Henry George, The First Progressive

The Daily Kos Henry George(1839 – 1897) is a progressive hero that has been largely forgotten by time.  In his heyday, he was one of the most famous living Americans in the World.  Surpassed by only Thomas Edison and Mark Twain.  His most famous book was translated into […]

The CFTC Silver Investigation

By Theodore Butler There has been an explosion of interest and commentary these past few days as a result of a front page story in Monday’s edition of the influential Financial Times (of London). The story stated that the CFTC was set to drop its four year investigation […]

Mali Tuareg maintain independence claims

From Al-Jazeera Tuareg-led rebels who seized the north of Mali in April have denied reports that they were abandoning their claims for a separate state after the rebellion was hijacked by Islamist fighters. Moussa Ag Assarid, spokesperson for the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA), told Al Jazeera […]

The US is ruled by a private oligarchy

By Paul Craig Roberts The bumper sticker on the beat-up pickup truck read: “Friends don’t let friends vote Democrat.” The driver was obviously not affluent. Yet, despite all the news about mega-trillion dollar bankster bailouts, mega-million dollar bonuses for financial crooks, and unimaginable compensation packages for corporate CEOs […]

The Pentagon Pathology

By Gabriel Kolko The allocation of money within the American military system is reflected in which weapons are chosen—and why.  What is at stake are rivalries among military branches, which have influence and connections with arms producers, the Congress, and the entire complex matrix of factors that determine […]

Anything Goes No More

By Gavin McInnes Teen pop star Miley Cyrus is in the news again. I think she bared her torso or the side of her breast or picked up a Playboy or something. How shocking! How did we get here? Back in the 70s, a ten-year-old Brooke Shields appeared dolled-up and naked and it was considered high art. Today […]

Nationalism: The New Wave

By Spencer Pearson Part 1:  Ideology:  Nationalism 2.0 (b) Nationalism was the most successful radical ideology of the modern age insomuch as it is more or less universally accepted today that nations have the right to self determination, which is to say that they rule themselves in their […]

From CNN The U.S. Justice Department seeks “meaningful negotiations” in 60 days to end what it calls constitutional violations at the Lauderdale County Juvenile Detention Facility in Meridian, Mississippi, or else a federal lawsuit will be filed. The Justice Department says officials have operated “a school-to-prison pipeline” that […]

The Real America

  In 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki, murdering tens of thousands of innocent people. Just three days earlier, it had dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Japanese had, as of early 1945, already asked for peace and a negotiated settlement. The Japanese military […]

The Concupiscence of Hierarchy

By Kevin Carson Shrinking or dismantling the state through political processes — running candidates, lobbying against various policies, etc. — is mostly a waste of time. The system’s rules are set up to favor the interests of those inside the corporate-state power structure, against those on the outside […]

Scott Horton interviews Daniel Ellsberg

Daniel Ellsberg, heroic liberator of the Pentagon Papers and author of the memoir Secrets, discusses the U.S. government’s use of nuclear weapons against Japanese civilians in World War II, the fake “Missile Gap” with the Soviets of the late 50s-early 60s, and the dire consequences for all of humanity from any […]

“Total Policing” in London

By Jules Boykoff This week marks the one-year anniversary of the London riots. In the wake of last summer’s destruction and the flurry of finger-pointing about who was to blame, London’s Metropolitan Police launched what they called “Total Policing.” A peculiar brew of creepy branding and wishful thinking, […]

Totalitarian Humanism and WASP Acquiescence

My latest post at AlternativeRight.Com My correspondent David Heleniak offers some interesting observations regarding the relationship between Political Correctness and “God is dead” theology: The simplified narrative I’m starting to believe explains TH is that in the 60s, Nietzsche’s death of God caught up to the Episcopalians who […]

Suckering Liberals into Supporting Foreign Wars

By Stuart Bramhall George Washington has written a great post – Why Do Progressive Liberals Fall for Humanitarian War? – on Zero Hedge. It’s quite an an interesting site dedicated to “widening the scope of information available to the investing public.” All posts are submitted under fictitious names. In general the perspective […]

Cops are here to help you: Tacoma, Washington police Officer Ryan Koskovich and Officer Michael Young taser, handcuff and imprison a deaf assault victim for not obeying commands that she could not hear

From RadGeek.Com In Tacoma, a few months ago, a woman called 911 seeking protection when a fight with a guest turned violent. Unfortunately, when you call 911 they send the cops, and government police are not interested in protecting you; they are interested in controlling the situation. The […]

America’s Newest Enemy?

By Eric Margolis WASHINGTON—I was visiting Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States in the spring of 2011 when the phone on his desk rang. “The hotline,” he said. “Sorry, I have to take this call.” As he listened, his expression grew darker and darker. Finally, he banged down […]

For Libertarianism To Be Taken Seriously …

By Andrew Sobeiro With the national debt rising, military and entitlement spending skyrocketing, and the state expanding left and right, libertarianism is becoming increasingly popular. People realize that the state must be scaled back. This is evident in the tea party and in Occupy Wall Street. While neither […]

Empire and the Denial of Death

By Thomas Naylor I was so taken by James Howard Kunstler’s book The Long Emergency back in 2005 that I immediately invited him to be the keynote speaker for the Vermont Independence Convention that year in the Vermont State House in Montpelier.  After reading his compelling novel,World Made By Hand, […]