Brent Bozell columns at Townhall.com. As I have mentioned before, I've started to seek out Bozell's columns for their penetrating and hard-hitting cultural commentary. Splendidly reactionary! Sad to say, though, Bozell seems to be pro-war.www.thornwalker.com/ditch/linkscontents.htm
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FROM MIKE WAITE, 6/20/07: Here is a great site. The hardest of hard core anarchist. With an added twist, this guy Stefan Molyneaux gives us a much needed psychological analysis of the psychopathology of statism.
Išm sure wešve all strained our minds trying to get at the underlying causes of the mass hysteria and delusions raging in this crazy world, and this site provides us a much needed service that I think all anarchists would highly value.
http://www.freedomainradio.com/
Brent Bozell columns at Townhall.com. As I have mentioned before, I've started to seek out Bozell's columns for their penetrating and hard-hitting cultural commentary. Splendidly reactionary! Sad to say, though, Bozell seems to be pro-war.
Libertarian Today, operated and edited by Chris Moore. This site consists mainly of links to articles considered of interest to libertarians, with comments appended by readers and by Moore. Though the site seems to support the LP and political activism in general — an orientation that TLD does not share — it is noteworthy that in June 2006 Moore posted a link to an article by our Steve Sniegoski on matters that most party-oriented libertarians steer clear of. I detect here, and commend, bravery that is extremely rare in modern libertarian circles.
The New Yorker. For those who don't count themselves among the Northeastern aesthetes and literati, The New Yorker is of most interest as the publisher of the great investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, whose exposés of Bush's War have so discomfited the regime. Hersh's pieces are posted in full text, and the reader has free and unfettered access.
spiked. This British site describes itself as follows:
spiked is an independent online phenomenon dedicated to raising the horizons of humanity by waging a culture war of words against misanthropy, priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism, and irrationalism in all their ancient and modern forms. spiked is endorsed by free-thinkers such as John Stuart Mill and Karl Marx, and hated by the narrow-minded such as Torquemada and Stalin. Or it would be, if they were lucky enough to be around to read it.Naturally one recoils from the mention of Marx, but if these be leftists, their unpredictability is sufficient to redeem them. They publish the always interesting Frank Furedi.
Outright anarchists
• Against Politics — Haven't been able to find a mission statement on the site, but Against Politics seems to be largely anarchist. It has a "Market Anarchism" department, which is always a good sign.
• Anarchy Archives is a traditionalist site — which is to say, pre-Austrian School and substantially anti-market — but it is well worth visiting if you wish to study the classics. Describing itself as "an online research center on the history and theory of anarchism," it contains bios, pamphlets, and historical articles.
• Anti-state.com — market anarchism online. Statement: "The purpose of Anti-state.com is informing and entertaining market anarchists and facilitating contact and the exchange of ideas between them. This is a non-profit, yet market-based service — no operating money means no operation." That last bit may sound familiar to TLD visitors.
• @infoshop.org — your on-line anarchist community. The site features links to other anarchist sites as well as to various left-wing sites but also has "home" content of its own. @infoshop.org seems to be old-style anarchist, which is to say, anti-free market; but it sometimes hits the right target: imperial fascism.
• flag.blackened.net, also apparently known as "the Pierre J. Proudhon memorial computer," describes itself as "the creation of many anarchists across the globe and ... a classic example of the power of freedom, equality and mutual aid." It, too, is a traditionalist-anarchist site, but it contains much of value. The site's Anarchist Library contains complete essays by many old-style anarchist thinkers.
• LysanderSpooner.org "explores the life, history, scholarship, and influence of Lysander Spooner: one of the most provocative, eclectic and prolific American legal writers of the Nineteenth Century." That is an accurate description as far as it goes, but I would go further and describe Spooner, author of the "No Treason" essays, as the most gifted of the old-time American individualist anarchists.
• Movement for Anarchy is a "transnational initiative based on philosophical anarchism." It is yet another traditionalist site, mostly.
N.B.: A quick way to see whether an anarchist-archive site is up to speed is to check its list of anarchists for the name of Murray N. Rothbard. If he doesn't appear, you know you're deep in old-time territory, and if you're a free-market anarchist, chances are you'll experience some frustration.
