By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition In the realm of global politics, one figure who has left an indelible mark is Henry Kissinger. Renowned for his involvement in numerous US interventions across the world, Kissinger’s vast experience has led some to turn to him for insights on avoiding […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Socrates had an interesting discussion about the ring of Gyges, which allows someone to do bad things without facing any consequences. This concept has been portrayed in popular culture as an invisibility cloak, like the one in “Lord of the Rings.” The […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition The Calvinist religion has had a profound impact on shaping the American identity. Despite being known for its individualistic society, Americans have always valued the importance of family, which is deeply rooted in their religious beliefs. Calvinists in America believed it was […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Calvinism’s influence on the American education system is evident in various ways. The Calvinists believed in the moral duty to engage in productive activities, as they often quoted the phrase “idle mind is the devil’s playground” to defend their lifestyle choice. This ideology […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition In “The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism,” Max Weber explores the connection between the American work ethic and the religious beliefs of Calvinism. Calvinists held the belief that only a select few were chosen for salvation, while the rest were […]
By anon (not verified) International Anti-Authoritarian Gathering July 19-23 St-Imier, Switzerland https://anarchy2023.org/en On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first anti-authoritarian international, international meetings are being prepared in the Swiss Jura mountains. They will take place from July 19 to 23, 2023 – with an extension […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition America is currently grappling with an epidemic of loneliness, a phenomenon that resonates with the themes explored in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece, “One Hundred Years of Solitude.” In Marquez’s novel, the Buendía family experiences profound solitude and isolation, and these themes bear a […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Herman’s life was filled with contradictions and inner turmoil. Growing up in a suburban town, he was raised in a family that celebrated traditional American values. But as he became more aware of the world around him, he started to question those […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Vladimir Putin’s long and controversial tenure as the President of Russia has sparked countless comparisons to the thought-provoking themes explored in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s masterpiece, “Autumn of the Patriarch.” In this essay, we will delve into the remarkable similarities between Putin’s 24-year reign […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Herman gazed out of his bedroom window, his thoughts consumed by the conflicts that raged within him. His life had become a series of silent battles, waged within the depths of his mind. The weight of societal expectations, the dissonance between his own […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Herman gazed out of his bedroom window, his thoughts consumed by the conflicts that raged within him. His life had become a series of silent battles, waged within the depths of his mind. The weight of societal expectations, the dissonance between his own […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Herman’s life began in a well-to-do family in Arlington, Virginia. His father, a successful lobbyist, and his mother, a devoted attorney, held strong beliefs about racial justice in America. Despite their privileged lifestyle, they were determined to ensure their son’s success. However, from […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Herman’s life began in a well-to-do family in Arlington, Virginia. His father, a successful lobbyist, and his mother, a devoted attorney, held strong beliefs about racial justice in America. Despite their privileged lifestyle, they were determined to ensure their son’s success. However, from […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Herman’s life began in a well-to-do family in Arlington, Virginia. His father, a successful lobbyist, and his mother, a devoted attorney, held strong beliefs about racial justice in America. Despite their privileged lifestyle, they were determined to ensure their son’s success. However, from […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Herman’s life began in a well-to-do family in Arlington, Virginia. His father, a successful lobbyist, and his mother, a devoted attorney, held strong beliefs about racial justice in America. Despite their privileged lifestyle, they were determined to ensure their son’s success. However, from […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley As someone who proudly self-identifies as an aggressively open genderfuck anarchist, I get called a lot of ugly words and I’ve made something of a tradition of owning most of them. In fact, coming from the Eazy-E school […]
By Keith Preston June 23, 2023 A Facebook friend of mine made a statement regarding the leading individuals in the neoconservative movement. According to their post, these individuals are Ashkenazi Khazars who have a strong anti-Russia agenda. They are willing to go to extreme lengths, even risking a […]
This article makes an interesting comparison/contrast with Christian Parenti’s analysis of Trump’s supposed imperial drawdown. While Trump’s foreign policy represented a return to pre-WW2 conservative isolationism, Biden’s foreign policy greatly resembles Jimmy Carter’s post-Vietnam version of liberal internationalism. Apparently, both the left and right wings of the ruling […]
This is an important article by Christian Parenti, a Marxist commentator, who argues that the gist of Trump’s foreign policy was a return to 19th-century style xenophobic isolationism, marked by reducing US presence in Europe and Asia, and even the Middle East. Although Parenti doesn’t discuss Trump’s hawkish […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley On June 10th, 2023, a madman died alone in his cell at the age of 81 in a federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina. This morbid list of details wouldn’t exactly be considered news if it […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition When Sigmund Freud first came to the US, he noticed something interesting about the country – he said it was filled with “Puritans and savages.” Surprisingly, this observation is even more relevant today than it was almost a century ago when he visited […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley This June has been a dark month for the long embattled Queer folks of Uganda and no pinkwashed corporate Pride parade is coming to save them from the jaws of state sanctioned violence. While the paler people of […]
Path to Win Single Payer NOW! Wednesday, July 5, 2023, 5:30 PT/ 6:30 MT/ 7:30 CT/ 8:30 ET Join Dr. Jill Stein and a panel of experts for an online discussion on the U.S. healthcare system Dr. Claire Cohen (National Single Payer) Problems with US Healthcare Don Fitz […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The worst thing that can happen to any minority in this twisted empire in decline is to be integrated into the official zeitgeist of mainstream history because that inevitably means being neutered post-mortem and turned into some taxidermy […]
