War Uber Alles

Paul Craig Roberts explains how the state’s thirst for bloodshed is never satisfied. The Pentagon needs some more wars so there can be some more “reconstruction.” Reconstruction is very lucrative, especially as Washington has privatized so many of the projects, thus turning over to well-placed friends many opportunities […]

Line in the Sand

A new book from Dan Miller of the Texas Nationalist Movement. In “Line in the Sand,” Daniel Miller tackles the concepts of what ‘political will’ and ‘nationalism’ is and what they mean to Texans. He eloquently removes all reason for doubt concerning Texas independence and explains that maintaining […]

Politicial Nihilism

Thomas Naylor on the absurdities of the overlords of the empire. Life is absurd said French existentialist writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre back in the 1950s.  But surely there is no more appropriate description of life in the American Empire sixty years later.  Our lives are meaningless.  […]

Artistry in Revolution

Thomas Naylor on why the Left and Right both get it wrong on secession. Unfortunately, the premise underlying the tea party, tenth amendment, and nullification movements is that the U.S. government is indeed fixable.  All one need do is return to the Constitution and everything will be just […]

Monopoly: A Nice Trick If You Can Do It

Kevin Carson on the failures of the “progressive” regulatory state. But even after the economy became dominated by giant corporations,  argued Gabriel Kolko in The Triumph of Conservatism, attempts to establish cartels by purely private means were largely failures. The big trusts immediately began losing market share to […]

Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin, Part 2

The second installment of David D’Amato’s article. The meaningful division is between those who use coercive manipulation of the bounds within which economic activities take place, and those who rely on voluntary, cooperative courses of action. Any number of organizational structures, including unions, would occupy a free market, […]

Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin

David D’Amato on the class conflict being played out in Wisconsin. In the political phraseology of the United States, bogged down in the vacuous false choice of Republican versus Democrat, proponents of the “free market” are allegedly not supposed to concern themselves with scoundrels like government workers’ unions. […]

Jefferson, Not Jihad

Will Grigg on the anti-imperialist revolution in the Middle East. Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the connection between Federal Reserve monetary policy and increased food prices around the world; the unprecedented scope of US empire (and the correspondingly large payroll); the Jeffersonian, rather […]

From Morocco to Malaysia

It’s 1776 in the Islamic world. Rashid Khalidi, author and professor of Middle East history and politics, discusses the spectacle of protesters from Morocco to Malaysia echoing the leaders of the American Revolution; how genuine reformist movements in Iran are undermined by US support; the endgame of US […]

Is Federalism Good for Fetuses?

Pro-lifer James Banks explains why the pro-choice camp has mostly won the abortion debate. Even if certain states passed rigidly anti-abortion laws, state borders are porous; back in the 1980s, in my native state of Idaho, the drinking age was 18, while the drinking age in neighboring Washington […]

Clarification

by Michael Parish http://quagmire-abeautifulmind.blogspot.com/2011/02/clarification.html Libertarians, movement “conservatives”, and other heirs to the classical liberal tradition view society through the binary opposition of “individualism” and “collectivism”; the two are reified into near-Platonic forms and pitted in a permanent opposition recalling Judeo-Christian dualism. Both are mental absracta, but in a society based on economic reductionism, they […]

Israeli Media Fears the "New" Egypt

Neve Gordon explains why. Dan Margalit, a well-known commentator, made this point clear when he explained that Israel does not disapprove of a democracy in the largest Arab country but simply privileges Israel’s peace agreement with Egypt over internal Arab affairs. Israel, one should note, is not alone […]

The Arab Awakening

Article by Justin Raimondo. As events in Libya continue to race forward, I think my initial analysis is roughly accurate: while the Eastern provinces have rid themselves of Gadhafi, in Tripoli pro-government mobs are taking to the streets, and the dictator and his equally daffy son seem to […]

An Interview with Richard Spencer

Conducted by Alex Kurtagic. This is an interesting quote: To return to your provocative question, in my fantasyland, there would still be a Left and a Right—and granolas and libertarians and animal rights activists and Mormons, et al.—but they would operate within Western unity and natural hierarchy. Some, […]

Rothbard vs The Unions

Unions: heroes or villains? Murray Rothbard thought it was the latter. What do you think? Back during my serious leftist-anarchist days, I used to do strike support work for unions including the Greyhound strike Rothbard discusses. My experience was that most strikers couldn’t be bothered to even show […]

Ron Paul vs David Horowitz

Ron Paul wants to end foreign aid to all Middle Eastern countries. Sensible enough. Read all about it. And David Horowitz goes off his meds in response. Horowitz’s rants have about as much rationality or coherence as the typical Weather Underground communique circa 1969. So much for his […]

The Shame of Being an American

Paul Craig Roberts explains. Does democracy really exist in a land where the media is incompetent and the government is unaccountable and lies through its teeth every time if opens its mouth? “Curveball” represents a new level of immorality.  Rafid al-Janabi shares responsibility  for one million dead Iraqis, […]

Obama Kowtows to Military-Industrial Complex

It figures. Read the statement from the Libertarian Party. WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party criticizes the Obama administration’s recent statement demanding more military spending from House Republicans. The administration claims that the Republican spending bill currently under debate does not provide enough military funding. According to the administration, […]