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Nexus X HumectressThe State of the Anarchist Movement
Intro to Debate: Todd Lewis (Christian Distributism) vs. Danilo Cuellar (Voluntaryist Anarchist)
By Danilo Cuellar This was an impromptu recording. I started recording when I realized how valuable this conversation was going to be.
Is Donald Trump a Conservative?
This article is a pretty good dissection of Trump’s actual politics, and debunks the “Trump is a fascist” hysteria coming from the Left. This piece is more or less in line with my own assessment of Trump’s politics, with the exception that I think Trump is less inclined […]
Required Reading on Military Organization in the 21st Century
Bill Lind expounds on the canon. This is what all you anarchist out there who want to overthrow governments and corporations need to be reading. By William S. Lind Traditional Right The real Saint Nicholas was less famous for giving gifts than he was for coming back from […]
Another Neocon Stooge Gets Upset About Trump
This is funny considering it’s coming from George W. Bush’s former speechwriter. By Michael Gerson Washington Post Every Republican of the type concerned with winning in November has been asking the question (at least internally): “What if the worst happens?” The worst does not mean the nomination of […]
Who Goes to Prison Due to Gun Control?
Anyone with half a brain could figure out that increased gun control will primarily be a war against urban minorities like the “war on drugs.” By Anthony Gregory Independent Institute Somehow, left-liberals have associated the cause of gun rights with white racism, when if anything it is gun […]
Blue State Intensifies the War on Drugs
By James Leroy Wilson Center for a Stateless Society Hawaii is ushering in the new year with the introduction of a law making it illegal for people between the ages of 18 and 20 to obtain tobacco products. Fines will be imposed on those selling tobacco to individuals […]
The Neocons Deny That They Really Exist
By Paul Gottfried LewRockwell.Com Although I have frequently accused Jonah Goldberg of being an intellectual vulgarian, his latest column “The Term Neocon Has Run Its Course” has convinced me that he also lives on a different planet. On this celestial body, “neocons weren’t any more hawkish than anyone […]
Why Are Some Libertarians Rejecting the Nonaggression Principle?
I’d definitely prefer a legal system run by libertarians. Listen to Tom Woods’ interview with Stephan Kinsella on the non-aggression principle here. The comments thread that follows the interview also contains an interesting discussion of the way that libertarianism has split off into alt right/neo-reactionary/paleoconservative and social justice […]
Why you should stop calling Donald Trump a fascist
Why Donald Trump is just another lame-ass politician, not a “fascist.” By Max Ehrenfreund Washington Post (Rachel Orr/The Washington Post) “Fascist” is often used as a cheap, meaningless insult in U.S. politics. But recently, it’s become a serious charge that elected officials, political operatives and pundits on both […]
Workers of the World Unite for a Free Market
By Sheldon Richman Libertarian Alliance/Free Association Workers of the World Unite for a Free Market Protected firms can get away with abusing workers. By way of Roderick Long I’ve learned that Amazon.com has some pretty rough rules for its employees. (Long draws on the Huffington Post and the […]
Libertarian Presidential Candidates: Not Exactly Winners
I often have to wonder which is the bigger joke: the anarcho-leftoids or the establishment libertarians, or is it a tie? Invictus 2020. By Jeb Lund The Guardian In an exclusive interview with Reason on Wednesday, former New Mexico governor and former Republican Gary Johnson announced that […]
William Blum on Donald Trump and the Media
William Blum is the author of one the best books out there on U.S. imperialism, “Killing Hope.” Blum writes in The Anti-Empire Report: I think one of the main reasons for Donald Trump’s popularity is that he says what’s on his mind and he means what he says, […]
Keith Preston: Two Mideast refugees held in states on terror charges
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/08/444980/US-arrests-Mideast-refugees-/ US arrests two Middle Eastern refugees on terror charges. (file photo) The United States has arrested two refugees from the Middle East on terrorism charges. The two men who came to the US as refugees more than three years ago were arrested on […]
Ford Foundation Funded “Anarchist” Comes to the Rescue of the Feds
Leftist-antifascist “anarchist” Spencer Sunshine, a writer for the Ford Foundation-funded Political Research Associates (led by one-time Hoxhaist Chip Berlet), explains whey “them poor old feds need all the help they can get.” See here. “There’s fascists in them there hills!” A more reasonable take on the Oregon stand […]
The War Against the Cowboys: The Oregon stand off and US imperialism
Justin Raimondo puts the Oregon stand off in context. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com As our old republic fades into history, replaced by a voracious global Empire, the division between foreign policy and domestic policy is erased. A conquistador treats his helots on the home front with the same […]
U.S. Attorney General to Allow Police Depts to Keep the Number of Citizens they Kill a Secret
The Obama administration shows how it really feels about the police state. By Jay Syrmopoulos Free Thought Project image: http://tftppull.freethoughtllc.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/U.S-attorney-general-keep-police-killings-secret.jpg Washington, DC – In complete reversal of course from the stated position of her predecessor, Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the federal government shouldn’t mandate police departments to […]
US Military Leadership Resisted Obama’s Bid for Regime Change in Syria, Libya
The Obama administration is merely the third and fourth terms of the Bush administration. By Gareth Porter Antiwar.Com Seymour Hersh’s recent revelations about an effort by the US military leadership in 2013 to bolster the Syrian army against jihadist forces in Syria shed important new light on the […]
Keith Preston interviewed by Radio Wehrwolf
Tonight Dion has a special guest, Keith Preston from http://attackthesystem.com/. We discus a wide range of political topics. Anarchism, nationalism, the left, the alt-right, Trump, the situation in Oregon, and more. Listen here: http://radiowehrwolf.weebly.com/radio-archives/keith-preston
Keith Preston: US ‘testing waters’ with new Iran sanctions
Press TV. Listen here: http://217.218.67.231/Detail/2016/01/06/444726/US-Iran-sanctions-nuclear-deal Iran’s ballistic-missile testing is not a violation of the July 14 nuclear agreement with P5+1, and the United Sates is using the issue as a pretext to “soften” the terms of the accord, says a political activist in Virginia.
