Who & What is Behind Secret Black Hawk Operation in Washington DC Area
Sputnik News The US Army has been quietly conducting a secret flight operation in and around Washington DC for months, judging from recently released fiscal documents. US military experts have outlined the possible goals of the clandestine mission and the agencies behind it. On 22 July, Bloomberg revealed […]
US military spending up for first time in 7 years
Keith Preston: US foreign policy is about making money for military firms
Press TV. Listen here. The United States foreign policy has always served the interests of the military-industrial complex and that is why President Donald Trump is actively trying to increase the Pentagon’s budget while also pressing allies to spend more on defense, says an American analyst. Keith Preston, […]
Don’t make women register for the draft. Just end draft registration for everyone.
The anti-Vietnam War and anti-draft movements of the 1960s and 1970s are a shining example of what I would consider to be an anarchist success. No, the government wasn’t abolished. But the most powerful state in history was forced to withdraw from a war of imperialist aggression by […]
Tulsi Gabbard vs. “Human Rights” Imperialism: Educating the Ignorant Women Of “The View”
In an article I wrote for LewRockwell.Com 12 years ago, I introduced my theory of “totalitarian humanism” (i.e., the co-optation of cultural leftism by the state and capitalism) as the emerging ideology of the ruling class. Read the original article here. These were the core precepts of “totalitarian […]
The End of Our World Order Is Imminent
A writer at The Nation points out how more than 200 empires have risen and fallen in world history, and the US empire will eventually fall as well. I think this author likely overstates the prospects for future Chinese dominance, and his environmental alarmism may be overstated as […]
Reconsidering the Big 3: Episode #1: The American Revolution
Todd Lewis is joined by Will Mclean and Fulton Skipworth to discuss the military performance and reevaluate the legacy of USA and British commanders.
Lessons From Rojava
A very important read. Absorb every word of this. By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This holiday season was unusually kind to the anti-imperialists among us. Trump shocked the world the week before Christmas by actually putting America first for a change and calling […]
Keith’s Vision of Pan-Anarchism Part 4: The Hard Question National Defense
Today I will be joined by Keith Preston for our fourth and final installment of Pan-Anarchism to discuss the hard question of national defense.
General McChrystal and General Lee
It’s interesting how even the leadership of the military caste has bought into the System’s ideology of combining imperialism and neoliberal economics with cultural leftism. Careerists will be careerists, I guess. Mattis and McChrystal: “We gotta make sure the wine and cheese crowd will buy our books and […]
The War on Terrorism is a Complete Loss for the Empire
After 17 years and a series of failed wars, the number of Sunni fundamentalist terrorists is larger than it was in 2001. By William S. Lind Traditional Right An article in the November 21 New York Times revealed two aspects of our ongoing strategic failure in Fourth Generation […]
Fact Tank – Our Lives in Numbers August 22, 2017 U.S. active-duty military presence overseas is at its smallest in decades
Is the Empire receding? By Kristen Bialik Pew Research Center The number of active-duty U.S. military troops stationed overseas has dipped below 200,000 for the first time in at least 60 years. The decline, reflecting a broader one in active-duty U.S. forces, has occurred in multiple countries – […]
An Anarchist Defense Force?
