This is a great interview. Listen here. Neoconservative commentator Jonah Goldberg says we shouldn’t use the term “neoconservative” anymore. Paul Gottfried and I are having none of it, and we spend this episode explaining the origins and ideas of the neocons, and how they came to eclipse everyone […]
The Neocon/Repugnican shitheads never miss an opportunity to remind everyone what slime they are. By Nick Gillespie Reason You know that Ted Cruz is taking his presidential bid seriously when he starts flipping positions on national security and government surveillance. Recall that he joined Rand Paul’s 13-hour filibuster […]
From a discussion on Reddit. My colleagues might disagree with me and call me too reformist however I do think it is in the best interest of anarchists to support and vote for Sanders if they want improvement for the oppressed instead of romanticize about abstract ideals such […]
Reflecting on the Presidential election that’s coming up this year, it seems there are really only four possible scenarios. Scenario A: One of the neocon errand boys seeking the GOP nomination wins, and U.S. military aggression in the Middle East escalates once again, while no progress whatsoever is […]
This article is a pretty good dissection of Trump’s actual politics, and debunks the “Trump is a fascist” hysteria coming from the Left. This piece is more or less in line with my own assessment of Trump’s politics, with the exception that I think Trump is less inclined […]
This is funny considering it’s coming from George W. Bush’s former speechwriter. By Michael Gerson Washington Post Every Republican of the type concerned with winning in November has been asking the question (at least internally): “What if the worst happens?” The worst does not mean the nomination of […]
Why Donald Trump is just another lame-ass politician, not a “fascist.” By Max Ehrenfreund Washington Post (Rachel Orr/The Washington Post) “Fascist” is often used as a cheap, meaningless insult in U.S. politics. But recently, it’s become a serious charge that elected officials, political operatives and pundits on both […]
I often have to wonder which is the bigger joke: the anarcho-leftoids or the establishment libertarians, or is it a tie? Invictus 2020. By Jeb Lund The Guardian In an exclusive interview with Reason on Wednesday, former New Mexico governor and former Republican Gary Johnson announced that […]
William Blum is the author of one the best books out there on U.S. imperialism, “Killing Hope.” Blum writes in The Anti-Empire Report: I think one of the main reasons for Donald Trump’s popularity is that he says what’s on his mind and he means what he says, […]
Many commentators, including myself, have speculated in the past that the GOP may be on its last legs due the fact that its only reliable constituency (older WASPs) are shrinking demographically and dying off. Various options have also been suggested as means for the Republicans to save themselves. […]
Thomas Sowell is a writer whose work ranges from the brilliant to the asinine. I would highly recommend much of Sowell’s academic work, but his syndicated columns are often nothing more than neocon talking points (he obviously knows who butters his toast). Here, Sowell wrings his hands over […]
Given that Donald Trump has provoked so much “fascism hysteria,” for lack of a better, this comment from a Facebook friend, Warren Balogh, helps puts things in a little more perspective. Says Warren: “People, are you paying attention to this?! When was the last time a frontrunner presidential […]
This looks to be an interesting book. In the past I have attempted to outline fairly meticulously calculated strategies concerning how to go about forming a constituency or coalition for the pan-anarchist, pan-secessionist, and pan-decentralist ideas we promote at ATS. However, given the growing fractiousness of US politics […]
An interesting article by James Kirkpatrick on the divisions that Trump is causing in the Republican Party. From a strategic perspective, I consider the destruction of the Republican Party as a competitive force in U.S. politics to be the most important objective at the present time. The GOP […]
By David Harsanyi The Federalist This incessant clamoring by voters and punditry for better “leaders” and more “leadership” is one of the most unsavory, dangerous, and un-American tendencies in political discourse. When Donald Trump was asked last week by Joe Scarborough what he made of an endorsement from Vladimir […]
The original Donald Trump. BBC News After years of successfully brushing off sex scandals, allegations of corruption and political setbacks, Silvio Berlusconi’s luck finally out when he was convicted of tax fraud in 2013. Berlusconi, 77, was sentenced to four years in prison and ejected from his seat […]
Truth Axis The Paris terrorist attacks and San Bernardino shootings have ushered in a new era of urban terror. The combined death toll of both attacks was 146 dead with hundreds wounded. The response from American politicians, law enforcement and intelligence departments has varied, but is unified in […]
