Keith Preston
Who Gets Counted as a “True” Anarchist?
Incessant debate rages among self-proclaimed anarchists concerning who should be counted as a “true” anarchist, with proponents of each of the many kinds of anarchism claiming the right to special recognition of their particular sect. But this would seem to miss the point. The purpose of anarchism is […]
Secession is a Means, but Not the Ends
The recent events involving the efforts of Catalonia to separate itself from Spain, and the resulting repression at the hands of the Spanish state, along with the growing prominence of the Kurdish independence movement, have been accompanied by a range of criticisms being levied against both movements. The […]
Not Quite What Uncle Joe Had in Mind
Someone should do rewrites of these old Communist speeches using modern leftist rhetoric with all kinds of references to transphobia and microagressions. That would be hilarious. “Party comrades, in our peoples’ struggle against the hegemony of heteronormativity we endured the challenges of infinite microagressions that have been foisted […]
Keith Preston: US mass shooters predominantly white males
Press TV. Listen here. Terror attacks in the US are not confined to certain demographics or religions, but mass shootings are usually carried out by white males, according to an American analyst. “It’s certainly true that white males have committed plenty of terrorism in the United States, particularly […]
Dissecting the American Police State
In recent years, there has been growing concern in some camps about matters involving police brutality, police militarization, mass incarceration, overcriminalization, electronic surveillance and related matters. The bulk of the concerns of these kinds have come from the left end of spectrum, and raised by those who are […]
Independence for Catalonia: Yes, but…
Many of these regionalist movements in Europe seem similar to tendencies we have in the US, i.e. either more affluent regions that don’t want to pay taxes to the central government which they view as “too leftist” but have no interest in critiquing state-capitalism per se, or PC […]
What Would the Ideal Anti-State Leader Be?
Adam Kokesh’s plan to seek the Libertarian Party nomination in 2020 on a program of abolishing the federal government would seem to be a move in the correct direction. However, this idea may be incomplete in various ways. This leads to the need for a consideration of what […]
Adam Kokesh Has a Plan, But is He the Man?
Adam Kokesh is seeking the LP nomination for 2020 on a program of literally abolishing the US federal government. Here is his platform: The platform is simple. When elected, I will swear in, walk to the White House, and sign one executive order. This executive order will lay […]
Was Karl Marx Right About Anything?
This is an interesting discussion by Tom Woods exploring the similarities and differences between Marxist and Austrian class theory. The basis of the discussion is an article by Hans Hermann Hoppe suggesting that Marx was essentially correct about everything but the labor theory of value. This analysis of […]
Author Keith Preston: atheist embarrassed by Atheists
I rarely write about or discuss religion, but this is an interview I did with a Catholic podcaster named Max Kolbe about the organized atheist movement and its limitations. Other than theism, there weren’t many things we disagreed on.
Donald Trump: The Best Friend Anarchists Have Had in a While
My take on Trump is unique because I find myself saying to my liberal friends, “No, he’s not a Nazi. Get over your paranoia.” And I find myself saying to my right-wing friends, “No, he’s not the savior of America/white people/whatever, just a two-bit carnival huckster. Get your […]
How Ron Paul Gets the NFL ‘Take the Knee’ Controversy Wrong
Apparently, there has been a predictable left/right split in the libertarian milieu over the NFL players’ protests. Ron Paul says nay, but Reason magazine says yay! Read all about it here. I disagree with Ron Paul that the NFL is merely a private association. The idea that NFL […]
Murders, Assaults, and Shootings of Police Are Rarer than Ever
There is no war on cops. By Daniel Bier Foundation for Economic Education ollowing the tragic and horrible events in Dallas last week, it is important to grieve and to take stock of what led to that fateful evening that ended with five police officers killed. But it’s […]
How Long Can Americans Go on Hating the President and Each Other?
