Noam Chomsky interviewed by Abby Martin
This is some months old now, but this is a really good overview of Chomsky’s thinking, and this criticisms of U.S. imperialism, neoliberalism, and his case of libertarian socialism.
Climate Change: What Does Science Really Say?
Tom Woods interviews a climate change dissident. Listen here. To call any aspect of the climate change orthodoxy into question is to risk being condemned as “anti-science.” But are the arguments and computer models of the so-called mainstream really so rock solid? About the Guest Chip Knappenberger is […]
Noam Chomsky: If Trump Becomes President
This is interesting in that Chomsky goes into a great deal of detail explaining why he thinks Trump is extraordinarily awful, but then concludes that Ted Cruz is even more dangerous.
Noam Chomsky: What Was Leninism?, March 15th, 1989
Chomksy’s interpretation of Leninism was relatively similar to Rothbard’s. Too bad they didn’t get along.
The State and Open Borders: Pro or Con?
The Legalization Cure for the Heroin Epidemic
Tom Woods interviews Mark Thornton on the economics of the illegal drug market. Listen here.
A Trafficking Survivor Shares Why She’s Anti-Criminalization
By Kitty Stryker Harlot Media While the plight of the survivors of trafficking are brought up in modern discourse around whether or not sex work should be legal or good for women, little actual space is given for survivors to come forward and share their stories. Mercedes is […]
Is There a Libertarian Case for Bernie Sanders?
This article is two months old, so some of its discussion of the presidential contest is a bit dated. But I tend to agree with the author’s general argument, i.e. that Sanders is actually the least state-centric of the presidential candidates (a very low standard, to be sure). […]
Reality Check: Trump Says He’d Kill Terrorists’ Families, But Obama Already Has
By Ben Swann Truth in Media Donald Trump has been making headlines saying that, if elected, he wouldn’t just go after terrorists—he would kill their families. And while the media has been shocked by this, why weren’t they outraged when President Barack Obama actually did? This is a […]
With GOP, Democrats in Turmoil, Libertarian Party Makes Historic Gains
If the LP continues to grow in this manner, then it may be an excellent for pan-anarchist/pan-secessionist entryism. By Barry Donegan Truth in Media The unexpected, meteoric rise of celebrity presidential candidate Donald Trump has torn the Republican Party asunder, causing many leading GOP politicos that once represented the […]
Gary Johnson: Jewish Bakers Should Be Forced to Bake Nazi Cakes
Gary Johnson goes liberaltarian. The crap that’s been coming from the Libertarian Party in recent elections with characters like Johnson, Austin Petersen, Bob Barr, and Wayne Allan Root supposedly representing “libertarianism” is indicative of why we don’t need a Libertarian Party. Instead, we need a “Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party” or […]
Hillary Clinton’s Support Among Nonwhite Voters Has Collapsed
Not so fast, says the latest data. By Seth Abramson Huffington Post On February 27th, Hillary Clinton led Bernie Sanders among African-American voters by 52 points. By March 26th, she led Sanders among African-Americans by just nine points. And today, Public Policy Polling, a widely respected polling organization, […]
Black and Hispanic Democrats versus White, Liberal Democrats
Is a serious crack in the PC coalition emerging along racial and ethnic lines? By Sam Dickson Occidental Observer With all the attention on Donald Trump, there has been little discussion of the astonishing rift between Black and Hispanic Democrats on one hand and White liberal Democrats on the other. […]
Non-Voters: Future Constituents for Pan-Anarchism?
Non-voters are generally foreign policy non-interventionists, cultural centrists, and economic leftists. By Benjamin Wallace Webb The New Yorker merican elections are peculiar instruments of democracy, because they are so consistent in whom they leave out. In the past three Presidential elections, about forty-five per cent of those eligible […]
Moving Past the Socialism/Capitalism Dichotomy
In the two videos above, Connor Kilpatrick, a Marxist writer from The Jacobin, takes on well-known vulgar libertarians Austin Petersen and Wayne Allan Root. I disagree with Kilpatrick on a number of points. He’s painting libertarianism with a pretty broad brush. However, the objections he raises to “vulgar […]
The Republican Establishment’s Theft of the Word “Conservative”
Bill Lind on why the GOP is merely the right-wing of totalitarian humanism. By William S. Lind Traditional Right From Washington a panicked Republican Establishment is denouncing Donald Trump as “not a conservative”. The Establishment claims custody of the word “conservative” and with it the right to pronounce […]
Keith Preston: Trump’s criticism of Iran nuclear deal ‘outrageous’
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/04/04/458965/Keith-Preston-Trump-Iran/ “Donald Trump is in the process of running for president and part of his strategy from a rhetorical level is to simply say as many outrageous things as he can,” Keith Preston told Press TV on Sunday. The recent criticism of the Iran […]
It’s Hip! It’s Cool! It’s Libertarianism!
