By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I quite frequently use this space to lament the untimely demise of the antiwar movement in this country and to wallow shamelessly in the miseries of what could have been. Those of my readers who have gone on […]
By Kris Zyclo Just to give you a little background info on me, I was raised in a Southern Baptist, religious fundamentalist home. By the time I was a teenager, I had had enough of the church’s bullshit! I was sick of hearing about stupid things like eternal […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Nex Benedict was kind of a weird kid. I know because the moment that I first learned who Nex was I also knew that we would have been friends. Like Nex, at 16 I was a pissed off […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The state of Israel has no right to exist. I believe that statement to be a fact based purely on the concept of right and wrong, but just try saying it out loud in any corner of this […]
by Don Fitz Guess who threatened them? The Girl Scouts of the United States. Stories abound of retaliation against those who express concern over Israeli ethnic cleansing – from censoring news reports to reprimanding faculty, mass arrests, and suppressing students’ right to protest. A well-orchestrated campaign against Palestine’s […]
By Keith Preston, August 18, 2020 Friedrich Nietzsche has clearly been one of the most influential thinkers of the past century. His thought has exercised a profound impact on the intellectual disciplines of philosophy, psychology, history, theology, political theory, linguistics, aesthetics, cultural criticism, and others. A wide range […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Once upon a time, in the idyllic town of Wokeville, there dwelled a woman named Helda Shicklegrubber. Helda was not just any English professor; she was a self-proclaimed feminist warrior, armed with an arsenal of woke ideology and a disdain for anyone […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.” -Thomas Szasz People have been telling me that I’m crazy for about […]
By Keith Preston December 4, 2020 In order to understand the political views of J.R.R. Tolkien, it is first necessary to consider the historical era in which he lived. Born shortly before the commencement of the 20th century, Tolkien experienced the rise of the public administration state during […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Quick hypothetical: Let’s say that you are a member of a disenfranchised global minority, and some pompous foreign superpower is building bases all over your ancestral homeland, a homeland which they have spent decades bombing to smithereens. Then […]
Digital Odyssey Feb 5, 2024 Two facts stand before us the forces of capital are hegemonic and the cookie-cutter packaging of political right and left is falling apart. The point of view of the proceeding analysis is a Hegelian dialectical synthesis of right and left. For this paper […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As I’m sure many of you already know, it’s not exactly unusual for me to have problems with the various censorious regimes that make up social media. I’ve written about it here before and I’ll probably write about […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Kevin Peterson, a man with a steadfast belief in the meaning of ‘is,’ found himself teetering on the precipice of financial ruin. His once robust bank account, fueled by dreams of outperforming his mother and a desire for economic self-aggrandizement, was now spiraling […]
Alek S. Bash is the proprietor of Academic Composition, a service that helps normal college students get past the “woke” classes in college. Alek joins Pete for a lively discussion as to the best way to defeat the current “woke” ideology. They don’t always agree. Show notes and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something strange happened last October in the embattled holy lands that very few western observers managed to pick out of the bones from the various massacres. 17 Gentiles were among the victims slaughtered by Hamas on the 7th […]
The Missouri Green Party invites your representative to comment during our February webinar on “Degrowth: Healthier Food Grown Locally” The Black & Green Wednesday program is cosponsored with the Universal African Peoples Organization. It will be at 5:30 pm PT, 6:30 pm MT, 7:30 pm CT, 8:30 pm ET, Wednesday, […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Being a self-unemployed, thirtysomething, literary visionary can be a depressingly thankless existence. The pay sucks, the publishers are clueless, the editors are dicks and the endless barrage of finger-wagging rhetorical questions from the sanctimonious adults in the boomer […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It didn’t end with a death march. It didn’t end with mass graves. It didn’t end with firing squads or gas chambers. The Second Armenian Genocide didn’t end a thing like the first one did but that didn’t […]
🌐 Welcome to our channel for a unique exploration of Anarchist Unity! 🌐 Join us in this thought-provoking conversation with the insightful and passionate Keith Preston, a prominent figure in anarchist thought and activism. In this video, we delve into the nuances of anarchist unity, exploring diverse perspectives, […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition In the quaint streets of Montevideo, the presence of Manuel Luis Vargas was as unmistakable as the aroma of mate tea that lingered in the air. Standing at a modest 170 centimeters, Manuel’s physical appearance mirrored the weight he carried on his shoulders […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is something just absolutely soul crushing about watching a war on live television, especially when all the networks seem to be rooting for the bad guys. However, despite what those jackals on cable news might tell you, […]
Palestine South Africa Genocide The full-text is available at the above link South Africa’s presentation to the International Court of Justice: Israel’s Defense: John J. Mearsheimer’s discussion of US complicity.
