From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- “Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today,” writes the New Yorker’s Adam Gopnik. “Over all, there are now more people under ‘correctional supervision’ in America – more than 6 million – than were in the Gulag Archipelago […]
By Paul Craig Roberts. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Dear Readers: This is the best speech I have come across in many years. PCR Original Content at http://www.opednews.com/articles/Why-Barack-Obama-is-the-Mo-by-Glen-Ford-120324-930.html No matter how much evil Barack Obama actually accomplishes during his presidency, people that call themselves leftists insist on dubbing him the Lesser Evil. Not […]
From The New York Times. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Hundreds of leading gay donors will travel to Washington in late April to plan strategies and marshal financial commitments for state and federal elections around the country, according to people with knowledge of the meeting. The conference, one of the largest ever […]
From Truth-Out. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– “Game Change,” the HBO movie on John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin, faults his Republican campaign for its slipshod vetting of the little-known Alaska governor, but leaves out the back story of big-time neocons from D.C. helping position Palin for her surprise rise and Palin manipulating everyone, […]
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From The Void. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Iain Duncan Smith’s new database, quietly being built in India, is set to be the most expansive data-mining operation every carried out by any Government against it’s citizens. The Universal Credit system will contain an unprecedented amount of information on all aspects of our lives, […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Today (March 9, 2012) the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that 227,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs were created by the economy during February. Is the government’s claim true? No. Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reports that 44,000 of these jobs or 19% […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— One of the great economic myths is that markets are rational. Not a day passes without this myth being disproved scores of times, but the myth persists. For example, today (March 14) Bank of America/Merrill Lynch reported that “yesterday US markets started […]
Article by David D’Amato. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— As a chiropractic student living on 60 dollars a week (“I’m on food stamps. Don’t hate me for it,” Chicago Sun-Times, March 19), Vicki Jones March hardly fits the stereotype of average or typical “welfare mom.” March did just what our teachers, coaches and other […]
Article by Thomas Naylor. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Ross Jackson is an interesting guy who has just published a very interesting and timely book entitled Occupy World Street: A Global Roadmap for Radical Economic and Political Reform (Chelsea Green, 2012). Born a Canadian, Jackson has a PhD in Operations Research from Case Western […]
Article by Ralph Nader. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Stetson J. Bradford III met up with his fellow CEO F. Reginald Lawless for a brow-to-brow lunch at the Penthouse Reverie Room high above Wall and Broad Streets in New York. As charter members of the 40-year Corporate Supremes Club, they had serious […]
Article by Don Santina. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– When the Irish patriot, Bobby Sands, began his hunger strike for recognition of political prisoners on March 1, 1981, no one could have predicted that six weeks into his fast he would become an elected member of the British Parliament. After all, he […]
From The Guardian. Should boorishness be a crime? ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– A man has been arrested after allegedly making racist remarks on Twitter relating to critically ill footballer Fabrice Muamba. The 21-year-old man from Pontypridd, south Wales, was arrested on Sunday. Muamba, 23, is fighting for his life in hospital after suffering […]
News of the weird. From an anarcho-libertarian perspective, what crime has actually been committed? Cruelty to animals? Violation of the property rights of the dog owners? Inquiring minds don’t necessarily want to know. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Young man takes “doggystyle” to unthinkable low 19-year old Bernard Archer landed an odd […]
From Pat Dollard. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Barack Obama’s eldest daughter is spending her springbreak in the historic Mexican city of Oaxaca in the company of 12 friends – and 25 Secret Service agents. The US President’s 13-year-old daughter Malia is staying at a downtown hotel in the city famous for […]
From the New York Daily News. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– A beat cop in Memphis is under investigation after police microphones recorded him having sex in his squad car while he was on duty last week, authorities said. Memphis police sources said more than 30 cops in the Mount Moriah precinct […]
From Forbes. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Do you know why oil and prices are moving sharply higher? Some blame the oil companies, charging they are manipulating prices. Others cite U.S. sanctions on Iran and the threat of a military encounter that would disrupt the flow of oil from the Middle East. […]
