Our Sinister Dual State
By Chris Hedges President Barack Obama announces James Clapper, left, as director of national intelligence during a ceremony in the Rose Garden at the White House on June 5, 2010. (AP/J. Scott Applewhite) On Thursday the former National Security Agency official and whistle-blower William E. Binney and I […]
Is Drug War Driven Mass Incarceration the New Jim Crow?
No doubt about it. By Bill Frezza Once in a great while a writer at the opposite end of the political spectrum gets you to look at a familiar set of facts in a new way. Disconcerting as it is, you can feel your foundation shift as your […]
Congress members urge Obama to remove marijuana from illegal drugs list
For those of us who came of age during the heyday of the War on Drugs during the 80s and 90s this is like members of the Nazi Party writing a letter to Hitler urging a relaxation of the Nuremberg Laws. Russia Today In a signed letter issued […]
Robert Stark Interviews Charles Lincoln on the Prison-Industrial Complex
Counter-Currents Radio To download the mp3, right-click here and choose “save target or link as.” To subscribe to our podcasts, click here. Robert Stark talks to commentator Charles Lincoln on slavery and the prison-industrial complex. Topics include: How imprisonment replaced slavery The 13th Amendment and the exception it […]
A Libertarian Litmus Test
The drug war. We often here about how this or that Republican politician is a “libertarian” or “libertarian-leaning” or a “friend of liberty.” In the vast majority of the cases (if not all of them) said Republican politician supports the war on drugs. Oh, some of them may […]
Texas Grand Jury Declines to Indict Pot Grower Who Shot and Killed a Cop During an Early-Morning Raid
By Jacob Sullum This week a Texas grand jury declined to indict a marijuana grower for shooting and killing a sheriff’s deputy who burst into his home in the early morning to execute a search warrant. Henry Goedrich Magee, who was indicted on drug and weapon charges (the […]
Sean Gabb Reviews Keith Preston’s New Book
By Dr. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance Review Article by Sean Gabb Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century Keith Preston Black House Publishing Ltd, London, 2013, 473pp, £16.50 (pbk) ISBN: 978-0-9927365-0-7 I first came across Keith Preston in October 2008. In those […]
Bitcoin Against the System: An Interview with M.K. Lords
Attack the System Bitcoin Against the System: An Interview with M.K. Lords January 29, 2014 Keith Preston interviews Bitcoin and counter-economics activist M. K. Lords. Topics include: How Bitcoins can be used to bypass the warfare state and assist with social justice issues such as homelessness. The Ron […]
Snowden/Manning 2016
Cop to Kelly Thomas Murder Protesters: “There is a pack of 12 cops waiting to smash your f***ing faces in.”
The D.C. Clothesline After being involved with the Kelly Thomas murder case for the last 2 1/2 years, protesting, attending council meetings, fundraiser involvement, writing letters and articles, videotaping and taking pictures, attending court dates, listening to the specifics of the murder by the DA (before the video […]
Why We Need Prison Reform: Victimless Crimes Are 86% of the Federal Prison Population
PolicyMic.Com Why We Need Prison Reform: Victimless Crimes Are 86% of the Federal Prison Population When we talk about the war on drugs, which is increasingly turning into a real war, we often overlook the fact that the “criminals” involved in the drug trade aren’t actually violating anyone’s rights. […]
The Snowden Effect and the Liberal Implosion
By Justin Raimondo We haven’t seen anything like this since the Vietnam war era: an administration caught red-handed illegally and systematically spying on Americans in the midst of an increasingly unpopular war. At that time, too, the political class was badly divided, with the hard-liners circling their wagons […]
Are We “On the Cusp of Getting Bipartisan Prison-Sentencing Reform”?
By Jesse Walker According to National Review‘s Betsy Woodruff, Hill aides are telling her that “we’re on the cusp of getting bipartisan prison-sentencing reform.” If they’re right, that’s a tribute, as Woodruff’s article shows, to carefully crafted left/right alliances. In this case, the team includes not just the civil […]
Why Edward Snowden Wouldn’t Get a Fair Trial
By Jesselyn Radack While the controversy surrounding Edward Snowden‘s dissemination of National Security Agency information continues, members of Congress, journalists and advocacy groups keep repeating the same argument: Mr. Snowden should turn himself in, mount a solid defense and all will be righted at trial. That’s a fantasy. […]
Bloggers, public have First Amendment protection – US court
Russia Today A federal appeals court has ruled that bloggers and the general public have the same protection of the First Amendment as journalists when sued for defamation. Should the issue be of public concern, the claimant has to prove negligence to win the case. “It’s not a […]
Fuck Foreign Aid! Pan-Abolitionism for a Better Tomorrow
For the new year, I have a dream…. A.D. 2014, and it seems obvious that the highfaluting notion of “progress” remains almost purely a technological phenomenon. Whilst the denizens of Slave Britannia cow under the yoke of political correctness and media censorship, those further south of the sphere […]
It’s Official: Rand Paul Sucks Donkey Kongs
Watch the video. Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul claimed it would be “enlightening” for National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower Edward Snowden and intelligence director James Clapper to “share a prison cell,” noting “the law has to be applied equally.”
