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You are in Control

There’s a great article in Time magazine by Amanda Ripley (I wrote a review of her great book, The Unthinkable in the City Journal) on one of the most under covered security lessons of 9/11:  that an aware citizenry can defend itself.  It ends with this telling para which depicts the government reasserting its authority to [...]

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Bay Area National Anarchists:
An Interview with Andrew Yeoman, Part 2

TOQ Online: Is there a religious or spiritual dimension to National Anarchism, or is it a purely political form of association?
Andrew Yeoman: At its heart National Anarchism is a purely political framework, but any group or religious movement can adopt it to advance the aim of establishing an autonomous region or community.  Religion has a [...]

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Bay Area National Anarchists:
An Interview with Andrew Yeoman, Part 1

TOQ Online: Anarchism is an idea familiar to all but understood by only a few. The term conjures up images of foreign-looking people hurling spluttering cherry bombs at Tsars and industrialists. What is anarchism, and in what sense are National Anarchists anarchists?
Andrew Yeoman: In my opinion anarchism is most easily understood in terms of the [...]

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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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Open-Source Warfare

“Open-Source Warfare”
by Robert N. Charette
from IEEE Spectrum, November 2007

On the afternoon of Thursday, 8 April 2004, U.S. troops stationed in Iraq deployed a small remote-controlled robot to search for improvised explosive devices. The robot, a PackBot unit made by iRobot Corp., of Burlington, Mass., found an IED, but the discovery proved its undoing. The IED [...]

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Comments on John Robb’s “Tribes!” and “Containing Chaos”

Editor’s Note: Through the WordPress “trackback” function, I just discovered “Tanstaafl’s” Age of Treason blog, which is a treasure trove of highly intelligent analysis going back to 2005. The following discussion of my recent posts from John Robb is good enough to steal.
Via John Robb on Tribalism at The Occidental Quarterly I followed a link [...]

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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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