By Wendy McElroy A twenty-year old version of myself would laugh at anyone who suggested I would become a feminist. I was a libertarian verging on anarchism, and I thought feminism contradicted one of my core beliefs. Namely, every individual has an equal and identical claim to their […]
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From: Tomas Young I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write […]
By Paul Craig Roberts In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered. Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakenly clear that the American people don’t even influence, much less control, the government. As […]
By Justin Raimondo The widely noted poll showing Democrats are now the biggest cheerleaders for the Surveillance State has conservatives delightedly calling out the left for “hypocrisy,” noting with glee the leftie pundits who denounced George W. Bush’s administration for trampling on our civil liberties and are now […]
Alternet Many young people diagnosed with mental disorders have acted on their beliefs in ways that threaten authorities. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/grynold June 14, 2013 |
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By Timothy Stanley May 14, 2008 From the vantage point of the early 21st century the American left seems like a hopeless, hapless, very probably lost cause.
By Paul Bonneau It’s not unusual to see here on Strike The Root articles defending or promoting anarchy, particularly the anarcho-capitalist variety. Yay, team! Anarcho-capitalism is a good answer–for anarcho-capitalists. Not so good for, say, communitarians, though; nor for liberals, conservatives, or even anarcho-other-than-capitalists. It’s an answer, not […]
By Siryako Akda Nationalism, as it was originally envisioned by Enlightenment thinkers, was conceived of as a system composed of individuals bound together in a social contract with one another. However, this ideal was never fully achieved in the real world. Both in the West as well as […]
The Guardian The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows • Q&A with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I do not expect to see home again’ Link to video: […]
The Atlantic Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg: Friends — and competitors. (Reuters) Governments today face largely the same problems as businesses. The key challenge everywhere is not to downsize per se, but to compete more effectively by delivering the highest value for whatever they charge, in an environment […]
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 […]
It looks like Salon.Com really has it in for libertarians these days. By Michael Lind (Credit: AP/Charlie Riedel) Why are there no libertarian countries? If libertarians are correct in claiming that they understand how best to organize a modern society, how is it that not a single country […]
By Jordan Bloom Reason held a panel last week on libertarian perspectives on abortion featuring their own Katherine Mangu-Ward and Ronald Bailey, alongside the strongly pro-life Mollie Hemingway. The video is above. All seem to agree that viability is a sliding scale that is difficult to use as a […]
Unfortunately, this writer is clueless as to the differences between neoliberalism and actual libertarianism and reacts with stereotypical left-wing hysteria when the welfare state is criticized. This article also fails to discuss what is most interesting about Nozick. Yet many of the criticisms of vulgar libertarianism are warranted […]
By Jacob Hornberger All of us have been born and raised under a regime of controlled borders. We have also been inculcated with the notion that this is all part of a “free society” and a “free-enterprise system.” But it’s all been a lie. The truth is that […]
The Atlantic Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg: Friends — and competitors. (Reuters) Governments today face largely the same problems as businesses. The key challenge everywhere is not to downsize per se, but to compete more effectively by delivering the highest value for whatever they charge, in an environment […]
By Robert Higgs I can understand why someone might embrace classical liberalism. I did so myself more than forty years ago. People become classical liberals for two main reasons, which are interrelated: first, because they come to understand that free markets “work” better than government-controlled economic systems in […]
Politico.Com AP Photo By CAITLIN MCDEVITT | 5/31/13 2:15 PM EDT Who needs government? Actor Woody Harrelson says we’d be “just fine” without it in the latest issue of Details magazine:
By Thomas Knapp “Memorial Day,” according to Wikipedia, “is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May …. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service.” I confess to mixed feelings. On the one […]
MRDA’S Inferno Kevin I. Slaughter, Satanic Reverend and owner of publishing house Underworld Amusements, expressed this sentiment not-so-long ago: I don’t adhere to any specific political party or platform, but reading comments on the internet underlines the folly of any political system that involves “the people” making informed […]
By John Whitehead “[F]orce alone cannot make us safe. We cannot use force everywhere that a radical ideology takes root; and in the absence of a strategy that reduces the well-spring of extremism, a perpetual war – through drones or Special Forces or troop deployments – will prove […]
Anarchist News Comrades, —- The Arab uprisings and Occupy Wall Street and the rest of global uprisings since 2011 have opened more doors for us to communicate and realize more than ever how our struggles against the state and dominant power structures are interconnected and the same. Our […]
Law Enforcement Today In Hancock, NY an Islamic community that sits on 80 acres of land has decided to form its own government. They call their community: The Town of Islamberg. They have their own mayor, deputy mayor and five town council members. None of them are elected, […]
By Patrick Deneen In his most recent diagnosis of the state of America’s political soul, the journalist and political thinker E.J. Dionne begins with a simple thesis. In the opening pages of Our Divided Political Heart, he asserts that “American history is defined by an irrepressible and ongoing […]
WorldTruth.TV Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new […]
Signed copies of NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: HEROES AND VILLAINS are now available to pre-order. The book is approximately 160 pages in length and costs just £15 with free postage to anywhere in the world. The Paypal address is: blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk More details below.
