A debate between Walter Block and Robert Wenzel hosted by Tom Woods. I found myself generally agreeing with Wenzel in this. Listen here. When libertarian scholar Walter Block announced the creation of Libertarians for Trump, he generated a good deal of controversy. Now he explains his support for […]
The crack in the PC Coalition gets wider. This is awesome! Hopefully, the party conventions this summer will resemble Chicago 1968. Street fighting between Clintonistas and BLM, and between Trumpians and Neocons, would be beyond awesome.
On this week’s episode of The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews American political figure Ralph Nader about the 2016 presidential race—from the “Brown Shirt” Trump movement to “corporate criminal” Hillary Clinton—and the reality of who has power in America. Known for his widely-popular presidential run in 2000, he […]
Contra Chomsky, I’d argue Hillary is just as awful as a neocon which is why many neocons have moved in her direction. By Joseph Mulkerin Truth-Out Ever since the 2012 election results were certified, the conventional wisdom has been that Hillary Clinton is all but guaranteed a coronation […]
Chomsky makes his case against for Hillary as the lesser of the evils (mostly on anti-neocon and environmentalist grounds). Renowned political theorist Noam Chomsky is often cited for his criticism of the US political system. In the second of a special two-part interview, Chomsky sits down with Mehdi […]
This is interesting in that Chomsky goes into a great deal of detail explaining why he thinks Trump is extraordinarily awful, but then concludes that Ted Cruz is even more dangerous.
This article is two months old, so some of its discussion of the presidential contest is a bit dated. But I tend to agree with the author’s general argument, i.e. that Sanders is actually the least state-centric of the presidential candidates (a very low standard, to be sure). […]
If the LP continues to grow in this manner, then it may be an excellent for pan-anarchist/pan-secessionist entryism. By Barry Donegan Truth in Media The unexpected, meteoric rise of celebrity presidential candidate Donald Trump has torn the Republican Party asunder, causing many leading GOP politicos that once represented the […]
Gary Johnson goes liberaltarian. The crap that’s been coming from the Libertarian Party in recent elections with characters like Johnson, Austin Petersen, Bob Barr, and Wayne Allan Root supposedly representing “libertarianism” is indicative of why we don’t need a Libertarian Party. Instead, we need a “Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party” or […]
Not so fast, says the latest data. By Seth Abramson Huffington Post On February 27th, Hillary Clinton led Bernie Sanders among African-American voters by 52 points. By March 26th, she led Sanders among African-Americans by just nine points. And today, Public Policy Polling, a widely respected polling organization, […]
Non-voters are generally foreign policy non-interventionists, cultural centrists, and economic leftists. By Benjamin Wallace Webb The New Yorker merican elections are peculiar instruments of democracy, because they are so consistent in whom they leave out. In the past three Presidential elections, about forty-five per cent of those eligible […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/04/458965/Keith-Preston-Trump-Iran/ “Donald Trump is in the process of running for president and part of his strategy from a rhetorical level is to simply say as many outrageous things as he can,” Keith Preston told Press TV on Sunday. The recent criticism of the Iran […]
A step closer to the emergence of the pan-secessionist meta-party. ATS is so ahead of its time, lol. Zero Hedge Submitted by Russell Whitehouse via OrientalReview.org, In this election year, it’s clear that a seismic political shift is rumbling through America. Widespread discontent for the status quo is […]
By Camille Paglia Salon.Com This week’s horrific terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport and metro raised the pressure in the already tight U.S. presidential campaign. Candidates of both parties were instantly measured against voter expectations of how a president could and should behave in a similar crisis. Meanwhile, […]
Meanwhile, the neocons are planning a third party strategy of their own. If either of these two third party schemes were to become a permanent reality, it would essentially render the Red Tribe incapable of gaining a national electoral majority, which would ensure permanent Blue Tribe dominance. However, […]
This is all we need to know about the Dragon Lady. The Telegraph Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Barack Obama had not been very effective Photo: AP Mr Cheney was asked in an interview with Fox News whether the Democrats would have been better off with Mrs Clinton […]
Predictably, foreign policy is not a major area of concern to the Left. The article by Ta-Neshi Coates linked to in this piece by Peter Feld posted below also provides evidence of a cleavage between minorities and Sanders supporters who are mostly white (the “liberal gentry” as John […]
