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Nexus X HumectressAn Anarchist Looks at Memorial Day
By Thomas Knapp “Memorial Day,” according to Wikipedia, “is a United States federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May …. Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in the military service.” I confess to mixed feelings. On the one […]
Radicalizing the Center, Part Two: Reflections on Movement Building
Keith Preston continues his discussion of how to bring revolutionary anarchist ideas into the mainstream.
Topics include:
How the prevalence of cultural leftist fanaticism within the anarchist milieu is undermining the growth of the movement and outreach efforts.
Why the state is a unique institution of oppression and why efforts to equate statism with other forms of authoritarianism are misguided.
Step Out of My Sunshine! Reflections of a Libertarian Cynic
MRDA’S Inferno Kevin I. Slaughter, Satanic Reverend and owner of publishing house Underworld Amusements, expressed this sentiment not-so-long ago: I don’t adhere to any specific political party or platform, but reading comments on the internet underlines the folly of any political system that involves “the people” making informed […]
The Age of Authoritarianism: Government of the Politicians, by the Military, for the Corporations
By John Whitehead “[F]orce alone cannot make us safe. We cannot use force everywhere that a radical ideology takes root; and in the absence of a strategy that reduces the well-spring of extremism, a perpetual war – through drones or Special Forces or troop deployments – will prove […]
How the Left Has Failed the Working Class
By Samuel Goldman The New Yorker‘s George Packer can’t decide what to think about 21st-century America. On the one hand, Packer likes developments that enhance the lifestyles of the educated upper middle class: “marriage equality, Lipitor, a black President, Google searches, airbags, novelistic TV shows, the opportunity for […]
A Letter to North American Anarchists from Radical Beirut
Anarchist News Comrades, —- The Arab uprisings and Occupy Wall Street and the rest of global uprisings since 2011 have opened more doors for us to communicate and realize more than ever how our struggles against the state and dominant power structures are interconnected and the same. Our […]
Activist Adam Kokesh Calls on “American Revolutionary Army” to March on all 50 State Capitals
The Daily Sheeple In a statement released from a Philadelphia federal prison, former marine and now imprisoned activist Adam Kokesh called for a new American revolution, complete with an American Revolutionary Army that would march on all 50 state capitals to put the federal government on notice.
911 Dispatcher Tells Woman About To Be Sexually Assaulted There Are No Cops To Help Her Due To Budget Cuts
CBS Seattle An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn’t be able be able to help her as her ex-boyfriend broke into her place because of budget cuts. Oregon Public Radio reports that an unidentified woman called 911 during a weekend in August 2012 […]
Welcome to Islamberg
Law Enforcement Today In Hancock, NY an Islamic community that sits on 80 acres of land has decided to form its own government. They call their community: The Town of Islamberg. They have their own mayor, deputy mayor and five town council members. None of them are elected, […]
Community or Leviathan?
By Patrick Deneen In his most recent diagnosis of the state of America’s political soul, the journalist and political thinker E.J. Dionne begins with a simple thesis. In the opening pages of Our Divided Political Heart, he asserts that “American history is defined by an irrepressible and ongoing […]
Muslims Chase Cops in London….Police Run for Cover
Twenty Years on Death Row: Debra Milke’s Wrongful Conviction and the Future Publicity Fallout
By Paul Huebl Debra Milke has languished on Arizona’s Death Row here for more than two decades. She’s no stranger to unwanted publicity, nearly all of it being outrageous and libelous. This story all began with Milke’s arrest by a really poor excuse for a cop. Milke’s four-year-old […]
Gun Control Won’t Eliminate Guns
By Mark Crovelli No single issue in the American political arena illustrates the similarity of American liberals and American conservatives than the issue of gun control. This claim will no doubt appear counterintuitive, because conservatives and liberals have been bickering over gun rights for as long as anyone […]
The Human Cost of the War in Iraq
MIT Conventional wisdom in American politics focuses only on American costs in the war in Iraq: the casualties to U.S. soldiers, the financial costs, and sometimes the strategic costs. But the human cost to the Iraqis themselves are nearly ignored in political discourse, the news media, and intellectual […]
Harvard Students Call for the Repression of Free Inquiry
Jason Richwine Jason Richwine I don’t apologize for any of my writing, but I deeply regret that it was used to hurt my friends and colleagues at Heritage. Seeing them struggle on account of me was the most painful aspect of the whole ordeal. I remember a particularly […]
Antiwar.Com Sues the FBI
Antiwar.com is taking the FBI to court! We demand records regarding surveillance of Antiwar.com. One FBI memo called us “a threat to national security.” We’re Americans engaged in peaceful, constitutionally protected activity: what used to be called journalism. The FBI must admit this, and promise to cease and […]
Collecting Rainwater Now Illegal in Many States
WorldTruth.TV Many of the freedoms we enjoy here in the U.S. are quickly eroding as the nation transforms from the land of the free into the land of the enslaved, but what I’m about to share with you takes the assault on our freedoms to a whole new […]
National-Anarchism: Heroes and Villians
Signed copies of NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: HEROES AND VILLAINS are now available to pre-order. The book is approximately 160 pages in length and costs just £15 with free postage to anywhere in the world. The Paypal address is: blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk More details below.
