academiccompositionab
Empowerment Equalizer
SSaragian
Antony Sammeroff
Ann Sterzinger
Rodney
RJ
busterjames
cainusmaxus
Craig FitzGerald
David Heleniak
Caity & Dan Greene
keirmartland
Keith Preston
Bill the Butcher
ljp711
MRDA
Jack Donovan
Rachel Haywire
comrade hermit
Michael
Vince
Regan
robertstark2014
Noonan
S E Pearson
Rachel Haywire
Nexus X HumectressFrom “The One Who Watches Over the Land.” Hat tip to Miles Joyner. This spring, I’ll have the opportunity to visit communities in Southeast and learn about the issues they are facing when it comes to traditional and customary use (“subsistence”) management. I’m interested in learning about the […]
Article by James P. Tucker. The shadowy group known as Bilderberg will be gathering this year for its annual meeting at the resort city of St. Moritz, in southeastern Switzerland, June 9-12, but they will have a lot of company. St. Moritz is a short distance from Davos, […]
Article by Mark Crovelli. Specifically, the job of the police officer involves giving orders to strangers and locking them up in cages if they choose not to obey. Unless the police officer is a complete sociopath, he would never consider acting in such a way in his private […]
Article by Adrian Hart. n October last year, Prospect magazine published a set of articles by black and Asian writers under the banner ‘Rethinking Race’. The authors, who wrote about the negative effects of anti-racist polices, asserted that race is no longer the significant disadvantage it is often […]
From Rad Geek. Last year this article by Chris Vogel from the Houston Press won the Molly Award from the Texas Observer. It’s about teenagers locked in the Harris County (Houston), Texas jail system while awaiting a trial. They have not been convicted of any crime, or proven […]
by Michael Parish http://quagmire-abeautifulmind.blogspot.com/2011/03/race-and-libertarianism-left-and-right.html As of late there been a surge of discussion regarding the role of race in Libertarianism, centered around the theoretical debate between Keith Preston and the ALL. Due to the confusion, both conceptual and practical, it is mired in, I have prepared this piece. […]
Article by Michael Tuggle. For Michael Behrle and many others like him, those are the battle lines in post-Cold War, multicultural America: on one side, fascists, and opposing them, the antifa. The word “antifa” comes from Antifaschismus, the German term for anti-fascism. Dressed in their preferred street garb […]
Article by John V. Walsh. The time has come for those who claim high regard for the U.S. Constitution to show that they mean what they say. The time has come to begin impeachment proceedings against President Barack H. Obama for high crimes and misdemeanors. The United States […]
Article by David D’Amato. Syria is emerging as a volatile focal point of a region in flux, with the country’s president, Bashar al-Assad, recalcitrant in dismissing what Reuters calls “rising demands for fundamental reform.” Though well-known for boasting to foreign media of supposedly near-universal popularity of his Baath […]
The PIGS fuck up again. Duh? Article by Radley Balko. It wasn’t a drug raid. But the details are fun. From the opinion: On May 31, 2007, Sam Bellotte printed some photographs from a memory card at a self-service station in a Winchester, Virginia Wal-Mart. When he went […]
Article by David D’Amato. With pro-democracy demonstrations billowing around his regime, Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has held his post for more than thirty years, warned on March 22 that the country is balanced on the precipice of “a bloody war” within its own borders. Saleh, whose […]
Article by Kevin Carson. In one of the more memorable passages in Orwell’s 1984, Winston Smith contemplates the inevitable doom that will follow from the first entry which he is preparing to make in his diary. The act was not illegal, he reflected — there were no laws […]
http://www.gonzotimes.com/2011/03/statement-by-a-libyan-anarchist-the-signs-of-the-defeat-of-libyan-revolution/ I call on all the peoples to support us, the Egyptians, Tunisians, French, even Chinese, all the peoples of the world, we welcome their support and sympathy. —- In a few hours, the UN Security Council will decide to start air strikes against Libya. France has said […]
tecca.com Mariella Moon This time a week ago, 14-year-old Matthew James still lacked a left hand — something he’s had to live with all his life. But a life-changing procedure he went through on Friday gained him not only a new robotic hand, but also oodles of cool […]
A hit piece on the Alternative Right from the Left. Obviously, I have my disagreements with this article but the graphic below is hilarious: In American society, and to a larger extent Europe, Canada and Australia, you’re seeing the rise of a movement that is best described as […]
