Why You Need to Expatriate to be Safe in 2012

From EscapeFromAmerica.Com ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- America has been happily hiding behind Europe’s blanket of economic woe for the past few months, and perhaps the resurgence of unrest in the Middle East as Egypt protests, will keep many eyes away from the still flagging US economy for a few more weeks […]

While America shuts down fire houses, cuts infant nutrition, US subsidizes Israel army sushi courses

From the Electronic Intifada. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Sushi in Tel Aviv. There’s an astonishing piece of news in Israel’s Haaretz today under the headine “Israel allocates funds to help former IDF soldiers become sushi chefs”: Demobilized soldiers will be able to study Asian cooking this year at the government’s expense, as part of […]

Jewish groups get most money from federal security grants

From Belief St. Louis. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- A week after a man killed a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington in 2009, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano cited the murder as proof that nonprofit institutions were at risk of attack and could be helped by federal […]

New Asian Union Means The Fall Of The Dollar

From ZeroHedge. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- One of the most frustrating issues to haunt the halls of alternative economic analysis is the threat of misrepresentative terminology. For instance, when the U.S. government decided to back the private Federal Reserve in lowering the interest rates on lending windows to European banks last […]

68 Occupy demonstrators arrested in New York

From CNN. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— New York police arrested 68 Occupy Wall Street demonstrators on New Year’s Eve after a flare-up at and march from their longtime base, a police official said. The arrests came after a protest at Zuccotti Park and a subsequent march, said New York Police Department […]

The Stark Truth: Keith Preston on Fascism

My latest interview with Robert. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Robert Stark and returning guest Keith Preston discuss: When fascism was on the Left; Misconceptions about fascism, such as those who label our current regime as fascist, and the idea that the fascists were puppets of the internationalist elites; The myth of the rule […]

A Progressive Who Almost Gets It….

…as to why the Left is a failure. Even if he does use the term “morality” with nauseating frequency. Read the article. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Some of you might have missed Glenn Greenwald’s essay on Progressives and Ron Paul over the holiday weekend. If so, you should go read it now. It’s […]

The Rothbard Strategy Works

Article by Ian Huyett. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Andrew Sullivan says that what he conveniently calls the “Rockwell Strategy” – that libertarians should openly defy political correctness and primarily court the right – has failed libertarianism. The opposite is true. Firstly, the strategy to which Sullivan refers should rightly be called […]

The Law — War By Other Means

Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————— Law is no longer — if it ever was — about the ostensible reason the law was passed. It is simply a toolkit for achieving the real objectives of the state. The state starts with those real objectives, then searches the full range […]

Child sacrificed, liver offered to gods: Indian police

Maoists and human sacrifice enthusiasts unite? It would make sense. Both tend to be about as bloody. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– A seven-year-old Indian girl was murdered in a tribal sacrifice and her liver offered to the gods to improve crop growth, police in the central state of Chhattisgarh said on Sunday. The […]

Pleasure-Dome Police State: How Democracy Ends

Article by Mark Hackard. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- “We should expect tyranny to result from democracy, the most savage subjection from an excess of liberty”. -Plato, Republic, Book VIII, 564 a   This December, as many Americans attended to their rituals of shopping, spectator sports and celebrity voyeurism, the 2012 fiscal year’s National […]

The Battle Over Zomia

From The Chronicle Review. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Scholars are enchanted by the notion of this anarchic region in Asia. But how real is it? Standee Pawan, OnAsia A woman of the Akha people goes off to harvest coffee berries in northern Thailand. By Ruth Hammond The region of Zomia had […]

Mighty White

Article by Jack Donovan. — I started rubbing elbows with White Nationalists a few years ago. I call ‘em “The Mighty Whites.” I support White Nationalists. They are not all equally right about everything, but I am sympathetic to many of their general aims. I think white people […]

American Family Association founder endorses Newt Gingrich: Religious Right Determined to Go Down with the Sinking Neocon Ship

The “religious right” must really be desperate if they’re endorsing this turdball.  ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Newt Gingrich secured a major endorsement from the social conservative community Tuesday with a nod from Mississippi-based Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, founder and chairman ofAmerican Family Association. Wildmon, who will travel to Iowa over the […]

