This is not a general news section about issues that may be out of your control. Instead, these issues will impact you personally and give you a heads up so you can act accordingly.
A good article by Ross Kenyon from the Center for a Stateless Society, illustrating the pervasive stereotypes that are perpetuated against anarchists.
How would the NAACP respond if a politician or other public figure had said this about all black people?
Recently, US Representative John Boehner (R-OH) odiously mischaracterizedanarchist philosophy and painted an inaccurate portrait of its core [...]
An article from the Vancouver Sun, is a great illustration of how black markets rise in response from increased theft from the State. The article highlights the rise of Canada’s black market trade of cigarettes, due to increased taxation from the state.
The State seeks to invade every facet of our human experience, in this [...]
The personal philosophy of anarchism and agorism, are showing significant growth from political activists who have been engaged with the state for the last decade. The journey towards this political philosophy occurred independently and simultaneously, between me and Ben, the co-founder of JustLive. We also noticed this trend amongst those we interact with on social networks and [...]
An informative article titled “New underground economy” from the Washington Times, provides data points that demonstrate the growth of the underground “black” economy. It reveals that the public is naturally gravitating towards an agorist way of commerce, based over economic oppression and distrust of the state.
The article highlights a significant rise of “unbanked” households, [...]
Frankly, I’m fed up with protests that achieve nothing, but more power for the state and less credibility for dissent. We can walk out of the system anytime, you don’t need to go to these criminals and ask for your inherent rights.
Agorism promotes the idea of ignoring government, by dispelling the myth that these crooks [...]
Kevin Carson takes on statist liberals and anarcho-capitalist ideologues alike in this brilliant article about Somalia and anarchy.
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Somalia — Is That Really All You Got?
by Kevin Carson
Rachel Maddow, a popular liberal commentator on MSNBC, recently iterated — for the umpteenth time — the standard liberal talking point of Somalia as a supposedly unanswerable argument against [...]
Gizmodo’s Kyle VanHemert writes about a simple and brilliant program to bring important information to people who have less access to it — the InfoLadies of Bangladesh:
Many people living in Bangladesh’s impoverished villages haven’t yet been reached by technology. But a determined band of InfoLadies—young women equipped with netbooks, phones, and medical equipment—are delivering technology’s [...]
Kevin Carson of C4SS has posted an excellent analysis of political/corporate enmeshment, related specifically to the recent Gulf oil spill.
Carson discusses how regulations most often work out to the benefit of the entities they are supposed to regulate, and how such entanglement and backscratching precludes the effectiveness of libertarians working “within the system.”
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Politics as a [...]
JustLive has posted articles written by George Donnelly, and we have now learned that he has been kidnapped by state thugs.
Fr33 Agent contributor, Voluntaryist activist and blogger George Donnelly was mugged and kidnapped by US Marshalls yesterday and is reportedly being held in theFederal Government’s Detention Center in Philadelphia. Please call 215-521-4000 to politely but [...]
Cannabis Culture tells the tale of pro-pot civil disobedience in Keene, New Hampshire.
The results of these persistent actions are a testament to the idea that ignoring ridiculous laws is far more important and effective than trying to use the political apparatus to change them.
Keene is a quaint little New England town, surrounded by forested hills [...]
As an eye-witness to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Dmitry Orlov wished to “put [his] observations into a concise message” for an American audience. These observations surround his concern over “the lack of collapse-preparedness here in the United States [compared to] the situation in the Soviet Union, prior to its collapse.”
Orlov put these concerns [...]
Alex R. Knight of C4SS posted this hopeful and encouraging article. In it, he discusses just how much people are beginning to wake up to the fact that the government is anything but consensual.
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The Imminent Demise of Government
by Alex R. Knight III
Rasmussen Reports just published an article with some very interesting statistics online, things [...]
This is a video from a Cato Institute talk (and debate) on the subject of seasteading. The pros and cons are discussed, the talk provides a very informative look into the concept. The points and rebuttals made shed light on some of the contingencies that must be accounted for with this type of theoretical venture. [...]
Kevin Carson has posted an in-depth and very well-rounded take on the nature of the cooperative economy in Salinas, Ecuador.
Massimo de Angelis of the editor’s blog has a fascinating story about the cooperative economy in the Salinas region of the Ecuadorian Andes. The Salinas area, a region centering on the village of the same [...]
Bombs Away! Make Seed Bombs for an Environmentally Friendly Form of Civil Disobedience
Fake Anarchists Plan To Crash Tea Parties (UPDATED)
DIY: Make Yourself Invisible To Video Cameras Closing the Collapse Gap: Preparedness of the USSR vs. the USA
5 DIY Upside-down Tomato Planters (and 3 pre-made ones)
