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Roberto Unger, Obama’s Former Harvard Law School Professor, Says The President ‘Must Be Defeated’
From the Huffington Post One of President Barack Obama’s former professors appears to have turned against him, according to a recent YouTube video. “President Obama must be defeated in the coming election,” Roberto Unger, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School who taught Obama, said in a video posted […]
Blowback, or Impossible Dilemmas of Declining Powers
By Immanuel Wallerstein ntelligence Agency (CIA) that originally meant the unintended negative consequences to a country of its own espionage operations. For example, if a secret CIA operation led to a revenge attack on U.S. individuals who were unaware of the CIA’s operation, this was considered “blowback.” But […]
GOP/Dem rhetorical convergence
By Glenn Greenwald In 2005, Karl Rove sparked widespread outrage by accusing liberal critics of President Bush’s Terrorism programs of sympathizing with and wanting to coddle The Terrorists: Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks andwanted to prepare […]
Geopolitics and “Conspiracy Theories”
Kerry Bolton is interviewed by Richard Spencer. The United Nations General Assembly Author Kerry Bolton joins Richard to discuss geopolitics and the intersection of global finance, war, and foreign policy. In particular, they examine the “conspiracy theories” regarding major events like the Second World War and the Cold […]
Military Heroes, Mercenaries, or Technofascists?
By Thomas Naylor When MSNBC host Chris Hayes had the audacity in his pre-Memorial Day show to question whether every American soldier was entitled to be called a “hero,” he unleashed a virtual firestorm in cyberspace and elsewhere. He had clearly asked the right question, a question that […]
Revolt in the Ranks
By Chris Bray Illustration by Miguel Davilla On a September afternoon in the peacetime year of 1821, a regiment of Rhode Island militia completed its annual review and prepared to go home. Suddenly the regiment’s parade field in Providence became the scene of a spontaneous military riot. In […]
America is a Battlefield: In the war against tyranny
By Justin Raimondo On June 7, 1776, Richard Henry Lee, a delegate to the Second Continental Congress, proffered a resolution declaring: “That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all […]
More U.S. Soldiers Dying from Suicide Than Combat
cryptogon.com Via: AP: Suicides are surging among America’s troops, averaging nearly one a day this year — the fastest pace in the nation’s decade of war. The 154 suicides for active-duty troops in the first 155 days of the year far outdistance the U.S. forces killed in action […]
Seven UN peacekeepers killed in Ivory Coast
rt.com Seven UN peacekeepers have been killed in a remote area of southwestern Ivory Coast. They were ambushed during a mission to protect civilians threatened by attack. Over 40 of their colleagues who stayed on guard remain in danger, the UN said. A group of peacekeepers were on […]
The Stark Truth: Interview with Paul Craig Roberts
Listen to the interview. May 25, 2012 Robert Stark interviews Paul Craig Roberts. Topics include: PCR’s role in the Reagan administration and supply-side economics; How job outsourcing was engineered by Wall Street and corporations; The military-industrial complex; Neoconservatives, foreign policy in the Middle East, and war with Iran; […]
Rand Paul Betrays His Father’s Principles, Endorses Mitt Romney
June 8th, 2012 Libertarian Party [Prediction: The Ron Paul movement will eventually split into two camps. One will be a more system-friendly movement for whom Rand Paul is the figurehead. The other will be a more radically anti-state movement whose radicalism surpasses that of Ron Paul. The latter […]
End of the Nation-State
By Doug Casey There have been a fair number of references to the subject of “phyles” in this publication. But it occurs to me that I’ve never discussed the topic myself in any detail. Especially how phyles are likely to replace the nation-state, one of mankind’s worst inventions. […]
What do America and Israel Have in Common?
