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Nexus X HumectressJames Kirkpatrick reviews the film version of Atlas Shrugged. I was never an Ayn Rand fan anyway, but this sounds awful. ——————————————————————————————————- Even the promotional literature distributed by the makers of the movie doesn’t really reflect reality. It says, “What would happen if our producers disappear—Steve Jobs, Sergey […]
Article by Scott Lazarowitz. ——————————————————————————————————- With Peace Prize Laureate Barack Obama’s new war of Orwellian peaceful violence in Libya, this is yet another reminder of why socialism and central planning in security is a bad idea. The conservatives who are the most outspoken opponents of “socialism” are the […]
Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————- In an article for Business Insider entitled Is Capitalism Dead?, Larry Doyle bemoans “the incestuous nature of the Wall Street-Washington relationship.” Observing that a “few gigantic banks dominate our markets,” Doyle reflects that “Wall Street as it currently exists is an oligopoly,” and […]
Article by David Montgomery. —————————————————————————————————— A blistering review of historian Manning Marable’s best-selling new biography of Malcolm X was rejected this week by TheRoot.com, a daily online magazine devoted to African American perspectives whose editor in chief, Henry Louis Gates Jr., is an admirer of Marable’s work. “ […]
Check out the Subsidy Tracker. —————————————————————————————————— A growing number of state governments are disclosing which companies they are giving tax breaks and other subsidies in the name of job creation and economic development. Yet much of that information is being disseminated through hard-to-find reports and web pages. SUBSIDY […]
Video from the hilarious Sonja Schmidt. —————————————————————————————————— Are men all just sexual abusers, and oppressors? Find out as Sonja points out the contradictions of the 007/James Bond PSA. See Sonja’s own PSA defending the integrity of all things male on this episode of Left Exposed.
From American Indian/Alaska Native – Attack The System. ——————————————————————————————————- Over at the Republic of Lakotah website, there’s a brief outline of a strategy for developing an independent network of largely self sufficient villages. 1. Joining the Republic of Lakotah isn’t about having American Indian blood, it’s about wanting […]
by Michael Bakunin We have repelled energetically every alliance with bourgeois politics, even of the most radical nature. It has been pretended, foolishly and slanderously, that we repudiated all such Political connivance because we were indifferent to the great question of Liberty, and considered only the economic or […]
Article by Glenn Greenwald. ————————————————————————————————- On December 15, when I first reported the inhumane conditions of Bradley Manning’s detention, I did not assign any blame to — or even mention — Barack Obama. Although, as Commander-in-Chief, Obama was technically responsible for Manning’s treatment, there was no evidence that […]
Anthony Gregory is interviewed by Scott Horton. ——————————————————————————————————— Anthony Gregory, Editor in Chief of Campaign for Liberty, discusses the case for anarcho-capitalism – pushing beyond “limited government” to eliminate the last vestiges of “essential” state functions like police, courts and national defense; the possible market alternatives that, while […]
I’m glad to see Thomas Sowell bashing corporate welfare. He often leans way too much towards vulgar libertarianism for my tastes. ————————————————————————————————— Since everybody else seems to be coming up with plans on how to cope with the skyrocketing national debt, let me try my hand at it […]
Article by David D’Amato. —————————————————————————————————– On Wednesday (April 13), reports BBC News, “[a]n international summit on Libya [began] in Qatar, with delegates being told there is a ‘race against time’ to help Libyan civilians.” Comprising representatives from, among others, the United Nations, the European Union, and Nato, the […]
Article by Stephen Smith. ——————————————————————————————————- Anthony Ling, an excellent Brazilian blogger who also happens to be an avowed market urbanism, gives us an interesting look at the politics and economics of low-income housing in Brazil: In Brazil there is a vast regulation defining what are the minimum requirements […]
by Peter Bjorn Perls I was watching the Obama budget address on Youtube today. I wanted to post this, but they only allow unreasonably short suggestions, plus the submissions was closed at the time I’d written this. So here goes: A) Cut military expenses by 75%, by ceasing […]
Apparently even child molestation is fine so long as it’s done in the name of national security. ————————————————————————————————— An officer who conducted a pat-down of a 6-year-old girl in the New Orleans airport last week “followed proper current screening procedures,” the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday. However, the […]
Article by Thomas Naylor. —————————————————————————————————– There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly. Henry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience” […]
