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Nexus X HumectressThis is What Budget Cuts Have Done to Detroit … And It’s Freaking Awesome
PolicyMic.Com This is What Budget Cuts Have Done to Detroit … And It’s Freaking Awesome
Mars Had An Oxygen-Rich Atmosphere 4 Billion Years Ago
Altering-Perspectives.Com Scientists inferred the presence of oxygen in the atmosphere by comparing Martian meteorites with data from rocks examined by Nasa’s Spirit Mars rover. Image: Nasa
Republicans Weep as Survey Shows 18-30 Year-Olds Prefer No Religion
Mad Mike’s America For the past two decades, there has been a rapid national shift away from identification with organized religion. Last year, according to the best available measurement of long-term trends in American religious identification, a new milestone was reached as more Americans between the ages of […]
North Carolina Becomes First State To Eliminate Unemployment Benefits
Talking Points Memo EMERY P. DALESIO June 28, 2013, 10:54 AM 33182 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — With changes to its unemployment law taking effect this weekend, North Carolina not only is cutting benefits for those who file new claims, it will become the first state disqualified from a […]
Ireland: Stateless for 2000 Years?
Bradley Manning should win the Nobel Peace Prize
The Guardian Army Pfc Bradley Manning is escorted into a courthouse at Fort Meade on the third day of his court martial. Photograph: Patrick Semansky/AP
The Supreme Court’s Gay-Marriage Gradualism
By Daniel McCarthy The Supreme Court’s rulings on the Defense of Marriage Act (struck down) and California’s Proposition 8 (the court disclaimed jurisdiction) were about the only rulings one could expect from a court of four liberals, four conservatives, and Anthony Kennedy. It would have overturned everything we […]
Teenager in jail since March for sarcastic Internet comment faces 8 years in prison
Russia Today A teenager from Texas could spend the next eight years in prison if a court decides that the sarcastic comment he made during an online argument is enough to convict him of issuing a terroristic threat. Justin Carter was only 18 years old when he and […]
The Supreme Court: Corporate America’s Employees of the Month
Business Week In its marquee cases on issues such as gay marriage and race relations, the Supreme Court wrestles with the meaning of majestic constitutional phrases—“equal protection of the laws” and that sort of thing. In the cases that matter the most to businesses, however, the justices address […]
Blue State Fascism
By Justin Raimondo Amid all the drama over Edward Snowden‘s flight from “justice” – the media stakeout at a Moscow airport, the smear campaign aimed not only at Snowden but at Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke the PRISM/eavesdropping story, and the obsessive media focus on Snowden as […]
Woman Naxal with rifle held off 250 commandos for six hours: Police
Indian Express For 10 hours on Saturday, around 30 Naxals held off 250 police commandos in this village, killing three cops. One of the Maoists was Raneeta, 32, who, the police said, fought the elite CoBRA commandos for six hours single-handedly, using a .303 rifle, hiding in a […]
The American Herd Creature
I’m not going to lie to you: I’m an American. I was born in the very cultural heart and soul of this blessed land — I mean Oklahoma, of course — and I have lived here for nearly seventy years, never residing abroad for more than six months […]
I Never Meant to be a Feminist
By Wendy McElroy A twenty-year old version of myself would laugh at anyone who suggested I would become a feminist. I was a libertarian verging on anarchism, and I thought feminism contradicted one of my core beliefs. Namely, every individual has an equal and identical claim to their […]
Dying vet’s ‘fuck you’ letter to George Bush & Dick Cheney needs to be read by every American
To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From: Tomas Young I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write […]
Attack the System: Robert Nozick and the Evolution of Anti-State Thought
Keith Preston discusses the work of the late Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick.
Topics include:
-Nozick’s “Anarchy, State, and Utopia” as a landmark work in political philosophy and its influence in academia.
-How both the Left and Right often read Nozick selectively and vulgarize his thinking.
-The relevance of Nozick’s concept of the “ultra-minimal state” to fourth generation warfare theory.
-Nozick’s concept of a meta-utopia of self-determined communities and how this presents a model for the evolution of anti-state radicalism beyond both leftist anarcho-social democracy and vulgar libertarian plutocratic apologies.
ROUNDTABLE: Gangs, Protesters, Facebook Groups, Whistleblowers, and more
News of the Week ROUNDTABLE: Gangs, Protesters, Facebook Groups, Whistleblowers, and more June 23, 2013 A roundtable discussion of current events with ATS senior editors Keith Preston, Vincent Rinehart, and Michael Parish.
