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Nexus X HumectressArticle by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Watching two intellectually challenged Ken dolls with “executive-style hair” — Mitt Romney and Rick Perry — preparing to fight it out reminds me how much I miss Dan Quayle. Oddly enough, just before I heard about Romney’s latest blooper, I was reading about […]
Article by Donald Livingston. —————————————————————————————————————————————– The conservative political tradition is usually thought to begin with Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. Burke observed that the Revolution did not aim at reforming society but at overturning the entire social and political order and replacing it with one […]
Article by Steven Hargreaves. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Minimizing the armed forces’ dependence on oil saves soldiers’ lives and the move towards renewables is a lifeline like no other for the green energy industry. (Click the image for more information.) NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — One out of eight U.S. Army casualties […]
From Voice of Reason. Robert interviews John Médaille. Topics include: Flaws of current monopoly based economic situtation; Introduction to distributism; Distributist success stories; Distributist solutions to government, taxes, & healthcare. Implementing & promoting distributism. John Médaille is a retired businessman who teaches in the Theology and Business departments […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— In Oakland, California, where I live, urban homesteading – growing food on private land for small-scale trade and consumption – has become so common the city government has backed off a bit. In a rare triumph for sanity and freedom, anachronistic zoning ordinances […]
Article by John Whitehead. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- “The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.” ~ Bryan Stevenson, death row lawyer “Imposition of the death penalty is arbitrary and capricious. […]
Article by Bill Anderson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– This past year, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down much of the “Honest Services Fraud” law that federal prosecutors were using as the catch-all for targeting whomever they wanted to have thrown into prison. As I wrote two years ago, this law was […]
Article by Carol Cratty. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– U.S. officials warn the threat posed by a lone gunman or a group with small arms is a serious concern to law enforcement. A joint intelligence bulletin issued by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI cites the July attack in Norway […]
Article by Russell Longcore. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Jesus Christ could not get elected in America in 2012. My point is that it’s not the character, morals or honesty of any human being that wants to be President that matter. It is all about who will prostitute themselves more than all […]
From CNN Money. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– The United States is making a special bulk purchase of poultry products that’s partly aimed at shrinking the glut of chicken in the market and keeping producers in business. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The United States is stepping in to help bail out another […]
Now that’s efficiency. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- (CNN) — A “flash mob” believed to have been organized on the Internet robbed a Maryland convenience store in less than a minute, police said Tuesday, and now authorities are using the same tool to identify participants in the crime. Surveillance video shows a […]
I had to read this headline three times to fully get what I was reading. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Six years ago, Areleh Harel, an Orthodox rabbi from the West Bank, devised a plan to help an Orthodox Jewish gay man fulfill his dream of becoming a husband and father while […]
Congressman Pat Meehan shows whose side he’s really on. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Next week, I will be traveling to Israel as a member of a Congressional delegation that will meet with senior Israeli and Palestinian leaders to discuss the security situation in the Middle East. The last several months have […]
Article by Ann Wright. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. —————————————————————————————————————————————— Larry Toenjes, 74, from Clear Lake Shores, Texas, is sailing his 39-foot sailboat, the s/v Liberty, to the coordinates of the June 8, 1967 Israeli attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 sailors and wounded another 173. […]
An infamous figure in the history of the therapeutic state.
Another classic from Murray Rothbard. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Originally published in The Libertarian Forum, Vol. 10, No. 7, July 1977. I have been ruminating recently on what are the crucial questions that divide libertarians. Some that have received a lot of attention in the last few years are: anarcho-capitalism vs. […]
Lecture by Naomi Wolf on the neoconservatives’ police state. Watch the video.
Article by “Jehu” at the Gonzo Times. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin I am spurred to write this because, thanks to tweep @jdenigma, I was introduced to Murray Rothbard’s “plan for desocialization” of the Russian economy following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Rothbard’s plan was first published in […]
Can you imagine if something like this were on the air today? Hat tip to David Heleniak.
Article by Larry Gambone. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- The chickens are coming home to roost. 30 years of reactionary,criminal, anti-people policies are being effectively trashed by rioters in London, and now I just got a report that it is spreading to another city. The police state tactics of the past no […]
I recently recorded a two-hour, two-part interview with Robert Stark for his program “The Stark Truth” on the Voice of Reason internet radio network. The first segment should air on Wed., August 17 at 9 pm ET and the second part should air on Wed., August 24 at […]
Article by Ryan Witt. RP seems to be paving the way for something more radical to come along in the future. Notice this comment from the article: “With his comments, Paul actually agrees with progressives, though for slightly different reasons. Progressives are more concerned about the growing influence […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Scenes from the Soviet Collapse This is the second of two posts on the role of food prices in triggering civil unrest. One erroneous conclusion some American activists draw from Keiser’s and Zoellick’s “food theory” of revolution (see previous post) is that organizing […]
Article by Kathy Shaidle. The cracks in the PC coalition begin to emerge. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- I’ve met Toronto City Councillor Giorgio Mammoliti only once, at this summer’s Dyke March. (The “real” Pride Parade happens the first Sunday in July, but the Daughters of Lesbos take to the streets the […]
Article by Jim Goad. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— England’s cultural rainbow went up in flames last week, and as the smoke clears and the fog stubbornly returns, the experts are once again arguing over exactly how it all started. Few seem willing to discuss exactly how it all ended. No one […]
This seems to be the foundation for a new third party effort. Very paleo-populist oriented. Fuse this with a good dose of Carsonism and you’d have something. Hat tip to Robert Stark.
