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Nexus X HumectressFrom: American Free Press By Victor Thorn With dissent higher in this country than it has been in decades, a number of secessionist groups are asking the question: Would certain states or territories be better off if they seceded from the union? On August 16 AMERICAN FREE PRESS […]
businessinsider.com Mamta Badkar A leadership change in China is expected to be a month away. But the structure of the communist party is still baffling to many. We found this chart from a report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) that shows the hierarchy in […]
From:Reason.com By Brian Doherty Sep. 19, 2012 The folks at the great site libertarianism.org are celebrating Roy Childs Week this week, noting their publication of Anarchism and Justice, an ebook collecting some of the more interesting essays by the late libertarian popularizer and editor.
From: American Free Press September 18, 2012 By Pete Papaherakles Top officials representing 120 governments—the majority of the world—showed up in Tehran on August 26 to attend the week-long “Non-Aligned Movement” (NAM) summit, where they unanimously voted to support Iran’s nuclear energy program and condemn the American-led attempt […]
By Craig FitzGerald and Jamie O’Hara
This essay is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Ideas and Concepts, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press.
Anarchism today is primarily theoretical in nature, and an unfortunate amount of anarchist interaction consists of
From: opednews.com By Katherine Acosta Democratic activist Don Smith recently published a column in Op-Ed News entitled, “Why are so many Occupiers attracted to anarchism?” Don’t they appreciate the wonders government has wrought, such as the internet, Social Security, and seatbelts in cars? he asked. Don’t they value […]
Gary Johnson on US interventionism. From HuffPo. ___________ Foreign policy is supposed to make us safer, not get Americans killed and bankrupt us. Yet, even as we mourn the loss of four Americans in Libya and watch the Middle East ignite with anti-American fervor, our leaders don’t get […]
Just in case it hasn’t been said here before: fuck Obama! From Russia Today. ____________ A lone appeals judge bowed down to the Obama administration late Monday and reauthorized the White House’s ability to indefinitely detain American citizens without charge or due process. Last week, a federal judge […]
By Thomas Naylor The defining image of the Obama White House is a culture of so-called smart power and death – F-35 fighter jets, unmanned killer drones, Navy Seals, Delta Force death squads, and more recently, the White House kill list. In an act of unprecedented arrogance, President […]
By Israel Shamir Now, in the monsoon season, Cambodia is verdant, cool and relaxed. The rice paddies on the low hill slopes are flooded, forests that hide old temples are almost impassable, rough seas deter swimmers. It’s a pleasant time to re-visit this modest country: Cambodia is not […]
By Jeff Sparrow ‘Koran discovered with coffee cup stain on the front cover, US marines deployed to all Starbucks franchises.’ The quip, retweeted by celebrity atheist Richard Dawkins, exemplifies the belligerent incomprehension with which so many, including self-proclaimed liberals, have responded to protests against the film The […]
By Justin Raimondo The rage over Innocence: why our secular elites just don’t get it Americans are baffled: why oh why are Muslims up in arms over a YouTube video, one which no one in America even knew about prior to the attack on our Libyan consulate and […]
The Associated Press WASHINGTON — GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney told donors in a newly released video clip that Palestinians “have no interest” in peace with Israel and suggested that efforts at Mideast peace under his administration would languish. Romney says that Palestinians are “committed to the destruction […]
via The VT Commons I bring greetings from Cascadia. They’re watching on the livestream. This I know: the day will come when the whole world will be watching you, Vermont. It’s a tremendous honor to be here. When you had your first convention in 2005, I came up […]
By Russell D. Longcore Dump DC The Federal Reserve flushed the toilet Thursday…and by extension Washington and the US economy are beginning to pick up speed as they circle the drain. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke announced Thursday September 13th that the Fed would be buying $40 Billion […]
Translated By Michael O’Meara New European Conservative Translator’s Note: It’s a testament to the abysmal state of our culture that hardly one of Dominique Venner’s more than forty books have been translated into English. Venner is more than a gifted historian who has made major contributions to the […]
Goad’s latest from TakiMag… _____________ There is no longer a need for satire these days because the world ridicules itself. Modern American culture is a self-parody set on autopilot. The latest round of nuttiness involves public education and peanut butter. The humble peanut, you see, has become politicized. […]
