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Nexus X HumectressTake an aspirin before reading this one. LibCom.Org As the far right begins to rise in the United States, what is the real threat that they hold? The numbers quickly broke three hundred as the Rose City Antifa called for an action to stop the White Man’s March […]
By Scott Alexander SlateStarCodex.Com The social justice narrative describes a political-economic elite dominated by white males persecuting anybody who doesn’t fit into their culture, like blacks, women, and gays. The anti-social-justice narrative describes an intellectual-cultural elite dominated by social justice activists persecuting anybody who doesn’t fit into their […]
The website of William Domhoff, a leading proponent and scholar of “elite theory,” is well worth checking out. By Richard L. Zweigenhaft Who Rules America? For many years now, Bill Domhoff and I have kept an eye on and tried to understand diversity in the corporate elite. Why […]
By Brendan O’Neill Reason “Are you now or have you ever been a climate contrarian?” How long before this McCarthyite question is asked of everyone who enters into academia, in order to weed out those who refuse to bow and scrape before green orthodoxy? If you think this […]
By Brendan O’Neill Reason If you were in any doubt that a dark cloud of illiberalism has descended over the Western academy, then the case of Tim Hunt should put you straight. Hunt is a British biochemist. A really good one. In 2001 he won the Nobel Prize […]
By John Wright Russia Today Reuters / Eric Thayer The crisis and chaos engulfing the Middle East and Ukraine is evidence of US imperial decline, as Washington learns the harsh lesson that no empire lasts forever. In the wake of the Vietnam War – the end of which […]
By William T. Hathaway Terrorists, serial killers, domestic murderers — their ghoulish deeds fill our news and popular entertainment, interspersed with wars, riots, and brutal repressions. Violence surrounds us. Where does it come from? The answer propagated by the mass media is that violence is human nature. It’s […]
“The way we treat non-violent drug crimes is problematic, and from a fiscal perspective, it’s breaking the bank.” “It’s draconian, and it doesn’t work,” Simon told the president. That was “The Wire” creator David Simon in a video posted to the White House YouTube channel about the war […]
By Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason Via Volokh Conspiracy, a disturbing criminal case out of Montana, where Flathead County resident David Lenio, 28, is being prosecuted for making disparaging remarks about Jews on Twitter and denying that the Holocaust happened. Say what? While this sort of prosecution is common […]
Listen to my recent statement to PressTV here. http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/414791 The increase in exports of chemical and biological weapons from the United States to totalitarian regimes in the Middle East and Africa during the Arab Spring comes as no surprise because “corrupt” Hillary Clinton was the secretary of state […]
Let’s face it. “Social Justice” is the new social conservatism, the Comstockery, the Prohibition movement or the Moral Majority of the 21st century. It’s time for all serious radicals to toss it in the garbage can. By Jonathan Chait New York Magazine The bizarre Title IX investigation of […]
If indeed Bernie Sanders becomes the “Ron Paul of the Left” I would suggest that those with a genuine alternative economic outlook like anarcho-communists, syndicalists, free market anti-capitalists, and libertarian socialists start crashing Sanders events and spreading information for the purpose of popularizing their ideas. Maybe the Sanders […]
I’m not a Sanders supporter. He’s too much of a social democrat for my tastes. But it will be interesting to see if his campaign has the same effect as the Ron Paul campaign. I wrote a number of articles expressing sympathy for Ron Paul back in 2007 […]
A reader recently posted on my personal Facebook page: “Rand Paul besides the Patriot act is pretty much wrong on everything these days it seems… He is essentially the same as mcCain on foreign policy, he supports bombing Iraq and Syria, sanctions against Iran, supporting Ukrainian neo-nazis, and […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com If one of the very worst provisions of the Patriot Act – which the government has erroneously and illegally interpreted to gather the phone records of each and every American – expires, we’ll have Senator Rand Paul to thank. And the truth is, we […]
My recent interview with PressTV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Default/embed/413640 The forces trained by the United States to fight against terrorist groups like ISIL are increasingly “defecting to the other side,” says a political analyst from Virginia. Keith Preston made the remarks when asked about a report that an ISIL […]
