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, […]

Death to Modernity

By Alex Kurtagic To create, you must first destroy. That is the implication behind the French (but in reality European) New Right’s Manifesto for a European Renaissance, authored by Alain de Benoist and Charles Champetier thirteen years ago and recently republished in book form by Arktos Media.

Dissident News Update August 7, 2012

WHITE HOUSE CONSIDERS EXECUTIVE ORDER, LEAVES INTERNET TAKEOVER A POSSIBILITY The White House has left open the possibility of enacting its Internet agenda via executive order after the failed effort to bring the Democrat-supported cybersecurity bill to a full vote in the Senate last week. In response to […]

Inconsistency Quotient

by Daniel Acheampong

Two weeks back, the state of Texas sent convicted murderer Marvin Wilson on a KCI-addled one-way trip to oblivion. News of this came to my attention via the Huffington Post, which made a big how-to about the potassium-punctured perp’s IQ. Leading with the headline “Texas Puts Man with 61 IQ to Death”, HuffPo made mention of a variety of testimonies regarding Wilson’s intelligence…

The Supreme Court late in the afternoon rejected without comment…

Resisting America’s Torture State

By Nathan Goodman On July 27, The Real News Network reported that the prisoner hunger strike in Georgia entered its 47th day. The strike began with ten prisoners participating; it has since dwindled to two remaining strikers. At this point, the strikers have only a few demands. They demand medical care […]