Dave Lindorff discusses the Philly cop chief and a newspaper.

Carl Finamore discusses making black lives matter in 2015.

Dr. Binoy Kampmark discusses China in the Balkans.

Bruce Fein discusses abolishing the CIA.

FEE features selections from Max Weber discussing the inherently violent character of the state.

Jeffrey Tucker discusses taking back the word liberal for liberty.

Chance M.E. Davis discusses the private space industry.

Mikayla Novak discusses the great enrichment, network theory, and the liberation of women.

Jacob Sullum discusses whether Obama the drug warrior is becoming the drug reformer.

Jesse Walker discusses a public-private partnership in the service of the War on Drugs.

Norman Solomon discusses a CIA whistleblower.

Gareth Porter discusses the real politics behind the U.S. war on ISIS.

Marjorie Cohn discusses how killer drones are an extension of American exceptionalism.

Patrick Cockburn discusses the war against ISIS.

Ivan Eland discusses what motivates ISIS.

Laurence M. Vance discusses the torture report.

Richard Ebeling discusses a possible New Year’s resolution for friends of liberty.

George Leef discusses making 2015 the year of repealing bad laws.

Wendy McElroy discusses food freedom.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses conservative hypocrisy on the Cuban embargo.

Charles Pierson discusses the year in drones.

Abby Martin discusses troop worship.

Bionic Mosquito discusses WW2.

James Peron discusses Rand Paul’s response to the Paris terrorist attacks.

Brian Cloughley discusses the nature of the U.S. torturers.

John Chuckman discusses what war looks like.

Lucy Steigerwald discusses the Paris attacks.

Fabiano Caurana beats Ivan Saric.

Fabiano Caurana beats Anish Giri.

Kevin Carson discusses the role of the commons in market anarchism.

Kevin Carson discusses how Obama doesn’t want to defeat ISIS too badly.

Cory Massimino discusses individualist anarchism and hierarchy.

Kevin Carson discusses a book on new forms of worker organization.

Mel Gurtov discusses America’s return to Iraq.

Corey Robin discusses Labor Day readings.

Rizwan Zulfiqar Bhutta discusses lessons in counter-terrorism.

Ron Jacobs discusses the rational unreason of imperial war.

Conor Friedersdorf discusses what going to war with Syria would really mean for the U.S.

Robert Murphy discusses why we need to scrap the empire to have a free society at home.

Ezra Klein discusses the DNC’s braindead attack on Rand Paul.

Lew Rockwell discusses why libertarians are winning.

Lucy Steigerwald discusses why we don’t need a police czar.

Anthony Gregory discusses class theory in the first part of a series.

Tariq Ali discusses current Pakistani politics.

Benjamin W. Powell discusses market regulation of secondhand smoke.

Nathan Goodman discusses the labor politics of prisons.

Rick Sterling discusses myths about the conflict in Syria.

Dave Lindorff discusses the re-invasion of Iraq.

Belen Fernandez discusses Patrick Cockburn’s new book on ISIS.

Thom Holterman discusses Gary Chartier’s book on anarchy and legal order.

Lucy Steigerwald discusses why reassessing WW2 is a good idea.

Justin Raimondo discusses anti-interventionism and its discontents.

Rachel Burger discusses incest and the state.

Sheldon Richman discusses whether freedom requires empire.

Sheldon Richman discusses the crisis in Ukraine.

Jeff Sparrow discusses wars conducted in the name of humanitarianism.

Vassily Ivanchuk beats Alexey  Shirov

Vassily Ivanchuk beats Gary Kasparov.

This convergence between the two major party establishments is illustrated by the fact that both have launched covert operations and major wars. A few of the wars that a Democratic President got the U.S. into are WW1, WW2, and the the Korean War. Not to mention the role played by both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson in continuing the Vietnam war. Democratic President, Harry S. Truman, also helped fund the French colonizers in their attempt to retake Indochina after WW2.

On the Republican side of the ledger, a few notable instances of militarist adventures include Dwight D. Eisenhower’s establishment of Military Assistance Advisory Group, expansion of the war in Indochina via the bombing of Cambodia by Richard Nixon, Bush the younger’s invasion of Iraq, and Bush the senior’s Gulf War 1.

Covert operationswise, Democratic Party administrations have engaged in support for the Baath Party 1963 coup under John F. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy’s war against Cuba, and covert “dirty wars” waged by Barack H. Obama in several countries. The Republican “achievements” in this respect include the 1953 coup that installed the Shah in Iran under Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 1954 overthrowing of the Guatemalan government, and covert dirty wars in various counties under George W. Bush.

As this brief overview shows, both sides of the two party establishment clearly participate in imperialist activity. The blood is on both the hands of the Democratic Party and Republican Party. An effectual anti-imperialist movement will preferably target both of them for protest. Of all the features of the modern state or government, this ability for imperial war is worth disrupting and destroying. The lives of many are dependent on the success of such a project. It’s time for radical left-libertarian market anarchists to do their part in pushing back the crimson tides of imperialist conquest. Let’s get started! And do a hell of a job.