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Keith Preston

Why Trump Won

A few weeks ago I gave an interview to Press TV where I outlined four ways Trump could still win even though the polls didn’t look good for Trump at the time. Apparently, all four of these actually came to pass. 1-Increased evidence of Hillary’s incompetence and corruption […]

The Black Flag of Captain Nemo

Towards a Dark Anarchism of the Empyrean Jules Verne, the famous science fiction and fantasy writer, has been described as a ‘conservative anarchist’ in respect to his political leanings. His fictional character of Captain Nemo is seen at the end of the novel, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the […]

If Mencken were alive and glaring

By Marion Rogers The Washington Times Oh, how H.L. Mencken would have loved this. The renowned Baltimore journalist who said that national political conventions and politicians were for “connoisseurs of the obscene” would have never guessed how obscene it could be. Not that he would have endorsed obscenity […]

How ISIS Resembles Yesterday’s Anarchists

By Katrina Gulliver The American Conservative Then as now, revolutionary violence sparks calls for immigration restrictions. Everett Historical / Shutterstock Today, revolutionary anarchists seem archaic, almost quaint. But for around 50 years, from the 1880s to the 1930s, anarchists carried out terror attacks all over the world. Buildings […]

Is Trumpism Fascism?

By Wayne Price Anarkismo What is Fascism? Donald Trump and those who follow him have shown certain specific traits of a fascist movement. Does that make Trump or the Trumpets into fascists? What is fascism? How is it counterposed to bourgeois democracy? Is there likely to be a […]

Spain: A Country With No Government

In keeping with the Spanish anarchist tradition. By Martin Caparros New York Times Photo Credit Valero Doval MADRID — On Jan. 2, 1492, Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon — known as the Catholic Monarchs — occupied Granada, completing their conquest of Moorish Spain. Ever since, Spain […]

Theresa May: An Interim Report

By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Though she was the only candidate not manifestly unfit to keep watch on a public toilet, I groaned when Theresa May became Prime Minister. She had been a dreadful Home Secretary. In the Referendum, she had formally supported the Remain side. There was […]

America’s Culture War Mercenaries

Can there be any doubt that totalitarian humanism is the dominant ruling class ideology? By Rod Dreher The American Conservative A reader passes along a government document putting out bids for a contract. Here’s the top of the document: Apparently the (former Yugoslav) Republic of Macedonia, a small […]

Neoclassical Imperialism

A must read explanation of the contemporary world economic order. This article fits well with my presentation at the National Policy Institute last year. The only real criticism I would have of that article is the author could gain a bit by studying the work of contemporary anarchist, […]

On Dissolving the American Empire

Ronald Olden Libertarian Alliance The difficulty with America is that it tries to do too much. It’s one thing to become involved in a full scale war like the Second World War when the protagonists are Nation States and a decisive military outcome can be achieved. But it’s […]