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Keith Preston

Keith Preston: Clinton email probe could end in ‘great chaos’ for 2016 vote

Press TV. Read here: http://www.presstv.us/Detail/2016/07/03/473483/Clinton-email-probe-may-end-in-great-chaos Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton attends a town hall with about 100 millennials who are digital content creators and social media influencers, June 28, 2016, at Neuehouse in Hollywood, California. (AFP) An FBI probe into use of private email server by former […]

The Myth of Cosmopolitanism

By Ross Douthat New York Times NOW that populist rebellions are taking Britain out of the European Union and the Republican Party out of contention for the presidency, perhaps we should speak no more of left and right, liberals and conservatives. From now on the great political battles […]

The Secret of Swiss Success Is Decentralization

By Daniel J. Mitchell Foundation for Economic Education Programs about the improbable success of Chile and Estonia already have aired on nationwide TV, and those were joined last weekend by a show about the “sensible nation” of Switzerland. Here’s the 28-minute program. When I first watched the program, I was slightly irked […]

Keith Preston: Israel lobby controls most American politicians

Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/26/472326/Kerry-Netanyahu-US-Israel-Settlements-Palestine-Preston “Virtually all of the major [US] politicians from both of the major parties repeatedly kowtow to the Israel lobby,” say Keith Preston. The United States’ unconditional support for Israel will not end anytime soon as most of the American politicians, regardless of their […]

The humanist, futurist, European case for Brexit

By Tom Slater Spiked Online he Leave campaign is negative. It is anti-immigration, anti-modernity, anti-Europe. Throughout the EU referendum debate, this has been the deadening refrain of the Remain campaign. Despite the fearmongering on both sides, despite the fact that post-Brexit economic catastrophe has been talked up at […]

How American Politics Went Insane

The System is crumbling and the power elite is getting worried. By Jonathan Rauch The Atlantic t’s 2020, four years from now. The campaign is under way to succeed the president, who is retiring after a single wretched term. Voters are angrier than ever—at politicians, at compromisers, at […]

Brexit as a Means to True Secession

By Chris Shaw I’ve made it clear that I don’t see the EU referendum as particularly important. The major economic questions surrounding the modern world, from banking fragility and capital creation, to huge levels of private and sovereign debt and politico-economic centralisation are not remotely addressed within this […]

Conferences, gatherings, and meetings

An overlapping question might be how do we have anarchist meetings without armed guards to keep all the different factions from attacking each other? AnarchistNews.Org Anarchists have held and continue to organize conferences, gatherings, workshops, discussions, summits, and meetings on a local and international level. These events offer […]

Election 2016: Back to the 1970s?

If the Trump and Sanders movements become a permanent fixture of US politics, the real effect of this will be to repeal the Reagan Revolution and bring American politics back to what it was in the 1970s, and with relatively similar political, economic, and social circumstances (minus the […]

Who’s the Fascist?

By Margaret Kimberley Counterpunch/Black Agenda Report Joseph Sohm | Shutterstock.com Donald Trump is the ill spoken, boorish, graceless version of every American president in modern history. He differs from them only in his unconcealed appeals to white nationalism. But Democrats aren’t much better. They pretend to work on behalf of […]

Why Did Venezuela’s Economy Fail? Socialism or Sabotage?

Thomas Sowell says socialism. By Thomas Sowell Investors.Com Opposition protesters shout out “Maduro” during a demonstration demanding the government pursue a referendum to recall President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela. Americans enamored with the soft-focus socialism espoused by Bernie Sanders are deluded into thinking socialism works. It has […]

It’s imperialism, stupid!

Finally, a leftist who gets it. Although I do think the ATS perspective is superior to Trumpism. Aidan O’Brien Counterpunch Have we reached the endgame of Western democracy? When we heard Chomsky, a week or two ago on Democracy Now, saying that if pushed he’d vote for Clinton, […]