Carl Schmitt and the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Supreme courts, power, and the exception.
Carl Schmitt, whom I have written about extensively in the past, is very relevant to things that are going on now.
Keith Preston
Africa has defied the covid-19 nightmare scenarios. We shouldn’t be surprised.
By Karen Attiah Washington Post After the novel coronavirus first appeared in Africa in late February, Ghana’s government decided it would take no chances. Ghanaian citizens were soon put under lockdown, and travel between major cities was banned. Then President Nana Akufo-Addo announced the closure of the country’s […]
A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
I am something of a Stoic. Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, was the first Western proto-anarchist that we know of. By Maria Popova Brain Pickings
Ben Carson Tells Saagar ‘Fear Of Virus’ Is The REAL Problem For People Who Can’t Pay Rent
Ben Carson is proof that brain surgeons are not necessarily multi-layered or multi-dimensional intellects.
Whole Foods Founder Blames ‘Ignorant’ Poor People For Bad Food Choices
As usual, Krystal and Saager have some pretty good economic/class analysis in a way that’s limited to a mainstream, reformist-statist perspective.
Seattle Protester Whacks Police Officer With Metal Baseball Bat in Viral Video
Some more fourth-generation warfare? Tom Batchelor Newsweek Video of a police officer being forcefully struck on the back of the head with a baseball bat has attracted national attention after protests swept across the U.S. in the wake of the verdict in the Breonna Taylor case. The clip […]
2 vehicles hit Breonna Taylor protesters in Los Angeles
Fourth-generation warfare? ABC News A pickup truck hit a protester Thursday night in Hollywood, California, and moments later a second vehicle hit a car participating in the same protest as it tried to leave the area, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The “largely peaceful” group of […]
Jacob Blake Sr. Makes Plea To Our Common Humanity After Lack Of Charges In Breonna Taylor Killing
“Can’t we all just get along?” Where have we heard that before?
Trump Refuses To Say He’ll Peacefully Transfer Power
Krystal has a pretty good analysis of Trump in this.
WAPO Reporter Breaks Down New Terrible Unemployment Numbers Which Reveal Lie Of V Shaped Recovery
The Third Worldization of the US economy continues.
STUNNING Analysis Reveals Young Black Voters Contempt For Democratic Party
More and more people are realizing the futility of trying to work “within the system.”
Non-White Voters Wholesale REJECT Dem Identity Politics Pandering
This data is very interesting. People of all races generally reject race war politics and embrace class war politics, albeit is a rather moderate form.
BEST Battleground Polls For Trump In MONTHS As Election Day Nears
At the beginning of this segment, Krystal refers to Hillary Clinton as “Hitlerly.”
US sanctions Iran’s court system over execution of wrestler, other alleged abuses
We anarchists must necessarily work to oppose all governments everywhere while at the same time opposing overarching systems of imperialism. The way we do that is through building global networks of oppositional subcultures predicated on the principle of self-determination and voluntary association for all. By Rich Edson FOX […]
China’s Xi pledges to ax carbon emissions by 2060
The leader of a backwater but upstart province in the global capitalist empire seeks the favor of the chattering classes of the developed world. By Zack Colman Politico President Xi Jinping pledged on Tuesday that China would reach its peak emissions ahead of its 2030 goal and achieve […]
Those Who Destroyed Yemen Must Be Prosecuted for War Crimes
In an ideal world, protestors would not only be looting Wal-Mart and burning down police precincts, but they would be burning down the Saudi embassy as well. Most Americans have probably never even heard of Yemen or know that there is such a place. By Doug Bandow The […]
The Election That Could Break America
By Barton Gellman The Atlantic There is a cohort of close observers of our presidential elections, scholars and lawyers and political strategists, who find themselves in the uneasy position of intelligence analysts in the months before 9/11. As November 3 approaches, their screens are blinking red, alight with […]
Brooklyn Center arson blamed on Black Lives Matter Biden 2020 anarchists
By Mike Mullen City Pages The police and fire departments of Brooklyn Center are investigating a garage fire that started early Thursday morning as potentially politically motivated. A three-car garage and three vehicles inside were destroyed, and firefighters saved “three dogs and five puppies” from inside the home […]
