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Nexus X HumectressWatch the video. ————————————————————————————————————————————— Relations between the U.S. and Pakistan have hit a new low, after a top American military chief accused Pakistan’s Intelligence service of supporting a group behind last week’s attack on the American Embassy in Kabul. Islamabad has strongly denied the claims. One of the […]
From CNN. Interesting. Maybe this will start a trend of suing the state every time it fucks up. The shear volume of lawsuits alone should bring the system to a halt. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— A picture of Jaycee Dugard before she was kidnapped sits framed in her stepfather’s home. STORY […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— TPPA Protest in Chicago (Sept 2011) My fifth and final post about the antiglobalization movement – and why it’s more important than ever in 2011. Activists mustn’t be lured into a false sense of security by the collapse of Doha round of WTO […]
Article by Matthew Heimbach. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Say goodbye to the days when you could have your friends, family, or members of your Church over to your house to read the word of God. A married California couple were fined $300 dollars because their bible study “violates a city zoning […]
Watch the video. This documentary is well-known is anarchist circle, although I had never actually watched it all the way through before. This was made around 30 years ago and depicts the anarchist milieu as it was in the 1970s in the U.S., before PC really started to […]
Watch the video.
Article by Mark Engler. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Did the attacks of 9/11 end the movement against corporate globalization? A number of reflections written for the ten-year anniversary of the attacks have raised this question. And I think it presents some interesting challenges for those of us who think about social […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- The Obama administration has found a good way to avoid both the domestic political and international fallout that comes of waging constant warfare: let machines do the dirty work. Of course, the Obamaites don’t get the full credit for the discovery – drone […]
Article by Bill Anderson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— The other night, the State of Georgia killed Troy Davis for the alleged murder of an off-duty police officer. The execution was controversial because a number of witnesses who testified at Davis’ trial later recanted their statements. What was most interesting to me […]
From Jesus Radicals. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Editor’s Note: This is the second of a series offering a primer on Christian Anarchism. For part one, go here. In my previous article, I tried to offer some introductory definitions of “anarchism” and “Christianity”–which are both too complex to define. This, therefore, presents […]
Article by Steve Sailer. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Nicholas Wade writes in the NYT: A lock of hair, collected by a British anthropologist a century ago, has yielded the first genome of an Australian Aborigine, along with insights into the earliest migration from the ancestral human homeland somewhere in northeast Africa. […]
Article by Tomas Rawlins. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— In the West we often accept and defend democratic ideas in politics – but what about in the workplace? I think its important for us to think about workplaces in the sense of spaces that are democratic or authoritarian, because we tend to spend […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- G8 protest in Genoa (2001) This is the fourth in a series of posts about the antiglobalization movement. After Seattle, the antiglobalization movement continued to grow by leaps and bounds. Over the next 20 months, large contingents of North American activists followed […]
Article by David D’Amato. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Google was in the headlines again this week, this time to counter criticisms that the company has achieved “monopoly power” as against competitors, putting consumers at risk. The company’s chairman, Eric Schmidt, was the subject of questioning this week before the Senate Subcommittee […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- A reader of one of my previous columns (“Another Stupid Remark from Mitt — But Who’s Counting,” C4SS Sept. 10, 2011 ) published in a local newspaper complained that the Center for a Stateless Society is “a far-left organization that promotes worker radicalism […]
From Queer Attack the System. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- See it here. Y’know, I just came out of wasting time with an organization I didn’t know was a Stalinist cult (I won’t get into that) and thinking Ann Coulter was right after all — commies were everywhere and being encouraged by […]
From Rad Geek People’s Daily. More blood on the System’s hands. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Troy Davis executed. ABC World News (21 September 2011). Troy Davis was executed this evening after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-minute stay of execution. Davis died at 11:08 p.m. ET, according to a Georgia […]
Words of wisdom from Alex Cockburn. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– “Instead of the Sermon on the Mount, we are now confronted by well-funded conservative evangelicals promoting a sinister vision of America as a corporate autocracy, with Dominionists as Gauleiters of a totalitarian state religion.” So Lawrence Swaim, Executive Director of the Interfaith Freedom Foundation wrote […]
Article by Thomas Eddlem. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— The Seventh U.S. Court of Appeals ruled August 8 that two American citizens detained and tortured without trial or court hearing by the Bush-era Defense Department may sue former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. U.S. Navy veteran Donald Vance (left) and fellow American Nathan Ertel […]
Another classic from Murray Rothbard. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- This article is excerpted from Wall Street, Banks, and American Foreign Policy, chapter 8, “Rockefeller, Morgan, and War” (1984; 2011). During the 1930s, the Rockefellers pushed hard for war against Japan, which they saw as competing with them vigorously for oil and […]
Watch the Video. This should piss off our left-libertarian friends with their ethos of “compulsory hedonism.”
