By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Joe Biden wants to declare war on white supremacy or at least so he claims. “White supremacy is a poison. It’s a poison… running through our body politic.” He forcefully declared at a recent PR junket following one […]
One of the best descriptions of the mechanics of domestic US politics I have seen to date from Michael Lind. By Michael Lind, Tablet If the Republicans retake Congress in the midterm elections of 2022, as many expect, a lament will be heard in 2023 and 2024 from […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country is a bill of temporary privileges.” -George Carlin “But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this […]
By Stratton J. Davis, The Societal Scope Whenever the Power Elite take interest in helping “develop” the third world, you can be sure the development is in their favor, and theirs only. From New American: “The Gates-led Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) was supposed to […]
By William T. Hathaway The financial wizards of Wall Street have devised a new way to profit from Mother Nature. They’ve created a class of stocks called Natural Asset Companies that will control the earth’s resources such as water, wildlife, forests, minerals, and farmland. The project was developed […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Morally, it is wrong to suppose the source of evil is outside oneself, that one is a vessel of holiness running over with virtue. Such a disposition is the best soil for a hateful and cruel fanaticism.” -Nikolai […]
by Don Fitz and Susan Armstrong The change in marijuana laws across the US raises issues far beyond, “Hey, dude, we can blow a joint now without getting busted.” The racism that permeated the age of criminalization now lurks throughout the phase of decriminalization. The burgeoning business of […]
By William T. Hathaway The current repression of dissent in Germany is startlingly similar to that in North America. In 2019 as the virus started to spread, the government ordered drastic measures against it. Several distinguished doctors and professors, including an MD who was a former member of […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley For all intents and purposes, in every way that counts, Ukraine has already defeated Russia. Hell, let’s face it, they kicked their fucking ass. Putin’s “Special Operation” in Ukraine has been a massive failure of unprecedented proportions. Never, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It wasn’t supposed to be this way. I get the feeling that Vladimir Putin finds himself quietly confessing this mantra a lot lately in his private moments away from whatever the fuck passes for a politburo in plutocratic […]
By Michael Cuenco, American Affairs Journal In George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, the dictatorship of Oceania subjects its citizens, or at least those within the ruling Party, to a ritual known as the “Two Minutes Hate,” in which a giant “telescreen” blares out propaganda to a captive audience. The […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Nearly two months into Putin’s NATO provoked but totally illegal invasion of Ukraine and there is still no light at the end of the tunnel, only the rolling fog of war running through an elaborate house of mirrors […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a growing conspiracy against your children in this country and it’s being waged by Queer genderbending perverts like me. We have successfully infiltrated your schools and your doctor’s offices and we are using them to peddle […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There are few places on this wretched ball of shit we call earth that could benefit more from the concept of neutrality than the territory currently classified as Ukraine. For centuries these fields and forests have been the […]
By Keith Preston The Russian war in Ukraine has accelerated the rising trend toward multipolarity (or even a multi-order order) within international relations. The Western retaliatory sanctions against Russia have pushed the BRICS nations and their economic allies closer together. The conventional wisdom is that the 21st century […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Man looks in the abyss, there’s nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character. And that is what keeps him out of the abyss.” -Oliver Stone Neoliberalism has a brand-new rock star, and his […]
The video below raises many interesting points that are highly relevant to many of the things that have been discussed at ATS over the years. The speakers in the video are Marxist-Leninists (“tankies”) who understand that the various forms of what I call “totalitarian humanism” (“woke,” “political correctness” […]
by Don Fitz The September 2021 Scientific American included a description by the editors of the deplorable state of disaster relief in the US. They traced the root cause of problems with relief programs as their “focus on restoring private property,” which results in little attention to those […]
Robert Stark talks to Keith Preston about the geopolitics of the war in Ukraine. Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, and the editor of Attack the System. Follow Keith on Twitter. Stark Truth Radio Topics: The Geopolitical background of the conflict, […]
My recent appearance on Cotto-Gottfried. LISTEN HERE
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Our entire linear and accumulative culture collapses if we cannot stockpile the past in plain view.” Jean Baudrillard, The Procession of Simulacra “I would die happy if I knew that on my tombstone could be written these words, […]
This is some of the most interesting geopolitical/international relations commentary I have seen in a while. This segment gets to the wider geopolitical ramifications of this. It’s more or less the First World and former Russian vassalages against the Second World and the Third World. Even Israel and […]
By Keith Preston Putin has taken an extremely big gamble. If he remains committed to limited objectives, he might just get away with it. Limited objectives would be claiming the disputed territories, accessing the Black Sea, pipeline interests, keeping Ukraine out of NATO, and intimidating Russia’s neighbors to […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It seems like just yesterday that our newly minted president, Joe Biden, was promising this country and the world at large a brand spanking new era of peace for Yemen. After watching two consecutive administrations facilitate Saudi Arabia […]
Webinar 7 pm CT USA, Wed, Mar 2, 2022 The billion-dollar marijuana market should have room for every ethnic group. But going from decriminalization to medical and recreational use has resulted in a patchwork of dangerous inconsistencies. The weaponization of marijuana laws against communities of color leaves victims […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I don’t believe in taxes. I know that’s not exactly the trendiest take on the left these days, but I just can’t justify giving any institution that kind of power. I would love nothing better than to play […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Black power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.” -Huey P. Newton Growing up as a secretly Queer white kid in a predominantly white conservative community can be a profoundly surreal […]
