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Nexus X HumectressBy Brett McCabe The Hard Times MINNEAPOLIS — Rioters protesting the unlawful killing of another unarmed black man at the hands of police officers successfully burned Minneapolis’ Third Precinct police station to the ground, tragically leaving nearly 20,000 more stations standing. “We see this as a step in […]
By Anon Anarchist News When I arrived in the afternoon at 3rd precinct the vibe was jovial as thousands of people chilled around a burning car campfire in the bombed out Target mini-mall. With the backdrop of a waterfall pouring out of the charred skeleton of a massive […]
The Animal Liberation Front folks would be proud. This is like the scened from “The Wizard of Oz” where Margaret Hamilton’s “Wicked Witch” character unleashes her monkey army. By Richard Williams Sky News A gang of monkeys attacked a laboratory assistant and escaped with a batch of coronavirus […]
I guess the drone wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Yemen have been a test market for domestic drone wars. By Jason Koebler, Joseph Cox, and Jordan Pearson Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is flying a Predator drone, military technology used for surveilling and killing terrorists abroad, over Minneapolis […]
Retail and fast-food workers are some of the most poorly treated workers in the US service industries. Some years ago, a worldwide social science research project was conducted that showed McDonald’s “Golden Arches” were the most recognized symbol globally, even more so than the Christian cross or the […]
I’ve noticed that both Blue Tribe and Red Tribe loyalists are often the first to attack protestors on “the other side.” Folks who vociferously condemned the Rodney King riots in 1992 were supporting the militia movement a few years later. Folks who cheered the Waco and Ruby Ridge […]
I imagine a lot of government officials are missing the anti-lockdown protestors at this point. Defying shelter-in-place orders has been taken to a new level. By Arelis R. Hernández, J. Freedom du Lac, Katie Mettler and Meryl Kornfield Washington Post Protests raged across America on Friday on a […]
I know and like Derrick and Will. They both do very good work in their respective domains though, as I suspected, the Minneapolis situation appears to be driving a deeper wedge between anti-capitalist and proprietarian anarchists. I’m generally okay with looting Target, but I’m also generally okay with […]
I generally agree with this on an abstract level though I have generally found it best to assess police officers and/or claims of police brutality on an individual or situational basis. It’s possible for a cop to become an ex-cop, and for an ex-cop to criticize many cop […]
I actually know quite a few people with conservative/right-wing or centrist/liberal views who think what was done to George Floyd was terrible. Fighting the state should be about reaching as wide an audience as possible (i.e. winning the Gramscian war of ideas) not pigeonholing people based on broad […]
Why not loot stores AND carry guns? Why not have anti-lockdown protests AND rent strikes? Why not have anti-police protests AND pro-2nd Amendment protests? Why not recognize everyone’s right to disagree with any of this? Once again, it’s not either/or.
Editor-At-Large of Jacobin Magazine David Sirota discusses economics, crime and punishment surrounding Minneapolis protests and indicts the stimulus bills as a catalyst.
I have noticed that the Blue Tribe and Red Tribe increasingly accuse each other of election fraud. They’re both probably right. Eventually, it will get to the point that the losing side in an election automatically assumes their opponents cheated, which will undermine the perceived legitimacy of the […]
Krystal Ball blasts Amy Klobuchar for her failure to prosecute two of the officers involved in the killing of George Floyd, who were reviewed for use of force during her tenure as County Attorney.
A somewhat interesting discussion of culture war politics from some left-leaning atheist folks. The more interesting parts start about 44 minutes into the discussion. Two questions that I am sometimes asked are what would my ideal version of an anarchist society actually look like, my endorsement of pluralism […]
A somewhat amusing reference to your truly from a tweet on Goofy Gillis’ Twitter feed. The reason this “Drunk Foxx” person cannot “wrap their head” around my various positions is that they cannot understand the concept or practice of multi-dimensional thinking. How can I be sympathetic to both […]
A German teenager runs afoul of the new blasphemy laws. I consider the tribal civil war between the Red Tribe and Blue Tribe to a low-intensity variation of the traditional Catholic/Protestant conflicts in Europe during the early modern period or the Sunni/Shia conflict in the Middle East today. […]
Direct action and propaganda by the deed. To regurgitate a slogan from the Obama era, “Yes, we can.” By TIM SULLIVAN and AMY FORLITI, Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — Cheering protesters broke into a Minneapolis police precinct station on Thursday after the department abandoned it, setting it ablaze and […]
Decentralization and direct action win again. They knew what they needed and they did it, telling the feds and the dumb bitch governor of South Dakota to go fuck themselves in the process. The money quote: “Having no faith in the American system has saved us,” Bald Eagle […]
It seems like the sensible thing to do would have been to simply quarantine vulnerable populations, and providing them with massive amounts of assistance, rather than shutting the entire world down.
The left-wing of the new clerisy cover-up for one of its favorite royal/aristocratic princes.
Former National Co-chair for the Sanders Campaign Nina Turner weighs in on the Minneapolis protests, Central Park ‘Karen’ Amy Cooper, and Biden’s “you ain’t black” comments.
Krystal and Saagar give an update on unemployment numbers that show first-time jobless claims totaled 2.1 million last week, bringing the total to more than 40 million that have filed initial claims for unemployment since March 22nd.
