Welcome back to News Bits, All the News That’s Fit to Hate the State With. This is going to be kind of a quick one! Here’s what’s happening. 

From the New York Times: Donald Trump had his first press conference yesterday. It didn’t go too well.

Also from the New York Times: Volkswagen pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and to violate the Clean Air Act, customs violations and obstruction of justice, and six executives are being specifically named. And Eric Holder is leading a partisan redistricting committee designed to fight Republican gerrymandering.

From the Washington Post: Donald Trump said during his press conference that he has nothing to do with Russia. But it isn’t true.

Also from the Washington Post: The Senate is coming closer to being able to repeal Obamacare. Ben Carson’s HUD Secretary hearing is set to happen soon. Experts say that Amelia Earhart didn’t die in a plane crash. Which, I guess is good news, but where did she go?

From the Los Angeles Times: Two LAPD cops who shot and killed a 16-year-old in Boyle Heights, CA last year didn’t have their body cameras on. But hey, they’re great deterrents!

Also from the Los Angeles Times: California is REALLY getting wrecked by storms. And the produce industry has announced plans to eliminate abusive conditions for Mexican farm labor.

From the Chicago Tribune: Cory Booker went hard after Jeff Sessions, saying he should not be Attorney General.

Also from the Chicago Tribune: The Justice Department is set to announce that it has found major constitutional abuses from Chicago law enforcement. Major cellular providers are set to remove unlimited plans from existence once and for all.

From National Public Radio: Office of Governmental Ethics director Walter Schaub is asking Donald Trump to completely divest from his businesses.

Also from National Public Radio: Elaine Chao is coasting to her nomination as Secretary of Transportation. The Supreme Court is examining how schools deal with students with disabilities. And several states are considering raising gasoline taxes in an effort to fill up budget holes.

From Politico: Chuck Schumer is going to vote against Jeff Sessions’ nomination. Also, Mike Pompeo will be grilled over whether the CIA will remain independent, and Rex Tillerson didn’t have a super great time at his hearing for Secretary of State nomination.

From Slate: Alabama representative Mo Brooks calls criticisms of Jeff Sessions’ position on racial issues the result of a “war on whites.” Also, the ex-wife of one of Trump’s cabinet appointees, Andrew Pudzer, has allegedly appeared on Oprah to accuse him of physical abuse. And the law firm that Trump uses was named “Russia’s law firm of the year” in 2016.

From Salon: The Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, called Trump to let him know he condemned yesterday’s leaked report. Kellyanne Conway says Trump was “very happy” to receive that call. Also, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a Paris summit “rigged” against Israel.

From Mic.com: Black activists plan a week of actions from MLK day to the inauguration. Also, here’s how Wikileaks went from a government transparency outfit to a mouthpiece for the Trump administration.

From Antiwar News: 55 people were killed during heavy fighting in Yemen.

From The Anti-Media: The United States dropped three bombs per hour in 2016.

From The Intercept: Homeland Security nominee John Kelly didn’t disclose his links to a lobbying firm.

From It’s Going Down: Mapuche activists in Chile are still protesting for their freedom.

From The Guardian: Chelsea Manning is on Pres. Obama’s “shortlist” for commutation. Edward Snowden called on Obama to release her via Twitter, saying “only you can save her life.”

From Jacobin: “Who put Trump in the White House?” asks Kim Moody.

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Obama using his farewell address to make a sales pitch for political activism and running for office as the solution to people’s problems pretty much sums up modern liberalism. Snake oil politicians trot out this tired bullshit whenever they see the religious zeal surrounding them and their policy initiatives fading away.

Does Obama really see his remarkable political ascendancy as part of any realistic aspiration for marginalized people? Power doesn’t just corrupt; it blinds you to the reality of your words while building you a throne atop which you can sit, privileged enough to avoid being victimized by the excesses of state capitalism.

While change and diversity were the main themes of Obama’s address, he remains arrogantly intolerant of people who have no interest in the reality show of American politics and repeats the same old conservative pleas for faith in his failed institutions. The fact is that most eligible voters chose nobody for president. The number of people who would rather spend time with their family, read a book, have sex, get high, burn a flag, see a movie, work, or just sit there and stare at a wall rather than cast a meaningless vote for one of two aspiring murderers outweigh the backwards, out of touch, “politically engaged” citizens.

Obama should recognize this trend and use his platform to channel it into true civic virtue and mutual aid, not beg the productive members of society for their time, attention, or, worst of all, moral license while he uses their money to blow up children in the Middle East while paying lip service to “democratic values” from his cozy position.

The more people who take the outgoing president’s advice, the less their voice actually matters on the margin — so goes the systematically under-provided public good of intelligent political activity. But I guess this cruel irony of politics is easy to ignore when your voice actually does matter but you want to deflect blame onto those damn lazy, selfish voters for your legacy of mass deportation, unaccountable drone killings, and bulking up the surveillance state and executive power just in time for a megalomaniac to be elected by your precious democracy. The entire speech was practically one big exercise in absolving himself from any guilt whatsoever and doing the political equivalent of victim blaming.

The pervasiveness of this laughable narrative really is a big reason why Trump won. After all, if your leaders just keep telling you to vote harder and faster, but continually abuse you, then a strong man who bucks this trend and offers instant gratification seems like the only sensible way to play the game of politics. Unfortunately the prospect of moving to alternative ways of organizing society that are more peaceful and horizontal, that don’t so easily reward people who crave power over others, is lost on Obama.

The biggest arms dealer in the world insisting that “citizen” is the most powerful office in the United States as he rides off into the sun on wings of moral superiority and blamelessness for his many war crimes in Yemen and Pakistan is so tone deaf and emblematic of Obama’s self-congratulatory and downright contradictory underdog Americanism that it makes the most fitting end to his presidency. It disgusts me to remember that over the next four years we will be looking back on the Obama years with nostalgia. There’s never been a better argument for burning it down.

Welcome to News Bits: All the News That’s Fit to Hate the State With. Here’s what’s been happening. 

From the New York Times: Okay listen, before I get into this, I just wanna say that I’m going to refrain from making any horrible pee jokes. None. I promise.

