I’m going to go out on a limb and make a few unorthodox statements and predictions concerning the Obama victory. The first question, of course, is why did Obama win in the first place? Most conventional analysis tends to argue that Obama’s victory is traceable to the poor […]
Quote of the Week: “To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is […]
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“When I told a right-wing acquaintance of mine about what the president had done, I already knew he would defend it. You see, you have to understand that because Bush is a conservative Republican, he could be caught sodomizing a goat on the front lawn of the White […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080919/ap_on_el_st_lo/prosecuting_bush Vermont candidate to prosecute Bush if she wins By JOHN CURRAN, Associated Press Writer Fri Sep 19, 3:45 AM ET BURLINGTON, Vt. – Lots of political candidates make campaign promises. But not like Charlotte Dennett’s. Dennett, 61, the Progressive Party‘s candidate for Vermont Attorney General, said Thursday […]
“I want to see this guy on death row.” -Vincent Bugliosi, prosecutor of Charles Manson, on the possible prosecution of George W. Bush for mass murder Taking a Look at Constitution Party Candidate Chuck Baldwin by Laurence Vance Ain’t My Government by Manuel Lora How to Fix Our Depreciating Money by […]
This is in response to something posted about me on The Art of the Possible web site: Says “Anonymous” (geez, that’s creative): “This web site is dedicated to hosting a dialogue between libertarians and the left, with the goal of encouraging theoretical synthesis and practical cooperation between the […]
Quote of the Week: “As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, “That man is a Red, that man is a […]
Quote of the Week: “Ass usual, the election is a popularity contest run for dimwits. And to elect a dimwit, which is worse. We’ve got this woman Palin, an angry Betty Crocker, absolutely unqualified for the presidency in case McCain goes tits up. She’s ignorant of foreign affairs, […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/09/updated-news-digest-september-7-2008/
What does it mean that the Vice-Presidential candidate for the ostensibly “conservative” party is a female from a working class background who has the flag of a foreign state associated with a domestic ethnic minority hanging in her governor’s office? What does it mean that the Presidential candidate […]
Weekend Edition August 30 / 31, 2008 Part One What If the Israeli Lobby was the Islamic Lobby? By B. R. GOWANI What if: Abu Faisal was White House press secretary (instead of Ari Fleischer) Altaf Adham was deputy national security advisor (instead of Elliott Abrams) Sofian Bishr […]
Quote of the Week: “We can expect as little from society as from the state. Salvation lies with the individual.”                                                                                                             -Ernst Junger  Neocon Leader Bill Kristol Calls on McCain to pick Lieberman as his Running Mate (Dog?) Fed-Bank-Wall Street Fraud Biden for Vice-Dictator by Glenn Greenwald When […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/08/updated-news-digest-august-24-2008/
(Thanks, Sean!) [These are my musings from correspondence with a like-minded proprietor of a homepage, which I thought some here would find interesting. -SJ]:  Sufic Notes on Proudhon, Rothbard and Anarchism  I concur with your disavowal from the false dialectic of Left and Right: We have transcended beyond […]
Los Angeles Times  Letters to the Editor  letters@…  timothy.rutten@…  Re: The extreme-right way to make a buck,” by Tim Rutten, LA Times, Aug. 16, 2008  Dear Sirs,  The title of Mr. Rutten’s piece suggests that the surest way for a conservative scholar to become rich is […]
Quote of the Week: “In 2042, the Republican Party platform will include a plan for comprehensive reform of the US’s national health care program. Republican Congressmen will engage in furious debate in an attempt to limit the penalties for discrimination against homosexuals to fines rather than imprisonment. Anybody […]
Quote of the week: SOMEWHERE there are still peoples and herds, but not with us, my brethren: here there are states. A state? What is that? Well! open now your ears unto me, for now will I say unto you my word concerning the death of peoples. A […]
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Of all the contemporary scholars and theorists of the state of which I am aware, the one whose work I find by far the most compelling is the Dutch-Israeli military historian Martin Van Creveld. It is his position that the conventional nation-state system that emerged from the time of […]
Quote of the Week: “Soledad O’Brien, at the beginning of CNN’s “Black in America: Reclaiming the Dream,†cited as evidence of the at least partial fulfillment of Dr. King’s dream that “Some are CEOs. Some are Secretaries of State.†Well, I have a dream of my own: To […]
http://attackthesystem.com/2008/07/updated-news-digest-july-20-2008/
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If we were Soviet or East European citizens in the 1950s, 60s or 70s, and we were attempting to build a revolutionary underground, classical criticisms of the state would certainly be helpful. For instance, the Augustinian view of the state as a “robber band writ large”. However, we […]
Quote of the Week: “ Those who expect to reap the benefits of freedom, must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.” – Thomas Paine  Strip Search a Thirteen-Year-Old and Keep Your Job Proudhon Seminar: What is Property? Ch. 2 notes, Pt. 1 by Shawn Wilbur Gangsters […]
(Thanks, Jeremy) Text of a speech from Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against the War  http://kokesh.blogspot.com/2008/07/duty-to-resist.html Saturday, July 12, 2008 Duty to Resist Text of speech delivered 080712 at the west lawn of the capitol: When I joined the Marines at a little strip mall in Santa […]
Thanks to Josh Rhodes for digging this up: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7420469.stm Meeting Spain’s last anarchist By Alfonso Daniels San Buenaventura, Bolivia Hours after flying on a rickety 19-seater propeller plane and landing on a dirt strip, you get to the village of San Buenaventura in the heart of the Bolivian […]
In response to my statement “Is the Left salvagable? In and of itself, it does not appear to be,”, Jeremy raises some helpful points concerning the defintions of “left” and “right”: That begs the question: what is this “Left”? If it is merely establishmentarianism with a cultural attachment […]
