A hit piece on the Alternative Right from the Left. Obviously, I have my disagreements with this article but the graphic below is hilarious: In American society, and to a larger extent Europe, Canada and Australia, you’re seeing the rise of a movement that is best described as […]
Jay Batman strikes again with this piece that’s been ruffling some feathers over as the Gonzo Time. There have been some interesting following up posts this article as well over there. Check it out. As I’ve come to divorce myself from statist paradigms, I’ve also become increasingly cognizant […]
Excellent article from “Jay Batman” and the Gonzo Times. I don’t necessarily agree with everything in this article, but these are the kinds of questions anarchists need to give more thought to. The anarchist movement, splintered as it is into various sects and subsets of theory and ideology, […]
From the Daily Mail. * Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated * French propose a new political ‘committee’ to oversee operations * Germany pulls equipment out of NATO coalition over disagreement over campaign’s direction * Italians accuse French of backing […]
From My Budget 360 The American banking industry is trying to convince the public that simply by hiding bad debts in the deep levels of corporate balance sheets that taking on leveraged risk is somehow safe. FDIC insured banks currently have $7.4 trillion in actual deposits, much of […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. Well, that didn’t take long. Now that President Barack Obama has intervened in Libya, his army of apologists is mobilizing to defend his “humanitarianism,” declaring that his war isn’t at all like Bush’s wars. It’s something new, and different – and admirable. I’m not […]
Lew Rockwell is interviewed on Russia Today. The Arab League is a “collection of dictators, kings and presidents, all of them puppets of the US, but they are backing down because of the unbelievable hatred and outrage on the part of their own people for the fact that […]
Article by Gary Chartier. Being a libertarian means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful, voluntary exchange. That doesn’t mean it should be understood as involving support for capitalism. Whether this claim makes any sense at all depends, of course, on what you mean by “capitalism.” For […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. “The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” So said constitutional scholar and Senator Barack Obama in December 2007—the same man […]
A very important article by Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance. Everything I thought relevant about our latest war in the Moslem world I said in a blog posting a few days ago. However, I have been asked to write at greater length. If I do not choose […]
Article by Thomas Naylor. Neither its $5.4 trillion economy, its state-of-the-art technology, nor its military-like efficiency could protect Japan from the catastrophic consequences of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. To be quite blunt, when you cram 127 million people into one large island and […]
The far Left and the far Right coming together in a bipartisan effort to impeach Obama would be very cool indeed. Article by John T. Bennett. A senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee escalated his party’s attacks on the Obama’s administration’s military action in Libya, calling […]
Go, Dennis! Article by Sahil Kapur n an exclusive interview with Raw Story on Monday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) tore into President Barack Obama’s decision to order U.S. air strikes against Libya, opening the door for impeachment while emphatically declaring that Obama violated the Constitution. “President Obama moved […]
From Stumbling and Mumbling. In the Economist’s rather good survey of the growth of government, there’s one thing missing – something right libertarians tend to understate. I refer to the possibility that the increasing size of the state over time has often served the interests of capitalism. I […]
Article by David D’Amato. Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has,” according to a Reuters report, “said a foreign plot against his Gulf Arab kingdom had been foiled … .” The king’s statement, a paranoid imputation citing an “external plot” that has “fomented for 20 to 30 […]
From the Gonzo Times. So today in Olympia I left my house for a run at about 1:00 PM. I had only gotten two blocks away from my house when i noticed a large white SUV turn out behind me, I didn’t think anything of it at the […]
From Trentslist.Org You can accept whatever form of payment you want for the goods you are selling. If I decide that your $10 meal is worth a bushel of corn to me and accept that bushel of corn as payment, then I’ve bartered for that payment and have […]
From USA Today. Update at 11:48 a.m. ET: French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says the departure of President Saleh is “unavoidable.” Update at 11:37 a.m. ET: Yemeni Defense Minister Mohammad Nasser Ali, in an address on national television today, said the military backs President Saleh and will defend […]
This is about what I figured Egyptian “democracy” would look like. Article by Paul Cooper. The media sold us all on the Egyptian so-called democracy protests. It would bring peace and a secular government. Christians would not have to fear. All would be well. Those same newsmen might […]
Article by Stephen Walt. Last Wednesday I spoke at an event at Hofstra University, on the subject of “Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy.” The other panelists were former DNC chair and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean and longtime Republican campaign guru Ed Rollins. The organizers at Hofstra were efficient […]
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/invaders-remorse-arab-league-now-criticizes-western-attack-libya Not even a full day after the UN-endorsed attack on Libya began, and the “invader’s remorse” is already manifesting itself as discontent among the “peacemakers” emerges. Per the AFP: “The Arab League on Sunday criticized Western military strikes on Libya, a week after urging the United Nations […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/they-hate-us-because-we-bomb-them-says-libertarian-chair March 20, 2011 Contact: Wes Benedict, Executive Director E-mail: wes.benedict@lp.org Phone: 202-333-0008 ext. 222 They hate us because we bomb them, says Libertarian Chair WASHINGTON – Giving little thought to the lessons of history, President Obama has begun attacking Libya with the full support […]
Article by William Norman Grigg It is abominable that 535 people in Washington assume they have the moral authority to compel Americans to make sacrifices of their lives and property in the service of what Daniel Webster (of all people) described as “the folly and wickedness” of the […]
Article by Pat Buchanan When the army suddenly sent Mubarak packing, the White House hailed the revolution as the harbinger of an Arab spring. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton burbled that her 15-minute stroll through Tahrir Square was “a great reminder of the power of the human spirit […]
Article by Jim Goad Japan has endured a three-headed monster of colossal catastrophes over the past ten days—a 9.0 earthquake, a tsunami with 30-foot crests, and an unresolved nuclear-reactor crisis that unspooled as a direct result of the first two disasters. The temblor and tidal wave can be […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. Barely 24 hours after the first Allied air strikes, President Obama’s high-flying Libyan adventure is losing altitude. The smoke hadn’t cleared from the first air strikes when the head of the Arab League complained that “what happened differs from the no-fly zone objectives. What […]
Article by David D’Amato. CNN reports that “A [U.S.-led] coalition … made good Saturday [March 19] on international warnings to Gadhafi, hammering Libyan military positions in the first phase of an operation that will include enforcement of a no-fly zone.” As reigning hegemon and maintainer of global political […]
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From ABC News. Roundtable: Target Libya George Will, Paul Wolfowitz, Robin Wright, Jane Harman.
