The End of Gasoline Warfare

By John Michael Greer The Archdruid Report Last week’s discussion of American military vulnerabilities touched on one of the major issues that ought to be giving Pentagon officials sleepless nights—but only one of them The military downsides of America’s obsession with high-tech gizmos, in a world where complexity […]

The Montpelier Manifesto

by Thomas H. Naylor, Kirkpatrick Sale, James Starkey, and Charles Keil Recently by Thomas H. Naylor: The Principality of Liechtenstein: A Model of Self-Determination for a World Filled With Chaos Recently by Kirkpatrick Sale: The Decline of the American Empire Petition of Grievances We, citizens of this American […]

Fuck white nationalists.

[Take note of their site header & artwork.] By Mojo Loathe though I am to attack anyone on my blogroll, especially those who link to me, thus providing me with sweet, sweet traffic (the electronic ambrosia that all narcissists bloggers seek), the time has come for me to […]

David Duke interviews Kenneth O’Keefe

Ken O’Keefe is an Irish/Palestinian activist who renounced his U.S. citizenship in 2001. He’s a former marine and Gulf War veteran. According to Wikipedia he “led the human shield action to Iraq and was a passenger on the MV Mavi Marmara during the Gaza flotilla raid. He said […]

Laissez faire!

From the Facebook scribings of one Colin Patrick Barth. Be sure to check out his website, Promethea.org, and his blog, Wisdom Dancer, too! Has the formulation “I want _____” with the implication “give it to me, people in power” obtained the desired results—ever—without unintended consequences for someone else—or […]

After the Welfare State

By Matt Zwolinski The welfare state is a relatively recent historical phenomenon. How did individuals and societies meet the needs of the poor before its emergence? And how might they deal with those needs in the future, if the welfare state should fall? Those questions are explored in […]

The Whooping Of The Tards

By Unleash the Beef What lovely heartfelt signs totally not handed out by the campaign. Political party conventions. Alternatively known as The Whooping of the Tards. Fucking gross. Like… it’s 2012. The internet is everywhere. Information is no longer controlled by the hate-filled cunts at the helm of […]

The Pathology of U.S. Democracy

By Anthony Gregory Electoral politics is a moral and intellectual wasteland. There is no room for anyone of principle, whatever that principle might be. As a libertarian, I see little difference between Obama and Romney. They both favor a perpetual war on terror, an occupation of Afghanistan, military […]

Australians implant ‘world first’ bionic eye

brecorder.com Agence France-Presse Australian scientists said Thursday they had successfully implanted a “world first” bionic eye prototype, describing it as a major breakthrough for the visually impaired. Bionic Vision Australia (BVA), a government-funded science consortium, said it had surgically installed an “early prototype” robotic eye in a woman […]

Artificial limbs, controlled by thoughts

salon.com The idea that paralyzed people might one day control their limbs just by thinking is no longer a fantasy By Miguel A.L. Nicolelis, Scientific American This article originally appeared on Scientific American. In 2014, billions of viewers worldwide may remember the opening game of the World Cup […]

Sheriff Arpaio to Stand Trial

Looks like our favorite thuggish sheriff finally crossed the line one too many times. His brand of oppression appears to be out of style with the ruling class these days. Even organized crime has it’s rules, and refraining from harassing the media is one of them! From Indian […]

What did you expect?

Thomas DiLorenzo over at Lew Rockwell quotes Ron Paul’s campaign manager: “Properly elected Ron Paul delegates were stripped from us. And when a motion was made to amend the Credential Committee’s report, it was ignored. Morton Blackwell, a longtime conservative activist and RNC Rules Committee expert, found himself indefinitely detained […]

Political Correctness: Gag In the Mouth of America

by John Waddey Americans are being oppressed by a group of faceless, nameless tyrants. The weapon of the oppressors is “Political Correctness.” The tyrants define Political Correctness as a means of encouraging language that “is calculated to provide a minimum of offense, particularly to the racial, cultural, or […]

The Self Destruction of Africa’s ANC

The Self Destruction of Africa’s ANC By Horand Knaup and Jan Puhl South Africa’s legendary African National Congress, the party of Nelson Mandela, is destroying itself. Corruption, cronyism, internal divisions and, more recently, the mine massacre in Marikana are draining support from the party’s base — and destroying […]

Draft GOP Platform Defends Anti-Gay Laws in Africa

[editor’s note: This is bizarrely cynical: it’s not the anti-gayness of it, it’s the fact that most of the leaders of the GOP have embraced gay friendly politics at tue upper levels except when they can score political points off of abusing it (see Dick Cheney’s endorsement of […]

In case if you forget who Democrats serve..

Kevin Carson has written an insightful piece on Obama’s new war on 3-D printers, and the threat they pose to a faux scarcity corporate economy.   The attempt to stale creative destruction, one of the few useful forces within a capitalist economy, is not in the interest of the […]

Obama is Good for Secessionists

Bill Rummel writes in a recent article for the Charleston Voice, ‘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?’ This raises the question, would dissent and support for […]

Bare Chest Equality… Elsewhere

Recently a group of women in New York City (who apparently believe that space aliens visited their French leader – that is a bizarre story in itself) rallied for what they call ‘bare chest equality.’ Essentially, they want the right to go topless in public. And men in […]

The New World Disorder

By Patrick J. Buchanan After his great victory in Desert Storm, George H.W. Bush went before the United Nations to declare the coming of a New World Order. The Cold War was yesterday. Communism was in its death throes. The Soviet Empire had crumbled. The Soviet Union was […]