Kevin Carson: “It’s been argued by more than one person that Scott Brown defeated Martha Coakley, in part, because Coakley was such a lame and unappealing candidate. But there’s one point that hasn’t received much attention: her cynical role, as a district attorney, in preventing the release of a man who was almost certainly innocent of the crime he’d been convicted of.”
Darian Worden on the state of US politics.
Thomas L. Knapp on the Ballwin, MO city government War on Art.
Kevin Carson: “The politics of Empire and the National Security State were not an unfortunate deviation of the Bush years, and by no means something peculiar to conservative Republicans. The roots of American Empire go way back to the early 20th century.”
Alex R. Knight III responds to Peter A. Gilbert.
Kevin Carson on American degeneration into a caste society.
Thomas L. Knapp on jury nullification and the abduction of a peaceful activist by agents of the state.
Darian Worden on the murderous consequences of national interest.
Kevin Carson on the internal contradictions of statism.
Kevin Carson: “We need to broaden the debate, all right. In particular, we need to broaden it beyond two sides—neoliberals and ‘Progressives’ — who agree that the global finance capitalism we’ve had in recent decades was a ‘free market.'”
Kevin Carson points out that RIAA ought not want to go there.
Thomas L. Knapp on the horror of society accomodating itself to the state.
Alex R. Knight III on the lesson Kent State has to teach us.
Darian Worden on stateless security and the recent Times Square bombing attempt.
Kevin Carson explains that when property rights are violated in the name of the free market, we shouldn’t be surprised to see them defended by Maoists.
Kevin Carson skewers Tea Party hypocrisy.
Thomas L. Knapp points out that, in the US, the historical open borders policy worked just fine.
Kevin Carson: “That it should even be necessary to point out that counterinsurgency is not a kindler and gentler form of warfare utterly astounds me.”
Alex R. Knight III examines the dialectical interplay between welfare statism and anti-immigrant police state tactics.
Darian Worden on Obama’s leadership techniques.