Intelligence officials apparently showered Donald Trump with a series of unsubstantiated reports claiming that Russia had blackmail material on the President-elect. CNN was the first to allude to these reports yesterday, but Buzzfeed News was the first to actually post them. Trump has, naturally, denied the reports’ content, calling them “FAKE NEWS!!!1!” Russia has also denied the claim because did y’all really think they’d be like “Oh, yeah, we have that. Yep.”

State mouthpiece-for-hire Wikileaks took a giant leak on Buzzfeed’s reporting yesterday as well, tweeting, “WikiLeaks has a 100% record of accurate authentication. We do not endorse Buzzfeed’s publication of a document which is clearly bogus.” Buzzfeed News editor Ben Smith defended the decision to publish, saying, “[This] reflects how we see the job of reporters in 2017.” Others, like non-profit multi-time Pulitzer-winning investigative outfit ProPublica president Richard Tofel, also defended Buzzfeed’s move.

Also from the New York Times: Dylann Roof was sentenced to death for killing nine black church parishioners in 2015. Transgender women in immigration detention centers fear a higher risk of abuse. An El Cajon police officer wasn’t charged in the murder of an unarmed black man. Outgoing president Barack Obama made his final address to the nation.

From the Washington Post: Trump has tapped “vaccination skeptic” and all-purpose conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead a commission on vaccine safety. Just gonna put this out there, vaccines don’t cause autism, the study that claimed they do was discredited in the scientific community, and this is a waste of time. But hey, at least Kennedy is being recognized for something for once. That period in the 2000s where he tried to glom onto Greg Palast’s voter fraud crusade was forgettable and kind of cringey.

Also from the Washington Post: AG Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearing was filled with shouting. Rex Tillerson, the pick for Secretary of State, is up next and is probably going to be grilled on his ties to dictators. A Nepalese model will take the stage as the first transgender woman to walk in India’s Lakmé Fashion Week.

From the Los Angeles Times: LA County Supervisors have created an Office of Immigration Affairs that would reportedly help provide services such as legal help to undocumented immigrants. The alt-right is mad about it.

Also from the Los Angeles Times: A painting that depicts police as wild boars is in the middle of a dispute between national lawmakers. Specifically, they’re literally physically fighting over whether the painting, produced by a California high school student, should be hanging up in the Capitol.

From National Public Radio: Contractors working on a Washington, D.C. hotel for President-elect Donald Trump say they’re owed millions of dollars for their work.

Also from National Public Radio: “Blessing boxes,” outdoor food pantries constructed in a similar vein to the Little Free Libraries, are beginning to pop up in communities nationwide. They’ll probably get taken down and their builders arrested for daring to feed the homeless for free, but hey. #MakeAmericaGreatAgain. Also, an Alaskan village is seeking disaster relief dollars to relocate while their shoreline is slowly subsumed into the Ninglick River.

From Politico: We’ve already talked about this but my dudes, Donald Trump actually asked the question, “Are we living in Nazi Germany??” in response to the released intelligence reports detailing his blackmail. My dudes. My dudes. Maybe that Shazaam movie really does exist and this is the universe’s way of self-correcting? I don’t know, I have a headache.

Also from Politico: Cops say that high profile killings make their job harder, according to a new Pew Research paper. Pro tip, maybe knock that whole “killing” thing off. Just, f*ckin don’t. Also, I’m gagging. I’m gagging. I’m going to throw up. I want to die. Just no. No no no no no. Also, “repeal and replace Obamacare” sounds easy, but uh. Well, it’s not. Finally, Trump is holding an internal West Wing competition to see which advisers can win his ear. F*cking christ.

From Salon: Jeff Sessions plans to bring the hammer down on Dream Act folks, so this is a great place to really bring it home that any city that currently calls itself a “sanctuary city” and promises to uphold DACA should probably go ahead and delete their logs. Burn it all.

From Alternet: Charles C. Johnson (no relation to our Radgeek), a hilarious remnant of the proto-alt-right, went on fellow-useless-alt-right-nerd Stefan Molyneux’s show last month to proclaim that he’s been “doing a lot of vetting” of Trump’s nominees.

From Slate: Gen. John Kelly, Trump’s pick for head of Homeland Security, doesn’t seem to be towing Trump’s line on a lot. He doesn’t like torture and said he’d oppose a border wall. Like, what even is the point if the guy you chose to head up a monstrous organization dedicated to worldwide oppression doesn’t even want to do the fun stuff you thought you’d be able to do now that you have all the power? Jeez.

From Mic.com: Google’s search algorithm is still f*cked, with articles that deny the Holocaust ever existed taking top billing.

From Antiwar: The Iraqi Prime Minister has called for Turkey to withdraw from its northernmost sector. Turkey said no.

From The Intercept: “Seal Team Six” was likely a pretty ruthless and terrible group, participating in “revenge ops,” mutilations and other atrocities.

From The Anti-Media: Obama’s “hands-off” policy in Syria pretty simply wasn’t.

From It’s Going Down: The leaders of the Alt-Right got doxxed by… themselves.

From Antifascist News: Why did “LGBTQ Nation” choose Milo Yiannopoulos for “Person of the Year?”

From Jacobin: Feminists call for a national women’s strike during the inauguration.

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Welcome back to News Bits, C4SS’s look at the day’s news.

From the New York Times: Donald Trump has named his son-in-law Jared Kushner as his Senior Adviser, a move that will likely be challenged under federal anti-nepotism laws. But I mean let’s be honest this will probably stick. Nothing is true, everything is permitted and all that.

Also from the New York Times: At the NY Times Magazine, Patrick Symmes has written about Trump ally and overall horrible person, Filipino president Rodrigo Duterte and his list of drug addicts and dealers. Also, via Reuters, Dylann Roof’s sentencing period is coming to a close. Finally, Yahoo would rename itself “Altaba” if Verizon purchased it.

From the Washington Post: Trump probably won’t shake all of his conflicts of interest. Which, I mean. I don’t know, y’all, is that what matters now? “Oh hey guys, who cares if he’s a fascist – at least he doesn’t have any conflicts of interest!”

