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Nexus X HumectressU.S. elections increasingly remind me of the electoral system that existed in El Salvador in the 1980s, where the two parties were an astoundingly incompetent centrist party (Jose Napoleon Duarte’s Christian Democrats) and an utterly insane bloodthirsty neo-fascist party (Roberto d’Aubuisson’s ARENA-Nationalist Republican Alliance). So I guess the […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/12/16/441940/GOP-incompetent-leaders The GOP party consists of “incompetent leaders that are being elevated to the top of the political class,” Keith Preston said in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday. The irresponsible statements made by Republican presidential candidates underscore the level of competence in […]
From the Atlantic. A thorough overview of the much-maligned militant-Muslim Männerbund. What is the Islamic State? Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York […]
Some constructive criticism from Charles Glass. A French news cameraman burst into the bar of Beirut’s Commodore Hotel, where his colleagues gathered most evenings, on November 17, 1983. “At last,” he shouted, cupping both hands upward, “someone with balls!” French warplanes had just bombed the town of […]
Islam, immigration, and interventionism. I’ll be incorporating a response to the Ann-xieties expressed here (and elsewhere) into a future Infernal episode. There’s a lot of raspberrying and dismissiveness in the debate over whether to let the wave of “Syrian” “refugees” wash up on U.S. shores. In the partisan […]
In a better world, Paul would be POTUS. (In an >even< better world, the concept of a POTUS – and other national equivalents – would remain just that.)
By Lawrence Jarach Introduction The Fear of Anarchism The Fear of Anarcho-Primitivism Thousands Die Iatrogenically Thousands Die Industrially “Millions Will Die” and Other Absurdities Work After the Revolution Can Any Anarchist Feed Six Billion People? Why I am Not an Anti-Primitivist Glossary Introduction There has never been a […]
By Stefan Gleason Is America on the cusp of a revolution that will usher in a new monetary order? The lessons of history tell us that no fiat currency retains its value for long or lasts forever. And as Shakespeare noted, “what’s past is prologue.” Major episodes in […]
This is interesting. Apparently, Trump’s supporters are a small but vocal minority. Gallup.Com by Andrew Dugan Story Highlights Trump’s net favorable stands at -27, well below others Ben Carson has seen largest gain in overall public familiarity Chris Christie’s image improves modestly WASHINGTON, D.C. — The 2016 presidential […]
I’m generally inclined to trust the results of a Gallup poll on issues like this. Not only is Gallup a generally reputable polling company, but the company was founded by evangelical Christians and leans to the center-right politically, so it’s unlikely they would be inclined to skew the […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/12/441462/Sauid-Araba-USled-Wahhabism-axis-US-visa-legislation-iran-Daesh-San-Bernardino “Saudi Arabia is part of the American-led axis that is the dominant coalition in the international ruling class,” Preston says. The United States has long led a Saudi Wahhabist axis which has given rise to a string of extremist groups waging war and terror in the Middle […]
One of our readers, “John S.,” raises what might be the most pertinent questions regarding the future of anarchism, and the other ideas we discuss here at ATS. I think if anarchy became significantly popular, and actually started to effect politics, economics and/or social issues, it would be […]
By John McWhorter Opposition to racism used to be a political stance. Now it has every marking of a religion, with both good and deleterious effects on American society. An anthropology article from 1956 used to get around more than it does now, “Body Ritual Among the Nacirema.” […]
The media represents the various factions of the power elite: FOX and the WSJ represent the “conservative” wing of the ruling class, the traditional networks, WaPo and CNN represent the centrist sectors of the power elite, and MSNBC and HuffPo represent the liberal wing of the elite. All […]
A talk from anarcho-communist Wayne Price. He’s half-way there. Add to Price’s statement this statement from a libertarian group: “Right/Left, small “L” and big “L” libertarians are welcome. Libertarian Socialists. Ancaps, Ancoms, and other anarchist types are welcome, as well. Objectivists, Agorists, Georgists… Constitutional and Conservative libertarians …As […]
A recent lecture by Chomsky. Presented by Haymarket Books and the Schools of Public Engagement (http://www.newschool.edu/public-engag…) at The New School (http://www.newschool.edu), Noam Chomsky discusses the persistent and largely invariant features of U.S. foreign policy — in the words of U.S. planners, “the overall framework of order” — and […]
Ian Mayes recently offered the following comments: I have a theory that in about 20 years, if not sooner, the word “anarchist” will primarily be associated with the anarcho-capitalists. This is because the anarcho-capitalists are very vocal and persistent in claiming to be anarchists, especially on the internet. […]
