The evangelical/fundamentalist subculture in the US really is proof that P.T. Barnum was correct when he said a sucker is born every five minutes. When will they realize they’re on the losing end of the culture wars and embrace secession? By Betsy Woodruff With his brash demeanor, rough […]
Interesting. Wednesday on “The Alan Colmes Show,” Alan spoke with Antiwar.com Editorial Director Justin Raimondo, who has a controversial theory about Donald Trump’s Presidential run. Raimondo believes Donald Trump might be a “false flag” candidate to help hand the 2016 election to Hillary Clinton and the Democrats. Raimondo […]
By Paul Adams Shepard The fact is, unless you are wealthier than 99 percent of your countrymen, a Bernie Sanders Presidency would help YOU in specific and significant ways. This is an absolute fact. If a man or woman (such as my friend, a woman in her forties […]
What can the Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party using the “Liberty and Populism” strategy learn from Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump? By Kathleen Hennessey Los Angeles Times Billionaire Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, left, and Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who denounces the “billionaire class,” are political opposites united in their outsider […]
By Mike Whitney The Unz Review Last night’s FOX News GOP Presidential Debate Extravaganza featured the most riveting two minute political exchange ever heard on national television. During a brief colloquy between Republican frontrunner Donald Trump and Fox moderator Brett Baier, the pugnacious casino magnate revealed the appalling […]
The value of the popularity of maverick campaigns such as those of Sanders and Donald Trump is not that either candidate is particularly wonderful, but that political dissent is growing and people are hungry for alternatives. By David A. Fahrenthold Washington Post Greg Guma, who worked with Bernie […]
As a decentralist and pan-separatist, I am fine with progressive-left leaning localities like Seattle electing Marxists to their city council. I suspect this woman and I would agree on what I consider to be the big issues, i.e. U.S. imperialism, corporate governance, and the police state. That’s good […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com As the smoke wafted up into the already smoggy Los Angeles air, a group of young libertarians watched as Jayel Aheram burned his “Stand With Rand” t-shirts. He had two of them, a token of his former esteem for the “libertarian-ish” presidential candidate and […]
I like Jimmy a lot better out of power than in power. By Jon Schwartz FirstLook.Org Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an “oligarchy” in which “unlimited political bribery” has created “a complete subversion of our […]
What follows is a piece by right-wing pundit Angelo Codevilla that discusses the populist potential that exists among disaffected sectors of the Center and the Right. Codevilla is known for his theory of the U.S. ruling class that closely resembles C. Wright Mill’s “power elite” theory or William […]
These were some thoughts I originally posted during a social media discussion on the current Presidential candidates. “I lean towards the view that U.S. Presidents are similar to corporate CEOs in the sense that, yes, they have their own objectives and interests, BUT their primary job is to […]
Why the Republicans are the party of failed ideologies fronted by joke candidates. It appears that 2016 will be a Bush-Clinton election given that these are the two candidates that have the most financial backing. By Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative Christopher Halloran / Shutterstock.com How worried should […]
Followed by Jeb Bush and Rand Paul. Apparently nativists, libertarians, and neocons are now the dominant GOP factions. The religious right is apparently declining in influence. by Dartagnan The Daily Kos The Republican voters have finally embraced the core message of their Party platform, elevating unabashed racism against […]
It’s fitting that a monster should be the candidate of the Part of War and Plutocracy “Brooks acknowledged that the field is using rhetoric “that’s not very libertarian, that’s a lot more aggressive on foreign policy than we’ve seen in a long time.” “Kristol issued a cautionary note: […]
By Stephen Wolf Daily Kos The Icelandic Pirate Party Iceland has long been one of the more right-leaning Nordic countries. In contrast to Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, which all have a long tradition of electing Social Democratic governments, Iceland’s parliament has been dominated by right-of-center parties for […]
Revolution is the only solution. “They thought all along that they could call me a libertarian and hang that label around my neck like an albatross,” Rand Paul told TIME Magazine back in 2010, “but I’m not a libertarian.” Three years later, as reported by the Washington Post, Rand Paul reiterated this position: “I’m […]
