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The Rise of the Progressive Puritans
Jason Hurley, an acquaintance from maverick anarchist circles, offers the following insights concerning this article by Matt Walsh. Read Walsh’s article here. Says Jason: “Matt Walsh, your entire premise is based in medicalized morality. It’s no secret that early doctors and scientists of the developing western world carried […]
NATA-NY’s Anti-Racism
Yes, yes, a thousand times, yes! By J. Cypher NATA-NY Since its inception, NATA-NY has been grossly misunderstood and vehemently attacked for being so-called “racists.” Despite repeatedly demonstrating the ways in which we are anti-racist, we continue to be labeled “nazis” and “fascists.” At the same time, our […]
Anarchy Global Revolution and the Purpose of NAM
According to the Mao-Maos, what’s being described in this essay is already happening. By Pasquale Pulella NATA-NY Anarchy’s greatest feature is also its greatest weakness. Anarchy is a world without rulers which means no organized hierarchical violence. This lack of violence is not necessarily a weakness but it […]
Maoists Accuse National-Anarchists of Subverting Governments Worldwide
If only it were true. This is an interesting though rather bizarre article from a Maoist webzine, bits of which are re-posted on Matthew Lyons’ “anti-fascist” blog with additional commentary from Lyons himself (some of which is also rather interesting). Apparently, these Maoists think there are cadres of […]
How would North American Anarchists and Libertarians deal with any of these scenarios?
The likely future of American society over the next half century will include the following: 1. An ongoing widening of class divisions driven by a complex convergence of a variety of economic, political, technological, and demographic forces. 2. Growing poverty and the expansion of the underclass, the shrinking […]
The Future of the Movement (s)
As much as I criticize it, I’m actually glad to see the rather significant growth of the different anarchist, libertarian, and overlapping tendencies in recent years even if most of them are still at the training wheels phase. It used to be much worse. When I started this, […]
Yes, Privilege Checking Sucks
I don’t personally see myself as having a dog in this fight. I post this exchange between Given and Carson here out of recognition that this is a controversial issue among anarchists and libertarians, and one that many of them care a great deal about, even if I […]
Why Privilege Checking Does Not Suck
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Casey Given, in “What’s the Point of Checking Your Privilege?”, questions the relevance or usefulness of the concept of privilege. Not that he questions the existence of racial and gender oppression — far from it. He simply argues that privilege […]
What is Left-Libertarianism?
This piece by Carson is a good discussion of the varying shades of “left-libertarian” philosophy but it also provides a good illustration of the ghettoized thinking many radicals fall into. Take this statement: “To the general public these days, “left-libertarian” is more apt to call to mind a […]
The Bigotry of Anti-Bigotry
Yes, yes, yes! A thousand times, yes! By Dan Sanchez Libertarian Alliance/LewRockwell.Com Left-libertarians who espouse “thick libertarianism” especially like to lump anti-“bigotry” (I’ll explain the scare quotes later) into libertarianism: e.g., anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-homophobia, etc. The more principled ones are careful to insert the proviso that “libertarian” efforts […]
For Discussion
I agree with Dr. Gabb’s comments concerning this advertisement 100%. The discuss that follows on the Libertarian Alliance blog is also interesting. By Dr. Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance I suspect that many of our regulars will need to pause when they see this, to wipe the vomit […]
Liberate Hawaii
Townhall Magazine: “The Case for Libertarian Populism”
I was so ahead of my time. 🙂 Check it out.
Sean Gabb on the Iraq Situation
I concur with Sean completely. I first became interested in the anti-imperialist cause through hearing about and reading about the Vietnam War as a kid. As a very young adult, I was involved in opposing the Reagan administration’s war in Central America. When the first Iraq War happened […]
Is America dangerously divided?
