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Nexus X HumectressArticle by Butler Shafer. —————————————————————————————————— The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth. ~ H.L. Mencken Bill Clinton – the examplar of truth in modern America – has […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————- At the beginning of this month (June 1), as a prelude to an expansive study of the Fortune 500 due later this summer, Citizens for Tax Justice (CTJ) published an analysis of “the current corporate tax debate.” Anarchists oppose taxes on principle as […]
Article by David D’Amato. ————————————————————————————————- In a column for the Huffington Post on Monday, June 13, 2011, Columbia University’s Steven Cohen asserts that “every American should be frightened by the profound and intensifying attack on government and public service.” Cohen submits a vision of the United States very […]
Article by Thomas Knapp. —————————————————————————————————– In 1996, US President Bill Clinton grudgingly, famously and dishonestly announced that “the era of big government is over.” Fifteen years later, a hypothetically (very hypothetically) honest President Barack Obama would be doing the world a favor by announcing that the era of […]
Interesting analysis of the demographics of mainstream politics in Canada from Larry Gambone, one of my favorite contemporary anarchist writers. Read the article. This draws a little too much on ideas like Adorno’s “authoritarian personality” theory for my tastes. I disagree that liberals and leftists are inherently compassionate, […]
Who the hell ever heard of someone pulling only a year in the pen for murder? You can do more time than that for driving offenses in some states. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. “Murder is a crime unless it’s done by a policeman.” –The Clash —————————————————————————————————— Los […]
From Infoshop.Org —————————————————————————————————- In George Orwell’s world of 1984… were a billion people suffering from the effects of malnutrition? Was a full seventh of that fictional population hungry? Obviously things were rough in that fictitious world, but was it really that bad? Was it hard for billions of […]
Article by Susan Jacobson. —————————————————————————————————— For Keith McHenry, feeding the homeless and working poor is a way of life. Homeless himself except for a 1987 Chevrolet van in which he sleeps, McHenry gave up promising careers in graphic design and marketing to crisscross the country, spreading the gospel […]
Article by Christian Bonk. —————————————————————————————————– On April 20th of this year, a group called the BCHRT (British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal, a sort of maple-syrup-flavored version of a Stalinist show-trial committee) fined stand-up comedian Guy Earle $15,000 for offending a lesbian woman, Lorna Pardy, from the stage at […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnJLfzWNHYQ&feature=related —————————————————————————————————— The criminal trial of a Christian couple charged with a public order offence for criticising Islam is due in court today (Tuesday 8 December 2009). Last night hundreds of Christians gathered to pray about the case, concerned about its implications for free speech and religious liberty.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
By Doug Casey, Casey Research There is a great deal of uncertainty among investors about what the future of the U.S. economy may look like – so I decided to take a stab at what’s likely to happen over the next 20 years. That’s enough time for a […]
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 […]
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 […]
From The Agitator. —————————————————————————————————- Carlos Miller has the details. Miami Beach police did their best to destroy a citizen video that shows them shooting a man to death in a hail of bullets Memorial Day. First, police pointed their guns at the man who shot the video, according […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Article by Dr. Sean Gabb. —————————————————————————————————– In the past few days, I have made six appearances in the British media. Each one has been to argue against a proposal by the British Government to make an Act of Parliament to control the alleged sexualisation of children. This will […]
Important observations from Tom DiLorenzo.
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 […]
From the Los Angeles Times. So much for the theory of the solidarity of the downtrodden. ———————————————————————————————— Noxolo Nogwaza died because she dressed like a man and wasn’t afraid of anyone, friends and backers in Kwa-Thema say, one of the latest of a series of brutal rapes and […]
My latest post at AlternativeRight.Com. In case we actually needed any more evidence that Cultural Marxism is now the official ideology of the ruling class, this would be it.
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 […]
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 […]
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]
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 […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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