Social Democracy as High-Overhead “Socialism”
By Kevin Carson Around a hundred years ago, guild socialist G.D.H. Cole argued that social democrats had made a major strategic decision not to contest the way property was distributed or production organized under corporate capitalism. Instead, they would limit their agenda to a (partial) equalization of the […]
Government Violence: The Missing Link in the Gun Control Debate
By John Whitehead It didn’t take long for the tragedy of the Newtown, Connecticut shootings, which left 20 schoolchildren and six adults dead, to be co-opted by politicians and special interest groups alike, all eager to advance their ideas about how to prevent another deranged madman from taking […]
Demand A Plan – Demand Celebrities Go FUCK Themselves!
This vid, which tears the hypocrisy of the “gun control” celbs to shreds, is getting some serious hits.
Paul Gottfried’s Calm Despair
By John Derbyshire Gottfried, Paul. War and Democracy: Selected Essays 1975-2012. London; Arktos Media, Ltd., 2012. The last time I saw Paul Gottfried was at the Mencken Club bash last November. At one point between lectures I passed him in a hallway having an animated conversation in French […]
Threats of Secession: A Bipartisan Game
By Charles C. W. Cooke ThinkProgress is rather enjoying the post-election secession chatter. “Twenty five percent of registered Republicans want their state to secede from the United States, according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling,” the site reports. I’ve made my thoughts on this idea clear before, so there […]
The Crude Homemade Guns Of The Chechen Army
buzzfeed.com Where there’s a will, there’s a way to kill. 1. Although the 2nd Chechen War officially ended in 2009, the violence continues between Russia and Chechen guerrilla fighters. I wouldn’t want to be the first one to test fire this thing.
Federal prisoners use snitching for personal gain
usatoday.com Denny Gainer, Jerry Mosemak and Brad Heath, USA TODAY At least 48,895 federal convicts — one of every eight — had their prison sentences reduced in exchange for helping government investigators, probe shows. ATLANTA – The prisoners in Atlanta’s hulking downtown jail had a problem. They wanted […]
Al Qaeda Has Basically Made Its Own Country In Africa
businessinsider.com Rukmini Callimach, Associated Press AP Photo/File In this Sept. 16, 2012 file photo, fighters from Islamist group Ansar Dine leave after performing a public amputation, severing the hand of a young man found guilty of stealing rice, in Timbuktu, Mali. MOPTI, Mali (AP) — Deep inside caves, […]
Police State Progressives
jack-donovan.com Jack Donovan And they worshiped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshiped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? Who is able to make war with him? Revelation 13:4 Those who take a cyclical view of history often contend that democracy must eventually end in some form […]
McAfee Labs predicts the decline of Anonymous
arstechnica.com Megan Geuss Computer security firm McAfee Labs released its annual Threat Predictions report today, taking a look at what we’ll see (and hope not to see) on 2013’s deck of malware and viruses. Interestingly, McAfee’s analysis predicts a decline in Anonymous’ attacks, a rise in the frequency […]
South Africa president: Pets are “white culture”
cbsnews.com AP Photo/Denis Farrell People walk their dogs outside the home of former president Nelson Mandela in Johannesburg, Thursday, Dec. 27 2012. / AP Photo/Denis Farrell President Jacob Zuma made critical remarks about pet care that touch on sensitive race relations in South Africa, which was dominated by whites […]
BBC Persian Interview with Noam Chomsky
The same reporter who interviewed ATS also interviewed Chomsky around the same time.
