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Nexus X HumectressPraise of Folly Podcast Episode #21: Is Self Ownership and NAP True?
Stephan Kinsella and Todd Lewis debate Self-Ownership and the Non-Aggression Principle with Keith Preston as moderator.
A Considered Response to the Chilcot Report (UK)
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 […]
Fernando Cortés: “Massive Mexican Immigration—a Business of Crooks”
An interesting take on immigration, economics, and US-Mexican relations from a Mexican nationalist. The economic analysis he gave was quite good. I wish these identitarian folks would emphasize that more. Often they sound like ordinary Republicans grousing about “colored folks on welfare.” He didn’t say anything Ralph Nader […]
American Secessionists Dream of Declaring Independence
By Clare Foran The Atlantic Secessionists across the United States are taking heart. The United Kingdom’s historic vote to leave the European Union last month has sparked interest in the far-fetched idea that U.S. states might win independence from Washington, D.C. Separatist groups are especially optimistic that Americans […]
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 […]
Key Promoter of Iraq War Now Embraces Ron Paul and Nonintervention: A Tom Woods Show Exclusive
Jim Hale served as media relations director for the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, a key pro-war organization that boasted such members as John McCain, George Shultz, and Bob Kerrey (senator from Nebraska). He is now a Tom Woods Show listener and a convert to noninterventionist foreign […]
Abby Martin with Dr. Jill Stein – Symptoms of a Sick Society
Part of the way the U.S. Empire’s elections are rigged is the corporate media’s censorship of third-party candidates, despite their nationwide campaign efforts. The Green Party, running Dr. Jill Stein for President—on a platform more progressive than Bernie Sanders—has been totally ignored by the establishment. Abby Martin sits […]
The Political Class Struggles:Elites recoil-the people are revolting
By Chris Lehmann The Baffler “Elite opinion” is admittedly a baggy construct—whose opinion? which elite?—but thanks to the weird convulsions of Campaign 2016, we’ve been granted a precious opportunity to behold it in all its lush and fulsome glory. Seemingly as one, the lead institutions of consensus-formation in […]
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 […]
Professor Peter Phillips: 13 firms ran by 161 directors on their boards represent the financial core of the world’s transnational capitalist class
By Mohsen Abdelmoumen America Herald Tribune Mohsen Abdelmoumen: In your writings, you qualify the XXI century, the century of Fascism. How did we get there? Pr. Peter Phillips: 9/11 set the stage for a global war on terror and increased police state in the US and abroad. We […]
Marxism 101: Dr. Richard Wolff interviewed by Abby Martin
Despite a concerted effort by the U.S. Empire to snuff out the ideology, a 2016 poll found young Americans have a much more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Though he died 133 years ago, the analysis put forward by one of the world’s most influential thinkers, Karl […]
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 […]
Noam Chomsky: Who rules the world now?
Cathy Newman’s full interview with Philosopher Noam Chomsky. From Trump and Clinton, to climate change, Brexit and TPP, America’s foremost intellectuals presents his views on who rules the world today.
Is the NAP and Self-Ownership Intellectually Defensible?
On June 28th 2016, by Keith Preston (moderator), Walter Block (affirmative) and Todd Lewis (negative) debate whether the NAP and Self-Ownership principles are intellectually defensible.
Europe: The Age of Globalism, 1999-2016
By Sean Gabb Europe: The Age of Globalism, 1989-2016 (?) by Sean Gabb (26th June 2016) I spoke earlier with a friend who lives in Bath. He told me how, in 1989, he sat on the Berlin Wall as it was being torn down, and how, last Thursday, […]
Meanwhile in the Lone Star state, a secessionist #Texit campaign gains steam after the #Brexit vote
By Jen Hayden Daily Kos Are y’all sitting down? The Texas Nationalist Movement says they are flying high after the vote in the United Kingdom to leave the European Union. From Daniel Miller, the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement: From the looks of it, the British people […]
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 […]
Crossroads 2016: Where do we go from here?
By Keith Preston Last month, I wrote about how many of the predictions that I have been making over the past decade or so have come true during the course of recent events. In particular, the current U.S. presidential election represents the fulfillment of some of these predictions. […]
Blast from the Past: The Solution to the Prison-Industrial Complex?
An old United Press International Article from 1982. Did the Shining Path show the way 34 years ago? Black Lives Matter, take note. By Carlos Milano LIMA, Peru — Some 150 masked guerrillas attacked a Peruvian prison high in the Andes and freed 255 inmates by dynamiting a […]
Remain: The Left Has Lined Up with the Establishment
By Tom Slater Spiked Online “Brexit is a fake revolt’, writes Paul Mason in the Guardian this week: ‘Working-class culture is being hijacked to help the elite.’ A withering article in Vice agrees. ‘Brexit is the upper classes in revolt’, writes Sam Kriss. ‘They see an undemocratic and […]
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 […]
Like the Alt Right, the Religious Right is Being Taken In by Huckster Trump
These poor folks keeping falling for one scam artist after another. By Nick Gass Politico.Com Former Republican presidential candidate and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann leads an alphabetical list of names announced by Donald Trump’s campaign on Tuesday as the presumptive Republican nominee’s evangelical executive advisory board. Along with […]
Donald Rumsfeld says he’ll vote for Trump – ‘It’s not a close call!”
