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 […]

5/9/12 – Latest on the Naxalite-Maoist insurgency

Maoist army is 46K strong and winning Abductions: Maoists On Top In Every Scenario – Analysis Gang supplying mobile phone SIM cards to Maoists busted in UP Naxals making inroads into Kerala, Karnataka Low-level government officials at Naxal meets? RDX recovered from Maoist hideout Maoist in Assam now equipped with sophisticated weapon Maoists abduct, […]

The Liberation of America From Itself

By Thomas Naylor It will not make one whit of difference who is elected president in November, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.  Either way, it will be business as usual.  Both the silver-tongued, Nobel Peace Laureate, drone aficionado and the mean-spirited, Harvard MBA, venture capitalist shark are unwavering […]

Free Markets vs.Capitalism

By Jamie O’Hara and Craig Fitzgerald. National Anarchist Tribal Alliance – NY Anarchists with socialist leanings associate the terms “free market” and “capitalism” with oppression and exploitation.  To anarcho-capitalists, the absence of state intervention in the market is the ultimate form of liberty.  In both the underground and […]

BREAKING: Obama says he supports same-sex marriage

From CNN Politics (CNN) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday he supports same-sex marriage, raising the political stakes on an issue over which Americans are evenly split. The announcement was the first by a sitting president and put Obama squarely at odds with presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt […]

Italian Gov’t Gives Up Trying To Regulate Copyright Online

Techdirt Mike Masnick Apparently there’s been a years-long effort in Italy to give the Italian Communication Authority (AGCOM) some regulatory authority to enforce copyrights online. And apparently there has been some fighting over this (mostly over AGCOM’s competence in this field). However, according to The 1709 Blog, it […]