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NA23 offers this suggestion: The key is the breaking down of the Left/Right dichotomy with a real social alternative. We have to disrupt the labels and stereotypes held by the left, right and the media. This can only be done succesfully through frequent street actions and public involvement, […]
Jeremy raises an interesting question in the Comments section: I don’t think the Left is so utterly irretrievable as you seem to, but a line must be drawn in the sand when it comes to revolutionary potential. Many on the Left (and Right, no doubt) will be found […]
What does it mean when the Right is becoming more revolutionary minded than the Left? Nowadays, there are “left-conservatives”, “left-libertarians”, “left-secessionists”, “conservative revolutionaries”, “left-nationalists”, “national-syndicalists”, “national-anarchists”, “national-bolsheviks”, “national-maoists”, “left-populists”, “left-decentralists”, “national-communists” and lots of other labels that defy the left/right stereotype. What does is mean that the official […]
The primary ideological war of the future will not be between the left and right, or between socialism and capitalism, or even between nationalism and imperialism. The struggle will be between anti-universalism and decentralism on one end and totalitarian humanism on the other. I first became aware of […]
Recently, Thomas Naylor of the Second Vermont Republic issued something of a challenge to the League of the South: http://vermontrepublic.org/to_the_league_of_the_south_from_vermont_with_love Naylor begins: When the Second Vermont Republic, through its sister organization the Middlebury Institute, first began reaching out to other independence movements in November 2006, four such groups […]
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‘Tis the day to consider the immortal words of Thomas Jefferson: “God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts […]
Saith the Lefto-Totalitarian aspiring Stasi at Libcom.org: I’m particularly bothered by these so-called “anarcho”-nationalists that are trying to take advantage of the increase in interest in anarchism. The leaders of this fake “anarchism” are Keith Preston (USA), Troy Southgate (UK), Richard Hunt (UK), Peter Topfer (Germany), Hans Cany […]
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, […]
An interesting new book by Bill Bishop, The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America is Tearing Us Apart, explains how Americans are self-separating along cultural, political, religious, ethnic and racial lines. Here’s how the book is described: This is the untold story of why America is […]
Consider these grim statistics: -There are 36,000 paramilitary police raids on private homes in the United States on an annual basis. -The United States has five percent of the world’s population but twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners. -One in thirty-one American adults is in prison, on probation […]
Ever wonder why anti-System movements never get any further than they do in spite of near universal disdain for the American government and ruling class? One obvious problem is that while most people agree they don’t like the status quo, they disagree wildly on WHY they don’t like […]
Among some secessionists, there is a debate going on as to whether secessionist groups should collaborate with other groups whose political ideology or cultural values are the opposite of their own. This is particularly common to secessionists with “liberal” or left-wing values and who look askance at those […]
Quote of the week: “[W]hen the Justice Department prosecutes an organized crime family, I’m not sure which side to root for. Violent urban gangs are scary things. So are police forces who face no competition in the market for extortion. I don’t know which is worse….The best argument […]
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/magazine/15wwln-Q4-t.html?_r=2&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Gore Vidal- The New York Times interviews the patrician radical http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis113.html Is the U.S. going to war with Pakistan? by Eric Margolis http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1382115/Getting-to-know-the-Hitlers.html Hitler’s long lost relatives-they’re living on Long Island! No, really! http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/06/18/legalize_all_drugs Legalize All Drugs! by John Stossel http://vdare.com/roberts/080617_obama.htm Obama Grovels to The Lobby, GOP Grovels […]
Recently, on another blog, a somewhat well-known figure in the “left-libertarian” milieu attacked the circle around the Ludwig von Mises Institute for their association with so-called “neo-Confederates”. I don’t like to attack other radicals/libertarians/anarchists publicly unless they attack me first (like ChuckO Munson and Daniel Owen), so I’m […]
Some months ago I wrote an article for LewRockwell.Com discussing the role of the state with regards to immigration. You can read the full article here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/preston7.html Joshua Holmes offers a rebuttal here: http://noonefreer.blogspot.com/2008/01/another-terrible-argument-against.html Joshua hasn’t converted me, but he makes some points worth addressing. First, he addresses […]
From Peter Bjorn Perls: (thanks, Peter) Chances are that McCain will be the next US prez. That means more military activity abroad, and “staying the course” for Iraq. (Obama is softer and not a hawk like McCain, but will he be much different when he is behind the […]
Most Americans agree that the political system in the United States is incompetent, corrupt and not likely to be reformed in any meaningful way. More and more Americans are getting fed up with the Tweedle Dee vs. Tweedle Dum so-called “electoral process”. The problem is that while Americans […]
http://middleburyinstitute.org/secessionconvention2008.html THE THIRD NORTH AMERICAN SECESSIONIST CONVENTION November 14-16, 2008 in Manchester, New Hampshire CALL Issued March 31, 2008      MARCH 31—The Middlebury Institute has announced that the Third North American Secessionist Convention will be held in Manchester, New Hampshire, on November 14-16, 2008. Delegates […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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