Jay Batman strikes again with this piece that’s been ruffling some feathers over as the Gonzo Time. There have been some interesting following up posts this article as well over there. Check it out. As I’ve come to divorce myself from statist paradigms, I’ve also become increasingly cognizant […]
Excellent article from “Jay Batman” and the Gonzo Times. I don’t necessarily agree with everything in this article, but these are the kinds of questions anarchists need to give more thought to. The anarchist movement, splintered as it is into various sects and subsets of theory and ideology, […]
From the Daily Mail. * Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated * French propose a new political ‘committee’ to oversee operations * Germany pulls equipment out of NATO coalition over disagreement over campaign’s direction * Italians accuse French of backing […]
From My Budget 360 The American banking industry is trying to convince the public that simply by hiding bad debts in the deep levels of corporate balance sheets that taking on leveraged risk is somehow safe. FDIC insured banks currently have $7.4 trillion in actual deposits, much of […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. Well, that didn’t take long. Now that President Barack Obama has intervened in Libya, his army of apologists is mobilizing to defend his “humanitarianism,” declaring that his war isn’t at all like Bush’s wars. It’s something new, and different – and admirable. I’m not […]
Lew Rockwell is interviewed on Russia Today. The Arab League is a “collection of dictators, kings and presidents, all of them puppets of the US, but they are backing down because of the unbelievable hatred and outrage on the part of their own people for the fact that […]
Article by Gary Chartier. Being a libertarian means opposing the use of force to restrain peaceful, voluntary exchange. That doesn’t mean it should be understood as involving support for capitalism. Whether this claim makes any sense at all depends, of course, on what you mean by “capitalism.” For […]
Article by Pat Buchanan. “The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.” So said constitutional scholar and Senator Barack Obama in December 2007—the same man […]
A very important article by Sean Gabb of the Libertarian Alliance. Everything I thought relevant about our latest war in the Moslem world I said in a blog posting a few days ago. However, I have been asked to write at greater length. If I do not choose […]
Article by Thomas Naylor. Neither its $5.4 trillion economy, its state-of-the-art technology, nor its military-like efficiency could protect Japan from the catastrophic consequences of the March 11, 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. To be quite blunt, when you cram 127 million people into one large island and […]
The far Left and the far Right coming together in a bipartisan effort to impeach Obama would be very cool indeed. Article by John T. Bennett. A senior Republican on the House Armed Services Committee escalated his party’s attacks on the Obama’s administration’s military action in Libya, calling […]
Go, Dennis! Article by Sahil Kapur n an exclusive interview with Raw Story on Monday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) tore into President Barack Obama’s decision to order U.S. air strikes against Libya, opening the door for impeachment while emphatically declaring that Obama violated the Constitution. “President Obama moved […]
From Alternet. On February 16, Michigan’s Governor Snyder signed into law a sweeping emergency financial management bill, one that will give him wide powers to appoint financial managers across the state. Cities in financial distress will be assigned emergency managers, who will have the power to suspend collective […]
From Stumbling and Mumbling. In the Economist’s rather good survey of the growth of government, there’s one thing missing – something right libertarians tend to understate. I refer to the possibility that the increasing size of the state over time has often served the interests of capitalism. I […]
Article by David D’Amato. Bahrain’s King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa has,” according to a Reuters report, “said a foreign plot against his Gulf Arab kingdom had been foiled … .” The king’s statement, a paranoid imputation citing an “external plot” that has “fomented for 20 to 30 […]
From the Gonzo Times. So today in Olympia I left my house for a run at about 1:00 PM. I had only gotten two blocks away from my house when i noticed a large white SUV turn out behind me, I didn’t think anything of it at the […]
From Trentslist.Org You can accept whatever form of payment you want for the goods you are selling. If I decide that your $10 meal is worth a bushel of corn to me and accept that bushel of corn as payment, then I’ve bartered for that payment and have […]
From USA Today. Update at 11:48 a.m. ET: French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says the departure of President Saleh is “unavoidable.” Update at 11:37 a.m. ET: Yemeni Defense Minister Mohammad Nasser Ali, in an address on national television today, said the military backs President Saleh and will defend […]