From ABS-CBNNews —————————————————————————————————————————————— BERLIN – Pope Benedict XVI lamented Thursday that society was becoming more detached from religion, as he arrived for his first state visit in his native Germany, itself an increasingly secular country. “We are witnessing a growing indifference to religion in society, which considers the […]
Article by Richard Spencer. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- The destruction of books—whether as acts of political censorship, rage, or symbolism—has been a recurring component of social movements in the West for centuries, from the early Christians to the Catholic Counter-Reformers to the Nazis. One could say that book burning has been […]
Article by David Icke. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— … BUT SEE IT AND YOU’RE ‘RACIST’ Hello all … The political creed of Zionism has big ears and a long trunk and I think it’s time that was pointed out. It also stampedes through our lives at every level and […]
The Empire tightens its grip. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- September 11, 20111 —“Information Clearing House“– US government keeps talking about its values of democracy, freedom in general and freedom of press. But when it comes to exposing their own crimes or publishing views of the “other side”, freedom of press is […]
Article by Michael Martinez. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Demonstrators hold a moment of silence at a makeshift memorial for Kelly Thomas, a homeless man who died after an altercation with several police officers in Fullerton, California. STORY HIGHLIGHTS A Fullerton police officer pleads not guilty to involuntary manslaughter The charges against […]
Be careful what you leave laying around. ——————————————————————————————– Crime Beat – It was one kindergartener’s first show and tell and he was very excited, but now his mom has been arrested as the young boy brought a bag of crystal meth and a crack pipe from home to […]
At least we know who’s getting the Darwin Award this year. ———————————————————————————————– Police in Yorktown, Virginia responded to a domestic dispute call around 10:00 a.m. on Thursday that resulted in a man decapitating himself. Yes, that’s right. He decapitated himself.
Article by E. D. Kain. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Dave Zirin writes: It’s with shock that I report that the George Board of Pardons and Paroles on Tuesday denied clemency for Troy Anthony Davis. [sic] The 42-year-old Davis is now due to be executed tomorrow, Wednesday September 21, at 7 pm. […]
Article by Martin Robinson. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- The North Korean government may deny their existence, but photos taken from space have revealed in unprecedented detail the concentration camps that are used imprison more than 200,000 citizens. Men, women and children are forced to work seven days a week as slaves […]
By Harmony Daws 20 Sep 10 Closing arguments are made today in the prosecution of ten Muslim students who heckled Israeli ambassador to the US Michael Oren in 2010. The students face charges of misdemeanor, conspiracy to disrupt a meeting and disturbing a meeting. They could face six […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————— Washington (CNN) — A 90-year-old Michigan man who officials say rounded up and shot Jews in Nazi death camps during World War II is a step closer to being deported, the Justice Department announced Tuesday. In January, a judge found John Kalymon of Troy, Michigan, […]
Why Perry is the neocons’ favorite candidate. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— (CNN) – Rick Perry Tuesday jumped directly into the battle over possible statehood for Palestinians, slamming President Barack Obama for his policy toward Israel and how he’s handled the Mideast peace process. “The Obama policy of moral equivalency, which gives […]
From Brasscheck.TV ——————————————————————————————————————————————– The total destruction of Israel, something used by the Zionist lobby to bilk the US out of billions for years, is no longer a dream, it is inevitable. The only question is “when?” With it a limited world war may emerge with some surprises in […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— For the third straight year, the median income of the typical American family fell in 2010. Adjusted for inflation, it is back where it was in 1996, the longest period of zero growth since the Depression. And the poverty rate has inched up […]
