I agree with this analysis but disagree with its conclusions. Ultimately, our enemies are all states everywhere, and our greatest non-state rivals are the Wahhabist/Salafist renditions of Islam. I consider the struggles of the Kurds, particularly the PKK and allied tendencies, to essentially be the same as the […]
I generally agree with Bill’s analysis here, although I’m personally rooting for the Fourth Generation forces. “…we need a new Triple Alliance or Quintuple Alliance, and here as so often in grand strategy context is important. It is, again, the need for all states to work together against […]
By Dan Sanchez Foundation for Economic Education ve police officers were killed and six were injured in Dallas yesterday when snipers opened fire during a protest of the recent police killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. This mass shooting was a despicable act of murder. It was […]
By Justin King TheFifthColumnNews.Com Washington, DC (TFC) – The term “martial law” is thrown around so much that it seems to have lost its meaning. Martial law is military control of normal judicial functions. It doesn’t mean a curfew is in effect. It doesn’t mean the militarization of police. […]
Spy Culture ISIS are a terrifying, devastating Sunni militia that emerged out of the Iraqi insurgency and the anti-Assad jihad … except they aren’t particularly religious! And their origin story makes no sense. And militarily speaking they are a joke who could be wiped out within weeks if […]
An old United Press International Article from 1982. Did the Shining Path show the way 34 years ago? Black Lives Matter, take note. By Carlos Milano LIMA, Peru — Some 150 masked guerrillas attacked a Peruvian prison high in the Andes and freed 255 inmates by dynamiting a […]
By John Knefel Village Voice Illustration by Matt Mahurin Billymark’s is the most working-class bar in Chelsea, if not all of Manhattan. On a Thursday afternoon in early March, union guys play darts as both TVs air a CBS report on the early days of Syria’s fragile cease-fire. […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right Russia intervened in Syria, did what it came to do–strengthen the position of the Assad government–and has partially withdrawn. Meanwhile, our war with ISIS continues its endless futility, an inevitable result of war by pinking. War by plinking, using airstrikes that blow […]
By Nicholas Casey New York Times IN THE MOUNTAINS OF COLOMBIA — The rebel camp is a Communist time capsule. An old guerrilla fighter sings songs about Che Guevara on his guitar as a crowd leans in to listen, armed with rifles and grenades. Salaries do not exist […]
To ask the question is to answer it. See this discussion at Democracy Now. Western countries have looked the other way while their “allies” among the Gulf states have fueled Islamic extremists. At times, the West has directly or indirectly sought to fuel Islamic extremists as a weapon […]
By By Katrin Kuntz, Onur Burçak Belli and Emin Oezmen Der Spiegel International It was midday on a Thursday at the end of December when Rozerin Çukur left her home, supposedly to pick up class notes from a friend. She never returned. Rozerin wandered through the narrow streets […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right The protestors who took over the aptly-named Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns, Oregon have garnered a fair amount of conservative empathy. Their issue, the Federal government’s ownership of vast tracts of western land, is a legitimate one. As a story in […]
Bill Lind expounds on the canon. This is what all you anarchist out there who want to overthrow governments and corporations need to be reading. By William S. Lind Traditional Right The real Saint Nicholas was less famous for giving gifts than he was for coming back from […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/08/444980/US-arrests-Mideast-refugees-/ US arrests two Middle Eastern refugees on terror charges. (file photo) The United States has arrested two refugees from the Middle East on terrorism charges. The two men who came to the US as refugees more than three years ago were arrested on […]
Russia Today Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s three sons and “about 150” militiamen have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ to protest the pending imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, arguing the federal government has no authority in local cases. “We’re going to be freeing these […]
By Joris Leverink ROAR Magazine In 2004, Kurdish leader Öcalan reached out to Murray Bookchin from his prison cell, where he had been studying the work of the American radical thinker. Their correspondence is now made public for the first time. The Bookchin-Öcalan correspondence has been published as […]
By William T. Hathaway Terrible terrorists are killing our soldiers in their countries and killing us here at home. How can we stop them? The answer is simple: Stop terrorizing them. We started this war. What we do to others comes back on us. In addition to centuries […]
By Michael Scheuer Non-Intervention.Com From this distance, Mr. Putin, it appears that when you unleashed the Russian air force on 30 September 2015 you expected to save Bashir al-Assad’s regime and bring order to Syria and Iraq in a relatively short period of time. Well, the application of […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right The Fourth Generation Warfare Handbook, co-authored by Lt. Col. Greg Thiele and myself, is now available on Amazon. At present, it is only an e-book; the real book should be available early next year. The publisher is Castalia House Press. The Fourth Generation […]
Press TV. Listen here: The Russian military campaign on behalf of the Syrian government has exasperated the White House because it goes against the US policy of “eliminating” President Bashar al-Assad, says a journalist and analyst in Virginia. “The issue that the United States has with this Russian […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/436082 The United States is sending its Special Operations Forces to Syria out of concerns over losing its “geopolitical ground to Russia,” says a political analyst. Keith Preston made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday when asked about why the […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com If there was any doubt that Washington has learned absolutely nothing since George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq, then President Obama’s address to the United Nations has confirmed the world’s worst fears. It was an oration that combined the most egregious lies with 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 […]
