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Esoteric Publishers, Crowley, and the ‘New Right’
A discussion of National-Anarchism and the New Right from a neo-pagan site. An interesting debate follows, including some comments from Troy Southgate. Once again, many of the critics seem to miss the point. The core idea of movements like N-A, NR, anarcho-pluralism, and pan-secessionism is to preserve diversity […]
Rednecks with Guns and Other Anti-Racist Stories and Strategies
An interesting group whose leader was interviewed by the left-anarchist Denfenestrator. They’re almost there.The only criticism I would have of this group is they haven’t yet got to the point where they reject ideological univeralism. Rather than try to convert Tea Partyers to their own ideology, it would […]
William F. Buckley interviews Ron Paul in 1988
From The American Conservative. ————————————————————————————————————————————— Todd Seavey has a surprising, if not altogether implausible, idea: “If Buckley had outlived the 2008 presidential campaign, I could imagine he might even have become an ardent Ron Paul fan in time, which would have helped speed the right’s education along immensely. […]
Anders Breivik and the Consequences of Far Right Propaganda
by Larry Gambone. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— “Ideas have consequences” is a favorite mantra of the far-right. It’s usually sprung on some mildly pink college professor who happens to refer favorably to Marx in a lecture. “The ultimate result of the Marxist ideology you spout is the Gulag and Pol Pot”, […]
The Return of the Neocons’ Prodigal Son: Anders Behring Breivik and the Axis of Hate
Article by Justin Raimondo. This is a particularly insightful passage from the article: “Spencer is a fake-“scholar” whose innumerable polemics are all about the same thing: the intractable evil and danger posed by Islam. He believes there is a conspiracy to impose Sharia law on America, and annex […]
Justiz Amerikan Style
Article by Jacob Sullum. ————————————————————————————————————————————- The New York Times tellsthe story of Queens restaurateur Seemona Sumasar, who spent seven months in jail after being framed by her vengeful former boyfriend for a series of armed robberies that never happened. While police and prosecutors portray the ex-boyfriend as a criminal […]
Banking and the Confederacy “Graybacks”: A Forgotten Example of State Credit
Article by K. R. Bolton. ————————————————————————————————————————————— Introduction The goodwill towards the Southern states that one might expect from monetary reformers has been clouded by the claim that the War of Secession was instigated by international bankers for the control of the USA, and specifically that it was the […]
Obama: The Best “Enemy” Money Can Buy
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Las Vegas casino magnate Steve Wynn joins the long list of CEOs calling Barack Obama “anti-business,” denouncing him as “the greatest wet blanket to business, progress and job creation in my lifetime.” Obama’s rhetoric is the kind of thing we hear only from […]
The Missing Lesson From Norway: Never Trust a Man in Uniform
Article by William Norman Grigg. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Roughly a decade ago, Al Pacino starred in a movie entitled S1m0ne, a cyber-era updating of the Pygmalion myth in which a film director creates an uncannily realistic digital actress. Despite the fact that “Simone” was a computer-rendered composite fantasy, the lustrous […]
Pitchforks and Torches in Orlando
Article by Joe Bob Briggs. —————————————————————————————————————————————- NEW YORK—I tried. I really tried. I wanted to be the only person in America who didn’t know anything about the Caylee Anthony murder case. I intentionally avoided it whenever it would come on cable TV. I have such an aversion to […]
A Fire Bell in the Night for Norway
Article by Pat Buchanan. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- “Like a fire bell in the night,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1820, “this momentous question … awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it at once as the knell of the Union.” Jefferson was writing of the sudden resurgence of the slavery […]
Between Thought and Action in Norway
Article by Jim Goad. —————————————————————————————————————————————- When I first read Ted Kaczynski’s Industrial Society and its Future, better known as The Unabomber Manifesto, I was impressed with how logically dispassionate it was, especially its devastating dissection of leftist masochism and hostility. Each paragraph—sequentially numbered as if they were biblical […]
How the U.S. government uses its media servants to attack real journalism
Article by Glenn Greenwald. —————————————————————————————————————————————- “The US has stopped running its global network of secret prisons, CIA director Leon Panetta has announced. ‘CIA no longer operates detention facilities or black sites,’ Mr Panetta said in a letter to staff” – BBC, April 9, 2009 ____________ Earlier this week, […]
The Crusader: Anders Breivik as ideological blowback
Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————————————————- It had to happen: the rise of a “counter-jihadist” terrorist outfit that is the mirror image of al-Qaeda. That it first arose in Norway, rather than, say, in the US, is just a coincidence, although I’m sure Anders Behring Breivik, the perpetrator of […]
Kevin Carson Interview Tonight
This should be interesting. Apparently, Kevin is starting to “come out of the closet” so to speak and identify himself as a real person rather than as a mysterious blogger and author with no public voice or face. Cool.
