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William T. Hathaway This photo of my parents reveals much about their personalities (hers vivacious and outgoing, his withdrawn and closed off), their relationship (little real contact), and also the times (could be captioned Gender Roles in the 1950s: The Bathing Beauty and the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 […]
By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Listen here. Speech to the Traditional Britain Group 24th October 2015 Here is an audio recording made on my mobile telephone and then tarted up in Audacity. A better version will be available soon, but this will do for the moment. I argue as […]
By Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance One of the main British news stories at the moment is an argument over changes to part of the welfare system. The Government claims it wants to make the child and working tax credits system more efficient. The Labour opposition claims it wants […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/435081 The US war against Iraq from 2003 to 2011 was an “unprovoked invasion” carried out under the false pretense that Iraq possessed nuclear weapons, a political analyst in Virginia says. “This was a completely bogus pretext for the invasion of a sovereign nation […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/434957 Russia and China have forged an alliance against the American and Western hegemony and this is visible in Beijing’s stance on the South China Sea, says an American analyst. “China is concerned about American influence in East Asia,” Keith Preston, director of attackthesystem.com, told Press […]
In this episode of teleSUR’s The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky. Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary “extravaganza,” the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, modern-day libertarianism […]
I have two speaking engagements coming up over the next few weeks. On Halloween I will be speaking to the National Policy Institute at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. My topic will be “American Imperialism vs The Identity of the World’s Peoples.” I will also be […]
By Legionscatz It occurs to me, that part of the reason I lost faith in anarchism (ok, perhaps faith isn’t the right word, leave me alone atheists) in the first place is because, ultimately, to manifest an anarchist society, anarchism must become popular with the people which that […]
This is a very interesting rebuttal to the standard anarcho-capitalist view of property theory from a classical anarchist perspective. By Will Schnack Evolution of Consent Check out Will’s book here. This is a reply to Tom Woods Show Ep. 507, “Anarcho-Capitalism or Anarcho-Socialism: Why We Should Embrace Property […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/433161 The military and political strategies deployed by the US imply that the West is only after preserving “puppet states” through which it can have more dominance over the region. Since the breakout of war in Syria and the expansion of turmoil in the […]
From Will Schnack: “Consider purchasing a book, and helping a young farmer-philosopher to subsist! It’s quality material, and I have been blessed to have receieved some favorable responses from some of my own favorite authors, including the infamous mutualist, Kevin Carson, and a more personal inspiration to me, […]
By William T. Hathaway This year marks the 20th anniversary of wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone National Park. From 66 released originally they’ve increased to over 300 and are no longer endangered. That they thrive here is not surprising, for they are creatures of this raw land in a […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Random Meanderings Academic Composition In the Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes repeatedly expressed concerns that the Church and the University had the potential to undermine the sovereign’s authority. When I first read that passage as a naive college student, I saw no reason to challenge Hobbes’ position regarding […]
Truthdig.Com aisletwentytwo / CC BY 2.0 An overwhelmingly older, white and male group of Americans who made fortunes in finance and energy and represent just 158 families gave $176 million—almost half of all the money raised so far—to mostly Republican presidential candidates in the early months of the […]
This is rather extraordinary. By Glenn Greenwald The Intercept.Com A new poll from Bloomberg Politics contains a finding that, if you really think about it, is quite remarkable: Almost half of all Americans want to support Israel even if its interests diverge from the interests of their own country. Only a minority of […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/432495 The United States is “untouchable” when it comes to war crimes and other violations of the Geneva Conventions because there is no global body that can enforce punishment against the country. Keith Preston, the chief editor and director of AttacktheSystem.com, made the remarks in […]
By Brandon Martinez Non-Aligned Media Brandon Martinez Non-Aligned Media October 4, 2015 So Russia has launched an air campaign in Syria to allegedly defend the embattled Assad regime. While this action will undoubtedly tickle the fancy of Putin’s diehard supporters in anti-Zionist circles, it does not undermine the […]
Transablism or a variation of Otherkin? By Austin Peterson Libertarian Republic Blake Neff A woman in North Carolina is attracting media attention for telling her story about pouring drain cleaner in her eyes because she identifies as a blind person. Jewel Shuping was born with perfectly healthy eyes, […]
A documentary on Afghanistan’s economy featuring extensive footage and commentary from yours truly. Press TV. Watch it here: http://www.presstv.ir/Video/2015/10/02/431620/Afghanistan-US-economy# Afghanistan has been ravaged by over 40 years of war. Yet this country, which is in transition, enjoys great potential for economic success. The political and security transition continues to […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com If there was any doubt that Washington has learned absolutely nothing since George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, then President Obama’s address to the United Nations has confirmed the world’s worst fears. It was an oration that combined the most egregious lies with the […]
Russia Today The export of so-called ‘democratic’ revolutions has continued, but has unleashed poverty and violence instead of the triumph of democracy, Russian President Vladimir Putin said addressing the UN General Assembly. Attempts to push for changes in other countries based on ideological preferences have led to “tragic […]
These are the folks that anarchists should be paying attention to, not “social justice warriors” or American libertarian kooks. By Carne Ross New York Times Across an empty and arid plain, south of a town in eastern Syria called Tell Brak, there is a long berm marking the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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