Robert Mugabe asked to be UN ‘leader for tourism’
From the Guardian. In other news, Gary Glitter has been appointed chairman of UNICEF… _______________ by David Smith With a line-up that includes Drew Barrymore, David Beckham, Orlando Bloom, and Ricky Martin, the UN’s choice of ambassadors has been known to cause raised eyebrows or the odd smirk. […]
US troops imitate invasion of Iran with Arab allies
RT.com Around 12,000 troops from more than 19 nations are wrapping up a massive military training drill in the Middle East. But for some of those servicemen, these exercises might be just the beginning of something much bigger to come. The United States, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan are […]
Support the Troops-Keep Them Alive
A Memorial Day Observation from Ayn Rand
Abolish Memorial Day
By Justin Raimondo We might as well get rid of Memorial Day, for all the good it does us. Originally “Decoration Day,” the last Monday in May has been the designated time for us to remember the war dead and honor their sacrifice – while, perhaps, taking in […]
Best remembrance of fallen fighters? Limit military’s role to actual defense
By David McElroy It’s Memorial Day in the United States, a day we set aside to remember men and women who’ve died in wars. Politicians make a lot of speeches today and lay a lot of wreaths, but the best way to honor the fallen would be to […]
Bush finally found guilty of war crimes
From the Tehran Times KUALA LUMPUR — It’s official — George W. Bush is a war criminal. In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former president of the United States and seven key members of his administration were found guilty […]
Iran: War Is Not Even the Question
By David Swanson (Remarks prepared for Richmond Peace Education Center Event in Richmond, Va., May 24, 2012) I have a friend who’s a compulsive liar. OK it’s not a friend. It’s my television. And my newspaper. According to them, the United States, as one among equals, in coalition […]
Thomas H. Naylor on Leviathan, Secession and Vermont’s Small Nation Dream
Tom Naylor is interviewed by Anthony Wile The Daily Bell is pleased to present this exclusive interview with Thomas H. Naylor (left). Introduction: Thomas H. Naylor, Professor Emeritus of Economics at Duke University, is a writer and a political activist who has taught at Middlebury College and the University of […]
Interventionism and the Elites: The ideological origins of the military-industrial-media complex
By Justin Raimondo A recent Rasmussen poll has 51 percent of Americans favoring the pullout of all US troops from Europe – and yet not a single major American politician would even consider endorsing such a move. Why is that? I thought politicians were supposed to be consummate opportunists, whose […]
America’s 23-Year War
By Anthony Gregory If President Obama has his way, the last U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan could be Americans born five years after 9/11. The administration has signed a pact to maintain a military presence there until 2024. After initially claiming the rumors of such a deal were false, the administration […]
Christopher Columbus’ Jewish Roots Examined By Historians
This amuses me on many a level. From the Huffington Post… _____________ Over five centuries after the famed explorer’s death, historians are taking a fresh look at what motivated Christopher Columbus to make his voyage across the Atlantic — and how his faith may have played into those […]
Brave New World, Brave New Majority
By Alexander Cockburn The news is in. White births are no longer a majority in the United States. The Bureau of the Census confirms that non-Hispanic whites accounted for 49.6 of all births in the year ending July, 2011, while minorities including Hispanics, blacks, Asians and those of […]
American Empire and the Future
By Paul Atwood The Great Recession is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression and, like the aftermath of Katrina, or the BP calamity, or the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, is a man-made disaster. Many signs point to worse tidings. Many of us who live in this […]
The Government Lying to Us — What Else is New?
By Kevin Carson A Twitter friend of mine recently recounted a conversation with another friend — not a self-described anarchist — who spontaneously concluded that voting was useless. “I think it’s insane to think that people who are in the kind of power that only government and capitalism […]
John Kass: NATO protest fails to deliver punch
From the Chicago Tribune The NATO protesters marching in the South Loop on Sunday were mostly peaceful when they were in Grant Park. They’re opposed to violence, opposed to the war in Afghanistan. The only argument I became involved in was with the slightly militant vegans, like the […]
Veterans March Against NATO in Chicago; Return Medals
When the system fails it will be civilian insurgents and remnants of the military on one side, and mercenaries and the police state on the other.
What Does Ron Paul Want?
By Justin Raimondo This is the question puzzling Paul’s friends, as well as his enemies. A recentannouncement by the campaign that the anti-interventionist Congressman andpresidential candidate is not spending money in the remaining primary states provoked a Drudge headline: “Paul Out.” That is the GOP Establishment’s fondest wish, but the reality is that Paul is far […]
American Terrorist’s Mom Wants Him Back Home
abcnews.go.com BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and LEE FERRAN American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, speaks during a news conference held by the militant group al-Shabab at a farm in southern Mogadishu’s Afgoye district in Somalia, May 11, 2011. (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo) An Alabama […]
Why America is Doomed to One Disaster After Another
By Gabriel Kolko Both Europe and the United States confront great crises; while they are different in certain regards they have important similarities too. America’s crisis is both military and economic; they are interrelated because America has a huge deficit, in large part because it has the chimerical ambition to be the world’s dominating military power, which costs […]
European Nationalism: Golden Dawn or Old and Gone?
