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Nexus X HumectressAttack 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 […]
When Leftists Supported the Right to Bear Arms
The Left is Worthless as an Opposition Force in the Age of Obama
By Jeffrey St. Clair Is there a Left in America today? There is, of course, a Left ideology, a Left of the mind, a Left of theory and critique. But is there a Left movement? Does the Left exist as an oppositional political, cultural or economic force? Is […]
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations
The Guardian The 29-year-old source behind the biggest intelligence leak in the NSA’s history explains his motives, his uncertain future and why he never intended on hiding in the shadows • Q&A with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I do not expect to see home again’ Link to video: […]
Keith on Bilderberg, Leslie Van Houten, the Surveillance State, and more
ATS News of the Week Commentary with Keith Preston.
Topics include:
-The participants in the current Bilderberg gathering.
-The shooting in Santa Monica.
-The parole hearing of former Charles Manson follower Leslie Van Houten.
-The death of a young Antifa in France.
-Obama’s culpability in the growth of the surveillance state.
-A discussion of Jeffrey St. Clair’s article on the decline of the American Left.
-Scott Locklin’s article on why Americans are too fat and lazy for a revolution.
-The need for an American Hezbollah.
Icelandic Legislator: I’m Ready To Help NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden Seek Asylum
forbes.com Andy Greenberg Icelandic legislator and Icelandic Modern Media Initiative co-founder Birgitta Jonsdottir When WikiLeaks burst onto the international stage in 2010, the small Nordic nation of Iceland offered it a safe haven. Now American whistleblower Edward Snowden may be seeking that country’s protection, and at least one […]
Shehadic Sobbings of the Waah-Waah Sisterhood
From my Inferno. Last week saw not one but two gynocentric moral panics, with the forces of femiternalism once more waging their holy war, or shehad, against the tentacles of the todgerarchy .
For a Libertarian Legal Revolution
Keith calls for a revolutionary reorganization of law along libertarian lines. Topics include:
-The non-aggression principle as the basis for libertarian law
-Conflicting interpretations of the NAP among anti-state radicals.
-How legal institutions in a stateless society might be organized.
-Much needed reforms within the realm of criminal law.
Emma West and the State – The State has its way (sort of)
Dr. Sean Gabb Emma West has finally been worn down. Eighteen months after she was charged with racially aggravated intentional harassment and racially aggravated assault , she has agreed to plead guilty to the lesser charge of racially aggravated harassment, alarm or distress with the original charges being […]
Colorado To Secede? Rural Counties Want To Form New State
Inquisitr.Com A few rural communities in North Colorado want to secede and become their own state. According to the Coloradan, a group of county commissioners are pursuing a plan to secede from Colorado over concerns that their voices are being ignored by the state. Sean Conway, a commissioner […]
They Say They Want a Revolution
By Scott Locklin According to Fairleigh Dickinson University’s PublicMind survey, 29% of US citizens polled say they believe that “In the next few years, an armed revolution might be necessary in order to protect our liberties.” Of the five potential responses to this question—“agree, disagree, neither, unsure, no […]
No Surprise Here: Man Arrested for DUI Blows .000
Political Outcast Surprise is actually the name of a city in Arizona. When you read a news article about an incident there, you keep waiting for some kind of punch line. In Surprise, Arizona, there was a Surprise man who was arrested by Surprise police officers. The surprise […]
Now More Than Ever, Everybody’s a Target in the American Surveillance State
By John Whitehead “Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.” ~ A senior intelligence official previously involved with the Utah Data Center The recent revelation that the National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting the telephone records of millions of Verizon customers, with the complete blessing of the […]
Secession Fever in Vermont
By Kirkpatrick Sale Gwen Roolf (cc) I presume to review this book, even though I am a contributor to it, because it is a fine representation of an increasing tendency across this land of resistance to a federal government grown inept, corrupt, overreaching, overlarge, and overintrusive. That tendency may […]
Student Fined for Wearing Eagle Feather at Graduation
Indian Country Today Media Network An Escambia Academy High School student who wore an eagle feather on her graduation cap was denied her diploma after graduating May 23. According to a contract issued by the school in Atmore, Alabama, 17-year-old Chelsey Ramer, of the Poarch Creek Band of […]
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 […]
Transgender Teen Voted Prom Queen At Middleboro High
CBS Boston Cody Tubman had a dream prom night, the perfect dress and then the crown to go with it. Cody was voted prom queen of Middleboro High School. “I was all smiles,” Cody says laughing. “We were standing there and they announced I was prom queen. So […]
SCOTUS Upholds Taking of DNA from Arrestee
Independent Institute Today the Court decided Maryland v. King, and held that if the police have probable cause to make an arrest for a “serious offense” they may also as a matter of course use a cotton swab to take the arrestee’s DNA. The Court said that this was a legitimate […]
New Jersey dad wears Nazi uniform in court during custody hearing
Raw Story The founder of a New Jersey Nazi group insisted his wearing an accompanying uniform should not impact his chances of regaining custody of his four children, WCAU-TV reported on Monday. “I’m going to tell the judge, I love my children,” “Hitler’s Order” leader Heath Campbell said […]
Death of a Baby-Faced Thug
AlternativeRight.Com A violent advocate for the death of his nation France is once again the scene of impassioned protests as French antifa and members of the far Left cluster up at Saint Michel fountain and the city’s Latin Quarter to condemn the recent killing of Clement Meric, a […]
Bradley Manning Trial: Is U.S. Military Curbing Media Coverage of Whistleblower’s Court Martial?
Texas legislator drops marijuana cigarette while speaking on floor
Tribune Herald While speaking during the Texas legislative session, representative Tom Alvin (R) Altruria, dropped something unexpected on the House floor. Upon picking up the item, cameras caught a glimpse of what appeared to be a marijuana cigarette. He quickly put it back in his pocket as legislators […]
Why Young People Don’t Vote Republican
New York Times Rich Addicks for The New York TimesYoung Republicans. There has been no shortage of Republican post-mortems on the 2012 presidential election — and no shortage of apologists who claimed the party need only change its rhetoric (and stop nominating members of the legitimate-rape caucus) to […]
“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 […]
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