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Nexus X HumectressIn this edition of the BoilingFrogsPost.com Roundtable, James Corbett, Sibel Edmonds and Peter B. Collins welcome Andrew Gavin Marshall for a discussion of his recent podcast on “Anarchy, Socialism and Free Markets.” We talk about anarchism as a philosophy and what it really entails, as well as how […]
This is an interesting critique of the neo-reactionary movement by social scientist Scott Alexander, who also postulates the emergence of a libertarian “Grey Tribe” as a third force beyond the “conservative” Red Tribe and the “liberal” Blue Tribe. Alexander is very much in the progressive camp, although not […]
The New Reaction by Rachel Haywire Arktos Media, 66 pages Available for purchase from Amazon here Reviewed by Keith Preston Rachel Haywire’s The New Reaction is a collection of fifteen relatively short writings offering amusingly iconoclastic bits of cultural criticism from the perspective of someone with a well-developed […]
An interesting new work by Carson. By Kevin Carson Center for a Stateless Society Center for a Stateless Society Paper No. 19 (Winter 2015) [PDF] The Cult of Mass, Lionization of Protest Culture & Other Industrial Age Holdovers Protest Culture. The so-called “cargo cults” of New Guinea, Micronesia and […]
And we’ll never ditch foreign intervention as long as we have this government. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com Why should advocates of limited government support a non-interventionist foreign policy? This web site was founded some 20 years ago by libertarians perplexed and disturbed at the sight of ever-expanding government […]
Another “ally” that needs to go. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com While the Israel lobby is blanketing the US media with propaganda to the effect that Iran cannot be trusted to adhere to the terms of any agreement limiting its nuclear research and development, back in Tel Aviv Bibi […]
It’s time the US gave these Bronze Age douchebags the toss. By Justin Raimondo Antiwar.Com Let’s get this straight: Saudi Arabia is Al Qaeda. If there was any doubt about that, the Kingdom’s invasion of Yemen makes it plain as day. The Los Angeles Times reports: “A brazen […]
While approximately 70% of the world’s nations have abolished the death penalty, the “freest nation on earth” and “symbol of democracy” remains one of the world’s leading executioner states along with China, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, India, North Korea, Cuba, Indonesia, the oil fiefdoms of the Persian Gulf, […]
In other words, the largest corporations basically have the same amount of power as the world’s 200 or so individual nation-states. So saith that great commie magazine, Forbes. Bruce Upbin Forbes.Com Three systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich have taken a database listing […]
Realistically speaking, is this not a more apt description of “actually existing capitalism” than the idyllic Randian kind pushed by the “vulgar libertarians”? “A “choice” between: > Scumbags R’ Us > Criminals Incorporated > The Devil Himself Ltd. > Worldwide Sociopathic Enterprises, LLC. > Evil Scum Industries > […]
Contrary to the claims of this vulgar libertarian piece, yes, they do. This article is a reminder of why libertarians need a better to economics than Ayn Rand’s recycling of Social Darwinism. “A key claim of the partisans of this view–who originally called themselves Progressives–is that large corporations […]
By Mark Lutter Foundation for Economic Education The 20th century was an era defined by the clash of ideologies. Fascism. Communism. Democracy. As adherents mobilized armies, the implicit assumption was that to be correct was to be universalized — by force if necessary. My ideology is the best, […]
By Michael Graczyk Associated Press © Provided by Associated Press , is a note from Oklahoma City comber Timothy McVeigh to his defense team. The note, saying “This is the FBI! Do not Panic! We are currently ramming tanks into your house to inject CS gas. Send out […]
By Christoph Reuter Der Spiegel An Iraqi officer planned Islamic State’s takeover in Syria and SPIEGEL has been given exclusive access to his papers. They portray an organization that, while seemingly driven by religious fanaticism, is actually coldly calculating. Aloof. Polite. Cajoling. Extremely attentive. Restrained. Dishonest. Inscrutable. Malicious. […]
