Many commentators, including myself, have speculated in the past that the GOP may be on its last legs due the fact that its only reliable constituency (older WASPs) are shrinking demographically and dying off. Various options have also been suggested as means for the Republicans to save themselves. […]
This headline is a bit goofy and misleading, but I actually cover a lot of important ground in the audio interview. Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/29/443626/us-police-brutality-black-lives-matter-gun-violence-racial-inequality/ Police brutality in the United States is not necessarily about “homicide” committed by American cops or even “racial disparity” but has deeper […]
This is an interesting debate between leftist anti-racist Tim Wise and race-realist/white nationalist Jared Taylor. This discussion covers most of the standard issues and arguments involved in these kinds of debates. I would suggest that these questions are largely irrelevant to the question of anarchist political theory generally, […]
Originally posted at Lingit Latseen I’ve finally picked up Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. The book is an attack on the legitimizing ideology and narrative of the United States’s subjugation of the indigenous people of North America. Though I have only just […]
By Codi Bott Thought Catalog Racism is a prevailing issue in the modern day world. But what many people fail to realize, or perhaps more accurately, fail to acknowledge, is that racism towards white people does in fact exist. Now I know that your first bigoted instinct is […]
A pretty big one, says a poster on an anarchist social media forum. “•Constitutions affirms the fact that African Americans are only 3/5 human • While people of color only make up 30% of the total population, they are 60% of the total prison population. • Blacks are […]
An interesting piece from a liberal “race realist” who argues that many of the conventional claims of race realists would justify liberal social policies. By Anatoly Carlin This may be the article I’ve hesitated longest over publishing. Its subject matter has always hovered as a specter over my […]
This is an interesting discussion of Carol Swain’s book on white nationalism from Patheos. See here. Carol Swain is a black law professor at Vanderbilt whose book is the best book I know of on white nationalism from a non-white nationalist perspective (and possibly the best book on […]
Many of my right-wing readers will no doubt consider this piece by leftist anti-racist Tim Wise to be blasphemy, but it’s an interesting summary of the arguments for “race realism” and the counter arguments offered by the Left. By Tim Wise Some things are so predictable that you […]
By John McWhorter Opposition to racism used to be a political stance. Now it has every marking of a religion, with both good and deleterious effects on American society. An anthropology article from 1956 used to get around more than it does now, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” […]
A reply to “Anti-Fascist News“: An uninformed lay person reading the pathetically ignorant and barely literate bromide against Attack the System recently issued by “Anti-Fascist News” would hardly know anarchism is a vast tradition in modern political philosophy with roots in the radical Enlightenment more than two centuries […]
Here’s an interesting thought experiment. Suppose an ATS associated had been the fifth participant in this debate. What should an ATSer say in response to the two sides being presented? One friend suggests something like the following: “Most people viewing this probably see two radically opposing positions that […]
From RightOn: Labour-market laughs and lamentations mit Ann Sterzinger. Y’all in Europe might find it a challenge to accommodate all of your new friends right now, but there’s hope: on this side of the pond, the native-born American worker just scored a massive coup, I tell you what. […]
A raunchily revisionist review by Ann Sterzinger. Sheds more light on the Conflict Without Heroes that was World War II. __________________ Is present-day Paris more puritanical than it was under the Nazis? I’d love to simply dwell on the jaunty visual attractiveness—not to mention the entertainment and historical […]
The Infernal take on “Columbus Day”. _________________ Yesterday yielded another round of commotion regarding the infamous Christopher Columbus, designated “discoverer” of the so-called “New World” (Leif Erikson moans from Midgard!). No doubt, the less-than-vocal majority of Statesiders were simply thrilled to get a day off from work; the […]
A discussion with Ian Mayes, Nexus X Humectress, and Keith Preston about how social justice activism has led anarchist movements astray and lots of other stuff. Topics include: Anarcho-pacifism Intentional communities Beyond Social Justice: how historical opposition to valid injustices has now evolved into something absurd. How totalitarian […]
Ann Sterzinger asks the question at RightOn, spotlighting how the clash in the feminist worldview between “Enlightenment Person” and “Mommy Goddess” curtails any meaningful criticism of the more predatory and illiberal residents of Dar al-Islam. I notice the bifurcation a lot in abortion debates, where feminists talk about […]
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 […]
By Rod Dreher The American Conservative illustration by Michael Hogue Gore Vidal famously said that he never missed a chance to have sex or appear on television. Me, I never miss a chance to eat in New Orleans. So when my literary agent proposed lunch there with the […]
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 […]
Murray Rothbard on Malcolm X. By Murray Rothbard LewRockwell.Com This originally appeared in the Rothbard-Rockwell Report, February 1993. Why Malcolm X? Why the sudden rage, replete with baseball caps inscribed with X’s, for a man assassinated nearly thirty years ago? Partly it’s media hype, centered around the new […]
Give this guy a fair hearing. His idea of scrapping the American empire and embracing decentralized, self-determination for all has much merit. By Vegas Tenold ate at night on June 17, after he and his wife had gone to bed, Matthew Heimbach’s phone rang on his nightstand. On […]
By Johnny Masilela Mail and Guardian A cluster of rickety shacks and neat brick houses cling to the rolling hills of the Klipgat settlement, northwest of Pretoria. There’s a throat-scratching smell of the nearby sewerage works in the air. Goat trails are etched on the koppies. Children rub […]