Also from the Washington Post: The FBI paid Geek Squad employees at Best Buy to scrape hard drives for child porn. Now privacy advocates are (F*CKIN RIGHTLY) concerned about implications for other situations. Also, Rick Riordan (author of Percy Jackson young adult novels) got an invitation to be honored by the Texas legislature, and he declined it because he opposes recently-introduced anti-transgender bathroom legislation. Nice!

From the Los Angeles Times: Backpage.com has closed its adult section down after pressure from law enforcement and an unfair legal battle against them.

Also from the Los Angeles Times: Someone was arrested in an attempted attack on a police station in Turkey.

From Reuters: The GOP is trying to pressure Trump into softening his pro-Russia rhetoric. It ain’t really working I don’t think.

From the Associated Press: Prospective Attorney General Jeff Sessions will face questioning from senators today.

From National Public Radio: Secretary of Education nominee Betsy DeVos’s confirmation hearing has been delayed for a week. Also, a cop in Texas faces a 10-day suspension for forcibly arresting a woman who had called police because a man was grabbing her son.

From Politico: Monica Crowley, Donald Trump’s pick for senior director of strategic communications for the National Security Council, allegedly plagiarized a good chunk of her Ph.D dissertation from various sources, including “conservative columns, news articles, Wikipedia and in one case a podiatrist’s website.” Amazing. The Trump camp of course calls it a “politically motivated attack that seeks to distract from the real issues facing this country.” But whatever, ya girl copied from a foot doctor’s website for some reason and that’s hilarious.

Also from Politico: Betsy DeVos’s donations to FIRE (the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) apparently mean she’s not committed to stopping sexual assault on college campuses? That’s… a reach, but hey, y’all do you. And finally, last week Trump tweeted (shocker) that he thinks the Senate and House intelligence committees should investigate NBC News over leaked intelligence reports. Which is exactly the opposite of what they should – and are going to – do.

From Infoshop News: Some folks in Bloomington, IN are starting an anarchist news blog and calling for submissions. It’s called Plain Words, check it out here. Also, here’s a list of some actions going down in January.

From It’s Going Down: The Missoula, MT branch of the Industrial Workers of the World is calling for solidarity and assistance in combating a planned armed march of Nazis in Whitefish. The Black Rose Federation has an analysis of the national Fraternal Order of Police’s “first 100 days” document. Spoilers: it’s horrifying. Tampa Food Not Bombs is going to continue feeding people despite repeated arrests. And finally, a memorial fund for Michael Israel, a slain YPG volunteer, has been established.

From the American Civil Liberties Union: “Trump and Sessions: Great for the Private Prison Industry” by Carl Takei and Katie Egan

From The Nation: “Filipino President Rodrigo Duterte is a Wildly Popular Fascist,” by Walden Bello

From Jacobin: “America’s Durable Monstrosity,” by Daniel Denvir

Thanks for reading today’s News Bits. Check back in tomorrow for more crunchy bits.

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Ramzy Baroud discusses the meaning of Zionism to people in Palestine.

Mitchell Plitnick discusses Trump’s appointment to the position of U.S. ambassdaor to Israel.

Ted Galen Carpenter discusses the One China Policy and the Trump admin.

Tom Engelhardt discusses Donald Trump and the dystopian times ahead.

Zaid Jilani discusses Obama’s approach to anti-Israel U.N. resolutions.

Jenna McLaughlin discusses a new House report on Snowden.

Patrick Cockburn discusses the War on Terror and recent events.

Uri Avnery discusses why David Friedman is a bad choice for U.S. ambassador to Israel.

Conor Friedersdorf discusses Obama’s weak defense of his targeted killing program.

James Risen reviews a book by a CIA analyst who debriefed Saddam Hussien.

Sharon Presley discusses charitable giving and political ideology.

Jim Lobe discusses the views of Trump’s pick for national security advisor Michael Flynn

Eli Clifton discusses John Bolton’s right-wing politics on Israel.

Ann Wright discusses the use of denial of Social Security checks as a way of punishing dissenters.

Robert Fisk discusses ISIS and the far right’s assault on multicultural countries.

Douglas Valentine discusses the CIA and his research on it.

Cathy Breen discusses her trip to Iraq.

David Swanson.discusses post-911 abuses and impeachment.

Binoy Kampmark discusses refugee policy in Germany and a recent terror attack.

Robert W. Merry discusses the difference in opinion between the public at large and elites on American foreign policy.

Geoffrey Aronson discusses the recent U.N. resolution attacking Israeli settlement expansion.

John Buell discusses the potential for a new Mcarthyism.

Stephen Zunes discusses Trump’s picks for foreign policy related admin positions.

Mattathias Schwartz discusses the false statistics of a Trump nominee on deaths by nacroterrorism.

Jordan Smith discusses state govts passing abortion restrictions.

Ramzy Baroud discusses why the people of Palestine should look to the rest of the world rather than the U.S. for backing.

Thomas Knapp discusses the dangerous new NDAA.

Bonnie Kristian discusses drone warfare and Obama.

Daniel Larison discusses why the U.S. shouldn’t repudiate the present China policy.

Linda Lewis discusses whistleblowing and the Obama admin.

Welcome to News Bits, a look at today’s headlines from an anarchist perspective.

From the New York Times: Congress is set to start confirming cabinet nominations this week. Two weeks out from the inauguration, it’s time to start really rubbing it in that the nightmare is, indeed, real and that there’s nothing to wake up from. Eat Arby’s.

Also from the New York Times: The FBI arrested a Volkswagen executive on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States. Prison riots in Brazil leave 100 inmates dead and a lot of angry, mourning families knocking on the doors of politicians across the country.

From the Washington Post: During a Golden Globes ceremony where a movie literally called “La-La-Land” won in the Best Picture category, notorious radical Meryl Streep took Donald Trump to task. He tweeted about it. Nobody wins.

Also from the Washington Post: The global market plans to fight Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions to the death. And Martin Shkreli was booted from Twitter for trying to get a journalist to be his inauguration date and then sending a horde after her when she noped out. Finally, Margaret Sullivan (our bae) calls on everyone to stop with the damn-fool “Fake News” business.

