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“If the Bush administration didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them and send them to torture chambers. If the Obama administration decides they don’t like somebody, they murder them.” —Noam Chomsky
Quote of the Week
The State has its root in time, and will ripe and rot in time. -Henrik Ibsen
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, […]
Freedom, Equality, Justice, and Liberty Forever
By Thomas Naylor The new American flag forever postage stamp series recently released by the U.S. Postal Service represents a degree of hypocrisy heretofore unimaginable. Below the American flag on each stamp is one of the following four words – freedom, equality, justice, or liberty – followed by […]
Handcuffed man killed in patrol car
From CNN Police are investigating how a man handcuffed in the back of a squad car died of a gunshot to the head. WREG reports.
US military developing insect surveillance drones
From Press TV File photo shows an insect-sized spy drone. Reports indicate the US military has poured huge sums of money into surveillance drone miniaturization and is developing micro aircraft which now come in a swarm of bug-sized flying spies.
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 […]
Resisting Tyranny in CheckPoint City, USA
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 […]
Property and Freedom Society–7th Annual Meeting–Speakers & Topics
By Stephan Kinsella Below is the proposed list of speakers and topics for the upcoming Seventh Annual Meeting of the PFS, which will be held in Bodrum, Turkey at the Hotel Karia Princess, from Thursday September 27 through Monday October 1, 2012. Those interested in attending should contact Dr. Hoppe or Mr. Grözinger, […]
Murray Rothbard: Towards a Theory of Strategy for Liberty
The man had it right. I was thrilled when I first encountered this essay sometime in the 1990s as I had already come to a similar conclusion myself. By Murray Rothbard THE ELABORATION OF A systematic theory of liberty has been rare enough, but exposition of a theory of […]
Murray Rothbard’s Take on Where Rand Paul Stands on the Political Spectrum
The Rand Paul phenomena vindicates Rothbard’s prescient warning against “right-opportunism.” He also warned against “left-sectarianism” (listen up, left-libertarians and social anarchists). From the Economic Policy Journal Dan Cotter emails: I think Murray Rothbard laid out the best strategy for the liberty movement ever in this letter to F.A. […]
Guns and Weed – The Road To FreedomGuns and Weed – The Road To Freedom
A documentary from Michael Dean
NYC: Solidarity Action for Northwest Anarchist Fighters
From AnarchistNews.Org In the early morning hours of August 2nd, we dropped two large banners from the Williamsburg Bridge in New York City facing traffic. One read “SOLIDARITY WITH NORTHWEST ANARCHISTS” while the other read “FUCK GRAND JURIES.” We did this as a gesture of solidarity with the […]
Why They Hate Wikileaks
Who’s the Aggressor?
Something you’re unlikely to ever be told by the mainstream media
NBC forced to apologise after ill-timed ad features a monkey doing gymnastics – right after showing Gabby Douglas’ gold medal victory
A keen observation from Neil Hiatt of N-AM: “So it is racist to feature a monkey after a Black person but not an Asian, Oriental, or White person? Hmmmm, seems that the very same PC stormtrooper goon squads crying for an apology are actually the ones that think […]
New Hampshire Adopts Jury Nullification Law
By J. D. Tuccille Jury nullification, in which jurors refuse to convict defendants under laws they find objectionable or inappropriately applied, is a favored tactic of many libertarians who, rightly or wrongly perceive individual liberty as, at best, a minority taste among their neighbors. They like the idea […]
Roseanne Barr Gets Presidential Nomination Of The Peace And Freedom Party
By Josh Feldman You may recall that comedienne Roseanne Barrattempted to run for president on the Green Party ticket, and was even seriously considered as the party’s vice presidential nominee. Now Barr has joined up with another third party called the Peace and Freedom Party, and won the party’s nomination […]
Arranged marriage is not forced marriage
From the CNN Freedom Project Worldwide, every three seconds a girl under the age of 18 is married. In India, 90% of these marriages are arranged between families. And with a divorce rate of just above 1% proponents argue arranged marriage is an effective way for young people […]
Gore Vidal and Revisionism
By Jeff Riggenbach One of the forces involved in the recent heating up of the perennial American-history wars was the brilliant critical and popular success, during the 1970s and early 1980s, of the first three books in Gore Vidal’s six-volume[1] “American Chronicle” series of historical novels about the United […]
Rand Paul Pressures Authorities To Strip Journalist Of Her Press Credentials
Rand gets more sketchy all the time. I admire Ron Paul a great deal, even if I think running for president is not a viable political strategy, but I was always more skeptical of Rand and the more I observe him in action the more I distrust him. […]
Jenna Jameson elects for a Right rogering: some things never change!
Man texts, "I need to quit texting," before driving off cliff
You couldn’t make it up! Well, you could, but it wouldn’t be quite so hilarious. From WLBT… _____ By Tricia Forbes HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) – A college student from Texas believes he is lucky to be alive after a terrible crash. He was texting and driving when his […]
Gore Vidal: The Last Jeffersonian
By Justin Raimondo The obituaries are coming in, and as usual they are filled with the trite things Americans are obsessed with: Gore Vidal’s sexuality, his “coldness,” his feuds, his quips. Andrew Sullivan is typical – and isn’t that typical – in ascribing what he views as Vidal’s flaws to his lack […]
Britain Abolishes Itself: Traditions working-class and aristocratic fade in Cameron’s UK.
