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Nexus X HumectressArticle by Fred E. Foldvary. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Libertarianism is the philosophy of live and let live. Its ethic is that it is morally wrong to coercively harm others, and not morally wrong to do what is not harmful to others. This ethic is a natural law, due to human […]
Article by Andy Nowicki. These two individuals are classic examples of why, as an atheist myself, I’ve never had much use for the organized atheist movement. —————————————————————————————————————————- Richard Dawkins vs. Skepchick (photo: The Atlantic) While often taken for a nihilist, I am no atheist. And even if I […]
From the Washington Independent. ————————————————————————————————————————————– The U.S. District Court for Western Michigan has issued an order in the civil lawsuit against a radical gay rights group that disrupted a Lansing church service in 2008. The court issued the order Monday against members of both the Bash Back! Lansing […]
Article by Lamont Lilly Durham. ————————————————————————————————————————————— “It is incorrect to classify the revolt of the Negro as simply a racial conflict of black against white, or as a purely American problem. Rather, we are today seeing a global rebellion of the oppressed against the oppressor, the exploited against […]
Article by R. M. Arietta. ——————————————————————————————————————————— Labor comes in many different forms. The kind of labor required to defend one’s land is uniquely voluntary— and now on display in Vallejo, Calif., where a group of native people and their supporters have been occupying land at Glen Cove for […]
Article by Brad Spangler. ————————————————————————————————————————————- One of the more difficult challenges the libertarian faces when advocating privatization is the case of prisons. There is good reason for this. The sincere libertarian, whether an anarchist or a misguided reformer, wants to do two things: 1) Remove from the state’s […]
Article by Kevin Carson. While I am obviously in favor of projects of this type, my question would be what do we do when the state moves in to repress such efforts? ————————————————————————————————————————————- As my regular readers are aware, I keep harping the theme that political action is […]
Article by the late Paul Piccone of Telos. ———————————————————————————————————————————– Once a vocation, being an intellectual today has become a profession. Like day traders or divorce lawyers, “public intellectuals” pack their briefcases in the morning and off they go to make a living in “the public sphere.” Unlike day-traders […]
An insightful observation from Richard Spencer. ——————————————————————————————————————————————- After the crime wave of the ‘70s and ‘80s began to wane, homosexual men have functioned as the stormtroopers of urban ethnic cleansing. Lacking children, gays aren’t bothered by “bad schools,” and they have–in many ways, bravely–moved into dilapidated, crime-ridden areas […]
From Infoshop.Org ————————————————————————————————————————— Anarcho-primitivism is a collection of complementary ideologies which critique the origins and development of civilization from an anarchist perspective. The anarcho-primitivists allege that humanity lived an idyllic lifestyle as hunter-gatherers prior to the development of complex societies. What caused our purported fall from grace is […]
From UhuruNews.Com —————————————————————————————————————————— SAN DIEGO—On July 1, 2011, hundreds of inmates in the Security Housing Unit (SHU) at Pelican Bay California State Prison, located near the Oregon border, went on a hunger strike to protest conditions in the isolation units known as the SHU. The strike immediately spread […]
Article by Gavin McInnes. ————————————————————————————————————————————- There is a phenomenon here in the Northeast where being conservative—no, wait, being not left—is to turn everyone in the room into Donald Sutherland from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, screaming and pointing at you as if you’re an alien pod person. I […]
Article by Jeff Hughes. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ——————————————————————————————————————— Minnesota hacker Barry Ardolf was sentenced to an 18-year term in a federal prison this Tuesday. Ardolf had terrorizeda neighboring family for two years through a carefully planned campaign involving a hijacked Wi-Fi network to harass, frame and […]
Article by Dain Fitzgerald. —————————————————————————————————————————- Protesters from the it’s-so-fun-to-wreak-havoc-together outfit “No Justice, No BART” disrupted BART trains’ operation in several San Francisco stations the other day, to the chagrin of the day’s commuters. Or at least I presume it was to their chagrin: Oddly, none were interviewed in […]
Just another day in the crime fighting business.
Apparently so.