Justin Raimondo has the best critique of Donald Trump to date. Trump’s politics are on the level of a bunch of frat guys talking at keg part, but Trump’s not nearly as much of a “fascist” as the neocons-or Franklin Delano Roosevelt. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com The latest […]
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Press TV. Read here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/10/441101/US-Russia-confrontation-NATO-war-Daesh-Syria-nofly-zone The Pentagon says enforcing a no-fly zone over Syria could trigger a direct confrontation between the US and Russia. A potential confrontation between the United States and Russia would create an “extraordinarily dangerous” situation which drags world nations into a war, says an American […]
An interesting critique of yours truly from what appears to be a Stirnerite perspective. Read it here: http://sireinzige.blogspot.ca/2015/12/panned-anarchism.html —————————————————- Keith Preston actually took some time on his site to respond to my criticism of his approach so I shall return the favor. http://attackthesystem.com/2015/11/26/the-legacy-of-anarchist-successes/#more-37998 I think I should get […]
Press TV. Listen here. http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/05/440413/US-military-budget- “The United States spends more money on military production and military activities than certainly any other nation in the world,” Keith Preston told Press TV on Saturday. The United States spends about half of its federal budget on military production–six times the military […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Random Meanderings Academic Composition Attitudes toward hierarchies shed light on fundamental differences between the left and the right. The latter tends to be skeptical of them and for this reason, leftists often rally around the ideal of equality. On the other hand, the right views […]
This is woman is one of the more impressive people in Congress. http://www.c-span.org/video/standalone/?c4563951 President Obama is sending an “expeditionary force” of U.S. military special operators to carry out raids against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, a move that expands on their decision to send about 50 special operators […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/12/02/439987/US-Saudi-Arabia-Daesh-Syria-IRAQ The US does not “want ISIS (Daesh) to spread into Saudi Arabia and some of the other” Persian Gulf puppet countries, Keith Preston told Press TV on Wednesday. The United States is allowing Daesh terrorists to remain and grow in Syria, but simultaneously […]
Expect more cracks of this type to emerge on the Left in the future. Žižek’s thoughts on the refugee crisis are useless, even harmful, for creating a pan-European leftist movement capable of challenging the far-right. Photo by Mariana Costa, via Flickr. In a recent article Žižek replied to […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/11/30/439755/Graham-McCain-most-hawkish-wing US Senators “Graham and McCain represent the most hawkish wing or the most extremist wing of the American foreign policy establishment,” Keith Preston told Press TV on Monday. The recent call by US Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham to send 20,000 […]
Truthdig Commerce Square in Lisbon, Portugal. (Pinkcandy / Shutterstock.com) After a general election left political options in Portugal a bit hazy this month, a coalition made up of the Socialist, Communist, Green and Left Bloc parties ousted a conservative government that held the reins for a […]
How ISIS is being used as a tool of the Anglo-American-Zionist-Wahhabist axis. By Taxi Plato’s Guns The Mainstream Media is doing all it can to avoid addressing the obvious: naming, dissecting and damning ISIS’s major backers and supporters. There are no such informative and sanguine reports being penned […]
If true, this is big news. By Michael Bassett Asia Observer Swiss-educated reformer Kim Jong-un is liberating North Korea by proliferating a capitalist, knowledge-based economy, says Michael Bassett. When Kim Jong-il died, speculation ran awry that North Korea would either collapse or be taken over by hard-liners. Analysts watched doggedly […]
The news is all made up. Did you know that only a handful of corporations, 6 to be exact, control over 90 percent of the media? That means nearly everything we hear on the radio, read in the news, and see on television (including ‘news’). I’m talking about General Electric […]
Pat Buchanan on the prospects for World War Three. Right now, this is the main issue that radicals and dissident, and indeed all reasonable people, in the United State and Europe should be focused on. This is serious business, and a reminded of why our first priority radicals, […]
Institute for Anarchist Studies Murray Bookchin was a pivotal, polarizing figure in the post-WWII history of anarchism. He put ecology and democracy on the anarchist agenda in a way that was as novel as it is enduring.
