Obama Has Time for a Turkey but not for Marcus Garvey

From Infoshop.Org —————————————————————————————————————————————————- OBAMA HAS TIME FOR A TURKEY BUT NOT FOR MARCUS GARVEY MORE TO THE PRESIDENTS LIKING?   President Obama has done so little for the African American people that sometimes I think he figures if he keeps a low profile the white folks won’t notice […]

Legalize Dope & Deport the Illegal Dopes

Article by Jim Goad. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Even by Mexican Drug War standards, last Thursday’s death inferno at Monterrey’s Casino Royale seemed a bit much. At least 52 people died after a group of eight or nine gunmen stormed the casino, began randomly firing at civilians, doused the entrance with […]

Condemning Politics Itself

Article by David D’Amato. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- The Associated Press reports a new poll showing “that Americans are plenty angry at Congress,” going on to observe that “[t]he poll finds more people are down on their own member of Congress, not just the institution, an unusual finding in surveys.” That […]

Riots and Gender

Article by Charles Johnson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- From Suzie at Echnidne of the Snakes. Reposted without further comment, to elicit thought and conversation. Riots & gender Large-scale violence rarely triggers a public discussion of gender, even though men and boys are the majority of perpetrators. Consider last week’s mayhem in […]

Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse (Unless You’re in Law Enforcement)

Article by Radley Balko. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Mike Lawlor, undersecretary for criminal justice policy and planning for the state of Connecticut, joins the ranks of other public officials who are choosing to simply ignore those rights they don’t believe citizens should have. “In almost every situation you can imagine this […]

Engaging—Just Not Radical

Article by Gary Chartier. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Gillespie, Nick, and Welch, Matt. The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What’s Wrong with America. New York: PublicAffairs 2011. Pp. xvi, 266. Index. 978-1-58648-938-0. The Declaration of Independents is a breezy, entertaining manifesto. Defending “libertarian politics,” Reason’s Nick Gillespie and […]

Sticking It to Ron Paul

Article by Stuart Bramhall. This is the kind of progressive we can work with. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– It’s open season on Ron Paul in the so-called “alternative” media, thanks to the Congressman’s strong showing in the Iowa straw polls. The venomous tone and absence of policy analysis is remarkably similar […]

A Call to Duty

From Robert M. Smith. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– The economic situation in the US is grave. No matter what the talking heads and DC pundits say, thinking people and honest economists see it for what it is, a sinking ship headed for the bottom of the ocean. The forecast for liberty, […]

Misandry in the Media

From RADAR. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Misandry, simply defined, is the pathological hatred of men and boys. It is the analog to misogyny, but with the bigotry and rage targeted at males. Paul Nathanson and Katherine K. Young, two scholars in the field of religious studies at McGill University in Montreal, […]

Gaddafi's girl executioner

Article by Richard Pendlebury and Vanessa Allen. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- First you see her large brown eyes and rosebud lips, framed by a pink headscarf. Then you notice that her bruised feet are secured by manacles to the foot of her bed. Nisreen Mansour al Forgani is a pretty 19-year-old. […]

The Resistance Is Growing

Article by Bill Buppert. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- The resistance is growing. The revolution taking place between the ears is beginning to swallow up more of the market share. Millions of humans have begun to shake off the sleep of their Statist slumbers, and more wake up by the minute. They […]

Hurricane Irene Could Sprout Bumper Crop Of Magic Mushrooms

Article by David Moye. ———————————————————————————————————————————————   Everyone knows the potential destructive power of hurricanes, but few people are aware that storms like Hurricane Irene encourage growth of psychedelic mushrooms. Yes, it sounds trippy, but one of the strange aftermaths of a hurricane is an increased amount of mushrooms […]

World economy faces slow growth, says Jim Rogers

From the BBC. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– The question on a lot of people’s minds is the state of the global economy. Some are predicting a return to recession and at best others believe we will see a period of stagnation. With global stock markets taking massive hits in the last […]

What to Make of “Capitalism”

Article by David D’Amato. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- For the United Kingdom’s The Guardian, Pankaj Mishra says the world is “looking at a fresh political awakening,” citing examples from Egypt and Greece to Israel and China. “[E]xtreme and seemingly insurmountable inequality,” Mishra argues, are the source of the new “public anger,” […]

Open Source Education

From John Robb. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– A couple of years back I asked (in the article “Industrial Education” which is worth a read): “An Ivy League Education for less than $20 a month.  Why not?” At the time there were only a smattering of course materials online.  That’s changing.  It’s coming. […]

What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic Anthropologist David Graeber

From Naked Capitalism. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- David Graeber currently holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths University London. Prior to this he was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of ‘Debt: The First 5,000 Years’ which is available from Amazon. Interview […]

Achieving Healthcare Abundance

Article by David D’Amato. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Noting that the field of Republican presidential candidates is fixated on “repealing and replacing ObamaCare,” Forbes’ David Whelan asks, “but with what?” Whelan raises the example of the micro-nation Singapore, which has removed the state from “delivering or financing health care.” The mere […]

Tripoli falls…in India? BBC peddles footage from India as Libyan demonstation

From BrassCheck TV. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- BBC: British Brain Control The truth is there are no jubilation in Tripoli because even the most dull-witted there realize their country has been taken over by a western coup. Question: If there is no jubilation then where exactly do you get shots for […]

FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US

From Russia Today. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– FBI organizes almost all terror plots in the US The Federal Bureau of Investigation employs upwards of 15,000 undercover agents today, ten times what they had on the roster back in 1975. If you think that’s a few spies too many — spies earning […]

From Meta-Politics To Mass Murder – A New Right-Wing Extremism

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? […]

Billionaire investor Jim Rogers throws his support behind Ron Paul

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 […]

The Austrian Version of the English Enclosures

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 […]

Justice Without the State

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 […]

Immigration: The Reserve Army of Capital

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 […]

The Demographics of ATS Readers

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. […]

6-Year-Old Stares Down Bottomless Abyss Of Formal Schooling

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 […]

Ron Paul Receives Most Military Donations

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 […]

Liquidate Your Local Police

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 […]

Norway’s Terror as Systemic Destabilization: Breivik, the Arms-for-Drugs Milieu, and Global Shadow Elites

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 […]

The Freeman Against State Capitalism

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 […]

Gun Control and False Flags

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 […]

After Libya, Syria is Next in Line for a NATO Sponsored "Regime Change"

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 […]

Anthony Gregory — Contra Kevin Carson on the Humanity of Corporations and Government Teachers

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 […]

Male Rape Victims: Al-Jazeera Looks At Sexual Violence Towards Men Around The World

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: […]

It’s the household debt, stupid

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, […]

Elite Privilege and the Prison-Industrial Complex

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 […]

Small Government Fascists

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 […]

Getting Libya “Governed Right”

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, […]

The Cult of the Uniform

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 […]

Western Oil Companies to Get Libya's Oil

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 […]

Elizabeth Wright, RIP

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 […]

Race–The Final Frontier

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 […]

Why the birds and bees are dying

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 […]