Commentary
War, Children: It’s Just a Welfare Check Away
Knapp: You can have politics or you can have peace, but you can’t have both.
The Foreign Policy Debate: Coke or Pepsi?
Kevin Carson: However the 2012 race comes out the foreign policy will be the same, “We come in peace — shoot to kill, shoot to kill…”
The “Green New Deal”: Not Green, Not New, and Not Much of a Deal
Carson: It’s just a greenwashed version of mid-20th century, mass-production capitalism.
The Romney Lexicon: “Free Enterprise” = Corporate Welfare
Carson: So now when you hear Mittens talk about “free enterprise,” you know what he means by it.
Pirate Bay and Mega: Treating the State as Damage and Routing Around It
Kevin Carson: The corporate state and its system of information control has already lost. It’s just to stupid to realize it.
“Inclusive Capitalism”: A Contradiction in Terms
D’Amato: Politics is a losing game for people who want freedom, and “inclusion” is a chimera when it comes to capitalism.
Election 2012: Oil’s Well That Ends Welfarish
Knapp: Drilling leases on “public” land are just food stamps for Big Oil.
Capitalism: Pharaoh’s Dream
Carson: We’re approaching victory in the five-thousand-year war between natural abundance and artificial scarcity.
The Elements of Empire
D’Amato: The free competition that market anarchists advocate for is entirely opposed to that system.
DARPA Funding Hackerspaces? Not to Worry
Carson: The rentiers’ last-ditch plan can’t work.
Rapists on Patrol
Goodman: “Serve and protect?” Not so much.
Inequality: The Points Lindsey is Missing
Knapp: There’s a poison pill in “equality of outcome” schemes.
The Inherent Perversity of Social Change through Electoral Means, Venezuelan Edition
Alan Furth on how democracy, at best, alleviates the symptoms of social disease — but never cures its fundamental cause.
The 47% Don’t Pay Taxes? Think Again, Mittens
Carson: Who depends on whom?
Election 2012: Mitt Romney’s “Free Economy”
Knapp: The difference between a free economy and an un-free economy IS government — i.e. top-down, hierarchic, uniform, centralized — regulation.
Primitive Accumulation in the News
Kevin Carson: Why are they doing it? Because they’re afraid of us.
The Joke of Democratic Accountability
Carson: The only real way to achieve social justice is by bypassing the state.
The Regulatory State — Behind the Myth
Carson: The regulators don’t work for you.
The Fractionated Society of the State
D’Amato: Libyans ought to oppose not any particular political ideology or regime, but the state itself.
Reconsidering Redistribution: One Libertarian’s View
David D’Amato on what goes up.
Anarchy and Democracy
Fighting Fascism
Markets Not Capitalism
The Anatomy of Escape
Organization Theory