Twitter lawsuit threatened over alleged Hezbollah aid

Article by Kevin Flower. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Is Twitter aiding and abetting terrorism? The director of an Israeli legal outfit says yes, and is threatening to sue the micro-blogging site if it doesn’t change its policies. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, director of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center, sent a letter to […]

Tougher drug laws mean nearly 1/3 arrested by age 23

Article by David Edwards. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Topics: Carnegie Mellon University professor Alfred Blumstein ♦ National Longitudinal Survey of Youth ♦ usa today Nearly one in three Americans will already have been arrested by the age of 23, recent research suggests. A study analyzing data from the federal government’s National Longitudinal Survey of Youth found that 30.2 […]

Prepare to Have Your Email Read by the NSA

Article by Adam Clark Estes. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- With a new major hacking incident seemingly daily, the Department of Defense is scrambling to find the right shield against future for attacks. But why hide behind a shield when you can charge onto the battlefield underneath the invisible but ironclad cloak […]

U.S., Saudi Arabia agree to $30 billion deal for F-15s

From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- The U.S. government has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia to sell nearly $30 billion worth of F-15 fighter jets, federal officials said Thursday. The $29.4 billion deal — announced against the backdrop of rising tensions with Iran — calls for the production of up […]

Chevy Volt Costing Taxpayers Up to $250K Per Vehicle

Article by Tom Gantert. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Each Chevy Volt sold thus far may have as much as $250,000 in state and federal dollars in incentives behind it – a total of $3 billion altogether, according to an analysis by James Hohman, assistant director of fiscal policy at the Mackinac […]

The Courageous Legacy of Siobhan Reynolds

Article by Bill Anderson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The attractive, diminutive woman who drove into my driveway on the last Saturday in October hardly looked to be the person that federal authorities desperately were trying to find a way to throw into prison. Her lovely eyes had a sparkle in them, […]

Newt Gingrich: Tribune of tyranny

Article by Bruce Fein. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich champions presidential tyranny, not constitutional government enforced by judicial review. He would have sided with King George III against the Founding Fathers on making judges dependent on his will alone. In the Oval Office, Gingrich would coronate himself […]

2012: Revolution or Devolution

Article by Kelley Vlahos. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– The year 2011 marked a critical confluence of militarism and revolution, not only in places like Libya and Egypt, but also here at home, where massive demonstrations in cities and towns throughout the country were met with a well-oiled law enforcement machine deployed […]

Ron Paul and the Future of American Foreign Policy

Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– “Between government in the republican meaning, that is, constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other, or one will destroy the other. That we know. Yet never […]

Progressives and the Ron Paul fallacies

Article by Glenn Greenwald. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– As I’ve written about before, America’s election season degrades mainstream political discourse even beyond its usual lowly state. The worst attributes of our political culture — obsession with trivialities, the dominance of horserace “reporting,” and mindless partisan loyalties — become more pronounced than ever. […]

Ron Paul and the "Far Right"

Article from the New York Times. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The American Free Press, which markets books like “The Invention of the Jewish People” and “March of the Titans: A History of the White Race,” is urging its subscribers to help it send hundreds of copies ofRon Paul’s collected speeches to voters […]

Michael Scheuer Endorses Ron Paul for President

It’s interesting to see such a stridently anti-empire analysis from such a hawkish commentator.  ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Michael Scheuer is the former head of the Bin Laden unit for the CIA. He was with the CIA for 22 years. He quit in disgust after the 9-11 commission report was released. […]

28 Signs That U.S. Public Schools Are Rapidly Being Turned Into Indoctrination Centers And Prison Camps

We don’t need no education. We don’t need no thought control. Burn the fucking schools. ————————————————————————————————————————- It has been said that children are our future, and right now the vast majority of our children are being “educated” in public schools that are rapidly being turned into indoctrination centers […]

A Tale of Two Cities: Weimar and Washington

Article by Philip Giraldi. ————————————————————————————————- Mark Twain is credited with saying that “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes.” Today’s United States is often compared to other historic nations, whether at their prime or about to decline and fall depending on one’s own political perspective. Neoconservatives frequently eulogize […]

