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Nexus X HumectressArticle by Andrew Bacevich. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— In every aspect of human existence, change is a constant. Yet change that actually matters occurs only rarely. Even then, except in retrospect, genuinely transformative change is difficult to identify. By attributing cosmic significance to every novelty and declaring every unexpected event a […]
Article by Paul Gottfried. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The PC police are at it again. According to a sympathetic Associated Press report on November 7 and a survey conducted by the American Association of University Women, “sexual harassment is pervasive in grades 7-12.” Such improprieties are taking place “in person or electronically via […]
Article by Conor Friedersdorf. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Jonathan Chait is the latest to write about the president as if his civil liberties abuses and executive power excesses never happened When I pleaded with liberals to stop ignoring President Obama’s failures on civil liberties, foreign policy, and the separation of powers, treating them […]
Article by Gary Kamiya. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– We’ve been through this before. As one of the most disastrous wars in our history is coming to an inglorious end, the same neoconservative hawks who dreamed it up are agitating for a new war that would make Iraq look like the invasion […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- The misnamed Center for Individual Rights (CIR) is filing a lawsuit [.pdf] against the government of Guam, charging it with “discrimination” – on the grounds that voter qualifications in the upcoming plebiscite on the island’s status are “undemocratic.” The problem? Guam has decided that the American invaders […]
Article by William Norman Grigg. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- “Which is better – to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants not a mile away?” – ~ Attributed to Boston physician Mather Byles, 1770. “Do you see this soldier in this checkpoint?” Iraqi Wael al-Khafaji […]
Article by Joshua Katz. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- The time has come for you to make a choice. You must choose where you stand. You must take a stand and decide what society you wish to live in. Do not tell us that you follow orders, we dealt with that one […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— (My 4th and last post about the ability of OWS to expand into the traditional working class) Why Do Some Kids Develop a Sense of Privilege? I have always found class orientation to center around the presence or absence of a sense of […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— For years, the standard drill after a police beating or shooting, when it was a citizen’s word against a cop’s and the cop’s testimony was backed up by his Brothers in Blue, was “administrative leave” with pay for the cop — until a […]
Article by Stuart Bramhall. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– There is heated debate across the political spectrum whether OWS represents a genuine working class movement. The issue is vitally important, both to social change activists and the political elite. It will determine whether OWS succeeds in engaging the 80% of the population […]
Article by Michael Kleen. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- In the past several months, Matt Zwolinski and Ben Powell took to the pages of the Journal of Business Ethics, as well as the Bleeding Heart Libertarians blog, to defend what they consider to be the mainstream libertarian position on sweatshops: that sweatshops represent […]
Article by Peter Dale Scott. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— “I know the capacity that is there to make tyranny total in America, and we must see to it that this agency [the National Security Agency] and all agencies that possess this technology operate within the law and under proper supervision, so […]
From Before It’s News. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— New York Supreme Court Judge Karen Smith (ret) as reported here is the newest notable American whose presence at Occupy Wall Street’s demonstration resulted in police force. To sooth the sensitivities of the people/entities opposing this new movement which is still in its genesis stage can simply […]
Watch the video. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– Emily delivered the winning rant at the Soapbox Idol competition from Porcfest 2011. Porcfest is short for the Porcupine Freedom Festival which is held annually in NH by the Free State Project. The judges panel included Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio, Carla Gericke of […]
From Haaretz. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– srael and the U.S. will embark on the “largest” and “most significant” joint exercise in the allies’ history, said Andrew Shapiro, U.S. assistant secretary for political-military affairs, on Saturday. Speaking to the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Shapiro said the exercise will involve […]
Article by Eric Black. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The United States maintains a military establishment far far far in excess of anything that could reasonably be called necessary to defend the country from any real threat to “national security” as that term would be defined by any other more normal country. […]
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Article by Eric Peters. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— What will we say when the government announces that “for security reasons” it will begin conducting random checks of our homes? That we will be required by law to open our doors and stand aside while government agents do a walk-through, just to […]
From Economic Policy Journal. Watch the video.