From Activist Post. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– A new bill in Connecticut has advanced the idea of embedded RFID chips in license plates. (PDF) The admitted revenue-generating scheme, which would enable real-time tracking from points throughout the state, was first proposed to lawmakers by former astronaut, Paul Scully-Power. Perhaps even more disturbing […]
Article by Alex Newman. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– As Greece’s economy and the euro continue to struggle, regular Greeks are increasingly taking matters into their own hands, creating informal underground barter markets and even alternative currencies. And the government is actually encouraging it. Over a dozen non-euro trading networks are already […]
Listen to the interview. Keith Preston interviews Vincent Rinehart and Nahaan. Topics include: The experiences of Vincent and Nahaan as American Indian activists defending their tribal and cultural heritage; The political model of the traditional clan system of native peoples in North America; The centuries long efforts of […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- At this point it is clear that Rep. Ron Paul is not going to be the presidential nominee of the Republican Party. Yet it seems likely that he will outlast all his rivals but for Romney, and that he will have a substantial […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The results of the GOP primaries, so far, would certainly seem to suggest that. Paul’s support draws heavily from two constituencies one doesn’t normally associate with the Republican party: young voters, who are overwhelmingly independents, and antiwar voters, who tend to be Democrats. He has carried the […]
Article by John Whitehead. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- “I have my own army in the NYPD, which is the seventh biggest army in the world. I have my own State Department, much to Foggy Bottom’s annoyance. We have the United Nations in New York, and so we have an entree into […]
Article by Saul Landau. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— After 9/11, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a Yale graduate with a law degree from Columbia, and fellow neo cons plotted to twist and invent “intelligence” data to convince the public that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, so as to build a […]
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– On March 9th, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announced that 227,000 new nonfarm payroll jobs were created by the economy during February. Is the government’s claim true? No. Statistician John Williams (shadowstats.com) reports that 44,000 of these jobs or 19% consist […]
Article by Pam Martens. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Public relations experts understand one thing about a messy legal battle: the side that triumphs in public perception from the outset can leverage the momentum. Right now, that momentum is clearly with the Cato Institute in its court fight to prevent the oil billionaires, Charles […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. Gottfried more or less endorses George Kennan’s ideas on secession in this. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– As I perused the program for the Philadelphia Society’s national meeting in April, featuring wall-to-wall denunciations of “America and Her Detractors,” I wondered whether all anti-Americanism is the same. At one time […]
Article by Nancy Houser. I can’t blame Chomsky for favoring Obama over freaks like the Grinch, Sanitarium, or Bachman, but his dismissal of Ron Paul is disappointing. I called him out on that back in 2008, and he and I engaged in some correspondence over the question afterwards. […]
Article by Tom Baugh. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Despite a continual degradation of liberty in these united States, the patriot blogosphere continues to be energized with sentiments such as “keep your hands off my Constitution”, “let’s restore the Constitution”, “if you don’t like my Constitution then you should get the hell […]
From 60 Minutes. Notice that this weapon seems specifically designed to attack political protesters. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— It’s a gun that doesn’t look anything like a gun. It’s a flat-dish antenna that shoots out a 100,000-watt beam at the speed of light, hitting anything in its way with an intense, […]
From CNN. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — An American soldier went on a house-to-house shooting spree in two villages in southern Afghanistan early Sunday, Afghan officials said, killing 16 people in what Afghanistan’s president called an “unforgivable” crime. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force said the soldier acted alone and […]
This kid was giving the state’s legal system the respect it deserves. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Signs your trial is not going well: When the judge says to you, “I don’t know how you were raised, but peeing in a trash can in a state district courtroom is inappropriate behavior.” That […]
Listen to the interview. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Keith Preston interviews Paul Topete of the protest rock band Poker Face. Topics include: The band’s political and spiritual message of freedom; Poker Face’s role in promoting freedom festivals throughout the United States; The uniquely libertarian aspect of American culture; How Poker Face’s staunch […]