The Power Elite, the Police State and Opposing the Authoritarian Trend
Interview with Edwin Vieira, Jr by Anthony Wile. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Introduction: Dr. Vieira holds four degrees from Harvard: A.B. (Harvard College), A.M. and Ph.D. (Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences), and J.D. (Harvard Law School). For over thirty-six years he has been a practicing attorney, specializing in cases […]
The Politics of Nihilism: The Aftermath of Anders Behring Breivik
Article by Andy Nowicki. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Some occurrences have a touch of unreality about them. They seem so unlikely that an alternative explanation must be in order. Indeed, last week’s Oslo massacre has many speculating about a vast conspiracy of some sort orchestrated by a shadowy, all-powerful cabal to […]
DNA circuits used to make neural network, store memories
arstechnica.com Kyle Niemeyer Photograph by albany.edu Even as some scientists and engineers develop improved versions of current computing technology, others are looking into drastically different approaches. DNA computing offers the potential of massively parallel calculations with low power consumption and at small sizes. Research in this […]
A New Artificial Lung Can Breathe Regular Air Rather Than Purified Oxygen
popsci.com Clay Dillow The Iron Lung of Yesteryear Cleveland researchers have devised a way to pack all the function of existing artificial lung technology into a more efficient package that is the size of an actual human lung. CDC Researchers in Cleveland have built an artificial lung that […]
Making "Respect for the Law" Into a Bad Joke Once Again
Article by Jess Leber. —————————————————————————————————————————————— Update: We’ve just arranged for this petition to be personally delivered to the judge at Raquel Nelson’s sentencing hearing on Tuesday. Please sign and share widely so we can show the national outrage over her prosecution. The unjust prosecution and conviction of Raquel […]
The Fight Against Corporate Personhood
From Reality Sandwhich. —————————————————————————————————————————————— In the wake of a recent Supreme Court case (Citizens United v. FEC) that gave broad free speech rights to publically-chartered corporations, a grassroots movement is seeking to constitutionally limit what has become an unreasonable legal deference to these powerful, artificial entities. In the […]
Former ‘Antiwar’ Leader Shills for Obama
Justin Raimondo explains why the Left is absolutely impotent when it comes to opposing U.S. imperialism. ————————————————————————————————————————————– The last person we need to hear from on the state of the antiwar movement is surely Todd Gitlin, the has-been “New” Left leader now a college professor of something-or-other. After […]
Puppets in Revolt: Afghanistan , Iraq , Pakistan and the United States
Article by James Petras. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Introduction Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only […]
America’s Debt Problem Is Not Caused By Social Programs
Article by Ray Medeiros. ———————————————————————————————————————————— In a previous post I used some information that has since been corrected on the original site, Business Insider due to in-depth research into the actual OECD numbers by myself and others. It turns out that the United States spends 16.2% of our […]
McDonald's as the Paradigm of Progress
Article by Jeffrey Tucker. This is rather embarrassing. —————————————————————————————————————————————- The nice folks at the local McDonald’s know me well, but even they were puzzled when I snapped a dozen images of their newly restored interior, which is absolutely beautiful. Like most fast-food places, the management is used to […]
The Political Ideas of Anders Behring Breivik