Radical Centrist view of Laissez-Faire Economics
I often find the radical centrist point of view refreshing after witnessing the shenanigans of the far Left and the far Right, although I think it’s primary limitation has to do with questions of scale. Radical centrists could perhaps use a good dose of Kirkpatrick Sale, Leopold Kohr, […]
If only it were this trivial…
Hopefully, my anti-PC credentials are well-established enough that others can see the humor in this. If only concerns about the excesses of totalitarian humanism involved matters this trivial.
The Growth of the Alternative Right
Here are the three money quotes from this article that are most relevant to the ARV-ATS philosophy. “The alt right’s real objective, if one can be identified, is to challenge and dismantle mainstream conservatism.” And: “If I had to take a political position, I’d say that I’m pro-secession,” […]
Will Trump Be the Ironic Salvation of the GOP?
Many commentators, including myself, have speculated in the past that the GOP may be on its last legs due the fact that its only reliable constituency (older WASPs) are shrinking demographically and dying off. Various options have also been suggested as means for the Republicans to save themselves. […]
Thomas Sowell on the Trump/Neocon Divide
Thomas Sowell is a writer whose work ranges from the brilliant to the asinine. I would highly recommend much of Sowell’s academic work, but his syndicated columns are often nothing more than neocon talking points (he obviously knows who butters his toast). Here, Sowell wrings his hands over […]
Trump: Clinton has ruined the world
Given that Donald Trump has provoked so much “fascism hysteria,” for lack of a better, this comment from a Facebook friend, Warren Balogh, helps puts things in a little more perspective. Says Warren: “People, are you paying attention to this?! When was the last time a frontrunner presidential […]
Armed militia, incl. Bundy bros, occupy forest reserve HQ in Oregon, call ‘US patriots’ to arms
Russia Today Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s three sons and “about 150” militiamen have occupied the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge HQ to protest the pending imprisonment of two Oregon ranchers accused of arson, arguing the federal government has no authority in local cases. “We’re going to be freeing these […]
Judicial Discretion and the Managerial State
Sean Gabb describes the transformation of the Left from civil libertarians to totalitarian humanists. By Dr. Sean Gabb Libertarian Alliance Any system of criminal justice worth the name needs to reconcile humanity with certainty. On the one hand, part of the function of the criminal law is deterrent. […]
Vote all you want. The secret government won’t change.
By Jordan Michael Smith Boston Globe The voters who put Barack Obama in office expected some big changes. From the NSA’s warrantless wiretapping to Guantanamo Bay to the Patriot Act, candidate Obama was a defender of civil liberties and privacy, promising a dramatically different approach from his predecessor. […]
Keith Preston: US aid to Israel ‘continues unabated’ under Obama
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/31/443931/US-military-aid-Israel-Obama/ “Israel continues to be by far the largest recipient of American foreign aid, American military aid and American weapons,” says Preston. US military and foreign assistance to Israel has “continued unabated” under President Barack Obama, despite disagreements on a number of issues, says […]
The GOP in the Desert
This looks to be an interesting book. In the past I have attempted to outline fairly meticulously calculated strategies concerning how to go about forming a constituency or coalition for the pan-anarchist, pan-secessionist, and pan-decentralist ideas we promote at ATS. However, given the growing fractiousness of US politics […]
Whither the American Right: Cruz And “Movement Conservatism”—Or Trump And National Conservatism?
