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Empowerment Equalizer
SSaragian
Antony Sammeroff
Ann Sterzinger
Rodney
RJ
busterjames
cainusmaxus
Craig FitzGerald
David Heleniak
Caity & Dan Greene
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Keith Preston
Bill the Butcher
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MRDA
Jack Donovan
Rachel Haywire
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Michael
Vince
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Noonan
S E Pearson
Rachel Haywire
Nexus X HumectressWe Don't Serve Your Kind Here
Seattle restaurant refuses to serve TSA agents.
Line in the Sand
A new book from Dan Miller of the Texas Nationalist Movement. In “Line in the Sand,” Daniel Miller tackles the concepts of what ‘political will’ and ‘nationalism’ is and what they mean to Texans. He eloquently removes all reason for doubt concerning Texas independence and explains that maintaining […]
Politicial Nihilism
Thomas Naylor on the absurdities of the overlords of the empire. Life is absurd said French existentialist writers Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre back in the 1950s. But surely there is no more appropriate description of life in the American Empire sixty years later. Our lives are meaningless. […]
Artistry in Revolution
Thomas Naylor on why the Left and Right both get it wrong on secession. Unfortunately, the premise underlying the tea party, tenth amendment, and nullification movements is that the U.S. government is indeed fixable. All one need do is return to the Constitution and everything will be just […]
Monopoly: A Nice Trick If You Can Do It
Kevin Carson on the failures of the “progressive” regulatory state. But even after the economy became dominated by giant corporations, argued Gabriel Kolko in The Triumph of Conservatism, attempts to establish cartels by purely private means were largely failures. The big trusts immediately began losing market share to […]
Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin, Part 2
The second installment of David D’Amato’s article. The meaningful division is between those who use coercive manipulation of the bounds within which economic activities take place, and those who rely on voluntary, cooperative courses of action. Any number of organizational structures, including unions, would occupy a free market, […]
The Growing Antiwar Insurgency on the American Right
Kelley Vlahos and Gene Healy on the growing challenge to neocon hegemony. John Walsh discusses the prospect of a Left/Right antiwar alliance. What do the Right and Left bring to the antiwar movement? At this time, the Left brings greater numbers because the Cold War has led the […]
Getting the Raw End in Wisconsin
David D’Amato on the class conflict being played out in Wisconsin. In the political phraseology of the United States, bogged down in the vacuous false choice of Republican versus Democrat, proponents of the “free market” are allegedly not supposed to concern themselves with scoundrels like government workers’ unions. […]
In Libya and Elsewhere, the State Depends on Submission
David D’Amato provides a very good summary of the events of the Middle East. These countries’ productive majorities are no longer content to prop up and underwrite the dissolute culture of their “leaders,” to work their fingers to the bone while palace parties rage in their capital cities. […]
Youth for Western Civilization
Kevin DeAnna is interviewed by The New American.
British Teenagers More Concerned About Immigration Than Adults
Interesting article from London’s Evening Standard.
Jefferson, Not Jihad
Will Grigg on the anti-imperialist revolution in the Middle East. Will Grigg, blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the connection between Federal Reserve monetary policy and increased food prices around the world; the unprecedented scope of US empire (and the correspondingly large payroll); the Jeffersonian, rather […]
Watch the Revolution As It Happens
On Al-Jazeera English.
From Morocco to Malaysia
It’s 1776 in the Islamic world. Rashid Khalidi, author and professor of Middle East history and politics, discusses the spectacle of protesters from Morocco to Malaysia echoing the leaders of the American Revolution; how genuine reformist movements in Iran are undermined by US support; the endgame of US […]
Saddam Hussein-Not Bush and Cheney-Was Telling the Truth
Eric Margolis on why the Iraq War critics were right from the start. The US Congress and media bayed for action against Iraq. As war fever swept over the United States, this writer, an old Iraq hand and war correspondent, warned Powell’s claims were absurd and that Iraq […]
Is Federalism Good for Fetuses?
