Kevin Carson: Thank God it’s Democrats bashing our heads in for a change!

Kevin Carson says the night of totalitarianism is darkest before the dawn.

David S. D’Amato on the real lesson of 9/11.

Darian Worden: As the events of ten years ago are remembered, it is also time to reflect on how to build a better world.

Kevin Carson dissects Nicholas Kristoff’s argument for the US military as a socialist utopia.

David D’Amato on US military intervention in Libya.

Thomas L. Knapp responds to the latest by William Lind in The American Conservative.

David D’Amato on the role of war in the state’s system of control.

David D’Amato examines the self-interested alarmism of those promoting hysteria about Iran.

Kevin Carson: “I think the last time American soldiers actually fought for the freedom of Americans was probably the Revolutionary War . . . But I can think of one exception.”

Darian Worden on Iraq and promises fulfilled in the official story.

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.”

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.”

C4SS News Analyst Thomas L. Knapp isn’t afraid of the nuclear boogeyman.