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On a serious note, those of us living in the heart of empire don’t have the luxury of remaining idle. Join the resistance! The Onion WASHINGTON—Putting the nation on alert against what it has described as a “highly credible terrorist threat,” the FBI announced today that it has […]
No surprises here. Think Progress writes: From Porter’s perspective, drug-free zones remain because “at the end of the day, these questions boil down to politics. The school zones have their most impact in urban areas where the electorate is often poor and is often of color.” Bridgeport is […]
Atlanta Blackstar The fact is, Somali ‘pirates’ are ordinary Somalian fishermen who at first took speedboats to try to dissuade European vessels from illegally fishing and dumping into their waters. With the absence of the government’s navy, the fishermen joined together and formed the National Volunteer Coast Guard […]
Lingit Latseen I am personally ambivalent regarding Mr. Bundy’s specific claims to grazing lands and cattle grazing in Nevada. I feel certain there are environmental issues with cattle grazing practices in an arid region. As an Alaska Native and American Indian (descended from two distinct tribes) I would […]
Míle Gaiscíoch I am very sorry that you have chosen to back out of the upcoming gathering, Cascadia Rising: A Bioregional Confluence. I feel that the perspective you folks have to offer, in regards to the tumultuous arguments that are ongoing in our various communities revolving around oppression […]
Attack the System The State of the Resistance: Five Years Into the Age of Obama April 7, 2014 Keith Preston critiques the growing libertarian movement within the context of current political trends in the United States. Topics include: Topics include: How libertarianism has grown in popularity since 2007. […]
Attack the System Anarchism and Spirituality: An Interview with Jay Cypher February 22, 2014 Keith Preston interviews Jay Cypher, anarchist anthropologist and scholar of the relationship between spirituality, religion, and social movements. Topics include: Topics include: Her recent lecture “Anarchy and Spiritual Practice.” Libertarian tendencies within various religious […]
Attack the System Women Against the State February 1, 2014 A panel discussion with M.K. Lords, Becky Belding, Trista Rundatz, and Keith Preston about gender issues in the libertarian milieu, and wider issues facing the libertarian and anarchist movements. Topics include: Topics include: Why anti-state movements attract more […]
Global Post Born in Mexico but raised in barrios of Southern California, these rifle-slinging fighters are holding down the front line in Michoacan’s battle against a ruthless meth gang. NUEVA ITALIA, Mexico — Moises Verduzco says he learned how to handle himself in a fight from his teen […]
Attack the System Bitcoin Against the System: An Interview with M.K. Lords January 29, 2014 Keith Preston interviews Bitcoin and counter-economics activist M. K. Lords. Topics include: How Bitcoins can be used to bypass the warfare state and assist with social justice issues such as homelessness. The Ron […]
Authorities have arrested Ross Ulbricht of San Francisco and charged him with running the Silk Road, an online market place for anonymously buying and selling drugs. The site was hosted on Tor, the anonymity network that is thought to be immune to government regulation. In a unsealed criminal […]
From Lingit Latseen r by Frank Hopper As the not guilty verdict of George Zimmerman was announced on July 13 I couldn’t help thinking about a similar shooting here in Seattle that was also caused by racial profiling, the shooting of First Nations carver John T. Williams by […]
From Malcolm X Grassroots Movement Proposed Next Steps for the National Justice for Trayvon Martin Movement Tuesday, July 16, 2013 Major Action We call for a massive mobilization to shut down either Tallahassee or Sanford, Florida in August or September to: a) present a comprehensive set of structural […]
Today we celebrate the last time that American insurgents successfully overthrew their government. Unfortunately, they installed a new one right after. Let’s get it right this time around!
Al Jazeera The Egyptian army has overthrown President Mohamed Morsi, announcing a roadmap for the country’s political future that will be implemented by a national reconciliation committee. According to a senior member of the Muslim Brotherhood, Morsi is being held in a military facility with top aides.