Hmm. Rumsfeld endorses Trump while Cheney has implicitly endorsed Hillary. It looks like the imperialists are trying to cover all their bases. Rumsfeld tells DailyMail.com that he will vote for the Republicans’ presumptive nominee because he’s a ‘known unknown’ and Hillary Clinton is a ‘known known’ 9/11-era defense […]
Why Democrats Are Becoming the Party of the 1%
The Hillary campaign represents the totalitarian humanist convergence of imperialists, plutocrats, police statists, and the politically correct that I predicted in this article for LewRockwell.Com nearly 10 years ago. Also notice that the 1% that controls the Democratic party comes not from the traditional WASP elite but from […]
Clinton losing interest in accommodating Sanders and his liberal followers
A big split seems to be emerging between between center-liberalism and the Left. By Ben Wolfgang and S.A. Miller Progressive leaders are still hoping to force likely Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to the left, but a party insider said Thursday she’s rapidly losing interest in accommodating any […]
Michael Eric Dyson Calls for Massive Protests at GOP Convention
I’d like to go to Cleveland and rent a hotel room with a balcony overlooking the convention center. I’m hoping the GOP convention degenerates into a fistfight between neocons and Trumpians on the convention floor, and a full blown street fight between Trumpians, leftists, BLM and cops in […]
CNN Polls Show Libertarians, Greens Getting a Combined 16%
This would be an astounding accomplishment for the minor parties.
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 […]
National Review Uses the F-Word Over Donald Trump
The neocons are pissed now that they’re getting a taste of their own medicine. By Jay Nordlinger National Review There is an F-word in the present political campaign, and it is “fascist.” Some people say, “Trump is a fascist. Or if he’s not, he has fascist tendencies.” Others […]
Leading Antiwar Progressives Speak Favorably of Aspects of Trump’s Foreign Policy
This is important news because it signifies a genuine tension between the seriously anti-imperialist Left and the center-Left. These cleavages are becoming every more pronounced all the time whether the issue is foreign policy, labor policy, trade, civil liberties, criminal justice, the environment, the war on drugs, police […]
Adam Kokesh: A Message for Bernie Sanders Supporters
Adam Kokesh is considering running for President in 2020 on a program of abolishing the US federal system. Maybe Adam is the Man.
If We Are Going to Take Down the Establishment: Progressives, Libertarians, Anarchists, and Non-Voters Need to Unite
It looks like ATS ideas are becoming increasingly closer to the mainstream. I am seeing more and more writing like this all the time. By Tim Bryant The Last American Vagabond Anyone paying even the slightest attention to the 2016 Presidential Election can see that this election cycle […]
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 […]
Keith Preston: Obama’s policies helped in creation of Daesh
Press TV. Listen here. “The rise of the Daesh was made possible by efforts by the Americans to destabilize various governments in the Middle East,” said Keith Preston. The administration of US President Barack Obama, along with neoconservatives in Washington, have pursued policies that helped in the rise […]
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 […]
5 Reasons To Question The Official Story Of The Orlando Shooting
By Brandon Turbeville As more and more evidence emerges regarding the mass shooting in an Orlando gay club that resulted in the death of at least 52 people and many more injured, signs are increasingly pointing toward the possibility of a false flag operation. Already, a number of […]
Pink Pistols Saddened by Attack on Orlando Club
Pink Pistols June 12, 2016 Early Sunday, around 2AM Eastern Time, the Pulse nightclub in Orlando was attacked by an armed individual. Approximately 20 persons were killed and over double that wounded when the attacker, whom police have identified as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old from Fort Pierce, FL, […]
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 […]
Critiques of U.S. Prison-Industrial Complex: Left and Right
The necessity of overthrowing the police state and related institutions is the most serious domestic issue in the United States at present. What’s interesting is that virtually the entire range of informed opinion recognizes this to some degree though the analytical framework and specific criticisms may vary considerably. […]
Mitt Romney may vote Libertarian, as GOP criticism of Trump deepens
There goes the libertarian neighborhood. Now is the time for serious anti-state radicals to forget about “fiscal conservatism and social liberalism” and become full-blown anarchists. By Nicky Woolf The Guardian ‘I wish everybody in the Republican party had rejected Mr Trump and chosen someone else,’ Romney said on […]
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 […]
Praise of Folly Podcast Episode #17: A Critical Evaluation of the AltRight
Todd Lewis, Andy Nowicki, Colin Liddell and Keith Preston to have a roundtable discussion/debate about the state of the Alternative Right.
Robert Stark interviews Alex von Goldstein about Pepe the Frog
Robert Stark interviews Alex von Goldstein about Pepe the Frog Topics include:
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