decades by borrowing heavily from abroad, we have steadily sent jobs and production offshore,” while at home “high-value jobs in goods […]
This “sluts’ rights” stuff is getting pretty intense. ——————————————————————————————————- The summer of sluts was kicked off this week when msnbc cable host Ed Schultz, perhaps channeling Dan Aykroyd in his old “Saturday Night Live” debates with Jane Curtin (“Jane, you ignorant slut!”) called conservative radio personality Laura Ingraham […]
Glenn Greenwald on David Brooks. Hat tip to David Heleniak. —————————————————————————————————— It has long been the supreme fantasy of establishment guardians in general, and David Brooks in particular, that American politics would be dominated by an incestuous, culturally homogeneous, superior elite “who live in [Washington] and who have […]
Iraq veteran killed by the S.W.A.T. ——————————————————————————————————– A U.S. Marine who died in a flurry of bullets during a drug raid near Tucson never fired on the SWAT team that stormed his house, a report by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department shows. The revelation was contained in an […]
Article by Kirkpatrick Sale. ——————————————————————————————————– Thinking about the hold of this sickness I began to reflect why it was that the movement, though obviously getting stamped on the national consciousness in the last few years and drawing enthusiasm in a number of quarters, has not made more inroads […]
Police Brutality and the William Tell Overture The Highway Patrol vs the EMT Thug cop chokeholds CBS reporter Arpaio’s Hog Farm Not as Clean as He Pretends Strip Club at the Police Station Woman Beaten Off Camera
From The Economic Collapse. Hat tip to Troy Southgate. ——————————————————————————————————— The U.S. economy is dying and we are heading for the next Great Depression. The talking heads in the mainstream media love to spin the economic numbers around and around and they love to make it sound like […]
Article by John Whitehead. ——————————————————————————————————- In early America, citizens were considered equals with law enforcement officials. Authorities were rarely permitted to enter one’s home without permission or in a deceitful manner. And it was not uncommon for police officers to be held personally liable for trespass when they […]
From The Agitator. ——————————————————————————————————– Kudos to Nashville’s News 5 for doing this investigation. Note that even if you buy into this crap—that the drug war is worth fighting, and that asset forfeiture is an essential part of fighting it—the cops are letting the drugs go in order to […]
What a lunatic.
Article by John Robb. ——————————————————————————————————– The most likely scenario for the next decade starts with the resumption of global economic depression (D2). Economies shrink. Wealth evaporates as former “assets” become worthless. Commodities fall (even energy) due to declines in economic activity. Currencies gyrate, explode, and/or evaporate. In this […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————- For years, global digital copyright treaties and IP provisions of assorted “free trade” agreements have been drafted in secret by proprietary content industries. Even the digital copyright laws of ostensibly independent countries have been drafted by lobbyists from those same industries, and rubber […]
Article by Kali Akuno. ——————————————————————————————————— The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) urges the US to apply international human rights standards to protect and ensure the rights of political prisoners currently incarcerated within its own prison system. NCBL presented the plight of political prisoners in the United States […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————– Since the embattled former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has occupied the headlines with some consistency as of late, it seems as good a time as any to note the perfectly legal crimes the IMF perpetrates daily. Without at […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. ——————————————————————————————————– This week’s hysterical, reality-deprived reaction to President Obama’s pronouncements on the Israel/Palestine conflict genuinely provoked laughter on several occasions. That happened when I thought of the intense controversy triggered by publication of Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer’s The Israel Lobby, which examined the […]
Article by John J. Mearsheimer. ——————————————————————————————————- Barack Obama gave a major speech on the Middle East on Thursday, May 19, and it is clear from the subsequent commentary that he impressed few people. The main reason for this is that he did not say much new or indicate […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————— When the President of the United States reiterated longstanding American policy in the Middle East – that the borders of Israel and a Palestinian state must be based on the 1967 borders, give or take a few land swaps here and there – […]
Article by Stephen Lendman. ———————————————————————————————————- Many students, whether or not they graduate, have debt burdens approaching or exceeding $100,000. If repaid over 30 years, it’s a $500,000 obligation, and if default, much more because debts aren’t forgiven. As a result, once entrapped, escape is impossible. Bondage is permanent, […]
An interview with Hindu creationist Michael Cremo.
Jesse the Body is interviewed by Al-Jazeera.
From Infoshop. ——————————————————————————————————– Toronto police constable Michael Sanguinetti thought he was offering the key to rape prevention. “I’m not supposed to say this,” he told a group of students at an Osgoode Hall Law School safety forum on January 24, but to prevent being sexually assaulted, “Avoid dressing […]
Article by Gavin McInnes. —————————————————————————————————- Like firing a fetus from a slingshot, feminism catapulted women out of the kitchen and onto the streets, where they were invited to do anything a man can do—but better. This was a blessing for the few women meant to lead a man’s […]
Article by Jim Goad. ———————————————————————————————————- Sorry to be a dick about it, but is it impolite to suggest there are other possible causes for childhood obesity beyond Ronald McDonald? How about the fact that children exercise 20% less than they did in the 1970s while consuming only 3% […]
Hooray for Carson. I once wrote a cover blurb for one of Carson’s books where I described him as the Proudhon of our time. (He’s probably since had it removed as he doesn’t care for some of my other views and I am a hated man in the […]
Article by Jeff Barnard. —————————————————————————————————— GRANTS PASS, Ore. – The Oregon Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that a retired school bus driver can have her medical marijuana and a concealed handgun, too. The ruling upheld previous decisions by the Oregon Court of Appeals and circuit court that determined […]
Article from Prensa Latina. ——————————————————————————————————– The visitor who walks the streets of cosmopolitan Caracas can soon see the Venezuelans are living in a moment of joy, marked by positive social change that is a benefit to the population. It is because year after year, since 1999 when Hugo […]
As I predicted, American society continues to drift leftward… —————————————————————————————————— A recent Gallup poll shows 53 percent of Americans support making gay marriage legal, Reuters reports. The poll shows a significant change in mood on the issue from a year ago, when an equal majority opposed same-sex matrimony. […]
Let this be a warning, kids: Don’t do religion. Just say no.
Article by Amy Sturgis. ——————————————————————————————————- Preacher Samuel Peters’s encounter with a free society was a memorable one. In 1781, he wrote in awe: “The conscious independence of each individual warms his thoughts and guides his actions. . . . Here is liberty in perfection!”[1] Though he wrote in […]
Article by Michael Kleen. ——————————————————————————————————— Both Friedrich Nietzsche and José Ortega y Gasset were alarmed by the development of the modern State, which matured to ascendancy in the late 18th Century. In the 1860s and ‘70s, Nietzsche witnessed Otto von Bismarck forge his native Germany from a collection […]
Article by Michael Kleen. ——————————————————————————————————– In the mind of 19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the growth of the State (Staat) was one of the most alarming developments of the modern world. Where others saw the promise of a new democratic age in which “the people” ruled, Nietzsche […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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