By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley So, the communists are coming again or at least so screech the doom merchants over at the GOP. Fox News is ablaze with round-the-clock, wall-to-wall coverage of the Democratic Party’s fall beneath the unstoppable onslaught of the deadly […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Middle East has a serious fucking problem and any semi-sentient anti-imperialist with two brain cells to rub together can tell you that the problem isn’t Iran. It’s America and its dead-eyed flunkey Israel, or is it Israel […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It seems to be a tried-and-true trope even if it is a bit of a tired one for a seasoned Oliver Stone-style conspiracy enthusiast such as myself. The dreaded Zionist Occupied Government (or ZOG if your nasty) is […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Nobody likes to talk about rape, but it seems morally absurd not to considering that it seems to be everywhere you look; from frat row to death row, from the Vatican to Nickelodeon, from ICE to the IDF, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermity Exile in Happy Valley Dear Amerika, It’s me Nicky. You know, the genderfuck gonzo raconteur with all the knives in her purse. Or perhaps you know me by my Indian name; That-Bitch. That bitch with all the unsolicited opinions. That bitch with […]
By Jason Kiss Arthur Schopenhauer’s espousal of Vedic concepts in The World as Will and Representation emphasizes his deep dissatisfaction with philosophy in the West; he regarded his contemporaries not with solidarity but with open disdain.[1] As a result, he turned his attention toward India. As Steven Cross […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition Few ideas distinguish the United States from the rest of the world more clearly than its extraordinary confidence in self-interest. Americans have long believed that society functions best when individuals are free to pursue their own ambitions, their own happiness, and their own […]
Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition Modern moral philosophy often begins with a deceptively simple question: What is the right thing to do? Aristotle answered that morality consists in cultivating the virtues necessary for human flourishing. John Stuart Mill argued that moral action is that which maximizes happiness. Immanuel Kant […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition Few nations differ more profoundly in their understanding of the relationship between the individual and the state than the United States and Russia. Although both are vast continental powers with multicultural populations and rich intellectual traditions, they have historically developed contrasting answers to […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition Among the most ambitious interpretations of the development of the Americas is the thesis advanced by Claudio Véliz in The New World of the Gothic Fox. Véliz argued that the English-speaking and Iberian civilizations transplanted fundamentally different cultural traditions to the New World. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a narrative running through the western zeitgeist and slowly trickling out to its various victims in the Third World that ‘Queer’ or at least ‘LGBTQ’ is somehow synonymous with colonialism and imperialism; that queerness in and […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition When Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in the United States in 1831, he expected to find a young republic. What he did not expect to find was a society unlike any he had encountered in Europe. Again and again, he observed Americans forming associations. […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition More than two centuries after the founding of the United States, an unexpected question has emerged from the age of artificial intelligence: Who better understood the future—Alexander Hamilton or Thomas Jefferson? At first glance, the question seems absurd. Neither man knew anything about […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If it’s June, then it must be Pride and straight people everywhere are celebrating how far you’ve come. You know, out of the closets and onto MTV. But what if you don’t particularly feel like celebrating? What if […]
Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition The United States and Argentina occupy a unique place in modern history. Both were New World societies built through mass immigration, vast territorial expansion, and the promise of economic opportunity. During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, they stood among the most attractive destinations […]
Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition One of the most influential political philosophers of the twentieth century, John Rawls, asked readers to imagine a thought experiment known as the “veil of ignorance.” In his book A Theory of Justice, Rawls argued that a just society should be designed as though […]
Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition The tradition with which I most closely identify is neither the imperial tradition of the Habsburgs nor the revolutionary tradition of the Jacobins. It is the dissident tradition: the tradition of the intellectual outsider who stands apart from power and insists that truth matters […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko, Academic Composition Few books in the social sciences have enjoyed the longevity of Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. More than a century after its publication, Weber’s argument continues to shape how intellectuals think about economic development, culture, and the origins […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Joe is a gay man. A real swell guy who parts his hair down the side, says his prayers, and pays his taxes. He just so happens to suck cock. Well, one cock at least; his husband’s cock. […]
Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley ” a libertarian foreign policy program for America must be to call upon the United States to abandon its policy of global interventionism: to withdraw immediately and completely, militarily and politically, from Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, from […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If you have no earthly idea what in the hot fuck is going on with the Iran War right now, then you are probably paying attention because the Trump Administration and the mainstream news appear to be equally […]
By Keith Preston, News Voice NewsVoice is an online news and debate channel that started in 2011. The purpose is to publish independent news, debate articles and comments as well as analyzes. publicerad Idag 19:24 – av News@NewsVoice Keith Preston | Image by NewsVoice based on a photo […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.” -Thomas Szasz In the beginning, there were shamans; wild eyed wiseman communing with the ancestors, drawing down the moon, and swapping genders like loin cloths. They were […]
By PDX Pigeon Mututal Aid United States Donate here. “My name is Farah, I am 20 years old, and I am from Gaza. I live in a very difficult situation. I am newly married. Before the war, I was engaged to my husband, but our wedding was postponed […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley So, another motherfucker took a shot at the president; another bored kid with a gun and an iPhone looking for immortality in all the wrong places. The desperate details are less important than the fact that this was […]
