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Nexus X HumectressPress TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/07/449041/US-north-korea-rocket-China-South-korea An analyst says the US problem with North Korea is that it still defies “being incorporated into the global system in which the United States has hegemony.” The United States’ problem with North Korea is that the East Asian country does not want […]
I’ve always argue that the last thing libertarians who want to achieve political success should ever do is position themselves as just another branch of “free market conservatives” preaching bourgeois economics. The failure Rand Paul indicates that, for better or worse, I was probably right. Case in point: […]
What actual socialists think of New Dealer Bernie Sanders. Bill Scher Politico.Com erhaps the most astonishing aspect of the 2016 presidential race is that Bernie Sanders, somehow, has made “socialism” a safe word in American politics. Nearly 100 years ago Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs had to campaign […]
An interesting reply to an earlier article by yours truly. By Neil Lock Libertarian Alliance This essay began as a comment on Keith Preston’s “The New Anarchist Movement is Growing,” published here[1]. Soon, though, as I explored some of the ideas of various anarchist sects, it turned into […]
Richard Spencer performs an interesting and (probably) correct autopsy on the mainstream libertarian movement now that what Ron Paul got rolling has been eclipsed by Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. By Richard Spencer Radix Journal
A good discussion of how totalitarian humanism has become the ideological superstructure of the ruling class and the state. Lecture by Jeff Deist
A good overview of the spectrum of U.S. politics. Lecture by Jeff Deist
This looks to be interesting. PBS.Org A new revolutionary culture emerged in the turbulent 1960s, and the Black Panther Party was at the vanguard. Weaving together a treasure trove of rare footage with the voices of a diverse group of people who were there, Stanley Nelson tells the […]
By Todd Lewis Praise of Folly Recently I have been reading Ed Feser’s blog entries on Murary Rothbard here: http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2009/08/rothbard-as-philosopher.html http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2009/08/rothbard-revisited.html With Feser’s insights, along with my own separate inquiries facilitated by my friend Brock Bellerive, […]
Because gender equality means that everyone must be obligated to serve the empire. The latest in totalitarian humanism. By Dan Lamonthe Washington Post The top officers in the Army and Marine Corps testified on Tuesday that they believe it is time for women to register for future military […]
A must read. By Andrew Walker Peruse your Facebook or Twitter feed over the last couple of days and you’ll probably find a liberal friend or two snickering about “#YallQaeda.” Dig a little deeper and you’ll even find people muttering about domestic terrorism, sedition, and the need to […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/02/01/448301/Keith-Preston The expanding US military campaign against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Afghanistan is a cover for Washington to restart the wars in the region and maintain its military presence, a political analyst in Virginia says. The fact that the US is broadening […]
Robert Stark interviews Presidential Candidate Kyle Kopitke Kyle Kopitke is running for president as an independent. His campaign website is kylekopitke.com and he blogs at President Kopitke 2016 Topics include: Why he running for president His Military and Foreign Policy Experience How he was the State Director for the Jerry Brown for President campaign […]
Everyone is talking about the split that has emerged among the Repugnicans between the neoconservative and corporatist elites and the populist-nationalist “base.” But it appears an interesting split is emerging among Democraps as well. These two articles by Matt Fortney on his recent visits to a Sanders rally […]
This latest poll from Gallup is consistent with what one would expect given the prevailing demographic, generational, cultural, economic and partisan trends in the wider society, as this recent article by Peter Beinart indicates. Contrary to the hysteria of the Left, Donald Trump is not ushering in a […]
Here’s the transcript. To the People of Europe, Fate lays upon me the task of writing you from distant shores. My name is Augustus Invictus, and I am a candidate for the United States Senate. Though I am an American, I am by blood a son of Europe. […]
I don’t personally have a dog in this fight. I sympathize with anyone who is in revolt against the U.S. federal system, left, right, or center. Other than that, it’s none of my business how Oregonians organize their own economy or approach to ecological issues. Here’s another piece […]
