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Nexus X HumectressAfghanistan War Exposed: An Imperial Conspiracy
Abby Martin covers the whole truth about the Afghanistan War, from the CIA construct of the ’80s through today’s senseless stalemate. Two decades, three administrations, tens of thousands of lives.
Somerville, Mass. becomes first U.S. city to legally recognize polyamorous relationships
I have long believed that a movement to formally recognize polygamy would eventually appear in the US, and here it is. Between the polyamory movement, polygamous subcultures, and immigration from cultures where polygamy is practiced, it was almost inevitable, particularly given the recognition/acceptance of same-sex marriage. Lauren Theisen […]
MPD Members Disband to Focus On Individual Violent Side Projects
By Freelancer The Hard Times MINNEAPOLIS — Members of the Minneapolis Police Department disbanded yesterday to focus on their individual violent side projects, citing creative differences within the force and amongst city officials, a complicit spokesperson confirmed earlier today. “I was feeling stifled,” bemoaned Lt. Mark Kudlow. “Don’t […]
Father Of Black Teen Killed In CHOP: It’s Time To Bring In The National Guard
Because there is never any violent crime and no one ever gets killed in territory controlled by the state. It’s interesting how articles like this advance the premise that an autonomous zone should somehow be a paradisical oasis overnight. By Emily Zanotti The Daily Wire As Covid-19 cases […]
Spanish towns offer new home for statues targeted by protests in US
Good plan. Move the statues to places where people actually want them. By Ashifa Kassam The Guardian A handful of towns in Spain have sought to wade into America’s reckoning with its past, offering to rehome controversial statues targeted over their links to colonialism and centuries of genocide […]
In the Autonomous Zones
By Ezra Marcus New York Times At first they called it the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. In early June, protesters aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement took over six city blocks of a gentrified Seattle neighborhood. There, activists screened films, served spaghetti, painted murals, held vigils and […]
Colonialism, Explained
Colonialism is actually much older than what this author discusses. To trace the history of colonialism, you have to go back to at least the Roman era. Roman colonialism had an impact on indigenous cultures across the Eurasian landmass that was similar to the impact of Western colonialism […]
A Conversation w/ ‘Green Anarchist’ Bellamy Fitzpatrick
Pete invited Bellamy Fitzpatrick to come on the show. Bellamy is a self-described “Green Anarchist” who joins Pete to have a conversation that includes an explanation of what G.A. means to him and to find some common ground among people who realize that, first and foremost, the State […]
What is Justice? A discussion on pan anarchism with Richard Cheimison
The Mindcrime Liberty Show along with Richard Cheimison discusses what is justice and whether it exists in any meaningful sense. Is justice merely power or is it something else. What is the foundation of justice other than whatever the state and its courts/police say?
The Case against Revolution with Ayaan Hirsi Ali
A pro-reformist contribution to the reform vs. revolution debate. We need both Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, both of whom were proto-anarchists. Burke’s “Vindication of Natural Society” is essentially an anarcho-libertarian document, and Paine was what would today be called a minarchist with economic views similar to those […]
Bodily Autonomy in the Corona World Order
Drug overdoses, gun sales SPIKE during pandemic
Guns and Dope Party 2020
BACKLASH GROWS against Fauci after mask lies admitted on tape
The white coat priesthood apparently has as many fraudsters as the white collar priesthood. I was saying not to trust this guy from the time the pandemic crisis started. Saagar and Ryan Grim respond to concerns about Dr.Fauci’s coronavirus advice from Megan McCain and Texas Lt. Gov. Dan […]
Working Families Party breaks down TREMENDOUS success after progressive wins nationwide
The fact that progressives are a growing insurgency among the Democrats, that Qanon types are winning primaries as Republicans, and public intellectuals and celebrities are trying to launch third parties shows that a lot of folks are getting pissed off at the system. State Director of the New […]
Bret Weinstein breaks down Dark Horse Duo plan to save republic
Weinstein’s group has a proposal for a “radical center” third-party ticket featuring Andrew Yang and Admiral McRaven. Visiting Fellow Dr. Bret Weinstein at the James Madison Program at Princeton discusses why he is calling for unity of the center-left and center-right.
Intel FALLS APART on Russian bounties as neocons, Biden want MORE WAR in Afghanistan
Saagar Enjeti blasts responses to the Russian bounty reports that provoke action against Russia and threaten the security of American soldiers in Afghanistan.
