James Corbett makes the case for the “false flag” view of the Paris attacks. That’s not a perspective that I think has been effectively demonstrated, but much of the analysis Corbett provides in these commentaries is accurate concerning the geopolitical questions involved. Listen here: https://www.corbettreport.com/paris-attacks-truth-isis-is-a-false-flag/ My own view […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/26/439207/Russia-jet-Syria-Turkey-NATO-Article-5-Glenn-Beck-Keith-Preston If Russia decides to engage Turkey in a military confrontation over the downing of its plane by Ankara, it could trigger a major war between world powers, an American political analyst in Virginia says. “If there is a military confrontation between NATO and between Russia […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right There is an old saying that Russia is never as strong as it appears to be, and Russia is never as weak as it appears to be. According to the lead story in the October 15 New York Times, “Russian Military Uses Syria […]
This is an interesting piece on Jack Donovan from anti-fascist writer Matthew N. Lyons. Read it here. Vince Rinehart of ATS gets an honorable mention as well. Lyons did a similar piece on me a few years ago (see here) which is actually by far the best work […]
A commenter at AnarchistNews.Org offered this response to my latest exchange with Anti-Fascist News: I read it. I read through other things on that site. Yikes. It’s really bizarre that a large portion of Preston’s criticism of “left” anarchists (anarchists) is that they have a kind of selective […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance The Emperor Has No Clothes: by Sean Gabb On Fraternity: Politics beyond Liberty and Equality Danny Kruger Civitas, London, 2007, 95pp, £7.50 (pbk) ISBN 978 1 903386 57 6 At the beginning of the short book, its author insists that “I do […]
By William T. Hathaway Terrible terrorists are killing our soldiers in their countries and killing us here at home. How can we stop them? The answer is simple: Stop terrorizing them. We started this war. What we do to others comes back on us. In addition to centuries […]
“Anti-Fascist News” has generated another round. Here is my “response to response to response to response.” The exchange between anarchism and Marxism has been complex and ongoing, yet this idea that Marxism has infiltrated anarchism and that is why it has adopted socially left values is not just […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/11/22/438737/Principle-objective-US-Assad-ouster “If the government of President Assad falls in Syria, then ISIS will most likely come to dominate the entire nation,” Keith Preston told Press TV on Sunday. An American political analyst in Virginia says defeating Daesh (ISIL) is not a US policy priority […]
“Anti-Fascist News“replies to my reply (in typical anarchist fashion, as our rivals point out). I get the feeling that website is probably just one person, as all the posts have the same writing style and tone, and use the byline of “Anti-Fascist Front.” Probably some college kid writing […]
The is the full text of my speech to the National Policy Institute on October 31, 2015. By Keith Preston I was very happy when I was asked to speak to this gathering on the topic of the conflict between American imperialism and European identity, and indeed the […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Attitudes toward hierarchies shed light on fundamental differences between the left and the right. The latter tend to be skeptical of them and for this reason, leftists often rally around the value of equality. On the other hand, the right views hierarchies as desirable […]
This is what I’ve been saying all along. I’m glad to see this is finally getting some serious scholarly attention. By Kelly M. Greenhill Cornell University Press This book is also available as an ebook from Amazon/Kindle, iBooks, Google Ebooks, Kobo, and Nook. Winner, 2011 International Studies Association Best […]
Kievan Rus’: 11/17/15-Keith Preston, Attack the System, American Indian Moverment, Black Panther Party, New Left, Rainbow Coalition, Anarcho-Communists, left Anarchists, White Panthers, Young Patriots, Neo-Confederates, Anarcho-Capitalists, Paleo-Libertarians, National Association for the Advancement of White People, Mississipi Peace & Freedom Democratic Party, Young Lords, Nicaragua Contras, Arab Spring, Identity […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/11/18/438188/Americans-knowledge-Islam The majority of American people have a very limited and “primitive” knowledge about Islam and have mostly received false information about the religion, a political analyst in Virginia says. “Most Americans know very, very little about Islam and the little they know is […]
A-Infos Radio Project Summary: In 2012, a power vacuum formed in parts of northern Syria as a result of the civil war. These areas, part of the lands inhabited by Kurdish peoples,soon became a testing ground for an implementation of an anti-state communalism influenced in part by an […]
