By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Those motherfuckers in the GOP have been talking shit about me and my tribe again lately. In fact, it doesn’t seem like they’ve shut the fuck up about us over the last six or seven years and the […]
By Keith Preston March 13, 2023 Whatever the flaws in the Milgram, Zimbardo, and other similar experiments, the findings are well demonstrated by real-life experience. The Asch experiments demonstrated the same basic thesis, which is obvious when ordinary human behavior is observed. A primary difference I have with […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley It’s an old plot and the bastards of Babylon have been at it for ages. From Halford Mackinder to Zbigniew Brzezinski, from the British Crown to their Yankee progeny right here in Pax Americana, the Atlantic powers known […]
By Keith Preston March 10, 2023 The beginning of the pandemic three years ago this month sparked a revolution. First, the global capitalist classes used the pandemic conditions as a pretext for massive economic consolidation and upward wealth distribution. The economic and social effects of pandemic conditions triggered […]
By Keith Preston February 8, 2023 Ukraine amounts to a falling out among the international versions Five Families over who controls the rackets in a particular neighborhood. The Gambinos (Russians) claim it’s their local territory but the Genoveses (Americans) demand a cut as the largest of the crime […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Every time an ex-president dies a demon gets his wings. It’s a time-honored tradition in these hallowed halls of Babylon. Lucifer himself could drop dead and provided that motherfucker spent no less than a hot minute in the […]
Mar 2 • 51M El Nino Speaks 77: 2023 is Already Looking Chaotic Keith Preston of Attack the System comes back to talk about all the political madness that has taken place thus far in 2023 With two months past us, 2023 is as volatile as ever. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I know this has kind of become a virtue signaling cliche in this day and age, but Black History Month really does end way too goddamn soon. I thoroughly recognize that the entire month is largely a contrived […]
Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley History is fucking boring in this country and sadly, Black history is far from the exception that proves the rule. According to the straight white corporate guardians of Black History Month Incorporated, It’s all pacifism and peanut butter. The […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Once upon a time, in a land not so far away, I lived in a small house surrounded by a great big forest. I won’t lie to you and tell you that my childhood was idyllic because in […]
1. Increased multipolarity due to the BRICS/Global South insurgency. 2. Increased multilateralism among the Western alliance due to receding American power. 3. Decline of US hegemony due to imperial overreach and loss of legitimacy. 4. Entrenchment of totalitarian humanism as the dominant ruling class ideology 5. Escalation of […]
The anti-RATWM discussion about 40 min into this video illustrates why there is no effective resistance in the US. The attitude of many “libertarians” and “leftists” has been pathetic. Apparently, they care more about being do-gooders than opposing WW3. First, Scott Ritter. Yes, he is a convicted SO. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Israelis are pissed off and for once they’re not just pissed off at the Arabs. They’re pissed off at Bibi. They made this pretty clear during the final days of the first month of 2023 when they […]
A great column from Mike Lind. One thing I would add to this is that while the two “utopian” tendencies he critiques, neocons and wokesters, may be ostensible rivals, the two currents have since merged to a considerable degree on the shared grounds of anti-Trumpism and Russophobia. By […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley watch the ripples change their size But never leave the stream Of warm impermanence So the days float through my eyes But still the days seem the same And these children that you spit on As they try […]
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By Keith Preston, January 23, 2023 I can only give this video a partial endorsement because the framing of the narrative needs to be revised. Revolts against state, economic, and cultural oppression are as old as human societies. Thinking our own society is or should be exempt from […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley There is something happening at the border, and it’s fucked up. These are the only two things that the loudest of the yammering heads on either side of America’s partisan divide seem to agree on when it comes […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of […]
By Keith Preston January 14, 2023 In the 1960s, the two largest factions in US politics were the Rockefeller Republicans and the New Deal Democrats. The CIA then created the New Right through their stooge William F. Buckley and the New Left through their stooge Irving Kristol. Both […]
By Keith Preston, Dean Phoenix, Eric Pierce, Joe Corbett, and Ryan England, with additional insights, ideas, debate, or counterarguments offered by Adil Sarker, Muhedin Hodzic, Nicky Reid, Aiden P. Gregg, Ze Zakre-Koeur, EG Smith, Kristoffer O’D Donnellan, Christopher Maxwell, Christopher Warren, and Summer Scott. January 12, 2023 The […]
Friends and comrades, This Wed Jan 11 at 7:30 pm CT there will be an emergency webinar on “The Long Road of US Repression.” You may have received an invitation to our Feb 1 webinar on Gun Violence, which was planned several months ago. We have never done […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I may be the queerest anarchist between Fire Island and the Salton Sea, but I’ve never had a great deal of patience for the current fad of political correctness that seems to be all the rage with the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley 2022 sucked. That’s how I usually introduce this annual list of people who miraculously didn’t, and I wouldn’t be totally off base to do so again. 2022 was a year as chock full of horrors as any other […]
By Keith Preston December 29, 2022 While I agree that American/Atlanticist/unipolar/whatever hegemony is receding, I don’t think we will return to the bipolar world of the Cold War. Instead, we are moving toward a multipolar order like in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, where there were multiple great […]
