Few things are more certain to elicit righteous anger from anarcho-libertarians than mention of State security forces: overt and covert police, armed forces, and intelligence agencies. For sure, even when they are those possessed by the liberal democracies and not …
So we’re all like, “Hey, let weapons inspectors back in!” and the Iraqis are all like, “Dude, you pulled out, inspectus interruptus was your idea from the last time you bombed, and you’re like spying on us anyway!” and we’re …
Alaska is tightly wrapped in the tentacles of government, authoritarianism, and intolerance. The state is dependent on huge quantities of federal money, corporate welfare is the order of the day, police agencies of various sorts acquire more and more power, …
All exclusive land-“rights,” except those small ones required to live and work somewhere, are claimed and practised at the expense of the rights and liberties of other people. Do apply the concept of “spaceship” Earth to this planet and keep …
Maybe it’s in the water. Another governor has stood up to the unjust judicial system in illinois and has pardoned and released a number of obviously innocent prison inmates. Those who were freed were jailed after false confessions were tortured …
The Therapeutic State
Health care systems all over the world are, to varying extents, dominated by government intervention. Whether it is a largely ‘private’ system driven by state funding and regulation, like that in the US, or a ‘socialized’ model …
There is a perception both here in Alaska and elsewhere in the united states and the rest of the world that this state is some sort of last frontier, peopled by independent sorts who prefer to fend for themselves and …
As the united states government gears up to escalate the ongoing war they and the british rulers are waging against the people who live in iraq, the slaughter in afghanistan, which the military hypocritically calls Operation Enduring Freedom, continues apace. …
The positive reception given Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book Nickeled and Dimed by so many reviewers reminds me of nothing so much as the critical acclaim granted to Black Like Me. In both cases, comfortably middle class writers pretended to …
2002 is the hundreth anniversary of the volcanic eruption which destroyed the city of St Pierre on martinique. In the following essay, published in the Leipziger Volkszeitung on May 15, 1902, Rosa Luxemburg took the imperialist governments of the world …