Israeli drone crashes in ball of fire

From CNN. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The Israeli drone aircraft, the Eitan, is pictured in February 2010. STORY HIGHLIGHTS The plane spins in the air and loses a wing before the crash, a witness says The drone is capable of reaching parts of Iran — and carrying missiles No injuries are […]

The Coming Paradigm Shift in Silver

From Financial Sense. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The biggest problem for investors today in trying to forecast the future price of silver is the enormous amount of contradictory analysis on the Internet. There are bulls, bears, paper traders, physical buyers, technical analysts, hedge funds, commercial banks and silver manufacturers all trying […]

Navy to launch 'mothership' floating base in the Middle East this summer

From The Daily Mail. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The Pentagon is set to launch a floating naval base in the Middle East, a move which would make the military more flexible but could cause friction with America’s friends and foes alike. The vessel, which has unofficially been called the ‘mothership’, is […]

More than 100 Occupy activists arrested in Oakland after clashing with police

From CNN. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Smoke rises between Occupy Oakland protesters and police cordoning off an intersection Saturday. STORY HIGHLIGHTS NEW: More than 100 protesters are arrested after they enter a downtown Oakland YMCA building NEW: Occupy protesters claim an attempt to enter Oakland City Hall Police say activists threw bottles, flares […]

TSA rail, subway spot-checks raise privacy issues

From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- updated 10:05 AM EST, Sat January 28, 2012 The Transportation Security Administration’s Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response teams (VIPR) conducted 3,895 surface transportation operations in 2010, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Screenings occurred at some of the nation’s 500 Amtrak stations. STORY HIGHLIGHTS […]

My "Totalitarian Humanism" Theory is Spreading

As evidenced by my being quoted in this piece by maverick journalist Celia Farber.  ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Documentary Film Review: “The Greater Good” “At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question.  It is not […]

Why the State Will Fail

Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– To paraphrase the assessment of libertarian socialist Rosa Luxemburg a century ago, we face an imminent choice between freedom and barbarism. There are only two possible outcomes in the present struggle between the authoritarian institutions of state and corporation, and the emergent society […]

“American Exceptionalism;” or, It’s Not State Capitalism When America Does It

Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Auburn University philosophy professor Roderick Long coined the term “conflationism” for the tendency to confuse the free market — whether in accusatory or apologetic polemics — with actually existing capitalism. Left-conflationism is the practice of attacking the evils of actually existing corporate capitalism […]

America’s Protestant majority is fading, University of Chicago research shows

And non-religion is the fastest growing religious perspective. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The increasing secularization of American society has taken a particular toll on Protestant identity, presenting the prospect that after more than 200 years of history, the United States may soon no longer be a majority Protestant country, according to […]

Centralized power hurts environment, empower communities for greater local accountability

Article by Ian Huyett. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- To those wary of corporate power, Halliburton — a multinational oil field services provider — has become a sort of caricature, rivaled only by Monsanto in epitomizing shameless boardroom gluttony. Until 2007, Halliburton owned Kellogg Brown & Root, a company that specializes in […]

Attack the System: Interview with Richard Spencer

Listen to the interview. Keith Preston interviews Richard Spencer. Topics include: The origins of the “alternative right” and how it differs from the mainstream “conservative movement”; The impact of the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche as the principal intellectual influence on the alternative right; Why alternative rightists tend towards […]

KOWLOON WALLED CITY PARK

Interesting. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— (WikiCommons) At its peak, Kowloon had a population density of 3,300,000 people per square mile. Occupying every inch of hundreds of mid-rise buildings, Kowloon was such a lawless maze of alleyways and secret staircases, that police from the outside world would rarely venture in without a […]

Pat Buchanan: Reagan White House saw Newt as ‘something of a political opportunist’

From The Daily Caller. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Over the last week, several people that worked in the Reagan administration have come forward and countered former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s claim that he is a “Reagan Republican.” These people say Gingrich “wasn’t on board with a lot of what President Ronald Reagan tried to accomplish during […]

Newt Gingrich was under FBI investigation for bribery

Article by Andre C. James. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Little known to the American public Newt Gingrich and his then wife Marianne were the subject of a US Justice Department criminal investigation in the late 1990s involving a $10 million bribe of the world’s largest private arms dealer, Sarkis Soghanalia Unaware […]

