How Blasphemy Laws Are Stifling Free Expression Worldwide
By Jillian C. York EFF.org December 24, 2012 As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012 and discussing where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. Click here to read […]
Grisly video allegedly shows Syrian rebels forcing child to behead unarmed prisoner
rt.com Screenshot from YouTube user SyrianGirl War A graphic video recently posted to YouTube allegedly shows Syrian rebels forcing a child to behead an unarmed prisoner. A recent series of similarly brutal incidents has done little to dampen foreign calls to arm the Syrian opposition. The video shows […]
Nation Vs State: Five Reasons
by Spencer Pearson
Nationalism as a modern ideology emerged alongside, and in alliance with, all the other great political ideological traditions of the Industrial Age around the time of the French Revolution. Since that time is has been
Gaza’s cycle of aggression shapes new generations more militant than the last
guardian.co.uk Chris McGreal Abu Jindal (left) and Abu Nizar, members of the Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade, in Beach Camp, Gaza. Photograph: Guardian Abu Nizar’s father had good things to say about the Israelis he knew. “He told me they were decent to him when he worked there. He did […]
Join, or Die
by R.J. Jacob
Conspiratorialism and traditional distrust in elites has shaped American history since its initial conception beginning with the Anglo-Republicanism of the 17th century and it’s conspiratorial views of Charles I and James II, to the Boston Tea Party British colonists who saw
Walter Kaufmann on “Equality of Opportunity”
From the Inferno… ____________ Right now, I’m having an enjoyable time reading through my years-long-neglected hardcover copy of Without Guilt and Justice: From Decidophobia to Autonomy, a relatively obscure work by prominent Fritz-translator Walter Kaufmann. I’m thinking about dedicating a post or two to this work, which could […]
Keith Preston interview with RT.com on Obama’s victory
“For America to Live, Europe Must Die”
By Russell Means Speech given at the Black Hills International Survival Gathering, July 1980 The only possible opening for a statement of this kind is that I detest writing. The process itself epitomizes the European concept of “legitimate” thinking; what is written has an importance that is denied […]
Shut up and play nice: How the Western world is limiting free speech
Brian Stauffer for The Washington Post By Jonathan Turley The Washington Post Free speech is dying in the Western world. While most people still enjoy considerable freedom of expression, this right, once a near-absolute, has become less defined and less dependable for those espousing controversial social, political or […]
A Promising New Blog
Check it out. As well as its related Youtube channel. Attempts to synthesize, in a way, the ideas of the alternative and reactionary right with a sort of Wittgensteinian postmodernism, as well as from various reactionary sociologists and philosophers like Nietzsche and George Fitzhugh. He even occasionally calls […]
Cascadia, Now!
Or whenever.
A Demagogue’s Durr-cree: Ballot Determines Biology!
Over at the Inferno, I cleave into Emanuel Cleaver, democratarded race-baiter extraordinaire. ____________ Reading about black American preachers urging their flocks to keep their bleating away from the ballot box gave me a warm glow inside, some two weeks back. Faced with the Hobson’s choice between an adherent […]
TSA Hires Priest Accused of Molesting Girls, Lets Him Do Pat Downs on Kids
From Just Khaotic. Bloke sounds like their perfect candidate. _______________ You would expect that the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) would do good background checks on its prospective employees. But this doesn’t appear to be the case, after it was determined that the organization hired a priest who’d been […]
You Would Do Your Will
Haywire shoots off some sparks… ________ By Rachel Haywire What if natural law rendered it so you were a woman? What if natural law rendered it so you were Jewish? What would you do in this situation? Probably your will. Picture yourself in this situation for a moment. […]
Ignorance on Parade: Islamophobia, Left and Right
By Jeff Sparrow ‘Koran discovered with coffee cup stain on the front cover, US marines deployed to all Starbucks franchises.’ The quip, retweeted by celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins, exemplifies the belligerent incomprehension with which so many, including self-proclaimed liberals, have responded to protests against the film The […]
Blasphemy and Empire
By Justin Raimondo The rage over Innocence: why our secular elites just don’t get it Americans are baffled: why oh why are Muslims up in arms over a YouTube video, one which no one in America even knew about prior to the attack on our Libyan consulate and […]
Critiques of Democracy
Colin Patrick Barth’s critique of democracy. Up there with those of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Hans-Herman Hoppe, and H.L Mencken, even surpassing them in certain vital respects…. From Promethea.org. _______________ Part One Democracy, The Equivocal Standard Just what is democracy? If you were to define it, the definition would […]
African-American Christians waver over vote
By Rachel Zoll AP Some black clergy see no good presidential choice between a Mormon candidate and one who supports gay marriage, so they are telling their flocks to stay home on Election Day. That’s a worrisome message for the nation’s first African-American president, who can’t afford to […]
Book on Hezbollah Released
ibna.ir Authored by Mesbah Mahjoub, a book has been released on the thought patterns of Hezbollah led by Seyed Hassan Nasrollah. IBNA: The book entails issues which have led to the success of the Muslim political party in Lebanon and in the physical and psychological wars it has […]
Blowback in Benghazi?
