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Nexus X HumectressMore men are raped in the US than women, figures on prison assaults reveal
Daily Mail More men are raped in the U.S. than woman, according to figures that include sexual abuse in prisons. In 2008, it was estimated 216,000 inmates were sexually assaulted while serving time, according to the Department of Justice figures. That is compared to 90,479 rape cases outside […]
Well-known Texas drag performer dies in police custody
Raw Story Topics: Fernando Gomez ♦ Mercedes Demarco A 36-year-old drag performer died in police custody in El Paso, TX in the early hours of Sunday morning. According to the El Paso Times, Fernando Gomez — who performed under the name Mercedes Demarco — was acting irrationally when […]
Drunken off-duty deputy tried to arrest woman at bar when she resisted his advances
Police State USA Richland County Deputy Paul Allen Derrick gets handsy with an innocent woman he was trying to arrest. (Source: YouTube) COLUMBIA, SC — A drunken sheriff’s deputy was recorded during a strange and inappropriate altercation when he tried to arrest a female soldier at a Buffalo […]
Asian-American Awakening: The moment you realize you’re not white
Connie-Zhou.Com When I was five I was put in a different school because there was an ESL (English as a Second Language) program there. You may be wondering, “what’s wrong with that?” Well, for starters, I was born in Ohio and English was my native tongue. I was […]
Left-wing conservatism
Panther Red I’ve long been curious about the phrase “left-wing conservative.” It’s a label that’s been applied to Christopher Lasch, for example. And Jacques Delors once declared that “We have to struggle against the conservatives from all sides, not only the right-wingers, but also the left-wing conservatives.” Though […]
Marine Le Pen: EU will collapse like the Soviet Union
Telegraph Marine Le Pen aims to set up radical, anti-Europe faction in the European parliament with help of Geert Wilders, the Dutch MP Marine Le Pen criticised the EU as a ‘global anomaly’ Photo: AFP
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PIGS Will Be PIGS
Huffington Post A lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that LA sheriff’s deputies threw a chair at a pit bull, shocked it twice in the face with a stun gun, shot it twice with a firearm and then allowed it to bleed to death. The lawsuit claims that the 5-year-old […]
Nearly 30 million people in slavery
Reuters Nearly 30 million people are living in slavery across the globe, many of them men, women and children trafficked by gangs for sex work and unskilled labor, according to a global slavery index released on Thursday. The index by anti-slavery charity Walk Free Foundation ranked 162 countries […]
Study: Iraq War Resulted in 461,000 Iraqi Deaths
Daniel Larison new study has concluded that the overall death toll as a result of the Iraq war was much higher than is commonly believed. Max Fisher summarizes: An extensive new study into Iraq’s war deaths makes that storyline look a bit different. The study, conducted by four […]
Anti-Establishment Journalist Has Spent 400 Days in Jail
Huffington Post According to a recent report by the Committee to Protect Journalists, the Obama administration is not the most transparent in history, but rather the most secretive and least friendly to the press. Leak investigations and mass surveillance have together created a hostile environment for journalists and […]
Government Spends More on Corporate Welfare Subsidies than Social Welfare Programs
Think By Numbers 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 […]
Things Are So Bad for GOP That Conservatives Are Rooting for Dems To Take Back the House
Politics USA Things are so bad in Dreher’s mind that he writes that he can’t believe he’s saying this, “but I hope the House flips to the Democrats in 2014, so we can be rid of these nuts. Let Ted Cruz sit in the Senate stewing in his […]
Conservatives Need to Be More Consistent
OJ Simpson Planning to Become Televangelist
Christian Post Disgraced American football legend and retired actor O.J. Simpson is reportedly planning to become a televangelist after his release from a five year prison term some time this Christmas. The troubled star’s manager Norman Pardo told The Enquirer that Simpson found God in prison and has been […]
Off the Plutocrats…
Off the PIGS…
Los Angeles Times endorses censorship with ban on letters from climate skeptics
Fox News Scientists who are fine-tuning a landmark U.N. report on climate change are struggling to explain why global warming appears to have slowed down in the past 15 years even as greenhouse gas emissions keep rising. (AP Photo/John McConnico) Censorship of skeptic global warming views by the […]
Book-burning; it’s back
John Kersey Didn’t we go through all this business of why we shouldn’t ban books fifty years ago, with Lady Chatterley? It seems that we need to revisit the issue, for the past fortnight has seen some rather disturbing suggestions that would amount to a return to literary […]
Nietzsche’s Olympian Synthesis
By Gwendolyn Taunton Dionysus with more than a hint of Apollo. Lucidity’s task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. Emil Cioran Understanding the role Tradition could or should play in the modern era is a central topic in the study of philosophy. Today, in a world […]
Embrace Your Inner Lion
The Rise of the New New Left
Peter Beinhart Maybe Bill de Blasio got lucky. Maybe he only won because he cut a sweet ad featuring his biracial son. Or because his rivals were either spectacularly boring, spectacularly pathological, or running for Michael Bloomberg’s fourth term. But I don’t think so. The deeper you look, […]
Is Peter Beinart Right About a ‘New New Left’?
