Brett Stevens reviews Paul Gottfried The bullshit is stronger than the bullet and the ballot. We have always been fighting the Revolution. This is the thesis, in a more complex form, of Paul Gottfried’s War and Democracy, a collection of essays centered on the instability of modern liberal […]
By Pat Buchanan When, in the 1950s, Nikita Khrushchev said, “We will bury you,” and, “Your children will live under communism,” Eisenhower’s America scoffed. By 1980, however, the tide did indeed seem to be with the East. America had suffered a decade of defeats. Southeast Asia had fallen. […]
By John Buffalo Mailer Oliver Stone Dilma Rousseff (Creative Commons) Oliver Stone has the same gripe with Barack Obama as he did with George W. Bush—namely, they both stand for American Empire, and he does not. Stone is a three-time Oscar winner, has made over 60 films, including […]
By Justin Raimondo We have to be thankful to Sen. Lindsey Graham, one of our more theatrical solons, for dramatizing the way in which the Israel lobby intimidates members of Congress: by asking Chuck Hagel if he could name a single Senator who was so intimidated he merely […]
(Previously posted at Mere Anti-Statism) Two days ago, the Stateside military lifted its ban on females assuming combat roles. According to The Guardian, Pentagon Defence Secretary (and civilian-assassination-endorsing piece-of-shit) Leon Panetta, together with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey, scribbled away the 1994 prohibition […]
Christian Science Monitor Now that the Pentagon is lifting its ban on women in combat, does this mean that women could potentially be drafted, too? And as a practical matter: When women turn 18, will they now need to register, as men do, so that they can be […]
Rasmussenreports.Com As Congress and the president consider possible cuts in defense spending, half (49%) of Likely U.S. Voters think the United States should withdraw its troops from Western Europe. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 31% disagree. One-in-five (20%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click […]
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By Justin Raimondo As Israel’s ultra-nationalist parties continue to gain traction, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seeks to appease them by building “settlements” with US taxpayer dollars on Palestinian land, the hostility between Washington and Tel Aviv is coming out into the open. While tension has been building […]
By Ali Papademetriou The United States Central Intelligence Agency is expanding its recruits further than ever before. According to NPR as, “part of the CIA’s efforts to diversify its workforce, the spy agency is reaching out to a group that once was unable to get security clearance — […]
By Paul Craig Roberts Those concerned about “The New World Order” speak as if the United States is coming under the control of an outside conspiratorial force. In fact, it is the US that is the New World Order. That is what the American unipolar world, about which […]
By Justin Raimondo A screaming mob of whites gathers in a public square, their placards proclaiming their hatred of blacks, their shouts of “N—-r!” reverberating and bouncing off the walls of nearby shops and homes like the ominous thunder of a coming storm. They loot shops that cater […]
By Ron Holland How To Restore the West: Axiom 1 Fascism is the system of government that cartelizes the private sector, centrally plans the economy to subsidize producers, exalts the police State as the source of order, denies fundamental rights and liberties to individuals, and makes the executive […]
By John Derbyshire Gottfried, Paul. War and Democracy: Selected Essays 1975-2012. London; Arktos Media, Ltd., 2012. The last time I saw Paul Gottfried was at the Mencken Club bash last November. At one point between lectures I passed him in a hallway having an animated conversation in French […]
businessinsider.com Rukmini Callimach, Associated Press AP Photo/File In this Sept. 16, 2012 file photo, fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine leave after performing a public amputation, severing the hand of a young man found guilty of stealing rice, in Timbuktu, Mali. MOPTI, Mali (AP) — Deep inside caves, […]
The same reporter who interviewed ATS also interviewed Chomsky around the same time.
By Paul Gottfried I’ve no idea how former Nebraska senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran Chuck Hagel became President Obama’s preferred nominee for the job of Secretary of Defense. But when I learned about Hagel’s prospects, I was delighted. A social conservative with a skeptical view of America’s […]
Schwarzkopf’s former partner in crime isn’t doing so well, either. Voice of America Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has been moved to an intensive care unit at a hospital in Houston, Texas. The former president, 88, was admitted to the hospital last month suffering from bronchitis. His […]
MSN.Com 11 min ago By Lolita C. Baldor “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf commanded the U.S.-led international coalition in Desert Storm. He was 78.
