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Nexus X HumectressArticle by Jim Goad, who is probably the closest thing our era has to an H.L. Mencken. There are some real nuggets in this. Some samples: “In personal terms, I’m considered a gentile to one side and a kafir to the other. In other words, both sides consider […]
From Infoshop.Org ———————————————————————————————————————————————- It is horrible. The massacre on Utøya and attack in Oslo’s government district is the worst right-wing terrorist act directed against the Scandinavian labor movement. How could it happen? How could such an extensive and long-term terrorist plan go completely unnoticed by the security police? […]
Article by Kenneth Schortgen, Jr. —————————————————————————————————————————————– As the economy Continues its downward slide due to the failed leadership of both the President and Congress, billionaire investor Jim Rogers sees no other alternative to turn things around than for Ron Paul to win the Presidency. Rogers’ views on both […]
Article by Christopher A. Ferrara. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– [Continued from Parts I & II] The Modern Research Game Although he is backpedalling now, Woods did not tell us before that Mingay represents a new “anti-catastrophic orthodoxy” that purports to overturn the earlier “catastrophic orthodoxy” concerning the social effects of the […]
Article by Darian Worden. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— I’m always happy to see anarchism being discussed honestly in public forums. So I was pleased to see E.D. Kain’s article at Forbes, Criminal Justice in a Stateless Society (21 Aug 2011). Kain describes his reservations about anarchism and wonders “what would replace […]
Article by Alain De Benoist. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Immigrants from North Africa arriving daily on the Italian island of Lampedusa (Translated from the French by Tom Sunic) In 1973, shortly before his death, the French President Georges Pompidou admitted to have opened the floodgates of immigration, at a request of […]
From Quantcast. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Demographics Updated Jun 2010 • Delayed – Next: Sep 2011 Gender male 60% Male 40% Female Internet Average Gender Age middle aged 4% 3-12 14% 13-17 30% 18-34 32% 35-49 21% 50+ Internet Average Age Ethnicity Asian There are more Asian visitors here than average. […]
From The Onion. —————————————————————————————————————————————— First-grader Connor Bolduc does not have the capacity to imagine the scope of the hell he is in for. CARPENTERSVILLE, IL—Local first-grader Connor Bolduc, 6, experienced the first inkling of a coming lifetime of existential dread Monday upon recognizing his cruel destiny to participate […]
Just like in 2008. See the “Liberty and Populism” essay, section 6, item 11 in the list of potential constituents for anarcho-pluralism/pan-secessionism. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Ron Paul continues to get the most military donations of any candidate, but of particular note is the wide disparity. Also note that although Rick […]
Article by William Norman Grigg. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Mary Lee Cook, an 84-year-old resident of Oak Hill, Florida, didn’t seem like the kind of person who would secretly cultivate marijuana behind her home. Yet on June 6, deputies assigned to the East Volusia County Narcotics Task Force materialized on her […]
Article by Peter Dale Scott. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Breivik’s Terror: Was It a Deep Event? The most surprising aspect of the recent unexpected terrorist violence in Norway is that, in retrospect, it is not surprising. Our revived hopes after the end of the Cold War, that we might finally be […]
Article by Charles Johnson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Bleeding-Heart Libertarians might find a great deal of potential interest in the upcoming month’s issue of The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty. I mention this partly for selfish (or at least self-promotional) reasons; one of the articles there — The Many Monopolies — is […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Virginia Tech Massacre This is the last of three posts regarding the reasons some progressives oppose gun control. No discussion of gun control would be complete without mentioning the high rate of “lone nut” shooting sprees that occur in the US. I have […]
By Thomas Harding, Gordon Rayner, Damien Mcelroy August 26, 2011 “SMH” – -LONDON: British special forces are on the ground in Libya helping to lead the hunt for Muammar Gaddafi. As a $1.6 million bounty was placed on his head, soldiers from 22 SAS Regiment began guiding rebel […]
Article by Patrick Henningsen. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- With globalist restructuring plans for the Middle East and North Africa looking to be nearly complete, one major hurdle remains. After a relatively easy path to victory in Tunisia and Egypt, and with the project to dismantle and re-privatise the Libyan state nearly complete, only Syria remains as the last serious […]
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From Center for a Stateless Society. —————————————————————————————————————————————— MUTUAL EXCHANGE Mutual exchange is the Center’s goal in two senses—we favor a society rooted in peaceful, voluntary cooperation, and we seek to foster understanding through ongoing dialogue. That’s why we’re inaugurating this new feature of our site. Mutual Exchange will […]
