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Nexus X HumectressFrom Lingit Latseen by Vince Rinehart Gun control is not for Native people. It is for people who can’t or won’t take on the sacred duty to protect their families, their people, their lands and their way of life. When I was 13 I attended a gathering of […]
Warrior Purblications Zapatistas: “to be heard, we march in silence” by Leonidas Oikonomakis on December 21, 2012 The Zapatistas are back! Flowing like the water of the river that beats the sword. And while some were anticipating the Christmas holidays, some others the end of the Maya calendar, […]
By Kevin Carson Although people like Bill O’Reilly habitually refer to establishment liberals as the “far Left,” they are two very different things. What we identify as mid-20th century, New Deal liberalism is rooted in the Progressivism of the turn of the 20th century. The Progressives came largely […]
Evan McMorris-Santoro TPM Tennessee has emerged this week as a center of the “the answer is more guns in schools” sentiment following the Newtown, Conn. elementary school shooting. A member of the Republican-controlled legislature plans during its upcoming session to introduce a bill that would allow the state […]
rt.com Mass shooting in Pennsylvania: At least four reported dead (Reuters/Navesh Chitrakar) At least four people are reported dead after a shooter opened fire early Friday in Frankstown Township in Central Pennsylvania.
Business Insider In what was a rather stunning, half-hour press conference, the National Rifle Association called on Congress to put armed police officers in every school in America. The highly anticipated press conference came one week after the tragedy in Newtown, Conn., last week. CEO Wayne LaPierre blamed […]
He knows which way the winds are blowing. The Guardian Former presidential candidate – who previously called same-sex marriage ‘pagan behavior’ – says his party needs to change. Gingrich: ‘The reality is going to be that in a number of American states – and it will be more […]
what a guy —- dailymail.co.uk Iconic: President Barack Obama has been named as Time Magazine’s Person of the Year for 2012
By Shepherd Bliss
The creation of the Mario Savio Speakers’ Corner this semester was my favorite event
By Chris Uggen I’ve been reluctant to write about the terrible events at Sandy Hook Elementary School because the wounds are still too fresh for any kind of dispassionate analysis. As a social scientist, however, I’m disappointed by the fear-mongering and selective presentations of the research evidence I’ve […]
Council of Conservative Citizens Now Reuters, a major news wire, is saying Obama plans to bypass Congress and use executive policy to take your rights away! From Reuters… Obama was not expected to unveil policy decisions but outline how his administration will proceed, White House aides said. The […]
In recent times, the SPLC has moved past attacking organized white supremacist or violent right-wing extremist groups and has begun targeting un-PC groups of virtually any kind including those with “un-leftist” views on abortion, gay rights, immigration, guns, and, apparently, economics. I have long predicted this. Look for […]
wired.com The Staff of Danger Room There used to be an established order to the world. A structure to things. You couldn’t print a gun like a term paper. It was impossible to wreck a nuclear production plant with a few lines of code. Flying robots didn’t descend […]
original.antiwar.com Justin Raimondo The anti-Hagel campaign reveals the psychopathology of radical Zionism The campaign to demonize Chuck Hagel in the run up to his possible confirmation hearings as Secretary of Defense is going full swing. As I told my readers the other day, “get ready for a mudslide […]
According to the FBI’s uniform crime report, rifles are the least used class of weapon by any kind of killer in the United States. Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia reported ZERO killings by […]
rt.com U.S. President Barack Obama (Reuters/Larry Downing) US President Barack Obama supports a proposal from Senator Diane Feinstein (D-California) that would reinstate a ban on the sale of assault weapons in the United States.
foxnews.com William La Jeunesse The prospect of a renewed assault weapons ban in the wake of the Connecticut school massacre has set of a round of buying, as thousands of Americans head to their local gun store to secure the popular AR-15 — the model used by the […]
jack-donovan.com Jack Donovan When people talk about guns in the aftermath of a public shooting tragedy, they argue about what “we” should do about guns in America. “We should limit the capacity of magazines. No one needs the ability to fire off hundreds of rounds.” “We should ban […]
I’d like to see some data on how immigration rates affect this issue. National Journal Gay rights pioneer Lilli Vincenz, 74 (right) and her partner Nancy Ruth Davis, 75, pose in their Virginia home. One potential complication for President Obama’s embrace of gay marriage is that minority voters […]
It will be interesting to see how the latest school massacre affects this trend regarding gun rights. Pew Research Center Opinions about a pair of contentious social issues, gun control and gay marriage, have changed substantially since previous presidential campaigns. On gun control, Americans have become more conservative; […]
More on the psychological origins of political beliefs: “Other research has found that liberals tend to see moral issues in terms of individual suffering or unfairness, whereas conservatives have more group-level concerns, such as loyalty, patriotism and respect for authority and tradition. Across dozens of countries, liberals are […]
By Jacob Sullum The U.S. Supreme Court agreed for the first time to take on the issue of gay marriage. No matter how it rules in the two cases it will hear next spring, polling data suggest it is only a matter of time before legal recognition of […]
By Vincent Rinehart
If you are ever faced with extreme violence, you will have to make the decision to act.
by Shepherd Bliss
Our Veterans Writing Group met the morning after Pearl Harbor Day for our regular winter gathering, as we have convened seasonally for twenty years. Two dozen of us came from throughout Northern California to a spacious redwood home in the Sebastopol countryside.