The Secession Solution

Article by Kirkpatrick Sale. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Aristotle declared that there should be a limit to the size of states. But really, what did he know? He lived at a time when the entire population of the world was somewhere around 50 million—about the size of England today. Athens, where […]

CIA’s final report: No WMD found in Iraq

From MSNBC —————————————————————————————————————————————————– In his final word, the CIA’s top weapons inspector in Iraq said Monday that the hunt for weapons of mass destruction has “gone as far as feasible” and has found nothing, closing an investigation into the purported programs of Saddam Hussein that were used to […]

The Israel lobby's role in American politics

Article by Stephen Walt. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- While I was away, a friend sent me a link to an article from the online magazine Tablet, and asked me what I thought about it. The piece is by Adam Kirsch, and it’s basically a critical summary of the impact of my […]

The Greatest Threat: It's not the Mooslims

Article by Justin Raimondo. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– There’s always a Looming Danger, an Ominous Threat lurking somewhere – that’s the War Party’s bread-and-butter. Back in the day, it was the Germans, who were going to cross the Atlantic and meet their Japanese allies somewhere near the Mississippi. Then it was the Commies, who were […]

Woman with two vaginas reportedly turns down $1M porn offer

Hmmm. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Hazel Jones, 27, appeared on ITV’s This Morning earlier in the week to discuss her rare condition. (Screengrab) A British woman who revealed she has two vaginas was reportedly offered $1 million to make a porno film. Hazel Jones, 27, appeared on ITV’s This Morning earlier […]

Goat rapist caught after ‘sounds of distress’

WTF? ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The owner of the goat Mr David Mutunha said he caught Chisare in the act with his goat after he heard sounds of distress coming from the animal. Residents in Ward 28 in Norton were left stunned by the bizarre incident which happened on Saturday night. […]

Drowning In Hypocrisy

Article by Paul Craig Roberts. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The US government is so full of self-righteousness that it has become a caricature of hypocrisy. Leon Panetta, a former congressman who Obama appointed CIA director and now head of the Pentagon, just told the sailors on the USS Enterprise, an aircraft […]

LA Military Exercises

From KFI AM 640 —————————————————————————————————————————————————-   LOS ANGELES (CNS) – Joint military training exercises will be held evenings in downtown Los Angeles through Thursday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.   The LAPD will be providing support for the exercises, which will also be held in other […]

Occupy AIPAC prepares for DC action

From PressTV.Com —————————————————————————————————————————————————— An alliance of activist groups in the United States has announced that they will occupy the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) headquarters in early March. Anti-corporate protesters from over 120 groups are devising plans to occupy AIPAC headquarters in Washington, DC from March 2 […]

The Caging of America

Article by Adam Gopnick. Six million people are under correctional supervision in the U.S.—more than were in Stalin’s gulags. Photograph by Steve Liss. A prison is a trap for catching time. Good reporting appears often about the inner life of the American prison, but the catch is that […]

India to pay gold instead of dollars for Iranian oil: Oil and gold markets stunned

From Debka.Com ————————————————————————————————————————————————— India is the first buyer of Iranian oil to agree to pay for its purchases in gold instead of the US dollar, DEBKAfile’s intelligence and Iranian sources report exclusively.  Those sources expect China to follow suit. India and China take about one million barrels per day, […]

Anonymous Goes on Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline

From Gizmodo.Com ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Anonymous has sure been quiet lately, but today’s federal bust of Megaupload riled ’em up good: a retaliatory strike against DoJ.gov (and plenty of other foes) leaving them completely dead. DownForEveryoneOrJustMe.com is reporting the department’s site as universally nuked, and an Anonymous-affiliated Twitter account is boasting success. This is almost certainly […]

One Mexican State Bordering The US Was Deadlier Than All of Afghanistan Last Year

From CNS News. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Organized crime-related deaths in one Mexican border state during the first nine months of 2011 exceed the number of Afghan civilians killed in roughly the same period in all of war-torn Afghanistan. According to the Mexican government, from January through September 2011 2,276 deaths were […]

On national defense, Ron Paul is strongest candidate

Article by Ian Huyett. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Few Republicans would deny that it’s difficult for Mitt Romney to sell himself as a fiscal conservative while sharing a stage with Ron Paul. The Texas congressman and physician, who has consistently scored among the top three GOP candidates in recent weeks, has […]

So What if SOPA Passes?

Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- In a single day of glory, January 18, a major portion of the Web went dark as a warning that we will no longer tolerate the Copyright Nazis’ infringements on our speech. The next day, with the FBI’s takedown of MegaUpload, they showed […]

The Corporate State: A House Divided Against Itself

Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- The present historic epoch is one of transition from authoritarian institutions like states and corporations, to a society of self-organized networks and voluntary associations. As in any historic transition, second-order variables introduce high levels of turbulence to the process. One such source of […]

Extremism in ‘Defense’ of Israel

Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— There’s no doubt about it: Andrew B. Adler, the editor of the Atlanta Jewish Times, is afool. His article advocating the assassination of President Obama has by now beenbroadcast all over the internet, and brought condemnation from every quarter down on his head. His tearful apologies, his denials that he […]

At Last, Someone Who Understands That America Has Failed: The Decline of the American Empire

Article by Kirkpatrick Sale. Required reading. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Why America Failed, which this book is not about, is nonetheless a devastating and eviscerating critique proving convincingly that Americahas failed, and abominably, even tragically.  That makes it a very important book that I hope will find an attentive audience, particularly among […]

Attack the System: Interview with Paul Gottfried

My interview with Gottfried on VOR. ———————————————————————————————- Keith Preston interviews Paul Gottfried. Topics include: The core characteristics that distinguish the Right from the Left, including a belief in the necessity and legitimacy of organic hierarchy, respect for the limitations imposed by human nature, and a preference for tradition […]

Ron Paul’s Anti-Imperialism

Article by Andrew Levine. This is an interesting critique of Ron Paul from a neo-Marxist perspective. While it makes some interesting arguments, and is likely correct is its assessment of the futility of the Ron Paul campaign, it also engages in a lot of unnecessary overreach. The reason […]

A Fitting Symbol of the American Empire

Article by Sheldon Richman. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– The image of four U.S. marines urinating on the corpses of Afghan fighters is a fitting symbol of American intervention in Central Asia and the Middle East. That picture will live forever in the memories of people in the region, along with the […]

The Religious Right: Not So Worried About Morals After All

By Bill Anderson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– As the returns from South Carolina come in, we find that about two-thirds of SC Republican voters are evangelicals, and the evangelicals have spoken loudly: If Democrats are adulterers, they are evil, but if it is a Republican, well, all is forgiven. I’m sure […]

Progressives Cover Themselves With Shame in NH Primary

Article by John Walsh. It’s official. The Left is formally dead as an enemy of the Empire. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- For the Left, the big news of the New Hampsire primary has been greeted with an embarrassed silence. For there the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, for example “Progressive” […]

Washington Moves the World Closer to War

From Paul Craig Roberts new website. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Since my January 11 column http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/01/11/the-next-war-on-washingtons-agenda/and the news alert posted on January 14 http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2012/01/14/news-alert/, more confirmation that Washington is moving the world toward a dangerous war has appeared. The Obama regime is using its Ministry of Propaganda, a.k.a., the American media, to spread […]

CNN Republican debate audience cheers Ron Paul's call to end Drug War

Watch the video. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— In the Nov. 22nd Republican debate on CNN Ron Paul was asked about the Drug War. He called it a “failure” and said the US should handle illegal drugs the same as alcohol. “Al least sick people should be able to get marijuana”. He […]

Weighing Planks in a Political Program

Article by Anthony Gregory. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– I have noticed many progressives opposed to Ron Paul will say something like this: “Ron Paul might be right on the drug war, bailouts of Wall Street, the war in Afghanistan, and civil liberties issues, but these are exceptions to an otherwise horrible […]

Who Wants War With Iran?

Article by Pat Buchanan. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- On Sept. 21, 1976, as his car rounded Sheridan Circle on Embassy Row, former Chilean ambassador Orlando Letelier was assassinated by car bomb. Ronni Moffitt, a 25-year-old American woman who worked with Letelier at the leftist Institute for Policy Studies, died with him. […]

Money and Energy Scarcity

Article by Stuart Bramhall. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— The second part of Fleeing Vesuvius is entitled “Innovation in business, money and finance.” It draws on the main theme of Part I, describing how the current economic crisis is a direct result of fossil fuel scarcity and spiking energy costs. The second section focuses […]

But Mitt, What Will You Do If The Free Marketers Take Over?

Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Whatever his other shortcomings, I get plenty of entertainment from watching Mitt Romney on the news. His personality type — privileged white boy, executive-type hair, born with a silver foot in his mouth — reminds me of how much I miss Dan Quayle. […]