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Nexus X HumectressChutzpah, anyone?
Leave Those Kids Alone
The Essence of the State: A Legal Monopoly on Crime
The Longest Con
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 […]
The Grin That Killed: Reagan-the Real Story
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 […]
The Predictable “Scandal” at the FDA
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 […]
Kicked out for a racist tweet: Greek triple jumper is banned from the Games after her African ‘joke’
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 […]
Slouching Towards Nuremberg?
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 […]
I couldn’t help but laugh at the incongruity.
Prisons as Growth Industry
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. […]
Institutions of Higher Emoting
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 […]
War on Terror/War on Drugs
Hundreds protest over Anaheim police shootings, city officials call for investigation
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 […]
Who Is The Smallest Government Spender Since Eisenhower? Would You Believe It’s Barack Obama?
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 […]
Nietzsche the Visionary: A Reflection on the Nature of a Civilization Guided by Nietzschean Values
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 […]
What Could Be More Anarchist Than Defending the Right to Bear Arms?
Freedom is for Everyone
The Joker’s Razor
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 […]
The Irreverent Sting of Alexander Cockburn
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 […]
Alexander Cockburn, 1941-2012
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 […]
South Asian Anarchism: Paths to Praxis
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, […]
A Point of View: A time when violence is normal
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". […]
Man in goat suit seen living among goats in Utah mountains
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 […]
Alexander Cockburn, RIP
By Justin Raimondo The death of Alexander Cockburn, columnist for the Nation and author of many books, is an irreplaceable loss not only personally, for those who knew him, but for the broad “progressive” movement, where his populist brand of anarcho-syndicalism — the leftist equivalent of “crunchy conservatism” — set him apart […]
National-Anarchism: Ideas & Concepts
Signed copies of NATIONAL-ANARCHISM: IDEAS & CONCEPTS are now available to pre-order. The book is over 200 pages in length and costs just £15 with free postage to anywhere in the world. The Paypal address is: blackfrontpress@yahoo.co.uk More details below. AFTER the immense interest that was generated by […]
Opposing Circumcision: A Shoah Thing?
My latest from the Inferno, looking into the intersection between prepuce-pruning and PC… ____________ It pleased me to read of a Cologne court’s decision to give the legality of child-circumcision the snip. Even a crotchety old anti-statist like myself can appreciate the few laws that uphold some level […]
News UK news Simon Harwood trial Tomlinson case: Met police tried to hide PC Harwood’s disciplinary record
As Mad Max wrote: “The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.” This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest… _______________ The Metropolitan police attempted to keep the disciplinary record of PC Simon Harwood secret from the family of Ian Tomlinson, the newspaper seller […]
We Are All Terrorists!
From NATA-NY In the July issue of American Free Press, Pat Shannan reports on a recent Homeland Security study that claims to identify domestic terrorists. The AFP article is reposted below, but above Shannan’s writing are three direct quotes from the DHS-funded, University of Maryland-conducted report “Hot Spots […]
Murderous Psychos
The Perfect Candidate
Democracy: The Allah That Failed
The transition between bans 3 and 4 smashes it! Volunteered, by Aaron Kinney, to The Radical Libertarian ___________
Bringing back the military draft is a terrible idea
By Jason Pye Perhaps one of my favorite Milton Friedman stories is when he was served on a presidential commission to look at military conscription. The Nobel Prize winning economist listened to General William Westmoreland, who was givening testimony before the commission. Here’s how it played out: In his […]
Here Come the Draft-Nappers
By William Norman Grigg Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of NATO troops in Afghanistan, demands the re-instatement of conscription so that next time Washington commits itself to a needless foreign war “every town, every city [will be] at risk.” “I think we ought to have a draft. I […]
Our Enemy, the Police
Scott Horton interviews William Norman Grigg. Will Grigg discusses Edmund Burke’s notion of “natural society” and “policed society;” why American police forces are servants of the state, not of the people; the botched SWAT raid in Evansville, IN; and how good cops get thrown off the force for […]
War On All Fronts: Russia and China Back in Washington’s Crosshairs
By Paul Craig Roberts The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install an American puppet state in the geographically largest country […]
Ron Paul, fed up with trying to end the Fed
By Dana Milbank Ron Paul ran for president three times, served nearly a quarter-century in Congress, spawned a national movement and saw his son elected to the Senate.But in his singular objective — to “End the Fed,” as the title of his book put it — the libertarian […]
I’m Finally Leaving America’s Crazed Police State
By David Seaman Dudes, I’m done with this. I’m leaving the United States today, and won’t be back for a while. I recently visited my childhood hometown and noticed a whole bunch of brand new surveillance cameras at nearly every intersection and street corner; this is just a […]
Why Muslim Fundamentalists Should Embrace Voluntaryist Anarchy
By Davi Barker I want to be clear from the outset what I mean by “fundamentalists.” I’m not talking about muslims engaged in suicide bombing, plane hijacking, church burning, cartoonist murdering or teddy bear rioting. Those people have departed from any semblance of what I can call islam. […]
Handcuffed man shot twice by San Francisco police – witness reports
From Russia Today video still from youtube user sf99er TAGS: Crime, USA Officers with the San Francisco Police Department in Northern California shot a man believed to have a knife this morning, but preliminary reports suggest that the victim was in handcuffs while the authorities opened fire. Police officers with […]
Beyond Prudery and Perversion: The Sexual Aesthetics and Metaphysics of Julius Evola
By Keith Preston The erotic sculptures of Khajuraho Of the various manifestations of the egalitarian cultural revolution that has transpired in the Western world over the past half century, none have been quite so enduring or become so deeply rooted in the culture of modern society as […]
Four Legs Good, Two Legs Bad
By Anna Morgenstern Those of us who mistrust the evolution of our current politico-economic system, often look toward dystopian novels to portray a warning glimpse of where we are headed. The two most common examples are 1984 by George Orwell or Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. While there certainly are elements […]
London 2012….. feel safe yet?
The Keynesian Sexual Marketplace
Interesting description of the current sexual marketplace as an artificial market. All those guys you know who screw a lot of women are Omega’s exploiting a niche produced by feminism and urban anonymity. In a tribal society these sort of guys would be killed or expelled by an alliance of alphas and betas; if they could manage to get laid in the first place….
The GOP is Finished
Richard Spencer explains why: “Even delusional Republicans like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum—men who make televangelists seem noble in comparison—must surely recognize that only older, church-going White people would conceivably vote for them. Thus, the mainstream Republicans soft talk on immigration*, their refrains about lifting up “all Americans”—and […]
Quote of the Day
“To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.” – Voltaire
The Real Welfare Kings and Queens: Five Reasons the Super-Rich Need Big Government
By Paul Buchheit Wealthy individuals and corporations want us to believe they’ve made it on their own, without the help of government or the American people. Billionaire financier Sanford Weill blustered, “We didn’t rely on somebody else to build what we built.” He was echoing the words of […]
Corneliu Codreanu and the Warrior Ethos
By Keith Preston Sean Gabb has some good observations regarding this essay on the Libertarian Alliance blog: “This is an impressive piece of writing, though also alarming. The more I learn about certain nationalist movements of the 20th century, the less alien I find the orthodox Marxists. They […]
A Pan-Secessionist Anthem?
Florida cops kill innocent man at his own home
From Russia Today. Talk about a gangland execution! _____________ Hearing a knock on his door at 1:30 am, a perplexed Florida man answered the door to see what kind of unannounced visitors were outside. Holding a gun for security, 26-year old Andrew Scott was instantly shot dead by […]
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