by Nick Rivera. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– At the risk of drawing the ire of both Democrats and Republicans, I’d like to direct TMV readers to an interesting YouTube clip that I recently discovered. Back in May of this year, the RT television show, CrossTalk invited a panel to discuss the […]
Article by David Swanson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Two blocks from my house in a nondescript little building on the edge of our residential neighborhood is an office with a small sign reading “DVBIC of Charlottesville” which turns out to mean “Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center.” Now, I’m in favor […]
Article by Stephen Walt. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Just when you think your contempt for Congress could not get any higher, our elected representatives manage to do something to ratchet it up another notch. After congressional shenanigans helped spark a major market sell-off and sparked fears of a double-dip recession, you’d think […]
Judging by the results of the “Iowa straw poll.” Vox Day explains. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- The good ship Herman Cain has had an amusing run, but it should sink in today’s Iowa straw poll . And why wouldn’t he cast dispersions on Captain Underoos’s religion anyway? If I was a […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- The idea that the Republican party Establishment was going to tolerate a takeover of their party by a rag-tag bunch of insurgent “tea partiers” was never very convincing, and Rick Perry’s entrance into the race as the “Teastablishment” candidate – to the hosannas […]
Article by Charles Davis. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– As a liberal supporter of invading Iraq who apparently believed the Bush administration’s rhetoric about freedom and democracy, and felt that bombs and military occupations would be the best means of promoting it, Juan Cole sure has a lot of nerve attacking anarchism […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Thanks to the recession and debt crisis, progressives seeking to end the failed War on Drugs have some curious bedfellows, including the ultra-conservative Cato Institute, grassroots Tea Party groups and even mainstream Republicans. Drug Policy Alliance founder and executive director Ethan Nadelmann draws […]
From Amazon.Com. ——————————————————————————————————————————– This book applies the economic principles of individualist anarchism, as developed in Studies in Mutualist Political Economy, to the study of the large organization. It integrates the insights of mainstream organization theory into that framework, along with those of more radical thinkers like Ivan Illich, […]
Article by Alexander Cockburn. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— What’s a riot without looting? We want it, they’ve got it! You’d think from the press that looting was alien to British tradition, imported by immigrants more recent than the Normans. Not so. Gavin Mortimer, author of The Blitz, had an amusing piece […]
Article by Robert Weissberg. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Here’s the insight: “white nationalism” has replaced homosexuality in America’s Pantheon of Horrific Sins. Just as adults once sought to protect children from homosexuals, who were assumed to be irrepressible child molesters, the great new fear is exposure to white “racists” who might […]
From Infoshop.Org. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Writer and poet William Wall explores the link between neoliberalism and the UK riots. One of the many things that we hear repeated ad nauseam in the context of the present rioting in London is that the rioters are ‘feral’, ‘yobs’, ‘thugs’ or more […]
Article by Bob Unruh. J. Edna Hoover‘s kept boys, otherwise known as the Federal Bureau of Idiots, shows their asses once again. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Just days after the White House announced a community-based approach to combating terrorism in the United States, the FBI and other agencies are asking managers […]
From UhuruNews. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Published Aug 12, 2011 The International People’s Democratic Uhuru Movement (InPDUM) condemns the police murders of African people. On Friday and Saturday, August 12-13, we will march through the back streets and estates of the African community under the slogan: Africans Have a Right to […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. —————————————————————————————————————————————— Having just retired from 40 years in academia and being mindful of the observation by communist-turned-conservative Whittaker Chambers that he had “not returned from Hell empty-handed,” I’m offering the following sketches of professorial types. These were academics who in some cases were my […]
From The Daily Mail. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– America’s most fearsome policeman has been appointed David Cameron’s top adviser on gang warfare. Bill Bratton, who introduced zero-tolerance policing to New York and turned around crime-ridden Los Angeles, will help ministers draw up plans to tackle gang culture in Britain’s cities. Yesterday […]
Article by Jon Entine. Hat tip to MRDA. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Summary:Genetic scientists who know better continue to utter such falsehoods as “there are no scientific differences between humans,” or “race has no biological reality.” The unrelenting attack on the straw man of race is an attempt to subordinate science […]
Article by Thom Patterson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- (CNN) — Critical water pipelines are breaking from coast to coast, triggered by this summer’s record high temperatures. It’s not a phenomenon or coincidence, experts say. It’s a clear sign that Americans should brace for more water interruptions, accompanied by skyrocketing water bills. […]
Article by Freed Reed. ————————————————————————————————————————————— The blacks of the festering, simmering slums clearly do not share the values of European whites, and will loot when they can get away with it. I might also if I saw the surrounding country as my enemy. The difference between the looting […]
Article by David DeGraw. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— AmpedStatus.org Editor’s Note: The following report includes adapted excerpts from David DeGraw’s book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” Release Date: 9.28.11 Abstract: Welcome to World War III Despite increasing personal financial hardship, most Americans remain unaware of the economic world […]
Watch the video. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Earlier today, we ran a rather colorful editorial by Dr. Adrian Krieg titled The Dirt! In that editorial Krieg exposes an embarrassing list of character flaws exhibited by America’s leading political class. And naturally, Barack Obama doesn’t escape the clutches of Krieg’s rather venomous […]
Paradoxically, this guy is excellent argument both for and against capital punishment. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Common Pleas Judge Mark A. Ciaverella of Luzerne Co., Pa., in one of the more shameful displays of judicial digression, got lucrative kickbacks from private juvenile detention centers after sending […]
WASHINGTON – On August 15, 1971, President Richard Nixon gave a speech announcing what would be known as his “New Economic Policy.” The speech led directly to the formation of the Libertarian Party. In the speech, Nixon announced two measures that were of particular concern to libertarians. First, […]
No one was better at taking down the the Republican War God than Murray Rothbard. And Murray had Reagan figured out even before he took office.
Putting Linda Lovelace to shame.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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