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Nexus X HumectressFrom Voltairine.org In commemoration of Voltairine de Cleyre (1866-1912) Emma Goldman’s Memorial Tribute to Voltairine de Cleyre (1932), an excerpt: The first time I met her — this most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced — was in Philadelphia, in August 1893. I had come to that […]
By Gabe Fisher Iran, Syria, Russia and China are planning the “biggest-ever wargames in the Middle East,” according to an unconfirmed report on the semi-official Iranian news site Fars News. A Syrian official denied the claims. According to the article, the four countries are preparing 90,000 troops, 400 aircraft […]
The Continuing Economic Crisis by Tim Kelly Twelve Victims of the Drug War by Laurence M. Vance The Jacob Hornberger Show: June 17, 2011 by Jacob G. Hornberger The Natural Right to Be Free by Laurence M. Vance The Supreme Court Abandons the Guantánamo Prisoners by Andy Worthington Slow, Predictable Hearing on Fast […]
From The UK Libertarian. Davy, the UK Libertarian, hoists moralistic tax-happy statists on their own petard. Logical, potent, and apt, if emotionally-oversaturated at times. _________________ [WARNING: The following article contains images that some people may (and should) find disturbing. If you don’t want to see fairly graphic images […]
From HuffPo. Not seeing how what he said was “offensive”. Any sensible totalitarian disarms their citizenry/”undesirables” to make it easier to oppress and prey on them. Talk to the JPFO—they’ll fill you in! Shame he felt the need to backpedal for being right. ___________________ By Paige Lavender Samuel […]
By Dan Noyes SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — The story captured the attention of the nation back in 1976. Three Bay Area men were convicted and received life sentences. Now, one of the men convicted of kidnapping a bus full of children and burying them in a van more than […]
By Nick Smith OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) — Police are keeping close watch on the Oakland Convention Center. Wednesday afternoon, anarchist demonstrators clashed with officers when they were denied entrance to a conference on human trafficking. Demonstrators, calling themselves “Occupy Patriarchy” gathered outside the convention center to protest the conference […]
From Spiked. Interview with the PC Stasi’s latest victim. ___________ By Patrick Hayes ‘You hear the things the social workers say, and you just bang your head against a brick wall and think, “Am I actually hearing this? Is this real?”’ Toni McLeod is an eight-month pregnant 25-year-old […]
From the Atlantic Wire. Personally, I find Kickstriker’s campaign parody fucking hilarious, not to mention potentially more effective than Jason Russell’s imperialist-enabling personality cult. Here’s an excerpt from the Kickstriker bid… PLEDGE $50,000 OR MORE 3 BACKERS · Limited Reward (29 of 32 remaining) If Kony is killed […]
From Business Insider This infographic created by Jason at Frugal Dad shows that almost all media comes from the same six sources. That’s consolidated from 50 companies back in 1983. NOTE: This infographic is from last year and is missing some key transactions. GE does not own NBC (or […]
By Chris Bassil Earlier this month, Amendment 1 — an amendment to the North Carolina state constitution that precludes the state from recognizing gay marriage, among various other kinds of domestic partnership — was passed by voters. Much has already been made of the bill’s discriminatory content, the […]
I can live with that. From BBC News. _________________ A US father who found his five-year-old daughter being raped, then beat the attacker to death will not be charged, prosecutors have said. The 23-year-old man told police he found the girl being assaulted on Saturday 9 June by […]
James Joyner on the rapecage-industrial complex. From Outside the Beltway. ____________ Christopher Glazer takes to N+1 magazine to argue that we should Raise the Crime Rate. Statistics are notoriously slippery, but the figures that suggest that violence has been disappearing in the United States contain a blind spot […]
From the Daily Mail. Sic semper tyrannis… …or, translated from Latin: good fucking riddance! ________________ Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled Egypt for 30 years until overthrown by a revolution in the ‘Arab Spring last year, has been declared clinically dead by his doctors this evening. State […]
Benjamin Marks takes Mencken-misconceptions (and libertarian uplift) to task… Read more about “Mencken’s Conservatism” here. _________ Mencken believed that most of the debates about politics, religion, science, philosophy, aesthetics and other issues rests on false premises that make all their squabbles merely petty infighting. Here is a brief […]
By David D’Amato Surveying the new JOBS Act, legislation with the ostensible purpose of aiding “emerging growth companies,” the Washington Post’s Rob Kaplan and Tom Voekler contend that the act’s biggest impact will be on the formation of “small and mid-sized business capital.” Observing an important difference between […]
From Business Insider Scotland’s bid for independence looks likely to change the way that the UK works (to some degree at least), but do secessionist movements have a wider impact? We’ve taken a look at Europe’s various secessionist movements to show you exactly why you need to watch […]
Swedish courts in sensible verdict shocker! Read all about it at The Local. I also found this tidbit—from artist Trevor Brown’s blog—interesting… i just received a letter yesterday from a fellow swede saying “…his ex tried to get him convicted for sexual abuse of their child so she […]
From the New Statesman. Might be a worthy read for those interested in modern men’s issues. __________ By Ally Fog Anyone who has ever debated male-specific gender issues will probably have experienced an encounter like this: Bloke: “Yeah, but men can also be victims of violence and injustice, […]