Anarchists need to develop a perspective on racial issues that goes beyond ideological finger-pointing or moralistic sermonizing about white privilege delivered by do-gooder white people. The bottom line is that black Americans are a distinctively occupied and colonized caste within the American system. Always have been and always […]
By Ed Krayewski Reason Today is the 40th anniversary of the June 26, 1975, shootout at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota between two FBI agents who drove in with unmarked cars and several members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), a Native American rights group operating out […]
By Elizabeth Martinez Films for Action White Supremacy is an historically based, institutionally perpetuated system of exploitation and oppression of continents, nations, and peoples of color by white peoples and nations of the European continent, for the purpose of maintaining and defending a system of wealth, power, and […]
Listen to Dr. Walter Williams interview with Tom Woods here. The irreplaceable Walter Williams smacks down the conventional wisdom on everything from so-called white privilege to education, government spending and debt, and much more. About the Guest Walter Williams, a nationally syndicated columnist, is the author of ten […]
The website of William Domhoff, a leading proponent and scholar of “elite theory,” is well worth checking out. By Richard L. Zweigenhaft Who Rules America? For many years now, Bill Domhoff and I have kept an eye on and tried to understand diversity in the corporate elite. Why […]
An interesting and, I believe, accurate critique of Thomas Sowell by Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Once again — this time using the Baltimore uprising as a pretext — Thomas Sowell has pulled out the template for his favorite column dismissing what he calls […]
Everything will be better when we’ve achieved racial equality among the leadership of the police state, right? By Justin Glawe The Daily Beast Hope for change in Mike Brown’s hometown lies with voters, but just changing the color of government isn’t enough: Just look down the road. Ferguson, […]
It’s hard to tell them apart. The pan-anarchist movement is the way to oppose the mainstream system while moving past this kind of stupidity on the margins.
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 […]
This article and the discussion that follows are an interesting discussion of ethnic and national conflict within and between anarchist movements around the world both historically and today. By Budour Hassan The appearance of the Egyptian Black Bloc in Cairo’s streets in January 2013 triggered gullible excitement in […]
This book is one of the very best I have seen to date that critiques the U.S. criminal justice system. What’s ironic is that the author was neither an anarchist nor a libertarian, or even a leftist or liberal. He was a conservative Republican and an evangelical Christian. […]
An interesting question that no one ever seems to ask is this: How is it that on one hand we are treated to a never ending series of hysterias over someone having said a bad word pertaining to race, gender, homosexuality, or some other inflammatory topic, and yet […]
Michelle Alexander, highly acclaimed civil rights lawyer, advocate, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio State University, and author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, delivers the 30th Annual George E. Kent Lecture, in honor of the late George E. Kent, who was […]
By Ruth Wilson Gilmore Social Justice Journal by Ruth Wilson Gilmore* After declining for three consecutive years, the US prison and jail population increased in 2013. The widely declared victory over mass incarceration was premature at best. Below I raise four areas of particular concern about the state […]
We chat about the propaganda ‘docudrama’ UKIP – The First 100 Days and what an absurd vision it promotes. We talk about UKIP generally and their policies and why we’re not UKIP supporters, the EU, the Scottish independence referendum and how the UK mainstream media try to shut […]
By Silvia Boarini Al Jazeera Native Australians demonstrate for their rights [Al Jazeera] Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders activists hope 2014 will be remembered as the year they said: “Enough is enough.” Rosalie Kunoth-Monks has no doubt about it. “We are under assault,” she tells Al Jazeera. […]
By Pumza Fihlani BBC News In the sparsely populated Karoo desert in the heart of South Africa’s Northern Cape, the spirit of apartheid lives on. I spent a few days in Orania, a town established in 1991 where no black people live. I was part of a BBC […]
On the 7th of January, three Islamic gunmen stormed the offices of left-wing satirical mag Charlie Hebdo, killing eleven staff members in the ensuing bullet shower. The magazine had previously made an international name for itself by printing the Mohammed cartoons of 2006, and continuing to satirise Islam […]
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 […]
Neoliberalism and totalitarian humanism converge. “Feminism: Originally a necessary and progressive movement. Today it’s a crowd of attention-starved, hysterical totalitarians masking themselves as progressives, and whose continued screaming existence shows that the movement has destroyed itself with its success. Multiculturalism: All dandy, as long as it is not […]
A review of Greg Johnson’s “New Right Versus Old Right” By Keith Preston
Robert Stark interviews Ann Sterzinger Ann Sterzinger is a writer, publisher of HOPELESS BOOKS , and Editor of Takimag . Topics include: Her Catholic upbringing and how she lost faith in religion Her career in Journalism as a proofreader and freelance writer The upper middle class women who dominate the […]
By Thaddeus Russell Time Magazine Oxford University Press
By T.C. Sottek The Verge Protests for police reform are sweeping the United States following the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and an untold number of other unarmed or innocent people of color. Amid the anger and sadness, one thing is clear: policing in America […]
This event that took place this past June is a prototype for what there needs to be more of. There needs to be mass protests all over the world against the U.S. and U.N.-led War on Drugs that ties all of the relevant issues together: police militarization, civil […]
CountercurrentsNews.Com The New Black Panther Party has a lot of key differences with the historical Black Panther Party For Self Defense, active in the United States from 1966 until 1982, in spite of their overlapping self-designations. But this is nothing new, even back during the tenure of the […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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