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Nexus X HumectressWatch the Video. —————————————————————————————————————————————- Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 — December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and deputy chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP). He was killed as he lay in bed in his apartment by a tactical unit of the Cook […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Once, it was a Labor Day tradition for Democrats to go to Cadillac Square in Detroit to launch their campaigns in that forge and furnace of American democracy, the greatest industrial center on earth. Democrats may still honor the tradition. But Detroit is […]
Article by Scott Locklin. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Conservatives like to talk about the causes of Western Civilization’s downfall: feminism, loose morality, drug abuse, Christianity’s decline, reality TV. Blaming civilization’s downfall on lardy hagfish such as Andrea Dworkin is like a doctor diagnosing senility by an old person’s wrinkles. The fact […]
Article by John Whitehead. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not […]
From The Gawker. ————————————————————————————————————————————— Think of it as Thelma & Louise 2: F2M. Two employees of a Phoenix Wal-Mart are in police custody after having robbed the store of $45,000. Half of the money was spent on a getaway car; the other half was set aside so that […]
From Gawker.Com ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Since this is Back to School time, we asked for all of your horror stories from those school days, school days, good old golden rule days. We were shocked by the number of gross, embarrassing, depressing, and hilarious tales that we got. But there can […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Two of my fellow STR writers and guest editors that I much enjoy to read, weebies and John deLaubenfels, have each come out with a column on the eternally contentious abortion issue. On first glance, one might say that weebies’ article is pro-life, […]
From the Green Star. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- By Andrew Kreig (about the author) Christopher Edley, Jr. by University of California President-Elect Obama’s advisers feared in 2008 that authorities would oust him in a coup and that Republicans would block his policy agenda if he prosecuted Bush-era war crimes, according to […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- I’ve written frequently on the federal regulatory state as a source of monopoly rents to big business. But the true nature of regulations as a naked power grab by incumbent businesses is nowhere more apparent than at the local level. At the state […]
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CNN’s Ben Wedeman and Ingrid Formanek reporting from Tripoli, Libya – ——————————————————————————————————————————————– TRIPOLI, Libya (CNN) – A potent stash of Russian-made surface-to-air missiles is missing from a huge Tripoli weapons warehouse amid reports of weapons looting across war-torn Libya. They are Grinch SA-24 shoulder-launched missiles, also known as Igla-S […]
Article by Ivan Eland. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Documents found in the files of Muammar Gadhafi’s intelligence services in Libya, which indicated that the now overthrown dictator cooperated closely with U.S. rendition of terrorist suspects to his torture chambers, should prompt questions about how much President Barack Obama has improved civil […]
Hell, no! ————————————————————————————————————————————— of 9/11? Unfortunately, it may be how the American people have responded to that event. 10 years after 9/11, is America a better place? Sadly, the answer clearly is no. In the ten years that have passed, a fundamental shift in our culture has occurred. […]
Article by Tom Engelhardt and Noam Chomsky. Glad to see Professor Noam is still hitting home runs well into his eighties. ————————————————————————————————————————————— This is, of course, the week before the tenth anniversary of the day that “changed everything.” And enough was indeed changed that it’s easy to forget […]
Article by Walter Williams. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- At one of last month’s Congressional Black Caucus-sponsored “job fairs,” Rep. Andre Carson, D-Ind., told the audience: “This is the effort that we’re seeing of Jim Crow. Some of these folks in Congress right now would love to see us as second-class citizens. […]
Part Two is now available. Listen to it here. Listen to Part One here. The entire two hours is a discussion of my article “Liberty and Populism: Building an Effective Resistance Movement for North America.“
From the Green Star. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Anarchists trying to stop evictions at Europe’s largest illegal travellers’ site are stockpiling rocks on a watchtower, raising fears they are planning to hurl them at bailiffs and police. Protesters used a wire basket to haul lumps of masonry on to a 50ft […]