Natural News To many veterans of the 1960s-era civil rights movement there is a rising angst and discourse among the populace that is eerily familiar to them. Nearly everywhere you turn, crowds of angry Americans are gathering, no longer content to merely sit idly by and remain spectators […]
NATA-NY NATA-NY’s experience at the seventh annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair By Gabriel Brown NATA-NY member and co-founder On April 6, 2013, the seventh annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair, which was held at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in New York City, provided the setting for a […]
Fractured Paradigm Attorney General Eric Holder has written to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback[1], informing him that the Obama administration considers state attempts to protect the Second Amendment “unconstitutional” and that federal agents will “continue to execute their duties,” regardless of state statutes to the contrary.
Available from Black House Publishing at Amazon.Com Emma Goldman is often depicted in current academic discourse as a mere prototypical feminist and socialist. Yet this collection of essays by Goldman reveals that she often expressed ideas which many of her present day admirers might find surprising and unsettling. […]
by Mark Dyal
Counter-Currents is set to publish part three of my continuing examination of Deleuze and Guattari’s potential to influence what I am now calling the revolutionary Right, including
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A fundamental fact of life, regarding our potential to manifest any sort of large anarchistic mass-society, is that to successfully do this then anarchists must take the vast majority of the population along with
NaturalNews.Com There is a food revolution taking hold all over America, whether it is in the form of demanding labeling of GM foods, the right to produce and sell raw milk and other commodities, or – in the case of Sedgwick, Maine – declaring all local food transactions […]
By Stephen Beale She lamented the encroachment of the state and the perils of the welfare system. She once compared abortion to genocide and the U.S. government to Nazi Germany. She cheered on income tax resisters, dismissed the benefits of the minimum wage, and worried about the decline […]
libertarianalliance DAVID McDONAGH Authority is a sort of personal trust that we have for someone, say, our doctor. If we say he is a good doctor then we express that he has authority with us. Hobbes realised that the state was based on such authority. Locke later called […]
reason.com A new defense of libertarian anarchism makes the case that the philosophy belongs on the left. Aeon J. Skoble from the April 2013 issue Anarchy and Legal Order: Law and Politics for a Stateless Society, by Gary Chartier, Cambridge University Press, 416 pages, $115 If a just […]
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 […]
by Hans-Hermann Hoppe [Transcript of a speech delivered at the 2009 Mises University.] At the beginning, I want to repeat a few points that I have made in my previous lecture on law and economics, and then I want to get to an entirely different subject than the […]
CBS DC For Every 10 Americans, Only 3 Trust The Government WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – The Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. has found that fewer Americans than ever trust the decisions made by the government. Data collected from a survey taken in January of this year indicates that […]
By Daniel Larison jcolman / Flickr Rod looks back on the Iraq war debate and acknowledges that its “radical” opponents got the main question right: I don’t think this makes radicals always right, or beyond mockery. But I learned that sometimes, radicals of the left and the right […]
Interesting insights from Robert Kaplan Ancient and medieval mapmakers would better understand the world of 2100 than would the politicians of 2000. Nations as we know them have existed for only a few hundred years. But cities have been with us since the dawn of civilization. And while […]
Trendsimwatching.com Trend: Nation-states may be losing power to smaller entities as globalization sorts cultures into regions based on city-states. VC Confidential describes a dinner talk by futurist Paul Saffo. Excerpts below. Link: VC Confidential: A Global Evening with Paul Saffo …our world is moving from one of nation-states […]
By Parag Khanna The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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