For a number of years now, I have attacked sectors of the anarchist milieu for either explicitly or implicitly failing to distinguish between anarchism (a stateless anti-authoritarian society) and what I call “totalitarian humanism” (an all pervasive state that ostensibly rules in the name of enforcing “progressive” values, […]
U.S. Public Opinion is Gradually Turning Against the Death Penalty by Christina Sturbenz Owners of Oregon Bakery That Refused to Bake Gay Wedding Cake Fined $135,000 by Oliver Darcy 200 Years of U.S. Military Interventions by Jennifer Baker Islamic State Posts Photos of Militants Taking a Sledgehammer to […]
A documentary from PressTV featuring commentary from yours truly. Watch the documentary here. The EU ambassador to Iraq accuses European countries of purchasing oil from ISIL terrorists. European countries are unwittingly funding the ISIL terror campaign by buying oil from ISIL-controlled oil fields, including those in Iraq. Reports […]
By Peter Kreko Open Democracy In an earlier post this year, Marley Morris and myself were writing about the importance of conspiracy theories in populist discourses and ideologies based on the French, Hungarian and Slovakian cases. This post will focus instead on the extremist threat of conspiracy theories. […]
By Jan Willem van Prooijen London School of Economics Whenever threatening, high profile events take place, conspiracy theories offering alternative explanations to the official narrative tend to emerge. One does not need to look far on social media to find sweeping statements about recent events, such as ‘Israel’s […]
By Tony Sobrado Huffington Post As any Philosopher of Science will tell you formal theories serve as explanations to observed phenomena, an association between the explanandum – the object of phenomena to be explained; and the explanans – the framework, concept or theory to be used as an […]
Bernie Sanders: Populist or Opportunist? by Stephen Lendman U.S. Police Killings Headed for 1100 This Year, Blacks Twice as Likely to Die The Guardian Julian Assange Seeks Asylum in France Russia Today How a Brutal Strain of American Aristocrats Have Come to Run America by Sara Robinson Is […]
It’s time for anarchists to drop all this “privilege theory” nonsense. Our struggle is against the global power elite, not any race,religion, gender, nationality, etc, etc, etc. By Keith Preston Libertarian Alliance Libertarians of whatever stripe tend to focus primarily on political theory, law, economics, ethics, and philosophy. […]
Many Applies for Marriage License to Have Two Wives by Jon Street German Ethics Council Calls for Incest Between Siblings to be Legalized Zurmat.Com For Anarchist, Details of Life as an FBI Target by Colin Moynihan and Scott Shane This Professor Was Fired for Saying “Fuck No” in […]
Marriage Equality: Don’t Let the Perfect Become the Enemy of the Good by Cory Massimo Inequality, the State, and the Left by Chris Dillow Can You Be a Waitress and a Feminist? by Brittany Bronson Private Prisons to Sue States Unless They Get More Inmates Free Labor Countercurrents […]
It’s fitting that a monster should be the candidate of the Part of War and Plutocracy “Brooks acknowledged that the field is using rhetoric “that’s not very libertarian, that’s a lot more aggressive on foreign policy than we’ve seen in a long time.” “Kristol issued a cautionary note: […]
SWAT Raids Wrong Home, Breaks Windows, Then Issues Citation for Broken Windows Free Thought Project Rand Paul Becomes the First Major Party Presidential Candidate to Court Pot Donors Rare.Us Hillary Clinton is a Gift to the Global Elite by W. James Antle III How Campus Feminism Infantilizes Women […]
By Ed Krayewski Reason Today is the 40th anniversary of the June 26, 1975, shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota between two FBI agents who drove in with unmarked cars and several members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a Native American rights group operating out […]
Should We Lower the Age of Consent to Protect Teenagers? by Amanda Hess Congress Hopes to Tackle Criminal Justice Reform This Year Liberty Unyielding Almost 90 Percent of US Wiretaps Listen for Suspected Drug Deals by Brian Anderson The ACLU Now Opposes Religious Freedom Because Christians Need It […]
Chapter 1 of the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway “That must be them.” Petra took one hand off the steering wheel and pointed to a group of soldiers about two hundred meters away, standing along our road next to a high chainlink fence […]
The Zionist wing of totalitarian humanism strikes! By Annie Robbins and Matthew Taylor Mondoweiss School’s out, but that didn’t stop California’s state assembly from passing Resolution HR35 buttressing a controversial report commissioned by the University of California that accuses students and faculty of contributing to an environment fostering […]