by Don Fitz An assault on Cuba needs excuses for hating it. But given that any exchanges between the US and Cuba has been blocked out of the news for decades, it’s a bit difficult for a lot of folks to figure out why they are supposed to […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well folks, it’s that time of year again. The birds are a-chirping, the flowers are a-blooming, and Trotskyites and Stalinists alike are falling head-over-heals in love with the working man like it’s the very first time. That’s right […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Professor Davidoor and the Best of All Possible Campuses Professor Nathaniel Stone—known, by his own gentle insistence, as Professor Davidoor—entered the seminar room with a confidence that suggested the universe had recently been audited and found satisfactory. Professor Stone firmly believed not only that […]
By Aleksey Bastavenko Professor Davidor had drawn the map again. It was not a map in the conventional sense—no scale, no legend, no cities—but a moral topography: a small circle labeled DAVID and, looming beside it, a larger shape labeled GOLIATH. The coastline was suspiciously tidy. The arrows, […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Professor Davidor stood before his class with the solemn intensity of a man who believed history had placed him exactly where he belonged—center stage, chalk in hand, civilization on the line. On the board, he had written: DAVID vs. GOLIATH — AGAIN He underlined again […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Professor Nathaniel Stone, Ph.D., adjusted his tie—navy, discreet, but resolute—and stepped into the classroom with the quiet confidence of a man who believed himself to be both embattled and indispensable. On the board behind him, in neat chalk, were the words: DAVID vs. GOLIATH (Modern […]
Analyst Keith Preston discusses global power structures positing that the world is transitioning from a US-led unipolar system toward multipolar neo-globalism where regional blocs are integrated through transnational financial and technological systems. Preston argues that true authority resides in institutional wealth—exemplified by entities like BlackRock—rather than elected heads […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something very strange is shifting in the darker corners of the internet. Something serpentine slick and black as ink. While Donald Trump moves farther and farther to the right and much of his cultish base mindlessly follows him […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster’s whim and the purest ideal” -Ingmar Bergman “I could have killed ’em all, I could […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As a badly battered Middle East hangs off the edge of a cliff by a string with a temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran, peace or anything remotely resembling it looks even less likely for Southern […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is no more room left to mince words in the name of political correctness or anything else for that matter. Israel has become a menace of downright international proportions, and the world must come together to confront […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley At the writing of this post, it has been nearly a month since Israel and America began their savage aerial assault on Iran, and the Islamic Republic has been throttled and decimated in nearly every way conceivable. The […]
By Keith Preston, March 28, 2028 Order the book here. Jeb Smith’s is not merely a historical work—it is an ideological provocation disguised as a corrective narrative. It opens with a seemingly modest aim: to challenge misconceptions about the medieval period. But very quickly, it reveals its deeper […]
By Nicky Ricky aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley A wise man once said that rage is merely depression turned outward. I don’t know what that motherfucker’s name was, but I’d like to rip his fucking head off and kick it through a stained-glass window because outward […]
Green Party Webinar 5:30 pm PT, 6:30 MT, 7:30 CT, 8:30 ET, Mon Apr 6, 2026 Time to REGISTER! From its beginning, the Zionist project in Palestine has aimed to ethnically cleanse those living there. Despite decades of Israeli atrocities, Palestine remains steadfast. The International Solidarity Movement is […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Trump has seriously fucked up in the Middle East this time and even he knows it. In the first two weeks alone of Bibi and Donald’s latest savage bombardment of the Islamic Republic of Iran, neither regime has […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I think a lot of people take words like ‘home’ and ‘family’ for granted and I suppose I was one of them. I grew up in what I thought was a pretty stable home, a three-bedroom house with […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If it’s February, then some liberal white dude is probably telling you about Black history and he’s probably totally missing the point, going on about how far someone else’s people have come and how far the nation that […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I realized that there was something deeply terrifying about my body when I was two or three years old. I didn’t exactly know that I was a girl, I just knew that something was profoundly wrong. I didn’t […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley One might be forgiven for assuming that the man in the White House is a lunatic and Donald J. Trump certainly couldn’t be confused with the picture of mental health by anyone with half of a functioning brain […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “We will have everything we want; we’re getting everything we want, at no cost!” the President of Babylon barked triumphantly over his latest diplomatic conquest in Greenland. After weeks of mounting tensions between our dear leader and his […]
Cox, Stan. Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth (2026 Seven Stories Press), Review by Don Fitz “Anthropause” is an amazing word and the latest book about it is an eye-opener. Stan Cox’s Anthropause: The Beauty of Degrowth (2026, Seven Stories Press), does what far too few degrowth books do […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Well, it’s official dearest motherfuckers, America has become the world’s largest third world dictatorship. If the first two months of 2026 don’t prove this to you with flying colors than I’m terrified to ask what will. Since Christmas, […]
By Keith Preston January 30, 2026 Every civilization produces authority, and every civilization produces resistance to it. What distinguishes historical epochs is not whether power exists, but whether its legitimacy is taken for granted. The present era is marked by an unprecedented fusion of state power, corporate management, […]
“Disenfranchisement of People of Color” Green Party Webinar 5:30 pm PT, 6:30 MT, 7:30 CT, 8:30 ET, Wed, Feb 4, 2026 Register Now! Gerrymandering of congressional districts in Missouri and other right-wing states results in loss of minority legislative representation. Disenfranchisement of Latinx communities includes fear-driven disengagement from […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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