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Nexus X HumectressBy Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s getting pretty damn near impossible, even for a vengeful anarcho-cynic like myself, to deny that the system clearly despises Bernie Sanders. Both the DNC and their moronic B-team in the so called mainstream media seem to be […]
Pete invited Keith Preston to return to the show to talk about his 30+ year journey through anarchism. Keith has devoted much of that time to anarchism’s historical study and hosts the largest pan-archist site on the web, Attack The System. Listen here. AttackTheSystem.com Keith’s Books Donate at […]
A great interview that covers many topics that are relevant to ATS such as the value of “pan-secessionism” as opposed to “world domination anarchism,”and left-wing authoritarianism. Listen here. “Since Bellamy was here at the start of The Brilliant project it is great to check in where he is […]
Listen here. US President Donald Trump’s travel ban is based on geopolitical reasons and imposed against countries that refuse to join America’s sphere of influence, says a political analyst in Virginia. “I noticed that Belarus was included. Belarus is of course another nation that is widely considered to be […]
My take on the Trump impeachment is the same as Mike Gravel’s and Tulsi Gabbard’s. There are many things that are objectionable about Trump (and virtually all other presidents), and calling him out on those things would be justifiable if Congress cared to do so. But the impeachment […]
Democratic lawmakers in both chambers of the US Congress have slammed the rules of impeachment against President Donald Trump announced by Senate Republicans, saying the process is “rigged” and different from the impeachment of former Democratic President Bill Clinton.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As the dust settles on Donald Trump’s latest high octane game of chicken with the Islamic Republic, an eerie calm seems to have risen like fog from Soleimani’s grave to take its place. But while the whole world […]
Todd Lewis and Keith Preston discuss the failure of the political left in its historic mission of checking private power.
The United Nations has urged all “foreign” players to stop “interfering” in the conflict in Libya, just a day before a peace summit in Germany aimed at establishing a permanent ceasefire between the two warring sides in the North African country.
Press TV. Listen here. Senior US officials in President Donald Trump’s administration who are “heavily connected” to the Israel lobby and US arms industry pressured Trump to order the assassination of Iranian Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani, says a political analyst in Virginia. “The reason he did that seems […]
Balkans Post “An act of assassination carried out against a high-ranking official of another state is an act of war,” said Keith Preston, chief editor of AttacktheSystem.com, in an interview with the Balkans Post. Here’s the full transcript of the interview: Balkans Post: The United States assassinated Iran’s […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I need to buy a gun. I can’t state it any simpler than that. It’s something I’ve needed for sometime and I seem to feel like I need it a little more each day. The gun doesn’t have […]
Some pretty good insights into how “democracy” actually works: The “people’s representatives” receive their marching orders from the overlords of the empire, which they are then expected to rubber stamp.
A great interview with Colin Powell’s former chief of staff. Pushback with Aaron Maté As millions of Iranians mourn the US murder of Qassem Soleimani, ex-Bush administration official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discuses the parallels between Bush’s war on Iraq and Trump’s campaign against Iran; the history of US […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley A preemptive strike, that’s what white people call terrorism, and that’s apparently what transpired this Thursday on the tarmac of the Baghdad International Airport. A preemptive drone strike, ordered by our president, murdered General Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s most […]
An interesting statement from an Iranian anarchist group that more or less takes a “pox on all their houses” perspective. Read here. “Qasem Soleimani has long tormented the people and we congratulate the survivors of his crimes in the Middle East, particularly Syria, Iraq and Yemen. And while […]
This discussion makes an interesting argument that multipolarity will create a world order where France rather than Germany is dominant in Europe, Turkey rather than Russia in Central Asia, Japan rather than China in East Asia, and Argentina rather than Brazil in Latin America. Not sure I agree […]
A new issue of the paleoconservative journal The Agonist is now available with a lead article from yours truly. Read the entire edition online here.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The joint naval drills of Iran, Russia and China in the Indian Ocean and the Gulf of Oman were aimed at countering US influence in the region, an American political analyst said. “The three countries appear to have as their primary objectives the protection of […]
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An American Middle East expert described the recent US attacks on positions of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units as a “clear violation” of the Arab country’s sovereignty, adding that Washington prefers to continue its occupation of Iraq. “This (the attack on PMU bases) was a clear […]
The New York Times Conor Dougherty Fire, garbage and homelessness increasingly plague the Golden State. SAN FRANCISCO — Christine Johnson, a public-finance consultant with an engineering degree, was running for a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. She crisscrossed her downtown district talking about her plans […]
CNN Updated 3:30 AM ET, Mon December 30, 2019 (CNN) – A Chinese scientist who helped create the world’s first gene-edited babies has been sentenced to three years in prison. He Jiankui shocked the world in 2018 when he announced that twin girls Lulu and Nana had been […]
[Update: At one point, I had been banned from Facebook, with my account subsequently being restored. Apparently, I am now banned again. As I say, I can be reached through the ATS contact page.] Apparently, I am now under a total ban from Facebook. I’ve encountered more Facebook […]
