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Nexus X HumectressThe Criminalization of Dissent
Amy Goodman’s discussion of the recent attacks by the feds on antiwar activists.
Giving Back With a Spoon, Taking With a Shovel
New piece from Kevin Carson. See also: Market Anarchism vs Market Statism by Anna Morgenstern Here’s an interesting critique of left-libertarianism from, well, a left-libertarian (more or less): Why I Am Not a Left-Libertarian by Bryan Caplan
Carl Schmitt, Part IV
The final installment of my series on Schmitt.
Totalitarian Humanism Continues Its Long March
The Death of the Office Joke SOME OF THE EQUALITY ACT PROVISIONS… Vegans, teetotallers and atheists given the same protection against discrimination as religious groups Churches forced to hire homosexuals and transsexuals against the tenets of their faith when employing staff under planned Labour equality laws Gipsies and […]
Should Gays Have Equal Right to Kill for the Empire?
Great stuff from my old editor at Anti-State.Com Jeremy Sapienza. It’s too bad Jeremy’s gleefully malicious but hilarious “Grim Milestone in Iraq-159,000 Troops Remain Alive” and “Why I Hate the Troops” articles aren’t available anymore.
State Worship: The Real Theocratic Threat
Good stuff from Jack Hunter. Also, a very astute analysis of the irreversible decline of the American empire from Dilip Hiro. Those familiar with stock exchanges know that the share price of a dwindling company does not go over a cliff in a free fall. It declines, attracts new […]
"Reluctant Anarchist" Joseph Sobran Dies at 64
Read his obituary at The American Conservative. And read how a conservative Catholic writer for National Review became an anarchist.
What Is the Best Way for Measuring the Size of the State?
I recently had a conversation with a professional sociologist, a liberal who actually believes in federal bureaucracy as an ideal, and who claimed that the best way of measuring the size of government is to consider the total number of government employees and their ratio to the size […]
Max Stirner: The Anarchist Everybody Loves to Hate
Jason McQuinn’s piece on Stirner from Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed.
Street Battles in Spain
Watch it on Youtube. The Spirit of ’36 lives on.
Labor Struggle: A Free Market Model
New extended essay by Kevin Carson.
Ontario Anti-Prostitute Laws Struck Down
Landmark Canadian court ruling. Bedford and prostitutes Valerie Scott and Amy Lebovitch took on the legal might of the federal and provincial governments, their battle waged on a shoestring legal aid budget and the volunteer services of expert witnesses and lawyers. Scott said the decision means sex workers […]
Stop the Internet Blacklist
Find out more here.
How's This for "Hope and Change"?
Obama argues his assassination program is a state secret. Glenn Greenwald discusses it. Says Glenn: At this point, I didn’t believe it was possible, but the Obama administration has just reached an all-new low in its abysmal civil liberties record. In response to the lawsuit filed by Anwar […]
Where Are the Liberals? Where Are the Conservatives?
Bill Bishop discusses his book “The Big Sort” where he talks about the political splintering of the U.S. into liberal and conservative local communities.
The Geography of the Rural Poor
A study showing where the rural poor are located, including a breakdown along ethnic lines. Unfortunately, the authors offer no solutions other than more welfare statism. One thing I would love to see anarchists and libertarians do is wage a campaign to expose and attack laws and regulations […]
The Dangers of Decentralization? Words from a Reader
Some comments from a reader named “Jared”: Totalitarian humanism is something that I agree is a serious threat and where I live in Canada, it has advanced into law where people can be incarcerated for expressing opinions that are deemed hateful. [Keith: At present, the First Amendment and […]
Thomas Sowell interview from 1999
There are some great quotes in this.
The Racial Breakdown of America's Biggest Cities
To what degree are Americans integrated or segregated? Cartographer Eric Fischer figures it out.
Does Cultural Authoritarianism Breed Political Authoritarianism?
Kevin Carson says yes. There’s some pretty good discussion going on with this, including comments from Carson, Gary Chartier, and myself.
U.S. Homicide Rates Since 1900
Homicide Rates in the United States 1900-1990
Topics for debate
Chris George recently offered these comments in response to my “Liberty and Populism: Building an Effective Resistance Movement for North America” essay. Chris raises some really good issues here. I’d like to know what others here might have to say on some of these questions. On the whole, […]
Dissent on HIV/AIDS
Lew Rockwell interviews filmmaker Brent Leung. Listen to the podcast.
Iraq: South Korea in the Middle East?
Interesting article from Scott Ritter. It is in this topsy-turvy world created by political hype and media spin that a president can, with a straight face, announce the withdrawal of American “combat troops” from Iraq, while leaving behind six combat brigades (renamed, but not reorganized) comprising some 50,000 […]
More on Dennis Steele's Campaign for an Independent Vermont
Press coverage from regional media. Read the article here. And other article here. Why Vermont Gubernatorial Candidates Are Afraid to Debate Dennis Steele by Thomas Naylor (Thanks, Jim!)
U.S. Population Growth
U.S. Census Bureau data on population growth. Clearly, the growth of incarceration rates is light years ahead of what could be accounted for by ordinary population growth. The Census Bureau also provides projections for the future, but these are highly speculative. We have shown their ‘middle estimates’ extending […]
U.S. Incarceration Rates Since 1920
The U.S. prison population has quintupled since 1980.
