We are one planet
Monday, 14 December 2009 by Mike Gogulskidiary, people, war | 6 Comments »
Carl Sagan. Bawling my eyes out, now. You try. Yeah, sure. We all awoke from the horror in 1989. The Soviet menace quelled, peace and flying ponies reign. Right.
We are at war
Wednesday, 9 December 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, war | 24 Comments »
"The State, completely in its genesis, essentially and almost completely during the first stages of its existence, is a social institution, forced by a victorious group of men on a defeated group, with the sole purpose of regulating the dominion ...
The ship of state, per Tom Knapp
Wednesday, 11 November 2009 by Mike Gogulskiwar | 1 Comment »
Eminently quotable: [caption id="" align="alignright" width="220" caption="One can only hope..."][/caption] The sound of adding machines chattering away in the Oval Office is the sound of empire in decline. The ship of the imperial state lacks fuel for its boiler and powder for ...
A simple question
Monday, 21 September 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, war | 28 Comments »
You see Donald Rumsfeld on the street. A man with a gun jumps Rumsfeld, apparently bent on killing him. Who will you defend? We're probably all talking past each other, but this is a followup to "Why I am not specifically a ...
Why I am not specifically a voluntaryist
Thursday, 17 September 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, war | 95 Comments »
Maybe it's nothing more than a definitional quibble, but... Carl Watner, who has operated voluntyarist.com for long years, provides a definition of what a voluntaryist is, front and center: Voluntaryists are advocates of non-political, non-violent strategies to achieve a free society. Carl has ...
What of the zombie apocalypse — Dr. Anarchy responds
Wednesday, 19 August 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy, war | 5 Comments »
From the Dr. Anarchy mail bag this week, a reader in Saudi Arabia asks: What's the official anarchist position on the Zombie Apocalypse? I suspect that all of my loyal readers will agree that this is an important question, and one worthy ...
Can the military coexist with social networking sites?
Wednesday, 5 August 2009 by Mike Gogulskipolice, surveillance, war | 5 Comments »
The Los Angeles Times article asks: Can the military coexist with social networking sites? Gosh, I sure hope not. The idea that Twitter, MySpace and Facebook could simply crash the modern cyber-state's ability to wage war -- which is to oppress, occupy, conscript, ...
The Freedom Fighter’s Manual
Wednesday, 24 June 2009 by Mike Gogulskiactivism, war | 2 Comments »
Courtesy of the American CIA, and applicable to any insurgency. Such as the one that really needs to figure out who its enemies are in Iran right now. Download (PDF, 3MB). Also at Scribd. [caption id="attachment_2493" align="alignright" width="289" caption="Disable vehicles!"][/caption] Any Persian speakers ...
I am not crying. I am not crying. I am not even FUCKING WATCHING THIS. Ya Neda!!!
Monday, 22 June 2009 by Mike Gogulskicrime, war | 8 Comments »
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDCsp1atehU [caption id="attachment_2490" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Neda Soltani"][/caption] (YouTube video comment by witness) shery630 June 20, 2009 Place: Karekar Ave., at the corner crossing Khosravi St. and Salehi st. (Tehran) A young woman who was standing aside with her father watching the protests was shot by a ...
What do you call a young man with no arms?
Friday, 12 June 2009 by Mike Gogulskicrime, war | 3 Comments »
One fine evening in the summer of 2004, I sat with my girlfriend at our favorite restaurant in Antigua, Guatemala, as we picked at our appetizers, sipped our wine and chatted. We had been there a couple of times already during ...
