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Nexus X HumectressAnthony Gregory chimes in on Cathygate at the Independent Institute. ________ In the last two weeks, we have seen the weakness of many left-liberals’ support for civil liberties. Last week, progressive bloggers, activists, and politicians piled on Chick-fil-A, whose president Dan Cathy has spoken critically of and supported […]
From the Daily Mail. Seriously fucked-up, but not terribly surprising… __________ By Dan Newling Even in a country that sees 44 murders a day, the case has left the public horrified. A gang of robbers gunned down a father, raped and murdered his wife. Then, in a final […]
Hopefully, this will be a lesson for those conservatives and libertarians who persist in supporting the Republicans on the grounds they’re more likely to appoint pro-2nd Amendment justices to the Supreme Court. From FOX News Foxnews Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Sunday the Second Amendment leaves open […]
From Activist Post According to court documents, Adam “Ademo” Mueller, journalist and co-host of nationally syndicated radio talk show Free Talk Live, has been indicted on three counts of felony wiretapping. The charges are a result of a vlog Mueller posted on CopBlock.org about an incident involving alleged police misconduct, which […]
By Alessandra Ram Female patrons are visiting shooting ranges in greater numbers, some carrying leopard-print concealment purses. Will their training really make society safer? Iakov Filimonov/Shutterstock It’s Ladies Night at the gun range. No longer the sacred pastime of cowboys and Indians, shooting has become a favorite pastime […]
EMEMBERING A LOST WORLD – BEFORE THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN PHOTO: The Student Lounge at the University of Tehran in 1971. According to the New York Times, “Until the revolution, Iran was among the most cultured, cosmopolitan countries in the region. It had a progressive movement in […]
(H) So much for “land of the free”. Note that the majority of the Americans imprisoned are in for non-violent, victimless crimes.
How today’s conservatives are yesterday’s liberals. By Paul Gottfried In an eloquent address before the Council of Conservative Citizens, my friend John Derbyshire undertakes a difficult task: he wishes to make us more appreciate of what he calls “Mainstream Conservatism,” VDARE.com calls “Conservatism, Inc.” and I call “the Alternative Left” John lists for our […]
Enough of your hypocrisy, neocons and Obama supporters.
From The Daily Paul [Via InformationLiberation.com] Video clip from local news station at the link below. What’s wrong with the police? Are officers so unskilled and scared that they must tase a skinny 12 year old girl? And this all began because of her mom not paying traffic tickets? […]
From The Atlantic An investigation undertaken by law clinics at NYU, Fordham, Harvard, and Stanford has concluded, after eight months of study, that the NYPD abused Occupy Wall Street protesters and violated their rights on numerous occasions during the 2011 protests that radiated out from Zuccotti Park. Their […]
From Russia Today Reuters / Frank Polich The Department of Homeland Security has ordered masses of riot gear equipment to prepare for potential significant domestic riots at the Republican National Convention, Democratic National Convention and next year’s presidential inauguration.