Or was it something worse? by Justin Raimondo AntiWar.com The murder of US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other US diplomats at the hands of rioters probably wasn’t just another case of Islamists-gone-wild. The circumstances surrounding this horrific incident — the riot was in reaction to […]
US Ambassador Lynched like Gaddafi
Syriangirlpartisan says: Please turn on annotations: My Previous youtube video was censored! it got 10,000 views on vimeo before it was also taken down. I have re uploaded it on Liveleak http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c6_1347615364 . It is about torture and execution of unarmed prisoners by the FSA. I make a […]
The Fall of the Culture of Mind
From Promethea.org. _________ Among those who think they comprise “the free world,” many speak well of keeping an open mind. In these lands many have spoken up over the centuries for a free exchange of ideas, and free speech. Modern, “Western” societies are defined in part by the […]
Atheists of the World, Divide!
The atheist “movement” is basically just organized religion for atheists. As an atheist myself, I find it to be an embarrassment. The atheist organizations have always been inclined towards doctrinaire left-wing politics and it looks like they’re getting worse. Soon atheists will be another item on the laundry […]
The Theology of Anarchy
Nietzsche’s Antipolitique: The Will-to-Power, the Individual, and the State
From Promethea.org. ______________ by Danny Weston, aka Darios Introduction In this essay, I would like to discuss Nietzsche’s doctrine of the ‘will-to-power’, particularly with regard to how it relates to concepts of the State and the Individual. I shall argue that there are two main interpretations of how […]
Cindy Jacobs reveals that her dreams have been responsible for stopping countless acts of terrorism
Pakistani girl accused of Qur’an burning could face death penalty
Here, PC; there, Islam. Theocracies suck! From The Guardian. _______________ by Jon Boone An 11-year-old Christian Pakistani girl could face the death penalty under the country’s notorious blasphemy laws, after she was accused by her neighbours of deliberately burning sacred Islamic texts. Rifta Masih was arrested on Thursday, […]
Mosque protesters and anti-fascists separated by police in Sunderland
Funny. If all these idiot groups would focus on the real enemy, they might actually achieve something. The National Front protest against a new Mosque in St. Mark’s Road. Published on Monday 13 August 2012 11:55 NATIONAL Front protesters and anti facist groups had to be kept apart by […]
Women-only city planned for Saudi Arabia
rt.com AFP Photo / Fayez Nureldine Saudi Arabia is to build a new city exclusively for women. The Gulf kingdom is working on the narrow junction between strict Sharia law and the aspirations of active females who wish to pursue their own careers. The new plan is to […]
Chomsky on Rationality and Science
Here’s the money quote: “In fact, the entire idea of “white male science” reminds me, I’m afraid, of “Jewish physics.” Perhaps it is another inadequacy of mine, but when I read a scientific paper, I can’t tell whether the author is white or is male. The same is […]
Robert Heinlein: Anarch
Property and Freedom Society–7th Annual Meeting–Speakers & Topics
By Stephan Kinsella Below is the proposed list of speakers and topics for the upcoming Seventh Annual Meeting of the PFS, which will be held in Bodrum, Turkey at the Hotel Karia Princess, from Thursday September 27 through Monday October 1, 2012. Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Grözinger, […]
Interview with Alexander Dugin
From Counter-Currents Polish translation here 3,214 words Introduction In February 2012, Professor Alexander Dugin traveled to New Delhi, India to attend the 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, the theme of which was “After Western Hegemony: Social Science and its Publics.”Professor Dugin was kind enough to […]
Conspiracy Theories as Modern Mythology
By Larry Gambone The term “conspiracy theory” is used by the media to suppress critical thought. The fact is, where you have coercive power, you will automatically have conspiracies – by those with power to maintain and increase it, by those without power to gain it. These are […]