Tasnim News Agency TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An American political analyst is of the opinion that the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group launched the Paris attacks on November 13 in the hope of creating division between Muslims and Western Christians. “While it is certainly true that such attacks contribute to […]
A reply to “Anti-Fascist News“: An uninformed lay person reading the pathetically ignorant and barely literate bromide against Attack the System recently issued by “Anti-Fascist News” would hardly know anarchism is a vast tradition in modern political philosophy with roots in the radical Enlightenment more than two centuries […]
By James Norwood Libertarian Alliance Mass-immigration brings two main challenges. The first is displacement of the traditional population. The second is enlarged membership of the political nation – that is, the grant of voting and other citizenship rights to the newcomers. These tend to be seen as a […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/15/437774/Keith-Preston The terrorists that carried out the attacks in Paris on Friday are part of a terror network fueled by the United States to eliminate the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and other sovereign states that operate independently from US foreign policy, a […]
By Michael Scheuer Non-Intervention.Com From this distance, Mr. Putin, it appears that when you unleashed the Russian air force on 30 September 2015 you expected to save Bashir al-Assad’s regime and bring order to Syria and Iraq in a relatively short period of time. Well, the application of […]
By Ryan McMaken It is common to see articles and columns in the Conservative media claiming that President Obama is engaging in “historic defense cuts.” There are claims that not in decades has the military ever endured such budget slashing. “Romney blasts Obama over military cutbacks” one headline […]
Institute for Anarchist Studies “Freely Disassociating” appeared in June 2015. Although it was written a year prior, the half dozen Left and radical publications to which it was initially submitted would not print it. Since its publication by Perspectives on Anarchist Theory inquiries and positive responses (such as Scott Campbell’s, […]
By Shawn Wilbur Center for a Stateless Society Response to Kevin Carson’s Rejoinder by Shawn Wilbur At base, Kevin and I disagree about the possibility of, as I put it, “a truly anarchic space, outside the legal order and beyond the realm of permissions and prohibitions.” That’s a […]
By William Schnack Center for a Stateless Society Panarchy Flourishes Under Geo-Mutualism William Schnack’s Response to Carson’s Arbitrary Occupancy-and-Use Doctrine My position on occupancy and use is a little different than Kevin’s, and I dare suggest that it is the position nearest Proudhon’s original intentions. Though I do […]
I tell you, this Keith Preston guy is bad ass, whoever he is. Says professional “anti-fascist” Mike Issacson: “Another NPI speaker Keith Preston, also ends up largely in the same place as Faye and the others, but in his own fake anarchist way. For Preston, the end result […]
Here we have the edifying spectacle of an anarchist equating Hollywood liberal and militant atheist Bill Maher with General Franco. My take? This insults the memory of the many anarchists (and many others) who died or suffered horribly for resisting the totalitarian regimes, left and right, of the […]
By Nick Gillespie Reason “If you think you have the right not to be offended,” says comedian Jim Norton, “either change the parameters of what offends you or realize you’re wrong. Those are your two choices.” Can We Take a Joke?, a new documentary about standup comedy and […]
By William T. Hathaway This photo of my parents reveals much about their personalities (hers vivacious and outgoing, his withdrawn and closed off), their relationship (little real contact), and also the times (could be captioned Gender Roles in the 1950s: The Bathing Beauty and the Soldier). The typicality […]
By Chris Shaw Rockwell’s recent piece Open Borders: A Libertarian Reappraisal provoked an angry response by Carson in How Low Can Lew Rockwell Go?. However they both go wrong. The former assumes a nonsense, fascistic idea that all American and European whites despise immigration and would prefer communities […]
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society For a long time, anarchists and libertarians have mockingly characterized the stereotypical liberal goo-goo response to any vision of a stateless society as “But what about the rooaaads?” But now a couple of libertarians — at least that’s what they […]
By Lew Rockwell This talk was delivered at the Mises Circle in Phoenix, AZ, on November 7, 2015. Whether we’re talking about illegal immigration from Mexico and Central America, or birthright citizenship, or the migrants coming from the Middle East and Africa, the subject of immigration has been […]
These are the currents that will need to emerge within the context of North American anarchism if the movement is to eventually become politically competitive. A general consensus will need to develop in favor an an ecumenical approach that recognizes the legitimacy of the many different forms of […]
