Laurence Vance explains why. In the Gary Johnson interview with Robert Wenzel, when asked about what a libertarian was, Johnson said that, speaking with a broad brush, most Americans are fiscally responsible and socially tolerant and that, with a broad brush, that is what libertarians are about. What planet is […]
This article by Sigmund Knag and published by the Independent Institute goes a long way towards helping us understand the internal dynamics of modern states. It can be read in full here. I have long argued that it is not sufficient for anarchists and other anti-statists to simply attack […]
Tim Minchin’s wet dreams may yet *ahem* come to fruition. Not content with importing their daytime soaps, the UK looks set to contract AIDS (Acquired Imperative Democracy Syndrome) from the Aussies. Will Airstrip One become another Saudi Arabia of Democracy? It certainly seems to be on that road… […]
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 […]
By Kevin Carson Rob Reiner, in a recent interview with Chris Matthews, showed that while he may have moved on to directing and producing, he’s still a comedic actor at heart. Reiner, best known as Archie’s son-in-law “Meathead” on “All in the Family,” told Matthews — with a […]
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 […]
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 […]
Note: The Ron Paul movement provides a glimpse into what the demographics of the future resistance movement will look like and is consistent with the framework I have previously outlined in my “liberty and populism” and “ten core demographics” theories. By Allan Stevo In a party that tends […]
Note: If anarchists and libertarians are serious about attacking and destroying the U.S. state, then we need to begin targeting the center-left establishment given that it will be the ruling party in the decades ahead as the Republicans begin to go the way of the Whigs. By Pat […]
From American Indian/Alaska Native Attack the System By Vincent Rinehart In the article The Quandary of American Indian Quasi Dual Citizenship at Last Real Indians, the argument is made for American Indian participation in the American political process. The reason given is that Indian policy and political policy […]
A highly recommended read that distills everything that fails about democracy onto less than a hundred pages! Check out Aschwin De Wolf’s interview with Karsten at Against Politics; and, if you like that, grab yourself a copy. Democracy is widely considered to be the best political system imaginable. […]
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Article by Jim Goad. “For me, politics isn’t so much about what sort of society I want to live in as much as what sort of people I want to avoid. I consider myself a misanthropic individualist.” —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Rick Santorum has been the Republican primary season’s Surprise Moral […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. ———————————————————————————————— In a recent interview with the German weekly Junge Freiheit, popular satirist and onetime fixture of the left Eckhard Henscheid explained why he had moved toward the libertarian right and was fighting censorship in his “democratic” society. Junge Freiheit had been kept from […]
From The American Dream. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– According to CNBC, the Federal Reserve “is planning on monitoring what you say about it on social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook”. Apparently we are not supposed to be alarmed though, because as the CNBC headline states, the Federal Reserve just “wants to […]
Putting Linda Lovelace to shame.
Kevin Carson tells why. This reminds me of a conversation I had a while back with a left-liberal, Dissent-magazine type who argued that liberals should be for the draft on the grounds that the draft would result in fewer wars because people wouldn’t support war if their kids […]
By David Heleniak Jesse Ventura, when he’s not talking about 9-11, makes a lot of sense. Describing the two party system to Larry King, he said, [W]hat you have today is like walking into the grocery store and you go to the soft drink department, and there is […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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