By Will Potter When FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided multiple activist homes in the Northwest last week, they were in search of “anti-government or anarchist literature.” The raids were part of a multi-state operation that targeted activists in Portland, Olympia, and Seattle. At least three people were […]
Anthony Gregory chimes in on Cathygate at the Independent Institute. ________ In the last two weeks, we have seen the weakness of many left-liberals’ support for civil liberties. Last week, progressive bloggers, activists, and politicians piled on Chick-fil-A, whose president Dan Cathy has spoken critically of and supported […]
From Quisling’s Quest I am an independent politically. I believe in less government on the national level and more local control at a city state community level. I believe in diversity and that small government should reflect the community that lives within it. Because of all this, I […]
By Keith Preston Friedrich Nietzsche suggested in the nineteenth century that the crisis of Western civilization generated by modernity’s overthrow of the traditional European order and the loss of faith resulting from the torpedoing of traditional theology by advancements in human knowledge would have repercussions that would […]
Required reading. South Asian Anarchism: Paths to Praxis Meditations on Maia Ramnath’s Decolonizing Anarchism: an Antiauthoritarian History of India’s Liberation Struggle (AK Press, USA, 2012) and her Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (California World History Library, […]
From BBC Chaos and carnage hover over the novels of Cormac McCarthy and the writings of thinker Thomas Hobbes. It's not a love of domination that makes people violent, but the need for safety, says philosopher John Gray. (Spoiler alert: Key plot details revealed below) "War is god". […]
By Justin Raimondo The death of Alexander Cockburn, columnist for the Nation and author of many books, is an irreplaceable loss not only personally, for those who knew him, but for the broad “progressive” movement, where his populist brand of anarcho-syndicalism — the leftist equivalent of “crunchy conservatism” — set him apart […]
Signed copies of NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: IDEAS & CONCEPTS are now available to pre-order. The book is over 200 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. AFTER the immense interest that was generated by […]
From NATA-NY In the July issue of American Free Press, Pat Shannan reports on a recent Homeland Security study that claims to identify domestic terrorists. The AFP article is reposted below, but above Shannan’s writing are three direct quotes from the DHS-funded, University of Maryland-conducted report “Hot Spots […]
By Davi Barker I want to be clear from the outset what I mean by “fundamentalists.” I’m not talking about muslims engaged in suicide bombing, plane hijacking, church burning, cartoonist murdering or teddy bear rioting. Those people have departed from any semblance of what I can call islam. […]
By Anna Morgenstern Those of us who mistrust the evolution of our current politico-economic system, often look toward dystopian novels to portray a warning glimpse of where we are headed. The two most common examples are 1984 by George Orwell or Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. While there certainly are elements […]
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” – Voltaire
Luna @ A Hopeful Pessimist on truants, prozzies, paternalism, and Social Darwinism. _________ Well, I’m back again. I didn’t intend to take this long to write again, but due to technological troubles, I was offline for awhile, thus making it impossible to post more entries. This is not […]
From Mad for Monaco Once upon a time money problems were the rule rather than the exception in the Principality of Monaco. The Grimaldis seemed to be constantly cash-strapped and one of the things that had to be considered when marriage discussions were going on was usually how […]
By Roderick Long Consider the following two lists of names: Group 1 Group 2 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Josiah Warren Stephen Pearl Andrews Ezra Heywood Anselme Bellegarrigue Lysander Spooner Benjamin Tucker Francis D. Tandy John Henry Mackay Voltairine de Cleyre (early) Franz Oppenheimer Gustave de Molinari Herbert Spencer (early) Auberon […]
by Vincent Rinehart Chris Hedges says Native resistance, both violent and passive, didn’t work in the face of oppression. He also doesn’t want to advocate violence in the face of global catastrophe brought on by the world’s corporate elite. But he won’t stand idly by and just watch […]
By Kevin Carson We’ve seen another “patriotic” holiday come and go, and with it the same obligatory maudlin comments from local TV news anchors about troops overseas “defending our freedom.” Just like we saw on Memorial Day, and just like we’ll see again on Veterans’ Day. Grade AAA, […]
Tom G. Palmer set the communitarian crowd straight. Kudos to Kyle Kidwell for bringing this to my attention. ____________ It has recently been asserted that libertarians, or classical liberals, actually think that “individual agents are fully formed and their value preferences are in place prior to and outside […]
This looks to be an interesting book. This book reveals for the first time the ancient Israelite culture, which Moses established in the Sinai Desert, as an Anarchistic society. The Ancient Israelite culture rejected all forms of law and administration on principle because of their belief in Yahavah […]
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by Murray Rothbard
The lone individual is seldom given credit as a shaper and mover of great historical events; and this is particularly true when that individual is no famous statesman or military hero, nor leader of a mass movement, but simply a little-known person pursuing his own idea in his own way. Yet such a person, scarcely known in his day and totally forgotten by historians until the last few years, played an important role in one of the most significant events in modern history: the American Revolution. know the great influence of this man and his simple idea in forming an event that has shaped all of our lives.