Death row diary offers a rare glimpse into a morbid world
CNN Convicted murderer William Van Poyck penned long letters to his sister, Lisa, which she posted on the blog “Death Row Diary.” STORY HIGHLIGHTS William Van Poyck was sentenced to die in 1988 for killing prison guard Fred Griffis Van Poyck became a prolific writer and offered a […]
The Falcon Speaks: Convicted U.S. spy Christopher Boyce Says ‘Snowden is doomed’
CNN Editor’s note: Convicted spy Christopher Boyce was jailed for 40 years for espionage in 1977 after selling U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union. In 1985, his story was turned into a Hollywood film — “The Falcon and the Snowman” – starring Sean Penn and Timothy Hutton. Released […]
FBI uses drones in U.S., says Mueller
CNN FBI Director Robert Mueller acknowledged the law enforcement agency uses drone aircraft in the United States for surveillance in certain difficult cases. Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that drones are used by the FBI in a “very, very minimal way and very seldom.” He […]
Washington Is Insane — Paul Craig Roberts
By Paul Craig Roberts In the 21st century the two hundred year-old propaganda that the American people control their government has been completely shattered. Both the Bush and Obama regimes have made it unmistakenly clear that the American people don’t even influence, much less control, the government. As […]
Fighting Terrorism by Arming Terrorists
By W. James Antle III The Obama administration appears to be moving toward arming rebels in Syria, though the White House has only publicly confirmed an increase in the “scope and scale” of its military support. By one estimate, seven of nine key rebel combatant groups are Islamist. […]
Expose Gang Rapists, Go to Jail
Think Progress The Steubenville rape case, in which two high school football players were convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl at a party, helped spark a national conversation about consent, victim-blaming, and rape culture. The case gained national attention after the “hacktivist” group Anonymous leaked significant social […]
A Homeland of Their Own
F. Roger Devlin Those who attended the 2013 American Renaissance conference saw a change in mood and emphasis from previous gatherings—probably the result of watching Barack Obama coast to reelection with just 39% of the white vote. The new feeling is that the strategy of “awakening” whites and […]
What the NSA Revelations Tell Us about America’s Police State
Antifascist Calling Ongoing revelations by The Guardian and The Washington Post of massive, illegal secret state surveillance of the American people along with advanced plans for waging offensive cyberwarfare on a global scale, including inside the US, underscores what Antifascist Calling has reported throughout the five years of […]
The left turns compliant on violating civil liberties
By Dana Milbank Where have all the liberals gone? President Obama, who as a Democratic senator accused the Bush administration of violating civil liberties in the name of security, now vigorously defends his own administration’s collection of Americans’ phone records and Internet activities. Hundreds of people marched to […]
Why the Washington Elite Hates Edward Snowden
By Justin Raimondo On a visit to Washington a couple of months ago, I was surprised to discover Politico has a dead-tree edition: there it was at the local Starbucks alongside the Washington Post and the New York Times, right next to the double-chocolate scones. As assorted government […]
Pardon Edward Snowden
Sign the White House petition. Edward Snowden is a national hero and should be immediately issued a a full, free, and absolute pardon for any crimes he has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA surveillance programs.