• The Voluntaryist has been edited and published by plumb-line libertarian Carl Watner for many years. Its statement of purpose is hard to beat:
Voluntaryists are advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free society. We reject electoral politics, in theory and in practice, as incompatible with libertarian principles. Governments must cloak their actions in an aura of moral legitimacy in order to sustain their power, and political methods invariably strengthen that legitimacy. Voluntaryists seek instead to delegitimize the State through education, and we advocate withdrawal of the cooperation and tacit consent on which State power ultimately depends.
• WalterBlock.com. This is the personal site of "Austrian school economist and libertarian/anarcho-capitalist philosopher" Walter Block. You may wish to begin by reading this provocative paper on the site: "Toward a Libertarian Theory of Guilt and Punishment for the Crime of Statism" (PDF).
An appreciation of Prof. Block by Lew Rockwell.
Libertarians (largely minarchist) and classical liberals
You may find anarchists in the woodwork at some of these sites.
• Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty. These folks may be a bit on the mildcat side, even compared with Acton himself; but this is a large, well-developed site that contains much you may find valuable.
• Antiwar.com — an extremely important site for liberty-loving anti-imperialists and those interested in historical revisionism. Antiwar.com's importance has been officially confirmed: it has been harassed by the Security Services and repeatedly hacked by its adversaries. N.B.: Antiwar.com is home to the indefatigable, percipient, and heroic Justin Raimondo, whose devastating barrage against the warmongers — including those who dare call themselves libertarians — just never lets up.
• Foundation for Economic Education and its publication The Freeman (yes, the publication's good old name is back!). Mission statement (excerpt): "FEE is a 'home' for friends of freedom everywhere. It was founded in 1946 by Leonard E. Read and given direction by its adviser, the eminent Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises. Throughout the years FEE's mission has remained resolute: to study the moral and intellectual foundation of a free society and to share its knowledge with individuals everywhere." In the past FEE has bowed the knee to the political-correctness cops and made other concessions to moderation, but it has published and continues to publish much of high value. Richard Ebeling, Hillsdale College economics professor and writer for Freedom Daily, is president of FEE.
• The Free Market — a fundamentally important publication of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, with extensive archives. It deserves its own link, separate from that of Mises.
• Free-Market.Net has now been folded into the International Society for Individual Liberty. Both links on our page now lead to the same place.
• Future of Freedom Foundation, which publishes the monthly Freedom Daily. "The mission of The Future of Freedom Foundation is to advance the libertarian philosophy by providing an uncompromising moral and economic case for individual liberty, free markets, private property, and limited government."
• The Independent Institute. From TII's "about us" statement:
The mission of The Independent Institute is to transcend the all-too-common politicization and superficiality of public policy research and debate, redefine the debate over public issues, and foster new and effective directions for government reform.As you see, these people are reformists, and you will detect a technocratic, policy-wonky flavor here, and some may not even describe themselves as libertarians; but they do present some penetrating analyses against giant government and foreign empire — including those of Dr. Ivan Eland. Longtime anti-imperialist David J. Theroux is founder and president. TII is the publisher of Charles Higgs's Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society. That wins them a big gold star from me.
• International Society for Individual Liberty, "a network of individuals and associations in over 80 countries dedicated to building a free and peaceful world through the ideals of free markets, social tolerance and individual responsibility." Though ISIL apparently dabbles in political activism, it seems to concentrate mostly on spreading the word about liberty. Good show.
• Laissez Faire Books, for additional intellectual ammunition. It's the leading purveyor of libertarian books, including (last I checked) modern free-market anarchist works.
• LewRockwell.com, "the anti-state, anti-war, pro-market news site." Lots of good stuff.
• The Memory Hole, "a publishing project intended to make accessible certain materials otherwise generally unavailable owing to the political squeamishness of the American public." The Memory Hole's "gnomes" further declare: "Much of what one is apt to find here are not only examples of a literature of historical and intellectual interest, but also, in the eyes of the State, quite suitable candidates for the torch." Now that ought to pique your interest!
• Ludwig von Mises Institute, which publishes the newsletter The Free Market, frequently quoted in TLD.
• Rational Review — New Politics for a New Century. Mission statement:
Rational Review was conceived as an answer to the conventional "conservative" and "liberal" commentary that dominates the American political scene. Building on the considerable intellectual strength of a growing freedom movement in the United States, our desire is to manifest the libertarian idea in an institutional manner. Much as The New Republic and National Review have come to be regarded as the periodical repositories of their respective philosophies' best offerings on the issues of the day, we aspire to become the libertarian movement's journal of record.