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Article by Jared Taylor. It’s great to see that even a guy like Taylor recognizes that for secession to work, secessionists cannot be constrained by narrowly focused, sectarian ideologies. ——————————————————————————————————– I am confident that not one person who dreams of an independent South has the slightest desire to […]
Article by Dan Seitz. ——————————————————————————————————— When I wrote an article about Free Republic and the dolts who frequent the site, a lot of the sulky feedback from conservatives wasn’t “We’re not all like this” or “This is only a very narrow subset of conservative thought” (both of which […]
Post by Tyler Durden. —————————————————————————————————- In August 2009, John Mack, at the time still the CEO of Morgan Stanley, made an interesting life decision. Despite the fact that he was earning the comparatively low salary of just $800,000, and had refused to give himself a bonus in the […]
Flying saucer fans rejoice. —————————————————————————————————— A bizarre memo that appears to prove that aliens did land in New Mexico prior to 1950 has been published by the FBI. The bureau has made thousands of files available in a new online resource called The Vault. Among them is a […]
Article by Mark Weisbrot. ————————————————————————————————- On Thursday, the United States expelled the ambassador from Ecuador, in retaliation for Wednesday’s expulsion of the US ambassador from Ecuador. This now leaves the United States without ambassadorial relations in three South American countries – Bolivia and Venezuela being the other two […]
Scott Horton interviews Will Grigg. —————————————————————————————————————————————– Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses Rep. Michael McCaul’s (R-Texas) attempt to include Mexican drug cartels in an expanded war on terrorism; the winners on both sides of prohibition, including the cartels that profit from a huge risk […]
Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————— Some disconcerting facts, or at least disconcerting questions, are beginning to emerge regarding Obama’s Libyan intervention. First of all, the Asia Times reported on April 2 (“Exposed: The U.S.-Saudi Libya Deal“) that Saudi Arabia engineered an Arab League voting bloc to approve the […]
by Stuart Bramhall. —————————————————————————————————– Since the October 2008 economic collapse, American workers have faced an unprecedented “austerity cuts,” with major hits on their livelihoods and labor and pension rights. Yet Americans, unlike the rest of the world, don’t respond by taking to the street in the millions. Why […]
From Tech Dirt. ————————————————————————————————— For a while now, we’ve been quite concerned over the US’s treatment of Bradley Manning, the guy who has been accused of being the source for many of Wikileaks’ biggest leaks from the US government. Under most standard definitions of torture, it certainly appeared […]
From A New Kind of Mind. ——————————————————————————————————– A decent while back, the anarchism subreddit was getting me down with it’s lynch mobs and sectarianism. To find some sanity (and probably to confirm a couple biases), I asked fellow Reddit user BondsOfEarthAndFire — who describes himself as “a market-friendly, […]
by Ian Huyett http://www.kstatecollegian.com/opinion/mass-immigration-damages-u-s-culture-economy-1.2538266 Tibetan independence from China is a popular cause in the U.S. Fashionable among actors and musicians, it’s outspoken supporters range from Russell Brand to the Red Hot Chili Peppers. “Free Tibet” advocates raise a legitimate concern; that Tibet’s unique character will vanish beneath a […]
This looks to be an interesting journal. —————————————————————————————————– State of Collapse is an editorial site offering anarchist views on current events concerning political abuse of criminal justice systems, human rights atrocities, and the encroachment of the total surveillance society. We cover police and law issues from Ontario, Canada […]
A classic essay. ————————————————————————————————— Among the signs of the epoch we have now entered belongs the increased intrusion of danger into daily life. There is no accident concealing itself behind this tact but a comprehensive change of the inner and outer world. We see this dearly when we […]
By John Robb. ——————————————————————————————————- Here’s a compilation of the standing orders series for open source warfare from last year. Probably need to add some more. 1. Break Networks 2. Grow Black Economies 3. Virtualize your organization 4. Repetition is more important than scale 5. Coopetition 6. Don’t fork […]
A Rasmussen poll reports. —————————————————————————————————- Adults under the age of 50 are more inclined to agree that there would be less poverty if immigration laws were enforced than their elders. Despite the billions of dollars spent on government anti-poverty programs, a majority of Americans nationwide still believe there […]
Article by Chris Hedges. ————————————————————————————————– “Imagine,” said a public school teacher in New York City, who asked that I not use his name, “going to work each day knowing a great deal of what you are doing is fraudulent, knowing in no way are you preparing your students […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. ————————————————————————————————— Tribalism suddenly seems ascendant over globalism. Transnational institutions created to bring the world together — the IMF, World Bank, U.N., EU, NATO, WTO, G-8, Kyoto Protocol — are all under stress. The artificial countries are coming apart. Sudan is sundering as Ethiopia did. […]
