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Nexus X HumectressAttack the System The Intersection of Drug Prohibition, Totalitarian Humanism, and the Police State December 8, 2013 Keith Preston discusses the power elite’s system of ideological and legal control. Topics include: How international drug prohibition is largely an American creation. How the war on drugs was instigated to […]
Interesting discussion. By Bryan Caplan 12 Years a Slave is a great chance to feel morally superior to monstrous slavers of yore. But it is also a time to reflect: Will our descendents ever look back on us with contempt for our blatant wickedness? If so, what will […]
Democratic Underground If the minimum wage had grown at the same rate as the earnings of the top one percent of Americans the federal wage floor would be more than triple the current hourly minimum of $7.25. Instead, the minimum wage has been lower than a poverty wage […]
The Daily Anarchist In a recent article at The Independent Political Report, James Gray perpetuates the fairy-tale of the police as heroes to be looked up to. He writes, “One of the most noble public servant positions in our society is a police officer. These men and women often have […]
For some time now, I’ve thought TAC is the most left-wing print publication out there. The American Conservative Monday evening, in a standard Massachusetts Institute of Technology auditorium of muted colors and uncomfortable chairs, a wizened, stooped, silver-haired man in an ugly sweater held a packed house of […]
Raw Story Liberals tend to underestimate their similarity to other liberals, according to a recent study, while conservatives overestimate their similarities — and those differences may account for the relative political success of the tea party in comparison to Occupy Wall Street. While the tea party has grown […]
Russia Today A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Detroit, Michigan is indeed eligible for bankruptcy protection, giving the go-ahead to the once booming Motor City to move forward with plans to restructure more than $18 billion in debt. Amid reading excerpts from a lengthy decision of more than […]
Slate.Com Rates of depression are soaring among millennials in college.Photo by Jupiter Images/Thinkstock/Getty Images Amy (not her real name) sat in my office and wiped her streaming tears on her sleeve, refusing the scratchy tissues I’d offered. “I’m thinking about just applying for a Ph.D. program after I […]
Forbes The War on Drugs is an unmitigated failure. Those who support that war might recall Prohibition, a similar deployment of government paternalism, which was wisely repealed 80 years ago this month. Prohibition was the result of misnamed “temperance” crusaders who sought to outlaw the manufacture, transportation, and […]
Disinfo.Com Do basic human rights extend to other animals with human-like cognitive abilities?The New York Times reports: Should a captive chimpanzee have the same rights as a “legal person”? That’s the debate set to unfold after an activist group filed lawsuits on behalf of four chimpanzees, asking the […]
Disinfo.Com This is one effective form of protest. Buzzfeed writes: Workers incensed by rumors of a co-worker’s death in a police firing burned down one of Bangladesh’s 10 biggest garment factories supplying to major Western brands on Nov. 29: According to authorities, factory workers were enraged after a […]
Reason.Com Credit: Giacomo Barbaro / Foter.com / CC BY-NC-SAIn September, New York Police officers responded to an emotionally disturbed man causing a ruckus at a Times Square bus terminal by opening fire on him while they were surrounded by crowds and traffic. They missed him and hit two […]
FreeThoughtProject.Com The time of the friendly neighborhood policeman is over. Instead of counting on cops to keep us safe, it seems like we can count on just the opposite. It’s time for Plan B. We live in an age of an increasingly militarized, violent, and hostile police force. […]
Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin It’s difficult to know where to begin with this open letter to the various European-american leftist (Marxist-Leninist and Marxist-Leninist-Maoist, in particular) groups within the United States. I have many issues with many groups; some general, some very specific. The way in which this is presented […]
DL Magazine By John Doherty The year is 1920. The US government just prohibited the production and sale of alcoholic beverages under the eighteenth amendment. The aim was to legislate morality, but America would soon learn how impossible that very concept is in reality. An era of complete […]
Here for all the world to see is an example of totalitarian humanism at its finest. It will be interesting to see how the Left tries to explain this one away. Yahoo News Paris (AFP) – Bob Dylan was urged Tuesday to apologise for comparing Croats to Nazis […]
Because the state is losing its veneer of legitimacy. By Wendy McElroy A headline in Mint Press News (Nov. 6) declared, “U.S. Police Have Killed Over 5,000 Civilians Since 9/11.” An earlier Mint article (Aug. 19) reported, “Claims of Minneapolis Police Misconduct: 439; Officers Disciplined: 0.” It is almost cliché to talk […]
Attack the System An Interview with Todd Lewis November 24, 2013 Keith Preston interviews Christian philosopher Todd Lewis. Topics include: Anti-state traditions within historic Christianity. The essence of the Christian faith and the nature of an organic Christian community. The Christian pacifist tradition of thinkers such as Leo […]
Gay marriage, legal weed, anti-racism, anti-sexism, neoliberal economics, Israel-firsting and more wars for the empire. Yayyyyyyy! Puke. Gavin McInnes has sure gone downhill. Taki’s Magazine I just flew back from Restoration Weekend in Palm Beach, and boy are my arms tired of the old narrative. I was on […]
This is my response to Kevin Carson’s recently republished review of Sean Gabb’s book “Cultural Revolution, Culture War” Libertarian Alliance I doubt it’s possible to develop a thorough or effective critique of statism as it exists in contemporary Western industrialized democracies without a comprehensive critique of the PC […]
It’s common for anarchists to press people about whether they are “capitalist” or “communist”. I view this as embracing the left/right paradigm unconsciously. I’m anti-state. Anti-statism is the common denominator in all trends of anarchism. Therefore, there is common ground between all anarchists. I can’t imagine that any […]
By Justin Raimondo The failures of foreign interventionism litter the world stage. Libya is disintegrating into an inter-tribal battlefield, with rival militias shooting it out Wild West style. Iraq is collapsing into chaos, as the country’s postwar order frays and splits along sectarian religious lines: and in Afghanistan, […]