Watch here. https://urmedium.com/c/presstv/5344 Iraqi President Barham Salih has condemned Washington’s attacks on Kata’ib Hezbollah, which is part of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), as the death toll from the attack reaches more than two dozen.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I love holiday traditions, dearest motherfuckers, and every year since I started this blog several years ago, I’ve welcomed in the new year by compiling a short list of the few people on this goddess forsaken rock who […]
By Ann Sterzinger Medium The Doctor Who spin-off that speaks to the invincible community, or: How I survived a typhus coma without any competent medical help. Almost a year after falling into a should-have-been-fatal coma due to complications of typhus (yes, the medieval/concentration camp disease; welcome to Los […]
By Ann Sterzinger Medium In which the conspiracy sends a teenager to try to disgustingly fuck me (so what else is new?) and tragically kills my little cat. Something (Else) Rotten in the State of California In California, I soon discovered, AirBnB has metastasized into a whole new […]
By Ann Sterzinger Medium THE FILTHENING. Oh, and how I could have escaped. Peace Is For People Who Know How to Drive My lease in Chicago was ending, but Hammer Man took his sweet time. He and Psycho Roommate were supposedly cleaning the place up, but a month […]
By Ann Sterzinger Medium In which a refugee from whatever the hell Chicago has become prepares to confront whatever the hell LA has become. Yes, it’s very easy to get shot through the head if you stay in Chicago. Or raped through the ass, eye, vag, head, or […]
Watch here. Iran, Russia and China have begun a four-day joint maritime exercise in the Indian Ocean and the Sea of Oman area. The “Marine Security Belt,” as the event is codenamed, will last until Monday. On Wednesday, Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi, the spokesman for Iranian Armed Forces, […]
By Chris Powell For most of this decade owning gold and gold-related investments has required the patience of Job, and the sector is so obscure that it is hard to be sure of anything. But for months now the unusual developments have been piling up so much that […]
Alessia Cerantola BBC In Japan, more and more children are refusing to go to school, a phenomenon called “futoko”. As the numbers keep rising, people are asking if it’s a reflection of the school system, rather than a problem with the pupils themselves. Ten-year-old Yuta Ito waited until […]
Drew Harwell The Washington Post Dec. 19, 2019 at 3:43 p.m. PST Facial-recognition systems misidentified people of color more often than white people, a landmark federal study released Thursday shows, casting new doubts on a rapidly expanding investigative technique widely used by law enforcement across the United States.
Press TV. Listen here. US President Donald Trump’s phone call to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to discuss a recent trip by the Iranian president to the East Asian country reveals an escalating “divergence of interests” between Tokyo and Washington in their relationship with Tehran, an American analyst in […]
PressTV. Listen here. The United States is magnifying and overstating the growing threat posed from China and Russia to justify maintaining the country’s armed interventions and its military–industrial complex, an American analyst in Virginia says. “We have to understand that the United States regards Russia and China as […]
Watch here. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Ankara will step up its support for the internationally-recognized government in Libya, if necessary. Erdogan said Turkey will absolutely remain committed to the military and maritime agreements it has signed with the Libyan government led by Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley So this is Christmas, and what have we done? Another year over, and a new one just begun. I’ve always loved this season but I’ve never been much for Christmas carols. The new ones are moronic garbage and […]
BINGO! Sputnik News ” She also introduced a resolution calling on the House to censure Trump on five issues she implied were far more substantial. Those include carrying out wars without congressional approval, illegally “occupying and pillaging” Syria, “recklessly enabling” Turkey to invade Northern Syria and ethnically cleanse […]
Mike Gleason: It is my privilege now to welcome in JP Cortez with the Sound Money Defense League, a nonpartisan national public policy organization working to restore sound money at the state and federal level. JP is a proponent of and has studied in the Austrian school of […]
The BRICS are merely the Eastern division of the global ruling class and largely consist of backwater provinces in international capitalism. It’s regrettable that so many “tankie” and “far-right” types (who are among the best critics of the Atlanticist-Zionist-Wahhabi axis) buy into the idea that the Eastern provinces […]
Todd Lewis is joined by Keith Preston, Right Ruminations and Swithun Dobson to discuss the recent electoral upset in the UK in particular and the general populist uprising which includes Trump and La Pen.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In these days of epic collapse, with the established order rapidly disintegrating before our very eyes, mankind seems to be tearing apart at the seems and resorting to the bipolar extremes of the far-left and the far-right. And […]
By Jp Cortez, Money Metals Exchange The last true enemy of inflation the Federal Reserve has seen died earlier this week. Paul Volcker, former chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979-1987, has passed away. Credited with tampering incredibly high levels of inflation during the Carter and Reagan administration […]
Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition I have arrived in Mexico last March, at a time when I had previously lived in Denver. The state of Colorado is known for its brutal cold and mercurial weather, where the climate may change nearly a half a dozen times per day. I […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The ongoing impeachment of one Donald J. Trump is bullshit. There, I said it and I’ll say it again just to make sure you heard me right. This impeachment is fucking bullshit, and I’m tired of pretending otherwise. […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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