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My Thoughts on the Iran Situation

Troy Southgate Jun 18, 2025 SOME years ago I wrote a 300-page biography of Ruhollah Khomeini, as I wanted to present the political. social and economic aspects of Revolutionary Iran as I saw them during the 1970s and 1980s. With modern-day Tehran currently trading blows with the genocidal […]

Psychological/Material Freedom?

By Cake Boy When I studied philosophy, I told my teacher I always read anarchist literature. This stuff fascinates me. Anarchism is about freedom, he said. Then he said, “OK, freedom, but what do you do with that freedom? Freedom to what?” I would say the (leftist/Proudhonist) anarchist […]

Job Description

Troy Southgate Jun 09, 2025 MANY writers have discussed how a sudden and unexpected event in one’s life can sometimes lead to a positive revitalisation of one’s energies. For George Gurdjieff it was an awakening, for T. E. Lawrence an absorption, for Jean-Paul Sartre an expression of freedom, […]

Bargain for the Right to Squirm

By John Snider sniderrex68@gmail.com His job had no health insurance.  His daughter owed thousands of dollars to a beauty school that had gone belly up.  His son came home from the latest war to save the world for democracy and spent his days and nights drinking and shaking […]

Hymn to the Fallen (for David)

By John Snider sniderrex68@gmail.com Hymn to the Fallen (for David) Damn our flag Our stinking pride God was never on our side Never, peace  democracy Just discarded amputees Empty trouser legs and sleeves and Gold-Star mothers left to grieve Draped–the boxes of the dead Dishonored shrouds blue, white, […]

The Genie’s Son

By John Snider sniderrex68@gmail.com The Genie’s Son   The story goes like this: a traveling merchant is eating his lunch alone.  He eats a date and then throws the stone away.  Suddenly, an enormous Genie appears and says, “Stand up so I can kill you.  The stone you […]

The White Rose

By John Snider sniderrex68@gmail.com The White Rose The name of a German student group who resisted the Nazis and dropped their leaflets from the highest floor of the University.  They were discovered, taken, and then executed by guillotine.   Black and Brown columns marching A suffocating mass Surrendered […]

The Quilt

By John Snider sniderrex68@gmail.com The Quilt The historian, Benjamin Madley, estimates that from 1846 to 1873 the Indian population of California declined from 150,000 to 30,000.  He documents 14,703 killings of California Indians by White vigilantes and White militia.  History, art, and courage converged one day in 1864 […]

Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine’s West Bank

4:30 pm PT, 5:30 MT, 6:30 pm CT, 7:30 pm ET Wednesday, June 4, 2025 University City Public Library, 6701 Delmar, University City MO 63130 Returning from Masafer Yatta, Bob Suberi (Green Party of St. Louis, Center for Jewish Non-Violence) describes his experience documenting settler and institutional violence over the past 5 years and specifically […]

The Californian Ideology in Ruins

Stray thoughts inspired by Richard Barbrook Geoff Shullenberger May 30, 2025 Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 Richard Barbrook is a British media scholar best known for co-authoring “The Californian Ideology,” a seminal and highly prescient 1995 study of what they described as the “bizarre fusion of the […]

Don’t Believe the Hype

Troy Southgate May 29, 2025 I AM not and have never been a fascist, just as I am not and have never been a communist. As an Anarchist who prefers to remain above and beyond the centennial fratricide practised by both sides, therefore, I would say that I […]

Project 2025 and the Rise of Techno-Autocracy

How Trumpism, Financial Oligarchy, and Cultural Reaction Are Merging to Redefine American Power Troy Keith Preston May 25, 2025 Project 2025, developed by the Heritage Foundation and a coalition of right-wing institutions, has become a roadmap for a radical transformation of American governance. While marketed as a restoration […]

Big Ugly Bill

MAY 23, 2025 Big Ugly Bill Trump and Johnson’s Big Ugly Lie → The week began with a feud that rocked the world: Bruce Springsteen vs. Donald Trump. John Nichols—one of a very large group of Bruce-heads at Nation HQ—led things off with a stirring tribute to New […]

Ep 12 Cody Wilson

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more   Anarchonomicon Podcast Ep 12 Cody Wilson 0:00 2:29:59   Listen now   Ep 12 Cody Wilson Kulak May 20 READ IN APP The inventor of 3D Printed firearms himself! Cody Wilson is a Vetran of a dozen Cypherpunk style projects, […]

The Saturday Read: EU state of mind

Inside: The shadow of George Osborne, Mark Twain, the Joe Biden cover-up, Mission: Impossible, Pep Guardiola humbled and an exclusive interview with Gordon Brown. May 17, 2025 Finn Good morning. Welcome to the Saturday Read, the best of the New Statesman, in print and online this week. This […]

Pope Leo XIV

Church and State, The Persistence of the Importance of the Catholic Church and Its Teachings, the New Pontiff, the Long View, Carl Schmitt, and more Niccolo Soldo May 12, 2025 Note: Dedicated to my friend Timothy Herman and his lovely family Share There are so many things to […]

Israel Really Is As Evil As It Looks

Caitlin Johnstone May 07, 2025 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Israeli snipers routinely, deliberately shoot children in the head throughout the Gaza Strip. Israel created an AI system for the IDF to target suspected Hamas fighters when they go home to their […]

The Woo-Woo Authoritarians

In Donald Trump’s administration, writes Hari Kunzru in the Review’s May 29 issue, “conspiracy—which usually presents the government as a distant object of obsession or fantasy—has become governmental logic.” This can be seen not only in the elevation of the noted vaccine skeptic and natural supplement advocate Robert […]

Trump 2.0’s Agenda: Making Israel and the Globalist Technocracy Great Again – Part 1a: Project Stargate, AI Statism, “National Security” smokescreen, and Oligarchic Tech Transfer

Sean Jobst May 06, 2025 By Sean Jobst 5 May 2025 Trump 2.0 was inaugurated upon a wave of discontent around the economy, with the Biden regime’s complicity in the Gaza genocide (now continued into the Trump regime) and the Democrats’ Woke gambit (intended as a distraction from […]