Here’s How Much Corporations Paid U.S. Senators to Fast Track the TPP Bill by Nick Sorrentino After Same-Sex Marriage, What’s Next? by Robert P. Jones Should Religious Schools Worry About Losing Their Tax-Exempt Status Over Gay Marriage? by Jason Russell What Happened When Portugal Decriminalized Drugs by Sophie […]
By Stephen Wolf Daily Kos The Icelandic Pirate Party Iceland has long been one of the more right-leaning Nordic countries. In contrast to Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, which all have a long tradition of electing Social Democratic governments, Iceland’s parliament has been dominated by right-of-center parties for […]
If during the course of some Twilight Zone moment I had found myself on the Supreme Court this past term here’s how I would have approached the gay marriage issue before the Court: First, the objections to gay marriage. 1. Gay marriage is against religious teachings. Perhaps, but […]
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Are Leftist, Feminist Kurds About to Deliver the Coup de Grace to ISIL in Syria? by Juan Cole Topple the Cult of the Presidency by Lucy Steigerwald It’s Time to Legalize Polygamy by Fredrik DeBoer Rand Paul Takes a Stand by Justin Raimondo Keynes, the Great Depression, and […]
The recent murder of nine African-Americans in Charleston, South Carolina by a deranged white supremacist has generated something of a backlash against the Confederate flag, long a symbolic target of the Left in America’s ongoing culture wars. Massacres carried out by a mentally disturbed lone gunman are hardly […]
Guest Column by Vladimir Putin by Paul Craig Robers No Joke: Iceland’s Pirate Party Surges into First Place in the Polls by Stephen Wolf Charleston and Gun Rights by Sheldon Richman Gun Control’s Racist Reality: The Liberal Argument against Giving Police More Power by Alex Gourevitch Rothbard’s Perversion […]
By Pat Buchanan Antiwar.Com That question, which has bedeviled U.S. experts on the Middle East, may need updating to read: Who rises when Assad falls? For the war is going badly for Bashar Assad, whose family has ruled Syria since Richard Nixon was president. Assad’s situation seems more […]
By Vrijdag 20 National Revolutionary Voice of the Netherlands Anarcho-Syndicalism is not left wing The terms “left”, “right” and “centre” are, in the purest sense of the words, parliamentary concepts. These “directions” within the political spectrum are derived from the perspective of the representatives in parliament. On the […]
By Woensdag National Revolutionary Voice of the Netherlands On the 23rd of May, 1919 the former revolutionary Marxist Benito Mussolini established the “Fascio di Combattimento” (combat union) with a small group of sympathizers in Italy. Until 1920 it remained a marginal group in the extreme leftwing of the […]
By William Schnack The Evolution of Consent In this essay, we will take a deeper look at the characteristics of the geo-mutual bank. More specifically, we will discuss the ability of the bank to mobilize populations, establish itself as sovereign, and to ensure people’s safety and well-being. In […]
By Elizabeth Martinez Films for Action White Supremacy is an historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of exploitation and oppression of continents, nations, and peoples of color by white peoples and nations of the European continent, for the purpose of maintaining and defending a system of wealth, power, and […]
Listen to Dr. Walter Williams interview with Tom Woods here. The irreplaceable Walter Williams smacks down the conventional wisdom on everything from so-called white privilege to education, government spending and debt, and much more. About the Guest Walter Williams, a nationally syndicated columnist, is the author of ten […]
By Jason McQuinn Anarchist Library Introduction Most anarchists — just like most other people on the planet — remain relatively naive concerning the many problems with theories and practices of compulsory morality and moralism. Positive, uncritical references to various forms of compulsory morality are nearly ubiquitous in both […]
My statement to PressTV Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/416561 The United States is trying to encircle Russia by pushing NATO right up to the country’s borders as well as establishing American military bases throughout Central Asia, says a political commentator. “When we look at what the United States has done […]
By Cathy Young Observer The ordeal of Northwestern University film professor Laura Kipnis, hauled before a campus gender equity tribunal for publishing a critique of academia’s current obsession with sexual misconduct, has brought the backlash against “political correctness” to reliably left-of-center venues such as Vox. But this is […]