Social distancing does get boring after a while. Violent protests erupted for the second night in Minneapolis on Wednesday over the police killing of George Floyd, a black man who was seen on video being arrested by four police officers shortly before his death.
This is reminiscent of the King vs. Pope feuds of the Middle Ages. Saagar Enjeti blasts Twitter’s decision to fact-check President Trump’s tweets and explains the far-reaching implications that could allow Twitter to control future political rhetoric.
I would generally be inclined to argue that the Neoliberal Party is now the furthest right party on foreign policy, economics, and civil liberties. The Trump Party is further to the right only on social/cultural issues. Krystal and Saagar discuss Nancy Pelosi’s decision to pull a vote scheduled […]
First, Marianne Williamson calls for “primarying” neoliberal Democrats with social democrats, and now Tucker Carlson calls for “primarying” neoliberal Republicans with “national-populists.” About 20 years ago, I started noticing the rise of anti-neoliberal tendencies in Europe with social-democratic (e.g. SYRIZA) and right-populist tendencies (e.g. LePenism). I figured the […]
The news coverage in this is pretty good, but the commentary from Krystal and Saager, while no doubt sincere and well-intentioned, is still the usual statist-reformist bullshit. I’m definitely one of those “far-left” people Saager is referring to who “don’t believe in criminal justice.” Although you could be […]
Apparently, the protestors/rioters in Minneapolis smashed up a police precinct building. This is the kind of thing that needs to happen more often. Actions of these kinds represent an application of the anarchist principle of direct action. All bad days from here on out for the MPD.
Direct expropriation of ruling class resources being put into practice. Places like Wal-Mart and Target are merely retail sweatshops. Fuck ’em all. The masks are coming in handy as well. Watch the video. Looters have struck a Target store as protests over the death of George Floyd in […]
Protests continued into Wednesday night in south Minneapolis, where Chopper 5 captured video of apparent looting at a nearby Target and other area businesses. Fires have sprung up around the area as well. Gov. Tim Walz tweeted late Wednesday night, calling the situation near Lake Street and Hiawatha […]
I’m not someone who thinks that all claimed martyrs to police brutality are actual martyrs. I’ve come across some such cases that seemed to be more a matter of “suicide-by-cop” or where an actual criminal at the very least contributed significantly to their own demise. But there is […]
Regrettably, the “homo-for-a-man-in-uniform” types in the “gun rights” establishment have so far remained silent on this incident, as they usually do in these cases, mostly because they are merely representatives of the gun manufacturers (just another section of the right-wing of the capitalist class), and many of their […]
Now imagine if the police officer was a Hong Kong officer and the man being killed under the police officers knee was a pro-democracy protestor? Now imagine if the police officer was a South African officer and the man being killed under the police officers knee was a […]
“If you revolt before you are organized into democratic, voluntary associations, you will create a power vaccuum that will be filled by authority. Authority is a ‘pioneer’ element– to use ecological terms– and will always be the first form of social organization. Democracy and anarchy are higher orders […]
I generally agree that the busybody, do-gooder, tattletale, know-it-all soccer mom types that the label “Karen” is meant to ridicule deserve the ridicule they get. It is this demographic that is one of the primary constituents for the therapeutic state and totalitarian humanism. Although women named Karen now […]
Krystal and Saagar give an update on coronavirus case numbers, watch CNBC Squawk Box anchors spar on-air over coronavirus death toll.
Krystal and Saagar discuss the firing of Central Park ‘Karen’ and released video that shows a Minneapolis cop with his knee on the neck of a motionless, moaning, black man who later died.
As the saying goes, “You can’t make this shit up.” As one who is interested in political strategy, I have to hand it to the Trumpists on this one. Shore up with right-wing vote with pro-religion, pro-gun, pro-life, pro-Red Tribe/hate liberals rhetoric, and then cut into the black, […]
Biden has really given FAUX News a lot of ammunition with which to work Dinesh D’souza’s “Democrats are the real racists!” angle. The Democrats would be in a much better position if they would simply euthanize this guy, stuff him like Lenin, and make a ventriloquist dummy out […]
A couple of lines in a message from a reader illustrate perfectly well why I reject domestic US politics. Americans, to the degree they are even aware that the US has an empire, seem largely apathetic about it or reflexively supportive of it (“if not us, who else?”), […]
I consider Maoism to be the Eastern world’s version of Nazism (with ordinary Marxism-Leninism being more like Eastern fascism). But the Maoist critique of international relations, both geopolitically and socioeconomically, is correct. I could almost be an “anarcho-Maoist,” lol. In fact, I generally agree with the geopolitical analysis […]
The “Bolobolo” novel, written by the Swiss utopian writer Hans Widmer in 1983, outlines an interesting vision of a utopian anarchist future that is more or less based on an-com principles and which is something of a more modern version of William Morris’ “News from Nowhere.” It’s not […]
I’ve generally found this 40-page page pamphlet by Adam Knott to be a helpful tool when introducing anarchist ideas to “civilians.” It’s available in PDF form here. One libertarian once told me it was the purest form of anarchism yet devised, and I tend to agree. The following […]
This blog post from a few years ago describes a process I have noticed as well. As “libertarian” movements continue to grow, they also continue to split off into different tendencies based on their various hyphenated affiliations.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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