Article by Yasha Levine. —————————————————————————————————— Michele Bachmann has become known as the Queen of the anti-government Tea Baggers, protesting health care reform and slamming every other government handout as “socialism.” But what her followers don’t know is that Rep. Bachmann is also a queen of another kind—a welfare […]
Jesse Ventura is interviewed by Lew Rockwell. ————————————————————————————————— Jesse Ventura tells Lew Rockwell about The 63 Documents the Government Doesn’t Want You to Read. Naked-body “microwave” machines target travelers in violation of the 4th Amendment, the Republican and Democratic parties make everything worse, the CIA is embedded in […]
by Keith Preston The title of this review essay may well serve to get my name placed in yet another official file somewhere, but two works recently published by Andy Nowicki, a Catholic traditionalist author and one of my colleagues at AlternativeRight.Com, prompts one to give a little […]
Read the article. This guy’s got the right idea. Impeach all presidents until there are no presidents any more. —————————————————————————————————– A prominent libertarian constitutional lawyer and civil libertarian has drafted an article of impeachment against President Obama over his attack on Libya, throwing down a legal gauntlet that […]
Fight food repression. ——————————————————————————————————— The city of Oakland, Calif., which is marked largely by blight and crime, has decided to go after a backyard gardener for growing and occasionally selling the fruits of her labor. According to a recent report in the San Francisco Chronicle (SFC), Oakland city […]
Article by Charles Coulombe. —————————————————————————————————- I love tobacco. I have been a pipe and cigar smoker since my 16th birthday. (My father had offered to buy me both if I abstained from cigarettes until that date). On that memorable occasion, he took me down to Santa Monica’s storied […]
Articles by Michael Kleen. Part 1 and Part 2. —————————————————————————————————- In my opinion, a sweatshop is an antiquated form of wage slavery that does not belong in a free society any more than conscription or the Atlantic slave trade. Economists like Paul Krugman have provided an ideological foundation […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————– Arguably the majority of Fortune 500 profits result from taxpayer subsidies, government-conferred monopolies like “intellectual property,” special protections, and entry barriers, rather than from peaceful exchange on the free market. So why would it be so inconceivable that a lot of businesses in […]
Dennis Mangan reviews Steven Farron’s The Affirmative Action Hoax. I haven’t read Farron’s book myself, but if this reviewer’s summary of it contents is accurate, it makes a pretty convincing case that affirmative action is a messy hodge-podge of policies whose real purpose is to keep bureaucrats in […]
Article by Dan La Botz. Hat tip to Miles Joyner. —————————————————————————————————– Ten years ago, after the police killing of a teenager named Timothy Thomas, Cincinnati erupted in what some called vicious riots and others a righteous rebellion. The uprising over a string of police killings of black men […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————— According to historian Thomas E. Woods, during the debate at the Constitutional Convention over the War Powers clause, only a single delegate – Pierce Butler, of South Carolina — rose to argue in favor of giving the President the power to make war […]
Article by George Will. ————————————————————————————————— At about this point in foreign policy misadventures, the usual question is: What is Plan B? Today’s question is: What was Plan A? When Obama inserted America into what was, and ostensibly still is, a preemptive war to protect Libyan civilians from Libya’s […]
Article by Bernie DeGroat. Hat tip to Peter Bjorn Perls. ——————————————————————————————————– The anti-war movement in the US may have become more anti-Republican than antiwar since 2003, say U-Michigan researchers. Since 2003, the antiwar movement in the United States has had much to protest with Americans fighting in Iraq, […]
Article by Earl Ofari Hutchinson. The information in this article has important implications for race and class theory in 21st century America. Hat tip to Miles Joyner at the ARV Facebook page. Miles is doing a great job with that page. Be sure to give it a regular […]
Article by Michael Kleen. —————————————————————————————————- “Where the state ends—look there, my brothers! Do you not see it, the rainbow and the bridges of the overman?” Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) is one of the most famous of the modern philosophers. A prolific writer on just about every subject, his views […]
Article by Michael Kleen. Hat tip to David Heleniak. Kleen has also been interview by Tom Sunic on VOR. Listen here and here. ——————————————————————————————————- José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) was the preeminent Spanish philosopher of the first half of the 20th Century. A complex figure, he was at […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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