The money quote, and the main reason why most US political factions are worthless: “Unfortunately, most Americans do not bat an eye at the worst offenses committed by the presidency, namely the killing of millions in undeclared wars of choice with nations who have never attacked the United […]
Why the Left Must Confront the Cult of Identity Politics
The money quote: “The bourgeois hijacking of the left is apparently complete.” By Andrew Doyle Spiked od is dead and identity fills the vacuum.’ So says Riya Zachariassen, a character in Salman Rushdie’s new novel The Golden House, who holds a senior position at the ‘Museum of Identity’. […]
The Juggalos’ Fight for Freedom
One of our natural allies. By Lucy Steigerwald Spiked he right’s young straw men and women – those whining, rioting college students – do exist. But current self-proclaimed champions of free speech and expression are just as much of an embarrassment. Just look at Milo Yiannopoulos, and his […]
Yes, We Are
The Right-Hand Sock Puppet is in Charge
Why Liechtenstein Works: Self-Determination and Market Governance
Liechtenstein comes pretty close to being an anarcho-monarchist system. By Andreas Kohl Martinez Jacobite A version of this speech was given at the Corax Conference, July 28-30, in Silema, Malta. Before we jump in, let’s have a show of hands. How many of you have ever been told […]
Bitcoin Icon Roger Ver Is Starting His Own Country With No Government
We need many, many more projects like this with each reflecting the ideals of their founders and participants. By Evan Faggart BitsOnline Roger Ver, a highly visible figure in the Bitcoin community, is teaming up with entrepreneur and cryptocurrency enthusiast Olivier Janssens to create a brand new country. […]
Kurdish PKK and YPG’s Hidden Notorious Crimes: Kidnapping, Murder, and Narcotics Trafficking
Part of the problem is that the Kurds are caught between a rock and a hard place. The Western axis within global capitalism is trying to coopt the Kurds as a tool to be used against the Eastern axis, and the Eastern axis realizes this and is trying […]
Why the Kurds Must Have Independence
By Tim Black Spiked Online And so, once again, it looks as if regional and international powers are set on betraying the Kurds. It’s a familiar narrative. Think back to the Treaty of Sevres in 1920, for example. Then, in the aftermath of the First World War, the […]
Words That Lie: The New Soviets
By William S. Lind Traditional Right All ideologies take certain words that have commonly understood definitions and give them new code word definitions with different meanings for those in the know. When the ideologues speak, ordinary people get one message while followers of the ideology get another. In […]
Nazism and Fascism Are Dead
By William S. Lind Traditional Right On both sides of the political spectrum the words “Nazi” and “Fascist” have come in common use. I have bad news for both the nuts carrying swastika flags and the thugs known as the “Antifa” (for the “Anti-fascists”): Nazism and Fascism are […]
Moore’s win conjures 2018 nightmare — for both parties
Here’s the money quote: “Unlike the tea party candidates of 2010 and 2012, these candidates and potential candidates are not united by any coherent ideological vision. Moore, a devout Christian who believes the dictates of the Bible supersede court orders, and Kid Rock, a vulgarian broadly opposed to […]
Working as a Civil Engineer in the United States
The roles that a civil engineer can play in our society are many and varied. At the core of what civil engineers do is a desire to improve the spaces in which we live, work, and relax in order to bring about general improvements in the quality of […]
Sargon of Akkad vs. Jared Taylor
An interesting interview and debate.
How Common is Police Brutality in the United States?
This is a peer reviewed article published last year by the British Medical Journal on the subject of police brutality in the United States and how frequently it occurs. The researchers summarized their findings as follows. “US police killed or injured an estimated 55 400 people in 2012 (95% […]
Antifa vs. Neocon
An antifa lunatic debates a neocon mouthpiece. Watch the train wreck unfold.
Reflections on Class Relations in State-Capitalist Liberal-Democracies
Modern liberal democratic states are oligarchies of state-capitalist power elites in practice (C. Wright Mills). But they have to afford a reasonable standard of living, level of protection, and quality of life to the middle class in order to maintain their legitimacy. States tend to collapse when they […]
Veganism Refuted?
Todd Lewis and guests say no to veganism. I throw in some comments about 45 minutes into this discussion.
“I found myself turning into an idiot!”: David Graeber explains the life-sapping reality of bureaucratic life
By Elias Isquith Salon.Com David Graeber, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics, is a man who wears many hats. He’s an academic, of course — and a respected one at that. But he’s also an author, an activist and political anarchist. But his most […]
A Native American former Antifa turned National Socialist
This is an interesting interview with a Native American US Army veteran and former Antifa turned National Socialist. Listen here. The politics aren’t really my cup of tea, but there’s a lot of interesting information and ideas discussed in this.
Trump supporters just doxxed thousands of anti-racist protesters as part of a disturbing harassment campaign
More of the usual nonsense. The bottom line is that nothing productive will ever be achieved until dissidents and radicals are able to move past the usual left/right, red/blue, Nazi/Antifa, white privilege/Jewish conspiracy, free market/more government paradigms, and recognize that the fight is against a global system that […]
Keith Preston: Who Am I?
