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The Best Argument for Decentralization Yet

“Adolf Hitler as chancellor of Germany is a horror; Adolf Hitler at a town meeting would be an asshole.” -Karl Hess

The American Class War to Come

So says Ronald Reagan’s former budget director. See Part One and Part Two —————————————————————————————————— Finally, thanks to Republican policies that let us “live beyond our means for decades by borrowing heavily from abroad, we have steadily sent jobs and production offshore,” while at home “high-value jobs in goods […]

Brace yourself for the summer of 'sluts'

This “sluts’ rights” stuff is getting pretty intense. ——————————————————————————————————- The summer of sluts was kicked off this week when msnbc cable host Ed Schultz, perhaps channeling Dan Aykroyd in his old “Saturday Night Live” debates with Jane Curtin (“Jane, you ignorant slut!”) called conservative radio personality Laura Ingraham […]

The American Power Elite

Glenn Greenwald on David Brooks. Hat tip to David Heleniak. —————————————————————————————————— It has long been the supreme fantasy of establishment guardians in general, and David Brooks in particular, that American politics would be dominated by an incestuous, culturally homogeneous, superior elite “who live in [Washington] and who have […]

He survived Iraq, but was gunned down by the PIGS…

Iraq veteran killed by the S.W.A.T. ——————————————————————————————————– A U.S. Marine who died in a flurry of bullets during a drug raid near Tucson never fired on the SWAT team that stormed his house, a report by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department shows. The revelation was contained in an […]

Reflexive Patriotism, Last Refuge of a Scoundrel Nation

Article by Kirkpatrick Sale. ——————————————————————————————————– Thinking about the hold of this sickness I began to reflect why it was that the movement, though obviously getting stamped on the national consciousness in the last few years and drawing enthusiasm in a number of quarters, has not made more inroads […]

More PIG Shenanigans

Police Brutality and the William Tell Overture The Highway Patrol vs the EMT Thug cop chokeholds CBS reporter Arpaio’s Hog Farm Not as Clean as He Pretends Strip Club at the Police Station Woman Beaten Off Camera

American Hellholes

From The Economic Collapse. Hat tip to Troy Southgate. ——————————————————————————————————— The U.S. economy is dying and we are heading for the next Great Depression. The talking heads in the mainstream media love to spin the economic numbers around and around and they love to make it sound like […]

The Changing Face of the Police and the Death of the Fourth Amendment

Article by John Whitehead. ——————————————————————————————————- In early America, citizens were considered equals with law enforcement officials. Authorities were rarely permitted to enter one’s home without permission or in a deceitful manner. And it was not uncommon for police officers to be held personally liable for trespass when they […]

Highway Robbery

From The Agitator. ——————————————————————————————————– Kudos to Nashville’s News 5 for doing this investigation. Note that even if you buy into this crap—that the drug war is worth fighting, and that asset forfeiture is an essential part of fighting it—the cops are letting the drugs go in order to […]

Ooops! Radio host says he missed end of world by 5 months

What a lunatic.

HOW TO THRIVE (ECONOMICALLY) AS THINGS FALL APART

Article by John Robb. ——————————————————————————————————– The most likely scenario for the next decade starts with the resumption of global economic depression (D2). Economies shrink. Wealth evaporates as former “assets” become worthless. Commodities fall (even energy) due to declines in economic activity. Currencies gyrate, explode, and/or evaporate. In this […]

Intellectual Property: Some Countries Are More Equal Than Others

Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————- For years, global digital copyright treaties and IP provisions of assorted “free trade” agreements have been drafted in secret by proprietary content industries. Even the digital copyright laws of ostensibly independent countries have been drafted by lobbyists from those same industries, and rubber […]

Black Lawyers call on Obama administration to free all US political prisoners

Article by Kali Akuno. ——————————————————————————————————— The National Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL) urges the US to apply international human rights standards to protect and ensure the rights of political prisoners currently incarcerated within its own prison system. NCBL presented the plight of political prisoners in the United States […]

Strauss-Kahn: As Sleazy as the IMF in General

Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————– Since the embattled former head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has occupied the headlines with some consistency as of late, it seems as good a time as any to note the perfectly legal crimes the IMF perpetrates daily. Without at […]

Obama and the Israel Lobby

Article by Glenn Greenwald. ——————————————————————————————————– This week’s hysterical, reality-deprived reaction to President Obama’s pronouncements on the Israel/Palestine conflict genuinely provoked laughter on several occasions. That happened when I thought of the intense controversy triggered by publication of Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer’s The Israel Lobby, which examined the […]