The Big Think Editors BigThink.Com Don’t get Slavoj Žižek wrong. The famous philosopher, featured on Big Think last week in an interview about political correctness, doesn’t find fault in being polite or respecting people who are different. He does not advocate for hate. He agrees a state of political correctness is better than open […]
Is a split emerging among the Anglo-American-Zionist-Wahabist axis between the Atlanticist wing and the Israeli-Saudi wing? By Pat Buchanan Taki’s Magazine At the Summit of the Americas where he met with Raul Castro, the 83-year-old younger brother of Fidel, President Obama provided an insight into where he is […]
By Jesse Rosenfeld The Daily Beast The U.S. relationship is informal amid a tangled roster of Kurdish warriors, but the PKK troops are too good to ignore. MATARA, Iraq — On the volatile front lines facing the so-called Islamic State outside the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, American […]
Robert Stark interviews The Truth Will Live The Truth Will Live is a Blonde Jewish, Neoreactionary, Iconoclast, Youtuber from the Midwest. Topics include: The Torah Talk Show she co-host with Luke Ford that relates modern day issues to Jewish Religious Texts How she grew up in the Conservative Denomination […]
Caity and Dan welcome MK Lords to the show. We begin by chatting about Tumblr (and how scary it can be) and the crazy feminists that Caity and MK found there, feminism, anarcha-feminists, Emma Goldman, prostitution, South Park, female quotas and how to get women in the military […]
…The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.[3] —The quote is credited to Ecclesiastes, but the words do not occur there. It can be seen as an addition,[4] a paraphrase and an endorsement of […]
Caity and Dan shift their gaze towards the Scottish National Party (SNP) and their scary authoritarian policies. We chat about the Named Person legislation and the dangers of the state getting involved in family life, the rise in armed police and stop-and-search powers in Scotland. We move on […]
This is an interesting comment from this article: “It was not long ago when the attitude towards conspiracy theories was mainly mocking. Now they are perceived as a national threat and they are compared to terrorism and Nazism: France has already set a dangerous precedent by beginning to block web sites […]
This video is mostly a silly attack on national-anarchism, but it’s worth watching because of a speaker that appears off-camera at 39:13 in this. The speaker specifically attacks anti-imperialists for not conforming to Western standards of what an anti-imperialist movement should be, and simultaneously attacks Western radicals for […]
By Paul Mason The Guardian Supporters of the Pirate party in Germany. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters With just 22 days to go until the election starts, like many social media addicts I am wondering just how much more Official Political Tweeting I can take. Politics with a small p […]
The specific organizational forms that the growing third wave of anarchist movements will eventually assume is still being debating. Might the example of the Pirate Party and its rapid growth be a potential model to draw on? By Jordan Minor Geek.Com Like the lawless, ruthless, anarchists they were, […]
In his recent interview of yours truly, Michael Enoch Isaac pointed out that the anarcho-Marxist social justice warriors have come to represent totalitarian humanism in its idealized Platonic form and, as I have said before, they play the same role to the totalitarian humanist establishment as the Red […]
An interesting critique of orthodox libertarianism from a Marxist perspective by a U.K. economics student. Unlearning Economics I have only really just started studying Marxism in depth (though I am stopping short of Capital for now). Subsequently, while reading Bertell Ollman‘s Alienation: Marx’s Conception of Man in a […]
This man, and not Rand Paul, is the logical successor to Ron Paul as the leading figure in the anti-state movement. Listen to the interview here.