This is the transcript of an interview I recently did with a Swiss journal. 1-In your book “Attack the System” you describe the current ideology of the West as a “totalitarian humanism,” yet you claim to be to the left of Marx (I am referring to a statement […]
How Trump’s advisers schooled him on globalism
It seems Trump got a lesson in Imperialism 101 from the national security establishment. By Matthew Lee and Jonathan Lemire AP News NEW YORK (AP) — On a sweltering Washington summer day, President Donald Trump’s motorcade pulled up to the Pentagon for a meeting largely billed as a […]
Keith Preston: US-N Korea war ‘devastating,’ not likely to happen
Press TV. Listen here. US President Donald Trump’s threats of military action against North Korea are “overblown” statement that would never come true, an American analyst says, arguing American military officials are well-aware how “devastating” such warfare would be. Keith Preston, director of attackthesystem.org, made the remarks while […]
The Largest Military Machine in History
Last night, the Senate overwhelmingly approved an $80 billion annual increase in military spending. Trump had asked for just $48 billion. That $80 billion increase in military spending is enough to have satisfied Bernie Sanders’s campaign promise to make tuition free at public colleges and universities. (You may […]
Who is the Aggressor?
Forced Takeover of Catalan Government Institutions by Spanish Police
Liberal democratic capitalism shows what it really thinks of self-determination and political dissent. Thomas S. Harrington Counterpunch I just got of the phone with Josep Maria Sole Sabaté, my friend and a leading Catalan historian and public intellectual. He was nothing short of breathless as he described the […]
Support of the Right of Secession Rises to 40% Among American
By Kirkpatrick Sale LewRockwell.Com While division between both political parties has been accepted as a norm for decades, we have witnessed a level of intensity in 2017 that has dwarfed anything remotely similar in recent American history. While it appears to be boiling over, perhaps many are ready […]
Robert Stark talks to Count Fosco about the Mechanisms of the Arts
The Stark Truth. Listen here. Robert Stark and Pilleater talk to returning guest Count Fosco. Count Fosco has a background in the film industry in Canada. Topics: Count Fosco’s background in the Canadian Film Industry The economic mechanisms for funding the […]
Gold and Lord Rama- The Reason for the Diwali Season
By J P Cortez October 19, 2017 marks an important holiday in the Indian culture. Diwali begins. Diwali is one of the biggest festivals for Hindus, Sikhs, and Jains. It is a lavish celebration of the victory of light over darkness with its gleaming candles, luxurious works of […]
America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars
Given the recent exchange on anti-Semitism between anarcho-communist Wayne Price, national-anarchist Sean Jobst and myself, this article from Unz Review and the article from Telos posted adjacently offer two diametrically opposed perspectives on US-Israel relations, Zionism, Jewish power and anti-Semitism. By Philip Giraldi Unz Review I spoke recently […]
Conspiracy “Anti-Zionism”: The Current Face of Judeophobia
Clearly, we need a critique of the US-Israel relationship, Zionist imperialism, and related issues that stands apart from classical Christian and/or Nazi anti-Semitism on one hand, without simply dismissing these things a mere tools of the US ruling class. Instead, we need to develop a more nuanced analysis […]
Keith Preston: Interview with C-Realm Radio
Listen here. KMO welcomes Keith Preston back to the program to discuss the difference between absolute and relative poverty. There are a lot of people who make less than the national average, but most of the so-called poverty in the US is relative poverty. Even so, social stratification […]
Keith Preston Trump’s response to hurricane Harvey
This is a television interview I did with Press TV a couple of weeks ago. Watch here. Hurricane Harvey finally hit the United States and destroyed the Gulf region, namely the states of Texas and Louisiana. Flooding and ensuing rainfalls resulted in displacement of thousands of people and […]
Robert Stark interviews Kevin Lynn of Progressives for Immigration Reform
The Stark Truth. Listen here. Robert Stark and co-host Sam Kevorkian talk to Kevin Lynn. Kevin is Chairman of Progressives for Immigration Reform and blogs at the CENTER FOR PROGRESSIVE URBAN POLITICS. Topics: Kevin’s political background as an unrepentant Perotista, a failed Green Party member, […]
Liberals sick of the alt-left are taking ‘the red pill’
Cracks in the PC coalition continue to show. By Elizabeth Ames FOX News The mainstream media failed to see the rise of Donald Trump in 2016. Now it’s overlooking another grassroots movement that may soon be of equal significance— the growing number of liberals “taking the red pill.” […]
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