Article by Richard Spencer. ———————————————————————————————————————————— What kind of “ultra-nationalist” murders the children of his own people? The answer is one who is truly deranged. That said, unlike Jared Loughner, whose various writings on politics and economics were non-sensical and seemingly based on free-association, Anders Behring Breivik’s work (if this […]
Pushing Crisis: GOP Cries Wolf on Debt Ceiling in Order to Impose Radical Pro-Rich Agenda
From Democracy Now! ——————————————————————————————————————————- President Obama and Republican House Speaker John Boehner are allegedly close to a $3 trillion deficit-reduction package as part of a deal to raise the federal debt ceiling before an Aug. 2 deadline. But the deal is coming under fire from both congressional Democrats […]
Anders Behring Breivik
Article by Greg Johnson. —————————————————————————————————————————————– White Nationalists, European nationalists, counter-jihadists, immigration restrictionists, even the Tea Party are being smeared by being “linked” and “associated” with accused Norwegian spree-killer Anders Behring Breivik. Most of these links exist only in the minds of dishonest leftists seeking to squeeze political advantage […]
Kevin Carson Responds to a Critic
Interesting exchange between Kevin and a Marxist. —————————————————————————————————————————— Jehu Eaves has written a thoughtful, multipart “critical examination of Kevin Carson’s mutualism” at Gonzo Times. Eaves begins in Part One by acknowledging the truth of my account of the state’s indispensible role in the primitive accumulation process and the […]
The Grand Old Party: A Circus of Fascists, Clowns, and Creeps
Anthony Gregory describes the Republicans for what they are. I’m proud to say that back when I used to vote occasionally, I never voted for a Republican in a general election and only once in a primary. I wanted to vote against voice-hearing, theo-psycho Pat Robertson in the […]
The Cain Doctrine
Article by Ian Huyett. ————————————————————————————————————————————— “If you mess with Israel, you’re messing with the United States of America”, says Herman Cain. So much for that “Declaration of Independence” thing, huh? Like Dick Armey, Cain’s first loyalty is to a foreign country – Israel – and not the United […]
America's Proxy Energy Wars
Article by Stuart Bramhall. —————————————————————————————————————————————— The prime ministers of China and Pakistan China’s Strategic Alliance with Pakistan Obama’s and Hillary Clinton’s recent threats against Pakistan for allegedly promoting Taliban terrorism are pure rhetoric. Their purpose is to conceal the strategic importance of Pakistan (and Afghanistan) in US competition […]
An Economy Destroyed
Article by Paul Craig Roberts. ———————————————————————————————————————————— Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade US Treasury bonds if the White House and Congress did not reach a deficit reduction deal and debt ceiling increase. The downgrade threat is not credible, and neither […]
"Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World": The Principles of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
From UhuruNews.Com. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Preamble Be It Resolved, That the Negro people of the world, through their chosen representatives in convention assembled in Liberty Hall, in the City of New York and United States of America, from August 1 to August 31, in the year of Our Lord one […]
America's Magic Mountain
Article by Richard Spencer. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– No, America is not about to default on its debts. And, no, Grandma’s August Social Security check won’t bounce. Nor would a failure to raise the debt ceiling result in a financial breakdown and ensuing Mad Max-style societal collapse. (This latter fact will, […]
South Africa Today, America Tomorrow?