Two police officers shot amid Louisville protests over Breonna Taylor ruling
Would it be accurate to say that a low-intensity civil war is no underway? Reuters LOUISVILLE, Kentucky, Sept 23 (Reuters) – Two police officers were shot and wounded late on Wednesday in Louisville, Kentucky, during protests ignited by a grand jury decision that civil rights activists decried as […]
Ex-Louisville police Officer Brett Hankison charged with wanton endangerment in Breonna Taylor case
If this Brett Hankison dude was a civilian, I’m pretty sure he would have had more serious charges brought against him. One set of laws for the king’s knights, another set of laws for everyone else. By Minyvonne Burke and Tim Stelloh NBC News One of the police […]
Officer shot, protests escalate after Breonna Taylor probe yields no direct charges for police
And another round begins… Richmond.Com Louisville police say an officer has been shot amid protests over a lack of direct criminal charges for officers in Breonna Taylor’s shooting death. The statement did not elaborate on the condition of the officer or the circumstances of the shooting. That development […]
US Government Doing Iraq War Style Propaganda Against Iran
As Tom Woods says, no matter who gets elected, you always end up with John McCain, even posthumously. Elect Bill Clinton, get a war in Kosovo and Haiti. Elect George W Bush, get a war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Elect Barack Obama, get a war in Libya and […]
Calls On Left To Declare War On Court Like Abe Lincoln
Now that liberals increasingly hold cultural power, they have become proponents of judicial restraint and rule by legislative majorities while conservatives appear to increasingly favor judicial activism, something they spent decades denouncing. As Matt Karp points out, there are plenty of precedents for Presidents simply ignoring the Supreme […]
SCOTUS Hysteria Is A Mass DELUSION Created By Elites
This commentary is pretty good.
Cold, Dead, Fingers?
Try to guess the political identity of the person who said this. I got a message for all you liberals out there: You want my gun? My firearm? Come take it from me. Just walk through my door, come into my home, and take it from me with […]
Electoral politics
The folks at Anarchist News are attempting to initiate a discussion. Anarchist News It’s that time of year again, on repeat every four years; where in a little more than a month, the spectacle of the USA presidential election will take place live over the virtual stream of […]
Leo Tolstoy and The Silent Universe
By Frank Martela Philosophy Now If you had everything else you wanted but your life lacked meaning, would it still be worth living? For the rich Russian count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), the towering author of such classics as War and Peace and Anna Karenina, this was not a […]
Facebook vows to restrict users if US election descends into chaos
By Hannah Murphy Financial Times Facebook has said it will take aggressive and exceptional measures to “restrict the circulation of content” on its platform if November’s presidential election descends into chaos or violent civic unrest. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg, the company’s head of […]
Actual Anarchists Talk About New York’s ‘Anarchist Jurisdiction’ Designation
By Talla Lavin Curbed It was surprising news to the some 8 million New Yorkers who awoke yesterday, the last day of summer, to find that, according to the federal government, we were all living in an “anarchist jurisdiction.” Across the city, the leaves on curbside trees were […]
The Cop Who Quit Instead of Helping to Gentrify Atlanta
The cop who realized he was really working for organized crime. Tom Gissler as told to Laura Thompson Mother Jones “It dawned on me that the entire system, the entire thing, was just a shitty mafia system.” Three years in, I had basically arrived—I had been transferred to […]
The dramatic governing changes Democrats could make if they take power
The WaPo, the voice of the CIA/Bezos axis, is more or less advocating that the Democrats use David Faris’ suggestions to create a one-party state like Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party during most of the 20th century. I suspect that if the “right-wing” were completely shut out of any […]
Should Trump Appoint A SCOTUS Nominee In An Election Year?
Revenge of the Tribes: How the American Empire Could Fall
Does Tyrannicide solve David Friedman’s hard problem? Crypto currency with Jim Bell
New ‘Uber For Evictions’ Startup Previews Our HELLISH Future
I predict this will probably lead to some murders.
