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Elite Status

Who should rule?
Logging on this morning, I see that this has once again become a burning issue among the commentators. So far, I haven’t had much to say about the topic. I don’t aspire to rule over anyone. Becoming a politician isn’t a good fit with my introverted personality type. It is a task that [...]

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Blood, Rage, and History:
The World’s First Terrorists

“Blood, Rage, and History: The World’s First Terrorists”
by Johann Hari
The Independent, October 12, 2009
Imagine it. A network of violent radicals is picking off the world’s leaders one by one. They have killed the American President, the Russian head of state, the French President, the Austrian head of state, and the Spanish Prime Minister.
Bomb attacks are [...]

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The Revolution Within Anarchism:
Goodbye, Ultra-Leftism; Hello, Pan-Secessionism

For any movement or system of thought to remain relevant or dynamic, it must possess the internal capability of periodically reassessing its present course and shifting its focus and direction. Thus far, political anarchism has experienced two distinct stages. The first of these was the era of “classical” anarchism. Roughly defined, this was the period [...]

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Forty Years in the Wilderness?

From Attack the System, July 24, 2009
For some years  now, I have advocated for the anarchist movement in North America a change in direction from the course it has followed since the 1960s. Essentially, the general flavor of the anarchist milieu is one that expresses the same set of primary values as Marxists, social democrats [...]

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Containing Chaos

From World Politics Review, July 7, 2009
In 1946, George Kennan keyed the famous “Long Telegram,” which identified the Soviet Union as an enemy of the United States. In 1947, the original telegram was reworked and published in Foreign Policy magazine as “The Sources of Soviet Conduct.” Together, these documents formed the codex for the U.S. [...]

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John Robb on Tribalism

Editor’s Note: The following discussion of tribalism is from John Robb’s blog Global Guerrillas, which is a treasure trove of information and analysis on the weaknesses and dissolution of globalism and the present American political-economic system, as well as on ways in which individuals and groups might (1) hasten the system’s demise and (2) begin [...]

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