In a speech outlining his administration’s approach to deficit reduction, U.S. President Obama hit four substantive points amidst the vast amount of rhetoric . . .
TALKING POINT: Rule of Thumb — What will get shut down in a “government shutdown” is not the system of forcing you to jump through hoops, but the hoops themselves.
TALKING POINT: The US Dollar is dying.
The right of all people to revolt, articulated in the Declaration of Independence among other works, should always be supported — but that by no means implies one ought to support military intervention on behalf of rebels by other states.
It would be correct to attribute to statism any damage resulting from a potential nuclear disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, in addition to the recent earthquake.
At a White House meeting on the topic today, the Obamas launched the web site StopBullying.gov — taking a laudable, if inconsistently held, stand against bullying. Seldom before has so much irony been encapsulated in just the URL for a site alone.
The monopolization of law necessarily means there is no recourse when the monopoly institution becomes a participant in injustice. Open competition would mean there is always recourse.
Public opinion on the controversy has been varied, but anarchists should perhaps describe the essential issue not as free speech, anti-imperialism or tolerance for gay people — despite those all being important concerns — but the state’s monopoly of law.
C4SS Advisory Panel member Sheldon Richman recently quipped: “According to Mike Huckabee, Obama isn’t like the rest of us: He grew up believing the British were a ‘bunch of imperialists.’ Yes, but we should have grown up believing that.”
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer on social networks.
Individualist Anarchism Against Bosses, Inequality, Corporate Power, and Structural Poverty
Ed. Gary Chartier & Charles W. Johnson
Individualist anarchists believe in mutual exchange, not economic privilege. They believe in freed markets, not capitalism. They defend a distinctive response to the challenges of ending global capitalism and achieving social justice: eliminate the political privileges that prop up capitalists.
By C4SS Advisory Panel member Gary Chartier. A compelling case for a stateless society.
Anarchy happens when people organize their lives peacefully and voluntarily, without state aggression. This simple but powerful book explains why the state is illegitimate, unnecessary and dangerous, and what we can do to begin achieving real freedom. Paperback, 129 pp.