Colin Patrick Barth’s critique of democracy. Up there with those of Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Hans-Herman Hoppe, and H.L Mencken, even surpassing them in certain vital respects…. From Promethea.org. _______________ Part One Democracy, The Equivocal Standard Just what is democracy? If you were to define it, the definition would […]
By Rachel Zoll AP Some black clergy see no good presidential choice between a Mormon candidate and one who supports gay marriage, so they are telling their flocks to stay home on Election Day. That’s a worrisome message for the nation’s first African-American president, who can’t afford to […]
By Steve Mullis NPR Coalition authorities say the insurgents that attacked British military base Camp Bastion in Afghanistan, which killed two U.S. Marines, were wearing U.S. Army uniforms. In a statement released by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), they said the attack by the 15 insurgents, who […]
By Robin Wells The Gaurdian On Thursday, the Federal Reserve delivered a bold program of quantitative easing presaged by comments from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke at the Jackson Hole economic symposium in August. Photograph: Reuters Last month, at the Federal Reserve‘s Jackson Hole conference, Federal Reserve chairman Ben […]
True anarchism is ineffective and of a non-threatening nature! Power to the sheeple! By N. Zero Nihilo Zero There has recently been a growing and disturbing trend whereby right-wing idealogues, organizations, and terrorists have been presented in the media as being “anti-government” or even anarchists. This effectively serves […]
By Kevin Carson. There’s a wonderful phrase for how capitalism works in the real world (I’m not sure who first came up with it, but I associate it with Noam Chomsky): “The socialization of risk and cost, and the privatization of profit.” That’s a pretty good description of […]
By Roderick Long. Why Objective Law Requires Anarchy was originally published in the Autumn 1998 issue of Formulations by the Free Nation Foundation, written by Roderick T. Long. * * * “I see no ethical standard by which to measure the whole unethical conception of a State, except in the amount of time, of […]
From Politico. Leading conservative talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh and Laura Ingraham are both arguing that the Republican party will or should be shut down if Mitt Romney loses in November — an idea that, however hard to believe, gives you an indication of the right wing’s dissatisfaction […]
From the American Conservative. The attacks on U.S. diplomatic posts in Cairo and Benghazi, including the murder of the ambassador to Libya and three other personnel, have occasioned a torrent of facile commentary in this country. Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus says President Obama “sympathizes with the […]
businessinsider.com Joe Weisenthal Amid the ongoing protests against Japan currently taking place in China (due to a dispute about which control controls some uninhabited islands)… Mark Mackinnon of the Globe & Mail tweets: “Sign on Beijing restaurant: “Pet dogs are allowed in, Japanese dogs are not.” He adds: […]
reuters.com (Reuters) – Mexican prosecutors said Thursday they were investigating a 16-year-old suspected hitman who was believed to have participated in at least 50 murders while working for a drug gang. A spokesman for prosecutors in the northeastern state of Sinaloa said the teenager, identified as Francisco Miguel […]
This is funny. — theonion.com CHICAGO—Producers of the long-running Chicago Public Radio program This American Life announced Monday that they have completed their comprehensive 12-year survey of life as a modern upper-middle-class American. In what cultural anthropologists are calling a “colossal achievement” in the study of white-collar professionals, […]
c4ss.org Kevin Carson The questions below, which I received from a liberal curious about left-libertarianism, are fairly typical. The common thread running through the left-libertarian response is that most of the evils currently remedied by the state result from state intervention in the first place. “1. If government […]
ibna.ir Authored by Mesbah Mahjoub, a book has been released on the thought patterns of Hezbollah led by Seyed Hassan Nasrollah. IBNA: The book entails issues which have led to the success of the Muslim political party in Lebanon and in the physical and psychological wars it has […]
businessinsider.com The Telegraph screenshot via Vice.com With London’s summer of sport over, the focus moves to Brazil. The country is hosting the World Cup in 2014, and the Olympics come 2016, and fashion, never to be outdone, is ready to make its own handover. On course to become […]
By Andrew Hamilton Thirty politicals (“haters”) the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) and government authorities are watching, that is. The anti-civil libertarian organization has published “30 New Activists Heading Up the Radical Right” (The Intelligence Report, Summer 2012). Many names on the list are actually not new. The […]