By Jim Goad Greece, the cradle of Western Civilization, seems destined to become either the West’s coffin or the site of its rebirth. The nation’s debt crisis, combined with the fact that it’s a primary entry point for illegal immigration into Europe—in 2010, nine of every ten “migrant” […]
Red Republicans and Lincoln’s Marxists: Marxism in the Civil War
From The Rising Seed Before reading the book “Red Republican’s and Lincoln’s Marxists” I have to admit I was a bit skeptical. Despite my predisposition to be wary of any fiber of genuine Christian morality flowing within the veins of Lincoln not to mention the founders of the […]
Team America: World Rapists
From Antiwar.com. __________________________ News from the Empire in South Korea: A three-judge panel on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. soldier to six years in prison for raping a South Korean teenager in September. Pvt. Kevin Robinson was found guilty of raping the 17-year-old at her residence in Seoul after […]
Madeleine Albright up for Medal of Freedom Award…
…and she only had to kill 500,000 children to get it—you go, girl! Read all about it at Antiwar.com.
Gaddafi’s “Crime”?
From Indigenous Pride World Wide “Oil companies are controlled by foreigners who have made millions from them. Now, Libyans must take their place to profit from this money.”—Muammar Gadhafi, 2006. By Stephen Gowans May 6, 2012 The Wall Street Journal of 5 May offers evidence, additional to that […]
Attack the System: Totalitarian Humanism and Strategies for Resistance
April 26, 2012 Listen to the interview Keith Preston discusses possible strategies for building resistance to the hegemony of the totalitarian Left. Topics include: The weaknesses of strategies that others have proposed, such as the Majority Strategy and third part efforts; How the shrinking size of working to […]
Beware of System Libertarians
Article by John Glaser. I knew what Johnson was about years ago when as governor of New Mexico he said he opposed the drug war but refused to grant pardons to drug war prisoners because “they broke the law” or some such nonsense. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– In an interview with the […]
United States of Mass Murder: Only Mao Killed More
Why the struggle against the empire must be foremost on the agenda of any anarchist movement worthy of the name. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– After the catastrophic attacks of September 11 2001 monumental sorrow and a feeling of desperate and understandable anger began to permeate the American psyche. A few people […]
Anarchism and Confederate-Flag Culture: One Man’s Journey from Southern Heritage to Libertarian Socialism
Interesting. ———————- If you are someone who displays a Confederate flag out of overt racism, this text is not for you. In fact, we will fight you in the streets. If, however, you are someone who insists that he is not racist, but you have at some point […]
Noam Chomsky on the "New Atheism"
Noam takes on the atheist fundamentalists. As an atheist myself, I’ve found these “new atheist” writers to be an embarrassment. First, none of the prominent ones are genuine religious scholars, historians of religion, or cultural anthropologists who can, for instance, examine the cultural, historical, literary, or linguistic contexts […]
Daryle Lamont Jenkins: An Illustration of the Schizoprenic Nature of the "Anarchist" Left
Listen to the podcast interview of Daryle. Daryle says quite a bit that I agree with in this interview. Apparently, we are both admirers of the documentary “Anarchism in America.” We agree that the U.S. was originally a federation of sovereign nations that were eventually incorporated into a […]
Caught in the crossfire: Should musicians boycott Israel?
Article by Jello Biafra. Israel’s wall is intended to permanently enclose Palestinians [GALLO/GETTY] Last summer, punk rock icon Jello Biafra and his band decided to cancel a show they had planned on playing at the Barby Club in Tel Aviv. At the time, Biafra wrote that ‘the toll […]
Nazi Exceptionalism; or, How Godwin’s Law Gets It Backward
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Most participants in online debates are familiar with Godwin’s Law: “As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” The implicit corollary, of course, is that the first person to descend to such a comparison […]
Common Fallacies About Anti-Interventionism
Article by Justin Raimondo. ———————————————————————————————————————— The idea that the United States government should not intervene in the internal affairs of other nations is heresy. After World War II, both political parties and nearly all the nation’s elites agreed on one thing: we have an “obligation” to pursue and […]
Ron Paul’s Anti-Imperialism
Article by Andrew Levine. This is an interesting critique of Ron Paul from a neo-Marxist perspective. While it makes some interesting arguments, and is likely correct is its assessment of the futility of the Ron Paul campaign, it also engages in a lot of unnecessary overreach. The reason […]
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