One Law for Them, Another for Us

The anarchist position is vindicated once again. By Daniel Larison The American Conservative FBI Director Comey announced the findings of the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server earlier today. While he won’t be recommending criminal charges against Clinton, he did say this: Although we did not find […]

An Appeal from the Libertarian Alliance (UK)

CLICK HERE TO GO TO OUR CROWDFUNDING APPEAL  We humbly ask our supporters to help us improve our website, blog, and archive. Already a big “thank you” goes out to Derek Bernard for supporting our appeal. The Libertarian Alliance currently has two websites (thelibertarianalliance.com and libertarian.co.uk, the former used […]

No, the American Revolution was not a mistake

By Jeff Stein Vox The American Revolution “was a mistake,” Dylan Matthews argued last week. He lists three reasons that, in his telling, millions of American Indians and black Americans would’ve been better off had the Founding Fathers never declared independence: Slavery would’ve been abolished earlier, American Indians […]

Land of the Freaks, Home of the Abnormal

By Adil Sarker Happy 4th, my fellow Americans. It seems like most Americans celebrate USA’s existence for very different reasons. Since many of us take our country very seriously, let’s take a good look at it. We aren’t the smartest/dumbest country. We aren’t the (un)healthiest country. We aren’t […]

Who the hell are ISIS, anyway?

Spy Culture ISIS are a terrifying, devastating Sunni militia that emerged out of the Iraqi insurgency and the anti-Assad jihad … except they aren’t particularly religious! And their origin story makes no sense. And militarily speaking they are a joke who could be wiped out within weeks if […]

Keith Preston: Clinton email probe could end in ‘great chaos’ for 2016 vote

Press TV. Read here: http://www.presstv.us/Detail/2016/07/03/473483/Clinton-email-probe-may-end-in-great-chaos Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton attends a town hall with about 100 millennials who are digital content creators and social media influencers, June 28, 2016, at Neuehouse in Hollywood, California. (AFP) An FBI probe into use of private email server by former […]

The Myth of Cosmopolitanism

By Ross Douthat New York Times NOW that populist rebellions are taking Britain out of the European Union and the Republican Party out of contention for the presidency, perhaps we should speak no more of left and right, liberals and conservatives. From now on the great political battles […]

The Secret of Swiss Success Is Decentralization

By Daniel J. Mitchell Foundation for Economic Education Programs about the improbable success of Chile and Estonia already have aired on nationwide TV, and those were joined last weekend by a show about the “sensible nation” of Switzerland. Here’s the 28-minute program. When I first watched the program, I was slightly irked […]

Keith Preston: Israel lobby controls most American politicians

Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/06/26/472326/Kerry-Netanyahu-US-Israel-Settlements-Palestine-Preston “Virtually all of the major [US] politicians from both of the major parties repeatedly kowtow to the Israel lobby,” say Keith Preston. The United States’ unconditional support for Israel will not end anytime soon as most of the American politicians, regardless of their […]

Robert Stark interviews Zoltan Istvan

Robert Stark interviews Zoltan Istvan     Robert Stark and co-host Rabbit talk to Zoltan Istvan. Zoltan is a trans-humanist and futurist writer, philosopher, and journalist. He has written for Vice, Newsweek the Huffington Post, and Psychology Today, and was a reporter for the National Geographic Channel, and is […]

The humanist, futurist, European case for Brexit

By Tom Slater Spiked Online he Leave campaign is negative. It is anti-immigration, anti-modernity, anti-Europe. Throughout the EU referendum debate, this has been the deadening refrain of the Remain campaign. Despite the fearmongering on both sides, despite the fact that post-Brexit economic catastrophe has been talked up at […]

How American Politics Went Insane

The System is crumbling and the power elite is getting worried. By Jonathan Rauch The Atlantic t’s 2020, four years from now. The campaign is under way to succeed the president, who is retiring after a single wretched term. Voters are angrier than ever—at politicians, at compromisers, at […]

4th Amendment Under Attack in Supreme Court Decision

Truth Axis On Monday the US Supreme Court ruled to uphold evidence gathered during an illegal investigatory stop in Utah. The case, Utah vs. Strieff, has wide implications for the 4th Amendment, which protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government. The Supreme Court decided that […]

Brexit as a Means to True Secession

By Chris Shaw I’ve made it clear that I don’t see the EU referendum as particularly important. The major economic questions surrounding the modern world, from banking fragility and capital creation, to huge levels of private and sovereign debt and politico-economic centralisation are not remotely addressed within this […]

Omar Mateen is an actor with an IMDb profile

This is getting weird. Truth Axis Omar Mateen, the suspected gunman behind the Orlando Pulse Nightclub massacre, appears to have an entry in the Internet Movie Database. The entry gives him credit for appearances in two movies. In 2012 he appeared as himself in The Big Fix, a […]

Conferences, gatherings, and meetings

An overlapping question might be how do we have anarchist meetings without armed guards to keep all the different factions from attacking each other? AnarchistNews.Org Anarchists have held and continue to organize conferences, gatherings, workshops, discussions, summits, and meetings on a local and international level. These events offer […]

Election 2016: Back to the 1970s?

If the Trump and Sanders movements become a permanent fixture of US politics, the real effect of this will be to repeal the Reagan Revolution and bring American politics back to what it was in the 1970s, and with relatively similar political, economic, and social circumstances (minus the […]