If indeed Bernie Sanders becomes the “Ron Paul of the Left” I would suggest that those with a genuine alternative economic outlook like anarcho-communists, syndicalists, free market anti-capitalists, and libertarian socialists start crashing Sanders events and spreading information for the purpose of popularizing their ideas. Maybe the Sanders […]
I’m not a Sanders supporter. He’s too much of a social democrat for my tastes. But it will be interesting to see if his campaign has the same effect as the Ron Paul campaign. I wrote a number of articles expressing sympathy for Ron Paul back in 2007 […]
A reader recently posted on my personal Facebook page: “Rand Paul besides the Patriot act is pretty much wrong on everything these days it seems… He is essentially the same as mcCain on foreign policy, he supports bombing Iraq and Syria, sanctions against Iran, supporting Ukrainian neo-nazis, and […]
By Greta Christina Raw Story “Well, I’m conservative, but I’m not one of those racist, homophobic, dripping-with-hate Tea Party bigots! I’m pro-choice! I’m pro-same-sex-marriage! I’m not a racist! I just want lower taxes, and smaller government, and less government regulation of business. I’m fiscally conservative, and socially liberal.” […]
Nick Gillespie Reason For the past 15 years or so, Gallup has charted how Americans describe themselves when it comes to social and economic issues. For the first time ever, equal percentages of us define ourselves as liberal and conservative on social issues: Gallup Even among Republicans, social […]
By Niraj Chokshi Washington Post People who identify as conservative outnumber those who call themselves liberal in 47 states, according to a new Gallup survey. Nationally, conservatives had a 14.6 percentage point lead on liberals, though that was more than a full point smaller than last year’s lead. […]
This man, and not Rand Paul, is the logical successor to Ron Paul as the leading figure in the anti-state movement. Listen to the interview here.
My response to this piece: There are multiple problems with this writer’s claims. First, Rand Paul can hardly be taken at his word. If anything, he’s below average when compared with other politicians in terms of consistency. Second, presidents are largely figureheads who preside over the implementation of […]
Do not stand with Rand. “Whereas Paul told me back in 2013 that he hoped to make “audit the Pentagon” as popular a rallying cry as his father Ron Paul did “audit the Fed,” he’s now proposing $190 billion in spending increases for defense over two years, but claims fiscal conservative […]
“The late Murray Rothbard, a towering intellectual and political activist in libertarian circles, was a striking example. During the 1940s, he belonged to New York’s Young Republican Club, but during the Cold War he concluded that the GOP’s militarism was a betrayal of the traditional anti-war and isolationist […]
“Even dovish Democratic donors, by contrast, generally care about issues like abortion, gay marriage, gun control and climate change, which makes them more willing to donate to Schumer or Clinton despite their differences on Iran.” By Peter Beinhart The Atlantic John Kerry speaks to the press following the […]
” Benjamin Netanyahu has become the symbolic leader of the GOP, and even he is probably not as aggressive as most in the party would like him to be.” By Scott McConnell The American Conservative When the unexpectedly detailed P5+1 framework agreement with Iran was announced last Thursday, […]
Given that Rand Paul has now formally announced his candidacy for the Presidency, a number of people have asked for my thoughts on the subject. Here they are. I’m not a Rand Paul supporter. Some libertarian-types think he’s merely a professional politician trying to capitalize on his father’s […]
Good critique of Rand Paul’s flip-flopping unpredictability by Nick Gillespie. I’m glad to see Reason is not merely sucking up to Rand. Still, Reason is considerably to the right of ATS on foreign policy “More than ever, we need a strong voice to argue that $600 billion is […]
As I would have predicted, it would appear that the youth should be our primary demographic target as far as age is concerned. Pew Research Center Even in an increasingly Red vs. Blue nation, the public’s political attitudes and values come in many shades and hues. Partisan polarization […]
The police state rooted in the war on drugs, civil liberties, crony capitalism, and militarism. In other words, the big issues that affect society and humanity as a whole rather than partisan economic concerns or identity politics. By Ed Krayewski Reason Election Day 2014 is just two weeks […]
Panelists (Free for All): 1) Godfrey Bloom (Economist and former MEP) 2) Sean Gabb (Director, Libertarian Alliance) 3) Keith Preston (Attackthesystem.com) 4) Jakub Jankowski (Student) 5) Oliver Wilson (Student)
