Updated News Digest-June 22, 2008

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/15/magazine/15wwln-Q4-t.html?_r=2&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin&oref=slogin Gore Vidal- The New York Times interviews the patrician radical http://www.lewrockwell.com/margolis/margolis113.html Is the U.S. going to war with Pakistan? by Eric Margolis http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/1382115/Getting-to-know-the-Hitlers.html Hitler’s long lost relatives-they’re living on Long Island! No, really! http://www.townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2008/06/18/legalize_all_drugs Legalize All Drugs! by John Stossel http://vdare.com/roberts/080617_obama.htm Obama Grovels to The Lobby, GOP Grovels […]

In Defense of the Lost Cause

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Recently, on another blog, a somewhat well-known figure in the “left-libertarian” milieu attacked the circle around the Ludwig von Mises Institute for their association with so-called “neo-Confederates”. I don’t like to attack other radicals/libertarians/anarchists publicly unless they attack me first (like ChuckO Munson and Daniel Owen), so I’m […]

Why Pan-Secessionism?

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Most Americans agree that the political system in the United States is incompetent, corrupt and not likely to be reformed in any meaningful way. More and more Americans are getting fed up with the Tweedle Dee vs. Tweedle Dum so-called “electoral process”. The problem is that while Americans […]

The Third North American Secessionist Convention

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http://middleburyinstitute.org/secessionconvention2008.html THE THIRD NORTH AMERICAN SECESSIONIST CONVENTION November 14-16, 2008 in Manchester, New Hampshire CALL Issued March 31, 2008          MARCH 31—The Middlebury Institute has announced that the Third North American Secessionist Convention will be held in Manchester, New Hampshire, on November 14-16, 2008. Delegates […]

Lessons of the Ron Paul Campaign?

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It would appear that Ron Paul’s heroic but quixotic presidential campaign is all but finished. That said, what lessons can be drawn from the Ron Paul experience? To some degree, it would appear that those of us advocating a “third way” beyond left and right have been on […]

Do I Believe Jews Control the World?

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Found this amusing post on the Revolution International blog: Very strange website. I note you link to Keith Preston (thinks Jews control the world), Peter Topfer (attended Teran holocaust denial conference), the National Bolshevik Party (neo-Nazi and old KGB), Black nationalists who are anti-Semitic (and anti-White), and Folk […]

Paradoxically, Ron Paul’s Success Proving Irrelevance of (Establishment) Libertarianism

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British emigre and paleoconservative John Derbyshire has an interesting discussion of Ron Paul, Libertarian and Classical Anarchism on today’s VDARE.com: http://www.vdare.com Some responses to Mr. Derbyshire’s critique: “The libertarian Establishment has disdain for Ron Paul‘s presidential campaign. The geeky idealists of Reason and the Cato Institute failed to […]

Must Anarchists Be Dogmatists?

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The first time I ever heard the term “anarchist” was in 1983, when I was a senior in high school. My English Lit. textbook included a unit on the British poet Percy Byshe Shelley and the brief biographical synopsis of Shelley mentioned that he had been the son-in-law […]