Glenn Beck: Retard

A conflict emerges between the neocon and liberal-internationalist wings of the ruling class. Beck serves as a mouthpiece for the neocon perspective. Watch the viddy. —————————————————————————————————— Glenn gave a passionate condemnation of US foreign policy on tonight’s TV show. As the Middle East continues to burn, the United […]

Elite Bilderberg 2011 Meeting Draws Scrutiny

Article by Alex Newman. ——————————————————————————————————- A secretive cabal of some of the world’s most influential people known as the Bilderberg group will be meeting from June 9 to the 12th in St. Moritz, Switzerland — but this year, more attention than usual is being afforded to the gathering […]

The Decline and Fall of Private Law in Iceland

Article by Roderick Long. ———————————————————————————————— The Decline and Fall of Private Law in Iceland Many libertarians are familiar with the system of private law that prevailed in Iceland during the Free Commonwealth period (930-1262). Market mechanisms, rather than a governmental monopoly of power, provided the incentives to cooperate […]

From Rothbard to Red

Article by PunkJohnnyCash. ——————————————————————————————————– How A Right Libertarian Anarcho- Capitalist came to reject Capitalism and embrace Libertarian Socialism. I was a rather conservative libertarian, not a libertarian in the classical sense but in the sense of the current popular definition of libertarian in the United States. I always […]

Worker Cooperative Toolbox

Article from The Gonzo Times. ————————————————————————————————— Here is a publication by Northcountry Cooperative Development Fund that was brought to my attention by RebelCapitalist. I thought many of my readers would find this a useful and interesting read. I have not finished it yet, but so far I like […]

It’s Not Big Government If It Helps the Rich

Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————- In standard “small government conservative” discourse, one of the more popular talking points concerns the alleged mechanism behind the rise of big government: The poor and working class majority vote themselves largess out of the public treasury, taxing all the thrifty and productive […]

The Coming Economic Hell For American Families

From The Economic Collapse Blog. ————————————————————————————————- Tens of millions of American families are about to go through economic hell and most of them don’t even realize it. Most Americans don’t spend a whole lot of time thinking about things like “monetary policy” or “economic cycles”.  The vast majority […]

The Tribal Bubble

Article by Jack Donovan. ————————————————————————————————- We cannot really love ‘in the abstract;’ we can love only those whom we know. Thus the appeal even to our best emotions, love and compassion, can only tend to divide mankind into different categories. And this will be more true if the […]

Counter-Power and the Arab Spring

Article by David D’Amato. —————————————————————————————————- The Arab Spring, the succession of popular uprisings still underway in places like Libya and Syria, has changed the way people around the world think about relationships of power. Where political authority had, to many, appeared to be a monolithic, immovable pillar at […]

96-year-old woman confesses to 1946 murder

Article by Arthur Max. ——————————————————————————————- AMSTERDAM – A murder mystery has been solved — 65 years later — with the confession of a 96-year-old woman. The 1946 killing of Felix Gulje, the head of a construction company who at the time was being considered for a high political […]

Understanding Anarcho-Primitivism

From Infoshop.Org. —————————————————————————————————- A primary problem with anarcho-primitivism is that it is both maligned in ignorance and promoted with ideals of zealous purity.  As the years have went by, and after constantly having the primitivist critique at my disposal (at least in the back of my mind), it […]

Tips for Big Babies

Article by Scott Locklin. I like number twelve the best. ——————————————————————————————————- While I’m all for increased awareness of modern America’s sexual dimorphism crisis, we face a much more serious problem—one from which all other social problems emanate like a nasty bathroom smell. I’m talking about the lack of […]

Neocons Spin Two ‘Lost’ Wars

Article by Robert Parry. —————————————————————————————————— Exclusive: The looming U.S. defeats in Iraq and Afghanistan represent a threat to the political fortunes of America’s neocons — if they get blamed for the disasters. However, if they can hang the failures around President Obama’s neck, the two lost wars might […]

Down With the Dictator

Article by Lew Rockwell. —————————————————————————————————– Governments and their intellectual front men believe that nothing unites a population like a war. Actually, that’s not quite true. What happens is that during war, governments strike fear into their domestic opponents and silence them through intimidation. The appearance of unity is […]

Punk And National-Bolshevism

Article by Edward Limonov. —————————————————————————————————- Mark Ames asked me to write about National-Bolsheviks’ Party and punks movement. So I am forced to take a look at my past, despite the fact that I am very much involved in the present time, because Mark. I have arrived to New […]

Vote No-Confidence . . . In the State!

Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————– Last week (Thursday, June 2), reports CNN, “Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan survived a no-confidence vote in parliament.” The no-confidence motion was lodged by the opposition party in response to the Prime Minister’s “handling of the March 11 earthquake, tsunami and ensuing nuclear […]

Bitcoin: With Enemies Like Schumer, Who Needs Friends?

Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————- Charles Schumer, a charter member (along with Lieberman, Hatch and Feinstein) of the US Senate’s authoritarian moral scold caucus, is at it again. Schumer, for those who don’t recall, exemplifies the managerialist heart of darkness of 20th century liberalism. That ideology might be […]

A Choice Between Extremes or a False Choice?

Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————- A controversial and “polarizing” election in Peru that, according to CNN, “pit the county’s left and right against each other,” has apparently ended in a victory for “leftist military man Ollanta Humala.” When Humala ran for president unsuccessfully in 2006, his campaign identified […]

Scots Splitting From the State?

Article by David D’Amato. —————————————————————————————————– According to MSNBC, “an astonishing victory for nationalists in the Scottish parliamentary elections” presages a referendum on whether the country should secede from the United Kingdom. For more than three centuries, the Treaty of Union between England (subsuming Wales) and Scotland has yoked […]

Dealing with the anti-sex brigade

Article by Alex Knepper. —————————————————————————————————— Jeremiah Headen likely lost the vice presidency of the Student Government over a hyperbolic Facebook note. Its contents — a blast of old-school masculinity — slammed men for not realizing that being manly had nothing to do with what is between one’s legs, […]

Prominent Swiss Politician Calls For Arrest of Kissinger at Bilderberg

Yes! This asshole has evaded justice for 40 years. Leave it to the Swiss to show some balls. ————————————————————————————————— Dominique Baettig calls on federal authorities to apprehend former US Secretary of State Image: Wikipedia Commons Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, June 6, 2011 A prominent member of […]

Mr. Spock: Logical As Always

Leonard Nimoy gives his two cents worth on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. —————————————————————————————————- Jewish-American actor Leonard Nimony, noted for his portrayal of Mr. Spock in the TV classic Star Trek, has urged Israelis and Palestinians to reach a peace agreement based on the two-state solution, warning Americans against the […]

Russia Warns American Police State Now Rivals That Of Nazi SS

Article by Sorcha Faal. —————————————————————————————————– A grim report prepared by the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for President Medvedev warns that the ‘Deep State’ intelligence and security organizations in the United States have now grown larger than those same forces established under the fascist dictatorship of Nazi Germany in the 1920’s. According to […]

Decline and fall of the American empire

Article by Larry Elliot. ———————————————————————————————————————————   Dust-bowl refugees walk towards Los Angeles during the Great Depression. House prices have now fallen further than in the 1930s. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis America clocked up a record last week. The latest drop in house prices meant that the cost of real estate […]

Apocalypse Now?

Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— The Republican congressional leadership was in a panic: their covering for the Obama administration’s unconstitutional and unnecessary war in Libya was rapidly unraveling as a resolution by Rep. Dennis Kucinich calling for an end to it gained momentum – among Republicans. Kucinich’s bill […]

Pentagon Using Drug Wars as Excuse to Build Bases in Latin America

Article by John Lindsay Poland. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- Under the auspices of the drug war, the United States is returning to its historical pattern of using Central America and the Caribbean for its own military and strategic purposes. Even as a growing chorus of voices throughout Latin America argue that […]

War Fatigue in America

Article by Paul Pillar. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Signs are increasing that the American people are growing tired enough over fighting two and a half (or whatever the right number is, depending on how you count what’s going on in Libya) wars for their fatigue to affect policy, especially through the […]

Chuck Schumer is a Piece of Shit

From Liberale Et Libertaire. ————————————————————————————————————————————- New York Senator Chuck Schumer probably occupies a top place in the libertarian axis of evil. A bigot, a religious fanatic, a nanny-state totalitarian and a crook, Schumer epitomizes the libertarian critique against political authority. This is a man who is accustomed to […]

Political versus Apolitical Strategies

Article by Anna Morgenstern. ————————————————————————————————————————————— The problem with any sort of “political” ideology is that they are largely made up of a “laundry list” of specific issue proposals. This is true whether there is an underlying consistent idea behind them or not. Let’s first examine the favorite whipping […]

Will Washington Foment War Between China and India?

