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Nexus X HumectressThe 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, […]
Given that Rand Paul has now formally announced his candidacy for the Presidency, a number of people have asked for my thoughts on the subject. Here they are. I’m not a Rand Paul supporter. Some libertarian-types think he’s merely a professional politician trying to capitalize on his father’s […]
The problem is that so-called “progressives’ nowadays don’t really seem to value any political ideas other than supposed “equality” for the officially oppressed. Virtually any other kind of rights or liberties they view as irrelevant or insignificant if they get in the way of “equality.” In the name […]
Robert Stark interviews Ogi Ogas Ogi Ogas received his Ph.D. in computational neuroscience from Boston University, where he designed mathematical models of learning, memory, and vision. He is co-author of A Billion Wicked Thoughts . He was a Department of Homeland Security Fellow and conducted biodefense research at MIT Lincoln […]
(This article was originally posted here on http://www.high-right.com) Morton Downey Junior was considered a precursor to the type of American conservative talk show hosts we have today. Conservatism previously had been associated with aristocracy, but with dilettantes like William F Buckley who presented an image of ostensible nobility, […]
One nation, indivisible? Hardly. This is the best article I’ve seen to date on the gay wedding cakes vs Christian bakeries brouhaha. By Conor Friedersdorf The Atlantic Herri met de Bles, “Siege at Thérouanne” c. 1510 (CEA/Flickr) After hearing from dozens of traditionalist Christians and as many gays […]
By Dan Greene The 4am face of the lady behind the thick glass begins to talk to me, it never changes every time I come in. “Who is your doctor? Why are you bothering us at this time? We’ll get you seen in like an hour, go sit […]
By Keith Preston Alternative Right 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 […]
The reactionary tears the neocon mouthpiece a new one. By Nick Hankoff Voices of Liberty April 2, 2015—Cable news got good yesterday. That’s what happens when Pat Buchanan is allowed on. The author and commentator was invited on Fox News Channel’s Hannity, apparently to be goaded and lambasted […]
By Karl Hess Panarchy.Org Note Karl Hess expresses, in the clearest and most powerful way, the fact that (a) libertarianism is a revolutionary idea and a revolutionary movement, and (b) libertarians are not there to defend private property, per se, but to uphold the life and freedom of […]
By Matt Welch Reason Someone please tell me if my progression here is inaccurate in any way: 1) Family owners of small-town Indiana pizzeria spend zero time or energy commenting on gay issues. 2) TV reporter from South Bend walks inside the pizzeria to ask the owners what […]
By Chris George A New Kind of Mind I typically describe myself as a “libertarian anarchist.” People who don’t understand what either word means will essentially assume that I’m doubly insane. Libertarian is a more friendly word; anarchist is generally perceived to be hostile. Libertarians are usually considered […]
By Petar Stanchev ROARMag.Org The dogmatic criticism of popular struggles for autonomy in Chiapas and Rojava reveals a colonial mentality that should be stamped out of our movement. Photo: comrades from the Revolutionary Anarchist Action (DAF) in Turkey express their solidarity with the Kurdish defenders of Kobani at […]
It’s interesting how both Left and Right normally engage in massive special pleading on behalf of their own favorite issues and pet causes. I remember when the Religious Freedom Restoration Act was being considered in the early 90s, sectors of the religious right were attacking it on the […]
Robert Stark interviews Luke Ford about the Germanwings Pilot, Despair & Eroticized Rage Topics include: Luke’s new Torah Talk show which relates the Torah’s text to modern day issues of Race, Nationalism, and Jewish Gentile relations Luke’s New Co-Host who is a beautiful young blonde Jewish girl who shares […]
Let this be a lesson to those “libertarians” who praise fascist Singapore as some kind of “free market” paradise because of its friendliness to Western business interests. This kid is a hero. A 17-year-old Singapore resident has been arrested for criticizing the recently deceased PM Lee Kuan Yew […]
An interesting reply to the Western “anti-fascist” Left from a Maoist perspective. By Efe Can Gurcan Socialism and Democracy Matthew Lyons, using emotional language, targets me rather than the original arguments that I advanced in my essay. Lyons accuses me of “completely whitewashing Alexander Dugin,” whereas I make […]
A must read. By Ajamu Baraka Global Research The announcement by the Obama administration that it will seek congressional authorization to expand the war on ISIS in Syria and possibly send more heavy weapons to its client government in Ukraine did not generate the kind of muscular opposition and sense […]
