Attack the System

Rousseau: A View from the Right

Article by Jaenelle Antas. An interesting take on Rousseau. I’d like to see a discussion between Jaenelle and David Heleniak on this.

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 […]

Half of Last Month's Job Growth Came from McDonald’s

Wow! This comes straight out of the Voice of the Neocons, The Weekly Standard. ——————————————————————————————————————————————— According to the unemployment data released this morning, the economy added only 54,000 jobs, pushing the unemployment rate up to 9.1 percent. However, this report from MarketWatch suggests the data is much worse […]

Long Live Treason!

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Gary Chartier: The Conscience of an Anarchist

Podcast episode for 3 June 2011. Jeff Riggenbach is a journalist, author, editor, broadcaster, and educator. [20:16]     Download this audio file or play it with your browser’s default player.

Iran Is Not Making Nuclear Weapons

Seymour Hersch interviewed by Scott Horton. —————————————————————————————————– Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter for The New Yorker magazine., discusses his article “Iran and the Bomb: How real is the nuclear threat;” the lack of evidence for Iran’s interest in nuclear weapons after 2003, despite extensive satellite and covert […]

America's Deep State

John Glaser interviewed by Scott Horton. ——————————————————————————————————- John Glaser, editorial assistant at The American Conservative magazine, discusses his article “The American Deep State,” about Eli Lake’s New Republic article “Enemy of the State: Are we at war with Pakistan’s intelligence service;” how Lake’s premise equally applies to the […]

Dead Center: The Republican establishment courts the left and repudiates the right

Article by Paul Gottfried. ——————————————————————————————————– There are two compelling reasons that the Republicans keep trotting out faceless moderates who turn leftward once the primaries are over. First, being Republican is a sociological more than ideological choice. The party is predominantly white Protestant; and according to the Pew survey, […]

Guy Who Got Laid Off Just Glad Multi-National Corporation Will Make It

From The Onion. ——————————————————————————————————- DANBURY, CT—After learning that he had been laid off Friday by global conglomerate Honeywell International, senior sales associate Edward Morway expressed relief that his employer of 14 years would be able to scrape by. “When [department head] John [Condos] called me into his office […]

A Nobel Economist Says Globalism Is Costly For Americans

Article by Paul Craig Roberts. —————————————————————————————————– These are discouraging times, but once in a blue moon a bit of hope appears. I am pleased to report on the bit of hope delivered in March of 2011 by Michael Spence, a Nobel prize-winning economist, assisted by Sandile Hlatshwayo, a […]

If This Is the Free Market, Why Do I Feel So Unfree?

Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————- It’s remarkable, considering how frequently our politicians and cable news commentariat remind us of the “free market” we live in, just how existentially unfree things seem down here where the rubber meets the road. We constantly see the Washington Consensus and the neoliberal […]

Libya and G8 Hypocrisy: The State Must Go

Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————— A few days ago, the G8 — that cabal of states with the world’s most powerful economies — issued an appropriately preachy statement saying, among other things, “[Gaddafi] has no future in a free, democratic Libya. He must go.” That statement follows after […]

10 Great Things About Old Men

Article by Gavin McInnes. ——————————————————————————————————– Ever hang out with an old dude? They’re pretty great. They’re not self-obsessed the way boomers are. They’re not “over it” the way Generation X is, and they’re not completely tuned-out like the kids today. Here are ten more great things about them: […]

Tom Sunic Interviews Jim Goad

Jim Goad kicks ass as always. ——————————————————————————————————- Jim Goad is the author of The Redneck Manifesto and a contributor to Taki Magazine. Mr. Goad explains different taboos in modern society and why and how the word redneck has become the symbol of evil for liberal do -gooders and […]

Benjamin Tucker’s Four Monopolies

From The Gonzo Times. —————————————————————————————————— 1 – The Land Monopoly – The enforcement by government of land titles which do not rest upon occupancy and use. This monopoly is immoral for various reasons since it violates just ownership. Just ownership over a natural resource is validated when an […]

Worse Than a Bush Third Term?