The Subjectivity of Virtue
Zionism vs Judaism
Somali comedian who mocked Islamists is shot dead
From the Guardian. Somali Muslims: tough crowd! __________ One of Somalia‘s most popular comedians, known for his parodies of Islamist militants, has been shot dead in the capital, Mogadishu. Abdi Jeylani Marshale was reportedly killed shortly after leaving a local radio station where he worked as a drama […]
The Jonathan Bowden Interview
Beware of God-Botherers Everywhere
EMEMBERING A LOST WORLD – BEFORE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN PHOTO: The Student Lounge at the University of Tehran in 1971. According to the New York Times, “Until the revolution, Iran was among the most cultured, cosmopolitan countries in the region. It had a progressive movement in […]
Geert Wilders’ “Marked for Death”: A Critical Review
From Quisling’s Quest I am currently reading Geert Wilders book “Marked for Death”. It is an interesting book with much useful information in it. I find it most interesting because some of his points I agree with and some I strongly oppose. In my way of defining points […]
In the Long Run, Is the GOP Dead?
By Pat Buchanan Since 1928, only Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush have won the presidency while capturing both houses of Congress for the GOP. In his 49-state landslide, Richard Nixon failed to take either House. In his two landslides, Ronald Reagan won back only the Senate. Yet […]
Nietzsche the Visionary: A Reflection on the Nature of a Civilization Guided by Nietzschean Values
By Keith Preston Friedrich Nietzsche suggested in the nineteenth century that the crisis of Western civilization generated by modernity’s overthrow of the traditional European order and the loss of faith resulting from the torpedoing of traditional theology by advancements in human knowledge would have repercussions that would […]
Opposing Circumcision: A Shoah Thing?
My latest from the Inferno, looking into the intersection between prepuce-pruning and PC… ____________ It pleased me to read of a Cologne court’s decision to give the legality of child-circumcision the snip. Even a crotchety old anti-statist like myself can appreciate the few laws that uphold some level […]
Democracy: The Allah That Failed
The transition between bans 3 and 4 smashes it! Volunteered, by Aaron Kinney, to The Radical Libertarian ___________
Why Muslim Fundamentalists Should Embrace Voluntaryist Anarchy
By Davi Barker I want to be clear from the outset what I mean by “fundamentalists.” I’m not talking about muslims engaged in suicide bombing, plane hijacking, church burning, cartoonist murdering or teddy bear rioting. Those people have departed from any semblance of what I can call islam. […]
Beyond Prudery and Perversion: The Sexual Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Julius Evola
By Keith Preston The erotic sculptures of Khajuraho Of the various manifestations of the egalitarian cultural revolution that has transpired in the Western world over the past half century, none have been quite so enduring or become so deeply rooted in the culture of modern society as […]
Corneliu Codreanu and the Warrior Ethos
By Keith Preston Sean Gabb has some good observations regarding this essay on the Libertarian Alliance blog: “This is an impressive piece of writing, though also alarming. The more I learn about certain nationalist movements of the 20th century, the less alien I find the orthodox Marxists. They […]
Because We Care About You… and school sucks
Luna @ A Hopeful Pessimist on truants, prozzies, paternalism, and Social Darwinism. _________ Well, I’m back again. I didn’t intend to take this long to write again, but due to technological troubles, I was offline for awhile, thus making it impossible to post more entries. This is not […]
We need progressive religion
salon.com Sara Robinson This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Often, religion offers much that progressives need to build movements for change One of the great historical strengths of the progressive movement has been its resolute commitment to the separation of church and state. As progressives, we don’t want […]
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