Pro-lifer James Banks explains why the pro-choice camp has mostly won the abortion debate. Even if certain states passed rigidly anti-abortion laws, state borders are porous; back in the 1980s, in my native state of Idaho, the drinking age was 18, while the drinking age in neighboring Washington […]
Quote of the Day: "The System Makes No Sense"
James Leroy Wilson explains. There are people, Democrat and Republican alike, who believe “the system” does make sense, and is fundamentally good. They also believe it is sustainable; the only problem is sin. Democrats and Republicans differ only on what the sins happen to be. For Democrats, the […]
Clarification
by Michael Parish http://quagmire-abeautifulmind.blogspot.com/2011/02/clarification.html Libertarians, movement “conservatives”, and other heirs to the classical liberal tradition view society through the binary opposition of “individualism” and “collectivism”; the two are reified into near-Platonic forms and pitted in a permanent opposition recalling Judeo-Christian dualism. Both are mental absracta, but in a society based on economic reductionism, they […]
Hundreds Dead in Libyan Crackdown
Warplanes bomb demonstrators.
Israeli Media Fears the "New" Egypt
Neve Gordon explains why. Dan Margalit, a well-known commentator, made this point clear when he explained that Israel does not disapprove of a democracy in the largest Arab country but simply privileges Israel’s peace agreement with Egypt over internal Arab affairs. Israel, one should note, is not alone […]
When Will George W. Bush Be Tried for His War Crimes?
Sheldon Richman wants to know. It would have been bad enough to torture people actually suspected of wrongdoing, but the Bush administration went well beyond that. Many people subjected to hideous treatment were picked up on the flimsiest of “evidence.” People were offered bounties to turn others in; […]
A Eulogy for the First Vermont Republic
Thomas Naylor describes a sad day in Vermont history. Is it possible that out of the ashes of the First Vermont Republic a Second Vermont Republic might emerge? Might not Vermont experience a kind of resurrection from the dead, or at least from its two-century long slumber, resulting […]
Revolution in the Middle East: They're Doing It Without the U.S
Andrew Bacevich offers his analysis in the Los Angeles Times. When first conceived in the wake of 9/11, two convictions underpinned that war. According to the first, precluding further attacks on the United States meant that the Islamic world needed to change. According to the second, because Muslims […]
The Arab Awakening
Article by Justin Raimondo. As events in Libya continue to race forward, I think my initial analysis is roughly accurate: while the Eastern provinces have rid themselves of Gadhafi, in Tripoli pro-government mobs are taking to the streets, and the dictator and his equally daffy son seem to […]
George W. Bush, War Criminal, Is Not Welcome in Europe
Article by Andy Worthington. It was, however, a third piece of news that particularly brightened up my last few days in Poland, when I was able to tell audiences that George W. Bush had just cancelled a proposed trip to Switzerland on February 12 because two former victims […]
The End of Gadaffi
After 42 years in power, is the Colonel on his way out?
The Revenge of Rothbard and Hess
by John Payne http://www.amconmag.com/postright/2011/02/15/bizarro-history-repeating/ The most famous battle in the long, internecine war on the right between libertarians and traditionalists was fought over Labor Day weekend, 1969 at the Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) convention in Saint Louis. The two groups argued semi-peacefully over a number of proposed […]
The Spirit of 1848
Is the Islamic world finally catching up with the 19th century? Charles Glass thinks so.
An Interview with Richard Spencer
Conducted by Alex Kurtagic. This is an interesting quote: To return to your provocative question, in my fantasyland, there would still be a Left and a Right—and granolas and libertarians and animal rights activists and Mormons, et al.—but they would operate within Western unity and natural hierarchy. Some, […]
Chomsky vs The John Birch Society
A writer for the right-wing isolationist JBS has some bone to pick with the left-wing anti-imperialist Chomsky. And they both think modern America parallels Weimar Germany, but for different reasons. See the article. So who is it that threatens America? Fascists of the Left or fascists of the […]
Rothbard vs The Unions
Unions: heroes or villains? Murray Rothbard thought it was the latter. What do you think? Back during my serious leftist-anarchist days, I used to do strike support work for unions including the Greyhound strike Rothbard discusses. My experience was that most strikers couldn’t be bothered to even show […]
Cowboy Capitalism and the State
Kevin Carson explains. Also, be sure to check out this classic from Joseph Stromberg.
