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Nexus X HumectressBy Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic Katerha/Flickr “Has the ‘Libertarian Moment’ Finally Arrived?” The question was put to New York Times Magazine readers by journalist Robert Draper, who has elicited disdainful responses from Paul Krugman of the Times, Jonathan Chait of New York, and my colleague David Frum. All three […]
The resistance is growing. By Matt Agorist Free Thought Project The citizens of California let the establishment know how they felt about the drug war and mass incarceration Tuesday in a landmark vote. With the passage of Proposition 47 as many as 10,000 people could be eligible for […]
The revolution against the War on Drugs is spreading. Sometime during the 1990s I decided that the best way to fight the drug war police state would be for its opponents to work to gain political power at the local level and fight it from the bottom up. […]
Sorry, free-market absolutist libertarians, but “Let them eat cake!” is a non-starter during a time of growing poverty and widening class divisions. Libertarians and anarchists need to move past fanatical views on economics, and develop a more pragmatic libertarian-populist progressive-conservative radical-center idistributist-decentralist approach that can appeal to the […]
By David Swanson Counterpunch.Org Is it worse to put into Congress or the White House someone who wants to end wars and dismantle much of the military but also wants to abolish Social Security and Medicare and the Department of Education and several other departments they have trouble […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com The Obama administration “has no foreign policy,” says Rep. Paul Ryan, the GOP’s 2012 vice-presidential candidate. While we may tune out this kind of election year rhetoric, similar complaints – no matter which president is being denounced – are common on both sides of […]
What was once forbidden is now mandatory. What was once mandatory is now forbidden.
By Richard Socarides The New Yorker Tim Cook introduces the new Apple products during a special event in Cupertino, California, on September 9, 2014. Tim Cook introduces the new Apple products during a special event in Cupertino, California, on September 9, 2014. Credit Photograph by Xinhua News Agency […]
The state of higher education at America’s most prestigious university. Russia Today Harvard University is renowned the world over for the Ivy League education its students are offered, and the curriculum there this week indeed contains a class or two you’d be hard press to find elsewhere. As […]
Unfortunately, some folks on the rightist end of libertarianism, anarcho-capitalism, or “anarchism of the right” have been veering off into this neo-reactionary, nostalgic monarchist, or neo-fascist stuff just as some on the left end of anarchism and libertarianism have veered off into social democracy (Chomsky), totalitarian humanism (the […]
1 hr · I’m not big on voting, but if I had my pick I suppose I’d prefer gridlocked government where one party has the presidency and the other party has the Congress. Same at the state level: one party controlling the governorship and the other controlling the […]
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By Eric Margolis Ron Paul Institute Saturday November 1, 2014 “Lord of our far-flung battle-line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget—lest we forget! Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland […]
Dr. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance speaks at the H.L. Mencken Club. Listen to the audio of the speech here. When I was invited to address this gathering on the subject of “The European Right,” I rather think I was expected to bring with me a note […]
By Paul Mulshine By Paul Mulshine | The Star Ledger Freeman Dyson is a physicist who has been teaching at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since Albert Einstein was there. When Einstein died in 1955, there was an opening for the title of “most brilliant physicist […]
By David Orr Yale University The awareness that humans could alter the climate of Earth has dawned slowly on our consciousness. In 1896, Swedish chemist Svante Arrhenius deflected his anguish over a failed marriage into remarkably tedious and, as it turned out, accurate calculations about the effect of […]
By Jamelle Bouie The Daily Beast The RNC’s ill-worded tweet about the “end” of racism is a nice time to remember that racial bias is still real and still affects millions of Americans. This past Sunday, to commemorate the anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott—a long-planned assault on […]
By Fred Reed As I write America waits, again, to see whether blacks will riot, this time in Ferguson. Will they loot, burn, kill, and rape? The usual? The police in Ferguson prepare to protect stores from looters, as rioters seem to regard their insurrections as shopping opportunities. […]
By Frank Serpico Politico.Com Watch the classic film here. n the opening scene of the 1973 movie “Serpico,” I am shot in the face—or to be more accurate, the character of Frank Serpico, played by Al Pacino, is shot in the face. Even today it’s very difficult for […]
I originally posted this nearly five years ago, but I would still stand by every word. 1. I agree with the Augustinian view of the state as a robber band writ large. 2. I agree with the Stirnerite view of political obligation. Why should I obey this guy […]
While I’m not a fan or supporter of this guy, he may be opening some doors that those of us with a much more radical position can make use of in the future. By Jack Hunter The American Conservative “The Kentucky senator has consistently challenged long-held GOP views […]
It’s good to see someone from the “conservative” end of the spectrum finally admit to this: “The Reagan Doctrine was one of the least impressive parts of Reagan’s record, and it inflicted enormous damage on the countries where it was put into practice. Moreover, it proved to be […]
Anarchists and libertarians, pay attention. This article argues conclusively that taking extremist positions on social issues is a political non-starter, as I have long suggested and as this Gallup poll points out. Excerpts: “But social issues are rating near the bottom of voter concerns heading into the 2014 election. Abortion […]
This is absolutely required reading for anarchists and libertarians. You cannot understand modern statecraft without understanding James Burnham. By Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative illustration by Michael Hogue America is badly governed. Congress has dismal approval ratings, sometimes as low as single digits. Presidential elections, settled by popular […]
