Antiwar.com Newsletter | June 16, 2012

IN THIS ISSUE What’s new Top news Opinion and analysis Events What’s new with Antiwar.com staff and contributors? Congratulations to Gareth Porter, reporter for InterPress Service and frequent Antiwar.com contributor, for winning the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. This honor is for his outstanding research into the military’s […]

Swedish party wants sit-down urination

More insanity from Brave New World’s leading nation. It’s hard to believe these people are the descendants  of the Vikings. SORMLAND, Sweden, June 11 (UPI) — Left Party members of a Swedish county council said they want to encourage men using the council’s toilets to sit during urination. The […]

Rodney King dead at 47

From CNN Rodney King, who died Sunday at the age of 47, gestures to supporters at a book signing event in Los Angeles on April 30. King’s beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked the LA Riots of 1992 after the acquittal […]

Wisconsin: It was always theirs anyway

By Kevin Carson Following the major news networks’ projections of Scott Walker’s victory in the Wisconsin recall vote Tuesday, the dominant reaction among anti-Walker activists was apocalyptic. “If out-of-state corporate interests can outspend us ten-to-one, and that’s enough to beat all this grassroots organizing and public outrage, then […]

Let Them Drink Coke

By Paul Gottfried New York Mayor Bloomberg has recommended that a 16-ounce limit be placed on the size of soft drinks sold at city restaurants, movie theaters, stadiums, and arenas. This seemed necessary because of an epidemic of obesity in his municipality, where over 50% of the residents are now judged to […]

An Echo, Not a Choice

By Paul Gottfried A recent syndicated column by Peggy Noonan makes useful observations, together with one rather questionable point. Noonan blithely assumes that while the president has “fully absorbed the general assumptions and sympathies of the political left,” his opponent Mitt Romney reflects “the general attitudes, assumptions and sympathies of […]

GOP/Dem rhetorical convergence

By Glenn Greenwald In 2005, Karl Rove sparked widespread outrage by accusing liberal critics of President Bush’s Terrorism programs of sympathizing with and wanting to coddle The Terrorists: Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks andwanted to prepare […]

American National Militia

ANMilitia This is different than most sites. It is designed for and dedicated to present and upcoming events. Due to patriot efforts, Americans are at a crossroads. We, as a people, are living in extraordinary times. These are the times that try mans  souls… Each of us knows […]

So What Are We?

A question for our readers and supporters? What is the best term for the kind of political philosophy we promote here? Terms I’ve used  include anarcho-populism, anarcho-pluralism, anti-state radicalism, anarchism without adjectives, anarchism without hyphens, tribal-anarchism, radical decentralism, anarcho-sovereignism, open-ended national-anarchism, third way/third position anarchism, left-paleocon anarchism, and […]

Geopolitics and “Conspiracy Theories”

Kerry Bolton is interviewed by Richard Spencer. The United Nations General Assembly Author Kerry Bolton joins Richard to discuss geopolitics and the intersection of global finance, war, and foreign policy. In particular, they examine the “conspiracy theories” regarding major events like the Second World War and the Cold […]

Indiana legalizes shooting cops

From Russia Today. Not all bad news, then! _________________ by Vincent West Hold onto your holsters, folks: shooting a cop dead is now legal in the state of Indiana. Governor Mitch Daniels, a Republican, has authorized changes to a 2006 legislation that legalizes the use of deadly force […]

Bill C-304: Hate Speech Clause’s Repeal Gives White Supremacists Rare Moment Of Glee

From HuffPo Canada. Two-thirds—two-fucking-thirds—of this spin-piece’s audience voted in favour of censorship: tie-dye totalitarians! ______________ A Conservative private members’ bill that repeals part of Canada’s hate speech laws has passed the House of Commons with scant media attention, and even less commentary. But it’s being cheered by many […]

Sweet land of… conformity?

From Boston.com. _______ By Claude Fischer  Americans aren’t the rugged individuals we think we are. Americans like to see themselves as rugged individualists, a nation defined by the idea that people should set their own course through life. Think of Clint Eastwood rendering justice, rule-bound superiors be damned. […]

As Goode as It Gets

By W. James Antle III photo: Constitution Party During the Republican primaries, conservatives turned to one candidate after another to be the right’s alternative to Mitt Romney: Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and finally Rick Santorum. One by one, their campaigns fizzled. Now, with the […]

Revolt in the Ranks

By Chris Bray Illustration by Miguel Davilla On a September afternoon in the peacetime year of 1821, a regiment of Rhode Island militia completed its annual review and prepared to go home. Suddenly the regiment’s parade field in Providence became the scene of a spontaneous military riot. In […]

The Right’s False Prophet

By Kenneth McIntyre When writing about the work of an academic historian or philosopher—as opposed to a polemicist, a politician, or a popularizer—there is an obvious threshold question with which to begin: is the writer’s work intrinsically interesting or compelling in some way? If this question is answered […]

Plutocracy at the Crossroads?

By Gary Wills Republican operatives describe this year’s presidential election in apocalyptic terms. It will determine our future. It will seal our national fate. Well, they are probably right, but not for the reason they give. They tell Republican voters that President Obama, in a second term where […]