By Brendan O’Neill Fedor Selivanov / shutterstock Outsiders tend to look upon the United Kingdom as a stiff, traditional little country whose grey-haired old Queen has just celebrated 60 years on the throne and where men in bowler hats will say, “Evening, sir,” as they pass you in […]
Murray Rothbard’s Practical Politics
By Jack Hunter Murray Rothbard (photo: mises.org) Norman Singleton is Rep. Ron Paul’s legislative director. He has worked for Dr. Paul since 1997. Once a month, Norm and I meet at Bailey’s Pub & Grill in Arlington, Virginia to discuss two subjects—pro wrestling and libertarian politics. The first is […]
Crow’s feet, grey hair and Parkinson’s: How your stressful job could be making you OLD and SICK before your time
From The Daily Mail A new study conducted by Finnish researchers has confirmed what many of us have known for years: our stressful jobs are making us age faster. The research led by Kirsi Ahola of the Finnish Institute of Occupational Health measured the length of DNA sections […]
Interview with Alexander Dugin
From Counter-Currents Polish translation here 3,214 words Introduction In February 2012, Professor Alexander Dugin traveled to New Delhi, India to attend the 40th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, the theme of which was “After Western Hegemony: Social Science and its Publics.”Professor Dugin was kind enough to […]
Jenna Jameson Endorses Mitt Romney: ‘When You’re Rich, You Want A Republican In Office’
From the Huffington Post Retired porn star Jenna Jameson waded into the 2012 presidential race on Thursday, choosing a San Francisco strip club as the venue to announce her support for GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. CBS San Francisco has her comments:
Can voting win justice and power for black people? Aug. 18-19 Black is Back Conference
From Uhuru News The Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations is holding our annual conference in Newark, New Jersey under the theme: “Obama, the election and the struggle for justice, peace, a better life and black power.” Most of us greeted the election of […]
“Immigration and Liberal Taboos”
By Edward Abbey Edward Abbey [1927-1989], the late novelist, essayist, and environmental activist, was a confirmed political “liberal” (perhaps even an extremist), who believed that the degradation of the land and culture of the American Southwest was a crime against nature, and that the least any one of […]
War Criminals in Our Midst
By Paul Craig Roberts The State Department has an office that hunts German war criminals. Bureaucracies being what they are, the office will exist into next century when any surviving German prison guards will be 200 years old. From time to time the State Department claims to have […]
Is Mitt Being Neoconned Into War?
By Pat Buchanan Has Mitt Romney given Israel a blank check for war? So it seemed from the declaration in Jerusalem by his adviser Dan Senor, who all but flashed Israel a green light for war, signaling the Israelis that, if you go, Mitt’s got your back: “If […]
The Importance of Proudhon
By Shawn Wilbur Anarchists can be touchy about any sort of authority, so we are frequently at pains to say that we are not followers of any particular leader or historical figure. That’s good. Among other things, the historical figures we’re most likely to follow were almost all […]
Chick-fil-A, anyone?
Conspiracy Theories as Modern Mythology
By Larry Gambone The term “conspiracy theory” is used by the media to suppress critical thought. The fact is, where you have coercive power, you will automatically have conspiracies – by those with power to maintain and increase it, by those without power to gain it. These are […]
The Bashing of Joe Paterno
By Paul Gottfried Last week the NCAA saddled Penn State with penalties that may mean the university’s end as a leading football competitor. Paterno’s name came up in the proceedings as someone who contributed to the outrage. Despite his recent death of lung cancer, his humiliation continues. His name has […]
Nearly 40% of Americans Live Paycheck to Paycheck
thefiscaltimes.com ALEXA GELLMAN, LearnVest A new report by the Consumer Federation of America found that two in five American households live paycheck to paycheck—that means no savings, retirement account or emergency fund. The number of families living this way has increased by 7 percent over the last 15 […]
Study: Many Americans die with ‘virtually no financial assets’
phys.org Peter Dizikes It is a central worry of many Americans: not having enough money to live comfortably in old age. Now an innovative paper co-authored by an MIT economist shows that a large portion of America’s older population has very little savings in bank accounts, stocks and […]
Japan Develops Fully Functional Human Piloted Mecha Robots
jpopasia.com Aysohmay Japan has taken robotics to the next level. Suidobashi Heavy Industry has developed a fully functional mecha robot named Kuratas that can shoot rockets and 6,000 bullets per minute. The mecha unit was debuted at Wonder Fest 2012 in Tokyo. It is about 4 meters high, […]
Vermont man crushes seven police vehicles with family tractor
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Paths to Liberation
By Anna Morgenstern What if they built a factory and no one came? A lot of people in the broader anarchist movement seem to focus more on goals or endpoints and ignore or underemphasize the means to achieving them. This is understandable, in that statists are constantly challenging […]
Shut up Chick-Fil-A? Gays and lesbians should know how it feels to be intimidated, silenced
A whiff of common sense. RICHMOND, Va (WTVR)- This Chick-fil-A thing is oh-so simple if you believe in the Constitution. The firm’s president has every right to voice his opinion on gay marriage. Those who disagree have every right to not eat there and encourage others to join […]
The Subjectivity of Virtue
Gay-Marriage Foes Give Chick-Fil-A “Record-Setting Day”
It looks like the boycott backfired. UPDATE: Seems like quite a few chicken-loving, same-sex marriage foes turned out for Wednesday’s Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. Based on reports from around the country, many Chick-fil-As had lines out the door come lunchtime. Attendees emphasized a mix of support for the company’s […]
How the War on Drugs Became a War on Milk
Extending for four decades now, the war on drugs has ingrained a certain ideology into society. What was sold as an initiative to get dangerous drugs off the streets has conceived a totalitarian mindset that government has the authority to control everything you eat and drink and, […]
Buckley vs Chomsky
It’s interesting how these videos reveal that Buckley was hardly the persona of conservative, civilized virtue and religious piety he pretended to be.
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