Keith Preston interviewed on BBC Persian
Starts around 2:00
Small Town Sebastopol Sued by Giant CVS Pharmacy
by Shepherd Bliss
On Christmas Eve, when most were at home with family and friends or out-of-town
Victorian Pan Secessionism: Birmingham’s Civic Gospel
by Spencer Pearson
Could a tiny group of determined people challenge the power of the state and enact
Naturalnews.com: Facebook bans Gandhi quote as part of revisionist history purge
From Banoosh The reports are absolutely true. Facebook suspended the Natural News account earlier today after we posted an historical quote from Mohandas Gandhi. The quote reads: “Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms […]
The Politics of Thelema
From Far Right to Far Left — and Farther — With Karl Hess
By John Boyd This text was originally published in The New York Times Magazine, December 6, 1970. Many thanks to E. for sending me this text. — François-René Rideau James Boyd, a freelance writer, is executive director of the Fund for Investigative Journalism in Washington, D.C. On a […]
Hagel vs Totalitarian Humanism
By Paul Gottfried I’ve no idea how former Nebraska senator and decorated Vietnam War veteran Chuck Hagel became President Obama’s preferred nominee for the job of Secretary of Defense. But when I learned about Hagel’s prospects, I was delighted. A social conservative with a skeptical view of America’s […]
Ex-President George H.W. Bush in Intensive Care
Schwarzkopf’s former partner in crime isn’t doing so well, either. Voice of America Former U.S. President George H.W. Bush has been moved to an intensive care unit at a hospital in Houston, Texas. The former president, 88, was admitted to the hospital last month suffering from bronchitis. His […]
Rot in Hell, Norman Schwarzkopf, Mass Murderer and War Criminal
MSN.Com 11 min ago By Lolita C. Baldor “Stormin’ Norman” Schwarzkopf commanded the U.S.-led international coalition in Desert Storm. He was 78.
Pedos in the Pentagon
It’s Time to Put Noam Chomsky Out to Pasture
Sorry, Noam, your previous efforts against the empire are appreciated, but it’s time for you to step aside, dude. ““Let’s move towards a kind of society where April 15 is a day of celebration.” -Noam Chomsky In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky, perhaps the most famous anarchist alive, […]
Saving the Free Market from Big Business and Big Government
By William Ruger Luigi Zingales photo: House Republican Conference (CC BY-NC 2.0) In 1934, University of Chicago economist Henry C. Simons published a seminal policy pamphlet titled A Positive Program for Laissez Faire. An early leader of the so-called Chicago School of economics, Simons laid out in this […]
The Coming Drone Attack on America
By Naomi Wolf People often ask me, in terms of my argument about “ten steps” that mark the descent to a police state or closed society, at what stage we are. I am sorry to say that with the importation of what will be tens of thousands of […]
How Blasphemy Laws Are Stifling Free Expression Worldwide
By Jillian C. York EFF.org December 24, 2012 As the year draws to a close, EFF is looking back at the major trends influencing digital rights in 2012 and discussing where we are in the fight for free expression, innovation, fair use, and privacy. Click here to read […]
Gun Control and Genocide
By Gary North Sunday, April 24th marked the 90th anniversary of the first genocide of the twentieth century: the Turkish government’s slaughter of over a million unarmed Armenians. The key word is “unarmed.” The Turks got away with it under the cover of wartime. They suffered no greater […]
Letters to an Elf King
by Steven Saragian
I hope that everyone at Attack the System and all of our readers are enjoying the many feasts and festivals designed to stop people from killing themselves during this dark and dreary
Idle No More: Perspectives
by Vince Rinehart
In case you haven’t heard, a social movement among Native people has begun in Canada, protesting against the Conservative Government’s budget bill which would cut
Our people were always armed
From Lingit Latseen by Vince Rinehart Gun control is not for Native people. It is for people who can’t or won’t take on the sacred duty to protect their families, their people, their lands and their way of life. When I was 13 I attended a gathering of […]
Meanwhile, in Mexico: Thousands of Masked Zapatistas March
Warrior Purblications Zapatistas: “to be heard, we march in silence” by Leonidas Oikonomakis on December 21, 2012 The Zapatistas are back! Flowing like the water of the river that beats the sword. And while some were anticipating the Christmas holidays, some others the end of the Maya calendar, […]
Karl Hess’s “Anarchism Without Hyphens”
Why I Don’t Much Like Liberals
By Kevin Carson Although people like Bill O’Reilly habitually refer to establishment liberals as the “far Left,” they are two very different things. What we identify as mid-20th century, New Deal liberalism is rooted in the Progressivism of the turn of the 20th century. The Progressives came largely […]
Tennessee Is Considering A Plan To Secretly Arm Teachers
Evan McMorris-Santoro TPM Tennessee has emerged this week as a center of the “the answer is more guns in schools” sentiment following the Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting. A member of the Republican-controlled legislature plans during its upcoming session to introduce a bill that would allow the state […]
Mass shooting in Pennsylvania: At least four reported dead
rt.com Mass shooting in Pennsylvania: At least four reported dead (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar) At least four people are reported dead after a shooter opened fire early Friday in Frankstown Township in Central Pennsylvania.