This article is nearly a year old but it gives a pretty good overview of Bernie Sanders’ actual record on antiwar issues. His views appear to those closer to those of a liberal internationalist, humanitarian interventionist or even a “left-neocon” than a genuine anti-imperialist. Not surprising for a […]
A vote for this guy is a vote for the return of the neocons. The Intercept GOP presidential contender Ted Cruz has unveiled a foreign policy team full of conspiracy theorists and arch-neoconservatives who support policies just as belligerent as those of Donald Trump. While Cruz has been supported by some Republican figures […]
By William Schnack Evolution of Consent Zakiya Sankara-Jabar Many want to change the world, but few care to do the work of understanding it. If one wants to change the current paradigm, one first must come to an understanding of how it operates. One of the most crucial […]
Block makes a valid point about Trump’s criticisms of neocon/liberal internationalist foreign policy and his apparent lack of Russophobia. Independent Political Report Walter Block Image: Gage Skidmore Yesterday, libertarian theorist Walter Block announced the formation of Libertarians for Trump (LFT), a group supporting the election of businessman Donald Trump, […]
I found this post on a social media site that I think sums up “The Donald” pretty well. Donald Trump is simply a huckster. The only thing he stands for is himself. That said, I’m thrilled by his electoral success thus far because it shows supposedly sacrosanct “American […]
My recent appearance on Alt Right. Listen here. Andy and Colin are joined by political analyst Keith Preston of Attack the System to talk about the Trump phenomenon and why a man who essentially makes sensible, middle-of-the-road statements so successfully “triggers” the media, the establishment, and the Left, […]
By Russell D. Longcore Yep. You read it right. DumpDC is endorsing Hillary for President. Our Next President? Now, let me lay out my argument so you can see the genius of this position. Remember that the overarching reason for the existence of DumpDC is to promote state […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/03/08/454505/Trump-Rubio-Clinton-Cruz-GOP-Preston “I have noticed that there is a great deal of tendency of critics of Donald Trump, both domestically in the US and internationally, to perhaps underestimate the dangers posed by some of his opponents,” says Keith Preston. (AFP photo) Leading US Republican presidential […]
Trump is apparently splintering the televangelist sector as well. Maybe the conspiracy theorists who say the Trump campaign is plot by Democrats to undermine the GOP and get Hillary elected are correct, lol. By Amy Sullivan and John Ward Yahoo.Com To the astonishment of his rivals and the […]
Maybe”young voters” understand that while Sanders may be the least bad alternative, the whole show is a farce and don’t want to be bothered with this crap, and prefer to do something productive instead like go to a rave party. That a self-avowed socialist is a credible presidential […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com On June 14, 1918, a nineteen year old Italian soldier by the name of Bernardo Vicario was ordered by his commander, Carl Rigoli, to carry out a curious task. Outnumbered and outgunned, the Italian forces would soon be hit with a furious bombardment that […]
Whoever guessed a (probably) mentally unstable billionaire plutocrat would be the one to take down the neocons? By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com March 1, 2016, will go down in history as the day the incubus of neoconservatism was banished from the Republican party – and, in effect, destroyed as […]
If Donald Trump is able to single-handedly undermine both neoconservatism and “movement conservatism,” and subsequently cause the GOP to go down in flames in a general election, he will have performed a valuable service. The right-wing will then have nowhere to go other than to a more radical […]
If this poll is at all accurate it would seem to confirm what I’ve been saying for a while, i.e. that the US has leaped sharply leftward over the past decade, as evidenced by the apparent fact that a self-proclaimed socialist or a woman who personifies 70s feminism […]
An interesting graphic from The American Conservative. Presidents have more latitude in foreign affairs than in domestic policy, and the trend over the past two administrations has been for presidents to be more hawkish than their campaign pledges led voters to expect. George W. Bush promised a “humble […]
By William S. Lind The American Conservative The fault line in American politics is no longer Republican vs. Democrat nor conservative vs. liberal but establishment vs. anti-establishment. This is an inevitable result of serial failure in establishment policies. Nowhere do we see this more clearly than in the […]