by Richard Spencer http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/exit-strategies/libya-kosovo-redux/ I must confess that I have a half-written blog entry on how the Obama administration has, in essence, given up on the American Empire. Due to fiscal constraints, its own incompetence, and its lack of self-assurance in the wake of Iraq and rising anti-Americanism, […]
Watch the video. Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, who is also anti-Fed, anti-war and pro-gold, rips President Obama big time over attacking Libya. A sound argument, with a very interesting final warning.
Article by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya The U.S. and its allies are embarking on another regime change operation. Before they started their attacks on the Libyans, they admitted that there would be civilians casualities in an act of irony. They claim to be acting to save civilians, but they […]
by Kevin DeAnna http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/what-does-this-have-to-do-with-us/ Our government has one basic job. Before anything else, the federal government has to ensure the physical security of the nation. This includes securing the borders, preventing foreign invasion, and discouraging attacks against the national territory and American citizens. Obviously, our government doesn’t do […]
Watch the video at LRC. Hat tip to David Kramer. A principled liberal (unfortunately, there are so few now that one of theirs is in office) calls for the impeachment of the current “liberal” murderer in the White House. Where’s the outrage from the rest of the left […]
by Vinay Gupta 1. City States: If Italy collapsed as a nation state, but remained peaceful, Naples and Venice and so on could theoretically join the EU with very little in life changing. 2. Rational Borders: The suburbs of Geneva are in France. If they were in the […]
…Because the cops are the personal army of the political class. Great video from Francois Tremblay’s blog.
Finally, some commonsense ideas on education reform. This is what real education looks like. Article from the New York Times. The students in the Independent Project are remarkable but not because they are exceptionally motivated or unusually talented. They are remarkable because they demonstrate the kinds of learning […]
Recently, one of my occasional debating partners put this question to me: “Keith: What, in your worldview, would be the most viable form of government…or do you have an absolute ideal?” My response: Well, all systems end up being oligarchies. There really is no other kind of system, […]
As one who is neither a left-libertarian nor a Friedmanite, I found this exchange somewhat interesting. I find class analysis far too useful and illuminating to be tempted by Friedman’s proposed solution, but I think he has put his finger in a genuine problem: how exactly are we […]
Article by Kevin Carson. So given the high stakes of a nuclear meltdown, and the manifest inability of planners to anticipate what might go wrong, it would make sense to ban nuclear power, right? Well, the actual problem is that governments worldwide have been actively intervening for decades […]
Article by Bill Lind. Bean-counting won’t do the job. For meaningful savings, we must begin by changing our grand strategy, which presently defines virtually everything that happens in the world as an American interest. Against the Founders’ advice, we are not only playing the great power game, we […]
Article by Tim Dionisopoulos An interesting article was recently published in the New York Times by Timothy Egan about the burgeoning phenomenon of ethnically homogeneous, non white, counties and suburban cities that are sprouting up across the country. A primarily West Coast phenomenon, sociologists have termed these new […]
Article by Kevin DeAnna. Hisham Melham writes in Foreign Policy that the Arab Revolutions are meeting more resistance. Autocratic rulers are using the heterogenous nature of the societies they lead to divide the opposition and frustrate any plans for reform. In homogeneous societies it is relatively easier for […]
Article from World Net Daily. Helen Thomas, the former “dean” of the White House Press Corps who lost her position over a string of anti-Semitic comments, is interviewed in the April issue of Playboy, renewing her criticism of Israel and Jews in “control” of America. “[The Jews are] […]
Mike Gogulski interviewed by Scott Horton. Mike Gogulski, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, discusses the myriad events going on this weekend (March 19-20) in support of Bradley Manning; Obama’s decision to rely on Pentagon assurances that Manning was being appropriately treated in custody – after (former) […]
Article by Lew Rockwell. For weeks, American officials have been decrying Gaddafi’s bloody attacks on his people, but does the US really have a problem with dictatorship of his sort? This fact is unknown to Americans, but in the Middle East, and in Arab nations in particular, American […]
by Ian Huyett http://www.kstatecollegian.com/opinion/us-should-end-relationship-with-conspiring-israel-1.2516462 In 2005, Israeli President Moshe Katsav publically honored nine Jewish terrorists. In a televised ceremony, the terrorists were celebrated for bombing American embassy buildings in Egypt with nitroglycerine and acid. Israel, which had denied its involvement in the attacks for decades, was now openly […]
Article from The Wall Street Journal Some lawmakers, judges and regulators are trying to rein in the U.S. debt-collection industry’s use of arrest warrants to recoup money owed by borrowers who are behind on credit-card payments, auto loans and other bills. More than a third of all U.S. […]
It looks like the U.S. may be getting into a war in yet another Middle Eastern country. The good news is that this will only hasten the empire’s demise due to imperial overstretch. Read the Reuters report. French diplomatic sources said military action could come within hours, and […]
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