This is why serious radicals need to attack the system on its left flank rather than its right flank. The Left is a rising force, the Right is a dying force. Why waste time on an enemy that’s on it’s deathbed? By Sean Illing Salon.Com (Credit: Reuters/Joshua Lott) […]
This article’s analysis is consistency with what I have long been saying about the trajectory the New Left has followed. In the post-Vietnam War period, the New Left abandoned whatever radical inclinations it ever had, and gradually became incorporated into the apparatus of the Democratic Party and traditional […]
When it comes to electoral politics, I’m generally of the “worse is better” school. For instance, I’m inclined to root for Mrs. Clinton in 2016, for the simple reason that she is a reviled figure across the entire spectrum of the Right and the genuine (anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist) Left. […]
By Doug Ahler and David Broockman Washington Post Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaking at a Dec. 12 town hall meeting in the Convocation Center on the University of South Carolina. (Richard Shiro/AP) Donald Trump is one of the most extreme presidential candidates to gain widespread support in […]
By Ted Rall SkewedNews.Net Skewed News — Senator Ted Cruz, by most measures the second most popular presidential candidate among Republican primary voters after Donald Trump, is catching flak for his call to carpet-bomb ISIS. Granted, Cruz’s understanding of warfare isn’t sophisticated. Called out on the fact that […]
U.S. elections increasingly remind me of the electoral system that existed in El Salvador in the 1980s, where the two parties were an astoundingly incompetent centrist party (Jose Napoleon Duarte’s Christian Democrats) and an utterly insane bloodthirsty neo-fascist party (Roberto d’Aubuisson’s ARENA-Nationalist Republican Alliance). So I guess the […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/12/16/441940/GOP-incompetent-leaders The GOP party consists of “incompetent leaders that are being elevated to the top of the political class,” Keith Preston said in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday. The irresponsible statements made by Republican presidential candidates underscore the level of competence in […]
From the Atlantic. A thorough overview of the much-maligned militant-Muslim Männerbund. What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York […]
This is interesting. Apparently, Trump’s supporters are a small but vocal minority. Gallup.Com by Andrew Dugan Story Highlights Trump’s net favorable stands at -27, well below others Ben Carson has seen largest gain in overall public familiarity Chris Christie’s image improves modestly WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 2016 presidential […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance The Emperor Has No Clothes: by Sean Gabb On Fraternity: Politics beyond Liberty and Equality Danny Kruger Civitas, London, 2007, 95pp, £7.50 (pbk) ISBN 978 1 903386 57 6 At the beginning of the short book, its author insists that “I do […]
The Princess of Pessimism, Ann Sterzinger, on labour and…er, labour. 1,950 words A few months back, publisher Chip Smith asked me to write a new intro for the upcoming second edition of my 2011 novel NVSQVAM. To write the essay I had to rethink my protagonist, Lester Reichartsen, […]
New from the Inferno: A tyrannical tale of kebabs and killjoys. The south of France, and one man finds himself deeply disenchanted by the culinary delights on offer in his locale. So much so, in fact, that he took to the press, voicing his determination never to […]
Atlantic article from January. Thoughtful overview of Dar al-Islam in the land of the Gauls. Also, rather refreshing to see a mainstreamer who can tell the fucking difference between liberty and democracy! The impressive and inspiring show of solidarity at France’s unity march on January 11—which brought together […]
By John Whitehead Rutherford Institute “Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.”—Gore Vidal The countdown has begun. We now have less than one year until the 2016 presidential election, and you can expect to be […]
In this episode of teleSUR’s The Empire Files, Abby Martin interviews world-renowned philosopher and linguist Professor Noam Chomsky. Prof. Chomsky comments on the presidential primary “extravaganza,” the movement for Bernie Sanders, the U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, the bombing of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, modern-day libertarianism […]
Truthdig.Com aisletwentytwo / CC BY 2.0 An overwhelmingly older, white and male group of Americans who made fortunes in finance and energy and represent just 158 families gave $176 million—almost half of all the money raised so far—to mostly Republican presidential candidates in the early months of the […]
