By John R. MacArthur merican democracy now seems to be dead. Yet while party bosses backed by billionaires and corporate lobbyists snuff out any effort at serious reform, and President Obama prevaricates on all the great issues of the day, two vital national arguments have erupted that might […]
No, they can’t. But we can. It looks like some folks at The American Conservative have been reading AttacktheSystem.Com. By W. James Antle III One step forward, two steps back. The Republican Party is like an alcoholic in recovery, with periods of sobriety punctuated by long, destructive benders […]
by Spencer Pearson
One of the major objections to the idea of pan secessionism deployed by critics is that it is “unrealistic”. Which is to suggest
washingtonpost.com By Juan Forero Washington Post Foreign Service Monday, October 5, 2009 Julio Cesar Rivas, 22, spent about three weeks in jail after taking part in a protest. He was released last Monday and launched a hunger strike to protest jailings of dissenters. (By Juan Forero — The […]
correntewire.com MsExPat I live in Hong Kong. And when the news broke that Snowden had decided to take refuge in my city, I was puzzled at first. But then, as I read and listened to pundit after pundit in the US declare that Hong Kong was a crazy […]
By Siryako Akda Nationalism, as it was originally envisioned by Enlightenment thinkers, was conceived of as a system composed of individuals bound together in a social contract with one another. However, this ideal was never fully achieved in the real world. Both in the West as well as […]
By Scott Locklin According to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind survey, 29% of US citizens polled say they believe that “In the next few years, an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties.” Of the five potential responses to this question—“agree, disagree, neither, unsure, no […]
By Kirkpatrick Sale Gwen Roolf (cc) I presume to review this book, even though I am a contributor to it, because it is a fine representation of an increasing tendency across this land of resistance to a federal government grown inept, corrupt, overreaching, overlarge, and overintrusive. That tendency may […]
By Samuel Goldman The New Yorker‘s George Packer can’t decide what to think about 21st-century America. On the one hand, Packer likes developments that enhance the lifestyles of the educated upper middle class: “marriage equality, Lipitor, a black President, Google searches, airbags, novelistic TV shows, the opportunity for […]
Anarchist News Comrades, —- The Arab uprisings and Occupy Wall Street and the rest of global uprisings since 2011 have opened more doors for us to communicate and realize more than ever how our struggles against the state and dominant power structures are interconnected and the same. Our […]
Law Enforcement Today In Hancock, NY an Islamic community that sits on 80 acres of land has decided to form its own government. They call their community: The Town of Islamberg. They have their own mayor, deputy mayor and five town council members. None of them are elected, […]
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Says anarchist/black nationalist and former Panther Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. I wish, in their justifications of using electoral politics, both white radicals and black nationalists would stop bringing up the 1972 political campaigns of Black Panther leaders Elaine Brown and Bobby Seale in Oakland, CA. They claim it “won […]
Natural News To many veterans of the 1960s-era civil rights movement there is a rising angst and discourse among the populace that is eerily familiar to them. Nearly everywhere you turn, crowds of angry Americans are gathering, no longer content to merely sit idly by and remain spectators […]
Amazon.Com An endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America
NaturalNews.Com There is a food revolution taking hold all over America, whether it is in the form of demanding labeling of GM foods, the right to produce and sell raw milk and other commodities, or – in the case of Sedgwick, Maine – declaring all local food transactions […]
Check it out here. The most recent expansion of the new pan-secessionist political party, the All Nations Party’s Internet presence, headed at least de facto by popular Youtube libertarian personality “fringelements” (Ryan Faulk), the subject of one of ATS’s more recent interviews. Complete with an updated array of […]
All Nations Party The All Nations Party supports pan-secessionism and true nationalism. It is a small step toward pushing for self-determination and true national sovereignty in what is now the United States. ANP Facebook ANP Youtube ANP Twitter The Grand Prize The All Nations Party supports the break […]
Interesting insights from Robert Kaplan Ancient and medieval mapmakers would better understand the world of 2100 than would the politicians of 2000. Nations as we know them have existed for only a few hundred years. But cities have been with us since the dawn of civilization. And while […]
Trendsimwatching.com Trend: Nation-states may be losing power to smaller entities as globalization sorts cultures into regions based on city-states. VC Confidential describes a dinner talk by futurist Paul Saffo. Excerpts below. Link: VC Confidential: A Global Evening with Paul Saffo …our world is moving from one of nation-states […]
By Parag Khanna The 21st century will not be dominated by America or China, Brazil or India, but by the city. In an age that appears increasingly unmanageable, cities rather than states are becoming the islands of governance on which the future world order will be built. This […]
If only all leaders of resistance movements had the level of competence and vision as this man. The Blaze The Minister Louis Farrakhan, 79, delivered his annual Saviors’ Day sermon on Sunday. As is usually the case, the three-hour address covered a variety of topics ranging from current […]
This article unintentionally gets to the point. This is why I am pro-Second Amendment. I don’t give a damn about hunting or burglars. I hate the NRA as much as most liberals do. Most conservative gun rights advocates are also cop-loving, flag-waving jingoists. Fuck ’em. The purpose of […]
Good post from Anthony on a FB forum. “I think bourgeois Americans are not as conservative as Hoppe assumes that are in some of his writings. Even with today’s dominant social values, most Americans would not want to live by rules as strict and culturally rightwing as he […]
A recent exchange between some leftists and myself on the FB page of libertarian exemplar Anthony Gregory. Check it out if you wish.