By Bruce Stokes CNN Editor’s note: Bruce Stokes is director of global economic attitudes at the Pew Research Center. The views expressed are his own. If you thought that political polarization in America was bad, think again. Because it’s worse than you thought. And if you’re under the […]
The Terrorist Army Marching on Baghdad
By Jessica Lewis The Wall Street Journal We’re losing Iraq. Mosul, a great city in northern Iraq, now belongs to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). The world has changed overnight as a former al Qaeda affiliate wrested a major city from a state by force—and […]
Islamic militants advance toward Baghdad; Iran vows to aid Iraq
Saigon and Phnom Pehn, 1975. Baghdad, 2014. This is more or less how I thought the Iraq War would turn out when it began in 2003. The progression of events has been very similar to what happened in Vietnam and Cambodia. An invasion, followed by destabilization, an unpopular […]
Congratulations ConIFA World Cup Champions: Countea de Nissa
Countea de Nissa (County of Nice) won the ConIFA world cup final on June 9th in Sweden, coming out on top of eleven other teams from unrecognized nations around the world. Commiserations to the losing teams from Kurdistan, Darfur, Padania (Northern Italy), Arameans Suryoye (Assyria), Abkhazia, Sápmi (Northern […]
Retconning the Revolution
An alternative view to Keith Preston’s Forty Years in the Wilderness. People are rarely struck by trains they see coming. No-one expects to meet their end under the steel wheels of a hundred ton freight engine because no-one seriously believes they could fail to note the approach of […]
School Shootings and Gun Control
There has been a lot of talk about spree killers and gun control with the recent school shooting in Oregon and the rampaging cop killers in Las Vegas, NV and Canada. A few things to remember: The US police state and prison industrial complex incarcerates it’s own citizens […]
Gritty Star Wars
A collection of Star Wars art re-imagines the classic sci-fi story as a gritty TV series with realistic political undertones, exploring the moral ambiguity of military conflict and civil war. Poor kids are conscripted into the Storm Trooper infantry, and rebel insurgents are defectors from the imperial underclass […]
Left Gun Nuts
Rarely have I encountered an article that so vividly illustrates why the bulk of the “progressive” and “social democratic” Left is utterly worthless. The last sentence of this article is telling: “Only then can the Left shift the terrain of struggle away from apocalyptic fantasies of armed insurrection […]
UKIP: The System Works!
I wrote this last week, but then decided I didn’t like it. However since everyone is talking ’bout UKIP here’s the actual situation. NOTE: Fans of the UKIP “revolution” should watch out for Thursday’s Newark-on-Trent by election, which is a parliamentary election on a first past the post […]
Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston on The European Elections
Listen to the interview. Topics include: •The recent elections in Europe •How the elections were a referendum on the neoliberal establishment •How European Nationalist parties are moving to the left economically •Whether the United State could see similar movements •Ralph Nader’s call for a left right alliance against […]
Ralph Nader on the Left/Right Alliance: PBS interview
Watch the interview here. I feel somewhat vindicated now that such a venerated figure like Nader is advocating for the same basis set of positions and tactics (at least on topical issues) that I’ve advocated for years. Okay, my fellow anarchists, this is your chance. Nader has thrown […]
Time For White Male Thick Libertarianism?
By Christopher Cantwell I spend a good deal of time on this blog talking about the State. Previously I’ve sort of mocked people who tell me “government isn’t the only oppressor you know!” because while it certainly isn’t the only, it certainly is the most dangerous, the most […]
Against the State: Lew Rockwell interviewed by Tom Woods
This is an excellent introduction to the basic anarchist positions. LewRockwell.Com TomWoods.Com Listen to the podcast ROCKWELL: Tom Woods had me on his show to talk about my book, Against the State: An Anarcho-Capitalist Manifesto. This is just the first installment of a couple of appearances, which I […]
SWAT team threatened after grenade injures toddler in drug raid
CNN.Com CNN) — Members of a northeast Georgia SWAT team are “devastated” after a drug raid in which a flash-bang grenade landed in a 1-year-old’s playpen, seriously injuring the child, the Habersham County sheriff said Friday. The police officers involved have been called baby killers and received threats […]
Euroskepticism and Its Discontents
The European elections saw gains by the far right, far left, libertarians, and radical populists. The common thread was opposition to the budding continental empire of the EU and its dominance by the neoliberal plutocracy. The Europeans need the message of anarcho-pluralism and pan-secessionism as much as Americans […]
