Dr. Richard Wolff Debates Labor Theory of Value Marxist vs. Libertarian Debate
Dr. Richard Wolff debates libertarian Antony Sammeroff on the Labor Theory of Value on the Lions of Liberty Podcast, hosted by Marc Clair. This is a Marxist economist debating a free market libertarian.
Waiting Out the Landlord’s Clock In Iran
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Quick hypothetical; Lets say you’ve been living in the same house in the same neighborhood for your whole life, generations in fact. There have been some minor squabbles but for the most part you’ve managed to get along […]
Iran slams as politically-motivated France’s extradition of Iranian engineer to US
Trump denies accusations of ‘cover up’
Pledging Allegiance to the Divided States of America
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will-Antonio Gramsci When the individual’s behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for […]
Iran’s Rejection of Washington Consensus Main Reason behind US Pressures
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An American political analyst said Iran’s pursuit of independent policy and its refusal to be incorporated into the Washington Consensus are the main reasons behind the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against it. “The objective of these officials is to continue to carry out a longstanding […]
US targets Huawei again
My thoughts on the “trade war” with China. Watch here. This week US president Donald Trump declared a national emergency over IT threats. Trumps long awaited executive order forbids U.S. companies from purchasing telecommunications equipment manufactured by firms posing a “national security risk”.
French police deployed in Paris as Yellow Vest protests held for 27th weekend
Is Bolton’s War With Iran Becoming A Reality?
I really doubt that a President Hillary Clinton would have been any less aggressive when it comes to Iran or Venezuela. She has been rhetorically belligerent against Iran, voted for the Iraq war when she was in the Senate and was the architect of the Libyan war, US […]
Smash All Dogmas: Overcoming the Addiction to Ideology
By Keith Preston Originally published in Tribes Magazine Perhaps one of the most curious features of modernity is the way in which ideologies have replaced religions as a principal source of contentiousness. During the era of the nineteenth century, when the intellectual revolution of the Enlightenment was being […]
Iran’s “Crime” of Merely Existing
Yemeni military says it has carried out major operation against Saudi targets
Trump’s War In Venezuela Could Be Che’s Revenge
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Che Guevara had a dream. After decades of chasing the American Empire into guerrilla street fights from Guatemala to the Congo, Che dreamed of drawing that dreadful beast into an unwinnable quagmire on the graves of its first […]
Houthis begin unilateral withdrawal from Hudaydah ports
Feudalism, Then and Now
And California, the home of Sunshine feudalism is the worst. How “our system” works: The presidency is an elective monarchy. The mass corporations are the new feudal manors. The banks are the new usurer class. The military are the new indentured servants/mercenaries. The professions (like doctors and lawyers) […]
New Federal Legislation Requires Full Audit of America’s Gold Reserves
Sound Money Defense League Washington, DC (May 8, 2019) – U.S. Representative Alex Mooney (R-WV) introduced legislation this week to provide for the first audit of United States gold reserves since the Eisenhower Administration. The Gold Reserve Transparency Act (H.R. 2559) – backed by the Sound Money Defense […]
Keith Preston: US strategy in Venezuela dates back to Monroe doctrine:
Press TV. Listen here. America’s efforts to replace the legitimate government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro with opposition leader Juan Guaido is part of a long-standing US policy in Latin America to install puppet governments, says a political analyst in Virginia.
Pompeo: Iraq trip in response to Iran activity
Keith Preston: US cannot force Iraq out of Iran ties
Press TV. Listen here. The United States cannot force Iraq out of Iran ties, says an analyst, adding that Tehran offer of military assistance to Baghdad indicates the depth of the relationship between the two countries. The comments came after a senior Iranian military commander said Iran is […]
Trump plans to increase China tariffs by %25
The US president has escalated the trade war with China by announcing plans to hike the tariff imposed on 200 billion dollars of Chinese goods.
On the Victory and Cooptation of the Liberal-Left by Global Capitalism
A lot of people on the liberal/left end of the spectrum have to psychologically assume the role of the “permanent victim” because their whole worldview involves fighting “oppression” or “social injustice” so there always has to be oppression or social injustice for them to fight. Therefore, 11 white […]
Boredom and Suffering and Safety and Liberty
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’m not going to lie to you, dearest motherfuckers. My life is kind of a dumpster fire right now. In fact, it’s been kind of a dumpster fire for the last few years. Even aside from my clinical […]
Keith Preston: US unwilling to give up Afghanistan with eye on minerals
Press TV. Watch here. The United States is seeking to continue military presence in Afghanistan to pave the way for pursuing American interests in the war-torn country, says a commentator. At the end of a four-day summit in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, Loya Jirga (grand tribal council) demanded the […]
Keith Preston: US pursuing regime-change policy in Iran
Press TV. Listen here. The United States is pursuing a regime-change policy in Iran by exerting military and economic pressure and covert operations, according to American political analyst Keith Preston. Iran reiterated on Wednesday that chances that American and Iranian forces could engage in clashes in the Persian Gulf, or any other region, were high .