Your Guide to Recording the Police
Helpful tips from Radley Balko. So far Massachusetts is the only state to explicitly uphold a conviction for recording on-duty cops, and Illinois and Massachusetts are the only states where it is clearly illegal. The Illinois law has yet to be considered by the state’s Supreme Court, while […]
55% of Violent Crimes, 84% of Property Crimes Go Unsolved
Some interesting stats on the clearance rates for crimes. Two in five murderers, three in five rapists, and three in four armed robbers, and nine in ten burglars “get away with it.” It’s also true that in some large cities the clearance rate for homicides is less than […]
Politically Correct Universities and Slave Morality
Some more gems from AltRight: PCU by Paul Gottfried Although PC is taught at elite universities, its function there is entirely different from what it is elsewhere. In the Ivies, for example, PC constitutes the ideological basis of the present managerial order. It is the sacral and legitimating […]
Carson on Plutocrats and PIGS
“I’ve Never Seen a Poor Person Give Anyone a Job” “A Government of Laws? Tell Me Another One”
Insights on Race Issues
From “Miles,” a poster on Chris George’s blog: “The Deacons for Defense and the Black Panthers, in my eyes, were legitimate anti-racists who acted against racist governments for self-determination. But then again, most of the members of these groups (esp. the Panthers) were involved in community movements and […]
Is It Time to Liberate Ourselves from the Word Secession?
Interesting new article from Tom Naylor. Tom argues that “liberation” is a better term. My guess is that nothing will appease the PC Inquisitors irrespective of what kind of terminology we employ, nor do I think we should bother with trying to appease the forces of PC. But […]
One in Seven Americans Live in Poverty
The U.S. now has its highest poverty rate since 1965. We’ve got to get this class struggle thing moving.
A New Globalization?
Good stuff from the always interesting John Robb.
This Is How It's Done….
Great interview with Dennis Steele of the Second Vermont Republic. We need a Dennis Steele in every state and locality in the U.S.A.
The Culture War Is Over, and the Left is the Winner
And this guy is supposed to be the leader of the Far-Right Homophobes? So how long is it going to be before a reignited class struggle replaces the culture wars? This data is also interesting.
R.I.P. American Empire, and Good Riddance
When even an arch-imperialist like Thomas Friedman says the Empire is on its way down due to financial ruin, it must be true. Obama’s escalation of the war in Afghanistan, the “graveyard of empires,” is apparently going to be the empire’s last hurrah. So what’s next on our […]
A Libertarian Argument Against Open Borders
A realist approach from John Hospers, the first LP presidential candidate in 1972. He even got an electoral vote. This is the essay I would write, almost word for word, if I were going to do an extended discussion of the issue.
The Pitfalls of Rationalism
New essay from Michael Parish. The basic tenants of liberalism are not, ironically, arrived at through deductive logic but through an arduous process of mental abstraction. What is presented to us by rationalists as a realist assessment of the world is in truth a vague conceptualization produced by […]
Would a libertarian society deprive individuals of cultural roots and collective identity?
That’s the question the Libertarian Alliance is asking. Produce a good essay on the question and maybe you can win 1,000 British pounds. Anyone here up to the challenge?
Debating Class Conflict
An interesting discussion between Robert Higgs and Kevin Carson at C4SS. I throw in my own two cents worth as well. Read it all here.
Anarchism, Prescription, and Prediction
Good piece from Jeremy. As an anarchist, I believe that distributed systems of decision making like the market are the best ways for processing information and organizing society. Central planning doesn’t work, and my ideology seeks to better understand the way humans relate rather than making them turn […]
Karl Hess and the IRS
From Lila Rajiva’s blog. Hess really was one of the all-time greats. “I am in total opposition to any institutional power. I favor a world of neighborhoods in which all social organization is voluntary and the ways of life are established in small, consenting groups. These groups could […]
How to Identify a National-Anarchist
Here’s how. A National Anarchist in America may exhibit the following stereotypical characteristics. They will often claim to have a staunch independent streak and critical thinking skills. They are also: White Americans (not always, but at the present time 99 times out of 100 this is the case), […]
Formulating a Strategy for an Independent Tlingit Nation – Part 2:
Good stuff from our friend Raven Warrior.
Vermont's Secessionist Movement Debuts Something New: Candidates
New article on the Vermont secession movement. (Thanks, Jim)
On Counter-Infiltration of Enemy Institutions
Some thoughtful comments from David Heleniak: I don’t think “our side” should give up on trying a counter-infiltration of the key institutions taken over by the PC Left. Many lawyers, for example, are committed to civil liberties, ye olde English traditions, etc. They can be allies in someone’s […]
Carl Schmitt, Part III: The End of the Weimar Republic
Part three of the series is now up at AlternativeRight.Com
Some Points to Consider
Here are some points we need to be thinking about: -Past partisan cycles indicate that the Democratic Party will be the dominant political party for the next few decades. -Research on public opinion regarding controversial issues along with prevailing cultural, demographic, economic, and generational trends indicates that the […]
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