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.  

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, […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]