From National Public Radio: In more than a few states, legislators don’t make enough money to work.  Which, I mean, yikes, kind of. We sometimes (quite rightly) like to think of politicians as greedy money-grubbers seeking deals with corporate fat cats, etc. but it’s easy to forget that some folks – regardless of political leanings – run for office with a genuine, if misplaced, sense of duty. Still, they’d probably be more financially stable out of politics. And better people for it, too.

Also from National Public Radio: Orca shows at SeaWorld (specifically in San Diego, not its other sites in Florida and Texas) are about to stop, which is good, but Orca are still being held captive, which is bad. Also, there was a series of suicide bombings in Baghdad this weekend, which is DEFINITELY bad.

From the Los Angeles Times: You’d think that a lot of rain and snow would be good for drought-wracked California, but – listen, I used to live there, if you dry that state out for even a dang minute it becomes susceptible to mudslides the next time the sprinklers go off. So like, this is not a great thing for anyone.

Also from the Los Angeles Times: A US man shot a US diplomat in Mexico. Also they’re using a F*CKING HOWITZER to do avalanche control on Mammoth Mountain. What is this world.

From Politico: Here’s a list of the 30 most-powerful people in Trump’s Washington. I’m just gonna be over here in this corner from now until the nukes get me.

Also from Politico: No but seriously, Trump is creating his own toxic ecosystem right now. He’s planning on giving his advisors a lot of power in the first six months of his presidency. I really don’t have anything to add to that except I hope y’all are ready.

From AnarchistNews: Greek anarchists were arrested and their six-year-old child was taken into state custody last week. Greeks took to the streets in response.

From Infoshop News: Turkish anarchists report that they are being cornered by a combination of the state’s “OHAL” (or post-coup state of emergency) and other regional factors.

From It’s Going Down: Scott Campbell has a great collection of new information from the Mexican #Gasolinazo gas riots. Also, a Neo-Nazi radio show in Georgia was shut down.

From RARE: Lucy Steigerwald has a post up about Donald Trump’s non-relationship to the Fourth Amendment.

From The Nation: John Knefel writes about the rapidly closing window of opportunity to free Guantánamo Bay prisoners.

From Jacobin: Corey Robin writes about the slow death of American institutions and how that factors into Trump’s presidency.

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Howdy folks! It’s the end of the first week of 2017, and that means it’s time, finally, for an update on what we’ve been doing over the past seven days!

No More Hiatus

The last couple of months have been hectic here at C4SS. After the 10th anniversary and the Oklahoma SFL Regional Conference – and then, astonishingly, after the election – life just sort of went into overdrive. A lot of what we’ve been doing since November has been behind-the-scenes, and we’re super excited to reveal what we’ve come up with. And we’re not resting on our laurels from there, either.

That said, you can expect the return of weekly updates, starting now. Life may not come at us any slower but these updates will stand strong, immovable, against the tide of hi- what was I saying? Oh yeah, these will be going up regularly.

The Week in Commentary

Every week, we release new commentaries out to the media on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The following statistics are taken following each distribution.

Kevin Carson swept week one of 2017, pumping out articles on open manufacturing, the manufactured “white genocide” outrage and Nestlé’s outrageous policy of simply taking drinking water from communities whenever and wherever it pleases.

“2017 and ‘Killer Apps’ for the Transition” was republished at Counterpunch, the Augusta Free Press and the Gilmer Mirror. It marks Carson’s first article at Counterpunch since September 2016.

“Who are the Real ‘Genociders?’” was republished at the Augusta Free Press. “No Right to Free Water – Except for Nestlé” has not received any pickups yet because it was published on Saturday, which means it is scheduled for Monday (1/9) distribution. We’ll update you on this arcticle’s reprint status next week.

The Week in Features

While we don’t normally run or count features in the pickup list, this week we did see the republication of Edmund Berger’s stellar late December 2016 feature, “The Coming State of Fear,” in Counterpunch alongside Kevin’s “Transition.” It also got into the Shillong Times in India. It’s a fantastic piece on the incoming president’s desire to start a second Cold War with Vladimir Putin.

Logan Yershov penned their first new C4SS contribution in nearly two years with their takedown of Jeff Deist, “Anarchism not Nationalism.” The feature examines Deist’s reasoning behind their piece, “Market Borders not Open Borders,” and dismantles their idea that, as Yershov put it, “libertarians should embrace the quick-fix solution of selling privatization through the lens of border security.”

The Week in Book and Film Reviews

We got two new reviews this weekend!

James C. Wilson has a review of “Steal This Film,” a movie by the League of Noble Peers which delves into the history of, narrowly, the Pirate Bay; and broadly, file sharing itself. His verdict:

Both parts of the film provide a thought-provoking exploration of ideas that have only become more relevant since its release. Copyright critics and opponents should not only watch the film but share it, copy it and distribute it too.

C4SS editor Chad Nelson has a review of “Cloak and Jaguar: Following a Cat From Desert to Courtroom,” by Janay Brun. The book details the life – and death – of the second-known male jaguar living in the United States, as well as the events that followed its demise by human hands. Chad’s verdict:

Brun’s book concludes with, among other things, the mention of a newly-spotted male jaguar (might he be Macho B’s son or grandson, she wonders?) who has been seen regularly in Macho B’s old stomping grounds. There is hope that individual actors like Brun, who now know about the vicious assault on these beautiful animals, will be motivated to sabotage the conservationists’ and state wildlife authorities’ inevitable efforts to capture and kill him.

Destroy the traps, cover the animals’ tracks, and let them live in peace with the freedom and anonymity they deserve!

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Simply, the Center’s mission is to build a new world in the shell of the old. With Donald Trump ascending to the U.S. Presidency, showing college students and young people the radically egalitarian nature of freed markets is absolutely crucial to tilting the culture away from nationalism, statism, and fascism, and towards one of tolerance, direct action, solidarity, social cooperation, and anarchy.

