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The radical right-wing roots of Occupy Wall Street
By Maureen Tkacik Reuters If there’s one thing that united Occupy Wall Street with the Tea Party movement from the very beginning, it’s a virulent aversion to being compared to each other. The Tea Partiers started sharpening their knives before the Occupation even began. Two weeks before last […]
New Hampshire Jury Nullifies its First Felony Marijuana Case
From PrWeb. Doug Darrell beat the odds and walked home from his trial as a free man on Friday, a major win for the state’s new jury nullification law. Facing felony drug cultivation charges for growing marijuana plants behind his house, the 59-year-old Rastafarian saw all of the […]
Father-daughter dances banned in R.I. as ‘gender discrimination’
From the Los Angeles Times. Father-daughter dances and mother-son ballgames — those cherished hallmarks of Americana — have been banned in a Rhode Island school district after they were targeted by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU, the self-proclaimed guardian of the nation’s liberty, says such events […]
Turns Out Where You Live Really Does Shape Who You Are
By Emily Badger The Atlantic Cities Shutterstock Mark Twain penned a famous line more than a century ago neatly distilling the distinct cultures of the three largest cities in the American Northeast. “In Boston,” he wrote, “they ask, ‘How much does he know?’ In New York, ‘How much […]
“Sovereign Citizens” and Government’s Monopoly on Crime
By William N. Grigg Pro Libertate Robert Paudert refers to May 20, 2010 – the day his son Brandon was killed — as the “worst day of my life, ever.” Given that losing a child is the worst thing that can happen to a parent, Paudert isn’t exaggerating. […]
Is Obama gay?
by John Craig Just Not Said When I first heard a few days ago that Obama might be gay, my initial reaction was, that’s ridiculous. He’s married, has two kids, and he’s never set off my gaydar. I had read a few years ago about Larry Sinclair’s claims […]
To Arms!
by William Crosby Prentice Survival Blog The title of this essay could be either a call to action, or a toast to weapons. Either way, the purpose is to discuss the decision of whether or not, and to what extent, a person should be armed. The author is […]
Gaddafi and his Libya
Ron Paul’s God
An Open Letter to Urban Outfitters Regarding Their Che Guevara Merchandise
An anti-Che article on…HuffPo!? That is a turn-up for the books! Thor Halvorssen lays the smack down…. ___________ Ted MarlowCEO, Urban Outfitters30 Industrial Park Blvd.Trenton, SC 29847 Dear Mr. Marlow, The Human Rights Foundation recently became aware of the sale of merchandise at Urban Outfitters emblazoned with the […]
Obama’s justice department grants final immunity to Bush’s CIA torturers
MO of BO :”I’ll CHANGE my mind and HOPE you forget, silly, slavish voters!” Glenn Greenwald elaborates via The Guardian. _________ The Obama administration‘s aggressive, full-scale whitewashing of the “war on terror” crimes committed by Bush officials is now complete. Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder announced the closing […]
Revolutionary Preservationists: Beyond the Statist / Anti-Statist Paradigm
From: Open Revolt By Dan Canuckistan I agree that the state vs. anti state debate can become as Manichean as the traditional left right paradigm. I also recognize the limitations “anti statists” and “statists” alike face due to a failure to “acknowledge the nuanced blend of possible and […]
Secessionist Movements Grow Across U.S.
From: 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 […]
The Communist Party’s Enigmatic Hierarchy Explained In One Simple Chart
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 […]
Celebrating Roy Childs, A Lost Libertarian Great
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.
World Backs Iran
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 […]
National Anarchist Praxis
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
On Occupy, Anarchism, & Corporatism: A Response to Don Smith
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 […]
Libya, Afghanistan and the Middle East — Why Obama and Romney are Both Wrong
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 […]
Obama wins right to indefinitely detain Americans under NDAA
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 […]
The Montpelier Manifesto: Barack Obama and the Temple of Doom
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 […]
Pol Pot Revisited
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 […]
Ignorance on Parade: Islamophobia, Left and Right
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 […]
Blasphemy and Empire
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 […]
Romney video: Palestinians not interested in peace
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 […]
From spark to flare to wildfire: Lierre Keith’s Ode to Vermont Independence
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 […]
QE3: The Beginning Of The End
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 […]
The Rebel: Interview with Venner
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 […]
Attack of the Killer Racist Peanuts
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. […]
Critiques of Democracy
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 […]
African-American Christians waver over vote
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 […]
Attackers Of Base In Afghanistan Wore U.S. Uniforms
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 […]
Ben Bernanke rescues the US economy from the nihilism of the right
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 […]
The Media’s Spin On Anarchists
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 […]
Who Owns the Benefit? The Free Market as Full Communism
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 […]
Why Objective Law Requires Anarchy
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 […]
Right-wing radio: Romney loses, GOP dies
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 […]
After the Arab Spring
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 […]
This Highly-Offensive, Anti-Japanese Sign Was Casually Posted At A Chinese Restaurant In Beijing
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: […]
Suspected Mexican teen assassin, 16, linked to 50 killings
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 American Life’ Completes Documentation Of Liberal, Upper-Middle-Class Existence
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, […]
On Breaking Your Legs and Giving You Crutches: Responses to a Liberal
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 […]
Book on Hezbollah Released
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 […]
On Brazilian Runways, Transgender Models Are The Norm
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 […]
The SPLC’s Multicultural Hate List
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 […]
SPLC Attacks Anarchists
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 […]
Hagens Human Cadavers Exhibition: Bodies From Chinese Prisons
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 […]
US media angrily marvels at the lack of Muslim gratitude
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 […]
Protesters torch KFC in Tripoli, Lebanon
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 […]
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