A new study of the psychology of political beliefs indicates that Pareto was correct when he said that an individual’s political views are as much an indication of their own innate personality type and psychological makeup as much as anything else. In other words, we may be “hard-wired” […]
This is the kind of scholarship that anarchists, libertarians, anti-statists, decentralists, and anti-authoritarians of every kind should be studying. The emerging global trends are on our side. It’s not like the 20th century when anarchists were swimming against the historical tides and ever greater centralization and statism were […]
ocregister.com by SALVADOR HERNANDEZ, MIKE REICHER, SARAH de CRESCENZO, JOSH FRANCIS and KEITH SHARON / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER NEWPORT BEACH Sadness for far away victims turned to up-close terror Saturday evening as shots rang out at Fashion Island, sending holiday shoppers scrambling for their lives.
bigstory.ap.org BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) — Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him. Police in Bartlesville, a community about 40 miles north of […]
From Paul Myerberg of USA Today’s Twitter:
dailydot.com Kevin Collier For the overwhelming majority of Americans, there’s nothing to do in response to the horrific news of a gunman who killed 18 children in a Connecticut elementary school. So, in what’s becoming an emerging trend in response to news of mass shootings, many gun control […]
The Canadian justice system: moralfags extraordinaire! From Reason.org. ______________ This week the trial of Rémy Couture, the Canadian special-effects artist charged with “corrupting morals” by illegally combining sex and gore, began in Montreal. The evidence against him includes two short films depicting the crimes of a necrophiliac serial […]
From the Inferno. ____________ Ostensibly, she’s a horny, hyper-enhanced, insatiable fuckpig, ready to give hummers to all cummers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days per year, 3 holes per session… …until the director yells “cut”, upon which she reverts to a hollow, empty, used-up […]
Russia Today The U.S. Supreme Court building (AFP Photo / Chip Somodevilla) The US Supreme Court has been asked to step in and make sure the military cannot detain US citizens indefinitely without charge or trial as guaranteed in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA. Attorneys […]
Think Progress House GOP Secretly Authorized $500,000 To Defend Unconstitutional Anti-Gay Law By Josh Israel on Dec 13, 2012 at 5:28 pm It has come to light that House Administration Committee Chairman Dan Lungren (R-CA) secretly approved a $500,000 increase to a contract with a private law firm […]
It is with great regret that I must inform our readers of the passing of Thomas H. Naylor, founder of the Second Vermont Republic. I received word earlier this evening that Tom passed away last night after a sudden stroke at the age of 76. Fortunately, I was […]
This article is included in the recently released National-Anarchism: Theory and Practice, edited by Troy Southgate and available from Black Front Press. By Wayne John Sturgeon Mutualism as Free Market Anti-Capitalism It was the French philosopher Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who first coined the term ‘anarchist’ and produced the economic […]
An interesting take on secession. • People can withdraw their consent to be ruled by corrupt government By Mark Anderson from: American Free Press Looking at recent headlines about citizens in the 50 states wanting to secede from the federal government, it’s tempting to conclude that they should […]
rt.com (RT.com / AFP Photo / David Furst) Fifteen times more troops were discharged from the US Army this year due to obesity than five years prior. With scores of recruits unfit to serve due to the extra pounds, the country’s top brass have deemed it a national […]
wired.com Noah Shachtman Artificial limbs like these could be only the beginning of man-machine interfaces, the National Intelligence Council predicts. Photo: DoD 3-D printed organs. Brain chips providing superhuman abilities. Megacities, built from scratch. The U.S. intelligence community is taking a look at the world of 2030. And […]
homelandsecuritynewswire.com Sudanese security forces have captured what they describe as an electronically tagged vulture which was dispatched by the Israeli military on a surveillance mission over Sudan; the Sudanese claimed the vulture was equipped with a camera, a solar-powered satellite uplink, and a GPS device; the Sudanese also […]
rt.com Packaged M75 perfume bottles are displayed at the “Stay Stylish” shop in Gaza City on December 10, 2012. (AFP Photo / Mohammed Abed) A cosmetic company in Gaza has launched M75, a new perfume named after a long-range missile used by Palestinian militants to target Jerusalem and […]
homelandsecuritynewswire.com The United States and some of its European have issues contracts to defense contractors to train Syrian rebels on how to identify, handle, and secure chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria; some of the training is done in Jordan, but some of the contractors are already inside Syria, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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