Obama: Doomed to disappoint

Article by John J. Mearsheimer. ——————————————————————————————————- Barack Obama gave a major speech on the Middle East on Thursday, May 19, and it is clear from the subsequent commentary that he impressed few people. The main reason for this is that he did not say much new or indicate […]

The Lobby Takes the Offensive

Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————— When the President of the United States reiterated longstanding American policy in the Middle East – that the borders of Israel and a Palestinian state must be based on the 1967 borders, give or take a few land swaps here and there – […]

America's Student Loan Racket: Soaring Default Rates

Article by Stephen Lendman. ———————————————————————————————————- Many students, whether or not they graduate, have debt burdens approaching or exceeding $100,000. If repaid over 30 years, it’s a $500,000 obligation, and if default, much more because debts aren’t forgiven. As a result, once entrapped, escape is impossible. Bondage is permanent, […]

Forbidden Archeology

An interview with Hindu creationist Michael Cremo.

One on One with Jesse Ventura

Jesse the Body is interviewed by Al-Jazeera.

SlutWalks Sweep The Nation

From Infoshop. ——————————————————————————————————– Toronto police constable Michael Sanguinetti thought he was offering the key to rape prevention. “I’m not supposed to say this,” he told a group of students at an Osgoode Hall Law School safety forum on January 24, but to prevent being sexually assaulted, “Avoid dressing […]

The 12-Step Plan to Restore American Femininity

Article by Gavin McInnes. —————————————————————————————————- Like firing a fetus from a slingshot, feminism catapulted women out of the kitchen and onto the streets, where they were invited to do anything a man can do—but better. This was a blessing for the few women meant to lead a man’s […]

Bring Us the Head of Ronald McDonald

Article by Jim Goad. ———————————————————————————————————- Sorry to be a dick about it, but is it impolite to suggest there are other possible causes for childhood obesity beyond Ronald McDonald? How about the fact that children exercise 20% less than they did in the 1970s while consuming only 3% […]

Kevin Carson Makes It Into Forbes Magazine

Hooray for Carson. I once wrote a cover blurb for one of Carson’s books where I described him as the Proudhon of our time. (He’s probably since had it removed as he doesn’t care for some of my other views and I am a hated man in the […]

Oregon court rules medical pot users can have guns

Article by Jeff Barnard. —————————————————————————————————— GRANTS PASS, Ore. – The Oregon Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that a retired school bus driver can have her medical marijuana and a concealed handgun, too. The ruling upheld previous decisions by the Oregon Court of Appeals and circuit court that determined […]

Venezuela getting better all the time

Article from Prensa Latina. ——————————————————————————————————– The visitor who walks the streets of cosmopolitan Caracas can soon see the Venezuelans are living in a moment of joy, marked by positive social change that is a benefit to the population. It is because year after year, since 1999 when Hugo […]

For First Time, Majority of Americans Support Gay Marriage

As I predicted, American society continues to drift leftward… —————————————————————————————————— A recent Gallup poll shows 53 percent of Americans support making gay marriage legal, Reuters reports. The poll shows a significant change in mood on the issue from a year ago, when an equal majority opposed same-sex matrimony. […]

This Is Your Brain on Jesus

Let this be a warning, kids: Don’t do religion. Just say no.

Liberty in Perfection: Freedom in Native American Thought

Article by Amy Sturgis. ——————————————————————————————————- Preacher Samuel Peters’s encounter with a free society was a memorable one. In 1781, he wrote in awe: “The conscious independence of each individual warms his thoughts and guides his actions. . . . Here is liberty in perfection!”[1] Though he wrote in […]

Nietzsche and Ortega Juxtaposed

Article by Michael Kleen. ——————————————————————————————————— Both Friedrich Nietzsche and José Ortega y Gasset were alarmed by the development of the modern State, which matured to ascendancy in the late 18th Century. In the 1860s and ‘70s, Nietzsche witnessed Otto von Bismarck forge his native Germany from a collection […]

Nietzsche on the Origin of the State

Article by Michael Kleen. ——————————————————————————————————– In the mind of 19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, the growth of the State (Staat) was one of the most alarming developments of the modern world. Where others saw the promise of a new democratic age in which “the people” ruled, Nietzsche […]

"A Life in the Political Wilderness"

A fascinating talk from Welf Herfurth. People of all political ideologies, nationalities, races, religions, and cultures have much to learn and much to gain from the ideas in this talk.

Isn't Democracy Wonderful….

….when even freaks like this can get elected to Congress? ——————————————————————————————————- Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has declared that America has a serious obligation to support Israel — and if not, God will curse the United States, and it will be the end of this country. The Minnesota Independent […]

How Will You Spend 'Doomsday' On May 21?