The International Students For Liberty Conference is the year’s premier gathering of libertarian minds from all over the world – and C4SS is a mere $800 away from getting an exhibitor table at this event. This is a wonderful opportunity to promote radical left anarchist ideas among young liberty lovers from around the globe.

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Stephen Kinzer discusses China as a psychological problem.

John Payne discusses the War on Drugs and police militarization.

Richard W. Behan discusses the criminal warmaking of Dubya.

Jonathan Cook discusses Israeli hegemony in Palestine.

Renee Parsons discusses the alliance between the Democratic Party and the CIA.

Medea Benjmain discusses the Saudi war in Yemen and U.S. backing.

Daniel L. Davis discusses the fight for Mosul in Iraq.

Patrick Cockburn discusses the conflict in Syria.

Matt Peppe discusses the accusations of Russian interference in the recent U.S. presidential election.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses the new Cold War mentality.

Christine Guluzian discusses the current Philipines presidet and U.S. relations with his country.

Roderick Long discusses why there is nothing wrong with flag burning.

Kelley Beaucar Vlahos discusses the bill allowing Americans to sue foreign govts for their acts of terrorism directed against them.

Jon Schwartz dicusses John Bolton and Iraq policy.

George H. Smith discusses how to argue successfully.

Nat Perry discusses the powers Donald Trump will inherit from Obama.

Richaed M. Ebeling discusses Adam Smith’s philosophy.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses the collectivist mindset and empire. I am not in agreement with his view of Rex Tillerson.

Neve Gordon discusses Trump’s nominee for ambassador to Israel.

Edward Hunt discusses warfare under Obama.

Abigall R. Blanco discusses the U.S. history of interference in other countries.

Conor Friedersdorf discusses the ticking time bomb scenario justification for torture.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses the Russian hacking allegations.

Sam Biddle discusses the protest by IBM employees over cooperation with Trump.

William J. Astore discusses

Thomas L. Knapp discusses the state and Christmas.

Laurence M. Vance discusses conservative nanny statism.

Robert Fisk discusses Samatha power and selective atrocity listing.

David Swanson discusses what racist registeries look like.

Daniel Larison discusses the double standards of interventionists in foreign policy.

Michael Rieger discusses the origins of Japanese liberalism.

The Molinari Society will be holding its annual Symposium in conjunction with the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel, 202 East Pratt Street, in Baltimore, January 4-7, 2017. Here’s the current schedule info:

Molinari Society symposium: Libertarianism and Refugees
GFC. Thursday, 5 January 2017, 9:00 a.m.-12:00 noon.

presenters:
James P. Sterba (University of Notre Dame), “Libertarianism and the Rights of Refugees ”
Jan Narveson (University of Waterloo, Ontario), “Accommodating Refugees and Respecting Liberty”

commentators:
Charles W. Johnson (Molinari Institute)
Roderick T. Long (Auburn University)

Unfortunately, I won’t be able to participate in person, but my comments will be read out in absentia.

The New York Times editorial board discusses the Senate torture report and declassification.

Doug Bandow discusses the rule of law and Donald Trump. There is a lot of right-wing banality in this piece, but it is still of possible interest to free market libertarians,

The New York Times editorial board discusses the drug war fueled slaughter in the Philipines.

Nick Sibilla discusses why undercover cops should stop stings against Uber drivers.

Emma M. Ashford discusses why Trump’s admin should drop the clash of civilizations thesis.

Khaled Abou El Fadl discusses being treated as a national security threat at the U.S.-Canadian border.

Patrick Cockburn discusses ongoing events in the Syrian conflict.

Nikolas K. Gvosdev discusses Russian foreign policy.

A. Barton Hinkle discusses threats to freedom of speech.

Scott McConnell discusses the problems with Bolton.

Alex Nowrasteh discusses the right-wing version of political correctness.

Laurence M. Vance discusses the freedom to travel.

Daniel Kovalik discusses violence in Colombia.

Rory Fanning discusses Japan’s growing anti-war movement.

Robert Fisk discusses the Syrian conflict.

Philip Giraldi discusses the bipartisan interventionist consensus.

Bonnie Kristan discusses three bad ideas from Trump.

Daniel Larison discusses John Bolton’s foreign policy views.

Greg Thielmann discusses John Bolton.

Jim Lobe discusses the worldview of Michael Flynn.

Ramzy Baroud discusses media coverage of the Syrian conflict.

Jacob T. Levy discusses identity politics and the defense of liberty.

Peter Certo discusses CIA subversion abroad.

Spencer Woodman discusses how Peter Thiel stands to benefit from mass deportations under Trump.

Alex Emmons and Mohammed Ali Kafood discuss cluster bombs and their use in Yemen.

Jeremy Scahill discusses a secret intelligence head blog.

Sam Biddle discussess the evidence for and against Russian interference in the ;ast U.S. presidential election.

James Bovard discusses the hypocrisy of governments around the world on corruption.

Phyllis Bennis discusses civilian control of the military.

Virginia Postre discusses the racist history of some progressives.

Mark Selden discusses the American firebombing and atomic bombing of Japan.

Daniel DePetris discusses the War on Terror.

Laurence M. Vance discusses flag burning.

Laurence M. Vance discusses marijuana and a free society. I don’t agree with his view of what is immoral, but his stance in favor of marijuana being legal is valuable.

Ramzy Baroud discusses the crisis of political leadership in Palestine.

Paul Derienzo discusses Trump’s pick for national security advisor.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses the consequences of U.S. interventionism.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses FDR and U.S. interventionism.

Christopher Preble discusses Trump’s foreign policy picks.

Glenn Greenwald discusses a person who put out fake news to try to discredit Wikileaks.

Glenn Greenwald discusses the smear campaign against Keith Ellison.

Rebecca Gordon discusses the U.S. backed war in Yemen.

Glenn Greenwald discusses why anonymous statements to the Washington Post don’t constitute evidence.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses economic fascism and Trump. I am not sure if his historical claim about Mussolini being “democratically elected” is accurate though.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses the Russia-Trump controvsery.

Scott Shackford discusses the outgoing Obama’s attitude on War on Terror practices and compares it to the actual behavior of his admin.

Abigail Hall-Blanco discusses why we should end the War on Drugs in Afghanistan.