Article by Paul Craig Roberts. It looks like Roberts is developing a Duginite approach to international geopolitics. —————————————————————————————————- What is Washington’s solution for the rising power of China? The answer might be to involve China in a nuclear war with India. The staging of the fake death of […]

America is Going to the Dogs

From Youth for Western Civilization. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- By H.W. De Kryger They say children are the future. If that is true, then America — and most of the West for that matter — doesn’t have much of a future. Maybe time to put our children over our pets? Maybe […]

Has America Become a Corporate Police State?

Article by David Sirota. ————————————————————————————————— “Corporate Police State,” it’s a fraught — some might even say, overwrought — term. But in its purest, apolitical form, it simply describes the periodic commingling of state and corporate power to protect private interests. In the American psyche, any discussion of that […]

Special Report: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, and the Case for Anarchism

by Thomas Knapp ——————————————————————————————————————————————— C4SS Director Brad Spangler is addressing the Free Bradley Manning Rally in Leavenworth, KS today. In tandem with that event, we’re releasing Spangler’s special report, “Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, and the Case for Anarchism” [PDF]

Former LA Black Panther leader Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt dies at 63

Article by Tom Odula. —————————————————————————————————– Former Black Panther Party leader Elmer “Geronimo” Pratt, whose murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he maintained he did not commit, died early Friday from a medical ailment, an associate said. He was 63. Pratt […]

Anti-Poverty = Anti-State

Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– BBC News recently reported that “Brazil has launched a welfare scheme to lift millions out of extreme poverty by 2014.” The South American country’s plan will direct resources into already-established programs and toward those regions with the highest rates of poverty. In an […]

Bank of America Gets Pad Locked After Homeowner Forecloses On It

Justice at last! —————————————————————————————————— Collier County, Florida — Have you heard the one about a homeowner foreclosing on a bank? Well, it has happened in Florida and involves a North Carolina based bank. Instead of Bank of America foreclosing on some Florida homeowner, the homeowners had sheriff’s deputies foreclose […]

Why Slutwalk?

From The Gonzo Times. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- One morning, when I was in eighth grade, I got dressed for school and went outside to wait for my father to drive me. I was wearing a long knit skirt, sweater, and some boots. My outfit would have met the requirements for […]

Do the American people support the 'special relationship?'

Article by Stephen Walt. ——————————————————————————————————————————— A couple of weeks ago, Americans were treated to a remarkably clear demonstration of the power of the Israel lobby in the United States. First, Barack Obama gave a speech on Middle East policy at the State Department, which tried to position America […]

Let's Finally Dispense With 'Hero' Nonsense

Article by Steven Greenhut. ————————————————————————————————– Not only did Alameda firefighters and police stand around, watch and do nothing as a suicidal man, Raymond Zack, spent an hour in the San Francisco Bay, neck deep in water, they didn’t even go into the water to retrieve his lifeless body […]

Anarchy and Chaos in Black Communities

Article by Robert Wicks. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— People often use anarchy and chaos interchangeably. They refer to civil unrest as “anarchy, total chaos.” As an anarchist of the anarcho-libertarian variety myself, naturally, this habit irks me. Anarchy is simply the absence of forceful authority. Chaos is disorder. The two things […]

"A Cold Monster”: Nietzsche on the State

Article by Michael Kleen. I’ve posted this here before but it’s worth posting again. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Out of all modern philosophers, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was one of the most unique critics of the modern State, yet his views on the subject have been largely overshadowed by his more famous […]

How Europe Lost Faith in Its Own Civilization

Article by Fritz Bolkestein. Interesting to find something like this in the Wall Street Journal. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Europeans weren’t always so self-hating. The 19th century saw the high tide of imperialism, and Europe was brimming with self-confidence. What has happened? The past century witnessed the cataclysm of World War […]

Review of Civilization: The West and the Rest, by Niall Ferguson

Article by Anthony Hilton. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- First of all, while not too sure where WC begins and ends, Ferguson certainly has a lot of positive things to say about it. By that he means not just “High Visual Culture”, art, architecture, and music, but all the cultural and technological […]