By Jerome Corsi Global Research More than 100 pages of previously classified Department of Defense and Department of State documents implicate the Obama administration in a cover-up to obscure the role Hillary Clinton and the State Department played in the rise of ISIS. The documents were obtained in a […]
Truth in Media Ron Paul Liberty Report A redacted assessment of the situation in Iraq and Syria has provided “some confirmation” of suspicions regarding the U.S. government’s support of moderate rebels in the region and its intentions in the conflict, according to Ron Paul. In the latest episode […]
By George Washington Zero Hedge America’s closest allies have been busted supporting ISIS in order to topple Syria’s government. Mainstream U.S. writers are calling for open support of ISIS and Al Qaeda to enact regime change in Syria. And a newly-declassified government document hints that the West supported […]
By Seuman Milne The Guardian he war on terror, that campaign without end launched 14 years ago by George Bush, is tying itself up in ever more grotesque contortions. On Monday the trial in London of a Swedish man, Bherlin Gildo, accused of terrorism in Syria, collapsed after […]
The Stark Truth Robert Stark and guest co-host The Truth Will Live talk to Rachel Haywire Rachel Haywire is an author and tech journalist from Los Angeles, California. She runs the dissident political magazine Trigger Warning(www.triggerwarning.us) and was the founder of both the Extreme Futurist Festival and INSTED. Once upon […]
By Uriel Alexis Films for Action Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the diverse anarchist strategies could combine against our current class society. How every variation on the theme of “assert your freedom now,” from the anarcho-syndicalist direct action to Sam Konkin’s agorism, could combine in order to […]
Robert Stark interviews Manuel Ochsenreiter about the War of the Idiot Robert Stark interviews journalist Manuel Ochsenreiter Topics include: His Essay WAR OF THE IDIOT Islamic State’s siege of the Ancient City of Palmyra and the Media’s phony outrage about it How The Islamic State serves the purpose of […]
By Christopher Cantwell Make mention of anarcho-capitalism, and the lefties are never far behind to tell you you’re not a real anarchist. You know, because studying economics and improving one’s station in life, that’s for statists, maaaan. I suppose “left anarchist” might be a broad brush, including all […]
By Anna Morgenstern Center for a Stateless Society Many anarchists of various stripes have made the claim that anarcho-capitalists aren’t really anarchists because anarchism entails anti-capitalism. I happen to think this is actually backwards. If they genuinely wish to eliminate the state, they are anarchists, but they aren’t […]
By Daibhidh The Anarchist Library Humans for Hire: Selling Yourself for Fun and Profit More = Better?? Putting Profits Above People “Anarcho” capitalism: Bourgeois Bombast “Anarchy” with Bosses? “Freedom” to Starve Goons with Guns Owners Uber Alles “From each according to their gullibility, to each, according to his […]
By Simon Denyer Washington Post BEIJING — China said Tuesday that it plans to extend its global military reach to safeguard its economic interests, while defending its territorial claims at sea against “provocative actions” by neighbors and “meddling” by the United States. A policy document setting out China’s […]
By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com When Ivy Ziedrich, a nineteen-year-old college student, approached Jeb Bush on the campaign trail and zinged him with “Your brother created ISIS!” the media ate it up and the video went viral. Ms. Ziedrich, a member of the College Democrats, talks very fast, and […]
By Mahdi Darius Nazemroava Global Research The strategic equation in the Middle East is about to see major changes. It strongly appears that the Iranian-led Resistance Bloc or Axis of Resistance — comprised of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and a cross-section of Palestinian and Iraqi groups — is about […]
By Ilana Mercer Libertarian Alliance “If we knew what we know today, we would not have gone into Iraq”: This is as good an apology Republicans vying for the highest office are willing to offer, 12 years after launching a war that was immoral and unjust from the […]
By Colin Todhunter Global Research Films for Action ment “Conspiracy Theories” In recent years, populist explanations for world events have become common and often taken the form of anti-establishment conspiracy theories. The contradiction between how people believe the world should be, according to the mainstream propaganda pertaining to liberty […]
By Greta Christina Raw Story “Well, I’m conservative, but I’m not one of those racist, homophobic, dripping-with-hate Tea Party bigots! I’m pro-choice! I’m pro-same-sex-marriage! I’m not a racist! I just want lower taxes, and smaller government, and less government regulation of business. I’m fiscally conservative, and socially liberal.” […]
Nick Gillespie Reason For the past 15 years or so, Gallup has charted how Americans describe themselves when it comes to social and economic issues. For the first time ever, equal percentages of us define ourselves as liberal and conservative on social issues: Gallup Even among Republicans, social […]