Top Biden Nastec Aide RAN THE DRONE KILL LIST under Obama
A Biden regime will likely be a “ruling class unity” government that includes Hillaryites, “human rights imperialists” like Samantha Power, Bush Republicans, neocons, Boltonesque hawks, and Israel-firsters, with “woke” social policies being used to pacify the left-wing of the Democratic Party and co-opt left activism while strengthening recent […]
GOP Senators try to KILL Columbus Day to stop workers from having too many Holidays
Wow. Someone actually recognizes this. Democrats and Republicans are the left and right wings of the Neo-Feudalism Party.
Big business wants Facebook to CENSOR anti-establishment voices
Well, at least we know which firms to attack during the next wave of uprisings (if we didn’t already). And intra-ruling class conflict is always welcome. It’s also interesting how “hate” has become the new “obscenity.” It shows that the ruling class can always use whatever mores are […]
Decentralist Anarchy versus World Domination Anarchism
By Bellamy Fitzpatrick, The Brilliant “Do you think you can take over the universe and improve it? I do not believe it can be done. The universe is sacred. You cannot improve it. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. If you try to hold […]
To My Critics: My Own Peculiar Albatross
By Bellamy Fitzpatrick Under different circumstances, I would not have brought this issue up so early in my blog, and perhaps would never have brought it up, but the recent mention of me on The Solecast has made me think it is necessary to lay this issue to […]
What ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ Really Mean
By Bellamy Fitzpatrick Invocations of ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ are extremely common in political discussions. Typically, they are deployed as hopelessly vague terms of abuse or goofy indications of team loyalty, unfortunately including among anarchists, libertarians, and other radicals. I have argued for years that these terms are so […]
Aletheia: How and Why I Was Wrong About So Much, and the Purpose of this Blog
By Bellamy Fitzpatrick I have found a new humility. It was almost four years ago now that I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to this new place I have grown to love. It has been said that urban radical subcultures have a tendency to degenerate into […]
China Begins Brutal Crackdown Under New Law In Hong Kong, Starts Arresting Those Calling For Freedom
China is the global ruling class’ test market in a sophisticated, high-tech state repression. Recall how much praise China received from international opinion leaders for its heavy-handed response to COVID-19 (all the while disseminating fraudulent medical statistics).
Paris 1871, Seattle 2020
This is exactly what Mayor Ed Koch of New York said following the Tomkins Square Park riots in 1988. As I have always said, Trump is just a New York liberal, not a fascist.
The Cuban Revolution in Healthcare
A summary and review of Cuban Health Care; The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz, Monthly Review Press, 2020. Ted Trainer 26.6.2020 This book gives an excellent account of the nature, history and achievements of the Cuban health system. It is fairly lengthy, quite detailed, heavily documented, and easy […]
NSA Dissents From Other Agencies Over Russian Bounty Intel
The NSA is the most secretive, most heavily funded, largest, and most technologically advanced of the 17 US intelligence organizations, i.e. the elite of the “intelligence community.” There is no such thing as egalitarianism among the power elite just as there is no such thing as egalitarianism in […]
Taking Steps Towards a City Without Local Police
This article is 100% spot, at least as far as the local component of the police state is concerned, and far as the “criminal law” aspect of statism is concerned. Of course, even at the local level, we could develop a far more comprehensive critique of statism. The […]
Getting the Police Issue Right
The main limitation of most liberal and left critiques of the police state is that these are primarily limited to dubious killings of civilians, racial disparities, and official forms of “police misconduct” as conventionally defined. And usually, these critiques are limited to the municipal police. That’s a start […]
WHO warns it could take up to 5 years before the coronavirus pandemic is under control
From May 2014. I’ve been thinking this thing was probably going to drag on for years to come. That’s how it was with the Spanish Flu, which lasted for two years, and COVID-19 may last longer because there are more people now and the population is more mobile. […]
The Coronavirus Is Also Spreading a Dark New Era of Neo-Feudalism
The important takeaways from Kotkin’s work are these three basic points: 1) class relations in developed societies are increasingly resembling those in traditional (feudal), early capitalist or “Third World” societies; 2) the oligarchs of the new high-tech industries and financial institutions have replaced the old bourgeoisie as the […]
Neofeudalism: The End of Capitalism?