US military spending up for first time in 7 years
Keith Preston: Trump keeping Saudi Arabia close to serve Big Oil interests
Press TV. Listen here. US President Donald Trump’s close ties with Saudi Arabia are aimed at serving Big Oil by keeping the global petroleum market stable. Speaking to Press TV on Sunday, Keith Preston, the Virginia-based director of Attackthesystem.com, said Trump’s recent remarks that he made Saudi King […]
Getting It
This piece by Lind could almost be a left-libertarian or left-anarchist analysis EXCEPT the cultural divide is so vast as to be unbridgeable. By William S. Lind Traditional Right The Left has adopted the word “woke” to describe people who have accepted the ideology of cultural Marxism and […]
A False God Fails
Apparently, Bill Lind has become an anarcho-Monarchist in the tradition of Tolkien, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, or Hans Hermann Hoppe. By William S. Lind Traditional Right As Great Britain moves towards its independence day, i.e., Brexit, a false god is failing: the god named “democracy”. Prime Minister Theresa May, […]
Trans-Tribalism or: Why Traditionalists Should Stop Worrying and Embrace the Queer Revolution
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I like conservatives. Not all conservatives. Not the bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran kind or the endangered white male victim kind. But the Traditionalist kind. The Old Right, Paleolibertarian, fuck-you-mind-your-own-damn-business kind. I like people like Bill Kaufman, […]
No longer the Kurdish Question, but the Kurdish Alternative
By Dr. Hawzhin Azeez No longer the Kurdish Question, but the Kurdish Alternative – Hawzhin Azeez It is either a fallacy, or a pure symbolic violence, to continue to assume the “Kurdish Question” as unresolved. For scholars, policy experts and political bureaucrats the Kurdish Question, with its complex […]
Why Anarchists and Libertarians Can’t Get Along
A reader writes: “Very thought-provoking posts today, Keith (and great talk with Antony from the other day, on the state as aberration). I agree that it’s a shame how wide the gap is between lefty anarchists and an-caps (and each camp’s fellow travelers). My feeling is a lot […]
The First Worldism of the Black Panther Movie and Black Americans
An interesting take on First World/bourgeois identity politics. This is more or less my long-held position on these questions as well.
The American Victim Complex: An age-old tradition
A great takedown of victimology and the oppression olympics, Left and Right.
Ron Paul on Noam Chomsky & Crony Capitalism
Ron Paul sounds almost like a left-anarchist is this and Noam Chomsky sounds almost like an an-cap. It’s a shame the gap between an-coms and an-caps is so vast when we agree 90% of the time.
The Death of the American People and Empire
Truth Time: Marxism is Stagnating
A great takedown of the old guard Communist parties AND the First World Left by Unruhe. The one thing I disagree with Unruhe on is that I don’t consider the old guard Commies to be moving toward fascism, much less “third positionism,” but toward bourgeois nationalism (in fact, […]
Bernie Sanders Proves 3rd Worldist Theory
This is from late 2015 but still very succinct given the current buildup to next year’s election.
The Empire of Faux Liberalism
A Facebook reader offers some interesting insights about the nature of the present global empire, and empires generally. It is true that empires are often more culturally “liberal” or “progressive” than the societies that they subjugate and conquer. Alexander the Great spread the Hellenistic culture throughout the Ancient […]
Keith Preston: Saudi beheadings highlight barbarian nature of regime
Press TV: Listen here. The beheading of 37 Saudi nationals across the kingdom this week underscored once again that Saudi Arabia is “one of the most reactionary and retrograde states” in the world today, says an American political analyst in Virginia.
“It is up to United States to re-enter talks, not Iran”
State as Aberration with Keith Preston of AttacktheSystem.Com
We Are All Julian Assange!: An Anarchist Soliloquy
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley These are the days, dearest motherfuckers. These are those days. These days. These days of rage. These do or die days. These all or nothing days. These days with the ice caps melting and the seas rising to […]
Trump, Netanyahu, Saudis leading us closer to catastrophe
This should be the most important political issue in the United States right now but it’s not because….idiocracy.
Washington State Politicians Drop Cynical Attempt to Impose Taxes on Gold & Silver
Sound Money Group, In-State Dealers, and Grassroots Activists Deter Tax-Hungry Politicians By J P Cortez Well, here’s some encouraging news… Efforts in Washington State to impose sales tax on gold and silver were SHUT DOWN today thanks to intense efforts by the Sound Money Defense League, a group […]
Keith Preston: US has been at war throughout most of its history
Press TV. Listen here. The United States has been perpetually at conflict with other nations throughout most of its history, following the expansionist tradition of past empires, says an American political analyst in Virginia. “We had the War of 1812, the Mexican war, the Civil War, the wars […]
AnPrim On Fire: Human Supremacy Within Anarcho-Primitivist Narrative
By Ria Montana, forest & wetland rewilder https://veganprimitivist.wordpress.com/ Within anarcho-primitivism plays an ongoing dialectic pinpointing origins of the problem of civilization. Impugning only capitalism or the industrial age is much too timid. From the left, radical environmental activist leader and author Derrick Jensen impugns the point people exceed […]
Reasons not to take the Julian Assange story at face value
By Adam Ormes News from Nowhere Witnessing the uniformity of the popular response to Assange’s removal from the Ecuadorian embassy demonstrates that precious few commentators are willing to discuss the numerous ‘red flags’ in his story. It would seem therefore that it is this reluctant sleuth’s duty to […]
The Strange Success of Russiagate
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It was the popcorn fart heard round the world. After two years of the vilest Russophobic hysteria seen since McCarthy was hauled off to a laughing academy in a straight-jacket, Robert Mueller, patron saint of butt-hurt Dems and […]
In America, talk turns to something not spoken of for 150 years: Civil war
By Greg Jaffe and Jenna Johnson Washington Post At a moment when the country has never seemed angrier, two political commentators from opposite sides of the divide concurred recently on one point that was once nearly unthinkable: The country is on the verge of “civil war.” First came […]

















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