Mr. Snowden, It’s Time to Come Out and Take a Stand Publicly as to Your Intentions
By Sibel Edmonds When It Comes to Whistleblowing, Integrity & Purity of Intentions Matter MostA week ago I began writing a series of commentaries on significant consequences and conflicts of interest associated with Glenn Greenwald, his new PayPal billionaire boss, and the ownership and commoditization of the 50,000-page […]
The Return of Debtors Prisons
The Daily Mail The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that debtors’ prisons are unconstitutional – but that has done little to stop some judges from jailing people because they cannot pay their court fines. In an troubling development straight out of a Charles Dickens novel, indigent defendants […]
Californians outraged after police acquire military armored vehicle to patrol city
Russia Today Police in Salinas, California are under fire after the department acquired a heavily armored military vehicle for SWAT team operations. The $650,000 vehicle was gifted to the Salinas Police Department from the government through the 1033 program, which redistributes used equipment to other agencies. According to […]
Saudi blogger may face death penalty for apostasy
Russia Today Saudi blogger and activist, Raif Badawi, currently serving his 7-year prison term for “insulting Islam”, may soon appear in a higher court on graver charges of apostasy. If found guilty, he could be sentenced to death. Bringing Badawi back to court to face graver charges was […]
‘Tracked everywhere you go’: Snowden delivers Xmas message on govt spying
Russia Today NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has delivered his ‘Alternative Christmas Message’ via a British TV channel. The whistleblower called for an end to mass spying by governments, stating that a child born today will have “no conception of privacy.” Snowden’s address aired by the UK’s Channel 4 […]
The Solution to Police Brutality?
Attack the System: The Intersection of Drug Prohibition, Totalitarian Humanism, and the Police State
Attack the System The Intersection of Drug Prohibition, Totalitarian Humanism, and the Police State December 8, 2013 Keith Preston discusses the power elite’s system of ideological and legal control. Topics include: How international drug prohibition is largely an American creation. How the war on drugs was instigated to […]
80 Years After Prohibition’s Repeal, President Obama Continues A Failed Drug War
Forbes The War on Drugs is an unmitigated failure. Those who support that war might recall Prohibition, a similar deployment of government paternalism, which was wisely repealed 80 years ago this month. Prohibition was the result of misnamed “temperance” crusaders who sought to outlaw the manufacture, transportation, and […]
How Do You Charge an Unarmed Man with Shooting People? Get the NYPD Involved
Reason.Com Credit: Giacomo Barbaro / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SAIn September, New York Police officers responded to an emotionally disturbed man causing a ruckus at a Times Square bus terminal by opening fire on him while they were surrounded by crowds and traffic. They missed him and hit two […]
It’s Been 80 Years Since Alcohol Prohibition Ended
It’s Time to Imagine a Post-Police World
FreeThoughtProject.Com The time of the friendly neighborhood policeman is over. Instead of counting on cops to keep us safe, it seems like we can count on just the opposite. It’s time for Plan B. We live in an age of an increasingly militarized, violent, and hostile police force. […]
A Century Later and We Still Have a Culture of Prohibition
DL Magazine By John Doherty The year is 1920. The US government just prohibited the production and sale of alcoholic beverages under the eighteenth amendment. The aim was to legislate morality, but America would soon learn how impossible that very concept is in reality. An era of complete […]
That ‘Libertarian Moment’: It’s here. Now what?