These folks are minarchist "electoral" libertarians — or Libertarians — but unlike so many of their brethren, they seem to take a dim view of Gulf War II.
Objectivists and their critics
(Despite their minarchism, Objectivists resist being categorized as libertarians. That may be just as well, since so many of them are pro-war.)
• The Ayn Rand Institute, published by The Center for the Advancement of Objectivism. This is the "official" Objectivist outfit, which holds all the Rand copyrights.
• ARI Watch — The 'Ayn Rand Institute' under review. From the introduction:
ARI ... promotes the essence of the neocon agenda, dressed up in Objectivist verbiage. This betrayal of Ayn Rand, by the last of her former associates, could hardly be more perverse.
• The Objectivist Center. Featuring the writings of "renegade" David Kelley, this site is highly unofficial. But the renegadism of the site seems to extend only so far: a glance at the home page (on May 2, 2006) revealed quite a few anti-Islamic articles listed but no anti-Zionist or even antiwar articles.
Racial realists, ethno-analysts, revisionists
• American Renaissance — the site for Jared Taylor's newsletter and
other AR-related activities. Fundamental and indispensable.
• Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust (CODOH), for those who are ready for some heavyweight exposure to the New World Order's ultimate heresy.
• The Institute for Historical Review "offers scholarly information and thoughtful commentary, from a revisionist perspective, on a wide range of historical issues, including the 'Holocaust,' Auschwitz, World War II, Stalin, Hitler, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, Hiroshima, Pearl Harbor, the Palestine/Israel conflict, Zionism, the 'Jewish question,' the Bolshevik revolution, and much more." This is yet another site that, according to our designated supervisors, we're "not supposed" to list and you're "not supposed" to visit.
• The Jewish Tribal Review, "a compilation of links to online articles (largely from mainstream media sources) about Jewish and Zionist influence in popular culture, Jewish ethnocentrism, Jewish power, Jewish wealth, American Judeocentrism, and Jewish political lobbying." This well-organized site offers an enormous mine of information and obviously required an enormous amount of work to build. Sorry if the repetition of the "J" word sets your teeth on edge, but please take a look before ruining your enamel. We recommend this resource most highly.
• Kevin MacDonald's home page. Prof. MacDonald is the author of the three indispensable volumes A People That Shall Dwell Alone: Judaism as a Group Evolutionary Strategy; Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism; and The Culture of Critique. His home page contains information on the availability of his books, summaries and reviews of them, information on his other writings, and other material.
• The Occidental Quarterly, A Journal of Nationalist Thought and Opinion. Now, the Controlling Anarchs of TLD take an exceedingly dim view of national-statism, but we think you might want to bookmark this site. Hint: it's published by something called The Charles Martel Society. Bigger hints: The late Sam Francis was its "Assistant & Book Review Editor," and another fellow named Jared Taylor sits on its editorial board. Biggest hint of all: it features an article on Pearl Harbor revisionism by a fellow named Steve Sniegoski!
• The Scriptorium — a dual-language site (English and German) that says, "We have been accused of 'racism,' 'Holocaust denial,' 're-writing history,' 'hatemongering,' 'stretching the limits of free speech,' and the list goes on." That will give you an idea. The site contains a whole library of revisionist stuff about World War II and the Germans in general, "intended to give a glimpse of that little-known 'other side of the coin,'" and includes an on-line bookstore offering many hard-to-find titles. Warning: Often it seems that, on this site, the "other side of the coin" features a bust of Adolf Hitler; much of the material must be read, if I may rely on understatement, with a larger context in mind.
• Stalking the Wild
Taboo, for those who are "unfettered by submission to the power
of the pejorative." This is the site of the brave and veteran "stalker" Louis Andrews.
• VDare.com — the site with which Peter Brimelow is associated. You'll find lots of arguments in favor of stopping colored immigration using state power, naturally, but also lots of commentary on something more general: the death throes of our people and civilization. And VDare does recognize the need to address libertarian arguments on the border-police-state issue. N.B.: The site maintains Sam Francis and Paul Gottfried archives.