Ron Paul vs David Horowitz
Ron Paul wants to end foreign aid to all Middle Eastern countries. Sensible enough. Read all about it. And David Horowitz goes off his meds in response. Horowitz’s rants have about as much rationality or coherence as the typical Weather Underground communique circa 1969. So much for his […]
The U.S. Empire is Going Down in the Middle East
One puppet state after another is falling or going its own way. Pat Buchanan explains.
Totalitarian Humanism, Foreign and Domestic
Paul Gottfried gives an overview. Is what Krauthammer proposes really self-rule for other countries, or is it acceptance of a permanent American suzerainty? He seems far less willing to allow Egypt to go its own way than to have Egyptians live according to his wishes. Why not describe […]
Will Multiculturalism End Europe?
Pat Buchanan wonders.
The Shame of Being an American
Paul Craig Roberts explains. Does democracy really exist in a land where the media is incompetent and the government is unaccountable and lies through its teeth every time if opens its mouth? “Curveball” represents a new level of immorality. Rafid al-Janabi shares responsibility for one million dead Iraqis, […]
The Academic Arm of the Police State
Burn Your School! John Whitehead explains why.
Left and Right Against the Empire
Kevin Zeese talks about the Come Home America project. Listen to the interview with Scott Horton. Check out the website. This is really good stuff.
Obama Kowtows to Military-Industrial Complex
It figures. Read the statement from the Libertarian Party. WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party criticizes the Obama administration’s recent statement demanding more military spending from House Republicans. The administration claims that the Republican spending bill currently under debate does not provide enough military funding. According to the administration, […]
Swiss Vote to Keep "a Gun in Every Closet"
Good for them. Read all about it.
Losing Sight of What Matters in Egypt and Beyond
by Jack Ross http://www.amconmag.com/postright/2011/02/15/losing-sight-of-what-matters-in-egypt-and-beyond/ The neocons are regrettably all too skillful in their use of the big lie — in this case, the maddening whopper that the protesters in Egypt and beyond are carrying out the global democratic revolution proclaimed by George W. Bush. Increasingly, this lie is […]
What Is to be Done with the Statists?
by Paul Bonneau http://www.strike-the-root.com/what-is-to-be-done-with-statists Have you ever wondered what freedom would look like? The big picture, I mean; not just like what it would be like to smoke some pot without being beat up by thugs. Strangely enough, any realistic picture of freedom will have to include statists […]
All of Statism is Imperialism
Says David D’Amato. Anarchism builds on the proposition that smaller communities, growing outward from the sovereign individual, ought to determine for themselves the parameters of governing social mores. “Any decentralized, post-state society … ,” teaches the work of Kevin Carson, “is likely to be a panarchy,” a diverse […]
In Egypt, as Everywhere, Anarchy is Order
So says Kevin Carson. In press commentary on the recent events in Egypt, there were frequent expressions of concern that Egypt might be falling into “anarchy.” “Anarchy,” in conventional journalistic usage, means chaos, disorder, and bloodshed — a Hobbesian war of all against all — that occurs when […]
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Listen, YAF!
Murray Rothbard’s takedown of “movement conservatism” from 1969. There is no way that you can overthrow the Jones-Teague clique, for this clique is entrenched in power. And behind this clique lie the fusionist gurus: the Buckleys, and Rushers, and Meyers. And behind them lie the real power in […]
House Votes to Extend Patriot Act Provisions
Read the New York Times report on Congress’ affirmation of the police state.
South Carolina Lawmaker Wants Separate Currency for the State
A South Carolina state politician wants the state to develop its own gold and silver-based currency in case the Federal Reserve collapses and hyper-inflation ensues. “If folks lose faith in the dollar, we need to have some kind of backup,” State Sen. Lee Bright told the Spartanburg Herald […]
Atlanta: PIGS Lose, Good Guys Win
Radley Balko explains why.
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