By Justin Raimondo The failures of foreign interventionism litter the world stage. Libya is disintegrating into an inter-tribal battlefield, with rival militias shooting it out Wild West style. Iraq is collapsing into chaos, as the country’s postwar order frays and splits along sectarian religious lines: and in Afghanistan, […]
How the Modern American Police State Began
““After serving his time federal prison, John Ehrlichman granted an interview to author Dan Baum, who reports that Ehrlichman explained the origin of the war on drugs this way: ‘The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and […]
Robber Band Writ Large
Woman may lose house for sex while she was a high school student 12 years ago
Boingboing.Com Twelve years ago, when Wendy Whitaker was barely 17, she performed oral sex on a high school classmate who was about to turn 16. The state of Georgia convicted her of a sex crime and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. As a registered sex […]
Counties That Send The Most People To Death Row Show A Questionable Commitment To Justice
Huffington Post An unidentified Arizona Corrections Officer adjusts the straps on the gurney used for lethal injections at the Florence Death House at the Arizona State Prison at Florence (Ariz.) in this undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections. On Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003, a federal […]
The FDA Wants to Ban Berger Cookies, the World’s Most Delicious Dessert
Reason.Com The FDA may soon kill off the world’s most delicious dessert—Baltimore’s own Berger Cookies. Please believe I make this claim as one who is not otherwise overly enamored of sweets. For those who haven’t had the pleasure, we’re talking fudge slathered over a shortbread cookie to rapturous […]
Teen Accused of Made-Up Crime Jailed on Rikers for Three Years
Gawker.Com 1Expand Kalief Browder was just 16-year-old when police officers suddenly showed up and arrested him for a crime he didn’t commit. He spent the next three years on Rikers Island. Now 20, Browder still had no idea why a person he had never met before decided to […]
Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution
Another moralistic fad goes bust. The Guardian Sex worker in Soho, London. Photograph: Dan Chung The following correction was printed in the Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday 14 November 2009 In the report below about sex trafficking we referred to the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre as […]
When North American Leftists Were Real Revolutionaries
Short of Actually Scary People, SPLC Targets Anarcho-Capitalists
Reason.Com I have to assume that it’s fundraising time at the Southern Poverty Law Center, because Morris Dees and company have gone looking for new people to label enemies of the republic. This time, they’ve found those long underappreciated serpents nesting in our midst, notorious fellow-travelers of the […]
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Eugene Jarecki and the campaign to end America’s war on drugs
The Guardian The US war on drugs has cost one trillion dollars and resulted in 45m arrests. And yet nothing has changed, argues film-maker Eugene Jarecki, a polemical campaigner to reform America’s drugs laws. So what did the prisoners in a New York jail think when he showed […]
Don’t Appear to Be Clenching Your Buttocks When Pulled Over For Not Coming to a Complete Stop or Be Tortured by Doctors: America, This is Your War on Drugs
Reason.Com From the “folks, this is just wrong” department of our War on Drugs, reported by KOB-TV 4 in New Mexico. They are reporting on a lawsuit that arose from an: incident [that] began January 2, 2013 after David Eckert finished shopping at the Wal-Mart in Deming. According […]
Cop Shoots Man Holding Cellphone, Receives Silver Valor Award
The Libertarian Republic RICHMOND, VA – Henrico County Police Officer Brian K. Anderson was awarded with the Silver Valor Medal on Friday. He said he was concerned about his safety and the safety of his colleagues when he shot a suspect carrying a cell phone. “I believed it was […]
Tragic End To Father’s Attempt To Teach Son A Lesson
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Once Again—Death of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges Alexis Gravel (CC-BY-ND) By Chris Hedges The presidential election exposed the liberal class as a corpse. It fights for nothing. It stands for nothing. It is a useless appendage to the corporate state. It exists not to make possible incremental or piecemeal reform, as it originally […]
Fla. teacher suspended for forcing 4th-grader to participate in Pledge of Allegiance
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Portland, Maine Legalizes Recreational Use of Marijuana
The Liberty Beat On Tuesday citizens of Portland, Maine voted to legalize possession of less than 2.5 ounces of marijuana for adults 21 and over. Although the measure begins in 30 days there is not a system in place for citizens to legally acquire the plant. After the […]
Man Arrested For Smoking Weed Dies From Extreme Food Allergy In Jail
EliteDaily.Com A 22-year-old kid from Washington who was locked up for smoking weed died in his jail cell after guards ignored his food allergies. According to the New York Daily News, Michael Saffioti pleaded for help from his cell at Snohomish County Jail after eating oatmeal that triggered his […]
US Police Have Killed Over 5,000 Civilians Since 9/11
MintPressNews.Com Statistically speaking, Americans should be more fearful of the local cops than “terrorists.” By Katie Rucke | November 6, 2013 Members of a police anti-terrorism team exercise on Thursday, March 13, 2003. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Though Americans commonly believe law enforcement’s role in society is to protect […]
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