Matthew VanDyke is the founder of Sons of Liberty International, a security firm that advises, trains, and supplies vulnerable populations to defend themselves against terrorists. He is preparing for an independent mission to Iraq during which he’ll train Iraqis to fight back against the Islamic State. History NOW […]
Actually Yes, the Left Can Defeat The United States Militarily
By Dr. Bones Gods and Radicals “just imagine the idea that the bitter infighting on the Left could somehow be a tactical advantage. It’s almost too good to pass up.” From Dr. Bones READ MORE
The Latin Americanization of the United States
By Keith Preston Everyone knows that one of the principal grievances of the right-wing involves the substantial amount of immigration from Latin America to the United States that has taken place in recent decades. The commonly voiced concern is that the traditional “white” (Northern European) majority will lose […]
The Latest Casualty of the Marines’ Surrender to Political Correctness
When a Marine Corps commander is relieved of his position for using the word “faggot,” do we need any more evidence that PC has in fact completely permeated the general society and become the ideology of the state/ruling class/power elite? By William S. Lind Marine Lt. Col. Marcus […]
No Doubt About It: The Deep State Is Real and Trump Is Its Latest Tool
These are the things our anarchist and libertarian friends ought to focused on. By John Whitehead Rutherford Institute “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government, owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” ― Theodore Roosevelt There are those who would have you believe […]
The US Army wants to create biodegradable bullets that plant flowers where they fall
Totalitarian humanism’s eco-friendly imperialism. By Robert Andrews Inside Business As you well know, bullets are designed to kill people. So far, so bad, but the metallic compounds in them also tend to leach into the environment and kill off plants and wildlife too. At training facilities the world […]
Keith Preston: US relies on military–industrial complex for manufacturing jobs
Press TV. Listen here. The United States relies on the country’s military–industrial complex for manufacturing and factory employment, an American analyst in Virginia says. Maintaining the massive US arms industry is motivated not just by military purposes, but also for preserving American jobs and economic growth, said Keith […]
Bill Lind on Syria
I concur. By William S. Lind Traditional Right The latest cruise missile caracole aimed at Syria was militarily meaningless. A few empty buildings were destroyed, residents of Damascus and Homs lost a couple hours of sleep and honor was satisfied. The only thing missing was Handel’s Musick for […]
The World’s Five Military Empires
Really just the USA, with the UK, France, Russia and China as minor leaguers. By Frank Jacobs BigThink.Com Despite talk of American decline, the U.S. still is the world’s only superpower – if by that you mean: the country with by far the biggest military footprint throughout the […]
71% of young Americans don’t quality for military because they’re fat and unhealthy: report
Good. Maybe this will be a deterrent to more stupid wars. American Military News According to a recent report by the Heritage Foundation, nearly three-quarters of young Americans are ineligible to serve in the United State military. Factors affecting eligibility include health problems, criminal records or poor education, […]
Rebel Yell Interviews Martin Van Creveld
Listen here. This is a good score. Hats off to the guys at Rebel Yell. Rebel Yell 20180224 307: Martin van Creveld, As He Pleases This is Rebel Yell – a Southern Nationalist podcast of the Alt-Right. I’m your host Musonius Rufus. Joining me are my cohosts Mencken’s […]
Trump’s National Defense Strategy Has the Pentagon Popping Champagne
Once again, the way the system actually works is demonstrated. All major policy decisions involving international relations and economics are based on the general consensus of the dominant factions of the power elite. This consensus reflects the prevailing views of the power elite concerning the assessment of their […]
A New Poll Shows the Public Is Overwhelmingly Opposed to Endless US Military Interventions
This is great news in that it really does place the general public at odds with the ruling class. One of the most important and successful political movements in US history was the anti-Vietnam War/anti-draft movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The long range effect of the movement […]
Getting Grand Strategy Wrong
By William S. Lind Traditional Right One of the iron laws of warfare is that a higher level dominates a lower. You can be brilliant tactically, but if you are defeated operationally, you lose. You can win tactically and operationally, but if you get beaten strategically, you lose. […]
Problems with the Private Production of Defense Part 3: Strategy
Todd Lewis is joined by Will Mclean to finish our discussion on the privatization of defense. Today we will be focusing on strategy and tactics envisioned by the libertarians.
Can A Libertarian Society Provide National Defense?
A former military officer weighs in. By Zack Sorenson Libertarian Institute A recent Tom Woods podcast featured a debate about whether the free market can provide for national defense. Arguing that libertarian society can offer defense “services”, Bob Murphy relies on the idea of insurance paying the costs […]
Murphy 1, Shoguns 0
A specialist on Japanese military history weighs in on the Lewis-Murphy debate on private defense services. Regarding my recent debate on the Tom Woods Show with Todd Lewis–regarding private defense–I got the following email (permission to reprint): Dr. Murphy, Following your recent debate with Todd Lewis I felt […]
Problems with the Private Production of Defense Part 2: Mobilization
Todd is joined by Keith Preston and Will Mclean to discuss the problems of privatizing mobilization of armed forces.
Problems with the Private Production of Defense Part 1: Financing
Todd Lewis joined by Logos to discuss the problems of financing problems of private defense.
China and Russia Train for War with U.S. if Trump Invades North Korea
The withering away of the antiwar movement during the Obama era, and the failure of the Left to oppose the Trump administration’s efforts to strengthen the position of the Atlanticist-Zionist-Wahhabi axis (or to even take notice) indicates that US imperialism will have to be defeated externally rather than […]
Debate: Can the Free Market Provide National Defense?
