When I started ATS 20 years ago, the main objective I wanted to promote was to end US imperialism by dissolving the United States itself, a goal I had originally embraced in the 1980s. Initially, I had thought anarcho-syndicalism would be the vehicle but being involved with actual anarcho-syndicalist organizations as well as mainstream labor […]

We’re Getting a Lot Closer

ABSTRACT The contemporary re-emergence of anarchism on a global scale deserves serious attention from students of ideology. As the defining orientation of prominent activist networks, anarchism today is the principal point of reference for radical social change movements in the North, and represents a mature and complex genre of political expression. This article offers a […]

Anarchism reloaded

This is an important article. Among the US foreign policy elites, there are multiple factions: globalist-realists like Kissinger, nationalist-realists (like Mike Scheuer), neocons (right-wing Trotskyists uber-Zionists), superhawks (e.g. John Bolton), liberal internationalists (most Democrats), human rights imperialists (Samantha Power), and cosmopolitan internationalists/rainbow globalists (the left-wing of the Democratic Party). The super-elite among the US power […]

Kissinger Warns Washington: Accept New Global Order Or Else

These are my basic thoughts on what the future of the USA is likely to look like: Direct American military interventionism is likely to become less common, with the use of international institutions, client states, mercenaries, proxy armies, “dollar diplomacy,” soft power, cultural imperialism, economic sanctions, etc. as the primary means through which the empire […]

The Future of the United States?

“Listen to your intuition about what is right and true and kind and important”–Monk Yun Rou Impending climate disaster has never set my hair on fire. It’s not something I can easily feel in my bones. Bad news seems so far away. California. Puerto Rico. Yesterday the drought in Taiwan dominated the business section of…

Can Taoism Save Us?

Friends and Readers of ATS, I am working with Don Fitz of the Gateway Green Alliance in St. Louis for the zoom program on “Envisioning a Greener New Deal.” We would like to invite all of our supporters to co-sponsor the zoom. The announcement for the program says: “We must halt environmental destruction while providing […]

“Envisioning a Greener New Deal”

By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Every decade or so anarchism seems to find its way back into the limelight for another 15 minutes. We’re usually roundly vilified but it still offers us a rare window to attract the non-political class and shop around our ideas. In the late nineties we […]

Anarchists Need to Drop the Adjectives

It comes down to this: right-wingers are con artists much of the time, and liberals are merely idiots.

Which Political YouTubers Don’t Believe A WORD Of What They Say?

Zach Freedman has created a really cool Cyberdeck built around a Raspberry Pi 400, an SDR (Software-Defined Radio), and a Vufine VUF-110 Wearable Display.

RBpi 400-based Cyberdeck with Heads-Up Display #cyberpunk

Lost in translation; the video is about him being told he’d go to Hell for being gay: https://archive.ph/WXONF

Lil Nas X, Satan Shoes, and Cancel Culture from the Right Wing for a Change