Article by Glenn Reynolds. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- All over America, police have been arresting people for taking video or making sound recordings of them, even though such arrests are pretty clearly illegal. Usually, the charges are dropped once the case becomes public, and usually that’s the end of it. But […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. ———————————————————————————————————————————– Five years ago, antiwar liberals calling the Bush administration fascist were labeled as kooks, marginalized by their own party leadership, accused by conservatives of treasonous thoughts worthy of federal punishment, even deportation. A few years pass, the policies hardly change, and the political […]
From the Corbett Report. —————————————————————————————————————————————- This week GRTV talks to Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary Treasury, former editor of the Wall Street Journal, author and researcher, about the significance of 9/11 on the brink of the tenth anniversary of those events. We discuss the many points […]
Article by Ian Huyett. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Most of the 4,000 Americans who die in fires each year are asphyxiated, often in their sleep, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Of the 30,000 Americans killed in car accidents in 2009, more than 6,000 were passengers and more than 4,000 […]
Article by Steve Szkotak. So much for the notion of the South as a bastion of reactionary conservatism. This doesn’t say much for the League of the South’s chances. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- LEXINGTON, Va. — A rural Virginia city where Robert E. Lee and Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson are buried on Thursday […]
Article by Jeffrey Goldberg. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- It was an extraordinary scene: President Barack Obama, sitting impassively in the Oval Office in May as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured him, at considerable length and at times condescendingly, on Jewish history, Arab perfidy and the existential challenges facing his country. […]
From American Renaissance. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- The American Renaissance conference planned for February 2010 had to be cancelled because three successive hotels that had agreed to host the conference were intimidated by “anti-fascist” thugs. We are pleased to learn that one of the speakers scheduled for the conference, David Yeagley, […]
Article by Fred Reed. —————————————————————————————————————————————- Things change, usually for the worse, and always against the innocent. (This truth is a principle of curmudgeonry.) When I came to Mexico some eight years ago, it was a peaceful, moderately successful upper-Third-World country—middle-class, barely, literate, though often barely, and as democratic […]
Article by Thomas C. Mountain. ————————————————————————————————————————————— September 05, 2011 — After some 8,000 bombing raids, with estimates of 4 bombs used per attack NATO has already dropped over 30,000 bombs on Libya. That’s almost 200 bombs per day for 6 months, some tens of thousands of tons of […]
Neither rain nor snow nor sleet nor hail……Oh, forget all that. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Washington (CNN) — The U.S. Postal Service does not have the money to meet an obligation to a retiree health care trust fund coming due at the end of the month, but if there’s a default, […]
From the World National Anarchist Alliance. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Those who view themselves as National Anarchist leftists have a unique responsibility. Work hard to get anarchist leftists to unite under the banner of National Anarchism. There is a website online called the Alliance of the Libertarian Left: http://all-left.net/ One of […]
From the World National Anarchist Alliance. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— The great thing about National Anarchism is that it works as a conflict resolver regarding the various types of anarchism in existence. A lot of fighting happens, especially between the capitalist and more socialist forms. Anarchy is not a “winner takes […]
Crowned heads, wealth and privilege may well tremble should ever again the Black and Red [and Gold] unite!” — Otto von Bismarck
Article by Allen Mendenball. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– The news abounds with references to “rights,” “diversity,” and “justice.” But what do these terms signify? Allegations of Libyan “rights” abuses were powerful enough to justify a more widespread and large-scale Western version of what Gaddafi did—namely, demolishing an existing government and then […]
Article by Julia Duin. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- The moon is bright orange, hanging in the warm evening sky like an enormous gumdrop. Underneath it is a “village” of Christian festival-goers, housed in 100 colorful tents on a gently sloping Pennsylvania field about an hour north of Baltimore. Some of the […]
From the New Internationalist. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Arundhati Roy is probably the most ‘do something’ public intellectual of our time. In her interview with New Internationalist she offers her take on market-friendly democracy, people power and the wealth that is fed by people’s lives. Your writings have grappled with ruthless state […]