This is about what I figured Egyptian “democracy” would look like. Article by Paul Cooper. The media sold us all on the Egyptian so-called democracy protests. It would bring peace and a secular government. Christians would not have to fear. All would be well. Those same newsmen might […]
Article by Stephen Walt. Last Wednesday I spoke at an event at Hofstra University, on the subject of “Barack Obama’s Foreign Policy.” The other panelists were former DNC chair and 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean and longtime Republican campaign guru Ed Rollins. The organizers at Hofstra were efficient […]
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/invaders-remorse-arab-league-now-criticizes-western-attack-libya Not even a full day after the UN-endorsed attack on Libya began, and the “invader’s remorse” is already manifesting itself as discontent among the “peacemakers” emerges. Per the AFP: “The Arab League on Sunday criticized Western military strikes on Libya, a week after urging the United Nations […]
A great new book! http://www.falsejustice.com/#!home
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE http://www.lp.org/news/press-releases/they-hate-us-because-we-bomb-them-says-libertarian-chair March 20, 2011 Contact: Wes Benedict, Executive Director E-mail: wes.benedict@lp.org Phone: 202-333-0008 ext. 222 They hate us because we bomb them, says Libertarian Chair WASHINGTON – Giving little thought to the lessons of history, President Obama has begun attacking Libya with the full support […]
Article by William Norman Grigg It is abominable that 535 people in Washington assume they have the moral authority to compel Americans to make sacrifices of their lives and property in the service of what Daniel Webster (of all people) described as “the folly and wickedness” of the […]
Article by Pat Buchanan When the army suddenly sent Mubarak packing, the White House hailed the revolution as the harbinger of an Arab spring. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton burbled that her 15-minute stroll through Tahrir Square was “a great reminder of the power of the human spirit […]
Article by Jim Goad Japan has endured a three-headed monster of colossal catastrophes over the past ten days—a 9.0 earthquake, a tsunami with 30-foot crests, and an unresolved nuclear-reactor crisis that unspooled as a direct result of the first two disasters. The temblor and tidal wave can be […]
Article by Justin Raimondo. Barely 24 hours after the first Allied air strikes, President Obama’s high-flying Libyan adventure is losing altitude. The smoke hadn’t cleared from the first air strikes when the head of the Arab League complained that “what happened differs from the no-fly zone objectives. What […]
Article by David D’Amato. CNN reports that “A [U.S.-led] coalition … made good Saturday [March 19] on international warnings to Gadhafi, hammering Libyan military positions in the first phase of an operation that will include enforcement of a no-fly zone.” As reigning hegemon and maintainer of global political […]
My latest post at AlternativeRight.Com
From ABC News. Roundtable: Target Libya George Will, Paul Wolfowitz, Robin Wright, Jane Harman.
by Richard Spencer http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/exit-strategies/libya-kosovo-redux/ I must confess that I have a half-written blog entry on how the Obama administration has, in essence, given up on the American Empire. Due to fiscal constraints, its own incompetence, and its lack of self-assurance in the wake of Iraq and rising anti-Americanism, […]
Watch the video. Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, who is also anti-Fed, anti-war and pro-gold, rips President Obama big time over attacking Libya. A sound argument, with a very interesting final warning.
Article by Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya The U.S. and its allies are embarking on another regime change operation. Before they started their attacks on the Libyans, they admitted that there would be civilians casualities in an act of irony. They claim to be acting to save civilians, but they […]
by Kevin DeAnna http://www.westernyouth.org/articles/what-does-this-have-to-do-with-us/ Our government has one basic job. Before anything else, the federal government has to ensure the physical security of the nation. This includes securing the borders, preventing foreign invasion, and discouraging attacks against the national territory and American citizens. Obviously, our government doesn’t do […]
Watch the video at LRC. Hat tip to David Kramer. A principled liberal (unfortunately, there are so few now that one of theirs is in office) calls for the impeachment of the current “liberal” murderer in the White House. Where’s the outrage from the rest of the left […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
Recent Comments