Stunning NRA Press Conference Blames Shooting On Media, Video Games, Movies And Calls On Congress To Put Cop In Every School
Business Insider In what was a rather stunning, half-hour press conference, the National Rifle Association called on Congress to put armed police officers in every school in America. The highly anticipated press conference came one week after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., last week. CEO Wayne LaPierre blamed […]
Newt Gingrich urges Republicans to rethink opposition to gay marriage
He knows which way the winds are blowing. The Guardian Former presidential candidate – who previously called same-sex marriage ‘pagan behavior’ – says his party needs to change. Gingrich: ‘The reality is going to be that in a number of American states – and it will be more […]
Obama named TIME’s ‘Person of the Year’ for second time in four years
what a guy —- dailymail.co.uk Iconic: President Barack Obama has been named as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2012
Free Speech & Leadership at Sonoma State University: Practice What You Teach!
By Shepherd Bliss
The creation of the Mario Savio Speakers’ Corner this semester was my favorite event
A broader-based response to shootings
By Chris Uggen I’ve been reluctant to write about the terrible events at Sandy Hook Elementary School because the wounds are still too fresh for any kind of dispassionate analysis. As a social scientist, however, I’m disappointed by the fear-mongering and selective presentations of the research evidence I’ve […]
Free Cascadia!
Reuters: Obama will use the executive against gunowners rights
Council of Conservative Citizens Now Reuters, a major news wire, is saying Obama plans to bypass Congress and use executive policy to take your rights away! From Reuters… Obama was not expected to unveil policy decisions but outline how his administration will proceed, White House aides said. The […]
$PLC Attacks Anarcho-Capitalists
In recent times, the SPLC has moved past attacking organized white supremacist or violent right-wing extremist groups and has begun targeting un-PC groups of virtually any kind including those with “un-leftist” views on abortion, gay rights, immigration, guns, and, apparently, economics. I have long predicted this. Look for […]
The 15 Most Dangerous People in the World
wired.com The Staff of Danger Room There used to be an established order to the world. A structure to things. You couldn’t print a gun like a term paper. It was impossible to wreck a nuclear production plant with a few lines of code. Flying robots didn’t descend […]
The Paranoid Style of the Israel Lobby
original.antiwar.com Justin Raimondo The anti-Hagel campaign reveals the psychopathology of radical Zionism The campaign to demonize Chuck Hagel in the run up to his possible confirmation hearings as Secretary of Defense is going full swing. As I told my readers the other day, “get ready for a mudslide […]
On banning assault rifles
According to the FBI’s uniform crime report, rifles are the least used class of weapon by any kind of killer in the United States. Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia reported ZERO killings by […]
Obama to support ban on assault weapon sales
rt.com U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters/Larry Downing) US President Barack Obama supports a proposal from Senator Diane Feinstein (D-California) that would reinstate a ban on the sale of assault weapons in the United States.
Gun sales surge after Connecticut massacre
foxnews.com William La Jeunesse The prospect of a renewed assault weapons ban in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre has set of a round of buying, as thousands of Americans head to their local gun store to secure the popular AR-15 — the model used by the […]
Who Will Control The Guns?
jack-donovan.com Jack Donovan When people talk about guns in the aftermath of a public shooting tragedy, they argue about what “we” should do about guns in America. “We should limit the capacity of magazines. No one needs the ability to fire off hundreds of rounds.” “We should ban […]

















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