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By Reihan Salam National Review Jamelle Bouie argues that the United States might never become a “majority-minority” country, as the white majority will expand over time through intermarriage and assimilation: It’s hard to overstate the significance of this. Whites are the mainstream of American life, with tremendous representation […]
What follows is the transcript of a debate that I had on this question with a left-anarchist/libertarian socialist on a social media forum. His comments are in italics and my response are in standard font. A defence of anarchism as (1) libertarian socialism, and (2) an anti-hierarchical and […]
The SJW-speak aside, this is actually pretty interesting. A lot of the right questions are getting asked. By Uri Gordon Infoshop In L. Cordeiro-Rodrigues and M. Simendic, eds. 2015. Philosophies of Multiculturalism: Beyond liberalism, London: Routledge This chapter examines anarchist approaches to ethno-cultural difference , offering three main […]
Listen Here Topics include: “Russian Warplane Down: NATO’s Act of War,” by Tony Cartalucci “Russia ‘Violated’ Turkish Airspace Because Turkey “Moved” Its Border,” By Syrian Free Press How Turkey has violated Greek Airspace 2,244 times “Turkey Did Not Act on Its Own. Was Washington Complicit in Downing Russia’s […]
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Each year at this time somebody in the right-libertarian world, reenacting an obligatory Thanksgiving ritual, drags out the old chestnut about the Pilgrims at Plymouth almost starving from “communism” until private property rights and capitalism saved them. This year John […]
A commenter at AnarchistNews.Org posting as “SirEinzige” offers these observations concerning yours truly and my previous reply to a commentor on the same thread: What Preston doesn’t seem to realize is that classical anarchist failures were to an inherent degree rooted in their organizational successes which played a […]
James Corbett makes the case for the “false flag” view of the Paris attacks. That’s not a perspective that I think has been effectively demonstrated, but much of the analysis Corbett provides in these commentaries is accurate concerning the geopolitical questions involved. Listen here: https://www.corbettreport.com/paris-attacks-truth-isis-is-a-false-flag/ My own view […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/26/439207/Russia-jet-Syria-Turkey-NATO-Article-5-Glenn-Beck-Keith-Preston If Russia decides to engage Turkey in a military confrontation over the downing of its plane by Ankara, it could trigger a major war between world powers, an American political analyst in Virginia says. “If there is a military confrontation between NATO and between Russia […]
By William S. Lind Traditional Right There is an old saying that Russia is never as strong as it appears to be, and Russia is never as weak as it appears to be. According to the lead story in the October 15 New York Times, “Russian Military Uses Syria […]
This is an interesting piece on Jack Donovan from anti-fascist writer Matthew N. Lyons. Read it here. Vince Rinehart of ATS gets an honorable mention as well. Lyons did a similar piece on me a few years ago (see here) which is actually by far the best work […]
A commenter at AnarchistNews.Org offered this response to my latest exchange with Anti-Fascist News: I read it. I read through other things on that site. Yikes. It’s really bizarre that a large portion of Preston’s criticism of “left” anarchists (anarchists) is that they have a kind of selective […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance The Emperor Has No Clothes: by Sean Gabb On Fraternity: Politics beyond Liberty and Equality Danny Kruger Civitas, London, 2007, 95pp, £7.50 (pbk) ISBN 978 1 903386 57 6 At the beginning of the short book, its author insists that “I do […]
By William T. Hathaway Terrible terrorists are killing our soldiers in their countries and killing us here at home. How can we stop them? The answer is simple: Stop terrorizing them. We started this war. What we do to others comes back on us. In addition to centuries […]
“Anti-Fascist News” has generated another round. Here is my “response to response to response to response.” The exchange between anarchism and Marxism has been complex and ongoing, yet this idea that Marxism has infiltrated anarchism and that is why it has adopted socially left values is not just […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/11/22/438737/Principle-objective-US-Assad-ouster “If the government of President Assad falls in Syria, then ISIS will most likely come to dominate the entire nation,” Keith Preston told Press TV on Sunday. An American political analyst in Virginia says defeating Daesh (ISIL) is not a US policy priority […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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