““After serving his time federal prison, John Ehrlichman granted an interview to author Dan Baum, who reports that Ehrlichman explained the origin of the war on drugs this way: ‘The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar Left, and […]
The American Conservative EEAS / Flickr Uri Friedman describes the details of the interim nuclear deal with Iran: The details are still coming into focus, but here are the basics: Iran will stop enriching uranium beyond the 5-percent level (nuclear power plants typically run on 3.5 percent-enriched uranium), […]
Boingboing.Com Twelve years ago, when Wendy Whitaker was barely 17, she performed oral sex on a high school classmate who was about to turn 16. The state of Georgia convicted her of a sex crime and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison. As a registered sex […]
Detroit Free Press The federal government made enough money on student loans over the last year that, if it wanted, it could provide maximum-level Pell Grants of $5,645 to 7.3 million college students. The $41.3-billion profit for the 2013 fiscal year is down $3.6 billion from the previous […]
ThinkbyNumbers.Com About $59 billion is spent on traditional social welfare programs. $92 billion is spent on corporate subsidies. So, the government spent 50% more on corporate welfare than it did on food stamps and housing assistance in 2006. Before we look at the details, a heartfelt plea from […]
The Telegraph Police in Peckford Place, Stockwell, where the women were held captive Photo: JANE MINGAY FOR THE TELEGRAPH By Martin Evans, and Sam Marsden The two suspects in the south London slavery case ran a Communist collective in the 1970s that worshipped the Chinese leader Chairman Mao, the […]
“I ain’t draft dodging. I ain’t burning no flag. I ain’t running to Canada. I’m staying right here. You want to send me to jail? Fine, you go right ahead. I’ve been in jail for 400 years. I could be there for 4 or 5 more, but I […]
Huffington Post An unidentified Arizona Corrections Officer adjusts the straps on the gurney used for lethal injections at the Florence Death House at the Arizona State Prison at Florence (Ariz.) in this undated photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections. On Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003, a federal […]
Reason.Com The FDA may soon kill off the world’s most delicious dessert—Baltimore’s own Berger Cookies. Please believe I make this claim as one who is not otherwise overly enamored of sweets. For those who haven’t had the pleasure, we’re talking fudge slathered over a shortbread cookie to rapturous […]
The Atlantic Paul Windle You remember the photograph: President Obama hunched in a corner of the Situation Room with his national-security staff, including Hillary Clinton with a hand over her mouth, watching the live feed from the compound in Pakistan where the killing of Osama bin Laden is […]
Gawker.Com 1Expand Kalief Browder was just 16-year-old when police officers suddenly showed up and arrested him for a crime he didn’t commit. He spent the next three years on Rikers Island. Now 20, Browder still had no idea why a person he had never met before decided to […]
Russia Today A man of many titles, Jesse Ventura is a politician, actor, author, US navy veteran and a former professional wrestler. He does not associate himself with either side of the political establishment. Jesse Ventura won the seat of 38th Governor of Minnesota as an independent candidate. […]
Another moralistic fad goes bust. The Guardian Sex worker in Soho, London. Photograph: Dan Chung The following correction was printed in the Guardian’s Corrections and clarifications column, Saturday 14 November 2009 In the report below about sex trafficking we referred to the United Kingdom Human Trafficking Centre as […]
Russia Today Reuters / Rafael Marchante While restrictions on smoking in public are becoming stricter across the country, one California town has taken things a step further and banned smoking in all homes that share walls with other residences. The new city ordinance in San Rafael, California prohibits […]
Russia Today Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Bangkok on Monday as peaceful protests from the previous day escalated into the occupation of key government buildings. While initially spurred by a controversial amnesty law scuttled by parliament last month, protesters have become emboldened, and […]
The Guardian Hamid Karzai has been urged to ‘demonstrate a commitment to human rights and reject this proposal out of hand’. Photograph: Omar Sobhani/Reuters Afghan government officials have proposed reintroducing public stoning as a punishment for adultery, Human Rights Watch said, even though the practice has been denounced […]
The American Conservative is now the most left-wing of any mainstream or semi-mainstream publication in the United States. The American Conservative Charlotte Allen has a dynamite piece in The Weekly Standard, taking a tour of Silicon Valley and observing the stark wealth and class divide there — a […]
Reason.Com I have to assume that it’s fundraising time at the Southern Poverty Law Center, because Morris Dees and company have gone looking for new people to label enemies of the republic. This time, they’ve found those long underappreciated serpents nesting in our midst, notorious fellow-travelers of the […]
Listen to the interview. Robert Stark interviews Keith Preston of Attack the System on the decline of the American middle class and the prospects for radical populism. Topics include: Joel Kotkin’s book The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050 Neo-liberalism Left-wing oligarchy The Tea Party Cracks in the Left […]
By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers A protester during Occupy Oakland’s “Move In Day” aimed at reclaiming a vacant building, January 28, 2012. (Photo: Glenn Halog / Flickr)
The Daily Bell Introduction: Ron Holland is a contributing editor to several newsletters dealing with political and investing topics and author of several books, including Escape the Pension Trap. Originally from North Carolina, Ron lived in Geneva from 2003 to 2004 and divided his time between the US and Europe until […]
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CBS News TORONTO Rob Ford said Tuesday he loves his job and will stay on as mayor of Toronto despite admitting for the first time that he smoked crack. Ford earlier acknowledged he smoked crack “probably a year ago” when he was in a “drunken stupor,” but balked […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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