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Nexus X Humectress“Operation Flush the Johns”
New York Daily News Frank Eltman Monday, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced the arrest of 104 men on charges of soliciting a prostitute at a news conference.
NSA collecting phone records of millions of Verizon customers daily
The Guardian Under the terms of the order, the numbers of both parties on a call are handed over, as is location data and the time and duration of all calls. Photograph: Matt Rourke/AP The National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US […]
Soldier Told Not to Read Levin, Limbaugh or Hannity in Uniform
To hell with Levin, Limbaugh, and Hannity, but the acclimation of the military to PC this represents is interesting. FOX News A veteran member of the U.S. Army Band said he is facing retribution and punishment from the military for having anti-Obama bumper stickers on his car, reading […]
A Case Study in How the Poor Are Prosecuted for Being Poor
Mike the Mad Biologist Or perhaps I should write persecuted? Recently, I discussed how the poor are prosecuted simply for being poor. The story of Methodist pastor Lorenza Andrade-Smith, who, in ministering to the homeless, sold her belongings and renounced her health insurance, provides a shocking example of […]
UK foils ‘nail bomb and shotgun’ revenge terror plot targeting EDL
How is this much different then a large scale gang war? From RT An Islamist terror cell planned to attack a British white power demonstration using a combination of homemade nail bombs, knives and sawn-off shotguns, a court heard on Thursday. The plan was only narrowly averted by […]
The Warrior State
Vice.com Militia members in Cuautepec, Guerrero, where they gathered to take an oath to defend their communities against organized crime. Photos by Carlos Alvarez Montero. On January 5 in El Potrero, a small town in the Mexican state of Guerrero, a man named Eusebio García Alvarado was kidnapped […]
South Dakota commits shocking genocide against Native Americans
People’s World by Albert Bender June 3 2013 Genocide is not too strong a term for what is now happening in South Dakota. The huge, shocking violation of legal and human rights being carried out by the state is tantamount to genocide against the Native American nations, the […]
Afro-Centrist/Black Nationalist Elected Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi
Given that Jackson is roughly 80% black, why isn’t this appropriate? Council of Conservative Citizens Chokwe Lumumba Outspoken black racial separatist elected mayor of a major US city. As recently as 2010 he has been involved with the African People’s Socialist Party and the New Black Panther Party. Chokwe […]
Transgender Navy SEAL ‘Warrior Princess’ Comes Out
ABC News View Photo ABC News – Transgender Navy SEAL ‘Warrior Princess’ Comes Out (ABC News) A former member of the elite U.S. Navy SEALs has come out to say she’s now a woman. Kristin Beck, formerly Chris, served 20 years as a SEAL and fought on some […]
No State Steps Down Without a Fight
Tom Woods answers with the obvious. For some reason, the finger-waggers at Salon think they’ve got us stumped with this one: “If your approach is so great, why hasn’t any country in the world ever tried it?” So this is the unanswerable question? What’s supposed to be so […]
Why Hasn’t Any Country Tried Libertarianism?
It looks like Salon.Com really has it in for libertarians these days. By Michael Lind (Credit: AP/Charlie Riedel) Why are there no libertarian countries? If libertarians are correct in claiming that they understand how best to organize a modern society, how is it that not a single country […]
Libertarians, Abortion, and Natural Rights
By Jordan Bloom Reason held a panel last week on libertarian perspectives on abortion featuring their own Katherine Mangu-Ward and Ronald Bailey, alongside the strongly pro-life Mollie Hemingway. The video is above. All seem to agree that viability is a sliding scale that is difficult to use as a […]
A Critique of Robert Nozick from the Left
Unfortunately, this writer is clueless as to the differences between neoliberalism and actual libertarianism and reacts with stereotypical left-wing hysteria when the welfare state is criticized. This article also fails to discuss what is most interesting about Nozick. Yet many of the criticisms of vulgar libertarianism are warranted […]
Point/Counterpoint: Open Borders are the Solution
By Jacob Hornberger All of us have been born and raised under a regime of controlled borders. We have also been inculcated with the notion that this is all part of a “free society” and a “free-enterprise system.” But it’s all been a lie. The truth is that […]
Who Even Needs the Nation-State in the 21st Century?