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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
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, […]
wired.com The Staff of Danger Room There used to be an established order to the world. A structure to things. You couldn’t print a gun like a term paper. It was impossible to wreck a nuclear production plant with a few lines of code. Flying robots didn’t descend […]
original.antiwar.com Justin Raimondo The anti-Hagel campaign reveals the psychopathology of radical Zionism The campaign to demonize Chuck Hagel in the run up to his possible confirmation hearings as Secretary of Defense is going full swing. As I told my readers the other day, “get ready for a mudslide […]
This article is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Theory and Practice, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. By Wayne John Sturgeon Mutualism as Free Market Anti-Capitalism It was the French philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who first coined the term ‘anarchist’ and produced the economic […]
An interesting take on secession. • People can withdraw their consent to be ruled by corrupt government By Mark Anderson from: American Free Press Looking at recent headlines about citizens in the 50 states wanting to secede from the federal government, it’s tempting to conclude that they should […]
antiwar.com by Justin Raimondo “He’s killing his own people!” It’s a familiar refrain to those of us who’ve been paying attention the past decade or so: it’s what our leaders in both parties said about Saddam Hussein by way of justifying the invasion and occupation of Iraq, and […]
Keith Preston critically examines the dominant narrative surrounding the second world war.
By Kelley B. Vhlahos As far as villains go, Pfc. Bradley Manning is hardly quintessential. At 5 foot 2 inches tall, his slender frame and bespectacled image has invoked snickers, sarcasm and according to reporting over the last two years, a lifetime of bullying. Bradley Manning That bullying […]
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
USA Today 6:37PM EST November 26. 2012 – WASHINGTON — For the second consecutive year, prospective gun buyers joined Black Friday shoppers in record numbers as firearms dealers swamped the FBI with required buyer background check requests. The FBI fielded 154,873 calls, a roughly 20% increase from last […]
From Reason by Matt Welch The first 61 words of this chilling and banal New York Times article are a perfect distillation of how grotesque power appears in the eye of Americans who wield it: Facing the possibility that President Obama might not win a second term, his […]
By Scott McConnell Thomas Hawk / Flickr Nearly 40 years ago, Daniel Moynihan and Nathan Glazer wrote that “the immigration process is the single most important determinant of American foreign policy.” Immigration determined the ethnicity of the electorate to which our foreign policy responds. “It responds to other […]
guardian.co.uk Chris McGreal Abu Jindal (left) and Abu Nizar, members of the Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade, in Beach Camp, Gaza. Photograph: Guardian Abu Nizar’s father had good things to say about the Israelis he knew. “He told me they were decent to him when he worked there. He did […]
By Kurt Nimmo The United Nations has declared Colorado and Washington in violation of international treaties following ballot initiatives that have legalized the recreational use of marijuana. The President of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Raymond Yans, has voiced “grave concern about the outcome of recent referenda […]
As Jack Donovan said: National armies are mobilized to protect global business interests from disruption. They aren’t protecting you from invasion….. American troops are keeping the supply lines running, so that you can keep buying shit. So this holiday season, make sure that our boys in the military […]
War Resisters League Total Outlays (Federal Funds): $2,650 billion MILITARY: 54% and $1,449 billion NON-MILITARY: 46% and $1,210 billion
This interview is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Ideas and Concepts, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. 1) Please could you introduce yourself, your background, and how you define national anarchism? I am a native New Yorker, agrarian separatist homesteader, and spokesman for […]
Delusions of the Liberal Intelligentsia By Jason Hirthler Counterpunch As we head into The Chosen One’s second term, it might be useful to explode a few of the chronic myths that cling to the man more tightly than his shadow. Myths that have helped liberal intelligentsia justify its […]
By Daniel Larison Throughout the campaign season, Mitt Romney and Barack Obama alike insisted that the 21st century must be another American century—that the U.S. should continue to be the world’s predominant military, economic, and political power for generations to come. After ten years of shattered hegemonic dreams, […]
By Pat Chaffee Awake to Drones “We are still finding body pieces.” My job was to gather the body pieces after an IED explosion, trying to keep pieces on one body together.” “My uncles were cut in pieces.” I heard the first statement when I volunteered at the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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