By Jodi Dean Los Angeles Review of Books IN CAPITAL IS DEAD, McKenzie Wark asks: What if we’re not in capitalism anymore but something worse? The question is provocative, sacrilegious, unsettling as it forces anti-capitalists to confront an unacknowledged attachment to capitalism. Communism was supposed to come after […]
A New Book Warns of Our ‘Neo-Feudal’ Future
It’s interesting how class divisions in the US have become so wide that even the right-wing has started to pay attention, which was previously unheard of in the US. Trump got elected on an anti-neoliberal platform. Tucker Carlson often sounds like Bernie Sanders or even Noam Chomsky in […]
Joel Kotkin on the Rise of Neo-Feudalism
Joel Kotkin describes how the “California model” is being applied to the entire world. Kotkin’s analysis is the natural successor to Burnham’s “managerial revolution” thesis.
The West Bank- A Look Behind The Wall
Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to meet with the civil rights groups that sparked a massive Facebook advertising boycott
It’s always great to see an enemy get his comeuppance. And at the hands of his fellow ruling class scumbags no less. The Romans had the Ides of March. Maybe there will be an Ides of July. By Sheila Dang and Katie Paul
Coming Soon to a COVID-19 Infected Theater Near You!
If I were a writer of comedy or absurdist fiction, I don’t think I could come up with anything more ridiculous than the real-life society we actually live in.
Always at War with East Asia
“Another National Defense Authorization Act, another distraction. The media and politicians are going on and on about Confederate names and Republicans stripping a requirement to report foreign election assistance (bc it did so much to keep human rights abusing governments from influencing US dEmOcRaCy ). Meanwhile, the bill […]
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Seattle Police begin dismantling CHOP area after mayor issues executive order
If it’s any consolation, the Paris Commune didn’t turn out so well either.
Police Reform “Unlikely” Laments CNN (Told You So)
I disagree with some of the philosophical premises that Styx is arguing from in this, but much of his factual analysis is correct. He offers some advice that is worth heeding.
Prof Richard Wolff: “Downright Silly” To Call US A Free Market System
As Joel Kotkin has said, what we have now is not socialism or capitalism but neo-feudalism, which is something that Marxists, Nazbols, social democrats, libertarians, ancaps, national-anarchists, and left-anarchists ought to be able to agree on.
Anti-eviction protests ends with arrests, window smashed at downtown Richmond courthouse
Nice work. A small gesture, but every little bit counts. BY C. SUAREZ ROJAS Richmond Times-Dispatch An anti-eviction rally and protest march ended with arrests and a smashed window at the John Marshall Courthouse in downtown Richmond on Wednesday. Following the rally at the courthouse plaza and a […]
St. Louis man who went viral defending his property speaks out on ‘Tucker’
If opinion leaders, activists, “radicals,” BLMs, etc. are wise they will outspokenly oppose the criminal prosecution of these two. The last thing that needs to happen is for public support for repression to increase, for inter-tribal warfare to escalate, or for Red State/conservative middle-class Falangists to emerge. The […]
America’s decline: More like Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome?
It’s important to remember that the modern American Empire is really just an extension of the British Empire, only the capital was moved from London to Washington. I’d argue (in fact, I think it’s indisputable) that the Anglo-American (Atlanticist) Empire is simply the Roman (Mediterranean) Empire of the […]
Will the Neocons Bait, Turn, Switch, and Purge the Antifa/SJWs While Suppressing the Lumpenproletariat?
This is important stuff. I recently put a couple of questions concerning current events to a well-known intellectual historian, a Jewish man whose parents fled Hungary during the rise of Hitler, and who is a specialist in the history of 20th-century totalitarian movements. His responses confirmed my suspicion […]
A Practical Solution: Run Police Departments Like Fire Departments
This is probably the best idea for reducing police brutality/unnecessary killings, along with police state intrusions generally. Some libertarians/ancaps suggest replacing public police with private police. They have that in some areas of Latin America, and police are merely mercenaries for the rich (kind of like our public […]
Want to reform America’s police? Look to firefighters
Well, as far as I know, there are no songs called “Fuck the Fire Department.” By Roscoe Scarborough The Conversation Freddie Gray. Eric Garner. Michael Brown. The deaths of black youth and men at the hands of police have sparked a nationwide conversation on discriminatory policing practices. Media […]
The End of Policing
Alex Vitale’s book is probably the most comprehensive scholarly work on this topic at present. Thanks to Vince for the summary. – The origin of policing as a control mechanism for the upper class and rich to suppress the lower class and minorities. Strike breaking, enforcement of racial […]
“Why’d they have to end her life?”: Friends of Hannah Fizer look for answers, justice
This woman was shot by a cop who lied and claimed she had a gun when she didn’t. It’s also important to note that this was a white woman in a rural midwestern town. The police state is the enemy of everyone. By Emily Walton Friends, acquaintances and […]
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