Article by Anthony Gregory. This is what I was telling all of my liberal and progressive friends back in 2008. —————————————————————————————————— If in 2008 someone had said that Obama’s war policy would be more belligerent and costlier than another round of Bush’s, nearly no one would have believed […]

The Japanese Internment and the Betrayal of the ‘Progressives’

Article by Justin Raimondo. The progressives haven’t changed much. ——————————————————————————————————- Roger Baldwin, ACLU chairman, was instructed by the ACLU Board that “local committees are not free to sponsor cases in which the position taken is that the government has no constitutional right to remove citizens from military areas.” […]

Whose Nation-State Exactly?

Article by Jack Ross. ——————————————————————————————————— Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s newest tactic in advancing the Likud Party’s hawkish approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is his demand, first enunciated in his response to Barack Obama’s June 2009 Cairo Speech and now an ubiquitous talking point, that Israel be recognized by […]

18 Signs That Life In U.S. Public Schools Is Now Essentially Equivalent to Life In U.S. Prisons

From EndoftheAmericanDream.Com: ——————————————————————————————————— In the United States today, our public schools are not very good at educating our students, but they sure are great training grounds for learning how to live in a Big Brother police state control grid. Sadly, life in many U.S. public schools is now […]

The Corporations and the State: In a Relationship, and It's Complicated

Article by Anthony Gregory. —————————————————————————————————— The idea that corporate interests, banking elites, and politicians conspire to set US policy is at once obvious and beyond the pale. Everyone knows that the military-industrial complex is fat and corrupt, that presidents bestow money and privilege on their donors and favored […]

Global leaders call for a major shift to decriminalize drugs

Article by Liz Goodwin. ——————————————————————————————————– A slew of big-name former politicians are endorsing a report that says the war on drugs is not working and that drug enforcement policy needs to fundamentally change. The Global Commission on Drug Policy will urge a “paradigm shift” that emphasizes public health […]

Does Amerika Have A Culture?

Article by Paul Craig Roberts. —————————————————————————————————– The culture of the United States is said to be a youth culture, which is defined in terms of entertainment: sex, rock music or its current equivalent, violent video games, sports, and TV reality shows. This culture has transformed the country and […]

Never Stand in the Way of Failure

Article by Gavin McInnes. ——————————————————————————————————— All these sad truths were racing through my head the other night when my buddy Curtis Brown told me the story of Clifford King. Curtis owned a Mexican restaurant in LA called Territory Barbecue & Records. During smoke breaks out back, he got […]

Why American leaders like being #1

Article by Stephen Walt. —————————————————————————————————– All told, this has not been a good month for war criminals, international terrorists, and tyrannical despots. To be specific: Osama bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, Ratko Mladic has been captured in Serbia, Muammar Qaddafi’s forces are gradually wilting (and it’s hard […]

Police Epidemic

Lew Rockwell interviews William Norman Grigg. Paramilitary police are a relatively recent state invention. They’ve metastasized into a domestic occupation force, enhancing government, institutionalizing injustice, plundering with permission, Tasing with perversion, cloaked in full immunity, and not protecting people. Whatever you do, don’t call 911. As a mundane, […]

Gay Student Crowned Prom Queen at Va. High School

So much for small town America as citadels of prejudice and intolerance. ——————————————————————————————————— Becoming prom queen at Blacksburg High got harder this year. Young women aspiring to wear the tiara don’t just have to worry about the other girls anymore – guys can become prom queen at the […]

Egypt: general confirms "virginity checks" forced on female protesters by military

Article by Xeni Jardin. ——————————————————————————————————-   Via CNN and other sources today, the revolting news that a senior Egyptian general admits so-called “virginity checks” (presumably, forcible examination of the hymen) were performed on women arrested in at least one demonstration this spring. Previously, military authorities denied it. Now, […]

The Political Compass: Don’t Waste Your Time

Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————— The Political Compass, a popular online quiz, was supposedly designed to remedy the simple-mindedness of the left-right spectrum by replacing it with two axes: political and social libertarianism vs. authoritarianism, and economic Left vs. Right. Basically, everything nice you say about big business […]

Exporting Thuggery

Article by Darian Worden. ——————————————————————————————————- A report in the Guardian reveals that the British Ministry of Defense has trained, and continues to train, the Saudi Arabian force that helped suppress demonstrations in Bahrain earlier this year (“UK training Saudi forces used to crush Arab spring,” 28 May 2011). […]