Rick Perlstein Peter Beinart (AP Photo/David Goldman) Peter Beinart is out with a major new argument in The Daily Beast about what the political future might hold in store for us. The headline writer calls it “The Rise of the New New Left,” and it begins by citing […]
Protests Sweep Canada Following Paramilitary Assault on Indigenous Fracking Blockade
Common Dreams Police raid on New Brunswick fracking blockade (Photo: APTN reporter Ossie Michelin, via Twitter)Protests are sweeping Canada following Thursday’s assault by paramilitary-style police on members of indigenous Elsipogtog Mi’kmaq First Nation and local residents as they blockaded a New Brunswick fracking exploration site.
Study: Chemotherapy actually increases cancer growth, cancer cells becoming resistant to treatment
Natural News The cancer treatment scam that is chemotherapy has once again been shown in the scientific literature to be a major cause of, rather than a cure for, cancer. According to a new study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature, chemotherapy not only promotes the growth […]
It’s the Banksters Who Need to Get a Real Job
PIGS Kill 90 Year Old Man in Mistaken Drug Raid
Libertarian Republic LOS ANGELES, CA – Robby Soave over at the DailyCaller is reporting that Los Angeles County Police performed a drug raid at the home of 80-year-old Eugene Mallory and his wife Tonya Pate, killing him in bed. He was suspected of being part of an illegal […]
A Balanced Breakfast! Take That, Health Fascists!
Prisoner Sent to Solitary for Having “Copious Amounts of Anarchist Publications”
Vice.Com Mark “Migs” Neiweem. An inmate in Illinois has been in solitary confinement since July for possessing “copious amounts of Anarchist publications” and “handwritten Anarchist related essays,” according to prison documents.
…But Not Constrained Enough
That’s why we need an anarchist revolution.
The Tea Party: Not as Dumb as They Seem?
“Whilst I think the Tea Party folk warrant critique along several lines, I’ve always found the general hatedom against them to be overblown and rooted in caricature. This seems to reinforce my view: “The shift to the right on the gray columns represents a positive correlation between tea […]
Book Review: National-Anarchism: A Reader, edited by Troy Southgate
By Brett Stevens National-Anarchism: A Reader edited by Troy Southgate 306 pages, Black Front Press (2012), $20 For two centuries people have looked for a way out of the political dichotomy that was created by the French Revolution, which set up the traditionalist party as a necessary opposition […]
Like Something Out of North Korea
Michelle Malkin Earlier this year, at the B. Bernice Young Elementary School in Burlington Township, N.J., schoolchildren were instructed to memorize a paean to Barack Obama. A video uploaded to the YouTube account of Charisse Carney-Nunes, author of the children’s book “I Am Barack Obama” and a self-described […]
Say It Again, Noam!