Thomas Knapp discusses military spending and Trump.

Patrick Cockburn discusses Turkey and the recent bombings there.

Richard M. Ebeling discusses the philosophy of Adam Smith.

The LA Times editorial board discusses the legalization of street vending in LA.

Doug Bandow discusses Kuwait and political change.

David Swanson discusses the dubious track record of the CIA.

Patrick Cockburn discusses British involvement in the Middle East.

Erin McCarley discusses white nationalist ideology throughout American history.

Yoav Litvin discusses the situation of the Israeli left and the parallels to America.

Yves Engler discusses BDA and anti-semitism accusations in Canada.

Charles R. Larson discusses a book on the Boko Haram kidnapping of over a 100 girls.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses JFK and the military establishment.

Nick Turse discusses U.S. foreign policy in Africa.

We’ve been hearing a lot lately about making America “great again” – from a man who seems not to care how many people’s liberty he violates in order to pursue his conception of national greatness.

In this context, I’m happy to announce the Molinari Institute’s latest t-shirt, which features a quotation from Jeffersonian political activist Abraham Bishop, one of the most radical of the American founders:

Thanks to Sheldon Richman for introducing me to this line, which comes from an 1800 antiwar speech titled Oration on the Extent and Power of Political Delusion; here’s a bit of context:

A nation which makes greatness its polestar can never be free; beneath national greatness sink individual greatness, honor, wealth and freedom. But though history, experience and reasoning confirm these ideas; yet all-powerful delusion has been able to make the people of every nation lend a helping hand in putting on their own fetters and rivetting their own chains, and in this service delusion always employs men too great to speak the truth, and yet too powerful to be doubted. Their statements are believed – their projects adopted – their ends answered and the deluded subjects of all this artifice are left to passive obedience through life, and to entail a condition of unqualified non-resistance to a ruined posterity.

Bishop’s other works include an attack on church-state unions and a defense of the insurgent slaves in the Haitian revolution (showing himself, in that connection, a better Jeffersonian than Jefferson himself, who sided with the slaveowners). Bishop also championed women’s education and was an early critic of the Constitution. So he wasn’t an anarchist? Well, nobody’s perfect.

Welcome to Missing Comma, a bi-weekly look at anarchy in the news.

It would be remiss of us to bring Missing Comma back in the current age without talking about the “fake news” scandal – specifically, how fake it is as a scandal.

For those who have somehow missed the last month of legacy media content, the “fake news” scandal began in earnest on Nov. 17, when the Washington Post published an interview at their internet culture blog, the Intersect, with fake news website creator Paul Horner.

In this interview, Horner said, “I thought they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now he’s in the White House. Looking back, instead of hurting the campaign, I think I helped it. And that feels [bad].”

Until this point, the narrative on fake news was that it was a problem, and skewed people’s views during a particularly contentious election season. After this interview, the story – at least as the legacy media portrayed it – changed into something completely different, and interest in the idea of “fake news” as presented shot way up.

Google Trends shows a skyrocketing increase in interest in “fake news” around Nov. 13.

After the Horner interview, fake news became the new buzzword in the political press to mean anything from outright fabrications to satire to clickbait to ideologically-based media. There are even entire campaigns – such as PropOrNot – which aim to seek out such media, under the banner of fighting “Russian propaganda.”

Bewilderingly, PropOrNot has included longtime libertarian stalwarts Antiwar.com and our friends-in-anarchism over at the AntiMedia on their list of “over 200” established media organizations, fake news sites and blogs they’re calling “Russian propagandists.” It’s pretty weird, and their report is… a mess. But we’ll tackle that another time.

In truth, fake news has become a zaxlebax, a package-deal anti-concept that encompasses all of these wildly different media forms and describes nearly none of them correctly. The Onion has never claimed to be anything but satire. Upworthy has never said they don’t use clickbait headlines, and they’re not trying to mislead the public. C4SS, Antiwar, Infoshop or the AntiMedia have never claimed to be objective, nor have they ever misled their readers into believing they were fueled by anything other than their respective ideologies. The only media that really fits the bill of “fake news” in the sense most folks mean by it are actual, fake news websites like “abcnews.com.co” and tabloid news.

These organizations and individuals have no issue writing fake news stories, creating things that never happened, weaponizing people’s naivety and bigotry.

And to their credit, the folks over at the Washington Post’s Intersect blog recognize this and did a write-up on it the other day.

Snip:

Fake news has, in a period of weeks, gone from a concern about how we share news online today to a meme — one that allows nearly any source of information to be “fake.” It seems inevitable that the Internet will continue to twist the term “fake news” into new definitions.

John Herrman at the New York Times also recognized the issue with fake news as a concept:

“Fake news” as shorthand will almost surely be returned upon the media tenfold. The fake news narrative, as widely understood and deployed, has already begun to encompass not just falsified, fabricated stories, but a wider swath of traditional media on Facebook and elsewhere. Fox News? Fake news. Mr. Trump’s misleading claims about Ford keeping jobs in America? Fake news. The entirety of hyperpartisan Facebook? Fake news. This wide formulation of “fake news” will be applied back to the traditional news media, which does not yet understand how threatened its ability is to declare things true, even when they are.

Essentially, there is no longer a premium on credibility, and the same tactics that led to the rise of the alt-right as a meaningful force are on full display now. Redirect concern, misdirect from intent, obfuscate the truth.

Jay Rosen, a journalism professor at NYU, puts it best in a column he wrote last week. He said:

So what I mean by a miss bigger than a missed story is this. It is one thing to bypass the journalists and go directly to voters. It’s another to pull up the press by its roots. It’s one thing to lie for political advantage. It’s another to keep lying to prove you have the power. The retreat from empiricism was a disturbance in 2004. Twelve years later it is a political style in utter ascendency. “When we act, we create our own reality” was a boast in the Bush White House, a bit of outrageousness intended to shock the reporter. Now we have Trump’s attempt to substitute his reality for news of the world. Covering Trump was a massive challenge. Recovering from him may be all but impossible for the political press.