Look for the entire spectrum of the radical right to start embracing some kind of libertarianism, anarchism, decentralism, or secession as its last hope. “I first really noticed the impact of godless libertarianism in the GOP in this year’s legislative session in Louisiana, when we couldn’t get together […]
Russia Today AFP Photo / Jewel Samad The American Dream is slipping further away from the vast majority of Americans than it has in a quarter century. Now 90 percent of US households are poorer than they were in 1987, according to both a new study and the […]
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This is important stuff regardless of your politics if you’re against the system. It’s an indication of what dissidents from all over the spectrum can expect in the future. Alternative Right Andy and Colin are joined by Richard Spencer of the National Policy Institute to talk about his […]
Kevin Carson takes down the Progressive’s favorite economist, though I appreciate Sean’s effort to provide some nuance in his introduction. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Paul Krugman, in denouncing the excessive market power of Amazon (“Amazon’s Monopsony is Not OK,” New York Times, October 19), […]
If you ignore all of the personal attacks, this is actually a very interesting discussion of libertarian economics from two years ago on the Libertarian Alliance blog featuring Paul Marks, Ian B, Roderick Long, Kevin Carson, Bill Green and others. Check it out. Contrary to what many seem […]
From Lingit Latseen Today is Free Nations Day. Free Nations Day is an opportunity to reclaim the idea that nations are voluntary groupings of free individuals, not externally imposed political borders or states. Both geographic localities and identities that transcend space are legitimate entities with the right to […]
By William T. Hathway Once again in election season the drums of patriotism are being beaten. Politicians on the stump and their Madison Avenue flacks are exhorting us to rally around the tattered flag. Their drumming sounds feeble and hollow, though, like cheerleaders trying to rouse the fans […]
By Ellis Riker Halford Libertarian Alliance We live in a world full of prejudices and inequality, where racist and sexist parties like Britain First can exist and where people will back these parties. In a world that has these many different types of prejudices, we call the people […]
By Ruth Padawer New York Times Hundreds of young women streamed into Wellesley College on the last Monday of August, many of them trailed by parents lugging suitcases and bins filled with folded towels, decorative pillows and Costco-size jugs of laundry detergent. The banner by the campus entranceway […]
The most sensible analysis of the Obama presidency published yet. By Bruce Bartlett The American Conservative illustration by Michael Hogue Back in 2008, Boston University professor Andrew Bacevich wrote an article for this magazine making a conservative case for Barack Obama. While much of it was based on […]
By Kirkpatrick Sale In the wake of the Scottish “no” vote on secession last month, former presidential contender Ron Paul has declared that this was inspirational for the cause of secession not only around the world but right here in the United States. It is here, he said, […]
By Keith Preston I recently suggested that the next necessary step in the cultivation of the pan-anarchist movement will be the coalescence of the many scattered factions and tendencies within anarchism and overlapping philosophies into a new “Gray” anarchist macro-tribe that maintains its own political and cultural identity […]
If you vote and live in Washington, D.C. consider Eugene Puryear. For those anarchists and libertarians who might look askance at endorsing a leftist and a socialist like Mr. Puryear, I would suggest taking a look at his track record. He’s on the right page concerning the biggest […]
Given that elections are coming up soon, I would suggest either one of two possible approaches for anarchists, libertarians, decentralists, secessionists, or dissidents and enemies of the system generally. One of these is to simply not vote at all. Boycotting a corrupt system has the effect of de-legitimizing […]
By Robert Parry Consortium News Exclusive: America’s neoconservatives, by stirring up trouble in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, are creating risks for the world’s economy that are surfacing now in the turbulent stock markets, threatening another global recession, writes Robert Parry. By Robert Parry If you’re nervously […]
By Welf Herfurth When one travels there is a lot of time spent thinking while on long transits between cities and places. Personal things and also the odd political thought. And while I was on a bus traveling in Argentina, I saw a news clip about ISIS, who […]
By Janet Biehl New Compass February 3-5, 2012, a a conference was organized in Hamburg, Germany. The theme was “Challenging Capitalist Modernity: Alternative concepts and the Kurdish Question.” The following text was delivered as a speech to the conference. … In February 1999, at the moment when Abdullah […]
By Michael Schmidt and Lucien Van der Walt Anarchist Library Introduction: Second-Generation Anarchism in Anatolia: The Kurdish National Question Back to the Beginnings: Alexandre Atabekian and the Rise of Anarchism in the Ottoman Empire The “Black International” and the Armenian Revolutionary Federation Anarchist Anti-Imperialist Guerrillas in Thrace: Mikhail […]
Channel 4 News Brian Whelan The PKK could play a key role in the battle against Islamic State, but their roots as Marxist guerrillas leaves the west wary. Channel 4 News looks at how the group is pursuing a Kurdish Spring. After over 30 years of an anachronistic […]
Rafael Taylor RoarMag.Org As the prospect of Kurdish independence becomes ever more imminent, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party transforms itself into a force for radical democracy. Excluded from negotiations and betrayed by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne after having been promised a state of their own by the World […]
By Jesse Walker Reason.Com The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, has been active in the Kurdish parts of Turkey since the ’70s. It has a sometimes sordid history: Its politics were Marxist-Leninist, and its willingness to kill prisoners and civilians earned a rebuke from Amnesty International. Its leader, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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