Oakland Threatens to Shut Down Urban Gardener

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 […]

Smokeasy, California!

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 […]

Against Libertarian Sweatshop Fans

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 […]

Obama a Marxist? Give Us a Break

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 […]

Affirmative Action Forever

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 […]

Cincinnati: A Decade since the Rebellion of 2001

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 […]

Unholy Alliance: Neocons and "Progressives" — United at Last Over Libya, War Powers, and the Constitution

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 […]

The haze of humanitarian imperialism

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 […]

Did Obama's Election mean the End of the Anti-War Movement?

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, […]

Nietzsche and the State

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 […]

Jose Ortega y Gasset and the State

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 […]

The Joke that "Movement Conservatism" has become

Article by Paul Gottfried. A hilarious dissection of the neo-Jacobin wing of the US political establishment. ——————————————————————————————————– According to Joel Klein’s March 21 Newsweek column, “conservatives” went ballistic at their annual CPAC meeting in Washington because Obama had dared to question the holy doctrine of “American exceptionalism.” Supposedly […]

Opinions Are Not a Crime

An Asian woman is sentenced to indefinite jury duty for alleged racist comments. Read the article. This is a very important case because it shows that PC is not just a “white male” issue. No one is immune to persecution under PC, not even its supposed beneficiaries, e.g., […]

Obama Goes to War, the US Left Goes AWOL

Article by Clancy Sigal. ————————————————————————————————— One night, when I was editor of a news wire service on the graveyard shift in downtown Los Angeles, a respectable, middle-aged man in a neat business suit, calling himself Mr Wilson, approached me with a strange tale. We overnighters on duty alone […]

Hard Money, Hard Time

Article by Thomas Knapp. —————————————————————————————————– Bernard von NotHaus, reports Tom Lovett of the Evansville, Indiana Courier & Press, stands convicted, as of last month, of “making coins resembling and similar to United States coins; of issuing, passing, selling and possessing Liberty Dollar coins; of issuing and passing Liberty […]

The Drug War: Growing the Green

Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————- BBC News reports that “[p]rotests in more than 20 Mexican cities against drug-related violence have been interrupted by news of the discovery of 59 bodies.” Since Mexican President Felipe Calderon called on the military to combat the drug cartels in 2006, an estimated […]

Most Illegal Immigrant Families Collect Welfare

Mass immigration is subsidized by the state. ————————————————————————————————— Surprise, surprise; Census Bureau data reveals that most U.S. families headed by illegal immigrants use taxpayer-funded welfare programs on behalf of their American-born anchor babies. Even before the recession, immigrant households with children used welfare programs at consistently higher rates […]

Is Violence Against Cops Really Increasing?

Interesting article on the latest System hysteria. —————————————————————————————————- Attorney General Eric Holden is concerned about the number of law enforcement deaths that have occurred so far this year. In fact, he is so concerned that he has announced a new Law Enforcement Safety Initiative. This is not the […]

The Stark interview

The recording is now available. The Stark Truth: Interview with Keith Preston April 7, 2011 · Print This Article Robert Stark and Keith Preston discuss political movements and ideologies, and how Keith’s views have evolved. Topics include: Why White Nationalism is not enough; Separation of race and state; […]

Remembering Manning Marable

By Farah Jasmine Griffin. —————————————————————————————————– Scholar, Activist, Mentor, Teacher, Editor, Institution Builder, Manning Marable was one of those rare individuals who succeeded in a number of arenas. His intellectual and political vision and work can be described as nothing less than a calling, one he met with extraordinary […]

Interview Tonight

http://reasonradionetwork.com/ The Stark Truth Robert Stark brings you news, analysis and guest interviews dealing with American politics, demographics, culture, and history. Wed., Apr. 6: Interview with Keith Preston Robert Stark and Keith Preston discuss political movements and ideologies; economic alternatives to current system; economic and political localism

Trilateral Commission meeting in D.C. April 8-10th

From the National Anarchist Tribal Alliance of New York. —————————————————————————————————– As reported by American Free Press, the Trilateral Commission will be meeting this April 8-10 in Washington D.C. This quasi secret conference is just as or more important than the G20 or WTO meetings. WeAreChangeNYC & NATA-NY is […]

Militarist elitism and contempt for the victim

Article from Infoshop.Org. —————————————————————————————————– he dramatic armed actions of groups like the Informal Anarchist Federation (FAI) and the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire continue to attract international attention and reflect political positions with a certain degree of influence among rebellious proletarians. Positions which are to say the least […]