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society I normally associate terms like “treason” and “sedition” with right-wing know-nothings like the American Legion. So it’s eye-rollingly painful, in cases like the letter to Iran from Tom Cotton and 47 other Republican senators, to hear self-described progressives seize on […]
Franks Schaeffer presents an interesting historical narrative, but the question I always have for professional critics of the “religious right” is this: If the religious right is so powerful, why have they never scored any serious victories on any of their major issues in thirty-five years as a […]
By Keith Preston In the essay, “Liberty and Populism: Building an Effective Resistance Movement for North America,” written in 2006, I made the following observation: Ultimately, we may at some point be able to combine the Green, Libertarian, Populist, Constitution, Natural Law and other minor parties into a […]
By Lorenzo Del Savio and Matteo Mamelli Open Democracy The ideas of the Five Star Movement are best understood through their commitment to anti-representive democracy – a radical stance against traditional structures and institutions of representative democracy. Five Star Movement leader, Beppe Grillo. Demotix/eidon photographers. Some rights reserved. […]
Well, it looks like the PC coalition cracked a lot sooner than I thought it would. Both the radical left (e.g. the left-anarchists) and the center-left coalition that is the foundation of the Democratic Party’s electoral base seem to be falling apart due to the rivalries among their […]
Just as class divisions are the widest they have been in a century in the USA, so are ideological divisions and partisan divisions. By REP. TOM DAVIS and REP. MARTIN FROST The following is an excerpt from The Partisan Divide: Congress in Crisis, written by former Republican Rep. […]
This is how you do it. Once again, the election results in Greece represent what I have been pushing for years, i.e. the creation of a radical left that eclipses the center-left and then builds a coalition with the populist right against the establishment center, the global elites […]
Some observations about the recent election in Greece. First, I am hesitant base any general assessment of Western politics on domestic Greek politics, which is still very much in the mode of mid-twentieth century models of Left and Right. Greek’s communists are Old Leftists, not New Leftists. Their […]
It is not unreasonable to suggest that the decades ahead will witness the unfolding of a golden age of anarchism. What is the evidence for this? -The most powerful state in the world, the United States, the mother country of the empire, is slowly losing its internal legitimacy […]
TomWoods.Com (1) The American political establishment has done a super job keeping our country prosperous and our liberties protected, so I’m sure whatever candidate they push on me is probably a good one. (2) Our country is basically bankrupt. Unfunded entitlement liabilities are in excess of twice world […]
Obama’s recent granting of amnesty to illegal immigrants by means of executive order got me thinking about what possibilities there might be in the future in terms of reform from the top. For example, the late, great libertarian Harry Browne ran for president on the LP ticket twice, […]
By Keith Preston For an opposing perspective, see this article by Joseph Nye. For an article that makes comparable arguments, see this piece in Foreign Policy by Gideon Rachman. When the future history of the former United States of America is written, the pivotal turning point that likely […]
Grey Tribe becomes a de facto political majority + Support for secession becomes a de facto majority=We Win!! This is the most up to date data on secessionist sympathy I can find, and it looks like secessionist sympathy is up by a few percentage point. My guess is […]
Read this classic lecture from 2000 by Professor Van Creveld, and then read my “Philosophical Anarchism and the Death of Empire” from 2003. Van Creveld’s lecture describes the emerging world order, and my essay outlines a new paradigm for the “worldwide Grey Tribe” as it might be called. […]
I am not big on voting, and I haven’t voted in 20 years. Before that, I occasionally voted for Democrats, largely on antiwar grounds. I have cast a ballot for a Republican only once, and never in a general election. I did vote against the Rev. Pat Robertson […]
I posted these thoughts in the comments thread in response the recent article, “The True Global Minority,” by Bay Area Guy from Alternative Right, and follow up comments by “Dota.” I’m reposting this as a main blog entry because I think it summarizes the current “state of the […]
Duh? By Brendan James Talking Points Memo AP Photo / Patrick Semansky ByBrendan JamesPublishedApril 18, 2014, 10:43 AM EDT 627520 views A new study from Princeton spells bad news for American democracy—namely, that it no longer exists. Asking “[w]ho really rules?” researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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