Article by Barry Neild. ——————————————————————————————- (CNN) — South Sudan became the world’s newest country Saturday, closing one chapter of the region’s long struggle to cede from its northern neighbor. But though a heavy price has been paid for independence — Sudan’s north and south fought one of Africa’s […]
Article by Bill Laitner and Dawson Bell, Detroit Free Press To hell with the U.S. —————————————————————————————————————————————– A memo from the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington says state laws allowing medical marijuana opened the door to abuses and calls for legally targeting “large-scale, privately operated industrial marijuana cultivation […]
Article by Meg Jones. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. A wave of muggings breaks out and police do nothing. The overwhelming majority of crime victims I have known personally have said that police typically have reacted to their calls for help with casual indifference and sometimes outright hostility. […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. —————————————————————————————————————————- It didn’t take long for the shift to transpire. The conservatives, after eight years defending the obscenely criminal and authoritarian Bush regime to the most degenerate depths, have rediscovered their role as rigorous defenders of Constitutional federalism, boasting that dissent is the highest […]
There really does need to be a annual Barney Fife Award that these characters can be nominated for.
Paul Gottfried takes down David Brooks. —————————————————————————————————————————– David Brooks On June 13, the resident conservative (which means additional leftist) on The New York Times’ editorial page, David Brooks, revealed his plan for “national greatness,” which Brooks designates as the “Hamiltonian agenda.” For those who may have forgotten, “national […]
From Infoshop.Org. ——————————————————————————————————————- Anarchist Federation (AF) Britain Maximilien Luce was born into a modest family in 1858 in Paris. From early youth he mixed with impoverished artisans and workers constructing major roads and other works. At the age of thirteen, he was an appalled witness of the massacres […]
From UhuruNews.Com. —————————————————————————————————————————- Nate Gilliam; AAPDEP Milwaukee Published Jul 6, 2011 MILWAUKEE—Milwaukee’s African community has been the scene of underdevelopment for many years. The recent global focus on Wisconsin and Milwaukee due to budget cuts enacted by governor Scott Walker is just a small part of a larger […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————– In 2007, when he was still courting us and had to put on a clean undershirt every day, Barack Obama said: “The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————————— With the Federal Reserve’s second round of “quantitative easing” expiring, The Christian Science Monitor’s Donald Marron recently asked whether “quantitative accommodation” could be around the corner. “Quantitative easing” was the smart-sounding euphemism for the U.S. central bank’s purchase of about $600 billion worth […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. —————————————————————————————————————————– Every time I criticize the left for being soft on the police state and war machine, I’m chastised for confusing moderate Democrats with the “real left.” I’m told that the true left is consistently antiwar and holds no brief for Barack Obama or […]
There are few pieties Fred does not attack. White Males White Trash Darwin, Sort Of Come to Jesus Our Sexual Future On Patriotism Divided America How We Were Let’s Avoid Race! On Losing Wars Checking Out Mexico Farewell Joe Bageant American History 101 Clotting We Will Go Screw […]
Article by Mike Ahlers. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ———————————————————————————————————————– Washington (CNN) — Terrorists intent on striking commercial aircraft have shown renewed interest in surgically implanting explosives in humans to circumvent airport security, a U.S. security official tells CNN. The idea of implanting bombs has been discussed in […]
Article by Matiullah Mati. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. —————————————————————————————————————– Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — Eight children and three women died in eastern Afghanistan when NATO-led forces bombarded houses, a provincial official told CNN Thursday. The incident took place Wednesday in Khost province’s Domandera district, according to Khost upper […]
Article by Rory Carroll. ————————————————————————————————– Hugo Chávez rides a horse during his weekly broadcast to his country. He has gone on television to call for judge María Lourdes Afiuni to be jailed. Photograph: Ho New/Reuters Hugo Chávez has long considered Noam Chomsky one of his best friends […]
Interesting article by Stephen Foster that once again demonstrates the limitations of the left/right model of the political spectrum. Hat tip to Chris Donnellan. —————————————————————————————————————— Today is the Fourth of July, a time when we as Americans celebrate our nations independence. Conservatives across the country are pretending to […]
Article by Brad Spangler. This guy is Exhibit A in the case for propaganda by the deed. ————————————————————————————————- Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is literally roasting prisoners alive. Temperatures inside the tents at the prison camp the Sheriff operates are reaching 145°F. By way of comparison, a […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ————————————————————————————————– Law’n’order conservatives frequently like to challenge civil libertarians to show what concrete loss of freedom they’ve experienced under USA PATRIOT and other “counter-terror” (aka “police state”) legislation. Well, first of all it’s hard to say, since under USA PATRIOT it’s an offense even […]