One of the greatest misconceptions about anarchism is that it is a exclusively or inherently Western ideology. Not so. Historically, there have been anarchist movements in Latin America and in Asia that were as large as parallel movements in Europe and the Anglosphere. Anarchism is able to travel […]
An interesting discussion of the many utopian colonies that appeared in the U.S. in the 19th century from the National Park Service website. National Park Service The Amana Colonies were one of many utopian colonies established on American soil during the 18th and 19th centuries. There were hundreds […]
An interesting interview from Red Ice Radio. Listen here. Vox Day is a writer, a professional game designer and a three-time Billboard top 40 recording artist. He is the author of “SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police.” We’ll discuss how Social Justice Warriors have plagued mankind […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/30/448011/Brennan-Center-US-terrorism-surveillance-Keith-Preston-Countering-Violent-Extremism “Muslims or people of Middle Eastern ancestry are being verily targeted in” the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) program, Preston says. Muslims and people of Middle Eastern origin are mainly targeted by a US government program to “counter terrorism,” says a political commentator from Virginia. Keith Preston, chief […]
This article by Peter Beinart confirms what I’ve been saying for some years now. Beinart’s argument is consistent with just about every demographic, cultural, generational, economic, and partisan trend. By Peter Beinart The Atlantic Republicans may have a lock on Congress and the nation’s statehouses—and could well win […]
Hopefully. Politico.Com Nothing like Donald Trump has ever hit a major American political party: A blow-dried celebrity gleefully smashing one modern Republican certainty after the other. As he defies his own party on tax orthodoxy, on healthcare and on bending a knee to Roger Ailes, he’s exposed the […]
By William T. Hathaway As the viciousness of capitalism engulfs ever more of us, our yearnings for change are approaching desperation. The system’s current leader, Barack Obama, has shown us that the only change we can believe in is what we ourselves create. To do that, we need […]
An interesting piece by William Domhoff explaining the differences between the Left and the Right, many of which, following the insights of Vilfredo Pareto, appear to be psychological in nature. By G. William Domhoff The aim of this essay is to provide a big-picture canvas of the wider […]
Says supposed “anarchist” Spencer Sunshine: “The movement’s beliefs are a grab bag of toxic politics which commonly include: opposition to any restrictions on gun ownership; anti-immigrant xenophobia and Islamophobia; unrestricted use of private and public land; legal strategies of right-wing decentralization; a commitment to completely unregulated capitalism; various […]
There are many things that I admire about Noam Chomsky, but this is absolute crap. That this man is considered the world’s leading exponent of left-anarchism is pathetic. If someone of his stature had spend his career promoting actual libertarian socialism and anti-state radicalism rather than Keynesian liberal […]
Lingit Latseen In a video released the evening of his death, LaVoy Finicum, the man who was shot and killed on Tuesday in Harney County, addresses some concerns voiced by Natives regarding the occupation. In the video he voices his support for the establishment of independent, sovereign tribal […]
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Please enjoy the continuation of my recent debate with Todd Lewis. Herein we discuss individual responsibility, peaceful parenting, the belief in authority, legal plunder, Child Protective Services, lack of accountability, the State perverts Free Market incentives, private armies cannot compete with the evils of the military, the State […]
Please enjoy my recent debate with Todd Lewis. Herein we discuss Mere Christianity definition, Distributism definition, Aristotle on magnanimity, Economy definition, the importance of family and close friend bonds, perverse incentives of the welfare State, ways to distribute land, calling what we have today as Crony Capitalism is […]
Press TV. Listen here: http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/01/24/447192/Keith-Preston/ Donald Trump “has a very crude, very boorish style but also ironically appeals to a lot of people,” says Keith Preston. Leading US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump thrives on insulting and degrading people, which is a shameful aspect of the American political […]
Tom Woods interviews George Hawley on his new book. Listen here. The official conservative movement has its leftist opponents, but more interesting are its critics on the right, who are contemptuous of its think-tanks, its magazines, even its ideas. We discuss plenty of these people and groups in […]