This is a few years old, but it’s an interesting critique of “vulgar libertarianism” from a de facto Marxist perspective. By Connon Kilpatrick Calling yourself a libertarian today is a lot like wearing a mullet back in the nineteen eighties. It sends a clear signal: business up front, […]
When Socialism Works: Sanders-Style Economics Will Undo Any Large Society
An interesting critique of Sanders (and social democracy generally) from an Austrian/libertarian perspective. By Steve Horwitz Foundation for Economic Education Because of Bernie Sanders’s campaign for the presidency, many Americans are asking if “democratic socialism” is possible. Can there be a form of socialism that really includes the […]
Praise of Folly Podcast Episode #3: Scientism Part 2
In this podcast we will discuss the notion of scientism or the belief in salvation through science. We will look at the historical manifestations of this cult and the historic consequences of it. We will also discuss the philosophical bankruptcy of scientism as well. Chapter 1 (0:00–42:34): Philosophical […]
Praise of Folly Podcast Episode #2: Scientism Part 1
In this podcast we will discuss the notion of scientism or the belief in salvation through science. We will look at the historical manifestations of this cult and the historic consequences of it. We will also discuss the philosophical bankruptcy of scientism as well. Chapter 1 (00:00–15:26) What […]
The Grand Inquisitor of the Ivory Tower: A Paradox of Freedom
By Aleksey Bashtavenko “And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew, 18:13 “In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but […]
Robert Stark interviews Paul Gottfried about his book Fascism: The Career of a Concept
Listen Here! Robert Stark and co-host Alex von Goldstein talk to Professor Paul Gottfried about his latest book Fascism: The Career of a Concept Topics include: How Fascism is used as a pejorative to describe any opposing political movement Defining Fascism and how most people who use the term cannot […]
Keith Preston: Feeling threatened by Daesh, US backpedalling on past policies
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/03/26/457712/US-Daesh-Syria-Russia-Obama-Preston “The US would rather have a victory in Syria than for the Assad government to retain power,” Preston says. US President Barack Obama’s pledge to step up intelligence cooperation against the Daesh Takfiri terrorists signals America’s serious concerns about the terror group which […]
Prohibition and Gun Control: The Hypocrisy of Supporting Gun Rights and the Drug War
By Ryan Ramsey S.D. Liberty When conservatives or libertarians point out that lowering tax rates increases revenue, liberals scoff. You can show them proof, and they won’t listen because they are too vested in their ideology to slow down and accept that sometimes things work a little different […]
A Short Word on Libertarian Redistribution
By Chris Shaw There seem to be two prevailing views on the particular outcomes of a truly free market mechanism. In the case of right-libertarians, such as Hoppe, we see a belief in a natural tendency toward inequality, where outcomes vary and there will be discrepancies in wealth […]
Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss
It has probably never occurred to quite a few anarchists that racial persecution is a bad idea, regardless of the skin colors involved, or that oppression by reactionary Communists is just as bad as oppression by reactionary Fascists. Indigogo.Com
Confronting the New Right?
Perhaps everyone should just go their own way? Gods and Radicals The New Right is a Anglo-European intellectual, political, social, and cultural movement gaining influence within Paganism, Polytheism, Heathenism, and the Occult communities. Generally called either ‘proto-fascists’ or ‘crypto-fascists,’ their ideology mirrors many aspects of what we might […]
The Slow, Inevitable Collapse Of The Two-Party System
A step closer to the emergence of the pan-secessionist meta-party. ATS is so ahead of its time, lol. Zero Hedge Submitted by Russell Whitehouse via OrientalReview.org, In this election year, it’s clear that a seismic political shift is rumbling through America. Widespread discontent for the status quo is […]
Libertarian Failure: The Paradigm that Never Shifts
By Dr. Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Here in Britain, the main effect of the Brussels bombings will be to speed passage of the Investigatory Powers Bill. This will require communications service providers to store all our Internet activity for a year, and to make it available to the […]
After Brussels Attack, Will Response Be More War or a Look at the Root Causes of Terrorism?
To ask the question is to answer it. See this discussion at Democracy Now. Western countries have looked the other way while their “allies” among the Gulf states have fueled Islamic extremists. At times, the West has directly or indirectly sought to fuel Islamic extremists as a weapon […]
Donald Trump persuading Republicans, but would lose to Hillary Clinton, polls suggest
According to this analysis, Hillary will beat Trump, and Sanders would have an even better chance against Trump. Read the article Eric Grenier’s of CBC News here. What seems to be happening now is something that I have been thinking for a while would happen. I always thought […]
Camille Paglia on the Trump/Hillary Deathmatch
By Camille Paglia Salon.Com This week’s horrific terrorist attacks on the Brussels airport and metro raised the pressure in the already tight U.S. presidential campaign. Candidates of both parties were instantly measured against voter expectations of how a president could and should behave in a similar crisis. Meanwhile, […]
Donald Trump Could Be the Military-Industrial Complex’s Worst Nightmare
Has Donald Trump opened the door for non-interventionist foreign policy views to enter the mainstream? By William Greider The Nation Let’s admit it. As political provocateur, Donald Trump has a dizzy kind of genius. He feints to the right, then he spins to the left. Either way, the […]
Praise of Folly Podcast Episode #1: AltRight
This will be a discussion about the flaws of the Alt-Right. Current distensions, intellectual problems and other flaws in the movement.
