By Brian Doherty Reason As Trump vs. Clinton looms horrifyingly on the horizon, normal human Americans seek any escape route, even one as outre as the Libertarian Party. That is, we’ve seen more chatter and news and commentary about the L.P.’s still ongoing-presidential race (which will be settled […]
By Ann Garrison Counterpunch Bernie Sanders’ defeats in the East Coast primaries have triggered a flurry of conversation about what the 25 to 35% of Sanders supporters who’ve told pollsters they will not vote for Hillary Clinton will do instead. Socialist Alternative, led by Seattle City Council member […]
All that it would take for the US to become a four-party rather than two-party state would be for Sanders to ultimately endorse Jill Stein of the Greens over Hillary, and for the anti-Trump Republicans to start an independent party of their own or make a run on […]
During her campaign, Clinton, who I suspect will be the next president, is moving left on social policy and right on foreign policy. Hillary and Trump represent two trends I have been predicting for a long time. I have thought that the SJWs and the neocons would start […]
I suspect the analysis in this article is largely correct. By Jamelle Bouie Slate.Com Donald Trump speaks to supporters and the media at Trump Tower in Manhattan following his victory in the Indiana primary on Tuesday.View Press/Getty Images Now that Donald Trump is just a few delegates away […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://217.218.67.231/Detail/2016/05/07/464471/US-jet-makers-worried Preston believes US fighter jet makers are fretting over losing revenue if they cannot sell jets to Persian Gulf Arab allies. US fighter jet manufacturers are concerned about the future of sales to America’s Persian Gulf Arab allies, which in part explains a […]
By David Bedford The North Star This article originally published in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 1994. It is republished with permission; formatted for the web by North Star. Bird and Fish, Jackson Beardy1This paper will deal, in a preliminary way, with one of the least studied […]
By Chris Shaw While my economic views put me on the trajectory of left-libertarianism, with my belief in wider, distributed ownership and the return of mutual aid associations and voluntary, even democratic, structures, I’ve always maintained a cultural conservatism in my outlook, coming from the ideas of Edmund […]
This is an interesting analysis of the Sanders campaign and related issues from a hard-left perspective that I believe is largely accurate. Read it here. The same author has a couple of follow up posts here and here.
By Daniel Lewis New York Times Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan gave an anti-war sermon at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, 1972.The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War and landed him in […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/04/27/462876/Trump-Sanders-Clinton-Insurgency-Preston/ “What these two guys [Trump and Sanders] represent is a insurgency that is taking place on a class level,” Preston says. A deepening political fragmentation in US politics that stems from an ongoing war between different social classes in the country has given […]
By Walter Bragman Salon.Com Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump(Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder/Photo montage by Salon) There are perhaps no three words more jarring to liberals than “President Donald Trump.” The GOP front-runner and presumptive nominee has undoubtedly made enemies with his nativist rhetoric and bellicose persona. That said, now […]
By Thomas Knapp The Garrison Center In March, an open letter from 121 Republican “national security leaders” characterized GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s foreign policy vision as “wildly inconsistent and unmoored in principle,” swinging “from isolationism to military adventurism within the space of one sentence.” While it’s always wise […]
By Jp Cortez of Sound Money Defense League Competition is a good thing. It brings out the best in athletes. It brings out the best in students. It brings out the best in companies. Since monopolies remove the positive effects of competition, however, it makes sense to reexamine […]
By William Schnack Chris Shaw wrote an article called “Borders Between the Anarchists,” in which he suggests that it is possible for anarchist communists and capitalists to get along. To support his argument, he points to the anarcho-communist philosophy, demonstrating that even communists have some sense of property, […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston from ATS to discuss the nature of the state.
The media coverage of Superstorm Sandy was 24/7. However, there was little mention of climate change. Why is this? And why didn’t Obama or Romney mention climate change at all in the three TV debates despite a summer of record temperatures, historic drought and wildfires in the US? […]
Climate change is an urgent topic of discussion among politicians, journalists and celebrities…but what do scientists say about climate change? Does the data validate those who say humans are causing the earth to catastrophically warm? Richard Lindzen, an MIT atmospheric physicist and one of the world’s leading climatologists, […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right Virtually all the reporting about this fall’s presidential election focuses on the candidates and the question of who is going to win nomination and election. That is to be expected. But it misses what really matters. The likelihood that either the nominating […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right Russia intervened in Syria, did what it came to do–strengthen the position of the Assad government–and has partially withdrawn. Meanwhile, our war with ISIS continues its endless futility, an inevitable result of war by pinking. War by plinking, using airstrikes that blow […]
Paul Gottfried explains what historic fascism actually was on the Tom Woods Show. Listen here. How about that: fascism has a definition after all, and isn’t just a term for whatever people happen to dislike. In his new book, Paul Gottfried traces the meaning of the word and […]
An interesting debate between Rothbardian anarcho-capitalist Tom Woods and conservative Catholic traditionalist James Kalb. Listen here. Liberalism portrays itself as the ideology of liberty and liberation, as neutral between competing views of the good, and as the position all right-thinking people should adopt. None of this is true, […]
Lesbian Feminist Norah Vincent lives as a man for 18 months, goes nuts and is happy to get back to life as a woman.
