Salon Reviews The World That Never Was
Laura Miller writes quite a good review of The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents. In the decades that followed the rout of the Commune, anarchists became demonic caricatures in the mainstream imagination. A typical specimen was pictured as a young man with bristling black beard and [...]
Did You Know BP Was Anarchist?
Danny, what’s so difficult about “no rulers” and how does BP fit that description? Corporate Anarchy: Wall Street and BP Criminals At Large In this era of corporate anarchy, legal, ethical and financial rules have all been rescinded in the pursuit of profit. Read the rest here. Also, my email to Danny: Dear Danny, I [...]
National Post on the Black Bloc
“They are the chief threat — they are the people we know are going to turn up and cause problems,” said John Thompson, a security expert and president of the Toronto-based Mackenzie Institute, an organization that focuses on political instability and organized violence. “They are adrenaline junkies who are there to elicit confrontation.” Read the [...]
Media Matters on Glenn Beck and Anarchy
Media Matters points out Glenn Beck’s lunacy without really providing an explanation of anarchist beliefs that could have really brought the absurdity home. To Beck it’s all evidence of a struggle between labor-affiliated Marxist-anarchists in opposition to total government anarchists. Is it any wonder he brought one of his chalkboards into the radio studio to [...]
National Review Defends Red and Black
If the Wobblies want to withhold their vegan almond biscotti from anyone in a blue uniform, well, it’s their house. Read the rest here.
Sean Swain, Anarchist Governor of Ohio
Swain is running for governor of Ohio from his prison cell in Toledo as an anarchist write-in candidate under the banner of the Zapatista Party… Given the many problems that plague the American prison and the criminal justice system, it is unfortunate, though perhaps symptomatic, that an individual like Swain has been driven to the [...]
Anti-Anarchist Roofs
British Seed Houses‘ A29 Eco-Green Roof mix is based on AberAce and AberFleece cultivars; bred by the BSH-funded amenity see- breeding program, IBERS (Aberystwyth). “Pound for pound and shoot for shoot, AberAce will ‘fix’ more nitrogen than any other white clover leaf on the amenity market,” he said, adding that in future councils may insists [...]
Daily Show Flashback – May Day 2000
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Headlines – Labor Pains www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party
Red and Black Cafe Controversy
By now you have probably heard about the Red and Black Cafe in Portland asking a cop to leave their establishment. Here’s a compilation of some of the coverage. The incident, which was brief, speaks volumes about the tensions between Portland police and some members of the community who are more worried about police shootings [...]
Food Insecurity, 9 Days Til Anarchy
“This year is the 10th anniversary of the fuel protests, when supermarket bosses sat with ministers and civil servants in Whitehall warning that there were just three days of food left,” Simms writes. “We were, in effect, nine meals from anarchy. Civilization’s veneer may be much thinner than we like to think.” Read the rest [...]
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