Congressmen Seek To Lift Propaganda Ban

From Buzzfeed.com An amendment that would legalize the use of propaganda on American audiences is being inserted into the latest defense authorization bill, BuzzFeed has learned. The amendment would “strike the current ban on domestic dissemination” of propaganda material produced by the State Department and the Pentagon, according […]

What Does Ron Paul Want?

By Justin Raimondo This is the question puzzling Paul’s friends, as well as his enemies. A recentannouncement by the campaign that the anti-interventionist Congressman andpresidential candidate is not spending money in the remaining primary states provoked a Drudge headline: “Paul Out.” That is the GOP Establishment’s fondest wish, but the reality is that Paul is far […]

The Antietam of the Culture War

Note: Any serious anarchist and libertarian strategy needs to recognize that the culture wars are primarily a conflict with the upper middle class with the Left being the overall winner, and  with the rest of U.S. society divided on predictable socio-economic (i.e. class) lines. By Pat Buchanan It […]

Occupy: Nucleus of the New Society?

By Kevin Carson Many Occupy supporters on the Left express concern that it could be coopted by the mainstream institutional Left and harnessed to a political agenda of NPR liberalism. The recent prominence of Van Johnson’s Rebuild the Dream and MoveOn.org seems to provide at least superficial justification […]

American Terrorist’s Mom Wants Him Back Home

abcnews.go.com BRIAN ROSS (@brianross) and LEE FERRAN American-born Islamist militant Omar Hammami, also known as Abu Mansur al-Amriki, speaks during a news conference held by the militant group al-Shabab at a farm in southern Mogadishu’s Afgoye district in Somalia, May 11, 2011. (Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP Photo) An Alabama […]

Marriage: the Health of the State?

Thaddeus Russell makes his case. Not that I think homosexuals should have to fit anyone’s Ideal Procrustean Queer mould, but do they not signal their social conservatism to the degree that they embrace this ritual? __________________________ Back in the days when there was an identifiable counter-cultural movement in […]

Federal Judge Cockblocks NDAA

So says Glenn Greenwald. Nice job, Miss Forrest! __________________________ A federal district judge today, the newly-appointed Katherine Forrest of the Southern District of New York, issued an amazing ruling: one which preliminarily enjoins enforcement of the highly controversial indefinite provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act, enacted by […]

Half Say View of Obama Not Affected by Gay Marriage Decision

Obama’s proclamation of support for same sex marriage solidified his support among Democrats, young people and college graduates. In general, Republicans, older people and less educated people responded unfavorably to the President. In comparison, the opinion of blacks remains relatively unchanged. The White House likely did not make […]

“The Policeman is Your Friend”? Psh!

Article by Kevin Carson. I rather like Sean Gabb’s offshoot from it… American pigs, so far as I can tell, have always been more piggish than the English pigs. But our own have become much more brutal and trigger-happy over the past few decades. For example, Mark Duggan […]

Revisionism: Left & Right, Hard & Soft

By Jonathan Bowden Editor’s Note: The following is a transcript by D. E. C. of Jonathan Bowden’s speech at the 12th meeting of the New Right in London on November 3, 2007. The audio is available on YouTube here. If you have any corrections, please contact me at editor@counter-currents.com or simply […]

Why America is Doomed to One Disaster After Another

By Gabriel Kolko Both Europe and the United States confront great crises; while they are different in certain regards they have important similarities too.  America’s crisis is both military and economic; they are interrelated because America has a huge deficit, in large part because it has the chimerical ambition to be the world’s dominating military power, which costs […]

The Life of Julia Under Anarchy

By Kevin Carson As a toddler Julia will begin a twenty-odd-year sentence in institutions designed to process her into a “human resource”: Someone encultured to view the existing institutional framework and power structure as natural and inevitable, who trusts and obeys the state and takes its self-justifications at face value. […]

Dump the Statist Monkey Off Your Back

By Kevin Carson The state’s main function has always been to set up tollgates between labor and consumption, between our skills and the ability to transform them into use-value for ourselves, so that a privileged minority could live off the rents on artificial scarcity. Under chattel slavery, that […]

Why I Don’t Vote – an Indigenous Perspective

From American Indian/Alaska Native Attack the System By Vincent Rinehart In the article The Quandary of American Indian Quasi Dual Citizenship at Last Real Indians, the argument is made for American Indian participation in the American political process. The reason given is that Indian policy and political policy […]

It’s Hard to Win When You’re Playing Against the Referee

By Paul Gottfried The Italian political theorist and longtime socialist journalist Carlo Galli recently published a short volume called Perché ancora destra-sinistra (roughly translated, “Why is there still right and left?”). Galli’s definitions show scant evidence of semantic evenhandedness. He seems to identify with a perfumed definition of the left […]

Attack the System: Interview with R.J. Jacob

Attack the System Interview with R.J. Jacob May 3, 2012Keith Preston interviews R.J. Jacob. Topics include: R.J.’s early experiences as a left-anarchist activist and his disappointment with the Left; The importance of the thought of Max Stirner and the need to develop an anarchism without slave morality; The […]

Team America: World Rapists

From Antiwar.com. __________________________ News from the Empire in South Korea: A three-judge panel on Wednesday sentenced a U.S. soldier to six years in prison for raping a South Korean teenager in September. Pvt. Kevin Robinson was found guilty of raping the 17-year-old at her residence in Seoul after […]

Fox: Not quite porn… or news

By Michael at The Southern Nationalist RT America has an article out (complete with pictures) about the revealing dress of the Fox News ‘info-babes,’ the audience this is aimed towards and the lack of actual news that Fox produces: Distracting viewers with mis-information and ‘info-babes’

Rochdale, We Have a Problem!

The folks at Spiked weigh in on the Rochdale sex slavers. First, Brendan O’Neill… Indeed, it seems it is now virtually impossible to have a serious discussion about problematic cultural attitudes, because to do so would apparently offend minorities and, even worse, stir up the passions of the […]

In Case You Really Have To Flee the Authorities…

sovereignman.com Simon Black When most people think of Brazil, it’s the incredible beaches that come to mind. Or the crazy parties of Carnival. Or the spectacular vistas and great weather. Or how indescribably gorgeous (and welcoming) the locals are. But here’s a little known fact, and it’s something […]

Gaddafi’s “Crime”?

From Indigenous Pride World Wide “Oil companies are controlled by foreigners who have made millions from them. Now, Libyans must take their place to profit from this money.”—Muammar Gadhafi, 2006. By Stephen Gowans May 6, 2012 The Wall Street Journal of 5 May offers evidence, additional to that […]

Stateside Self-Defence Teacher Banned from the UK

From the UK Huffington Post. No surprise  to hear that Theresa May’s behind this ban: it seems a surveillance state “ is conducive to the public good”, yet learning how to fight off predation isn’t. She’s consistent, if nothing else. __________________________________ An American self-defence instructor has been banned […]

Rome Didn’t Fall in a Day

lewrockwell.com Chris Sullivan Back in the ’70s, I used to expect the government to suffer a financial collapse at which time it would have to quit doing most of the things it’s doing because it would run out of money. That isn’t what has happened. Instead of cutting […]