By Don Fitz With new FBI and Department of “Justice” (DOJ) attacks expected in early January, a defense, mobilization and information session attracted hundreds of allies of the African People’s Socialist Party (APSP). On Friday, December 23 they zoomed into the “Emergency Mass Meeting: Hands Off Uhuru! Hands […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Nicky, why can’t you just smile and join the pride parade? I must hear this refrain at least ten times a day from people both inside and out of my community. With all the progress, with all the […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley America has become a downright surreal place during the twilight hours of our imperial decline. We can’t seem to finish one potentially apocalyptic cold war before starting another and the lesser evilism of our sham elections has reduced […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “Russia is the least statelike, the most anarchistic land in the world. And the Russian people is the most apolitical of peoples, never having managed to set its land right.” -Nikolai Berdyaev “Whoever fights monsters should see to […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I do my damnedest to put up a bad bitch front but I can’t lie to you dearest motherfuckers, sometimes it really hurts to be a Queer anarchist in Trump Country. The pay is shit, the hours are […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Where is the sun? Have we been marching through this darkness forever? It’s barely December but it already feels like the longest winter in recent memory. In fact, it feels like last winter never really ended. That was […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Something very stupid is happening in America. People have never been more disgusted with their bullshit form of government and yet they’ve never been more devoted to engaging in the partisan bullshit that defines it. It is a […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’m a crazy person, or at least, so I’m told. I could dress it up with all kinds of politically correct labels and DSM approved diagnoses for you, but let’s just cut the bullshit right here and call […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley If you’re reading this now, chances are you’ve already saved democracy by voting for some asshole and chances are you were probably guilted into it on the fear of semi-fascism by a relentless campaign of 24/7 multimedia harassment. […]
By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition Very few students of history have ever heard of William Jennings Bryan, and that shows a lot about why the American identity is in crisis. Americans tend to put practicality over idealism, profits over people, and above all efficiency over values. Today, it […]
By Keith Preston Virtually all political factions will be offended by this post. Walter Russell Meade pointed out four major traditions in US foreign policy: 1. Hamiltonian realist imperialists (Rockefeller types) 2. Wilsonian global interventionists (most Democrats) 3. Jacksonian xenophobic nationalists (like Trump) 4. Jeffersonian non-interventionists (like Ron […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Those dusty old dominionist douche bags in the Supreme Court really kicked the Democrats a Midterm field goal when they shot down Roe this summer. After tanking the fucking economy with their nuclear proxy war in Ukraine and […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve been compiling this twisted little list of frighteningly anti-authoritarian films for about four years now and a lot has changed during that short time for both cinema and authoritarianism. With the epoch shattering cataclysm of the pandemic […]
By Don Fitz The suffering of US women under the iron heel of abortion is intensifying, especially for women of color. This makes it imperative to closely examine possible paths forward. As a teenager during the 1960s I witnessed two political paths that remain imprinted on my mind. […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley “What about the children!” This has been the shrill clarion call of hysterical Karens on both sides of the aisle for generations. “What about the children!” A sure fire response to any politically incorrect question that would otherwise […]
Nor is the regime on the verge of collapse – Elite Theory, Threat Neutralization, and Turbo-America Niccolo Soldo Share (request: please read the entire piece before inevitably freaking out about my classification in the graphic above) (note: this is a work in progress) I first visited Switzerland back […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ve always found conspiracy theories to be fascinating, not just individually, but as a concept in and of itself. I spent the darker portion of my teenage years happily lost down dark-web rabbit holes, searching for deeper meaning […]
One of the most controversial pieces I ever wrote was an essay from 2005 called “Why I Choose to Collaborate with Racialists and Theocrats.” You can imagine the reaction to that in some anarchist circles, particularly the hard-left ones. A reader recently offered a response to that essay, […]
By Nick Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The Republican Party wants to erase trans people. Over the last couple of years, they have made this sickeningly clear, not just with their colossal barrage of brazenly bigoted legislation overwhelmingly targeting children in one of the most […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley The shit is getting real again in Ukraine and every neoliberal and his lobbyist seems super stoked about the carnage. After months of pulverizing battlefield gridlock and mounting global war fatigue, the Western warmongers finally have a tangible […]
Keith Preston of Attack the System Explains How Neocons became a dominant force in American politics. Listen now Jose Alberto Nino How did the neocons come to prominence? Keith Preston, of Attack the System, reveals how the neoconservatives took over key foreign policy positions in the United States […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley I’ll tell you a secret, dearest motherfuckers, if you promise to tell everyone else. The two-party system is nothing but a great big fucking distraction. When it comes down to the big money issues like war and peace, […]
by Don Fitz Recent data shows that between 2019 and 2021, life expectancy (LE) in the US plunged almost three years while for Cuba it edged up 0.2 years. Yet, in 1960, the year after its revolution, Cuba had a LE of 64.2 years, lower by 5.6 years […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Joe Biden is pissed off again and coming out swinging and it isn’t those pesky Russkies or dastardly Chinamen this time either. It’s those stupid assholes who voted for the other moron, you know, the orange fella. But […]
I generally like Albert Meltzer but he was a little too “workerist” for my tastes, or what would today be called “class reductionism.” Meltzer represents a viewpoint that I respect and yet disagree with at the same time. His view was that “workerist anarchism” of the late 19th/early […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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