By Sheldon Richman Reason Understanding history as best we can is important for obvious reasons. It’s particularly important for libertarians who want to persuade people to the freedom philosophy. In making their case for individual freedom, mutual aid, social cooperation, foreign nonintervention, and peace, libertarians commonly place great […]
By Keith Preston The Libertarian Alliance I think we can interpret this stuff with either a grand narrative or a focused narrative, depending on what direction we want to go. I would agree that the fanatical political correctness we see coming from the cultural Left today is traceable […]
An interesting discussion of Dugin’s ideas from Canadian television. Vladimir Putin’s name is known throughout the world. Alexander Dugin’s name, not so much. But to people in the know, Alexander Dugin is a very important name, as the Russian public intellectual says what Putin thinks. The Agenda examines […]
By Giorgio Cafiero and Daniel Wagne Antiwar.Com Nearly four years after NATO-backed rebels toppled the former Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, the North Africa country has plunged into chaotic unrest. The failure of last year’s election to achieve political unity in Libya was most evident when Fajr Libya, or […]
by Anonymous No word has done more to spark both disgust and delight than the word “revolution.” For libertarians, this is no exception. Oftentimes, the word conjures up memories of storming the Bastille, the Jacobin Terror, the firing squads and gulags of the Soviet Union, the anti-Western Third […]
Mike Enoch Isaac and I spent two hours triggering just about everyone. Listen to the interview here at TheRightStuff.Biz
“The modern social justice movement launched on Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook, Jezebel, Slate, Huffington Post, et al. is far more reminiscent of a Red Scare (pick one) than the Civil Rights Movement.” By Aristotelis Orginos Medium.Com Social justice, as a concept, has existed for millennia — at least as long as […]
The Daily Kos Republican Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson appeared on The Ed Show where he spoke about President Obama’s unprecedented agreement with Iran. Wilkerson, unlike most Republicans and quite a number of Democrats, was able to see what the agreement if fulfilled would mean. “Ed I don’t normally codify […]
The voice of the ruling class makes makes the empire’s intentions clear. By Robert Parry BillMoyers.Com If two major newspapers in, say, Russia published major articles openly advocating the unprovoked bombing of a country, say, Israel, the US government and news media would be aflame with denunciations about […]
My response to this piece: There are multiple problems with this writer’s claims. First, Rand Paul can hardly be taken at his word. If anything, he’s below average when compared with other politicians in terms of consistency. Second, presidents are largely figureheads who preside over the implementation of […]
It must be a good thing. By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Flickr The Kissinger/Shultz piece from yesterday’s Wall Street Journal makes the best case I’ve seen yet against making a deal with Iran – one that doesn’t rely on apocalyptic rhetoric or fantasies about the efficacy of […]
By Daniel Larison The American Conservative Paul Pillar puts the Iran hawks’ alarmist claims about an Iranian “march of conquest” in perspective: The main fact on this subject is that Iran hasn’t been doing anything close to the country-gobbling, capital-controlling, instability-creating stuff in the Middle East that it […]
Do not stand with Rand. “Whereas Paul told me back in 2013 that he hoped to make “audit the Pentagon” as popular a rallying cry as his father Ron Paul did “audit the Fed,” he’s now proposing $190 billion in spending increases for defense over two years, but claims fiscal conservative […]
“He has plainly adjusted his views on defense spending, foreign aid and on the threat posed by Iran. This is a good thing as it shows Paul has the capacity to learn from experience. This sets him apart from our current president, who like Paul, was a freshman […]
YES! By Thomas Knapp Garrison Center/Libertarian Alliance Once upon a time (not that long ago), the west’s colleges and universities were its centers of political dissent and incubators of cultural change. From dress and speech codes to musical trends to the defining issues of the day, students — often with the […]
“The late Murray Rothbard, a towering intellectual and political activist in libertarian circles, was a striking example. During the 1940s, he belonged to New York’s Young Republican Club, but during the Cold War he concluded that the GOP’s militarism was a betrayal of the traditional anti-war and isolationist […]
Carl Schmitt once referred to the original Nazi movement in Germany as “organized mass insanity.” Nowadays, what passes for the “radical left” has regrettably fallen into such a state. By Azn Rand The Right Stuff What happens when contradictory leftist narratives collide? We get a battle between a […]
This is an interesting article from a hard left perspective that outlines very well the historical trajectory behind the left-wing anarchist movement’s present obsession with race, identity politics, and so-called “privilege theory.” As this article explains, “white skin privilege” theory was developed by a couple of American Communists, […]
Sean Gabb reviews Wayne John Sturgeon’s Albion Awake Mystical Anarchism and the National Quest for an Alternative Britain. “The current British State has just as much authority as it is able to compel. It is beyond reforming. All the other European states and the American system are entering […]
“Even dovish Democratic donors, by contrast, generally care about issues like abortion, gay marriage, gun control and climate change, which makes them more willing to donate to Schumer or Clinton despite their differences on Iran.” By Peter Beinhart The Atlantic John Kerry speaks to the press following the […]
” Benjamin Netanyahu has become the symbolic leader of the GOP, and even he is probably not as aggressive as most in the party would like him to be.” By Scott McConnell The American Conservative When the unexpectedly detailed P5+1 framework agreement with Iran was announced last Thursday, […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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