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Nexus X Humectressthinkonthat.com ChrisB BBC News – Surgeons carry out first synthetic windpipe transplant. Surgeons in Sweden have carried out the world’s first synthetic organ transplant. Scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was then coated in stem cells from the patient. Crucially, the technique does not need a […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ———————————————————————————————- The phone rang. It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon and it was my day off. Sitting in my rather neglected garden, as the late afternoon light sparkled golden on the tops of the plum trees, I put down my book – the 1995 […]
This is welcome news as it should create a rift between the neoconservatives, who’ve adopted Perry as their annointed candidate, and their religious right stooges. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Leading Republican contender and prominent Christian candidate Rick Perry has been accused of hypocrisy after it was revealed that he invested thousands […]
Article by Alexander Dugin. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Heraclitus called “hostility” the “father of things.” Everywhere in the world there are opposing poles: executioners and victims, men and women, coercive authority and rebelious subject. War of the elements. War of classes, nations, races, economic formations, material interests, ambitions, ideas. Ever since […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— 1967 Detroit Riots Progressive “scholarly” research into gun control generally makes two equally salient points: 1) the aim of gun control legislation is to control people (mainly disenfranchised minorities and the poor), not guns and 2) in countries with strict gun control laws, […]
Article by Luke Harding. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Libya: rebel fighters speed to join frontline fighting in the village of Maya, from where Tripoli could be seen in the distance. Photograph: Sergey Ponomarev/AP He has ruled Libya for 42 years, but Muammar Gaddafi‘s defiant regime was on Sunday entering its final […]
From ABC News. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Marilyn Berenzweig was a successful New York textile designer who loved her work and comfortable lifestyle. For the past year, however, she and her husband have been living in a tent city in the New Jersey woods. “The weather, the bugs, the dirt; I […]
From ABC Australia. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— The kingdom of Bhutan is placing environmental concerns and spiritual wellbeing over rampant capitalism.
From CNN. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Tripoli, Libya (CNN) — Two of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons — Saif al-Islam and Saadi — have been arrested by opposition forces in Tripoli, rebel officials said. There was no immediate reaction from Libyan government officials to the claims. CNN could not confirm the arrests, and […]
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Article by Jaweed Kaleem. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- While overall church attendance has declined slightly in the United States in recent decades, a new study says attendance at religious services among white Americans who did not go to college has fallen more than twice as quickly as it has among more […]
Article by Robert Henderson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— Researchers led by Prof. Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig have placed a very large question mark over the currently fashionable “out-of-Africa” theory of the origins of modern man. They have done this by producing a partial […]
Article by Clyde Prestowitz. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– In the 1990s, the doctrine of globalization was wholeheartedly and unquestioningly embraced by the vast majority of the American elite. Globalization was seen as a kind of Americanization that would make the rest of the world rich, democratic, and peaceful while further enriching […]
Article by Megan Quinn. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Havana, Cuba — At the Organipónico de Alamar, a neighborhood agriculture project, a workers’ collective runs a large urban farm, a produce market and a restaurant. Hand tools and human labor replace oil-driven machinery. Worm cultivation and composting create productive soil. Drip irrigation […]
Article by Tara Kelly. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– PETA knows how to raise eyebrows. The animal rights group’s memorable campaigns have entailed everything from celebrities posing nude for its anti-fur campaign to scantily clad women having an erotic moment with their vegetables to support veganism. Now, PETA has pulled out all […]
by James Matthew Wilson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— Devon, PA. For months now, I have been sitting on an incomplete draft of a series of essays on “Localism and the Universal Church,” wherein I seek to show that the commitment of myself and many Catholics to the small platoons of family, […]
Article by David Crossland. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- One of the most graphic accounts of World War I, the diary of German author Ernst Jünger, has been published for the first time. Its dispassionate description of life and death on the Western Front is a cold indictment of war — even […]
Article from Pravda. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- nter-racial mixing isn’t what many people think. I heard about one white person who believed that if whites and blacks have kids they’re destroying the white race. No, they’re not. The genes for the white race are still there, but their opportunity to be […]
Article by Raul Rodriguez. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– San Francisco – One in four California households with children reported food hardship, according to a new analysis of Gallup data released last Thursday by the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC). “It’s disturbing, but not surprising,” said Kelly Hardy, director of health […]
From Infoshop.Org. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— I am going to start this off by saying I am a white guy and I am opposed to me getting beat up just because of it (even if I can come up with reasons why). That said, here we go. The article you will […]
Article by Kelley Vlahos. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- Of the many revelations and questions still unresolved following the recent riots in Britain, a novel yet not altogether surprising thread has emerged but has hardly been noticed by the mainstream media: These riots were not dominated, driven nor taken advantage of by […]
Article by Philip Giraldi. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– The only change anyone can believe in in Washington is that nothing ever changes. The choice between Republican and Democrat in 2012 will likely boil down to who will be making what kind of cuts in social programs to support continuous warfare overseas. […]
Article by Nat Hentoff. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- By executive order on Aug. 4, President Barack Obama refused entry to the United States of war criminals and human-rights violators (jurist.org, Aug. 4). He ignored, as he often does, the deeply documented factual evidence of war crimes committed by the Bush-Cheney […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- iStockphoto Several weeks ago, a New York Times article by Noam Cohen examined the case of Aaron Swartz, the 24-year-old copyright reform advocate who was arrested in July, after allegedly downloading academic articles that had been placed behind a paywall, thus making them available […]