All things considered, it is a good thing that the phenomenon of “left-wing anti-woke” has emerged in recent times with writers from across the spectrum of “left” opinion (from centrist liberals to Marxists) increasingly expressing discomfort with the “woke” paradigm. For a long time, critics of totalitarian humanism […]
By Neil Monahan, Medium Introduction For much of its long history the Democratic Party has been regarded as the party of the people. It was the party of the workingman, the party of the unions, the party of the New Deal. The Republicans were thought to represent the […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The American mentality is unabashedly elitist. Indeed, mediocrity is anathema to the American way of life. Much of the Americans’ ire toward communism has nothing to do with its tyranny, but with their animus toward equality. John Steinback had it right: Americans see […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It has been a cold cold winter for Afghanistan and I’m afraid it’s only getting colder. As the temperature drops below freezing and the snow continues to fall, this tiny war-torn nation that has already seen so many […]
I’ve been looking further into the role of the CIA in postwar US politics. It seems that much of the New Right and New Left that emerged in the postwar period were controlled opposition movements created by the intelligence services, although in collusion with different internal factions. It […]
Timothy Snyder’s viewpoint is interesting. Of course, he is a Yale academic, and therefore a high priest among the new clerisy, and his main concerns are both preserving the empire and achieving the hegemony of the Blue Tribe within the empire. His main fear is the emergence of […]
A reader asks: In the case of the fascist movement in Italy, several early founders were Marxists, so the connection between fascism and a (relatively) developed industrial society may be mostly due to the intellectual crisis among Marxists like Mussolini, who were psychologically impacted by nationalism during WWI. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit “Experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other” -Frederick Douglass “A worker is a part time […]
I don’t agree with the rosy view of Communism held by these folks, but their discussion of the role of intelligence services in creating a faux left is interesting, along with their on-the-money discussion of intra-ruling class divisions. The main thing that is missing from their analysis is […]
One of the best analyses of the current US political situation I have seen to date. By Ed West Back in the late 1940s American politics had a problem. The issue was serious enough for Congress to authorise a committee looking into divisions between the country’s two parties. […]
Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The majority of Millennials are overwhelming in favor of a broad variety of “progressive” policies, most of which involve the expansion of government. They are more likely than Generation X to support government policies that penalize people who make seemingly offensive comments, […]
By Paul Gottfried, American Greatness If Democrats can get their way legislatively within the next few months, they may do better than expected in November. The Greek historian Polybius begins his history of the Punic Wars by explaining that Rome “from the beginning” was driven by a single […]
By Keith Preston Every so often, I like to provide readers with an updated description of who I am and what I do as newer readers are constantly coming to Attack the System who are unaware of this site’s history. I’ve written previous narratives containing the backstory of […]
By VERONIQUE DE RUGY Reason For decades, libertarians have focused on illiberalism coming from the political left. But authoritarianism has taken root among many conservatives across the world. At the eve of a new year, it’s traditional to make a resolution or two. I have no such list […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Let’s face it, dearest motherfuckers, this year sucked. From start to finish, 2021 was a hard year for hope. The Pandemic that never ends never ended. To the surprise of only the gullible, Joe Biden turned out to […]
This is a 2009 article from the late anarchist anthropologist David Graeber, who died last year, and who was probably as influential as any anarchist in the 21st century so far. I am posting this because the third section of this piece, the discussion of anarchism in the […]
By David Brooks, Seattle Times Rabbi Jonathan Sacks once observed that being a minority in 19th-century Europe was like living in someone else’s country home. The aristocrat owned the house. Other people got to stay there but as guests. They did not get to set the rules, run […]
By Joel Kotkin America has only a limited feudal past, the plantation aristocracy of the antebellum South and the enormous class chasms of the Gilded Age being pretty much our only examples. Yet today—after decades of social mobility, a digital revolution that was supposed to empower individuals everywhere, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The following is the Gospel according to Nicky Reid, a ranting, genderfuck, lesbian, Christopagan anarchist from the 21st Century. Like all religious propaganda, it is loosely based on a hot mess of new age folklore, revisionist history, pharmacological […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It happens over and over again. Another day, another shooting. Another day, another nightmare. Another sleepy small-town community put on the map for all the most horrifying of reasons. Another school shattered by unspeakable violence. Another lonely pissed […]
By Keith Preston Anyone who follows the mainstream media, Congress, or elite intellectual circles knows that the Blue Tribe is increasingly fearful of a right-wing coup by the Trumpists with the common refrain being that January 6 was only a warm-up event for the real thing. I’m going […]
This talk by Caleb Maupin, given in January 2021, provides an excellent overview of US politics, including an examination of different ruling class factions, with Kamala Harris representing the currently dominant faction, why Trumpism is a fraud, and why the Left is a gross failure. Caleb is basically […]
This interview with Yarvin, the de facto intellectual leader of the “neo-reactionaries,” is interesting but it also demonstrates the limitations of that milieu. What Yarvin offers here is a high-quality and reasonably accurate analysis of the socio-cultural and political role of the technocratic class, or what has been […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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