This is a great discussion between Todd Lewis and Bob Murphy about the viability of non-state/private “national defense” services. I have an old essay about this topic here. Economist Bob Murphy (Ph.D., NYU) and podcaster Todd Lewis square off in the central debate of anarcho-capitalism: is government truly […]
Neocons Seek War with Iran, Ethic Cleansing of Palestinians
As a I have long suspected. William S. Lind Traditional Right Those of us who supported President Trump in last year’s election because he promised a less interventionist foreign policy need to be aware of a rising danger. Neo-con influence in the Trump administration seems to be on […]
A Future Global War between States and Non-State Actors?
Bill Lind’s analysis of the emerging world order is absolutely correct. If I were a statist, I would be taking the exact same position as Bill Lind, i.e. that the main threat that states now face is not each other but the rise of non-state actors and fourth […]
No Foreign Policy is Good Foreign Policy
Anarcho-Dictator Instead of a Blog Positing for a moment the existence of a national state after the American revolutionary war, what should its attitude toward foreign lands be? I believe the answer is “none.” Jefferson had no business conducting operations against the British in the War of 1812, […]
The Hezbollah Model Wins
The model that all anarchists and anti-statists need to be studying. One of our objectives should be to develop non-state political and militia confederations that will usurp many of the functions currently provided by states, with the goal of eventually superseding states. By William S. Lind Traditional Right […]
How An Anarchist Society Would Provide National Defense
A classic lecture from Jeffrey Rogers Hummel
The Largest Military Machine in History
Last night, the Senate overwhelmingly approved an $80 billion annual increase in military spending. Trump had asked for just $48 billion. That $80 billion increase in military spending is enough to have satisfied Bernie Sanders’s campaign promise to make tuition free at public colleges and universities. (You may […]
Who is the Aggressor?
No, It’s Not the Troops Fault
It is politically inappropriate and strategically counter productive to merely denounce rank and file members of the military as hired goons for the state. One of the most important political occurrences that happened in US history was the success of the anti-Vietnam War movement, and the consequent delegitimization […]
TRUMP: My instinct was to pull out of Afghanistan — here’s why I changed my mind
Because the consensus of state/ruling class/power elite opinion said so. Duh? The real issue here is the intramural rivalry within the global-capitalist empire, with the Eastern axis, especially China, but also Russia and Iran, wanting to develop Afghanistan for the BRICS, while the Western axis wants to retain […]
No, It’s Not about “Globalism vs. Nationalism”
It’s about globalism/globalization vs non-state actors. Some thoughts on the present political polarization, geopolitical rivalries, the G20, and “populist-nationalism.” The present political polarization represents an effort by the various factions of the ruling class attempting to create constituencies for themselves. Most of the mainstream media represents the dominant […]
U.S. risks further battles as it steps deeper into Syrian quagmire
The US ruling class is the world’s largest collection of idiots. Treason to Washington is loyalty to humanity. By Louisa Loveluck and David Filipov Washington Post BEIRUT — The United States is becoming more perilously drawn into Syria’s fragmented war as it fights on increasingly congested battlefields surrounding […]
Anarchism or Vanguardism? Critique of Guerrilla Ideology of the IRPGF
The Free Online main text from nothingiseverlost.. shared with thanks Guerrilla ideology reduces all revolutionary questions to quantitative problems of military force. Nothing could be more disastrous. – James Carr, Power does not come any more from the barrel of a gun than it comes from a ballot box. […]
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Trump to Arm Syrian Kurds, Even as Turkey Strongly Objects
How ironic that the overlords of the American Empire might be backing the Murray Bookchin-inspired libertarian socialist insurgents of the Kurdish territory. But this is actually in keeping with a strategy that I have long advocated for anarchist, anti-state and anti-imperalist movements around the world, i.e. building on […]
Syria Gas Attack: Assad’s Doing…Or False Flag?
Speaking of libertarians, Ron Paul and Daniel McAdams say some sensible things about the Syrian gas attack and its ensuing fallout:
Trump’s Use of Navy SEAL’s Wife Highlights All the Key Ingredients of U.S. War Propaganda
By Glenn Greenwald The Intercept During his Tuesday night address to the U.S. Congress, President Trump paid tribute to Ryan Owens, the Navy SEAL killed in the January commando raid in Yemen that Trump ordered. As he did so, television cameras focused for almost four full minutes on Owens’s […]
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