Article by Stephen Walt. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– If memory serves, one of the lessons of Roger Fisher’s little book International Conflict for Beginners was “settle conflicts early and often.” This isn’t always possible, of course, but his basic insight was that unresolved conflicts are dangerous precisely because they provide opportunities […]
From Infoshop.Org. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Introduction: The meaning of the term ‘underclass’ The spontaneous uprising of the British ‘underclass’ was, of course, easily crushed by the massive force of the state amassed against it, illustrating one of the main lessons of History once more: that spontaneous uprisings can never overturn […]
Article by John Pilger. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Bankers loot the Treasury, MPs fiddle their expenses . . . and then the establishment turns on deprived young people in England’s inner cities and calls them criminals. The August disturbances weren’t riots: they were the revolt of the working class. On a […]
Article by Gavin McInnes. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– After getting screamed at by my liberal friends for doubting their doom and gloom predictions, one unavoidably oversized fact stuck in my slim, streamlined craw: People ARE getting fat. The average lifespan has been on a steady climb since we began recording it, […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– In the wake of Romney’s “corporations are people” gaffe, Reuters’ John F. Wasik points out what ought to be obvious, but may not be for many Americans. “The ‘people’ Washington helps most,” he argues, are “big corporations,” noting the “infinite amounts of money” […]
Corporations or the State? —————————————————————————————————————————————————- I’ve generally sided with those who claim business is more powerful than government; that the present-day nation-state functions basically as a rubber stamp for business, which is where the real Power resides. Admittedly the largest government, that of the United States, has a […]
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From Intifada: Voice of Palestine. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— “I am also absolutely certain as a strategic analyst that 9/11 itself, from which all else flows, was a classic Mossad-orchestrated operation. But Mossad did not do it alone.” By Dr. Alan Sabrosky* / Intifada Palestine Many years ago I read a […]
Article by Daniel Miller. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Months ago I made a prediction about Rick Perry’s run for President. Join TNM Today! http://www.texasnationalist.com/joinEven before it was a dead certain lock that Perry would run I stared into my political crystal ball and made this prognostication. […]
Ernst Junger’s classic essay. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Among the signs of the epoch we have now entered belongs the increased intrusion of danger into daily life. There is no accident concealing itself behind this fact but a comprehensive change of the inner and outer world. We see this dearly when […]
Article by David Bromwich. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Is it too soon to speak of the Bush-Obama presidency? The record shows impressive continuities between the two administrations, and nowhere more than in the policy of “force projection” in the Arab world. With one war half-ended in Iraq, but another doubled in […]
Article by Charles Coulombe. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Bert and Ernie Maybe it’s my age—or maybe life really is getting crazier—but even for California, it feels ever more to me that we have slipped down a rabbit hole. The latest evidence for this is the push to have the characters Bert […]
Article by Charles Johnson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— For most of the 20th century, American libertarians were mostly seen as — and mostly saw themselves as — defenders of capitalism. Was that an accurate view of 20th century libertarians were about? If accurate, is that a good thing about libertarianism, or […]
Article by Ezra Klein. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– In 2006, Robert Putnam and David Campbell began a research project on political attitudes that included interviewing a nationally representative sample of 3,000 Americans. They then went back to talk to the same group of people over this summer. “As a result,” they […]
Article by Atika Shubert. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– London (CNN) — In the midst of the looting in north London, I saw a young man being arrested for attempting to steal a TV from a shopping mall. The plate glass windows had been smashed in and the steel shutters pried open. […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ——————————————————————————————————————————————– Lyndon Johnson: Father of Gun Control I’ve always been curious how American progressives got on the wrong – anti-civil liberties – side of gun control. In my mind this has been a grave strategic error. I have written elsewhere about the extreme difficulty […]
Article by Arthur Silber. —————————————————————————————————————————————- I can admit when I’ve made a mistake. I’ve made a whole bunch of ’em lately. A related realization, which comes tragically late in my life: just because I’m a limp-wristed, nelly faggot, that doesn’t mean I have to think like one. Lots […]
Article by Michel Bauwens. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— Mira Luna writes in Shareable: “While mainstream America is hoping for federal economic reform, some social justice organizations have a radically different idea, and are organizing low-income communities to build a new economy from the grassroots up. Tired of asking for change from […]
Article by Ben Farmer. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The agreement would allow not only military trainers to stay to build up the Afghan army and police, but also American special forces soldiers and air power to remain. The prospect of such a deal has already been met with anger among Afghanistan’s […]
From PoliticusUSA. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- In every country on Earth, there are people who live in opulence because they were lucky enough to be born into wealth or fortunate enough to live in a society that rewards initiative and hard work. There are though, segments of every society that barely […]
From Infoshop.Org. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Last month, Tiffany White,an African American mother of two, and union leader and organizer with the Industrial Workers of the World Starbucks Workers Union, was terminated without justification from a New York Starbucks. The practice of targeting female union members continues in Nebraska, with recent […]
Article by John Whitehead. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— “Certain journalists use ‘dominionist’ the way some folks on Fox News use the word ‘sharia.’ Its strangeness scares people. Without history or context, the word creates a siege mentality in which ‘we’ need to guard against ‘them.’”–Lisa Miller, “‘Dominionism’ beliefs among conservative Christians […]
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So sang Steppenwolf. Maybe they were referring to Rev. Zachery Tims. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Times Square has cleaned up a lot over the last 20 years or so! But there’s still no better place on earth to die with drugs in your pocket. Especially if you’re the pastor of […]
Listen Here. Part Two of this interview will be aired on Robert’s program next week at the same time. Robert Stark interviews returning guest Keith Preston. Topics include: Keith’s upcoming speech at the NPI conference; Keith’s essay on liberty and populism. Keith Preston was born in Lynchburg, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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