The Next 30 Years of American Politics
Attack the System The Next 30 Years of American Politics October 13, 2013 Keith Preston discusses how American political culture will likely develop over the next few decades. Topics include: Why the American Empire will continue to implode due to loss of legitimacy and fiscal constraints. Why American […]
Is Red State America Seceding?
By Pat Buchanan In the last decade of the 20th century, as the Soviet Empire disintegrated so, too, did that prison house of nations, the USSR. Out of the decomposing carcass came Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Moldova, all in Europe; Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan in […]
NBC/WSJ Poll: GOP Approval Rating At All Time Low
Talking Points Memo AP Photo / Harry Hamburg Caitlin MacNeal – October 10, 2013, 7:00 PM EDT36015 Just 24 percent of Americans have a positive opinion of the Republican party, according to a new NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Thursday. The survey reflects a record low in approval […]
The tea party is giving anarchism a bad name
Washington Post (Justin Sullivan / Getty Images) OPINION | In a recent impassioned speech, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren used the word “anarchy” repeatedly to describe the tea party’s role in the ongoing government shutdown. So did Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who said on the Senate floor that […]
California’s Model for 21st Century American Feudalism
By Joel Kotkin California has been the source of much innovation, from agribusiness and oil to fashion and the digital world. Historically much richer than the rest of the country, it was also the birthplace, along with Levittown, of the mass-produced suburb, freeways, much of our modern entrepreneurial […]
Why Golden Dawn is the only Anti-Fascist Party in Greece
Excellent article by Greg Palast. I agree with every word. On September 18, hip-hop artist Pavlos Fyssas, a.k.a. Killah P, was stabbed outside a bar in Keratsini, Greece. Larry Summers has an air-tight alibi. But I don’t believe it. Larry didn’t hold the knife: The confessed killer is […]
Libertarian Populism vs Totalitarian Humanism: The Battle for the 21st Century
Attack the System Libertarian Populism vs Totalitarian Humanism: The Battle for the 21st Century October 7, 2013 Keith Preston discusses the dynamics of political conflict as it will unfold over the coming century. Topics include:
2.3 Million Americans Rot in Prison — Meet the Corporations Exploiting Them for Profit
Alternet “Global Tel* Link. You have a collect call from: ‘Tim.’ An inmate in Shelby County Correctional Facility…. If you wish to accept and pay for this call, dial zero now.” I don’t know how many times I heard the same robotic voice speak these words since last fall. I […]
Subcomandante Marcos and the Zapatista Movement: Land, Nationhood, and Autonomy
By Jamie O’Hara and Craig Fitzgerald This essay is included in the recently released NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: HEROES AND VILLAINS, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. By Jamie O’Hara and Craig FitzGerald In order for decentralized autonomy to flourish, independent communities must be internally cohesive. This […]
Greenwald interviewed by idiot TV news anchor
U.S. Senator: “We Are Not a Country of Anarchists”
Not yet, but give us time. We Are Not a Country of Anarchists By Elizabeth Warren, Reader Supported News 04 October 13 f you watch the anarchist tirades coming from extremist Republicans in the House, you’d think they believe that the government that governs best is […]
Yippie vs Yuppie: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin debate in 1986
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The True State of the U.S. Economy
By Mike Whitney “Slumping asset prices show a recession is probably on its way. … Stocks tend to fall more frequently and further than property values, so they are better recession-predictors.” – IMF research paper by economists John C. Bluedorn, Joerg Decressin and Marco E. Terrones. The fact that […]
Leopold Kohr: The first anarcho-pluralist/pan-secessionist?
By Paul Kingsnorth Illustration by Andrzej Krauze Living through a collapse is a curious experience. Perhaps the most curious part is that nobody wants to admit it’s a collapse. The results of half a century of debt-fuelled “growth” are becoming impossible to convincingly deny, but even as economies […]
Online Drug Market Silk Road Shut Down
Authorities have arrested Ross Ulbricht of San Francisco and charged him with running the Silk Road, an online market place for anonymously buying and selling drugs. The site was hosted on Tor, the anonymity network that is thought to be immune to government regulation. In a unsealed criminal […]
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