Autonomism and the Culture War
Posted on June 29, 2008
I wrote the following article on nationalism and anarchism for the celticanarchy.org site, which may or may not be getting taken down in the next few weeks. I liked it though and it provoked some interesting responses – as well as outrage from at least a couple so-called “national anarchists” – so i’d like to repost is here so i don’t lose it if/when celticanarchy.org goes down.
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Obama is a Fraud.
Posted on June 27, 2008
I’ve held off on Barrack Obama for the most part up to this point; partly because I had trouble believing the democrats would actually make a black man with a muslim name their nominee (not that those things should be a barrier, but because there are plenty of racist democrats who are just plain not down to vote for a black man), and partly because Hillary Clinton’s extraordinarily petty and dishonest tactics – spreading rumors that he was a closet muslim, constantly bringing up his skin color as a negative and then accusing him of being a racist, and her attempts to paint him as an elitist (this from a woman who can afford to lend herself millions of dollars for her campaign and who’s talking about a man who’s mother had to rely on foodstamps when he was a kid).
Watching her and McCain grasping at straws and throwing everything they could think of at him, I almost felt like rooting for him. Almost, but not quite.
The fact is, Obama is a fraud. He may have started out working as a street-level community organizer in Chicago – and that’s one hell of a tough job, I know because I’ve done the same job here in Oakland – but whatever claim he might have had to be an advocate for poor and working class people is gone as of right now.
George Carlin – R.I.P.
Posted on June 23, 2008
It’s one of those years, first we lost Utah Phillips and now George Carlin. I’m not going to write a eulogy for him, instead i’m going to post a bunch of his videos and let him sum things up himself. So here it is, a few choice words from one of the greatest comedic minds in America.
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