• Yggdrasil's Library — "This library is a collection of over 150 writings that all deal with the problems facing European-Americans in this age of racial quotas, reverse discrimination, and cultural breakdown.... Yggdrasil's Library is intended as a research tool with a right-wing perspective for those with an appetite for hard data."
Paleos
• Americans Against World Empire, also known as Americans Against Bombing — a major antiwar site for non-leftists. AAWE/AAB describes itself as "a Conservative/Libertarian coalition for Peace, opposed to the bombing & hypocrisy which brings retaliation from enemies that we ourselves create, turning our free Republic into a military empire." (This is Jon Utley's site.)
• Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. The paleo journal. Libertarians will be frustrated at the anti-market philosophy of many of Chronicles's writers — the distinction between fascist and market economics seems to escape them. And yes, editor Tom Fleming is downright odd on racial issues. And yes, Chronicles is obsessed with the Balkans, which part of the world, to speak personally, sends me right to the land of Nod. But on the other hand you'll often find pieces that could have appeared right here at TLD. Sam Francis, Paul Gottfried, and Clyde Wilson are among the contributors.
• Fred on Everything — Scurrilous Commentary by Fred Reed. Promo: "Travel with America's leading expatriate curmudgeon along paths of thought that would have most columnists trembling in fear for their very lives. Hear the unvarnished truth about practically everything from one of the funniest and most abrasive thinkers writing today." Reed, a Vietnam vet and ex-police reporter, seems to have become nicely cynical about the various police and military utopias our masters are always trying to erect both at home and abroad. He also makes fun of voting. Bravo! (I am aware that I may have erred in filing this site under "Paleos." I am prepared to be corrected.)
• Mark Dankof's America — Dedicated to the American Constitution, the Old Republic, and Christian Orthodoxy. "Mark Dankof is a correspondent and staff writer for the Internet news services Breaking All The Rules and DixieInternet.com." Dankof is a former Constitution Party senatorial candidate and describes himself as a paleoconservative.
• Middle American News. I can't find a mission statement, but I'd describe this site as right-populist: think in terms of Sam Francis's "Middle American Radicals." MAN is big on state-border control, but liberty lovers of a paleo kidney will find much of interest on culture, ethnic issues, and the NWO.
• Original Dissent — "Traditional Conservatism for and from the Common Man." One valuable feature — the Neocon Watch. OD also hosts a forum.
• Samuel Francis On-Line — "hard-hitting commentary on today's most controversial issues." Our great friend Sam died February 15, 2005, at the age of 57; and our hearts remain broken. His site is still accessible, containing a tribute and several relevant links.
• Sobran's — the
site for Joe Sobran's newsletter and other Sobranite activities. Fundamental and indispensable. I refrained from putting Joe's site in the preceding category because he ranges much more widely in his writing.
• TheWarParty.com — "A Conservative Libertarian Coalition opposed to those in America who want world empire and benefit from (small) wars." Seems to be primarily a collection of links to off-site news and commentary.
• View from the Right — The passing scene and what it's about viewed from the traditionalist politically incorrect Right. This is Lawrence Auster's site. Libertarians won't buy everything on this site, and I know Auster doesn't come near buying everything at TLD; nevertheless, paleos of all kinds will find much hard-hitting commentary here.
• We Hold These Truths — a Christian, constitutionalist, anti-imperialist association led by Charles Carlson. WHTT publishes the Right Point Review. Mission statement reads in part:
We pledge to expose, oppose and repudiate the aims and practices of the power elite Warmakers who dominate America's foreign and monitory [sic] policies.
We pledge ourselves to uphold the sovereign rights of the individual and to use every moral means to actively oppose the barbaric practices of abortion, euthanasia, genocidal wars against innocent populations, and all other shedding of innocent blood.
Good slogan: "End serial wars now!" Top of listings.
Classics of liberty
• "Objectivism and the State: An Open Letter to Ayn Rand" by Roy A. Childs, Jr. This is the famous piece that opens, "Dear Miss Rand: The purpose of this letter is to convert you to free market anarchism." (Archived at The Memory Hole.)
TLD's Roy Childs department.
• "Toward a Theory of State Capitalism: Ultimate Decision-Making and Class Structure" (PDF) by Walter E. Grinder and John Hagel III. (View in HTML.) This pathbreaking essay from 1974 still stands as the pre-eminent example of libertarian ruling-class theory. My own Dark Suits and Red Guards would have been impossible without it.