These are the folks that anarchists should be paying attention to, not “social justice warriors” or American libertarian kooks. By Carne Ross New York Times Across an empty and arid plain, south of a town in eastern Syria called Tell Brak, there is a long berm marking the […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/10/01/431517/US-Russia-Syria-Assad The United States and Russia are pursuing “polar opposite objectives” in Syria which can lead to a serious military confrontation between the two powers, an American political analyst based in Virginia says. Keith Preston, the chief editor and director of AttacktheSystem.com, made the remarks in […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/431434 The United States does not want a direct military confrontation with Russian forces in Syria, an American political analyst based in Virginia says. But the primary objective of the Obama administration is the overthrow of the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with […]
Women in the World/New York Times A trio of women has formed an all-female fighting force to seek revenge on ISIS for atrocities committed against Yazidi women in Iraq, and it’s reportedly been decimating the enemy recently. The women hail from Turkey where they left their ordinary lives […]
Here it comes. Examiner Russian troops during the 2008 invasion of Georgia. Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images While the American media focuses in on the Trump vs. Fiorina zinger-fest with laser-like precision, foreign news services are picking up the Yankee slack on reporting of the Russian military build-up […]
By Ariel Zirulnick Christian Science Monitor Save for later Randa Gholam, a Christian living the Hezbollah stronghold neighborhood of Harat Hreik, stands next to a poster of Hasan Nasrallah in her home on November 15, in Beirut, Lebanon. Gholam supports and admires Hezbollah leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, and […]
Insurrection News Claim of responsibility for an incendiary attack against a branch of the ITAU Bank in São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil on 13.09.15 by Movimente Insurgente Anarquista (MIA) received and translated by Insurrection News. ****** “We have this fantasy that our interests and the interests […]
By Joris Leverink Roar Mag Bookchin’s municipalist ideas, once rejected by communists and anarchists alike, have now come to inspire the Kurdish quest for democratic autonomy. The introduction to the new book The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy (Verso, 2015), explains how Murray Bookchin – born […]
Government Denies Knowledge Whenever someone is exposed to the ideas of market anarchy, their first thought is “but what about the roads?” Soon after this, more interesting questions arise, mostly relating to security issues. How would the law work? How would an anarchist society repel armed invaders? Who […]
It appears that the state’s military is gradually being hollowed out from the inside while being demoralized with perpetual failed wars. As revolutionary anarchists, out ambition should be the establishment of Hezbollah and PKK model fourth generation militias that eventually surpass the state’s military forces. By William S. […]
By Daniel Steinvorth and Yassin Musharbash Der Spiegel German experts have confirmed the authenticity of photographs that purport to show PKK fighters killed by chemical weapons. The evidence puts increasing pressure on the Turkish government, which has long been suspected of using such weapons against Kurdish rebels. German […]
Chapter 7 of the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway The long, flouncy curls from Judy Davis’s cheerleader days are gone. Her straight blonde hair is now cut short. Large blue eyes stand out in a face pale without makeup. Her soft Southern drawl […]
Black Rose Anarchist Federation As revolutionaries in North America we would like to outline the foundations of our political perspective as well as how we as an organization have agreed to relate the recent events and the struggle underway in Rojava in the Middle East. Our Perspective The […]
By all means, donate. By Jennifer Baker Revolution-News.Com After 134 days of intense fights against ISIS, the Kurdish city of Kobanê is under reconstruction. An international solidarity movement is now using crowdfunding as a tool to support of the so-called ’Rojava Revolution’. Initiatives to rebuild Kobanê, a secular […]
If we had a well-organized and functional anarchist mass movement in the Western countries (or anywhere else), we would be attacking Turkish embassies, consulates, and other outposts all over the world. Death to Erdogan. Death to ISIS. Victory to PKK/YPG/YPG. Associated Press In this Sunday, Feb. 22, 2015, […]
Alper Sapan: “I am a 19 year-old anarchist. I am against injustice, exploitation and tyranny of the state. I condemn people killing each others, violence and the state. I listen to the inner voice of my conscience for freedom and refuse to serve in the military for a […]
By Julia Tourianksi Brave New World There is place where sex, creed and ethnicity do not harbor division. A place where everyone is military trained so that having a police force becomes obsolete. A place where civilian females, instead of asking for permission, instead of waiting for outside help, have […]
An absolute must listen for anarchists of any kind. Listen here: Traditional Right William S.Lind’s talk to the 2015 annual meeting of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters in Baltimore, Maryland on June 12, 2015, “The Four Generations of Modern War and their Implications for Foreign Policy.”
A documentary from PressTV featuring commentary from yours truly. Watch the documentary here. The EU ambassador to Iraq accuses European countries of purchasing oil from ISIL terrorists. European countries are unwittingly funding the ISIL terror campaign by buying oil from ISIL-controlled oil fields, including those in Iraq. Reports […]
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By Pat Buchanan Antiwar.Com That question, which has bedeviled U.S. experts on the Middle East, may need updating to read: Who rises when Assad falls? For the war is going badly for Bashar Assad, whose family has ruled Syria since Richard Nixon was president. Assad’s situation seems more […]
Urfa, Turkey – Subsequent to fierce battles with militants of the Islamic State group (IS/ISIS), the joint forces of People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Burkan al-Furat, supported by the U.S.-led coalition’s warplanes, regained major parts of the strategic city of Tel Abyad (Gire Spi) in Raqqa province, northeastern Syria, YPG sources reported […]
By Vince Rinehart “There’s a number of off base memes and ideas floating on the left regarding this incident. – Claims have been made that this was a shootout between “Skin Head Gangs.” A look at the mug shots of those arrested show whites, Hispanics, blacks and perhaps […]
CountercurrentNews.Com In a move reminiscent of the Los Angeles gang truce during the Rodney King protests, Baltimore area Bloods and Crips have agreed to put aside their rivalry and focus on fighting rogue police officers. Last Saturday, both Bloods and Crips marched side by side in the Baltimore […]
Electronic Urban Report *Baltimore police say three separate gangs are now working together to “take out” law enforcement officers. In a statement Monday, the department called it a “credible threat” and said members of the Black Guerilla Family, the Bloods and the Crips have formed an alliance against […]
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