The SPLC is a vanguard organization for totalitarian humanism and something of a weather vane as to where left-liberal opinion is heading. It appears that the SPLC is expanding its agenda away from its focus on traditional hate groups like the KKK and neo-Nazis towards attacking any form […]
By Li China Smack From Tianya: Recently, the “Hagens (Gunther von Hagens) ” story has recently been the focus of public interest. There has been much controversy on an exhibited human cadaver of a young pregnant Chinese woman with an 8-month old baby in her womb. The focus […]
NBC News, along with a leading US newspaper, insist that Egyptians should be grateful to the US for having ‘freed’ them By Glenn Greenwald The Gaurdian An injured Egyptian protester looks on during clashes with riot police near the US embassy in Cairo. Photograph: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images One […]
Russia Today Protestors torch KFC in Tripoli, Lebanon (Image from Twitter/@Racha93halabi) Demonstrators in Tripoli, Lebanon, burned down a restaurant belonging to US-based chain KFC in protest against an anti-Islamic film mocking the Prophet Muhammad. At least one person was killed and 24 were wounded in the clashes with […]
By Anthony Gregory Pat Robertson began publicly criticizing the drug war in December 2010, and he has become more vocal since. Unlike the vague critiques often heard from prominent figures—even Barack Obama has called the drug war a failure—Robertson’s insights have been precise, and consistent, and deeply-rooted. “We […]
Or was it something worse? by Justin Raimondo AntiWar.com The murder of US ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens and three other US diplomats at the hands of rioters probably wasn’t just another case of Islamists-gone-wild. The circumstances surrounding this horrific incident — the riot was in reaction to […]
By Lee Ferran ABC News One of the Americans killed alongside Ambassador Christopher Stevens in an attack on a U.S. diplomatic mission in Libya Tuesday told ABC News before his death that he was working with the State Department on an intelligence mission to round up dangerous weapons […]
Syriangirlpartisan says: Please turn on annotations: My Previous youtube video was censored! it got 10,000 views on vimeo before it was also taken down. I have re uploaded it on Liveleak http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3c6_1347615364 . It is about torture and execution of unarmed prisoners by the FSA. I make a […]
Christian communities in Aleppo have taken up arms and formed their own militias for the first time, the Daily Telegraph can disclose. A fighter with the Free Syria Army (FSA) fires his weapon during skirmishes in the contested neighborhood of Izza in the northern city of Aleppo. Photo: Zac […]
newyorker.com Louis Menand The psychiatric literature is so confusing that even the dissidents disagree. Photograph by Dan Winters. You arrive for work and someone informs you that you have until five o’clock to clean out your office. You have been laid off. At first, your family is brave […]
wired.co.uk Antonio Espingardeiro In science fiction the term “cyborg” is used to describe human beings whose bodily functions are aided or controlled by some type of technology. When you consider that what this actually refers to is enhanced capabilities through technology, we’re not talking about the bionic man. […]
“Paging John Connor..” DARPA’s Cheetah Bot Breaks Human, Robot Speed Records By Stephanie Mlot PC MAG The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and Boston Dynamics have unleashed a legged robot that’s even faster than Olympic champion Usain Bolt. The Cheetah recently broke its own land speed record […]
By Brian Merchant Mother Board What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple. If there’s a single factor […]
Western Rifle Shooters Association In response to recent articles in mainstream military journals discussing the use of the U.S. Army to quell insurrections on American soil, I offer an alternate vision of the future. Instead of a small town in the South as the flash point, picture instead […]
The Blaze Are peanut butter and jelly sandwiches racist? A bizarre question, to say the least, but one that at least one school administrator is asking out in Portland, Oregon. Verenice Gutierrez, principal at Harvey Scott K-8 School, seems to believe that there are racial connotations associated with […]
By Ryan Smith Five more men have been indicted in connection with a militia group said to have carried out the murder of a former Fort Stewart soldier and his girlfriend, the Associated Press reports. Four of the men are former soldiers. Christopher Jenderseck, 26, Adam Dearman, 27, […]
Neckbeard Chronicles By Mojo My new partner in crime Tim met up with Matt Forney and told him to not write so negatively. Initially I scoffed at the idea, pointing out that negative writing is a lot more entertaining. But I have to concede that Tim and Ulysses […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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