schneier.com Bruce Schneier We’re in the early years of a cyberwar arms race. It’s expensive, it’s destabilizing, and it threatens the very fabric of the Internet we use every day. Cyberwar treaties, as imperfect as they might be, are the only way to contain the threat. If you […]
timesofindia RANCHI: The forest department may have failed to trace a tiger in Bundu forest, around 35 km from here, but Maoists have not only found the animal but one of them has even become its victim. The rebel reached so close to the tiger that he fell […]
This year’s lineup of speakers looks to be interesting as always. Below is the proposed list of speakers and topics for the upcoming Seventh Annual Meeting of the PFS, which will be held in Bodrum, Turkey at the Hotel Karia Princess, from Thursday September 27 through Monday October 1, 2012. Those […]
By Christopher Joyce Pedro Saura/AAAS/ScienceThe Panel of Hands in the Cave of El Castillo in Spain. New dating methods suggest the paintings could have been drawn by Neanderthals, not humans, as previously thought. June 15, 2012 The famous paintings on the walls of caves in Europe mark the […]
By Ian Millhiser On Fox News Sunday this morning, host Chris Wallace asked Bill Kristol, a leading GOP pundit and apologist for the Iraq War, how he felt about President Obama’s recent announcement that the Department of Homeland Security wouldhalt deportations of many undocumented students. Wallace probably did […]
From the Los Angeles Times Jim Daly, the head the conservative radio-based ministry Focus on the Family has joined dozens of evangelical leaders to push for immigration reform that would include a path to legal residency or citizenship for those in the country without legal status. More than […]
MIGRATION Are Immigration Laws Like Jim Crow? by David Bier Foundation for Economic Education WELFARE STATE Big Lies in Politics by Thomas Sowell LewRockwell.com MONETARY POLICY How the Euro Will End by Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr. Cato Institute ECONOMICS Hayek on Individualism by Sheldon Richman Foundation for Economic […]
CONGRESS MAY TURN OVER INTERNET REGULATION TO UN The US House of Representatives will vote on a measure this week as to whether or not they will hand over regulation of the internet to the United Nation’s International Telecommunication Union (ITU). Other nations such as China, Russia, Brazil […]
From the President’s Desk Before we get to what’s on everyone’s mind–Porcfest, of course!–a giant THANK YOU to the community for pledging to hire Chris Lopez as an independent contractor to handle the FSP’s administrative work. If you pledged, please follow this link to make your donation now. Chris […]
IN THIS ISSUE What’s new Top news Opinion and analysis Events What’s new with Antiwar.com staff and contributors? Congratulations to Gareth Porter, reporter for InterPress Service and frequent Antiwar.com contributor, for winning the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism in London. This honor is for his outstanding research into the military’s […]
IRAQ – Divided into Provinces
From Press.TV Andre Pshenichnikov, a 23-year-old Jewish immigrant from Tajikistan, wants to renounce his Israeli citizenship and move to a Palestinian refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. (file photo)
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”Ah, sir, the blood bank says we’re fresh out of white blood…” IT IS NOT EVERY DAY YOU SEE AN IMAGE – YOU WILL NEVER FORGET.
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A quick reminder from the all-time master of propaganda.
More insanity from Brave New World’s leading nation. It’s hard to believe these people are the descendants of the Vikings. SORMLAND, Sweden, June 11 (UPI) — Left Party members of a Swedish county council said they want to encourage men using the council’s toilets to sit during urination. The […]
From Food Democracy Now! This weekend the American Medical Association will consider an important resolution to call for the support of GMO labeling. The AMA is the nation’s largest and most respected association of doctors and medical students and their support of labeling genetically engineered foods will go […]
From the Huffington Post One of President Barack Obama’s former professors appears to have turned against him, according to a recent YouTube video. “President Obama must be defeated in the coming election,” Roberto Unger, a longtime professor at Harvard Law School who taught Obama, said in a video posted […]
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(H) Take note AMERICA! – São Paulo – Brasil. This is what you call resistance!
From CNN Rodney King, who died Sunday at the age of 47, gestures to supporters at a book signing event in Los Angeles on April 30. King’s beating by Los Angeles police in 1991 was caught on camera and sparked the LA Riots of 1992 after the acquittal […]
By Andy Nowicki Ferdinand Bardamu, master of ceremonies at the seminal mansophere blog In Mala Fide, has opted to take his website to the cyber-scrapheap while he heads for some ill-defined greener pastures. I don’t know Ferd personally, though he has been kind enough to link to many […]
From The Blaze has forced many Greeks to rely on barter-style economies. “I want to use euro but it’s very expensive and I believe trade is better,” said Volos resident Artemis Zafiriou of in a recent NBC Newsreport. The town of Volos is not special. It’s one of the […]
We just can’t win. LOL! The comments by this “conservative” are otherwise quite well-considered: F.A. Hayek’s stance to combat the leviathan monster of the State is to go local. Rockwell continues: “We need a Hayekian solution to the US. We need small states trading with each other. How many? It really […]
A shitty commie website has this to say about yours truly: In this context, I want to make a few explanatory comments about some anarchists that I cite. I’m interested in the section of anarchism in the tradition of Bakunin, Parsons, Malatesta, and Durruti that is variously described […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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