This article by Jeffrey Tucker is a similar to this piece I did about a decade ago. By Jeffrey Tucker Foundation of Economic Education Maybe you have noticed the strangely implausible similarities between the cobbled-together platforms of Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. On the surface, they represent opposite […]
Are the growing ranks of independents the future demographic base of the Grey Tribe? By Jeffrey Jones Gallup.Com Record 43% of Americans are political independents Democrats maintain edge among those with a party preference Democratic advantage smaller in 2014 than in 2013 PRINCETON, N.J. — An average 43% […]
This is an interesting piece from Scott McConnell. While Team Red and Team Blue are still at each others’ throats, both are increasingly divided internally along class lines, and the insurgents are gaining. By Scott McConnell The American Conservative goldenalcoff / Flickr It has been snowing since Monday morning, […]
I’ve always argue that the last thing libertarians who want to achieve political success should ever do is position themselves as just another branch of “free market conservatives” preaching bourgeois economics. The failure Rand Paul indicates that, for better or worse, I was probably right. Case in point: […]
What actual socialists think of New Dealer Bernie Sanders. Bill Scher Politico.Com erhaps the most astonishing aspect of the 2016 presidential race is that Bernie Sanders, somehow, has made “socialism” a safe word in American politics. Nearly 100 years ago Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs had to campaign […]
Richard Spencer performs an interesting and (probably) correct autopsy on the mainstream libertarian movement now that what Ron Paul got rolling has been eclipsed by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. By Richard Spencer Radix Journal
A good overview of the spectrum of U.S. politics. Lecture by Jeff Deist
Everyone is talking about the split that has emerged among the Repugnicans between the neoconservative and corporatist elites and the populist-nationalist “base.” But it appears an interesting split is emerging among Democraps as well. These two articles by Matt Fortney on his recent visits to a Sanders rally […]
This latest poll from Gallup is consistent with what one would expect given the prevailing demographic, generational, cultural, economic and partisan trends in the wider society, as this recent article by Peter Beinart indicates. Contrary to the hysteria of the Left, Donald Trump is not ushering in a […]
Here’s the transcript. To the People of Europe, Fate lays upon me the task of writing you from distant shores. My name is Augustus Invictus, and I am a candidate for the United States Senate. Though I am an American, I am by blood a son of Europe. […]
This article by Peter Beinart confirms what I’ve been saying for some years now. Beinart’s argument is consistent with just about every demographic, cultural, generational, economic, and partisan trend. By Peter Beinart The Atlantic Republicans may have a lock on Congress and the nation’s statehouses—and could well win […]
There are many things that I admire about Noam Chomsky, but this is absolute crap. That this man is considered the world’s leading exponent of left-anarchism is pathetic. If someone of his stature had spend his career promoting actual libertarian socialism and anti-state radicalism rather than Keynesian liberal […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/24/447192/Keith-Preston/ Donald Trump “has a very crude, very boorish style but also ironically appeals to a lot of people,” says Keith Preston. Leading US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump thrives on insulting and degrading people, which is a shameful aspect of the American political […]
Great interview with Augustus by Lana Lokteff. Listen here. Augustus Invictus is an attorney and community leader in Orlando, Florida who is a candidate in the 2016 US Senate election. Best known as a radical philosopher and infamous social critic, he is Managing Partner of Imperium, P.A., the […]
The New Republic takes on National Review‘s take on Trump. By Jeet Heer The New Republic National Review is the great intellectual gatekeeper of the American right, a journal of opinion that has long served as the arbiter of what counts as respectable conservative thought. Throughout its six-decade […]
It is understandable that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have been able to garner a tremendous amount of support among many who are inclined to think ill of the system (which is rapidly becoming a majority of the U.S. population). Both men are a refreshing alternative to the […]
This is beautiful. The entire array of the neoconservative/”movement conservative”/Republican alliance is squirming over Trump, which means they obviously think he’s a genuine threat to their hegemony on the American “right.” The best possible scenario that can come out of the Trump candidacy would be for the GOP […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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