Russia Today The export of so-called ‘democratic’ revolutions has continued, but has unleashed poverty and violence instead of the triumph of democracy, Russian President Vladimir Putin said addressing the UN General Assembly. Attempts to push for changes in other countries based on ideological preferences have led to “tragic […]
What Noam says about Sanders is what I always said about Ron Paul: “Suppose that Sanders won, which is pretty unlikely in a system of bought elections. He would be alone: he doesn’t have congressional representatives, he doesn’t have governors, he doesn’t have support in the bureaucracy, he […]
A discussion with Ian Mayes, Nexus X Humectress, and Keith Preston about how social justice activism has led anarchist movements astray and lots of other stuff. Topics include: Anarcho-pacifism Intentional communities Beyond Social Justice: how historical opposition to valid injustices has now evolved into something absurd. How totalitarian […]
Ann Sterzinger‘s translation of a poll-dodging polemic by 19th century French anarchist and author Octave Mirbeau. Warms the cockles of my cold, anti-democratic heart…. Also, be sure to check out her translation of his novel In the Sky, available for the first time in English from Nine-Banded Books. […]
An interesting discussion between Lew and Tom. Listen here. No doubt Donald Trump would be a bad president, as they all are — though his observation that the Iraq war was a disaster, and that while Saddam kept terrorists under control, Iraq is now a haven for terrorism, […]
By Margaret Kimberley Black Agenda Report Bernie Sanders and his supporters claim he is different, a breath of fresh air. Yet he “won’t state for the record how his foreign policy differs” from Clinton and the Republicans. “He doesn’t question why the United States has the right to […]
Green Party Watch The Green Party, presidential candidate Jill Stein, the Libertarian Party, and others will file suit in U.S. District Court in Washington on September 29 alleging “that the Commission on Presidential Debates is in violation of the venerable old anti-trust laws, the Sherman Act and the […]
Social Justice Warriors and Republicans deserve each other. By Paige Winfield Cunningham Washington Examiner Twenty-nine percent of respondents to a CNN poll released Sunday said they believe Obama is Muslim, including 43 percent of Republicans. Most of the Americans who correctly identified Obama as Christian know that he’s […]
This includes an interesting discussion of Angelo Codevilla’s theory of the ruling class. I have my differences with Codevilla (mostly because he’s too partisan right-leaning and not nearly radical enough), but his perspective is worth checking out, although I would suggest doing so within the context of a […]
It looks like the Sanders campaign might actually be exposing some cracks in the PC coalition, i.e. between the neo-liberal but culturally leftist Hillaryites, the social democratic labor leftist Sandersites, and the identify politics-intersectionality oriented far Left. By Jack Ross The Hill Sen. Bernie Sanders’ (I-Vt.) historic socialist […]
A division emerges between the social democratic labor Left and the cultural Left. By Ian Smith The Hill The recent fiery to-and-fro between old-style social democrat Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), and Vox-founder Ezra Klein was a perfect illustration of just how long it’s been since the Left was […]
Will the future of political conflict pit a hyper-capitalist Left versus an anti-capitalist Right? By Michael Brendan Dougherty The Week There was once a fanciful idea that the internet and all its attendant technologies of cheap communication would reverse the pattern of urbanization in developed countries. Some people […]
Nick Gillespie may be right about these guys actual prospects of getting their party’s nomination, but a Sanders vs Trump presidential election would be advantageous. I wouldn’t endorse or vote for either of them, but I would cheer on their de-legitimizing the system, and creating still more political […]
It would appear that Lincoln Chafee has the best foreign policy views of any of these people. Not coincidentally, he is arguably the least viable of any of the Democratic candidates. By Brandon George Whitehill Foreign Policy Institute As of this writing, five Democrats are running for their […]
My take on Donald Trump: Unlike many anarchists, I think immigration can be criticized on a variety of grounds. Mass immigration appears to be an effort to an effort to flood the economy with cheap labor for capital, thereby dispossessing the traditional working class. It also appears to […]
My take on Bernie Sanders: It’s interesting to see an actual major party presidential candidate who denounces the corporatists with as much fervor as Sanders, and the positive response he is getting. That said, Sanders is not one of us. He is a statist, centralist traditional Marxist economic […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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