Current Events, MostThe Treatment of Edward Snowden Puts American Totalitarianism on Show
Riding the Tiger Note: This article was contributed by guest author James C. Quinn, a Canadian citizen residing in Seoul, Korea. The views herein do not necessarily reflect the views of RidingTheTiger or its authors. The case of Edward Snowden has recently become international news. Snowden, a 30-year old […]
Six reasons why choosing Hong Kong is a brilliant move by Edward Snowden
correntewire.com MsExPat I live in Hong Kong. And when the news broke that Snowden had decided to take refuge in my city, I was puzzled at first. But then, as I read and listened to pundit after pundit in the US declare that Hong Kong was a crazy […]
U.S. charges Snowden with espionage
washingtonpost.com Peter Finn and Sari Horwitz Federal prosecutors have filed a criminal complaint against Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who leaked a trove of documents about top-secret surveillance programs, and the United States has asked Hong Kong to detain him on a provisional arrest warrant, […]
First in the Nation: Montana Requires a Warrant for Location Tracking
aclu.org Allie Bohm Montana just made history. It recently enacted the first state law in the nation (sponsored by Rep. Daniel Zolnikov (R-Billings)) requiring law enforcement to obtain a probable-cause warrant before tracking an individual based on his or her cell phone location information, social networking check-ins, or […]
NSA: If Your Data Is Encrypted, You Might Be Evil, So We’ll Keep It Until We’re Sure
techdirt.com Mike Masnick There’s been plenty of commentary concerning the latest NSA leak concerning its FISA court-approved “rules” for when it can keep data, and when it needs to delete it. As many of you pointed out in the comments to that piece — and many others are […]
Documentary Alleges TWA Flight 800 Cover-Up
ABC News In a new documentary, former investigators who looked into the mysterious crash of TWA Flight 800, which killed 230, are breaking their silence to claim that the explosion that brought down the plane in 1996 was likely no accident, and that the final report on the […]
Filmmaker asserts new evidence on crash of TWA Flight 800
CNN A documentary on the 1996 explosion that brought down TWA Flight 800 offers “solid proof that there was an external detonation,” its co-producer said Wednesday. “Of course, everyone knows about the eyewitness statements, but we also have corroborating information from the radar data, and the radar data […]
The Case of Edward Snowden: Breaking Down Boundaries of Left and Right
Keith Preston explains how concerns about the surveillance state are creating opportunities for new political realignments.
Attack the System: The Struggle to Come
Keith discusses the process of revolutionary build up that must occur in the decades ahead for the System to be effectively challenged by mid-century..
Totalitarian Humanism is Here: The Left Has Formally Capitulated to the Police State
By Justin Raimondo The widely noted poll showing Democrats are now the biggest cheerleaders for the Surveillance State has conservatives delightedly calling out the left for “hypocrisy,” noting with glee the leftie pundits who denounced George W. Bush’s administration for trampling on our civil liberties and are now […]
Bring ‘Em Down!
On Prism, partisanship and propaganda
By Glenn Greenwald James Clapper, on Saturday decried the release of the information and said media reports about it have been inaccurate Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Anti-fascists fuel the fire of hate
The Telegraph The self-appointed opponents of bigotry can be as ugly as the racist groups they oppose. Police detain a UAF protester outside the Houses of Parliament last weekend. Photo: CARL COURT/AFP
Joan Rivers: ‘I Love Marijuana’
Are the Young People That Shrinks Label as Disruptive Really Anarchists with a Healthy Resistance to Oppressive Authority?
Alternet Many young people diagnosed with mental disorders have acted on their beliefs in ways that threaten authorities. Photo Credit: Shutterstock.com/grynold June 14, 2013 |
Chomsky vs Rothbard on Pol Pot
Read it for yourself.
The Long Haired Conservatives: the Children of ’68 Reconsidered
By Timothy Stanley May 14, 2008 From the vantage point of the early 21st century the American left seems like a hopeless, hapless, very probably lost cause.
Pan-Anarchism is the Logical End of Anarchism
By Paul Bonneau It’s not unusual to see here on Strike The Root articles defending or promoting anarchy, particularly the anarcho-capitalist variety. Yay, team! Anarcho-capitalism is a good answer–for anarcho-capitalists. Not so good for, say, communitarians, though; nor for liberals, conservatives, or even anarcho-other-than-capitalists. It’s an answer, not […]
Post-Westphalian Nationalism and the Restart of History
By Siryako Akda Nationalism, as it was originally envisioned by Enlightenment thinkers, was conceived of as a system composed of individuals bound together in a social contract with one another. However, this ideal was never fully achieved in the real world. Both in the West as well as […]
Osama bin Laden Predicted Obama’s War on the 4th Amendment
By Michael Scheuer More than a decade ago, Osama bin Laden appeared in a brief video to speak about several issues. One of them was to advise the Islamic world that they should expect the U.S. military to be defeated by Islam, the Taleban, and its allies in […]
Edward Snowden: Saving Us From the United Stasi of America
By Daniel Ellsberg In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden’s release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago. Snowden’s whistleblowing gives us the possibility to roll back a key part of […]
America’s New Normal: Mass Surveillance, Secret Courts and Death to Whistleblowers
By John Whitehead There is a deep and abiding sense of unease permeating American society. From the IRS targeting politically conservative groups to the Department of Justice targeting journalists for surveillance, from the revelation that the National Security Agency (NSA) is tracking the telephone calls of most Americans […]
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