Media Ignores BOMBSHELL Court Decision Which Could Spur Election CHAOS
The election in six weeks is definitely going to be a beer and popcorn moment.
Spotify Employees Want To CENSOR Joe Rogan’s Podcast
I’m beginning to understand why Pol Pot exterminated the professional class.
Unity 2020: Why the Lesser Evil?
If I had to identify any way in which my views have shifted over the years, it would probably be that I have largely moved away from the idea of a far-left/far-right “third position” type of tactical framework toward more of a revolutionary centrist one. The far-right and […]
Unity2020 – Ballot access: Can you see it?
The main problem I see with Bret’s idea, aside from the technical issues and sectarian conflict, is that the elected officials are merely managers and the electoral system is merely a front for the oligarchy. Unity 2020 is not entirely dissimilar to the “pan-secessionist meta-party” idea I’ve written […]
Do Libertarians Have Any Idea What’s Going On?
I would actually agree with Pakman’s critique of the Koch-model of libertarianism and suggest that political decentralization must necessarily be accompanied by economic decentralization. But where this commentary goes wrong is with its failure to recognize the role of national governments in creating the transnational corporate and financial […]
The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories: Why Do People Believe Them?
Many conspiracy theories are obviously wacked. But the main problem with many critics of conspiracy theories is that they simply assume that the values and ideological framework of centrist liberalism or social democracy are “true” in the manner of revealed religion as opposed to being just another set […]
BLM’s Hitlerian Heart
My main criticism of the Left is its failure to recognize the centuries-long history of leftist genocides, massacres, purges, repression, and authoritarianism. Most leftists treat this as a side issue at best, even they acknowledge the issue at all. Too many holocaust-deniers on the Left. By David Cole […]
Though Most LGBTQs Vote Democratic, New Poll Shows 45% of Queer Men Backing Trump
This is nothing new. Exit polls in the 2004 election showed that 25% of self-identified gays voted for George W. Bush. The idea that every minority individual is a liberal or a leftist is absurd. By Daniel Villarreal Newsweek A recent survey of 1,200 queer men in the […]
Justice Department deems New York City, Portland and Seattle ‘anarchist jurisdictions’
If only it were true, Fat Billy. By Allan Smith NBC News The Justice Department released a list of cities Monday that it has deemed “anarchist jurisdictions” under President Donald Trump’s instructions this month to review federal funding for local governments in places where violence or vandalism has […]
Too Much Centralization Is Turning Everything into a Political Crisis
By Porter Burkett Mises Institute Is American politics reaching a breaking point? A recent study by researchers from Brown and Stanford Universities certainly paints a grim picture of the state of the national discourse. The study attempts to measure “affective polarization,” defined as the extent to which citizens […]
A ‘patriotic’ bipartisan presidential ticket determined by a coin flip demands to be taken seriously
As milquetoast as Bret Weinstein’s politics are, his Unity 2020 idea is probably the best one out there at present, as far as anything that is relatively mainstream. Obviously, the ruling class parties are corrupt and incompetent. The minor opposition parties like the Libertarians and Greens are ideological […]
A wargame designer defines our four possible civil wars.
By Mike Selinker Medium I’m a wargame designer. I co-developed the first reboot of Axis & Allies and its D-Day edition, made a mythological Risk game called Risk Godstorm, and burned down both the Roman Empire in Gloria Mundi and medieval France in Veritas. I write about game […]
GOP Will Play Dems For Suckers On SCOTUS Forever
The ongoing leftward shift of US culture combined with an increasingly solid Republican control of the courts should make for an interesting political future.
How The Elites RIGGED Supreme Court Politics To Cover Their Corporate Scam
Saager nails it in this. Fortunately, I am neither a “cultural conservative” nor a “cultural progressive” so I don’t need to care about all this Supreme Court stuff.
INSANE First Day Voting Lines As Polls Show Voters Hardening
This is funny. Brainwashed idiots taking the state’s coronation ceremony seriously.
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