By Jason Adams Radical Archives The future of anarchism must be appraised within a global context; any attempt to localize it is bound to yield a distorted outcome. The obstacles to anarchism are, in the main, global; only their specifics are determined by local circumstances.” – Sam Mbah […]
This is an old article from a 1987 edition of the Detroit-based anarchist magazine Fifth Estate. Another bit of trivia is that the author of this piece was eventually elected to the Michigan state legislature as a libertarian-leaning Republican. By Greg Kaza Radical Archives The rhetoric is anti-state. […]
Whoa! I wasn’t previously aware of this. This is some obscure history. By Mina Graur Radical Archives In 1930 the FAUD [the anarcho-syndicalist Free Workers’ Union of Germany] accepted an invitation from Otto Strasser, an activist in the National Socialist Party [e.g., the Nazi party], to a series of […]
Great interview with Augustus by Lana Lokteff. Listen here. Augustus Invictus is an attorney and community leader in Orlando, Florida who is a candidate in the 2016 US Senate election. Best known as a radical philosopher and infamous social critic, he is Managing Partner of Imperium, P.A., the […]
The New Republic takes on National Review‘s take on Trump. By Jeet Heer The New Republic National Review is the great intellectual gatekeeper of the American right, a journal of opinion that has long served as the arbiter of what counts as respectable conservative thought. Throughout its six-decade […]
It is understandable that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders have been able to garner a tremendous amount of support among many who are inclined to think ill of the system (which is rapidly becoming a majority of the U.S. population). Both men are a refreshing alternative to the […]
Apparently, the police state eats its own. VICE News Bernie Kerik is one of New York City’s most famous former police commissioners. He began his career in 1986 as an NYPD officer walking the beat, worked undercover for the DEA, and ran the Rikers Island jail before becoming […]
This is beautiful. The entire array of the neoconservative/”movement conservative”/Republican alliance is squirming over Trump, which means they obviously think he’s a genuine threat to their hegemony on the American “right.” The best possible scenario that can come out of the Trump candidacy would be for the GOP […]
A collection of article arguing for orthodox anarcho-capitalism against left-libertarianism. We the Individuals Scratch an egalitarian, and you will inevitably find a statist. -Murray Rothbard Sometime ago, this site published an article by the title of “Left-Libertarianism, A Love Story”. The article, in hindsight, was a disappointment. The […]
This is a great interview. Listen here. Neoconservative commentator Jonah Goldberg says we shouldn’t use the term “neoconservative” anymore. Paul Gottfried and I are having none of it, and we spend this episode explaining the origins and ideas of the neocons, and how they came to eclipse everyone […]
“We will show the world what black people can do when they work in freedom, and we shall make of Congo the pride of Africa” – Patrice Lumumba Source: Telesutv.net / The Dawn / January 18, 2015.- Fifty five years ago, agents of the Belgian secret services and […]
Libertarian Alliance Death to America? by Sean Gabb 22nd January 2016 Talking about the future is often a sure recipe for looking like a fool. However obvious it may seem to us, nearly everything that happened in the past was unexpected at the time. I am not aware […]
John Whitehead talked about his book, Battlefield America: The War on the American People, in which he argues the U.S. is on the verge of becoming what he calls a “police state.” http://www.c-span.org/video/?402024-4/washington-journal-john-whitehead-civil-liberties-national-security
By Clint Siegner, Money Metals Exchange Growing Support for Sound Money Rankles Fed Apologists Sound money issues make for good politics these days. The leading Republican candidates have all suggested reforms to our monetary system. The topic is popping up in debates as well as interviews. Predictably, Fed […]
By Bryan Caplan David Card has a new study arguing that immigration has basically no effect on the wages of domestic low-skilled workers. This confirms his earlier results on the famed Mariel boatlift, when Castro freed 125,000 Cubans to flee to Miami. Is this result theoretically possible? How […]
A leading immigration economist argues that immigration has a wage suppression effect on the lower income socioeconomic sectors. By George Borjas Center for Immigration Studies George J. Borjas has been described by both Business Week and the Wall Street Journal as “America’s leading immigration economist”. He is the […]
Slavoj Žižek doesn’t buy into political correctness. In fact, it frightens him. The famed philosopher and social critic describes political correctness as a tacit form of totalitarianism, an act of coercion built upon the premise that “I know better than you what you really want.” This isn’t to […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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