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 ...
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 ...
This battle is lost; the war for liberty moves elsewhere
Saturday, 6 June 2009 by Mike Gogulskiwar | 5 Comments »
In The Art of War, Sun Tzu says: When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their ardor will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will ...
Remembrance of things past
Monday, 25 May 2009 by Mike Gogulskiwar | 4 Comments »
So it's the American Memorial Day again, a time when many Americans get a bit teary-eyed over what "our heroic/brave/noble troops" have done "for our freedom" -- a conflated nexus of genuine mourning and pathological patriotism. I have a bit of ...
Peruvian, other amphibious assault forces invade Florida
Friday, 1 May 2009 by Mike Gogulskiwar | No Comments »
The alabaster whiteness of the rugged Major's teeth shone as fireflies in the aggravated heavens. Oh, it was just an exercise. From the comments to "Multinational forces storm Mayport beach for drills", wherein commenter "tut tut" need not be forgiven for ...
May Day reflections on a year of bloggery
Friday, 1 May 2009 by Mike Gogulskidiary | 6 Comments »
1 May 2009 marks nostate.com's first anniversary! It was a year ago today that the site went live, with my very first post, Stateless: "It's great being free". I started the site, really, as my own soapbox, primarily intended to be ...
Seth speaks: On military and other statist lies
Sunday, 12 April 2009 by Mike Gogulskiwar | 4 Comments »
One of my frequent commenters, Seth, left a comment in reply to another one on my ever-popular "Fuck the troops!" posting. I thought it was important enough to repost here (with minor edits), for those who aren't diligently following the nostate.com ...
Full of stupid, honey
Friday, 27 March 2009 by Mike Gogulskicrime, mind control | No Comments »
The world is full of stupid. That doesn't mean that "most people are stupid," a proposition to which 95% of citizens surveyed will agree. But when I see dozens commentators on talk shows discussing bailouts, tax increases (and, properly, taxes at all), ...
Optimistic, individualist transhumanism
Monday, 16 March 2009 by Mike Gogulskiphilosophy | No Comments »
[T]he optimistic thinking [...] holds that rapid technological advance will either be hastened by or result in massive increases to personal liberty with consequent or antecedent massive reductions in state (and all forms of collectivizing-coercive) power. Nobody can be made ...
The overlooked counter-economic component
Wednesday, 14 January 2009 by Mike Gogulskiactivism, economics | 12 Comments »
From page 54 of the newly-minted ALLiance: a journal of theory and strategy, in Samuel Edward Konkin III's "The Last, Whole Introduction to Agorism", 1995: [caption id="attachment_1455" align="alignleft" width="443" caption="An image of a portion of a screenshot of the article in ...