By David Graeber An Open Letter to Chris Hedges N+1 Magazine In response to “The Cancer in Occupy,” by Chris Hedges. I am writing this on the premise that you are a well-meaning person who wishes Occupy Wall Street to succeed. I am also writing as someone who […]
By Cindy Milstein (Note: This essay is reprinted from the July–August 2008 issue of Left Turn magazine, which features a special section on the elections; it was written before Obama secured the nomination.) “The world as it is, is not the world as it has to be.” Long […]
By Thomas Knapp Well, here it is, folks: The Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the “individual mandate” provision in the Affordable Care Act, aka “ObamaCare.” As of 2014, all Americans will pay a portion of their taxes to an insurance company of their choice instead of to Uncle Sam […]
mises.org Murray N. Rothbard [Making Economic Sense (1995; 2007)] One of Ludwig von Mises’s keenest insights was on the cumulative tendency of government intervention. The government, in its wisdom, perceives a problem (and Lord knows, there are always problems!). The government then intervenes to “solve” that problem. But […]
from vivalaanarquia, translated by waronsociety: Two explosions in different parts of the south of Mexico City happened in the night hours. The first at 501 Picacho Ajusco, corner of Cartos (Ampliación Miguel Hidalgo neighborhood). An homemade explosive device went off at 11:37 PM Tuesday June 26 in a […]
By Paul Gottfried The latest bestseller by German economist Thilo Sarrazin, a former member of the Bundesbank executive board, is a rambling critique of the eurozone. His book Deutschland braucht den Euro nicht (Germany does not need the euro) tells you everything you might want to know about why the […]
By Tom Whitehead Violent groups who clashed with police in Greece and Spain over austerity cuts could launch an attack on the summer Games to ensure worldwide publicity, it is feared. The Italian group, the Informal Anarchist Federation, has already threatened to wage a “low-intensity war” against the […]
From Voltairine.org In commemoration of Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) Emma Goldman’s Memorial Tribute to Voltairine de Cleyre (1932), an excerpt: The first time I met her — this most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced — was in Philadelphia, in August 1893. I had come to that […]
From The UK Libertarian. Davy, the UK Libertarian, hoists moralistic tax-happy statists on their own petard. Logical, potent, and apt, if emotionally-oversaturated at times. _________________ [WARNING: The following article contains images that some people may (and should) find disturbing. If you don’t want to see fairly graphic images […]
From HuffPo. Not seeing how what he said was “offensive”. Any sensible totalitarian disarms their citizenry/”undesirables” to make it easier to oppress and prey on them. Talk to the JPFO—they’ll fill you in! Shame he felt the need to backpedal for being right. ___________________ By Paige Lavender Samuel […]
Benjamin Marks takes Mencken-misconceptions (and libertarian uplift) to task… Read more about “Mencken’s Conservatism” here. _________ Mencken believed that most of the debates about politics, religion, science, philosophy, aesthetics and other issues rests on false premises that make all their squabbles merely petty infighting. Here is a brief […]
timesofindia RANCHI: The forest department may have failed to trace a tiger in Bundu forest, around 35 km from here, but Maoists have not only found the animal but one of them has even become its victim. The rebel reached so close to the tiger that he fell […]
This year’s lineup of speakers looks to be interesting as always. Below is the proposed list of speakers and topics for the upcoming Seventh Annual Meeting of the PFS, which will be held in Bodrum, Turkey at the Hotel Karia Princess, from Thursday September 27 through Monday October 1, 2012. Those […]
From the President’s Desk Before we get to what’s on everyone’s mind–Porcfest, of course!–a giant THANK YOU to the community for pledging to hire Chris Lopez as an independent contractor to handle the FSP’s administrative work. If you pledged, please follow this link to make your donation now. Chris […]
A quick reminder from the all-time master of propaganda.
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We just can’t win. LOL! The comments by this “conservative” are otherwise quite well-considered: F.A. Hayek’s stance to combat the leviathan monster of the State is to go local. Rockwell continues: “We need a Hayekian solution to the US. We need small states trading with each other. How many? It really […]
A shitty commie website has this to say about yours truly: In this context, I want to make a few explanatory comments about some anarchists that I cite. I’m interested in the section of anarchism in the tradition of Bakunin, Parsons, Malatesta, and Durruti that is variously described […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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