A Social Justice Warrior makes her case. Theoretically, one could be a full and committed Social Justice Warrior and simultaneously be a pan-anarchist or tactical pan-secessionist, as I have previously articulated elsewhere. However, as we know, it usually doesn’t work that way. Yet an interesting development that I […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right The Fourth Generation Warfare Handbook, co-authored by Lt. Col. Greg Thiele and myself, is now available on Amazon. At present, it is only an e-book; the real book should be available early next year. The publisher is Castalia House Press. The Fourth Generation […]
Ironically, Wolff, Rothbard, and Friedman were all major influences in the development of my own thinking. By David Friedman I spent the past two days attending a conference at Duke University. One of the other participants was Robert Wolff, who published his In Defense of Anarchism a year […]
Like many fringe political movements, the neo-reactionaries are better at criticizing the established order and their ideological opponents than they are at offering any reasonable alternatives of their own. By David Brin Contrary Brin See Scott Alexander’s critique of the neo-reactionary movement here. Let me clip just one […]
By Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic Professor Nicholas Christakis lives at Yale, where he presides over one of its undergraduate colleges. His wife Erika, a lecturer in early childhood education, shares that duty. They reside among students and are responsible for shaping residential life. And before Halloween, some students […]
An great interview of Cody Wilson by Lana Lokteff. Radio 3Fourteen. Listen here. Cody Rutledge Wilson, a student of law, political philosophy, and social theory, is a USA crypto and free-market anarchist. He is best known as a founder/director of Defense Distributed, a non-profit organization that develops and […]
By Jonathan Chait New York Magazine The student protest at the University of Missouri began as a response to a serious problem — outbursts of vile racism on campus — and quickly devolved into an expression of a renewed left-wing hostility to freedom of expression. At the protest […]
By David S. D’Amato Libertarianism.Org An emphasis on decentralization unites radicals on left and right in American politics, while moderates support central power. As I have attempted to show in the previous two installments, decentralism defies the popular conceptions of both the political right and left. The right […]
By John Whitehead Rutherford Institute “Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”—Gore Vidal The countdown has begun. We now have less than one year until the 2016 presidential election, and you can expect to be […]
Press TV. Listen here: The Russian military campaign on behalf of the Syrian government has exasperated the White House because it goes against the US policy of “eliminating” President Bashar al-Assad, says a journalist and analyst in Virginia. “The issue that the United States has with this Russian […]
By Andrew Bacevich The American Conservative Kasha Malasha / Shutterstock.com “Iraq no longer exists.” My young friend M, sipping a cappuccino, is deadly serious. We are sitting in a scruffy restaurant across the street from the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. It’s […]
Fifteen years into the fight, American Revolutionary Vanguard and Attack the System has made remarkable progress. When I first started this website in January, 2001, I certainly did not expect that someday our representatives would be regularly interviewed on international television and radio, speak to conferences with hundreds […]
Here’s an interesting thought experiment. Suppose an ATS associated had been the fifth participant in this debate. What should an ATSer say in response to the two sides being presented? One friend suggests something like the following: “Most people viewing this probably see two radically opposing positions that […]
At the National Policy Institute gathering, Sam Dickson remarked during the press conference segment that the United States needs its own Mikhail Gorbachev that will dissolve the American Empire in a peaceful and humane but thorough and effective manner. Is this man a candidate for the American Gorbachev?
Paul Gottfried “But discussions of this type necessarily become complicated when we get into “the other” as in Carl Schmitt’s friend/enemy relation. Different thinkers may list different “others” in telling us who are hostile to their communities. The conference I attended was no different in that respect—but it […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/436082 The United States is sending its Special Operations Forces to Syria out of concerns over losing its “geopolitical ground to Russia,” says a political analyst. Keith Preston made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday when asked about why the […]
By Chris Shaw Introduction The capitalist economy has gone through another shock, and the potential for another, larger one is on the horizon. While it’s seemingly in its death throes, capitalism continues to fuel growth. Under such a system we have seen a vast improvement in general living […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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