Ralph Nader: “The left is seized by fear and the right is driven by brass”
This is the most interesting development I’ve seen in mainstream U.S. politics since the Ron Paul phenomenon. Hopefully, it will have a similar effect. The Ron Paul campaign not only spearheaded massive growth in the mainstream libertarian movement, but served as a “gateway drug” that led many of […]
Book review: ‘Unstoppable’ by Ralph Nader, on building a left-right alliance
By Timothy Noah The Washington Post Ralph Nader wants liberals and conservatives to work together. In his new book, “Unstoppable,” he cites many instances in which such cooperation ought to be possible, at least theoretically. But the book’s greater value may lie in the opportunity to contemplate, almost […]
Ralph Nader pitches left-right alliances
By Kristen East The Washington Times Ralph Nader is at it again, this time on a mission that he says will bring America’s liberals and conservatives together in the fight against corporate overreach and government secrecy. Building on a new book he has published, the longtime activist, author […]
The Destructive Momentum of Militaristic Ideology
By Ralph Nader Counterpunch.Org Memorial Day – the origins of which stem from Decoration Day in 1868 which recognized the Union soldiers who had perished – is a day of lost opportunities. No, I’m not referring to consumers missing out on store sales and the advertising hoopla by […]
Swedish TV report on left wing violence
The Largest Employers in Each State: MAP
Broadview.Net We at Broadview Networks are not only dedicated hosted phone providers, we’re also enthusiasts of all things business. Whether we’re watching Bill Gates give a TED talk or reading about the oil boom in North Dakota, we love it all. An article from last year looking at […]
The Real Origins of the Religious Right
By Randall Balmer One of the most durable myths in recent history is that the religious right, the coalition of conservative evangelicals and fundamentalists, emerged as a political movement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion. The tale goes something like […]
Taking Reparations Seriously
By Noah Millman Family of slaves in Georgia, circa 1850. Wikimedia Commons. I finally got around to reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’s case for reparations on the plane down to New Orleans (where I am now, working on a film; blogging may be even more sporadic than usual this summer). […]
Obama: ‘I Believe in American Exceptionalism with Every Fiber of My Being’
By Jon Queally CommonDreams.Org President Barack Obama arrives to deliver the commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point’s Class of 2014, Wednesday, May 28, 2014, in West Point, N.Y. (Photo: AP)In a speech rife with incongruities and contradictions, President Obama set out his vision and […]
How Ukip is turning left on the economy
By George Eaton New Statesman Nigel Farage arrives to speak at Ukip public meeting at Old Basing Village Hall on April 9, 2014 in Basingstoke. Photograph: Getty Images. For most of its existence, Ukip has positioned itself well to the right of the Conservative Party on the economy, […]
Robert Stark interviews Charles Lincoln on Economics
The Stark Truth Robert: I’m joined here with Charles Lincoln. We are going to be discussing some of his economic views. Charles: Thanks, Robert. Always good to talk. Robert: So on one of our previous […]
Neither Progressive nor Conservative: The Anti-Modernism of G. K. Chesterton
By Keith Preston AlternativeRight.Com by Keith Preston Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) bears the distinction of being a writer who resisted virtually all of the dominant trends of his era. He lived during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, precisely the time that modernity was fully consolidating itself […]
Resist the Plutocrats!
The System is Our Common Enemy
Who Owns America?
It looks like Ralph might have been reading ATS. By Ralph Nader The American Conservative illustration by Michael Hogue There was a time in the Depression of the 1930s when conservative thought sprang from the dire concrete reality of that terrible era, not from abstractions. They did not […]
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End Mass Incarceration Now
Abbie Hoffman used to call the New York Times “the voice of the ruling class.” When the voice of the ruling class admits there’s a problem, it must be serious. New York Times Editorial Board For more than a decade, researchers across multiple disciplines have been issuing reports […]
Italy to add drug trafficking, prostitution to GDP figures
Russia Today The Italian government will include revenue from drug traffic, prostitution and smuggling while calculating its gross domestic product (GDP) in a bid to boost its shaky economy. Starting this October, Italy will include revenues from “the illegal activities: drug trafficking, prostitution and smuggling services (cigarettes or […]
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