Article by Jim Goad. Wow. ———————————————————————————————– Reading the Declaration of Independence 235 years after it was written, it’s kidney-punchingly obvious that the United States government has become precisely the sort of bloodsucking tyrant against which the Founding Fathers revolted. These days our primary financial and political mechanisms, as […]
Article by Thomas Naylor. ——————————————————————————————————————————- What are the people of Germany doing? Sleeping. Their sleep is filled with nightmares and anxiety, but they are sleeping. We have awaited their awakening for so long, yet they continue to remain stolid, stubborn, and silent as to the crimes committed in […]
Article by Roger Scruton. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ———————————————————————————————————————— The True Finn Party in Finland has broken through the left-liberal consensus to take second place in the polls, reminding voters that Finland is not just a geographical area but a country defined by language, culture, and history, […]
reuters.com Kate Kelland (Reuters) – If Aubrey de Grey’s predictions are right, the first person who will live to see their 150th birthday has already been born. And the first person to live for 1,000 years could be less than 20 years younger. A biomedical gerontologist and chief […]
This is the final in a series of essays in response to Matthew Lyons’ critique “Rising Above the Herd: Keith Preston’s Authoritarian Anti-Statism.” And here is the transcript of a recent lecture by Lyons where yours truly gets a couple of mentions. Part One may be viewed here. […]
Interesting interpretation of Orwell’s classic by Jonathan Bowden. ————————————————————————————————————————— George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is probably the most important political novel of the twentieth century, but the Trotskyite influence on it is under-appreciated. The entire thesis about the Party’s totalitarianism is a subtle mixture of libertarian and Marxist contra […]
By John O’Reilly and Nate Hawthorne Industrial Worker July / August 2011 This article is the second in a series discussing the themes of the One Big Union and Industrial Unionism. We believe these themes are relevant to the future of our organization and our organization’s vision and […]
Javier Sethness reviews James C. Scott’s “The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia”. ————————————————————————————————————————————- James C. Scott’s latest work, “The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia,” is a deeply important book. The text, a historical-anthropological investigation […]
Article by W. F. Price. Hat tip to David Heleniak. —————————————————————————————————— I’ve made the point a number of times that today, strident feminists are often from successful, well-heeled families. Having attended a private school for some time as a kid, I’ve long been well aware that wealthy urban […]
by Thomas Jefferson and Russell Longcore. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ——————————————————————————————————————— I recently began contemplating the imminent collapse of the US Federal Government. In light of the insane, unconstitutional spending of the Congress and Presidents (Bush and Obama will spend the same ways), the recession/depression that the […]
Article by Kevin Koenninger. Hat tip to Jim Duncan. ————————————————————————————————————— DAYTON, Ohio (CN) – Dayton police “mistook” a mentally handicapped teenager’s speech impediment for “disrespect,” so they Tasered, pepper-sprayed and beat him and called for backup from “upward of 20 police officers” after the boy rode his bicycle […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————————- The Hill reports that “President Obama … defiantly said he does not need to discuss the constitutionality of the War Powers Resolution because U.S. military involvement in Libya has not come to that point.” The President evidently regards the “fuss” over whether or […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————- Rick Santorum is exercised lately over “a conscious effort on the part of the left to desensitize America and what American values are so they can be more pliable to the new values they would like to impose on Americans.” Santorum’s got it […]
…after ten years on death row. ———————————————————————————————— Cory Maye of Mississippi was charged with capital murder after shooting a cop in his home in 2001. They mistook him for a drug dealer, and he mistook them for an armed intruder. Maye maintained he was trying to protect his […]
Here it comes. ————————————————————————————————————————— In 2012, we shall find out who is right politically, when the issue goes on the ballot in battleground states. But is moral truth to be discovered at a ballot box? Do we have no superior moral compass than majority rule? “A new kind […]
From the Daily Mail. Over time, more and more comments of this type will start coming from mainstream figures. —————————————————————————————————————————————— A Riverside County Supervisor is proposing the Golden state be split in two. This, says Jeff Stone, would allow officials in the new ‘State of South California’ to […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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