LISTEN HERE GUEST OVERVIEW: In addition to being Editor-In-Chief of AttackTheSystem.com, Keith Preston is a historian, social scientist, political analyst, author, lecturer, trends researcher, blogger, and self-describes himself on the X platform as an “anarchist, egoist, anti-imperialist, misanthrope, asshole.” https://attackthesystem.com/ https://twitter.com/TKeithPreston1
I will be joined by Keith Preston to discuss how our current legal order protects and ensures the concentration of wealth and how an economy that is oriented to the wide distribution of wealth might be created by a different legal regime. The concentration of wealth in our […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “I am going to make it through this year if it kills me!” I find myself singing that desperate chorus from the Mountain Goats’ classic “This Year” repeatedly pretty much every year around this time but I’ve never […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more El Nino Speaks El Nino Speaks 101: The New World Disorder 0:00 1:17:47 El Nino Speaks 101: The New World Disorder Keith Preston comes back to talk about the rapidly changing political environment in the West. Dec 26 READ IN […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Suppose someone were to ask you what the number one source of human suffering in the world is today, what would you say? As my winter malaise kicks into full gear this Christmas, this is the grim question […]
None agreed to this social structure, the state Though we appease it with or without it in mind. Far more violent than anything humanly devised It has become. Yet, we choose to ignore such a force. Maybe it is not ignored. This ingenious tormenting fiend. How terrifying is […]
Truth Jihad Radio Anarchist Nicky Reid Says “Jews Must Join the Intifada” Kevin Barrett Dec 15, 2023 LISTEN HERE
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This may come as a shock to you, but your average terrorist isn’t actually a three-armed monster from hell who eats human flesh and breaths fire. Your average terrorist, if there really is such a thing, is in […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley They are marching in the streets, they are calling for Bibi’s head on a stake, and they aren’t Palestinians, they are Israeli Jews. This is the story that you are probably not being told about the current crisis […]
People everywhere asking if degrowth is the only realistic way to counter climate change. But how would that happen? Would people lose their jobs and be impoverished in the US and across the world? Or would it be the only way for poor countries to free themselves from […]
By Keith Preston December 4, 2023 I’ve spent a lot of time over the years trying to trace the intellectual, cultural, and psychological origins of the Woke/PC/SJW phenomenon. More recently, I’ve been working to trace the origins of the bizarre fetishization of Jewishness that is apparently so pervasive […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Free speech means the right to shout ‘theatre’ in a crowded fire.” -Abbie Hoffman “I know too much and not enough.” -Allen Ginsberg Revolution makes for some strange bedfellows and as a kinky agitator for free speech, I […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley When you are granted the awkward misfortune of being raised in the wrong gender in a conservative small town you get used to being the butt of every limp-dick breeder’s stupid fucking jokes. I’ve heard them all before […]
By Haz Al-Din In some ways, Argentinian politics is similar to the United States and Western Europe in that it it’s often divided by ‘woke/antiwoke’ jibber. This is a sign that all of your country’s ‘politics’ are meaningless and retarded. In fact, it doesn’t matter who gets elected […]
Beirut-based journalist Rania Khalek, host at BreakThrough News, joins Abby to discuss the Gaza genoicde, the border war between Hezbollah and Israel, and the potential for a full-blown regional war.
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Not to be rude but America really does love to get all hot and bothered about genocide. From the news to the Hill, there seems to be a constant hunt for the next big holocaust that only America […]
Candace speaks with political scientist and activist Norman Finkelstein whose primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and the politics of the Holocaust. His parents are Holocaust survivors and in 2020, he was named the fifth most influential political scientist in the world.
For all the sensationalism surrounding the events of Oct. 7, when Hamas broke through the Gaza fence and seized territory in the Gaza Envelope as part of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, there is still much that we do not know. The official Israeli death toll from the attack is […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, the news has been pretty fucked up lately and frankly so have I. This isn’t exactly a new development for me or the world. In fact, for as long as I can remember, […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Gaza Strip has gone from a prison to graveyard this fall, and the numbers are startling. Since Hamas pulled off a barbaric massacre that apparently everyone but Benjamin Netanyahu saw coming, Israel has stepped up its own […]
By Don Fitz As horrible as Zionist atrocities against Palestinians are, we must not forget the fact that they reflect events that have happened for decades and that will continue to happen. They are the current chapter in repeated parades of mass extermination which have characterize capitalism since […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I usually love this time of year, the fun size candy bars, the colorful leaves, and especially the gore. But in 2023, Halloween has simply gotten too goddamn scary to celebrate, even for a macabre chaos-binging lunatic like […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I still remember it like it was last week. The images from that day in early September 2001 have been seared into the walls of my skull like antique photographs of garish gothic tableaus, a procession of haunted […]
Robert Stark Oct 20, 2023 Source: @powerfultakes Twitter A lot of rhetoric from prominent Israeli politicians sounds pre-genocidal. For instance, Israel’s President, Isaac Herzog stated that “there are no innocent civilians in Gaza,” and an Israeli defense official, proclaimed that “Gaza will turn into a tent city. No […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley She’s putting on her lipstick in the mirror while the music blares. There are knives by the blush and a loaded .357 Magnum next to the rouge. She’s applying eyeliner as her victim’s screams grow louder than the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is a creature stalking the human race, a colossal ferocious beast with tentacles that lash every last corner of the globe, a pitiless monster the likes of which mankind has never encountered, and this thing is out […]
By Don Fitz The year 2023 saw the hottest Summer on record in the northern hemisphere while those in the southern hemisphere felt the hottest winter on record. It was followed by a Fall with terrifying storms and floods across the globe. The number of people attributing climate […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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