• Our Enemy, the State (1935) by Albert Jay Nock. This enormously important essay has profoundly influenced many modern libertarians. It has been posted (apparently in full text) at LewRockwell.com.
• "Left and Right: The Prospects for
Liberty" by Murray N. Rothbard. Posted by the Mises Institute in March 2002; originally appeared in Left and Right, Spring 1965, pp. 4-22. The Mises folks say:
• "No Treason, No. VI: The Constitution of No Authority" by Lysander Spooner. In the "Outright anarchists" category, I already have an entry for the site — LysanderSpooner.org — where this piece is posted, but I thought it was appropriate to provide a direct link as well.
• "The Political Economy of Liberal Corporatism" by Joseph R. Stromberg. This article (archived at The Memory Hole) was written by the veteran libertarian historian in 1977.
• The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude by Étienne de la Boétie. This is a page at The Memory Hole. I am determined that La Boétie's great essay shall have a permanent link from TLD.
• Works by Frédéric Bastiat in translation at the Library of Economics and Liberty. Please try that general link to the LEL, too.
Conspiratorialists, exposers, and other inconveniences
• Against the Grain Press — "since 1994 a newsletter dedicated to the TRUTH about BAD Government Stuff the media doesn't report."
• Capitol Hill Blue — Because nobody's life, liberty, or property is safe while Congress is in session. Published by the Save America Foundation. This outfit keeps a close eye on the Presidential Palace, too, and the peculiar little pawn who resides there.
• CNSNews.com — The Right News. Right Now. From the site's "History" blurb:
In response to these shortcomings, MRC Chairman L. Brent Bozell III founded CNSNews.com in an effort to provide an alternative news source that would cover stories that are subject to the bias of omission and report on other news subject to bias by commission. CNSNews.com endeavors to fairly present all legitimate sides of a story and debunk popular, albeit incorrect, myths about cultural and policy issues.
• The Drudge Report — of which no introduction, surely, is necessary.
• Independent.co.uk. I've featured some of this British news site's pieces on our "off-site" page. The heroic war reporter Robert Fisk writes for The Independent.
• The New American — That Freedom Shall Not Perish. This is the magazine of the John Birch Society. TNA publishes good investigative journalism that challenges the courtier versions of news events churned out by Minitrue. And it posts interesting off-site links on its home page.
• Pravda — news and analysis on line (English language). Pravda seems to be pro-Putin or at least opposed to the fascist oligarchs. It sometimes carries pieces by Westerners who oppose the New World Order and American imperialism.
• The Smoking Gun — Paving the paper trail. Promo:
The site was founded in April 1997. In December 2000, The Smoking Gun was acquired by Court TV, a basic cable network with more than 80 million subscribers.
• The Sunday Herald — Scotland's award-winning independent newspaper. Another foreign news organ that has not been corraled by the Empire's Ministry of Truth. It was The Sunday Herald that broke the news to the West of the Empire's 12-year starvation and poisoning campaign against Iraqi civilians, which resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of children before the latest hot war even started.
• TomPaine.com. Excerpts from mission statement:
TomPaine.com seeks to enrich the national debate on controversial public issues by featuring the ideas, opinions, and analyses too often overlooked by the mainstream media....
The site features good analyses of war and party politics. Jim Lobe's writings appear here. It's not a conspiracy site — more of an exposer.
• Unknown News "features news from mainstream professional journalistic sources, or (rarely) from independent sources whom we know and trust without reservation. We do not cover 'news' about flying saucers, FreeMasons, or who shot JFK.
"We're skeptical, and we're sick of so-called 'journalists' who aren't skeptical at all."
The site operators seem to be libertarian-tending; see their complete mission statement.
Unknown News is most unusual among freedom-oriented sites in not observing the "TLD blackout." In fact, its posting of a link to Dr. Stephen J. Sniegoski's "The WMD lies" is what brought the site to my attention.
• What Really Happened — "The history the government hopes you DON'T learn." This is an antiwar, anti-police-state, conspiratorialist site that I've by no means entirely digested at this point, but it's one of the sites that PayPal once cut off at the knees for committing dissent, and that helps it earn a link here. I have a soft spot for victims of Polite Totalitarianism.
