Against Anarcho-inadequacy: National Anarchist Reflections On Race, Tribes and Identity
By Andrew Yeoman

There has been a lot of soul searching (or naval gazing, per the critics) in the anarchist movement regarding identity, race, and the role of the priority of feelings in the political struggle for liberation. This has been lurking under the surface of the anarchist movement for a long time and the recent APOC assaults on Crimethinc and Food Not Bombs has brought these issues to the surface. Read more


The Fruits of Anarchist “Anti-Racism”
By Keith Preston

The anarchist milieu needs to re-think its positions concerning racial matters. Continuing to perpetrate anti-racism hysteria year after year, decade after decade, is a dead end. There is zero evidence that such a stance will bring the masses of North American blacks and Hispanics into our ranks, and much compelling evidence that such efforts are futile, foolish and counterproductive. For many years, the anarchist movement’s obsession with “social issues” has been a distraction from what ought to be the primary objective of anarchism, i.e., the abolition of the state. This is not to say that anti-statism is the only value, or that anarchists should not be concerned with other matters. It does mean that a more constructive stance on certain questions should be pursued. Read more


Who Knows Where You Are, And Why?
Innovative new technologies can make it easier to pay your bridge toll or bus fare, to search for nearby businesses from your cell phone, and to get in and out of secure areas with a card instead of a key. But these systems also pose a dramatic threat to locational privacy -- your ability to move in public spaces without the systematic recording of where you are and when you are there. Read more


Border Police Being Busted More
An Associated Press investigation has found U.S. law officers who work the border are being charged with criminal corruption in numbers not seen before, as drug and immigrant smugglers use money and sometimes sex to buy protection, and internal investigators crack down. Read more


Pig Beats Pregnant Wife
Marion County, FL. The Marion County Sheriff's Office said a corrections officer has been arrested in connection with the battery of his pregnant wife. Read more


Trial Begins for Seatle Wife Beating Pig
Seatle, WA. Moss is accused of assaulting his wife inside their Sammamish-area home on March 21 after she confronted him over an affair he was purportedly having with another woman, court charging papers said. Read more


Man Gets Two years for Anti Cop Song
Lakeland, FL. A Lakeland man will do prison time after he recorded a song threatening police officers while he was on probation. Antavio Johnson, 20, pled no contest to the charges on July 24 and was sentenced to two years in prison. Read more