The Atlantic Barack Obama and Mark Zuckerberg: Friends — and competitors. (Reuters) Governments today face largely the same problems as businesses. The key challenge everywhere is not to downsize per se, but to compete more effectively by delivering the highest value for whatever they charge, in an environment […]
Announcing The Gottfried Report: The New Online Home of Paul Gottfried
It seems that every week brings new evidence of the cowardice and duplicity of the Mainstream Conservative Movement. From the firing of John Derbyshire and Jason Richwine to the wholesale purchase of Republican party operatives by sponsors of the new immigration amnesty legislation. But where mainstream conservatism has […]
Big Government v Big Business: David McDonagh Replies to Keith Preston
Libertarian Alliance I do not admire Keith Preston or his friend Kevin Carson. They seem to think in utterly unrealistic Romantic terms, such as class. Maybe the main one that I will criticism below is what seemed to be the most used term in the 80 minute talk […]
Neither Big Government nor Big Business
Keith Preston criticizes the mainstream narratives that promote the myth of big government and big business being antagonists of one another.
Topics include:
The false narratives maintained by liberals and conservatives alike regarding the relationship between State and Capital.
The rise in recent years of popular movements rooted in economic discontent.
The Best and Simplest Way to Fight Global Poverty: Giving Cash to Poor People
Slate.Com By Matthew Yglesias A Ugandan woman holds her child and a small bag containing kernels of beans that were strewn in the brush as bags of food relief ruptured on impact after they were air dropped by a WFP aircraft in northern Uganda on Oct. 19, 2007
The Work Esthetic
By Robert Anton Wilson If there is one proposition which currently wins the assent of nearly everybody, it is that we need more jobs. “A cure for unemployment” is promised, or earnestly sought, by every Heavy Thinker from Jimmy Carter to the Communist Party USA, from Ronald Reagan […]
Hero cop, who sat next to the first lady, charged with rape
CNN Officer Richard DeCoatsworth stands beside Michelle Obama during a presidential speech in 2009. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Richard DeCoatsworth took a shotgun blast to the face in the line of duty in 2007 Wounded, he pursued the assailant and called for backup, who caught the gunman He was honored […]
DHS Buying More Ammo: Lots of Non-Military Calibers
The Liberty Crier The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has posted a bid on the Federal Business Opportunities site. They are buying up more ammunition and this time it is definitely not the typical caliber of bullet used by the military. The Government Accountability Office has already investigated […]
Is 4GW Dead?: Point-Counterpoint and Commentary
ZenPundit.Com 4GW theory has always attracted overenthusiasts and raging haters ever since the concept emerged way back in 1989, so debates about the merit of 4GW are nothing new; in fact, the arguments became so routine that they had largely gone sterile years ago. After T.X. Hammes published […]
Society and Politics in 2100 – Part 1: The Rise of City States
The Futurist Humans are hard-wired social creatures. We have always organized ourselves starting with nuclear families and extending to formal and informal groupings such as tribes, gangs, clubs, political parties, nations and religions. Today we are on a macro level politically organized around the concept of nation, a […]
Work is Becoming More Like Prison As Some Workers Forced to Wear Electronic Bands That Track Everything They Do (Including Bathroom Breaks)
AlterNet Grocery giant TESCO has strapped electronic armbands to their warehouse workers to measure their productivity. February 15, 2013 |
Classical Liberalism’s Impossible Dream
By Robert Higgs I can understand why someone might embrace classical liberalism. I did so myself more than forty years ago. People become classical liberals for two main reasons, which are interrelated: first, because they come to understand that free markets “work” better than government-controlled economic systems in […]
Israel-Mexico: Military Cooperation to Crush Zapatistas Liberation Movement
Global Research Mexico has gone public about military coordination with Israel in Chiapas, home to the Zapatistas liberation movement. (Image: Omar Torres / AFP/Newscom)
Man Hit With 115 Police Rounds in Memorial Day Firefight Never Shot at Cops, Report Shows
Miami New Times Ever since police unloaded 115 rounds into a car driven by 22-year-old Palm Beach man Raymond Herisse on Memorial Day weekend two years ago — a firefight that wounded five bystanders and was caught on video — a key question has been, What triggered that […]
Woody Harrelson: I’m an anarchist
Politico.Com AP Photo By CAITLIN MCDEVITT | 5/31/13 2:15 PM EDT Who needs government? Actor Woody Harrelson says we’d be “just fine” without it in the latest issue of Details magazine:
The Gospel According to Nietzsche
An 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 […]
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