Matt Damon Rips Into President Obama, Says He Failed to Lead

Duh? ————————————————————————————————– Matt Damon is expressing his disdain for Barack Obama’s presidency again, this time saying that the President doesn’t have any “balls.” Once one of Obama’s biggest cheerleaders, Damon slammed the president in a new interview with Elle magazine. “I’ve talked to a lot of people who […]

Colloquy on Thomas Edsall and "The White Working Class

Article from the CPUSA’s theoretical journal.  This fits well with my analysis of the liberal-left as the party of the New Class. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Editor:  This post is a colloquy — conversation — between Political Affairs Writers on an article by Thomas Edsall that appeared several days ago in the New York […]

Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union?

Interesting article by Mikhail Gorbachev. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– A man waves a Russian flag during a rally November 21, 1988 (MF/AA/REUTERS Pictures) Virtually all American commentary about the end of the Soviet Union extols what the West is believed to have gained from that historic event. On this twentieth anniversary […]

Antiwar.Com: A Dangerous Far-Right Site?

The posts in the comments thread on this are hilarious. A “watchdog” attacks….umm….Reverend Chucko Munson for linking to dangerous right-wing websites like…..umm….Antiwar.Com. Remember, folks, preventing the slaughter of hundreds of thousands of people in imperialist war is only a tertiary issue. What really matters is maintaining the strictest […]

The Whole World is Watching

Article by Kevin Carson. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– In 1649 at St. George’s Hill in England, as recounted in the revolutionary anthem “The World Turned Upside Down,” a band of landless peasants who called themselves the Diggers tore down enclosures, built themselves cottages, and began spading up land to grow food. […]

Libertarianism: Thick and Thin

Article by Matt Zwolinksi. A fairly balanced discussion of “thick vs thin” libertarianism from a generally “thin” perspective. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– A few months back, there arose a bit of a kerfuffle in the libertarian blogosphere over David Gordon’s reviewof Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch’s Declaration of Independents. For those who haven’t read […]

Labor and the Living Wage

Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- CNNMoney reports (“Minimum wage increases for workers in eight states,” December 23) that “[w]hile some workers are worried about smaller paychecks next year, more than 1.4 million low-income earners will see their wages go up on New Year’s Day.” The story notes that these […]

Afghanistan signs first oil deal — with China

Looks like things aren’t turning out the way the neocons hoped. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– China National Petroleum Corp. won the first oil deal in Afghanistan earlier this week, signing a contract with the Afghan government to develop a small oil field in the northern part of the country. The deal, […]

Ex-IMPD Officer Won't Go To Jail For Arsons

The System protects its own. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- A former Indianapolis police officer who set a string of apartment fires won’t serve time in jail. Jesse Russell Jr., 33, was convicted of arson in September for setting a fire at the Lake View Terrace Apartments that caused $30,000 worth of […]

'I'm a cop, I can do whatever I want' off-duty policeman shouts before 'executing guy in bar' over a game of darts

Sociopaths in Blue. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- An off-duty police officer has been charged with executing a man in a sports bar – after an argument over a game of darts. Riverside County sheriff’s deputy Dayle Long, 42, allegedly shot Samuel Vanettes, 36, three times, leaving him to die on the […]

16 Year Old Girl Charged With Terrorism Conspiracy

WTF? —————————————————————————————————————————————————– OTTUMWA — An Ottumwa High School student has been charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism. Police arrested Emily Kay Six, 16, Ottumwa, on Thursday. Officials said they began investigating after Six allegedly began trying to recruit students for what police called “a plan to harm a […]

Who is a Ron Paul supporter?

From The Washington Post. “Paul’s supporters are disproportionately young, independent, non-interventionist, non-Christian and perhaps most telling, dedicated.” As I’ve said before, RP is a prelude to the next wave of radicalism. A new generation of rebellious youth committed to smashing imperialism is precisely what we need. After all, […]

When Fascism Was On the Left

My latest column at AlternativeRight.Com. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The conventional left/right model of the political spectrum holds Fascism and Marxism to be polar opposites of one another. Marxism is regarded as an ideology of the extreme Left while Fascism supposedly represents an outlook that is about as far to the […]