Todd Lewis on Church and State
Keith Preston on Totalitarian Humanism at C-Realm Podcast
The full transcript of my recent interview with the C-Realm podcast. KMO: You are listening to the CRealm podcast. I’m your host, KMO. And I’m speaking with Keith Preston of Attack the System. Keith, welcome to the CRealm podcast. Keith Preston: Thank you for having me. KMO: I […]
Robert Stark interviews Aleksandr Dugin
Listen Here! Aleksandr Dugin is one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post-Soviet Russia. In addition to the many books he has authored on political, philosophical and spiritual topics, he was the Head of the Department […]
Former Pat Buchanan Adviser Prepares Third Party Vessel For Donald Trump
Meanwhile, the neocons are planning a third party strategy of their own. If either of these two third party schemes were to become a permanent reality, it would essentially render the Red Tribe incapable of gaining a national electoral majority, which would ensure permanent Blue Tribe dominance. However, […]
Anarchists Without Adjectives: The Origins of a Movement
An interesting new paper from Carson. Center for a Stateless Society Download a PDF copy of Kevin Carson’s full C4SS Study: Center for a Stateless Society Paper No. 21 (Spring 2016) Introduction Errico Malatesta Joseph Labadie Dyer Lum Voltairine De Cleyre Max Nettlau The Question of Anarcho-Capitalism Conclusion The […]
Barry Cooper: Never Get Busted!
A former narc who became a genuine enemy of the state. Jeff interviews ex-cop turned freedom fighter Barry Cooper of Never Get Busted, topics include: smoking pot as a cop, changing your life through psychedelics, Ayahuasca, the end of the war on drugs, two million people caged in […]
Why Libertarians Should Champion Social Freedom
The case for liberaltarianism. One of the great benefits of pan-anarchism, pan-secessionism, and pan-decentralism is that many different approaches to social organization can be accommodated. By Jerry Taylor Niskanen Center My argument last week about why freedom is advanced by preventing private racial discrimination created a bit of […]
Dick Cheney heaps praise on Hillary Clinton
This is all we need to know about the Dragon Lady. The Telegraph Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Barack Obama had not been very effective Photo: AP Mr Cheney was asked in an interview with Fox News whether the Democrats would have been better off with Mrs Clinton […]
Marc Victor: The Anarchist Lawyer
Jeff Berwick interviews Marc Victor. Marc is a criminal defense attorney with over 20 years experience who really knows his stuff. The issues that Marc discusses are by far the most important domestic issues in the United States (and most other states). The entire spectrum of anti-statists, from […]
Nixon Invented the Drug War to Decimate Hippies and Black People, Former Adviser Confesses
This has been well-known for years, but it’s interesting that it’s finally getting some attention in the mainstream press. By Robby Soave Reason President Richard Nixon launched the War on Drugs for one specific reason: to decimate his perceived political enemies—the anti-war left, and black people. That’s according […]
Did dodging foreign policy doom Bernie Sanders?
Predictably, foreign policy is not a major area of concern to the Left. The article by Ta-Neshi Coates linked to in this piece by Peter Feld posted below also provides evidence of a cleavage between minorities and Sanders supporters who are mostly white (the “liberal gentry” as John […]
Bernie Sanders: The Ron Paul of the Left? Not quite
This article is nearly a year old but it gives a pretty good overview of Bernie Sanders’ actual record on antiwar issues. His views appear to those closer to those of a liberal internationalist, humanitarian interventionist or even a “left-neocon” than a genuine anti-imperialist. Not surprising for a […]
Ted Cruz’s New Foreign Policy Team Makes Him as Extreme as Donald Trump
A vote for this guy is a vote for the return of the neocons. The Intercept GOP presidential contender Ted Cruz has unveiled a foreign policy team full of conspiracy theorists and arch-neoconservatives who support policies just as belligerent as those of Donald Trump. While Cruz has been supported by some Republican figures […]
Keith Preston: ‘US Afghanistan blitz meant to instate puppet regime’
Press TV. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/03/19/456645/US-wants-Afghanistan-puppet- Obama reneged on his election campaign promise to end Afghan war, says Preston. America’s stepped-up aerial attacks in Afghanistan are part of Washington’s policy to seek the instatement of a puppet regime there, says an analyst. “What seems to be happening is that the goal […]
The Virtue of Lawlessness
“The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.” -Max Stirner
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