Article by Richard Spencer. I’m not personally anti-MLK. He was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War and U.S. imperialism. The old Jim Crow racial caste system in the South was clearly an antiquated abomination, and desperately needed to be changed, and he was correct to lead and […]
Article by Jasmine Hughes. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– The increasingly dire conditions surrounding the brutal raping of Congo women have been ruling global news for quite a while, but now some new skeletons are coming out of the closet. Al-Jareeza is now shedding light on a lesser-known group of sexual assault victims: […]
Article by Ezra Klein. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- (Calculated Risk) Ken Rogoff wants to call our economic malaise “the Great Contraction.” Richard Posner wants us to at least call it “a depression.” I tend to dismiss arguments over semantics, but in this case, I agree. If it were up to me, […]
Article by E.D. Kain. —————————————————————————————————————————————— Quantum Tuba argues that, contra Warren Buffet, we should not focus on raising taxes on the rich, but rather on smashing elite privilege that favors the rich – an argument I’ve made a variety of in the past on several occasions, though I’ve […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Recent news of the West Memphis Three — freed on the condition that they confess their guilt, thus sparing sociopathic prosecutors any public embarrassment — raises an old question. The state’s defenders commonly argue that, no matter how fallible or corrupt individual public […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Arguably completing a paradigm shift that had already been underway, the Second World War established the United States as a hegemonic power, an empire at the center of a political and economic system that would come to envelop much of the world. Today, […]
From Laurence Vance. —————————————————————————————————————————————– From the New York Times Sunday Review: NO symbol is more sacred in American life right now than the military uniform. The cross is divisive; the flag has been put to partisan struggle. But the uniform commands nearly automatic and universal reverence. In Congress […]
Who would’ve thought? ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Libyan Rebel Oil and Finance Minister Ali Tarhouni: soon to supervise a shake-up in oil deals? (Photo: Reuters) Italian oil company Eni led the charge back into Libya on Monday as rebels swept into capital Tripoli, hailing the end of Muammar Gaddafi’s rule and […]
Obituary by Richard Spencer. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– I am saddened to learn of the death of Elizabeth Wright, the long-time editor of Issues and Views and a frequent writer for this online magazine. In AltRight’s infancy, Elizabeth made outstanding contributions, including devastating critiques of the Tea Party movement, all of which are worth […]
Derek Turner reviews Jared Taylor. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– DNA-shaped Nebula (photo: Discovery.com) Under consideration: Jared Taylor, White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century, Oakton, VA: New Century Books, 2011. The late Sam Francis once observed that whereas during the Victorian age it was the subject of sex that was […]
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The EPA knows, but aren’t telling. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Does it get more corrupt than this? A corporation is allowed to rip the heart of America’s agricultural system (honeybees are ESSENTIAL for pollination) and not one of the scumbags in Congress or the empty suits in the White House are […]
Watch the video. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– In response to a recent wave of lemonade stand shut downs and harassment of children over such petty regulations as are used to shut them down, several activist gathered at the west lawn of the capitol in Washington, DC to sell lemonade and were […]
Article by Deborah Dupre. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Targeted Killings of non-mainstream reporters in Libya ordered: Attempts to bury truth The Examiner learned in communications from human rights defenders and independent journalists throughout Monday that they were shaken with news of 1300 Libyans killed and 5000 wounded Saturday, plus, the U.S. […]
Wax figure causes controversy. I’ve been to the Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam. These figures are amazingly realistic. This is also an interesting article. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Their arms raised in a Nazi salute, two young tourists pose alongside a waxwork of Adolf Hitler. This was the sight which greeted an […]
From Russia Today. —————————————————————————————————————————————– While the US continues to struggle with its economic issues Congress is on vacation. Many are upset at the news reports that 81 members of Congress have chosen to spend a week relaxing in Israel. These vacations are being paid for by AIPAC. Adam […]
Watch the video. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– TAHLEQUAH, Oklahoma — The Cherokee Nation kicked out nearly 3,000 members Monday. They’re the Freedmen, descendants of black slaves once owned by Cherokee Tribal members. The tribe’s supreme court has upheld a Constitutional amendment requiring all the Nation’s citizens to have at least one […]
Watch the video. I have no idea whether this guy’s arguments are correct but he seems to make a good case. Any peak oilers among our readers care to offer a refutation?