From Infoshop.Org. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Despite only occasionally surfacing in the news — with more than 1,000 G20 arrests, tasering deaths, lethal shootings and abuse in holding cells — police misconduct is not only widespread and historic it is also deeply entrenched, said presenters at a major conference on policing last […]
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Article by Joe Kemp. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Mario Tama/Getty More than 317,000 people were stopped, questioned and sometimes frisked from Jan. 1 to June 30, NYPD stats show. NYPD cops have stopped and questioned people at an increasing rate this year that could lead the department to set an all-time […]
The adventures of Jane Fonda. Actually, I’ve always thought the right-wing is too hard on Hanoi Jane. Whatever her faults, she was right about Nixon’s war crimes in Indochina. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- One day, at the height of her fame in the mid-Seventies, Jane Fonda turned up on the doorstep […]
Gee thanks, Obama and NATO. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Jihadists among the Libyan rebels revealed plans last week on the Internet to subvert the post-Moammar Gadhafi government and create an Islamist state, according to U.S. intelligence agencies. U.S. officials said spy agencies are stepping up surveillance of Islamist-oriented elements among Libyan […]
Article by Greg Jaffe. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– This is the American era of endless war. To grasp its sweep, it helps to visit Fort Campbell, Ky., where the Army will soon open a $31 million complex for wounded troops and those whose bodies are breaking down after a decade of deployments. […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Let me start by saying I’m a long-time admirer of Anthony Gregory’s writing, and I’m as surprised as he is that this has turned into a significant disagreement. Frankly, given our considerable areas of agreement, I’m having a hard time figuring out why […]
Article by Thomas Naylor. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— A specter is haunting America – the specter of technofascism. We are enmeshed in a global system of conquest and destruction, dominance and deceit in which Wall Street, Corporate America, the Pentagon, the U.S. Government, and the Israeli lobby manipulate and control our […]
…say these idiots. Read through the comments thread following this piece and see how even uber-PC cultural leftist Roderick Long and uber-capitalist-basher Kevin Carson don’t meet the standards of purity of these anarcho-sectarian idiots. These guys sound like a bunch of Bible-bangers trying to make sure everyone holds […]
From The Green Star: Watch the video. ———————————————————————————————————————————————–
From the World National-Anarchist Alliance. As soon as the perspective outlined here becomes the dominant consensus among anarchists generally, then anarchists will be in a position to assume the role of the leadership corps of a much larger array of secessionist and radical decentralist movments with a strong […]
Article by Alexander Cockburn. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- We’re homing in on the tenth anniversary of the destruction of the Wall Street Trade Towers and the attack on the Pentagon. One in seven Americans and one in four among those aged 16-24, (so a recent poll commissioned by the BBC tells […]
Article by Charles Coulombe. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- through the madhouse called the California State Legislature and now awaits the undead governor’s signature. Indeed, one of the few signs of life he showed during the campaign that brought him back from beyond the grave was when he spoke of the joy […]
This reads like something out of “Married With Children.” ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Not so long ago, Barack Obama electrified and mesmerized not only America but the entire solar system and even parts of the Crab Nebula with his transparently empty promises, his smooth mulatto charisma, and an oratory prowess that […]
Article by Matthew Lyons. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– As a follow-up to my previous post about Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, I want to discuss a particularly good essay about the counter-jihadist movement in which Breivik’s politics are rooted. “The New Integralist Conservatism: a briefing” appeared on libcom.org shortly after […]
From Infowars.Com ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Jonathon M. Seidl The Blaze September 1, 2011 The tale of the Gibson guitar raid — the one focused on the legendary guitar maker’s alleged importation and use of illegal wood — has taken an odd turn. Now CEO Henry Juszkiewicz is claiming the Feds […]
Article by Eric Margolis. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- (Editor’s Note: China is working on newer anti-ship missiles, but it doesn’t need to. The current anti-ship missile technology delivers a 1,000-pound TNT payload at Mach 3, or over 3 times the speed of sound, about 30 feet above the sea surface. At […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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