DOJ: SPEECH MIGHT NOT BE SO ‘FREE’ IF IT’S AGAINST ISLAM Thought your free speech rights, those given by God and protected by the U.S. Constitution, were assured in the United States? Well, maybe. A representative of Barack Obama’s Department of Justice has refused – over and over […]
From Quisling’s Quest I am currently reading Geert Wilders book “Marked for Death”. It is an interesting book with much useful information in it. I find it most interesting because some of his points I agree with and some I strongly oppose. In my way of defining points […]
From Quisling’s Quest I am an independent politically. I believe in less government on the national level and more local control at a city state community level. I believe in diversity and that small government should reflect the community that lives within it. Because of all this, I […]
By Paul Craig Roberts One wonders what Syrians are thinking as “rebels” vowing to “free Syria” take the country down the same road to destruction as “rebels” in Libya. Libya, under Gaddafi a well run country whose oil revenues were shared with the Libyan people instead of monopolized […]
By Pat Buchanan Since 1928, only Dwight Eisenhower and George W. Bush have won the presidency while capturing both houses of Congress for the GOP. In his 49-state landslide, Richard Nixon failed to take either House. In his two landslides, Ronald Reagan won back only the Senate. Yet […]
By Anna Morgenstern The simplest way to put it is that they’re all a bunch of crooks. The bankers are the chief con-men. They print up (so to speak) a bunch of fake money out of thin air. I can do that too, but no one is going […]
Remembering the U.S. president that made George W. Bush look intelligent. By Michael K. Smith He had but the foggiest idea what the policies of his own administration were. When not programmed by his staff he talked nonstop about Hollywood or whiled away the hours watching T.V. Bored […]
By Kevin Carson It’s gradually emerged in recent months that the Food and Drug Administration not only spied on its employees, but did so on a massive scale — collecting tens of thousands of employee emails to one another, as well as to journalists, members of Congress and […]
From the Daily Mail. Silly mare; sillier punishment. Mind you, if the Games got cancelled at the last minute, I wouldn’t complain. Part of me hopes for a repeat of last year’s riots, if only to offset the climate of force-fed positivity surrounding the event. EDIT (27/7/12): The […]
By Morris Berman Strange things are happening in the United States these days, and every day seems to bring additional scary news. The similarity to the erosion of civil liberties in Germany during the 1930s is a bit too close for comfort. Many will regard this statement as […]
By Ralph Nader Ever visit a major prison? The vast majority of Americans have not, despite our country having by far a higher incarceration rate per capita than China or Iran. Out of sight is out of mind. Imagine the benefits of the average taxpayer touring a prison. […]
By Paul Gottfried Recently I commented on a blunder by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, who suddenly wimped out after having proposed cutting 20 to 30 percent out of the state’s allocation for “higher education.” Corbett had a chance to do good by making our state universities cough up more of […]
Fox News Video: Riot breaks out at police station in Anaheim ANAHEIM, Calif. – City officials voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the U.S. attorney’s office to investigate recent police shootings, including one of an unarmed man over the weekend, that have sparked four days of protests and a […]
By Rick Ungar It’s enough to make even the most ardent Obama cynic scratch his head in confusion. Amidst all the cries of Barack Obama being the most prolific big government spender the nation has ever suffered, Marketwatch is reporting that our president has actually been tighter with a buck than any […]
By Keith Preston Friedrich Nietzsche suggested in the nineteenth century that the crisis of Western civilization generated by modernity’s overthrow of the traditional European order and the loss of faith resulting from the torpedoing of traditional theology by advancements in human knowledge would have repercussions that would […]
By Jim Goad In the wake of Friday morning’s bloodbath at a Colorado movie theater, America struggles to figure out who or what to blame. They’ve obviously ruled out the shooter. James Holmes, 24, will be arraigned in a Colorado courtroom this morning and charged with a spree killing […]
By David Price I started reading Alexander Cockburn during the early 1980s while in college, mining The Evergreen State College library’s back issues of The Village Voice. In the present, it is easy to lose sight of how sharp and unique his early critiques of the media were at the […]
By Dave Lindorff ThisCantBeHappening! lost a valued friend Friday night with the death, from cancer, of Alexander Cockburn, 71. Alex and his comrade-in-arms Jeffrey St. Clair at Counterpunch magazine have helped our struggling little online left alternative newspaper mightily by running most of our articles on their site […]
Required reading. South Asian Anarchism: Paths to Praxis Meditations on Maia Ramnath’s Decolonizing Anarchism: an Antiauthoritarian History of India’s Liberation Struggle (AK Press, USA, 2012) and her Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Charted Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (California World History Library, […]
From BBC Chaos and carnage hover over the novels of Cormac McCarthy and the writings of thinker Thomas Hobbes. It's not a love of domination that makes people violent, but the need for safety, says philosopher John Gray. (Spoiler alert: Key plot details revealed below) "War is god". […]
From The Seattle Times A man spotted dressed in a goat suit among a herd of wild goats in the mountains of northern Utah has wildlife officials worried he could be in danger as hunting season approaches. Phil Douglass of the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said Friday […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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