Article by Richard Spencer. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Ding, Dong, the oppressive dictator is dead! And don’t fret, Libyans, that civil order has been destroyed, for soon NATO will install wonderful “Democracy” in your homeland! … While my guess is that the American public couldn’t care less about the recent toppling […]
dailymail.co.uk Daniel Bates Researchers genetically engineered goats to produce milk packed with the same protein as silk spiders The protein is then milked out and spun and weaved into a material ten times stronger than steel By Daniel Bates UPDATED: 09:37 EST, 16 August 2011 It might look […]
thinkonthat.com ChrisB BBC News – Surgeons carry out first synthetic windpipe transplant. Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world’s first synthetic organ transplant. Scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was then coated in stem cells from the patient. Crucially, the technique does not need a […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ———————————————————————————————- The phone rang. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and it was my day off. Sitting in my rather neglected garden, as the late afternoon light sparkled golden on the tops of the plum trees, I put down my book – the 1995 […]
This is welcome news as it should create a rift between the neoconservatives, who’ve adopted Perry as their annointed candidate, and their religious right stooges. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Leading Republican contender and prominent Christian candidate Rick Perry has been accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed that he invested thousands […]
Article by Alexander Dugin. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Heraclitus called “hostility” the “father of things.” Everywhere in the world there are opposing poles: executioners and victims, men and women, coercive authority and rebelious subject. War of the elements. War of classes, nations, races, economic formations, material interests, ambitions, ideas. Ever since […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— 1967 Detroit Riots Progressive “scholarly” research into gun control generally makes two equally salient points: 1) the aim of gun control legislation is to control people (mainly disenfranchised minorities and the poor), not guns and 2) in countries with strict gun control laws, […]
Article by Luke Harding. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Libya: rebel fighters speed to join frontline fighting in the village of Maya, from where Tripoli could be seen in the distance. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/AP He has ruled Libya for 42 years, but Muammar Gaddafi‘s defiant regime was on Sunday entering its final […]
From ABC News. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Marilyn Berenzweig was a successful New York textile designer who loved her work and comfortable lifestyle. For the past year, however, she and her husband have been living in a tent city in the New Jersey woods. “The weather, the bugs, the dirt; I […]
From ABC Australia. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— The kingdom of Bhutan is placing environmental concerns and spiritual wellbeing over rampant capitalism.
From CNN. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Two of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons — Saif al-Islam and Saadi — have been arrested by opposition forces in Tripoli, rebel officials said. There was no immediate reaction from Libyan government officials to the claims. CNN could not confirm the arrests, and […]
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Article by Jaweed Kaleem. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- While overall church attendance has declined slightly in the United States in recent decades, a new study says attendance at religious services among white Americans who did not go to college has fallen more than twice as quickly as it has among more […]
Article by Robert Henderson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Researchers led by Prof. Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have placed a very large question mark over the currently fashionable “out-of-Africa” theory of the origins of modern man. They have done this by producing a partial […]
Article by Clyde Prestowitz. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– In the 1990s, the doctrine of globalization was wholeheartedly and unquestioningly embraced by the vast majority of the American elite. Globalization was seen as a kind of Americanization that would make the rest of the world rich, democratic, and peaceful while further enriching […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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