• "YellowTimes.org returns to help stave off a disintegrating world order" (February 15, 2003). Shortly after YellowTimes posted a major antiwar article, its host decided it didn't want YT's business any longer and pulled the plug. YellowTimes quickly found a new service provider and went back on the air — only to be unplugged again when it posted war photos the Establishment didn't want the American people to see. And now, believe it or not, it seems to be off the air once again (May 2, 2006). A Google search reveals that it may someday return, at www.yt.org. Let's hope so.
Mission statement: "The mission of YellowTimes.org is to offer our readers unconventional viewpoints from which to observe current events, and to encourage new thinking about the causes and effects of those events." Top of listings.
Courage
• The White Rose — a site devoted to the Christian antiwar, anti-Nazi group in World War II Germany. Visiting this site and meditating upon the lives, deeds, spirit, and fate of those heroic young people in Munich, 1942-43, may help you hear yourself think, and keep your own moral balance, amid the deafening chorus of "Support Our Troops!"
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Left-wing peaceniks and foes of police-statism
• CounterPunch, a "bi-weekly muckraking newsletter" edited by left-wingers Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair that says it has "all the right enemies." I won't insult the intelligence of TLD visitors by listing all the stuff at CounterPunch that will offend libertarians and free-marketeers, but there's also much incisive commentary to be found about the U.S. Empire abroad and the unfolding police state at home.
• Democracy Now! — The War and Peace Report, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. A left-wing antiwar site that posts print articles, radio/TV shows that have been broadcast, and segments of shows.
• The Gadflyer. Promo:
The Gadflyer will be unabashedly progressive, but not doctrinaire; pugnacious, but not shrill; lively and entertaining, but substantive.
"Progressive" means leftist, of course; but we do seem to have some enemies in common with these folks.
• Index on Censorship "was founded in 1972 by Stephen Spender with the goal to protect the basic human right of free expression. For the past 31 years, Index has reported on censorship issues from all over the world and has added to the debates on those issues. In addition to the analysis, reportage and interviews, each Index contains a country by country list of free speech violations. These lists remain as extensive today as they were in the early days of Index."
American readers should know that this site covers not only outright censorship by government but also the self-suppression of the supine U.S. mass media. On the other hand, one should not expect writers on the site to be sensible of the fact that everything presented or promulgated by state institutions, including state universities and libraries, necessarily constitutes censorship, either of commission or omission.
• Information Clearing House — News You Won't Find on CNN. The operator says:
• i'n'i — investigating the 'new' imperialism. Anti-imperialist analysis by William Bowles. Libertarians may be distressed by Mr. Bowles's failure to distinguish between capitalism per se (i.e., the free market based on justly held property) and the prevailing system of state capitalism — but there is much on this site that is right on target. In any event there is no doubt that the new, more radical form of U.S. imperialism needs intensive investigation by unterrified investigators.
• Intervention Magazine — War, Politics, Culture. Antiwar Vietnam vets at work, here. From their mission statement:
Living in a multi-polar, more complex world, this new forum is an alternative to the obsolete, narrow ideological perspectives of the past. We are an ideologically eclectic group transcending the old liberal/conservative divide. We want ideas and solutions that work today, not yesterday, and we want visions for tomorrow. Our roots are in the past and in a failed war, our focus is on today and creative answers.
"Complex world ... ideologically eclectic...." Ba-BING! They're liberals. In this case, liberal anti-interventionists and critics of Bushism.
• The Nation — "Unconventional Wisdom Since 1865." The country's leading left-wing organ among those that have not been coopted into serving the System. The Nation publishes much antiwar and anti-imperialist writing, as well as occasionally valuable articles on ruling-class doings at home. Naturally you'll have to steer your way through lots and lots of socialist tub-thumping.
• Peaceworks — "working for peace, justice, and a sustainable future." OK, whenever you see "sustainable" in a context such as this, you know you're going to be dealing with lefties; but you may find these Missourians to be interesting lefties. Check out that yard sign they're offering: END THE OCCUPATION.
Other
• Atkins Nutritionals. I'm already so solidly cemented into the crank category, in the eyes of the consensus world, that I figure posting a link to this site can't hurt. Seriously, I credit the late Dr. Robert C. Atkins and his diet with saving my life — though I do realize that lifesaving is, well, a life-long project.