As anarchists, we here at C4SS have always engaged in what is, essentially, a propagandistic mission: to evangelize anarchism to folks outside of academic or activist circles and create cultures of conversation about radical politics in small towns through the main vehicle of small-town talk – the local newspaper. But we have never done so by hiding our intentions or shying away from calling ourselves anarchists. As a result, we have, in recent years, seen diminishing returns from newspapers that once ran our work and now don’t. But telling the truth about our politics and then offering ideas surrounding that has always been our aim, and not one we’re going to drop.

There is an idea I’ve had about media since I started writing Missing Comma in 2013. Namely, it’s that you could apply the same ethics and integrity that power legacy media like the New York Times and Washington Post to media run, staffed and read by anarchists. That you could create media with the same standards of quality and ideas about gathering information and presenting it to people that “mainstream” press did, but without any of the pretense toward neutrality, or away from ideological viewpoints. I don’t know that we’ve done that yet. I’d like to see us try. It might make the next however many years easier.

David Swanson discusses why flag burning matters.

Ray McGovern discusses David Petraeus.

Thomas L. Knapp discusses flag burning.

Ramzy Baroud discusses a day of action on behalf of Palestine.

Stephen Kinzer discusses reconciling with Iran and Russia.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses blowback and U.S. foreign policy.

Glenn Greenwald discusses far nationalist movements and Islamophobia.

Alex Emmons and Lee Fang discuss the anti-Muslim DHS Trump pick.

Tom Engelhardt discusses the most dangerous country on Earth.

Mike Ludwig discusses how Trump’s admin will hurt people of color via the War on Drugs.

Phillip Carter and Loren DeJonge Schulman discuss Trump’s appointment of so many military officers to positions in the govt.

Sheldon Richman discusses why Trump and conservatives aren’t friends of liberty.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses ending the Cuban embargo.

David S. D’Amato discusses government and community.

Medea Benjamin discusses a tribunal on the Iraq War.

Joshua Frank discusses the accusation that CounterPunch publishes Russian propaganda.

Uri Avnery discusses forest fires and anti-Arab propaganda in Israel.

John Feffer discusses Trump’s predictability.

Christopher J. Fettweis discusses a book by two neoconservatives.

Uri Friedman discusses how Donald Trump will describe the War on Terror.

Pratap Chatterjee discusses what Obama could do in his remaining days as president to help make sure Trump doesn’t exercise too much horrific power.

Richard M. Ebeling discusses David Hume on economics and markets.

C.J. Polychroniou interviews Andrew Bacevich on U.S. foreign policy.

Michael J. Glennon discusses Trump and the national security state.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses the income tax.

W.T. Whitney discusses the peace process in Colombia.

Patrick Cockburn discusses reporting out of Iraq and Syria.

Michael D. Yates discusses a book by an antiwar Vietnam veteran.

Eli Clifton discusses one of Trump’s national security appointee’s view on Islam.

David Swanson discusses Russia and U.S. foreign policy.

I made this comment on Facebook a few weeks back, but I thought it was worth repeating here:

One thing that (many) social anarchists and (many) ancaps have in common is that they recognise anticapitalist individualist market anarchists as valuable comrades (albeit erring ones) as long as they’re dead 19th-century figures like Benjamin Tucker, Lysander Spooner, and Voltairine de Cleyre, and even include them in their favourite anthologies, but as soon as they encounter actual living 21st-century examples of anticapitalist individualist market anarchists, they cringe in horror and shriek either “capitalist!” or “commie!” depending on the direction of deviation.

Again and again over the last month’s political turmoil folks from all political comers—and many that should damn well know better—have gone absolutely apoplectic to discover anarchists still consistently denouncing and opposing authoritarianism, from Castro to Trump, maoists to alt-righters. In short they’re seemingly wildly surprised that anarchists are anarchists. In one absurd instance I was personally called a “dogmatic hack” who “only cares about anti-authoritarianism.” Well yes. What did you think anarchism was about? Such hilarious expressions of shock have been widespread across social media. Among the left there’s been a unending feed of: “Wait, you even oppose left-wing dictators?!!” “Wait, you even oppose indigenous nationalists?!!” (And similar if more absurd consternation from those of a right-wing bent who are just shocked to discover that abolishing states would also involve abolishing borders, or that an ethical commitment to liberty means uncompromising opposition to noxious and oppressive collectivist ideologies like white supremacy and patriarchy.)

Now there are of course sometimes complex strategic considerations in practice, but anarchists are not going to stop holding anarchist values and working towards anarchist ends. This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Yet the toxoplasma of the US election has once again revealed that so many people see anarchism not as an ethical philosophy or value set but either as a weird subculture within their tribe (or their enemy’s), or as a mere set of tools and tactics.

Anarchism is not defined by association. It’s not a flag of convenience. Its definition is given in the name: an-archia. Without rulership. We oppose all domination and constraint of people. We seek a world of perpetually expanding freedom and possibility as all the things that limit and control us are uprooted or bypassed. We think that such a vision is possible because we don’t ultimately see individual freedoms as conflicting with one another. We don’t carve the world up into distinct groups and clusters, rather we seek to build greater interconnection. This is because we look at freedom as a whole.

Anarchism is a simple statement: “The freedom of all is essential to my freedom. I am truly free only when all minds are equally free. The freedom of other minds, far from negating or limiting my freedom, is, on the contrary, its necessary premise & confirmation.” —Bakunin

We care about all and seek to liberate all. Not merely our friends or countrymen. Not merely people within some cultural tribe. We’re not left-wingers plus bandannas. We’re not right-wingers plus bowties. We’re anarchists. We don’t fight for your group, we fight for freedom.

This means opposition to all constraints. From dictators to cops to politicians to the imposition of the majority’s wishes. From cancerous cognitive shortcuts that fetishize false entities like collective identities and organizations, to gods and spirits. From economic systems that keep billions in poverty and starvation that go by a certain name, to economic systems that keep billions in poverty and starvation that go by a different name. Etc. etc. etc.