Is Judgement Day coming tomorrow? A notice to all who plan on being raptured tomorrow: Feel free to sign over to me anything you feel will be unnecessary in the Kingdom to come. If you have a house, car, bank account, cash on hand, precious metals, rare jewels, […]

Weekend Cartoon

Ron Paul Warns U.S. Could Become Like Middle East

Article by Jack Kenny. ——————————————————————————————————– merica could see the kind of violent uprisings that have cost countless lives and convulsed societies in the Middle East if the nation does not stop rolling up massive deficits and devaluing its currency, Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate warned in a […]

New Power Elite Emerged in Medieval Iceland as the Island Became Norwegian

How the Icelandic Anarchy fell to Norwegian imperialism.It seems like much of Carson’s interpretation of economic history would apply here as well. ——————————————————————————————————— As Iceland became part of the Norwegian kingship 1262, a new power structure in the shape of an Icelandic aristocracy appointed by the king of […]

Neofeudalism: a manifesto

Interesting. —————————————————————————————————— What are the practical consequences of the neofeudal possition? That still needs to be worked out. In a series of future posts, I’d like to argue the following–all in the spirit of the historical Louis de Bonald: 1. Incorporation of the family. Conservatives have always opposed […]

University Insiders: Illegal Immigrants Get Affirmative Action

Article by Maxim Lott. ——————————————————————————————————– This week, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signed a bill to require the state’s public universities to give undocumented aliens — generally illegal — in-state tuition privileges. The bill, known as the Dream Act, is already the law in ten other states, including California, […]

Illegal immigrant demands to be flown home because Britons are 'rude and unfriendly'

From the Daily Mail. —————————————————————————————————- An illegal immigrant has demanded to be flown home after saying he was fed up with British people – because they are “rude and unfriendly”. Speaking today, Mokhtar Tabet, 30 – who has been given a home, food and free travel around London […]

In the bleak light of the Depression: Rare colour photographs of the era that defined a generation

From the Library of Congress.

Imperial Secrecy

Article by Stephen Walt. ——————————————————————————————————– Glenn Greenwald has a couple of must-read posts over at Salon, and I want to highlight the connection between them. The first post deals with the familiar issue of anti-Americanism, and Glenn makes the obvious but often-forgotten point that foreign animosity to the […]

Alan Bock, R.I.P.

Obituary by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————— Alan Bock, editorial writer and opinion page editor at the Orange County Register’s editorial page,  and a longtime columnist for Antiwar.com — died today, shortly after entering a hospice. He was 67. Alan was the author of four books: Ecology Action Guide (1970), The […]

Stossel: Do Your Part for the Bankers

Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————— On his Fox News show the past couple of months, John Stossel has been taking what I consider a rather odd position: people who walk away from underwater mortgages are “freeloaders.” Back in March, he interviewed John Maddux, CEO of YouWalkAway.com, which helps […]

Renewing the Patriot Act: Who Will Protect Us From Our Government?

Article by John Whitehead. ——————————————————————————————————- Those who founded this country knew quite well that every citizen must remain vigilant or freedom would be lost. This is the true nature of a patriot – one who sounds the clarion call when the Constitution is under attack. If, on the […]

Youth for Western Civilization Conference Registration

Some of our more rightward leaning readers may be interested in this.And this group is worth supporting even if you’re a libertarian-leaning leftist or classical liberal. Universities are citadels of totalitarian humanism. —————————————————————————————————– This is an exclusive three-day event for the top youth activists from across the country […]

Alternatives to Obama

Article by James Leroy Wilson. ——————————————————————————————————- Depending on how one defines libertarianism, it could be proven that Paul and/or Johnson aren’t “real” libertarians. But “libertarian” can be broadly defined as favoring policies that promote: Individual liberty, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, personal privacy, and the rule […]

Equitable Commerce for the Worker

Article by David D’Amato. —————————————————————————————————— On Tuesday, May 17, 2011, Reuters reported that Tea Party groups “in states like Wisconsin, Indiana, New Hampshire and Ohio have pushed ‘right to work’ bills to take on the unions.” “Right to work” laws are making news this year on the heels […]

South Korea: Anarchist sentenced to 18 months for Conscientious Objection

Article by Gabriella Segata Antolini ——————————————————————————————————— A young anarchist from South Korea, Ahn Jihwan, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the conscientious objection on February 17th of this year in Seoul. Now shes imprisoned in Youngdenpo and should be released in August 2012. Jihwan received the […]