• The Center for Literate Values, "a non-profit, charitable organization of scholars and concerned citizens" who have converged on the basis of "one baleful insight: that the West has entered a post-literate stage." This remnant band have dug out a "last ditch" all their own — but I think I can see a connecting trench, can't you?
• Crank Dot Net — cranks, crackpots, kooks & loons on the net. The site says it's "devoted to presenting Web sites by and about cranks, crankism, crankishness, and crankosity. All cranks, all the time. Every day at midnight, a new Crank o' the Day is chosen!" You may have some fun wandering around in this one. Unfortunately, your favorite site isn't listed yet, but we're working hard to correct that.
• Frank Forman's page. The indefatigable Mr. Forman, known also to many of us as Premise Checker, is an original thinker of wide interests. You'll find much to ponder here. What I'm pondering is whether I've placed his site in the right category. I should note that it is freedom-friendly.
• Issues & Views — Elizabeth Wright's Website. "The hard copy edition of this newsletter was founded in 1985 by black Americans who advocate self-help and business enterprise and the protection of constitutional rights. It is a forum for dissidents, conservatives, and plain old mavericks — all those who are concerned about cultural decline and the erosion of our constitutional liberties." This site is definitely worth checking out. A strange link for TLD, you think? All right, but keep in mind which racial group overwhelmingly dominates the ruling class oppressing both ordinary whites and ordinary blacks — none other than those whom I once rather rashly apotheosized as "sons of Charlemagne" (along with quite a few sons of Abraham).
• Opensecrets.org — Your guide to the money in U.S. elections. Published by the Center for Responsive Politics (mission statement). A valuable resource.
• The Underground Grammarian — a Website maintained for that great defender of the English language, the truly honorable Richard Mitchell. The site contains not only on-line versions of Mitchell's newsletter but also all his books, including Less Than Words Can Say and The Graves of Academe. And they're accessible for free! N.B.: Mitchell's site features two of Walter Karp's essays on (mis)education; see the first two items on our Karp links page. Top of listings.
— Nicholas Strakon
VDare.com
is not, of course, to be confused with TLD's own Virginia Dare, who was "born" years before the above Website was established. Virginia Dare writes only for TLD.We pledge to work for the re-establishment of constitutional government under God at all levels.
Most links in this department lead you not to the home page of sites but rather to selected pages on sites.
Entries are listed alphabetically by author.
The reprint of this article is occasioned by the startlingly uncritical attitude American conservatives have shown toward the consolidation of state power that has been unleashed since the atrocities of September 11 [2001].
The Cybercast News Service was launched on June 16, 1998 as a news source for individuals, news organizations and broadcasters who put a higher premium on balance than spin and seek news that's ignored or under-reported as a result of media bias by omission....
In other words, this is a conservative news site, but it doesn't seem to be in the pocket of the Bushite Leviathan Conservatives.
The Smoking Gun brings you exclusive documents — cool, confidential, quirky — that can't be found elsewhere on the Web. Using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide, we guarantee everything here is 100% authentic.
TomPaine.com is a public interest journal inspired by the great patriot Thomas Paine, author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man.... He used his talent to advance the cause of liberty and democracy against distant and unaccountable rulers.
(if that's where you came from).
The Gadflyer is a new progressive Internet magazine. As the name implies, The Gadflyer will be provocative, critical, and iconoclastic. It will cover politics and public affairs from a fresh perspective, offering journalism, analysis, and commentary from a new generation of writers. The Gadflyer will bring together the brightest young progressive voices to provide unique and compelling stories that can be found nowhere else.
This web site grew out of my personal frustration and anger at the failure of traditional commercial media to inform the American public, especially as it relates to U.S. foreign policy.
ICH is strongly antiwar, and its entries are dominated by war news and analysis. Unless my antennae are letting me down, this site is somewhat leftist in overall orientation. Sampling the site, I find mostly re-posts, authorized or not, and links, but little of what appears to be "home" content.
Beyond military affairs and foreign policy, the magazine will present insightful and clear discussion on the domestic and international political environment, the media, which is increasingly concentrated, global and local environmental issues, as well as the literature of witness. The major themes of the new Intervention, then, are war and its aftermath, politics and democracy, as well as culture and literature.
TLD home page & TOC.Many thanks to those sites that have agreed to post reciprocal links.