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Nexus X HumectressFeminists 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 […]
Duke University hikes student fees to pay for sex-change surgeries
The Washington Times Duke University is hiking student fees in order to cover the cost of sex-change surgery in its insurance plan. “The addition of sexual reassignment surgery with a $50,000 cap makes Duke’s student health care plan one of the most, if not the most, transgender-inclusive plans […]
I Was Detained and Interrogated at the Border for Carrying Condoms
Huffington Post What do you do when you’re detained by powerful officials, everything you say is presumed deceptive, arbitrary “evidence” is held against you, and you’re treated like a moral deviant? And what if its 2013, you’re a woman, and the “evidence” is that you possess condoms? It […]
Eric Holder says Feds Will Ignore State Laws and Enforce Gun Grab
Fractured Paradigm Attorney General Eric Holder has written to Kansas Governor Sam Brownback[1], informing him that the Obama administration considers state attempts to protect the Second Amendment “unconstitutional” and that federal agents will “continue to execute their duties,” regardless of state statutes to the contrary.
Woman Arrested For No Reason
High school track team disqualified from state championships after runner celebrated with ‘thanks to God’ hand gesture
The Daily Mail A small act of faith disqualified a Texas high school track team from advancing to the state championships. Despite finishing first in a relay race at their school track meet last weekend in Columbus, Texas, the Columbus High School Mighty Cardinals were revoked of their […]
Business Owner In N.Y. Fined $60,000 For Selling “Gun Shaped” Lighter
MrConservative.Com From the files of “stupid things Democrat-controlled cities do” comes the story of a Times Square, New York City tourist gift shop that got fined $60,000 for selling a cigarette lighter shaped like a tiny pistol. The city swooped down on shop owner Fred Shayes, 49, for […]
What Kind of a Monster Bans Chipotle?! (Nanny of the Month, April 2013)
They Are Murdering Small Business: The Percentage Of Self-Employed Americans Is At A Record Low
The Economic Collapse Blog The percentage of Americans that are working for themselves has never been lower in the history of the United States. Once upon a time, the United States was a paradise for entrepreneurs and small businesses, but now the control freak bureaucrats that dominate our […]
Harry Reid Calls Tea Partiers “Anarchists”: If Only It Were True
The State Is Terrorism
The Wolves Lead the Sheep
Reflecting Today On The Anniversary Of Kent State University Shootings
By Bobby Seale, co-founder and former Chairman of the Black Panther Party The 1960s and ’70s were tumultuous times in the United States. The country was fighting an unpopular war in Vietnam that was instigating a wave of protests. In 1970, tensions came to a fever pitch when […]
Exclusive: Victims Of Boston Police State Lockdown Speak Out
Remembering Kent State
A New Meaning to the CSA
ATS Podcast: Rising Above Culture War Psychology
Keith Preston offers a critical analysis of contemporary cultural and political conflict.
Topics include:
The ideological roots of the culture wars in the historic conflict between classical liberalism and socialism.
How the culture wars are a manifestation of class conflict between the traditional WASP elites and the rising, multicultural upper-middle class.
White House says the US may use military force against Syria
Russia Today AFP Photo/Jim Watson The White House says that United States President Barack Obama may approve of using military force against the Syrian government.
I turned from black to white: How a skin disorder changed a man’s identity and his place in the world
The Daily Mail As a five-year-old, every night I would pray to God to make me white. I grew up in an orphanage filled with largely white children, where I was often ridiculed for my skin colour. And even at that age, I realised that some opportunities in […]
School sets up ‘gender-neutral’ dressing room
The Local A Stockholm high school is set to open a third changing room for transsexual pupils and those who don’t want to define themselves as being male or female, a move believed to be the first of its kind in the country. ‘Idiot politicans can’t tell me […]
The true cancer in the world
US schools weigh bulletproof uniforms: ‘It’s no different than a seatbelt in a car’
The Guardian
City: No ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag on public land
Fellowship of Minds NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (AP) — A “Don’t Tread on Me” flag hoisted by veterans outside a city-owned armory has been ordered down because of complaints that the defiant symbol of the American Revolution is now associated with the tea party and makes an unwelcome political […]
A Racial Divide Closes as Students Step Up
New York Times Bryan Meltz for The New York Times Mareshia Rucker, center, and Stephanie Sinnott, right, are two of the four students who came up with the idea of an integrated prom in Wilcox County, Ga. By ROBBIE BROWN ABBEVILLE, Ga. — Mareshia Rucker watched in frustration […]
Noam Chomsky: Obama’s Attack on Civil Liberties Has Gone Way Beyond Imagination
Alternet.Org Under Obama’s administration, if you meet with someone in a terrorist group and advise them to turn to nonviolent means, then that’s material assistance to terrorism. April 26, 2013 |
Encountering the Left: My Meetings with Herbert Marcuse | Paul Gottfried
The “New Atheists” and Their Sectarian Wars
8th Grader Suspended, Arrested Over His NRA T-Shirt
The Blaze (WOWK-TV) Disciplined 8th-grader Jared Marcum returned to class on Monday after being suspended from school and arrested for refusing to change his NRA t-shirt at the request of one of his teachers. The shirt apparently pictured a firearm and the words “protect your rights.”
Anarchism in the 21st Century: Towards a New Paradigm
The Attack the System radio program returns with host Keith Preston.
In this installment Keith discusses:
-The need for anarchists to reach out to new sources of potential supporters beyond the radical left and the anarchist youth subculture.
-How the ARV/ATS philosophy of anarcho-pluralism continues the traditions of anarchism without adjectives and synthesist anarchism established by classical anarchist luminaries such as Voltairine De Cleyre, the Magon brothers, and Voline.
Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights?
Emily Bazelon Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not hear his Miranda rights before the FBI questions him Friday night. He will have to remember on his own that he has a right to a lawyer, and that anything he says can be used against him in court, because the government […]
The Bill of Rights was written for Dzhokar Tsarnaev
Thomas Mullen AMPA, April 20, 2013 – 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev is in custody. Assuming that Tsarnaev is indeed guilty of these crimes, a very real threat to public safety has been taken off the streets. That’s the good news. The bad news is that […]
Middle School Girls Receive Training for Dorm Life When They Go Off to College
Standupforthetruth.Com Imagine 13 and 14-year-old girls being instructed to ask one another for a lesbian kiss in a class exercise. The girls had no choice. The parents were NOT informed. But hey, if it falls under “anti-bullying,” than who are you to question it, right? Heather Clark over […]
Emma Goldman: Anarchism and Other Essays, with a new introduction by Keith Preston
Available from Black House Publishing at Amazon.Com Emma Goldman is often depicted in current academic discourse as a mere prototypical feminist and socialist. Yet this collection of essays by Goldman reveals that she often expressed ideas which many of her present day admirers might find surprising and unsettling. […]
Walls Must Be Felled
by Mark Dyal
Counter-Currents is set to publish part three of my continuing examination of Deleuze and Guattari’s potential to influence what I am now calling the revolutionary Right, including
An Egoists International
by Legionscatz
A fundamental fact of life, regarding our potential to manifest any sort of large anarchistic mass-society, is that to successfully do this then anarchists must take the vast majority of the population along with
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