Article by Paul Gottfried. ————————————————————————————————————————————- Ilana Mercer, author of Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America from Post-Apartheid South Africa, is persona non grata to the established media culture, which features debating partners who look and sound remarkably similar. Ilana’s book would be anathema to such nonstop celebrants […]
Worker Co-operatives, Markets and the South African State: An analysis from an Anarchist Perspective
Article by Oliver Nathan. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Introduction Worker co-operatives in post apartheid South Africa have all too often been championed by certain sections of the labour movement and some on the left as part of the solution to the ‘structural unemployment’ facing the popular classes in the current dispensation. […]
Mutualism: Fake and Real
Article by Iain McKay. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- A vision of a co-operative commonwealth has always been at the heart of socialism. The earliest socialists suggested co-operative villages, workplaces and consumer societies. This was echoed by libertarian socialists. Bakunin was “convinced that the co-operative will be the preponderant form of social […]
Ten Things I Hate About the Right
Article by Gavin McInnes. —————————————————————————————————————————— The left gets a serious going-over on this site. Not that they don’t deserve it. If you come screaming into the room with an aluminum water bottle on your backpack and start ridiculing everyone for being ignorant, people are going to make fun […]
Today's playgrounds may be too safe, critics warn
The therapeutic state is doing what it is supposed to do: Create a society of cowards, crybabies, and subservient weaklings. ————————————————————————————————————— When seesaws and tall slides and other perils were disappearing from New York’s playgrounds, Henry Stern drew a line in the sandbox. As the city’s parks commissioner […]
Thom Hartmann: Can a Republican get elected without fraud & treason?
Watch the Video and understand why the “conservative movment” is a scam. Since Dwight Eisenhower left the presidency in 1961 – 5 different Republicans have been President of the United States. And every single one of them – from Richard Nixon to George W. Bush – have been […]
California Prison Hunger Strike: Some Inmates Show Early Signs Of Starvation
From the Huffington Post. ———————————————————————————————————————————— Inmates in a third of California’s prisons are conducting a hunger strike in protest of solitary confinement policy. Recent reports show that many inmates, who are in their third week of the strike, have shown dramatic weight loss and are collapsing from starvation, […]
A "Maoist" Analysis of Alex Jones and the "NWO" Conspiracy
Watch the video. This is an interesting analysis of “right-wing” conspiracy theories from a Marxist perspective. I think this guy is correct in the sense of criticizing conspiracists for their narrow focus on individual personalities, unsubstantiated myths, and exaggerated roles for particular institutions and ideological factions they especially […]
Fighting "Evil": The Foreign Policy of Totalitarian Humanism
Article by Jack Hunter. —————————————————————————————————————————————- Like many American teenage boys, I grew up listening to heavy metal music. In 1989, a favorite album was “Kill’em All” by Metallica and my favorite song on that album was “Am I Evil?” (a cover of a song by the British metal […]
US more unpopular in the Arab world than under Bush
Wednesday, Jul 13, 2011 08:14 ET Glenn Greenwald US more unpopular in the Arab world than under Bush By Glenn Greenwald AP Anti-American sentiment among Pakistani protestors (updated below) I’ve written numerous times over the last year about rapidly worsening perceptions of the U.S. in the Muslim world, including […]
The Two State Solution
Article by Charles Glass. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Try to see it from the other guy’s point of view. He may be wrong. He may be, at least partly, right. Today, I am trying hard to see life from the point of view of an Israeli settler in the occupied West […]
The Long Retreat of Liberalism
Pat Buchanan inadvertently explains why the only viable course of action for the anti-state Left is to completely differentiate itself from the statist Left and work to cultivate anti-authoritarian and decentralist tendencies from across the ideological spectrum: For, from Greece to Ireland to Portugal to Italy, from California […]
APPALACHIAN POOR GET THE SHAFT ONCE MORE
Article by Ken Ward Jr. ———————————————————————————————————————— Birth defects study: More inconvenient facts about the impact of mountaintop removal coal mining June 30, 2011 by Ken Ward Jr. I was out of town last week when news broke of the latest major scientific study about the serious public health […]
Dynamite: The Story of Class Violence in America
Book review by David Z This is a great book. I first read it over twenty years ago. —————————————————————————————————————————————- As the old saying goes, “Desperate times call for desperate measures,” and there are few times more desperate for a majority of laborers living hand-to-mouth, than being put out […]
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