Article by Jacob Hornberger. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- The news media is reporting the possibility of an imminent release of the two American hikers who have been jailed in Iran since July 31, 2009. Shane Bauer, his fiancée Sarah Shourd, and their close friend Josh Fattal were arrested by Iranian authorities […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. —————————————————————————————————————————————– There were numerous reasons that Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer were accused in prominent venues of all sorts of crimes — including anti-Semitism — when they published The Israel Lobby, but the most common cause was the book’s central theme: that there is a very […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— The decision by the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to claim a seat in the United Nations is a last ditch effort by one side of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict to resolve the region’s eternal crisis peacefully. The statement largely drafted by Tony Blair […]
Article by William Norman Grigg. —————————————————————————————————————————————— “What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive? Or, if during the periods of mass arrests … people had not simply sat […]
Article by E. D. Kain. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— I’ve just started reading Gary Chartier’s anarchist manifesto The Conscience of an Anarchist. I intend to blog about it as I progress through the book, so if you’d like to read along with me click on that link. First a few scattered thoughts […]
Article by Radley Balko. —————————————————————————————————————————————— So this seems pretty blatant. A woman testifies against Tulsa cops in a corruption case, and is expected to testify in her family’s related civil suit against the city. In the weeks after the criminal trial, police get warrants on outstanding traffic violations, […]
Article by Mark Fruenhelder. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- In Atlanta, a police officer arrested a disabled woman who was sitting in a chair in front of her home waiting for an ice cream truck. Walker said an Atlanta police officer approached her and told her to move. “He came right here […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Recently MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow quoted — with raised eyebrow — Rick Perry’s qualified endorsement of the transportation infrastructure projects in Obama’s proposed jobs program. It was “qualified” in the sense that he was willing to consider it as part of the same package […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Indian activist Vendana Shiva In my upcoming presentation at Witt, I only have time to talk about eight of the antiglobalization activists who spoke at the International Forum on Globalization teach-in November 24-25, 1999 in the Seattle symphony hall. Maria Galaradin of TUC […]
Kathy Shaidle on the Fred Phelps of Canada. This is guy isn’t doing much to dispel the stereotype of Bible-banging homo-haters as closeted weenie-slurpers: “He admits to sexually servicing a man for drugs so matter-of-factly he could be talking about what color he’s decided to paint the kitchen.” […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— At Unqualified Offerings, thoreau devotes a post to “an important point about organizing a bureaucratic organization.” Most of my post will consist of the money quote from thoreau’s original, inspired piece, and a digest of the debate that ensued in the comment thread. […]
From Infoshop.Org. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Wage theft, union-busting and fighting back at the pizza chain in France, Spain and the United Kingdom By Monika Vykoukal Industrial Worker #1738 – September 2011 “The pizzas are better, and they’ve got newer scooters,” observes David as we hang out just outside a Pizza […]
Article by Jim Goad. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Late one Saturday morning in 1990 under the skeleton-bleaching California sun, I motored through a crumbled, hilly, ashen section of East LA looking to see if any of the Hicks Boys Stoners were around to sell me some weed. Named after East LA’s […]
Article by David D’Amato. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– In a recent Christian Science Monitor op-ed (“Inequality dragon rears its head. Again.” August 26), Jared Bernstein cites “new GDP data suggest[ing] that inequality is on the rise again.” Bernstein points out that “[c]orporate profits as a share of GDP has surpassed its […]
From Shawn Wilbur. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– In the past, I’ve translated a number of short essays by Emile Armand, and thoroughly enjoyed reading several more, without entirely convincing myself that Armand is an important anarchist figure. The brand of Nietzschean individualism featured in the “Mini-Manual of the Individualist Anarchist” is […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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