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Occupy Denver protesters clash with police Wednesday. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Denver’s district attorney says 3 will face felony charges related to 2 incidents The charges including inciting a riot and assaulting a police officer One had accused police of “attacking us” during demonstrations (CNN) — Denver District […]
From Huliq.Com. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— Sex with animals – though the subject of jokes for millennia – is no laughing matter, not just on the basis of the cruelty involved, but also the health consequences, as a new Brazilian study shows. The study of 492 rural Brazilian men found that […]
From CNN. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Pittsburgh (CNN) — An Idaho man who acquaintances say called President Barack Obama “the anti-Christ” was charged Thursday with trying to assassinate him in a shooting incident outside the White House, federal authorities said. Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez, 21, is accused of firing shots at the White […]
Article by Eric Dolan. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- Topics: jackie hudson ♦ keith olbermann ♦ nazi germany Eighty-four-year-old activist Dorli Rainey spoke to Countdown host Keith Olbermann on Wednesday night after being pepper sprayed by police the previous night during an “Occupy Seattle” protest. The protest was formed in downtown Seattle in solidarity with “Occupy Wall Street” after […]
Article by Kelsey Whipple. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- Daniel Garcia’s Saturday night ended with an unwanted surprise. While driving downtown after the night’s police raid on Occupy Denver, Garcia chose to publicly support the group by honking his horn. This, he would quickly learn, is technically illegal. Thanks to “either two or […]
Article by Wayne Madsen. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— srael’s all-powerful lobby in Washington, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an organization composed of Israeli collaborators, infiltrators, and outright traitors to the United States, is steamrolling through the House of Representatives H.R. 1905, which would prohibit the President of the United […]
Yes! Article by Stuart Bramhall. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– If OWS comes to be seen as a movement run predominantly by and for the working class, it will be the first grassroots movement to do so since the Great Depression. The last major mass movement during the Vietnam War was mainly […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- After the police state and national security cult of the Bush years, it’s nice to have our national security statism dished out by such a bunch of sensitive souls for a change. The Reaganites and neocons sent out goons in uniform to bash […]
Article by John Medaille. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– Ever since capitalism made its appearance in the late Middle Ages and came to dominate both production and politics in the late 18th century, there has been a vigorous debate on just what the nature of capitalism is. Central to these debates has been […]
Hat tip to MRDA. Dain is an old acquaintance of mine from the U.S. libertarian milieu. “I’m personally interested in the tradition of libertine individualist elitism. The nether region where John Henry Mackay, Max Stirner and HL Mencken meet. These people don’t truck much with liberal pieties and […]
A tortured debate about the relationship between Islamic fundamentalists and anarchists in England. One side argues for what amounts to compulsory integrationism (anarcho-neoconnism?): “Outside of the fantasies of the EDL and Muslims Against Crusades, shariah law is not about to be introduced in the UK. But there are […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. ————————————————————————————————————————————————— I was really looking forward to the Republican foreign policy debate, eagerly anticipating the clash I expected between Rep. Ron Paul’s anti-interventionist viewsand the rest of that warmongering crowd – but I didn’t count on the filtering tactics of CBS News. The televised debate went on for […]
Article by Anthony Gregory. ————————————————————————————————————————————————– Ralph Raico, Great Wars & Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal (Auburn, Alabama: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010), 246 pages. The greatest leaders, according to conventional appraisals, are usually those who draw the most blood. Most opinion makers distance themselves from Hitler, Mao, Stalin, and […]
WTF? ————————————————————————————————————————————————- JERUSALEM, November 10, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – “Wrongful life” lawsuits, in which doctors are held liable for not discovering fetal abnormalities that might have prompted parents to abort their child, have become so common in Israel that the government has set up a committee to investigate the […]
Vice pigs get ripped off by a hooker.
Another day of protecting the children. Read all about it.
Article by Stuart Bramhall. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— There is lots of media speculation about the fate of #OccupyWallStreet (OWS) over winter. Wall Street and Washington politicians are hoping OWS will simply vanish with colder weather. At this point, I think this is highly unlikely. I suspect the size of public […]
Article by Kevin Carson. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————- One of the corporate establishment’s favorite tricks for countering dissent is fake populism — dismissing as “class warfare” any critique of genuine privilege while misdirecting the working class’s resentment toward the underclass. It’s sometimes called “producerism”: An attempt to manufacture a sense of class […]
Article by Matt Zwolinski. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- If you’re like most people, then the one thing you probably think you know about Herbert Spencer is that he was a “Social Darwinist.” And that one thing is wrong. Libertarians like George Smith and Roderick Long (over and over again) have long defended Spencer against the unjust […]
From CNN. ———————————————————————————————————————————————— New York (CNN) — A New York Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Occupy protesters will be allowed to return to Zuccotti Park, but they can’t bring their tents and generators — once a mainstay of the movement. The Lower Manhattan property has been a home for […]
From Escape from America Magazine. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– These days, living in the United States and having a questioning mind is becoming more and more hazardous, forcing many of us to consider our options as to where we might want to spend the next few years. While no country is […]
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Article by Fred Reed. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– All indicators point downward, I tell you. On the lobotomy box the other night I stumbled on what seemed to be sock puppets standing behind rostrums and hypnotically intoning “The American People, the American People, the American People.” Puzzled, I speculated that it […]
From the Libertarian Alliance. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————– The British Medical Association has called for a smoking ban in cars. Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance denounces this call for the following reasons: It is not the business of the State to protect individuals from the alleged effects of their own actions. […]
Article by Kim Zetter. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— The second of two GPS trackers found recently on the vehicle of a young man in California. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com As the Supreme Court gets ready to hear oral arguments in a case Tuesday that could determine if authorities can track U.S. citizens […]
Article by Adam Serwer. —————————————————————————————————————————————————— A bipartisan group of senators is poised to force through dramatic changes to how the US government handles suspected terrorists—over the objections of the White House and Senate Democratic leadership. Legislative language that emerged from the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday afternoon […]
Article by Chris Hedges. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak. […]
Article by Thomas Naylor. —————————————————————————————————————————————————- When I team taught a course on corporate strategy back in 1980 at the Yale School of Management with economist Martin Shubik and former New York Timeschief financial officer Leonard Forman, I never dreamed I would be invited back to Yale thirty years later […]
Article by Thomas Naylor. —————————————————————————————————————————————————– Former Penn State President Graham Spanier’s connection to the university’s football related sex scandal was not his first brush with scandal involving a major organization under his watch. In 1994, while he was Chancellor of the University of Nebraska, Spanier was also Chairman […]
Jim Goad on the Antifa’s ancestors. ————————————————————————————————————————————————- Trending online news topics often cough up amusingly odd juxtapositions, such as when “Auschwitz” was #2 behind “LeAnn Rimes” and right ahead of “Holiday Bread Recipes” on Yahoo!’s home page. Although I didn’t get a screen capture, I swear to […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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