The therapeutic state is doing what it is supposed to do: Create a society of cowards, crybabies, and subservient weaklings. ————————————————————————————————————— When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York’s playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox. As the city’s parks commissioner […]
Watch the Video and understand why the “conservative movment” is a scam. Since Dwight Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961 – 5 different Republicans have been President of the United States. And every single one of them – from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush – have been […]
From the Huffington Post. ———————————————————————————————————————————— Inmates in a third of California’s prisons are conducting a hunger strike in protest of solitary confinement policy. Recent reports show that many inmates, who are in their third week of the strike, have shown dramatic weight loss and are collapsing from starvation, […]
Watch the video. This is an interesting analysis of “right-wing” conspiracy theories from a Marxist perspective. I think this guy is correct in the sense of criticizing conspiracists for their narrow focus on individual personalities, unsubstantiated myths, and exaggerated roles for particular institutions and ideological factions they especially […]
Article by Jack Hunter. —————————————————————————————————————————————- Like many American teenage boys, I grew up listening to heavy metal music. In 1989, a favorite album was “Kill’em All” by Metallica and my favorite song on that album was “Am I Evil?” (a cover of a song by the British metal […]
Wednesday, Jul 13, 2011 08:14 ET Glenn Greenwald US more unpopular in the Arab world than under Bush By Glenn Greenwald AP Anti-American sentiment among Pakistani protestors (updated below) I’ve written numerous times over the last year about rapidly worsening perceptions of the U.S. in the Muslim world, including […]
Article by Charles Glass. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Try to see it from the other guy’s point of view. He may be wrong. He may be, at least partly, right. Today, I am trying hard to see life from the point of view of an Israeli settler in the occupied West […]
Pat Buchanan inadvertently explains why the only viable course of action for the anti-state Left is to completely differentiate itself from the statist Left and work to cultivate anti-authoritarian and decentralist tendencies from across the ideological spectrum: For, from Greece to Ireland to Portugal to Italy, from California […]
Article by Ken Ward Jr. ———————————————————————————————————————— Birth defects study: More inconvenient facts about the impact of mountaintop removal coal mining June 30, 2011 by Ken Ward Jr. I was out of town last week when news broke of the latest major scientific study about the serious public health […]
Book review by David Z This is a great book. I first read it over twenty years ago. —————————————————————————————————————————————- As the old saying goes, “Desperate times call for desperate measures,” and there are few times more desperate for a majority of laborers living hand-to-mouth, than being put out […]
From Radley Balko. Over the weekend I linked to an excellent essay from a police officer explaining why good cops have no need to worry about citizen-shot video. Jonathan Last now points to a less encouraging blog entry on the same topic, from a guy who claims to […]
From Techdirt. Why Hasn’t ICE Been Talking About Its Latest Domain Seizures? from the the-new-quiet-strategy? dept In the last few weeks, Homeland Security’s ICE division has once again been seizing servers. TorrentFreak noticed a group of five domains seized recently, and SD pointed us to details of five […]
by James K In my last post I made something of a throwaway comment that liberal and libertarians had a lot to learn from each other. Herb asked, quite reasonably, for details. I gave him a quick comment at the time, but since I’m the guy who’s always […]
Article by Laura Donovan. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Most teens and pre-teens go through passing phases. For Prussian Blue songbirds Lamb and Lynx Gaede, Nazism was a short-lived childhood interest. In an exclusive interview with The Daily, the 19-year-old twins revealed that they have abandoned most of their highly publicized white […]
From Terry Frieden and Susan Candiotti, CNN New York (CNN) — Fourteen people have been arrested as part of an ongoing operation targeting the notorious hacking collective known as Anonymous, the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI said on Tuesday. The individuals were arrested by FBI […]
Watch the video. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ———————————————————————————————————————————— London (CNN) — One of the first journalists to go on the record and allege phone hacking at News of the World was found dead Monday, the British Press Association said. Sean Hoare, a former News of the World […]
Watch the video. Public assistance as the way to upward mobility. Hat tip to Jim Duncan.
Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————————— Everyone agrees the United States is in a crisis of momentous importance: we’re approaching bankruptcy [.pdf], millions are out of work, and the emotional leitmotif of our culture can be summed up in one word: demoralization. Is there a way out? Well, yes […]
From Infoshop.Org. —————————————————————————————————————————————— On Saturday the SFPD shot a 19 year old man 10 times after he ran to avoid paying the MUNI fare. Now the pigs have claimed the deceased instigated the shoot out despite dozens of witnesses saying otherwise. Thousands of us refuse to pay MUNI […]
From Infoshop.Org. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Yesterday, hundreds of enraged people took to the streets of San Francisco in response to the murder of a 19 year old by SFPD in the Bayview neighborhood. He was killed for running from the police after not paying his MUNI fare. Immediately people in […]
From The Economic Collapse. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- All over America, restlessness and frustration are growing. It has now been almost three years since the great financial crash of 2008, and yet the U.S. economy is still a complete and total mess. In fact, there are all sorts of signs that […]
Article by Fred E. Foldvary. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Libertarianism is the philosophy of live and let live. Its ethic is that it is morally wrong to coercively harm others, and not morally wrong to do what is not harmful to others. This ethic is a natural law, due to human […]
Article by Andy Nowicki. These two individuals are classic examples of why, as an atheist myself, I’ve never had much use for the organized atheist movement. —————————————————————————————————————————- Richard Dawkins vs. Skepchick (photo: The Atlantic) While often taken for a nihilist, I am no atheist. And even if I […]
From the Washington Independent. ————————————————————————————————————————————– The U.S. District Court for Western Michigan has issued an order in the civil lawsuit against a radical gay rights group that disrupted a Lansing church service in 2008. The court issued the order Monday against members of both the Bash Back! Lansing […]
Article by Lamont Lilly Durham. ————————————————————————————————————————————— “It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of black against white, or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against […]
Article by R. M. Arietta. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Labor comes in many different forms. The kind of labor required to defend one’s land is uniquely voluntary— and now on display in Vallejo, Calif., where a group of native people and their supporters have been occupying land at Glen Cove for […]
Article by Brad Spangler. ————————————————————————————————————————————- One of the more difficult challenges the libertarian faces when advocating privatization is the case of prisons. There is good reason for this. The sincere libertarian, whether an anarchist or a misguided reformer, wants to do two things: 1) Remove from the state’s […]
Article by Kevin Carson. While I am obviously in favor of projects of this type, my question would be what do we do when the state moves in to repress such efforts? ————————————————————————————————————————————- As my regular readers are aware, I keep harping the theme that political action is […]
Article by the late Paul Piccone of Telos. ———————————————————————————————————————————– Once a vocation, being an intellectual today has become a profession. Like day traders or divorce lawyers, “public intellectuals” pack their briefcases in the morning and off they go to make a living in “the public sphere.” Unlike day-traders […]
An insightful observation from Richard Spencer. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- After the crime wave of the ‘70s and ‘80s began to wane, homosexual men have functioned as the stormtroopers of urban ethnic cleansing. Lacking children, gays aren’t bothered by “bad schools,” and they have–in many ways, bravely–moved into dilapidated, crime-ridden areas […]
From Infoshop.Org ————————————————————————————————————————— Anarcho-primitivism is a collection of complementary ideologies which critique the origins and development of civilization from an anarchist perspective. The anarcho-primitivists allege that humanity lived an idyllic lifestyle as hunter-gatherers prior to the development of complex societies. What caused our purported fall from grace is […]
From UhuruNews.Com —————————————————————————————————————————— SAN DIEGO—On July 1, 2011, hundreds of inmates in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay California State Prison, located near the Oregon border, went on a hunger strike to protest conditions in the isolation units known as the SHU. The strike immediately spread […]
Article by Jeff Hughes. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ——————————————————————————————————————— Minnesota hacker Barry Ardolf was sentenced to an 18-year term in a federal prison this Tuesday. Ardolf had terrorizeda neighboring family for two years through a carefully planned campaign involving a hijacked Wi-Fi network to harass, frame and […]
Article by Dain Fitzgerald. —————————————————————————————————————————- Protesters from the it’s-so-fun-to-wreak-havoc-together outfit “No Justice, No BART” disrupted BART trains’ operation in several San Francisco stations the other day, to the chagrin of the day’s commuters. Or at least I presume it was to their chagrin: Oddly, none were interviewed in […]
Just another day in the crime fighting business.