An interesting article by James Kirkpatrick on the divisions that Trump is causing in the Republican Party. From a strategic perspective, I consider the destruction of the Republican Party as a competitive force in U.S. politics to be the most important objective at the present time. The GOP […]
Admit It. You Just Want Your Own Dictator
By David Harsanyi The Federalist This incessant clamoring by voters and punditry for better “leaders” and more “leadership” is one of the most unsavory, dangerous, and un-American tendencies in political discourse. When Donald Trump was asked last week by Joe Scarborough what he made of an endorsement from Vladimir […]
Donald Trump: We’ve Seen It All Before
The original Donald Trump. BBC News After years of successfully brushing off sex scandals, allegations of corruption and political setbacks, Silvio Berlusconi’s luck finally out when he was convicted of tax fraud in 2013. Berlusconi, 77, was sentenced to four years in prison and ejected from his seat […]
Inequality Isn’t Something That Just “Happens”
By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society A think piece by Walter Frick at Harvard Business Review (“Understanding the Debate Over Inequality, Skills, and the Rise of the 1%,” Dec. 21) draws a line in the inequality debate between those (mostly CEOs and other corporate apologists) who […]
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More Than 1 In 4 Americans Now Believe the U.S. Government is the Enemy of the People
Opinion polls show these numbers pretty consistently. The question is how do we awaken this sleeping giant? Countercurrents News A startling new study reveals that more than 1 in 4 Americans now believes that the government is the enemy of its very citizens. The Pew Research Center concluded that […]
Keith Preston: US police brutality is not about black people or homicide
This headline is a bit goofy and misleading, but I actually cover a lot of important ground in the audio interview. Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/29/443626/us-police-brutality-black-lives-matter-gun-violence-racial-inequality/ Police brutality in the United States is not necessarily about “homicide” committed by American cops or even “racial disparity” but has deeper […]
Tim Wise vs. Jared Taylor: The Merits of Racial Diversity
This is an interesting debate between leftist anti-racist Tim Wise and race-realist/white nationalist Jared Taylor. This discussion covers most of the standard issues and arguments involved in these kinds of debates. I would suggest that these questions are largely irrelevant to the question of anarchist political theory generally, […]
Robert Stark interviews Sean Gabb
Listen Here! Sean Gabb is the director of the Libertarian Alliance in the UK Topics include: The objectives of the Libertarian Alliance The divide between establishment libertarians and traditionalist leaning libertarians How there were originally laws against the publication of pornography under the Obscene Publications Act but there were no laws about possession How today […]
George Carlin – Political Correctness is fascism pretending to be Manners
PC is the new Moral Majority, Legion for Decency, or Parents Music Resource Center. Guys like Carlin, Frank Zappa, and Abbie Hoffman would have never stood for this shit.
Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill: “The Real Threat To Free Speech Now is Conformism and Cowardice”
This is quite good. O’Neill describes PC as the new puritanism and a reactionary abandonment of classical liberal values, and PC environmentalism as an apocalyptic religion.
ISIS Attacks are Excuses for Censorship and Disarmament
Truth Axis The Paris terrorist attacks and San Bernardino shootings have ushered in a new era of urban terror. The combined death toll of both attacks was 146 dead with hundreds wounded. The response from American politicians, law enforcement and intelligence departments has varied, but is unified in […]
Reading Through An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: Multiculturalism
Originally posted at Lingit Latseen I’ve finally picked up Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s book, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States. The book is an attack on the legitimizing ideology and narrative of the United States’s subjugation of the indigenous people of North America. Though I have only just […]
What, Exactly, is the ‘Alternative Right?’
This is a really shabbily written article on the “alternative right” from The Weekly Standard. But if the alternative right is getting a mention in one of the neocons’ in-house journals, it must be really growing in influence. I’ve heard the alternative right actually got a mention on […]
Keith Preston: Leader’s Letter Addresses Westerners’ Misconceptions about Islam
My recent interview with the Tasnim News Agency. TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An American political analyst said the second letter penned by Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei to Western youth aims to inform the younger generation of Westerners’ misconceptions about Islam and Muslims. “The […]
The New Anarchist Movement is Growing
In recent years, I have noticed that the number of people accepting the label of “anarchist” for their political identity has grown considerably. Equally important is that I have also noticed that an increasing number of people who identify as anarchists are beginning to reject the leftist fanaticism […]
McDonaldization of Education and the Civil Religion of the Left
By Aleksey Bashtavenko As I neared completion of my academic program in 2009, I was surrounded by professors who ascribed the economic crisis to “unfettered capitalism”. One of my instructors lamented “if only we had the state sponsor all of our classes, we ought to treat students […]
Quote of the Day
From an article on “Anti-Fascist News” called “Why We Fight: What is the Real Threat of Fascist Organizing?” It sounds like they almost get it. “The far right has staked much of its claims to the left’s demise on things like political correctness, personal anecdotes of bigotry disconnected […]
Murray Bookchin: Anarchism without the Working Class
A critique of Bookchin from a classical anarcho-syndicalist/anarcho-communist perspective. By Wayne Price Anarchism Needs a Working Class Revolution Murray Bookchin was an influential and prolific writer and thinker on anarchism. Recently his work has been in the news. While he made significant contributions, he made a major error […]
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