The Libertarian Case Against Gay Marriage

Article by Justin Raimondo. —————————————————————————————————- The imposition of a legal framework on the intricate web of relationships that have previously existed in the realm of freedom—that is, outside the law and entirely dependent on the trust and compliance of the individuals involved—would not only be a setback for […]

Building a Movement from the Ground Up

Article by Kevin DeAnna. ————————————————————————————————— I suggest there is a model for the Western resistance in the “liberty movement.” Several years ago, a friend who now has a prominent position in a hugely successful libertarian organization used to joke to me that reading the news was a depressing […]

The Foreclosure Mess: Another Crisis of State Capitalism

Article by David D’Amato. ——————————————————————————————————— Updating on “the foreclosure mess” that continues “to speed struggling homeowners” out onto the streets, Yahoo News’ Zachary Roth notes the “potentially fraudulent” procedures banks have employed in “their rush to foreclosure and eviction.” The documents that originally created these mortgages were buried […]

How Not to Fight Terrorism

Scott Horton interviews Michael Scheuer. ————————————————————————————————————————————– Michael Scheuer, 22-year veteran of the CIA and former head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit, discusses the First Amendment’s non-universality as recently evidenced in Afghanistan – yet another reminder of the dangers in foreign occupations; the choice confronting Americans: pursue […]

Why we should be against armed humanitarianism

Article by Gene Healy. ————————————————————————————————– The president allowed that “America cannot use our military whenever repression occurs.” But when our interests, values, “unique abilities” and the will of the international community properly align — he’ll let us know when that is — we’ll act “on behalf of what’s […]

Diversity Perversity

Article by Walter Williams. ————————————————————————————————- The terms affirmative action, equal representation, preferential treatment and quotas just don’t sell well. The intellectual elite and their media, government and corporate enthusiasts have come up with diversity, a seemingly benign term that’s a cover for racially discriminatory policy. They call for […]

False Convictions

Article by Bill Anderson. —————————————————————————————————- Should one step back even further, one can see a pattern emerging, one that not only is disturbing but also one that has its roots in the Progressive Movement of more than a century ago, when American intellectuals, businessmen, and politicians joined to […]

Africans united in defense of Libya!

Article by Luwezi Kinshasa, Secretary-General of the African Socialist International. —————————————————————————————————— A new world has been trying to come to into being since before the imperialists’ so-called first world war. It is the rise of the colonized and oppressed peoples’ struggles, and we can see its trajectory with […]

Nation Behind Bars: Mass Incarceration and Political Prisoners in the U.S.

Efia Nwangaza at the BIB Conference on the Other Wars. —————————————————————————————————- On March 26, 2011, the Black is Back Conference for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations held a conference on the Other Wars, dealing with U.S. imperialism’s wars on Haiti, Congo, Libya, Colombia, Africans in the U.S. and […]

The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the Police State

Article by Kevin Carson. —————————————————————————————————— Well, the power of the state might be just a little broader than that. Militarized SWAT teams that kick in doors at 3AM with no-knock warrants, for non-violent offenses, toss the house to inflict maximum damage for sheer intimidation, shoot the family dog […]

Last Act in the Mideast

Article by Andrew Bacevich. ————————————————————————————————— Ever since Britain and France set out to dismember the Ottoman Empire nearly a century ago, the West has been engaged in an incoherent, haphazard, episodic, but more or less relentless effort to impose its will on the Middle East. Methods have varied. […]

Self-Determination of Ivory Coast

Article by David D’Amato. —————————————————————————————————– “The UN secretary general,” reports BBC News, “has urged Ivory Coast’s internationally-backed president [Alassane Ouattara] to investigate hundreds of deaths blamed partly on his supporters.” Violence has continued in the western African country since an election last fall resulted in a win for […]

Totalitarian Humanism vs Greece

Article by Ioannis Kolovos. —————————————————————————————————– The people who organized and supported the occupation of the Law School building, be they members of parliamentary parties or not (some of them were, some others were not), are ideologically fixated to a neo-communist worldview. Not only do they not support the […]

Why the Left Won't Stop the Wars

Penetrating critique of what the Left is really about by Anthony Gregory. —————————————————————————————————— A straw poll from August 2009, half a year into Obama’s reign, said it all. Stanley Greenberg polled attendees to the Netroots Nation gathering of progressive bloggers, giving them a list of political issues and […]