Army Death Squad Cut ‘Trophies’ From Civilians They Murdered
Lew Rockwell Posted by Lew Rockwell on March 21, 2011 08:17 AM The American soldiers took more than 4,000 photos of their civilian Afghan kills and “trophies,”but the evidence is, as usual, being hidden from us and the world. And we know what little we know thanks to […]
How the Black Power Movement Was Coopted by the System
Says anarchist/black nationalist and former Panther Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. I wish, in their justifications of using electoral politics, both white radicals and black nationalists would stop bringing up the 1972 political campaigns of Black Panther leaders Elaine Brown and Bobby Seale in Oakland, CA. They claim it “won […]
Civil disobedience rising across America as citizens fed up with criminal government
Natural News To many veterans of the 1960s-era civil rights movement there is a rising angst and discourse among the populace that is eerily familiar to them. Nearly everywhere you turn, crowds of angry Americans are gathering, no longer content to merely sit idly by and remain spectators […]
Ex-Porn Star Harmony Rose, AKA Tracy Rolan, Volunteers As EMT
Huffington Post Harmony Rose, 29, is a former porn actress who is now training as a volunteer EMT in Roanoke, VA. This EMT trainee has experience getting the blood flowing. Harmony Rose’s birth name is Tracy Rolan, according to IMDB. She has been featured in more than 200 […]
Ray Manzarek of the Doors Breaks on Through to the Other Side: R.I.P., Ray
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Beyond Sectarian Anarchism: Radicalizing the Center
Keith Preston reflects on recent violent conflicts within the anarchist milieu and discusses more constructive approaches.
Topics include:
How the variety of hyphenated forms of anarchism will continue to grow as anarchism becomes a more prevalent political ideology.
How the many hyphens within anarchism need not be a source of division but of strength and potential outreach to an ever greater number of constituencies.
The need for leaders and activists to emerge in different anti-state movements who recognize the need for a united revolutionary front against common enemies.
Anarchists Attacked by Marxists in New York City
NATA-NY NATA-NY’s experience at the seventh annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair By Gabriel Brown NATA-NY member and co-founder On April 6, 2013, the seventh annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair, which was held at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in New York City, provided the setting for a […]
Northwestern student govt nominee’s confirmation blocked because he is a ‘heterosexual white male’
By Timothy Dionisopoulos The journey into the Twilight Zone continues. A student’s bid to become associate vice president of diversity and inclusion at Northwestern University was derailed last Wednesday over accusations that his status as a white heterosexual male would make it impossible for him to perform the […]
Rednecks doing Yoga
by Rachel Haywire
What’s the difference between a redneck and a yoga-scenester?
Nothing. They are both degenerate subcultures. The yoga-scenesters think they are better than the rednecks, prancing themselves above
The European Miracle
By Ralph Raico This essay originally appeared as “The Theory of Economic Development and the ‘European Miracle’” in The Collapse of Development Planning, edited by Peter J. Boettke. Among writers on economic development, P.T. Bauer is noted both for the depth of his historical knowledge, and for his […]
Emma West timeline
Libertarian Alliance This is a timeline of the events concerning the prosecution and trial of Emma West, who was recorded on video while on a London tram. Her case has previously been the subject of comment here, in particular by Robert Henderson.
We Miss You, Frank
‘Innocent’ US man freed 42 years after deadly hotel fire
A man who was locked up for more than 40 years for starting a deadly fire at an Arizona hotel has walked free from prison after years of doubt about his conviction.