Todd Lewis joined by by Nick Hazelton, from Anarcho-Yakitalism Podcast, to debate Free Market Anarchism.
Will the Soros-owned Democrats and the Koch-owned Republicans come together in opposition to the insurgencies that are developing on both ends? The ruling class always forms a united front in the end. By Kristen East Politico Billionaire businessman Charles Koch said Sunday that “it’s possible” another Clinton in […]
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, activist and author, joins Dave Rubin to talk about her story of surviving genital mutilation and death threats, the difference between Islam the religion and political Islam, and about the Regressive Left.
By Chris Shaw I’ve heard it contended that when it comes to a multiplicitous anarchist social order, where anarcho-communists and anarcho-capitalists could live side by side in their own distinct communities, such an order would be practically impossible due to ancoms refusing to recognise the existence of property […]
By Nicholas Casey New York Times IN THE MOUNTAINS OF COLOMBIA — The rebel camp is a Communist time capsule. An old guerrilla fighter sings songs about Che Guevara on his guitar as a crowd leans in to listen, armed with rifles and grenades. Salaries do not exist […]
A discussion of economic between anarchist Keith Preston, Christian distributist, anarcho-capitalist Kal Molinet, and anti-capitalist nationalist Eugene Montsalvat.
LibertarianHeathen.Com A practical guide for success, in the moment we have all been waiting for. By: Ryan Ramsey Chairman, Bradford County Affiliate State Executive Committee Representative, Region 4 Libertarian Party of Florida Since 1971, Libertarians have dreamed of this day. The moment enough members of the one party system’s […]
LibertarianHeathen.Com Libertarians who feel the need to tear down American culture and values are not striking a blow to the state, but forging their own chains. Be a non-conformist, but leave everyone else alone. They will conform to the idea of leaving everyone else alone when we claim […]
Todd Lewis and I discuss 300 years of US imperialism in just over an hour.
Todd Lewis and I discuss anarchism.
Tom Woods takes on the Israel Lobby. Listen here. We are supposed to believe that the network of organizations promoting a particular view of Israel and the U.S. relationship with that country doesn’t exist, and that anyone who says it does is a crank and a hater. Yet […]
Paul Joseph Watson (editor-at-large, Infowars) joins Dave Rubin, discussing libertarians, social justice warriors, Donald Trump, Bernie Sanders, European immigration and more.
Is there such a thing as an anarchist lifestyle? Martin discusses what’s out there now and considers life in the Spanish anarchist movement in the 1920s and 30s.
Martin speculates upon the lumpen part of the working class and praises it’s dynamism
Straight from the front lines of the war on drugs, former undercover narc and current LEAP speaker Jack Cole tells an international conference why we need to legalize and regulate all drugs.
Hear directly from a retired judge who has done a full 180 on the War on Drugs.
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/19/461447/US-election-Donald-Trump/ “It’s only because of the system that Donald Trump’s candidacy is as popular as it is,” Keith Preston says. US Republican front-runner Donald Trump is buying his way into the electoral campaign and the corrupt political system is the reason why his candidacy […]
Two gay Jewish guys bashing totalitarian humanism. Excellent! Milo Yiannopoulos (journalist) joins Dave Rubin, discussing Milo’s support for Donald Trump, the terror attacks in Brussels, censorship on social media (including Milo’s blue check being taken away on Twitter), free speech, and more.
Michael Shermer (author, “Skeptic”) and Dave Rubin discuss skepticism, morality, conspiracy theories, political issues like gun control, abortion, libertarianism, and more
I was first introduced to Nisbet when I was a college student in the Reagan era. A left-anarchist friend gave me a copy of Nisbet’s Question for Community and said, “Check this guy out! He’s supposed to be a conservative but he sounds almost like one of us.” […]
Iran Daily Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/13/460636/Syria-Assad-Daesh-US-PlanB-Preston/ The US is seeking to further escalate the years-long conflict in Syria through its so-called “Plan B,” in a bid to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power as his government does not bend to America and Israel’s will, says a Virginia-based author […]
A good liberal/conservative discussion.
Against the Alternative Right. By Cathy Young The Federalist Who’d have thought that in 2016, we would be discussing whether mainstream Republicans and conservatives should be nicer to white nationalists? Yet here we are. The debate is, of course, about the “alternative right,” suddenly propelled into visibility by […]
In defense of the Alternative Right. By Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannoupolis Breitbart.Com A specter is haunting the dinner parties, fundraisers and think-tanks of the Establishment: the specter of the “alternative right.” Young, creative and eager to commit secular heresies, they have become public enemy number one to beltway conservatives […]
The Proudhonism of the Right. By Gene Callahan The American Conservative Distributism is the rather awkward name given to a program of political economy formulated chiefly by G.K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, two of the most prominent English writers of the early 20th century. Both Catholics, they sought […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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