Apparently so.
Article by Barry Neild. ——————————————————————————————- (CNN) — South Sudan became the world’s newest country Saturday, closing one chapter of the region’s long struggle to cede from its northern neighbor. But though a heavy price has been paid for independence — Sudan’s north and south fought one of Africa’s […]
Article by Bill Laitner and Dawson Bell, Detroit Free Press To hell with the U.S. —————————————————————————————————————————————– A memo from the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington says state laws allowing medical marijuana opened the door to abuses and calls for legally targeting “large-scale, privately operated industrial marijuana cultivation […]
Article by Meg Jones. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. A wave of muggings breaks out and police do nothing. The overwhelming majority of crime victims I have known personally have said that police typically have reacted to their calls for help with casual indifference and sometimes outright hostility. […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. —————————————————————————————————————————- It didn’t take long for the shift to transpire. The conservatives, after eight years defending the obscenely criminal and authoritarian Bush regime to the most degenerate depths, have rediscovered their role as rigorous defenders of Constitutional federalism, boasting that dissent is the highest […]
There really does need to be a annual Barney Fife Award that these characters can be nominated for.
Paul Gottfried takes down David Brooks. —————————————————————————————————————————– David Brooks On June 13, the resident conservative (which means additional leftist) on The New York Times’ editorial page, David Brooks, revealed his plan for “national greatness,” which Brooks designates as the “Hamiltonian agenda.” For those who may have forgotten, “national […]
From Infoshop.Org. ——————————————————————————————————————- Anarchist Federation (AF) Britain Maximilien Luce was born into a modest family in 1858 in Paris. From early youth he mixed with impoverished artisans and workers constructing major roads and other works. At the age of thirteen, he was an appalled witness of the massacres […]
From UhuruNews.Com. —————————————————————————————————————————- Nate Gilliam; AAPDEP Milwaukee Published Jul 6, 2011 MILWAUKEE—Milwaukee’s African community has been the scene of underdevelopment for many years. The recent global focus on Wisconsin and Milwaukee due to budget cuts enacted by governor Scott Walker is just a small part of a larger […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————– In 2007, when he was still courting us and had to put on a clean undershirt every day, Barack Obama said: “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————————— With the Federal Reserve’s second round of “quantitative easing” expiring, The Christian Science Monitor’s Donald Marron recently asked whether “quantitative accommodation” could be around the corner. “Quantitative easing” was the smart-sounding euphemism for the U.S. central bank’s purchase of about $600 billion worth […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. —————————————————————————————————————————– Every time I criticize the left for being soft on the police state and war machine, I’m chastised for confusing moderate Democrats with the “real left.” I’m told that the true left is consistently antiwar and holds no brief for Barack Obama or […]
There are few pieties Fred does not attack. White Males White Trash Darwin, Sort Of Come to Jesus Our Sexual Future On Patriotism Divided America How We Were Let’s Avoid Race! On Losing Wars Checking Out Mexico Farewell Joe Bageant American History 101 Clotting We Will Go Screw […]
Article by Mike Ahlers. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ———————————————————————————————————————– Washington (CNN) — Terrorists intent on striking commercial aircraft have shown renewed interest in surgically implanting explosives in humans to circumvent airport security, a U.S. security official tells CNN. The idea of implanting bombs has been discussed in […]
Article by Matiullah Mati. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. —————————————————————————————————————– Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Eight children and three women died in eastern Afghanistan when NATO-led forces bombarded houses, a provincial official told CNN Thursday. The incident took place Wednesday in Khost province’s Domandera district, according to Khost upper […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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