The struggle for liberty does not terminate with some simplistic demand like a better system of property rights or the end of white supremacy and colonialism. It extends as infinitely as the cosmos, as deeply as any relationship between two minds can be. There is no “good enough” just as there are never “but surely this exception.” Anarchism is as uncompromising as it is audacious.

We cannot betray your team because we were never on the side of anyone but freedom.

Bonnie Kristian discusses the folly of U.S. interventionism around the world.

William Seabolt discusses tax avoidance as an American tradition.

Laurence M. Vance discusses what Trump shouldn’t do as president.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses the War on Drugs and Trump.

Sheldon Richman discusses a new book on love, marriage, and the state.

Peter Van Buren discusses the war on the first amendment.

Chris Floyd discusses the new scare around Russia.

Neve Gordon discusses right-wing Israeli political figures who ignore anti-semites in the Trump admin.

Andrew Levine discusses Jewishness and Trump.

Glenn Greenwald and Ben Norton discuss accusations of pro-Russia media bias.

David Gordon discusses a book on Bernie Sanders and crony capitalism.

Eric Margolis discusses the 1956 Israeli invasion of Egypt.

David Swanson discusses truths uttered by Trump’s national security advisor.

Stanley L. Cohen discusses Israel.

Dave Lindorff discusses accusations that he writes pro-Russia propaganda.

Brian Cloughley discusses Trump’s potential secretary of defense.

Patrick Cockburn discusses Trump and torture.

Robert Fisk discusses Anne Frank.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses Castro’s end and the national security state.

Richard M. Ebeling discusses Adam Ferguson.

Ivan Eland discusses presidential war as unconstitutional.

Andrew J. Bacevich discusses why Americans war are not being won.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses the War on Terror and Islam.

Wendy McElroy discusses the difference between republic and empire.

Doug Bandow discusses U.S. policy towards Cuba.

Rebecca Gould discusses how U.S. interventionism gave us Trump.

Trevor Timm discusses the war powers Trump will inherit from Obama.

Daniel Larison discusses Trump’s national security advisor’s take on Yemen.

Lucy Steigerwald discusses a book on a man who helped save Jews in WW2.

Doug Bandow discusses handing over NATO to Europe.

It seems silly to continue harping on the incoming tidal wave of fascism, but if there’s one thing C4SS – and the anarchist tradition in general – is good at, it’s making sure you don’t forget that we’re in for a long god damn ride.

Earlier today, Trump tweeted that anyone who burns the American flag should face “consequences,” including up to a year in prison, loss of citizenship or both. Flag burning is, by the way, a constitutionally-protected act of symbolic speech, which is something that would normally be important to this discussion but since we’re dealing with fascism-as-a-ruling-party it’s suddenly just an interesting sort of factoid.

Meaningless legalism aside, what Trump means when he says that flag-burners should be imprisoned and stripped of their citizenship is that dissenters and protesters should be imprisoned and stripped of their citizenship. (At the very least, the mental hop you need to take to go from one to the other is fantastically tiny.)

I’ve heard a lot of folks say that we should ignore the wacky things Donald Trump says in public and on Twitter. Their justifications usually revolve around two main planks: that Trump is a richer, now-more-powerful version of an internet troll in that if you ignore him he’ll find something else to focus on and stop saying bonkers things about freedom of speech, dissent, etc.; and that he’s saying this stuff because he knows the media will focus more on his wild proclamations than on his failed business empire, his myriad conflicts of interest and his general myopia about becoming president.

At this point I think the evidence bears itself out nicely that internet trolls don’t just go away if you starve them of attention. More importantly I think we’re finally presented with the proof that there’s a marked fucking difference between your garden variety, annoying internet trolls and the assortment of neo-fascists, cultural conservatives and thugs Trump now represents on an international stage.

If there has ever been any doubt that resistance to Trump is necessary, here’s your moment of clarity: even if he can’t do a quarter of the things he says he wants to do, even if he ends up becoming a mockery of fascism, a modern-day Charlie Chaplain-in-the Great Dictator, it’s still too fucking much. He’s still making proclamations that show us where he wants to take the country. It’s absolutely right to assert that we can’t ignore his failures and missteps – but we can’t ignore this, either. We can’t ignore what he says, or allow it to become normal in our ears and eyes and thoughts.

Ray McGovern discusses the installation of a pro-torture head at the CIA.

Murtaza Hussain discusses the drone program and a new documentary on it.

Christopher A. Preble discusses funding state sponsers of terroism.

Yasmeen Elkhoudary discusses why people in Gaza aren’t mourning HRC’s loss.

David Swanson discusses the use of camps during WW2 for enemy aliens.

Binoy Kampmark discusses undocumented migrants and Trump’s plans for them.

Charles R. Larson discusses a book called War Porn.

Richard M. Ebeling discusses a precursor to Adam Smith.

Patrick Cockburn discusses how Trump will launch new U.S. wars in the Middle East.

William Hartung discusses Trump’s military spending plans.

Glenn Greenwald discusses a meeting between the press and Trump.

Jacob G. Hornberger discusses non-interventionism in foreign policy.

Laurence M. Vance discusses occupational licensing and the libertarian alternative.

Peter Van Buren discusses the powers Trump will have as president.

Doug Bandow discusses Trump’s foreign policy appointments.

Bruce Fein discusses American foreign policy’s focus on global dominance.

David Swanson discusses one of Trump’s national security state appointees.

Conn Hallinan discusses the War on Terror.

Alex Kane discusses Trump’s pick for national security advisor.

Lara Friedman discusses Jewish values and Israel.

Alan Grayson discusses the U.S. war in Iraq.

Ramzy Baroud discusses the Israel-Palestine issue.

Michael Brendan Dougherty discusses what the U.S. should do to end the war in Yemen.

David Swanson discusses U.S. foreign policy and healthy relationships.

Melvin Goodman discusses Trump’s campaign of militarization.

Matt Peppe discusses why we shouldn’t respect the presidency.

Paul Edwards discusses national genocide day.

Binoy Kampmark discusses refugees and the Australian govt.

Gareth Porter discusses Trump’s national security advisor’s role in creating a system of mass murder in Afghanistan.

William J. Astore discusses the notion that the U.S. is an indispenable nation.