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By Ron Holland This is the fourth of the “12 Axioms of Freedom Restoration” set forth in my introductory article on this topic, “How to Restore the West.” The restoration of America’s first and legitimate government will not be a quick or easy task but it is necessary […]
Infowars.Com Manufacturing mass social unrest would be a foolish mistake Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones Infowars.com February 14, 2013 Despite the fact that the banking elite wants to generate riots and stir social disorder in order to collapse the U.S. economy so they can buy up real […]
By Mike Gibson Only a failure of imagination, the same one that leads the man on the street to suppose that everything has already been invented, leads us to believe that all of the relevant institutions have been designed and that all of the policy levers have been […]
Garett Fisbeck for The New York Times A Ron Paul supporter at a rally in Oklahoma City last year. By Brian Doherty RON PAUL, Republican of Texas, has retired from the House, after winning more than two million presidential primary votes in 2012. He took the party’s libertarian […]
By Kevin Carson The following article was written by Kevin Carson and published on his blog Mutualist.Org: Free Market Anti-Capitalism, February/August, 2002. INTRODUCTION In On Community, a recent pamphlet on Gustav Landauer, Larry Gambone suggested the need for an “antipolitical movement” to dismantle the state, in order to eliminate obstacles to non-statist alternatives. […]
By Eric Heubeck Introduction The Problem–An Overreliance on Political Activism A New Direction Still Engaged–But Outside of Politics Remaining Importance of Defensive Politics New Traditionalists and Libertarians Movement Must Serve as a Force of Social Intimidation in Its Intermediate Stage
Watch the video LAS VEGAS (AP) — The tiny Nevada town that’s home to one of the most powerful men in Congress is up for sale. The main properties in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s hometown of Searchlight went on the market this week for just under $5 […]
Huffington Post When a group of young libertarians gathered in Pepperdine last week for a Students for Liberty conference, they probably did not expect to begin their day listening to a speech advocating for greater cooperation between the Liberty and the Occupy Wall Street movements.
From The Guardian. I wonder if it’ll catch on… ______ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/jan/25/activists-destroy-cctv-cameras-germany-video As a youth in a ski mask marches down a Berlin U-Bahn train, dressed head-to-toe in black, commuters may feel their only protection is the ceiling-mounted CCTV camera nearby. But he is not interested in stealing wallets […]
By Paul Joseph Watson Appearing on Fox News last night in the aftermath of President Obama’s gun control speech, Senator Rand Paul vowed to introduce legislation next week that would torpedo Obama’s attempt to eviscerate the second amendment via a raft of executive orders. Promising to follow the […]
by R.J. Jacob
Friedrich Nietzsche described the “free spirit” as one who takes his acquired positions, his instincts, his experiences, and holds them as foreground—stressing them, straining them, and discovering
By Charles C. W. Cooke ThinkProgress is rather enjoying the post-election secession chatter. “Twenty five percent of registered Republicans want their state to secede from the United States, according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling,” the site reports. I’ve made my thoughts on this idea clear before, so there […]
by Steven Saragian
I hope that everyone at Attack the System and all of our readers are enjoying the many feasts and festivals designed to stop people from killing themselves during this dark and dreary
by Vince Rinehart
In case you haven’t heard, a social movement among Native people has begun in Canada, protesting against the Conservative Government’s budget bill which would cut
A new study of the psychology of political beliefs indicates that Pareto was correct when he said that an individual’s political views are as much an indication of their own innate personality type and psychological makeup as much as anything else. In other words, we may be “hard-wired” […]
This is the kind of scholarship that anarchists, libertarians, anti-statists, decentralists, and anti-authoritarians of every kind should be studying. The emerging global trends are on our side. It’s not like the 20th century when anarchists were swimming against the historical tides and ever greater centralization and statism were […]
It is with great regret that I must inform our readers of the passing of Thomas H. Naylor, founder of the Second Vermont Republic. I received word earlier this evening that Tom passed away last night after a sudden stroke at the age of 76. Fortunately, I was […]
This article is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Theory and Practice, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. By Wayne John Sturgeon Mutualism as Free Market Anti-Capitalism It was the French philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who first coined the term ‘anarchist’ and produced the economic […]
An interesting take on secession. • People can withdraw their consent to be ruled by corrupt government By Mark Anderson from: American Free Press Looking at recent headlines about citizens in the 50 states wanting to secede from the federal government, it’s tempting to conclude that they should […]
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
By Pat Buchanan “When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another …” So begins the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies from the king and country to which they had given […]
By Lucas Eaves During this election cycle, IVN covered third party candidates to ensure voters could access information about the wide range of choices they had at the ballot box. Gary Johnson, from the Libertarian Party, received 1,139,562 votes which represents 0.9% of the popular vote. He is […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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