By Niraj Chokshi Washington Post People who identify as conservative outnumber those who call themselves liberal in 47 states, according to a new Gallup survey. Nationally, conservatives had a 14.6 percentage point lead on liberals, though that was more than a full point smaller than last year’s lead. […]
By Kevin Drum Mother Jones Via Ed Kilgore, here’s an interesting chart from the good folks at Gallup: What’s interesting about this is that the change is due almost entirely to Democrats and Democratic leaners. Since 1999, that group has gone from 35 percent socially liberal to 53 […]
By David Zucchino Los Angeles Times © AP Photo/Ted S. Warren Members of the military hold a giant U.S. flag before an MLS soccer match between the Seattle Sounders and Sporting Kansas City, in Seattle, May 23, 2015. REPORTING FROM FT. BRAGG, N.C. – Jovano Graves’ parents begged […]
By Dr. Sean Gabb The Barrister, May 2012 At the beginning of April 2012, the BBC and a couple of newspapers reported that the British Government was considering a new surveillance law. This would allow it to monitor the telephone calls, text messages, e-mails and website visits of […]
Robert Stark interviews Luke Ford about Narcissism, Sex Addiction, & Eroticized Rage 5 Ways Sex Addiction Recovery Can Get Derailed Narcissists Watch More Porn: Enter Eroticized Rage Porn as a mechanism for the addict to feel powerful and important Sex and love addiction The 12 Step Program Secure […]
By Dan Greene For many decades now, the UK’s nuclear weapons have been housed at Faslane Naval base in Scotland. The Trident programme has been a divisive issue in the UK as a whole for some time, but this week Able Seaman William McNeilly, 25 (who according to […]
By Lucy Steigerwald Antiwar.Com On Wednesday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky) “filibustered” for more than ten hours against the PATRIOT Act, the USA Freedom Act, and myriad government violations of the Fourth Amendment. He also daringly added some blistering critiques of the US prison state and its racial disparities. […]
By Alexander Ionov Stop-Imperialism.Com “If we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought to help Germany, and that way let them kill as many as possible, although I don’t want to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. Neither […]
ty Beyond Capitalism By James Herod FilmsforAction.Org It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly and later concretely, a strategy for destroying capitalism. At its most basic, this strategy calls for pulling time, energy, and resources out of capitalist civilization and putting them into building a new […]
By Vince Rinehart “There’s a number of off base memes and ideas floating on the left regarding this incident. – Claims have been made that this was a shootout between “Skin Head Gangs.” A look at the mug shots of those arrested show whites, Hispanics, blacks and perhaps […]
Carson challenges libertarian orthodoxy on the minimum wage. Carson has tons of great articles on all kinds of stuff. Check out his archive at C4SS. (Caveat: I hear from a reliable source that my name is under a total ban from being mentioned whatsoever at C4SS, even in […]
An interesting and, I believe, accurate critique of Thomas Sowell by Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Once again — this time using the Baltimore uprising as a pretext — Thomas Sowell has pulled out the template for his favorite column dismissing what he calls […]
Robert Stark interviews the Truth Will Live about Cultural Aesthetic Decline Topics include: Her Art History Major in College Her take on modern art and how it was innovative at first but has become repetitive Why the mainstream right has little interest in arts, culture, and aesthetics The […]
Caity and Dan are back chatting about a new approach to politics (caring even less), we thank the Labour Party for being such a disaster and entertaining us, having fun and not being a downer about politicians, what we found funny and bizarre about the recent UK general […]
Robert Stark interviews Carol Jean Sing Carol Jean Sing speaks to us on the eve of her sentencing in the United States District Court for the District of Utah. Dr. Sing, who holds a PhD from the University of Hawaii, is a 75 year old grandmother who stands […]
By Aleksey Bashatvenko “The presidency is the incarnation of the American people, in a sacrament resembling that in which the water and the wine are seen to be the body of Christ.” -Herman Finer In 1945, only 2 out of 10 people claimed that they were special or […]
Chapter 3 of the book RADICAL PEACE: People Refusing War By William T. Hathaway Merna al-Marjan is a young Iraqi who is currently in Germany studying European history. We talked in her dormitory room, a spartan but functional cubicle in a building that embodies a hopeful change in […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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