From CampaignsandElection.Com. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Juggling the various groups of swing voters is central to political success. In the 2010 midterms, Democrats had their weakest performance among moderate suburbanites in two decades, lost working-class whites, and the Southern populists went Republican in places that had continual Democratic representation since Reconstruction. […]
Article by Tim Cavanaugh. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The near-certainty that Mitt Romney will be defeated by Barack Obama in November is both intuitive and numerical. Following his important if unspectacular victories in six out of 10 state primaries on Tuesday, former Massachusetts Gov. Romney is now on a slow but secure track to be the […]
From Reason.Com. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The Southern Poverty Law Center, founded in 1971 as a civil rights law firm, has released its latest “Intelligence Report” on hate groups in the United States. This year’s report contains a new category: the Manosphere. From the SPLC’s introduction to the misogyny report: The so-called […]
From The Atlantic. ———————————————————————————————————————————————————– More than a decade ago, Daniel Suelo closed his bank account and moved into a desert cave. Here’s how he eats, sleeps, and evades the law. msn678/Flickr “Our whole society is designed so that you have to have money,” Daniel Suelo says. “You have […]
Article by Fred Reed. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– As I listen to American fury against uncooperative Afghans, to Congress furiously denouncing Pakistan for anemic aid in conducting the current wars, I sometimes wonder whether the US is playing with a full deck. The anger arises I suspect because the US and […]
From Blacklisted News. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Uniformed troops from the Texas State Guard were used for the purposes of crowd control during the Zilker Kite Festival in Austin this past weekend, with video showing the troops ordering parents and children to board school buses at the end of the event. […]
From the Washington Times. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The Ugandan governmenthas come under fire for its handling of a mysterious disease that has killed hundreds of children in the northern part of this impoverished East African nation. The illness, called nodding disease and characterized by symptoms similar to epilepsy, has afflicted more […]
Article by Fred Reed. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Ever wonder why the US military can’t win wars? Why a few ragtag guerillas could send it running out of Somalia (Black Hawk Down)? Why one guy with a truck bomb could chase the Marines out of Lebanon? Why the attempt to rescue […]
Article by Christine Dhanagom. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Jill Recknell is mourning the loss of her grandson, despite the fact that he is alive and well. It’s just that, according to five-year-old Zach Avery and his parents, he’s not her grandson anymore. He’s her granddaughter. Zach’s family, who live in England, […]
From the Southern Nationalist Network. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Ludwig von Mises was one of the most important economists of the twentieth century and a leading voice for self-determination and right of secession. He called his proposal for voluntary government based on the consent of the government ‘democracy’ – obviously a very […]
Article by Brendan O’Neill. Whatever happened to the good old days when the Left regarded marriage as an archaic, oppressive bourgeois institution? “Abolition not of the natural family but of the legal family founded on law and property. Religious and civil marriage to be replaced by free marriage. Adult men and women […]
Article by Eric Pfeiffer. ————————————————————————————————– A commonly prescribed drug used to treat high blood pressure may have the unintended benefit of muting racist thoughts in those who take it. A new Oxford University research study found that Propranolol, which works to combat high blood pressure, anxiety, migraines, and […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Davis Guggenheim (Credit: WikiPedia) Hollywood producer and director Davis Guggeinheim just produced a 17-minute “documentary” hailing the greatness of Barack Obama and his many historic and profound accomplishments, and it will be released this week by the Obama campaign. Please just watch this two-minute interview […]
An ABC news report on the sovereign citizen movement. Most of the legal theories of this movement are crackpot but the pernicious political and economic forces they are reacting against are real. Notice how the $PLC describes this movement as a “hate group” even though black participants are […]
Article by Jordan Michael Smith. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer (Credit: AP/Wikipedia) TOPICS:IRAN, ISRAEL Before they became famous — or infamous, depending on one’s perspective — for their article (later turned into a book) called “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” professors Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer were best known […]
Article by Stephan Salisbury. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- At the height of the Occupy Wall Street evictions, it seemed as though some diminutive version of “shock and awe” had stumbled from Baghdad, Iraq, to Oakland, Calif. American police forces had been “militarized,” many commentators worried, as though the firepower and callous tactics […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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