by Don Fitz and Stan Cox Like a third rate zombie movie on Netflix, delusions of nuclear fusion repeatedly rise from the dead. The cover story in the June 2023 issue of Scientific American by Philip Ball, “Star Power: Does Fusion Have a Future After All?” recycles the […]
This is a tremendously important case. From the day he tore down the racist mural from the City Hall in St Petersburg, Florida in 1966, Chairman Omali Yeshitela (then known as Joseph Waller) has never stopped fighting for justice for African people everywhere. Politicized in his youth by […]
Michael Lind forecasted my pan-enclavism/symmetrical multiculturalism in the 90s Robert Stark May 28, 2023 Writer and academic, Michael Lind, has a book, Next American Nation: The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution, published in 1995. Lind advocates for a new Liberal Civic Nationalism for America, with calls […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I know this sounds gay, but I’m in love with being Queer and I’m kind of gross about it. I celebrate my flamboyant tribal freakiness in everything from the fluorescent pink color of my hair to the words […]
By Kris Zyclo I live in a red state but in an overwhelmingly blue city. It’s hilarious because everyone who lives here are all the same. They all have pride and BLM flags in their yards. But, they have to make sure that they have the latest, greatest […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Jordan Neely was kind of a weird kid. If you ever saw him, you would know what I mean. There was just something profoundly ‘other’ about his spirit and through the right set of eyes, it was something […]
By Kris Zyclo It’s quite obvious that the elites are using the divide and conquer strategy to remain in power. If you’re not aware of this, you’re either lower than average in intelligence or in denial. They want you to focus on the negative aspects of your supposed […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley They say that a picture speaks a thousand words. If that’s true, then a hostage video must speak at least a million. The only problem with this technology and indeed most technology is that most of these words […]
By Keith Preston May 12, 2023 Available from Amazon Kevin A. Carson is an independent scholar of the far Left who published his seventh book in October of 2022, and is also a prolific essayist. Carson’s primary outlet is the Center for a Stateless Society’s website. The Center […]
By Keith Preston May 12, 2023 Available from Amazon Neema Parvini’s The Populist Delusion appeared in April of 2022. I know very little about Parvini except that he is a British scholar of Persian ancestry, a specialist in Shakespeare, and often appears in social media under the moniker […]
By Kris Zyclo I am the product of a broken home/lower income, working class family. No one went to college except for me. However, I’m a high school dropout who got a GED and went back to school a little later in life. Several of my childhood friends […]
Donate to the Uhuru defense fund here: https://handsoffuhuru.org/ By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Sometimes our positions are unpopular in the short term, even among the masses, only to be vindicated as events unfold to reveal a truth that was obscured by the faulty […]
By Keith Preston May 5, 2023 In 1883, the American anarchist Moses Harman began publishing a newspaper called Lucifer the Light-Bearer, which immediately attracted controversy for promoting various trends in radical social and political thought that were common in the late 19th century. In the pages of the […]
By Keith Preston May 2, 2023 Scientific Spirituality and Ethical Individualism The human existential crisis that emerged, during the past two centuries, as one of the fundamental dilemmas of modernity has, among its primary roots, a consequential effect of the unmooring of the human species from its cultural […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Why don’t you guys do something?” Those were the eternal words of Storme DeLarverie as the pigs hauled her away in shackles, bloodied but unbowed, after she threw the first punch of the Stonewall Uprising. I feel like […]
Legalized Marijuana’s $30 billion industry arrived in Midwest in 2018 after decades of traumatic criminal marijuana laws. How do these new laws repair damage to communities? How are cannabis users effected? Missouri’s Amendment 3 adopted in November 2022 contained many “constitutionally-driven” deadlines for legal recreational marijuana, including automatic […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley 34 felony counts and homicide ain’t one. That is all I can think anytime I see another news reel about the supposedly historic indictment of former and possibly future President Donald J. Trump. This son of a Klansman […]
While I agree with the general argument of this article (“The Anti-Federalists were right!”), I would disagree the USA is totalitarian in its present form. The DPRK is currently the only state organized on a classically totalitarian 20th-century model. About a third of the world’s countries remain traditional […]
By Keith Preston April 22, 2023 I have no particular loyalty to any specific cultural faction. My approach is to criticize the dominant ideological superstructure of the ruling class of a particular society during a specific era. Right now, totalitarian humanism is dominant in the West, and I […]
Caitlin Johnstone Apr 19, 2023 Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): The Biden administration’s Department of Justice has just charged four members of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP) for conspiring to act as agents of Russia by using speech and political action […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Branch Davidians were a bunch of weird people who just wanted to be left the fuck alone. The buzzing hivemind of the mainstream maelstrom will scream otherwise on every conceivable platform that they have at their disposal […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Another day, another school shooting. It seems to happen every week in this shithole country. Probably because it pretty much literally does. We’ve had 19 of these goddamn things in the first few months of 2023 alone and […]
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By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve been called a social justice warrior for as long as that left-handed compliment has existed, and I’ll own that shit till the cows come home. I am a loud and proud genderfuck sex-positive feminist who is all […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Boys are loud and rambunctious. Girls are quiet, meek and well behaved. Boys get dirty, climb trees and scrape their knees. Girls stay neat and clean. Boys are husky growing lads. Girls are thin, dainty creatures who must […]
By Keith Preston March 25, 2023 The fact that many, if not most, “right-wing” critics of “woke” are idiots does not mean that “woke” does not exist as a cultural, intellectual, socioeconomic, psychological, and political phenomenon. Not all liberalism or leftism is “wokeness” per se. Not all wokeness […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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