Mike the Mad Biologist Or perhaps I should write persecuted? Recently, I discussed how the poor are prosecuted simply for being poor. The story of Methodist pastor Lorenza Andrade-Smith, who, in ministering to the homeless, sold her belongings and renounced her health insurance, provides a shocking example of […]
How is this much different then a large scale gang war? From RT An Islamist terror cell planned to attack a British white power demonstration using a combination of homemade nail bombs, knives and sawn-off shotguns, a court heard on Thursday. The plan was only narrowly averted by […]
Vice.com Militia members in Cuautepec, Guerrero, where they gathered to take an oath to defend their communities against organized crime. Photos by Carlos Alvarez Montero. On January 5 in El Potrero, a small town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, a man named Eusebio García Alvarado was kidnapped […]
People’s World by Albert Bender June 3 2013 Genocide is not too strong a term for what is now happening in South Dakota. The huge, shocking violation of legal and human rights being carried out by the state is tantamount to genocide against the Native American nations, the […]
The virtual currency, Bitcoin, has broken the $100 per bitcoin mark today. Bitcoin is a decentralized virtual currency. It has no centralized server or issuer, but instead relies on a peer to peer network of servers to verify transactions and mine new coins by solving increasingly difficult hash […]
In a recent article published on Facts CoExist theoretical physicist Dirk Brockmann argues that state boundaries are often arbitrary and out of date, no longer representative of how we communicate or function as a modern society. By tracking dollar bills he has created a series of maps redrawing […]
For Immediate Release Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership March 25, 2013 – Day One of the Occupation of Detroit Contact: Ron Scott & Shea Howell – 313-282-7669 – howell@oakland.edu DETROIT, MI – Today is a sad day in Detroit. The usurpation of civic power by the State […]
All Nations Party The All Nations Party supports pan-secessionism and true nationalism. It is a small step toward pushing for self-determination and true national sovereignty in what is now the United States. ANP Facebook ANP Youtube ANP Twitter The Grand Prize The All Nations Party supports the break […]
211 Crew, supremacist group, involved in high-profile crimes The man now the focus of the probe into the high-profile murder of prisons chief Tom Clements is a member of the 211 Crew, officials say. Evan Ebel, 28, is not the first member of the white-supremacist prison gang to […]
The Guardian discovers Silk Road and Bitcoin. Mark Johnson* rifles through his mail as he gets home from work. Among the usual bills is a small padded envelope. Though it doesn’t have his name on, it’s the package he’s most interested in: inside lie two grams of, he […]
Huffington Post MONUMENT, Colo. — Colorado’s top state prison official was shot and killed when he answered the front door of his house, and police are searching for the gunman and trying to figure out if the attack had anything to do with his position. Authorities are also […]
Police intervened when more than a hundred people joined in a candlelit vigil in the East Flatbush neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York, where 16-year-old Kimani Gray was shot 11 times by police on Saturday. Brooklynites on Twitter reported that police followed the march and searched apartment buildings in […]
Rest in peace and fuck the pigs. Brooklyn neighborhood on police lockdown following protest Further reading here at Attack the System: The Rebillion in Los Angeles – The Context of a Proletarian Uprising
A march of environmentalists, eco-radicals & Cascadians took place on March 3, 2013 following the Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon. I participated in one of the conferences’s many panels along with Cascadian activists: Cascadian Bioregionalism and the Indigenous Future. I also attended a packed and […]
The Polemicist An essay in seven sections. The Fundamental Political Principle “That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”— George Orwell
Huffington Post When a group of young libertarians gathered in Pepperdine last week for a Students for Liberty conference, they probably did not expect to begin their day listening to a speech advocating for greater cooperation between the Liberty and the Occupy Wall Street movements.
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From Lingit Latseen On Native America Calling: Gun Control Debate I discussed gun control from a Native American context. This show was hosted by Tara Gatewood with myself, Vince Rinehart, as a guest. It aired live on January 25, 2013. Download the Show Here. For a very brief […]
In response to illegal logging in their community the Indigenous Purepecha people of Cherán, Michoacán organize a defense force based on their traditional forms of self governance and defense. With their women as the catalysts, the community erected barricades, drove out illegal loggers and gangsters, seized control of […]
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From Banoosh The reports are absolutely true. Facebook suspended the Natural News account earlier today after we posted an historical quote from Mohandas Gandhi. The quote reads: “Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms […]
by Vince Rinehart
In case you haven’t heard, a social movement among Native people has begun in Canada, protesting against the Conservative Government’s budget bill which would cut
From Lingit Latseen by Vince Rinehart Gun control is not for Native people. It is for people who can’t or won’t take on the sacred duty to protect their families, their people, their lands and their way of life. When I was 13 I attended a gathering of […]
Warrior Purblications Zapatistas: “to be heard, we march in silence” by Leonidas Oikonomakis on December 21, 2012 The Zapatistas are back! Flowing like the water of the river that beats the sword. And while some were anticipating the Christmas holidays, some others the end of the Maya calendar, […]
By Chris Uggen I’ve been reluctant to write about the terrible events at Sandy Hook Elementary School because the wounds are still too fresh for any kind of dispassionate analysis. As a social scientist, however, I’m disappointed by the fear-mongering and selective presentations of the research evidence I’ve […]
By Vincent Rinehart
If you are ever faced with extreme violence, you will have to make the decision to act.
By Vince Rinehart
A nation is never conquered until the hearts of its women are on the ground.
-Cheyenne saying
The recent spat between Democrats and
You take away guns from American history and there is no America….. Take away guns and you take away people’s ability to protect themselves. You take away people’s ability to protect themselves in a world where evil does everything it can to deprive us of life, you take […]
RT.com As President Obama insists on a speedy end to the war in Afghanistan, his administration has other plans. A facility owned by the private security force once known as Blackwater has been awarded a $22 million contract to house US
Hear, hear! Anyone who follows Bruce Schneier and his book Beyond Fear knows that the reason air travel is safer today is less about the TSA taking away your nail clippers and more about reinforced, locking cockpit doors and the common understanding among passengers that if your plane […]
It’s hard to imagine that these programs turn up much of anything but publicity for police departments and grandpa’s ill-maintained relic of a firearm that’s been sitting in the basement, rusting away for a couple of generations. Police gun buyback program Sat. also offers shots … flu shots […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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