NIETZSCHE: THOUGHTS & PERSPECTIVES, VOLUME THREE

FRIEDRICH Nietzsche, despite being one of the world’s most brilliant and influential philosophers, is still grossly misrepresented by political theoreticians and court academics alike. His ideas, which are notoriously hard-hitting and uncompromising, have often been used to justify or legitimise anything from capitalist exploitation and social-darwinism right through […]

Book review: Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870—1940

Review by Wayne Price. ——————————————————————————————————– It is widely believed on the radical left that anarchism has been solely a movement of Europe and North America. Marxists and liberals state that anarchism has never had anything to offer the majority of humanity in the oppressed and impoverished nations (the […]

Chris Hedges on corporate liberalism

From Roderick Long’s blog. This is what I’ve been saying for years: That the Left has sold out to the state-corporate-military power elite in exchange for establishment support for the Left’s social agenda. ———————————————————————————————————– The pillars of the liberal establishment – the press, the church, culture, the university, […]

The Sky Really Is Falling

Article by Chris Hedges. What do our eco-inclined readers make of this? ——————————————————————————————————— The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite […]

Rand Paul’s Epic Speech Against The Patriot Act

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How America Screws Its Soldiers

Article by Andrew Bacevich. —————————————————————————————————— Everyone claims to “Support Our Troops.” But as Andrew J. Bacevich explains, telling the military it can do whatever it wants works for everyone—except for the soldiers themselves. Riders on Boston subways and trolleys are accustomed to seeing placards that advertise research being […]

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 […]

For Anarchist, Details of Life as F.B.I. Target

From the New York Times. —————————————————————————————————- A fat sheaf of F.B.I. reports meticulously details the surveillance that counterterrorism agents directed at the one-story house in East Austin. For at least three years, they traced the license plates of cars parked out front, recorded the comings and goings of […]

Democratic Dawn—or Darkness?

Article by Pat Buchanan. ——————————————————————————————————- With the end of the Cold War in 1991, it seemed the world was moving toward unity. The post-Cold War era saw the expansion of the European Union, NAFTA and GATT, the creation of a World Trade Organization, the Rome Treaty for the […]

‘Bibi’ Votes Republican

Article by Pat Buchanan. ——————————————————————————————————– Not since Nikita Khrushchev berated Dwight Eisenhower over Gary Powers’ U-2 spy flight over Russia only weeks earlier has an American president been subjected to a dressing down like the one Barack Obama received from Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday. With this crucial difference. […]

Europe: The Rise of the Extreme Right

Article from Newsweek. ——————————————————————————————————– weden has revealed the future direction of Europe, and not for the first time. For decades, Sweden led the way in defining the mixed model of free trade and social solidarity that became the European ideal. Not anymore. In the election this month Swedish […]

The Patriot Act and bipartisanship

Article by Glenn Greenwald. ——————————————————————————————————– Several days ago I noted that Harry Reid and Mitch McConnell had agreed to a four-year extension of the most controversial provisions of the Patriot Act — a bill Democrats everywhere once claimed to revile — without a single reform (despite the long […]

5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor

From Cracked.Com ————————————————————————————————– Being poor is like a game of poker where if you lose, the other players get to fuck you. And if you win, the dealer fucks you. A bunch of you reading this are among the 45 million “working poor” in America, and if you’re […]

Patriot Act Extension Signed By Obama

Article by Jim Abrams. ———————————————————————————————————- Minutes before a midnight deadline, President Barack Obama signed into law a four-year extension of post-Sept. 11 powers to search records and conduct roving wiretaps in pursuit of terrorists. “It’s an important tool for us to continue dealing with an ongoing terrorist threat,” […]

Blackwater Founder Erik Prince’s Private Army of “Christian Crusaders” in the UAE

Interview with Jeremy Scahill. It’s the likes of Blackwater we will have to fight in the streets when the Revolution comes. ———————————————————————————————————- The United Arab Emirates has confirmed hiring a company headed by Erik Prince, the billionaire founder of the military firm Blackwater. According to the New York […]

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 […]