By Neil Clark Russia Today A report called Body Count has revealed that at least 1.3 million people have lost their lives as a result of the US-led “war on terror” in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. It’s a report which should have made front page news across the […]
Dr. Roberts should rightfully be the executive figurehead of the Pan-Secessionist Meta-Party. By Paul Craig Roberts Foundations and corporations do not support truth-tellers. American foundations underwrite war and US imperialism. Foundations support subversion of countries that are not Washington’s puppet states. Your website has no foundation support, no […]
Looking over the website of the Political Research Associates, a leading critic of Attack the System, I found it to be rather ironic how much the order in which the list on their “Issues” page mirrors the normal hierarchy of priorities found on the Left. In order, the […]
Tom Woods interviews Michael Strong. Listen here. Salon’s latest attack on libertarianism involves blaming it for poor conditions in Honduras, of all places. We respond in this episode. Show notes below! About the Guest Michael Strong is an author, a co-founder of Radical Social Entrepreneurs, and the founder […]
Robert Stark interviews Aleksey Bashtavenko about Education 2015 / robertstark / Leave a comment Aleksey Bashtavenko is the owner and principle writer for Academic Composition Topics include: The History of Education How education was originally reserved for the elites Voltaire’s statement that the masses should be guided and not educated […]
By William T. Hathaway (Warning: This one is not for the easily offended.) RADICAL PEACE is a collection of reports from antiwar activists, the true stories of their efforts to change our warrior culture. In this chapter a mother tells of her son’s return from combat. She wishes […]
This post certainly raises some interesting theoretical questions By Jason Brennan Bleeding Heart Libertarians Some libertarians claim that the good consequences of markets and private property form part of the moral justification of these institutions. However, others endorse absolutist or near absolutist deontological political philosophies. They hold that by following […]
There are some good nuggets in this. Listen to the interview at Traditional Right. As an anarchist, I am sometimes asked why I am interested in the work of “right-wing reactionaries” such as Lind, an unreconstructed Hapsburg monarchist. First of all, it’s not a terrible idea to be […]
Good critique of Rand Paul’s flip-flopping unpredictability by Nick Gillespie. I’m glad to see Reason is not merely sucking up to Rand. Still, Reason is considerably to the right of ATS on foreign policy “More than ever, we need a strong voice to argue that $600 billion is […]
I first read Alan Pell Crawford’s Thunder on the Right in the late 1980s, and to this day I continue to think he is one of the very best critics of so-called “movement conservatism.” I have certainly spent more time in recent years criticizing the Left rather than […]
This article and the discussion that follows are an interesting discussion of ethnic and national conflict within and between anarchist movements around the world both historically and today. By Budour Hassan The appearance of the Egyptian Black Bloc in Cairo’s streets in January 2013 triggered gullible excitement in […]
The issues raised in this piece from 2012 by Sheldon Richmond are extremely important. Like it or not, libertarians are widely regarded by critics from the Left and Right alike as mere apologists for the nineteenth century model of capitalism. As long as libertarians are regarded as a […]
Fortunately, some of us are developing a whole new model of radicalism that is totally devoid of this shit.
Bill Moyers interviews Robert Reich. I have serious philosophical and ideological disagreements with these guys but the economic analysis they’re offering here is spot on. Unfortunately, they often no solutions beyond mere Keynesian social democracy.
By Nate Cohn The New Republic The electoral map divides the country neatly into blue states and red states. But blue states include vast conservative stretches; and most red states harbor liberal enclaves, too. In recent years, as partisan polarization has grown, some political minorities in these disaffected […]
If only… By Chris Cilliza The Washington Post Secessionist movements are all the rage these days. A handful of counties in Colorado tried to secede from the rest of the state earlier this year. There’s an attempt to create the State of Jefferson (northern California/southern Oregon) via ballot […]
Nobel Laureate economist Gary Becker’s article from the Wall Street Journal from two years ago. Right now, the War on Drugs appears to where the Vietnam War was in the period between 1971-1973. The war was still going on, but it was obvious it was a doomed effort. […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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