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
Amazon.Com An endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America
28 Years Ago The Philadelphia Police Department Bombed and Burned a City Block
By Lucy Steigerwald This | Comment Photo credit: Cherri Gregg/via CBS Philly The 1993 Waco siege is often categorized as one of the more violent, militaristic, domestic actions by U.S. law enforcement in recent memory. And it should be. At the Branch Davidian’s “compound” a fatal combination of government arrogance, fear, impatience, […]
Feminists assaulted in Transgender Attack at Portland conference for Social Change: Women’s books destroyed and bodies defaced with permanent magic markers
GenderTrender Prescient conference graphic: women blindfolded and having arms chopped off
This economic collapse is a ‘crisis of bigness’
The Guardian 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 and […]
Quote of the Day
“The drug war is not just another issue among a multitude of equally important issues; it is a horrible invasion of liberties with catastrophic effects on people all over the world. Any politician who supports it is thereby declaring himself at war against decency, peace, and security.”— Robert […]
The Real Horror of Benghazi Was Ethnic Cleansing-Let’s Talk About That
Hip Hop and Politics Black people were slaughtered in Libya after NATO Invasion
U.S. Currently Fighting 74 Different Wars … And Many More Covert Wars
Global Research Linda J. Bilmes and Michael D. Intriligator, ask in a recent paper, “How many wars is the US fighting today?” Today US military operations are involved in scores of countries across all the five continents. The US military is the world’s largest landlord, with significant military […]
Sean Gabb on the “Horrors” of Internet Pornography
Libertarian Alliance The Beeb woke me at the crack of dawn to deal with these fatuous and endlessly-recycled lies about the tendency of porn to turn good men into sex-crazed zombies. Don’t be surprised if I sound as bored here as I felt. The most interesting thing for […]
Stewart Destroys Obama Over IRS Scandal, Lack Of ‘Managerial Competence’: You’ve Vindicated Conspiracy Theorists
By Josh Feldman Jon Stewart mercilessly tore into the Obama administration tonight over the revelation that the Internal Revenue Service specifically targeted Tea Party groups for scrutiny. Stewart slammed the government’s lack of “managerial competence” and said that thanks to this scandal, conspiracy theorists how have a level […]
Rand Paul “Assures” Evangelicals That He Doesn’t Want to End the Drug War
Rand Paul epitomizes why we need revolutionary anarchism, not “constitutional conservatism.” Reason.Com In preparation for a 2016 presidential run, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) is courting evangelical leaders. And we all know what that means! It’s time to throw those hedonistic, libertine, drug-obsessed libertarians under the bus. The Washington Post reports on […]
Obama a Marxist? Yeah…right
Huffington Post WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron on Monday pledged to pursue a broad trade agreement between the U.S. and European Union, amid growing domestic unrest with the Obama administration’s plans to include new political powers for corporations in the deal. Negotiations […]
The Legacy of the New Left: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Keith Preston offers a critical evaluation of the movement that shaped the cultural life of contemporary Western societies.
Topics include:
The intellectual and political origins of the New Left as a “fourth way” movement beyond capitalism, fascism, and communism.
The convergence of social forces during the 1960s that made the growth of the New Left possible.
The success of the New Left at carrying out a comprehensive cultural revolution in Western civilization.
The failure of the New Left at opposing American imperialism, challenging the hegemony of plutocratic capitalism, and preventing the subsequent growth of police state repression.
All Nations Party: Interview with Ryan Faulk
Keith Preston interviews returning guest Ryan Faulk.
Topics include:
Ryan’s latest project, the All Nations Party, a proposed political meta-party devoted to pan-secessionism.
How such a party might be composed of sub-parties devoted to specific regional, ideological, or identitarian interests and how these might break down into constituent sub-interests of their own.
How cultural conflict prevents the growth of effective opposition to the political class.
Incoherent Country, Incoherent Policy
That 3D-Printed Handgun You’ve Been Waiting For Is Here
Reason.Com Remember when Defense Distributed‘s Cody Wilson promised to unveil an entirely 3D-printed handgun made of ABS plastic with the firing pin its only metal part? Well, he’s apparently done it. Forbes‘s Andy Greenberg was given a sneak peek of the result, and it looks and appears to […]
Police Caught by Their Own Dash Cam Framing Citizens For Another Cop’s Crime
Culpeper Cop Who Shot and Killed Patricia Cook Sentenced to Three Years in Prison
Reason.Com Daniel Harmon-Wright, the police officer in Culpeper, Virginia, who shot and killed former Sunday school teacher Patricia Cook in February 2012, has been sentenced to three years in prison. This is what the jury recommended upon convicting Harmon-Wright of manslaughter three months ago. According to WJLA, the […]
The Weak Evidence for Chemical Weapons Use in Syria
By Daniel Larison Jeffrey Lewis reviews the evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria and finds it lacking: The conventional wisdom seems to be that Syria used “small scale” chemical agents to test Western resolve. This is the sort of thing that sounds great over coffee at the […]
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