Revolution is the only solution. “They thought all along that they could call me a libertarian and hang that label around my neck like an albatross,” Rand Paul told TIME Magazine back in 2010, “but I’m not a libertarian.” Three years later, as reported by the Washington Post, Rand Paul reiterated this position: “I’m […]
The views Dr. Gabb expresses in this piece are essentially the same as my own. I could have written this piece, almost word for word.-KP By Dr. Sean Gabb On the 6th June 2015, the organisers of the Gay Pride March in London announced that they had rejected […]
By William T. Hathaway “We’ve always had wars. Humans are a warring species. Without an army to defend us, someone will always try to conquer us.” These assumptions have become axioms of our culture. They generate despair but also a certain comfort because they relieve us of the […]
Urfa, Turkey – Subsequent to fierce battles with militants of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS), the joint forces of People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Burkan al-Furat, supported by the U.S.-led coalition’s warplanes, regained major parts of the strategic city of Tel Abyad (Gire Spi) in Raqqa province, northeastern Syria, YPG sources reported […]
My recent interview with Richard Spencer at Radix Journal concerning the surveillance state. Listen here. NOTES: Rand Paul’s Stand Section 215 of Patriot Act expires The unprounceable name formerly known as Blackwater Keith Preston on Rand Paul Rand Paul signs Tom Cotton’s stupid Iran letter Paul visits Israel […]
Take an aspirin before reading this one. LibCom.Org As the far right begins to rise in the United States, what is the real threat that they hold? The numbers quickly broke three hundred as the Rose City Antifa called for an action to stop the White Man’s March […]
By Scott Alexander SlateStarCodex.Com The social justice narrative describes a political-economic elite dominated by white males persecuting anybody who doesn’t fit into their culture, like blacks, women, and gays. The anti-social-justice narrative describes an intellectual-cultural elite dominated by social justice activists persecuting anybody who doesn’t fit into their […]
The website of William Domhoff, a leading proponent and scholar of “elite theory,” is well worth checking out. By Richard L. Zweigenhaft Who Rules America? For many years now, Bill Domhoff and I have kept an eye on and tried to understand diversity in the corporate elite. Why […]
By Brendan O’Neill Reason “Are you now or have you ever been a climate contrarian?” How long before this McCarthyite question is asked of everyone who enters into academia, in order to weed out those who refuse to bow and scrape before green orthodoxy? If you think this […]
By Brendan O’Neill Reason If you were in any doubt that a dark cloud of illiberalism has descended over the Western academy, then the case of Tim Hunt should put you straight. Hunt is a British biochemist. A really good one. In 2001 he won the Nobel Prize […]
By John Wright Russia Today Reuters / Eric Thayer The crisis and chaos engulfing the Middle East and Ukraine is evidence of US imperial decline, as Washington learns the harsh lesson that no empire lasts forever. In the wake of the Vietnam War – the end of which […]
By William T. Hathaway Terrorists, serial killers, domestic murderers — their ghoulish deeds fill our news and popular entertainment, interspersed with wars, riots, and brutal repressions. Violence surrounds us. Where does it come from? The answer propagated by the mass media is that violence is human nature. It’s […]
“The way we treat non-violent drug crimes is problematic, and from a fiscal perspective, it’s breaking the bank.” “It’s draconian, and it doesn’t work,” Simon told the president. That was “The Wire” creator David Simon in a video posted to the White House YouTube channel about the war […]
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason Via Volokh Conspiracy, a disturbing criminal case out of Montana, where Flathead County resident David Lenio, 28, is being prosecuted for making disparaging remarks about Jews on Twitter and denying that the Holocaust happened. Say what? While this sort of prosecution is common […]
Listen to my recent statement to PressTV here. http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/414791 The increase in exports of chemical and biological weapons from the United States to totalitarian regimes in the Middle East and Africa during the Arab Spring comes as no surprise because “corrupt” Hillary Clinton was the secretary of state […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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