Life, Love, and Liberty

This digest is the espanol edition! But only in the title

Grrr! The Warfare State is Bloodthirsty

Will Bush Invade Pakistan? I Wouldn’t Put it Past Him — or His Democratic Successors

Yes to Recriminations against Iraq Policymakers

Sheldon Richman tells us to hold the politicians accountable. I agree and want to know when the war crimes trials begin. They tend to be rather rich folks, so I imagine they’ll have plenty of cash or items or something for reparations.

On the Lighter Side

Final Harry Potter Book Blasted for Containing Spoilers

New Theories Suggest Kennedy Wasn’t Shot

Back to More Serious Business: Speaking of Economics and Civil Liberties

Martial Law is Now a Real Threat

As Cheap Oil Ends: American Standard of Living Will Decline

U.S. Dollar Falling ill from Poisonous Debt Packages

One Misc. Item

Why Love Is Our Most Powerful, Lasting Form of Activism

Then go see The Simpsons Movie! I ended up seeing it yesterday and walked away with much satisfaction. Its generated a writing by Anthony Gregory too. It’s not a good idea to read it before you’ve seen the movie though, since it contains spoilers.

The latest Carnival of Anarchy is a discussion on the intriguing topic of education and anarchy. It starts today and will be running until August 5th. I’ll copy and paste the announcement by fellow subversive, Eugene Plawiuk, for your viewing pleasure.

Our theme for our July Carnival is Anarchism and Education.

A.S. Neill, The Modern School, Free schools, Paul Goodman, Ivan Illich, homeschooling in a statist society, homeschooling in the age of neo-conservative anti-public education, pedagogy of the oppressed, Pablo Fiere, Fransisco Fiere, Emma Goldman, the origins of American public education in Nativism and the KKK, classical education, dead white men, deconstruction, academia, autodidactic intellectuals, working class intellectuals, education and class, post secondary proletarians, William Morris, Godwin, Shelly, Byron, Keats, Mary Wollstencroft, Mary Wollsencraft Shelly, the narodniki, Bakunin, Kropotkins Appeal to the Young, the SI, France 1968, read a book.

The carnival will run July 27-August 5th.

‘I never let my schooling interfere with my education’.
Mark Twain.

I am thinking of writing a post titled Viva Le Truants! I’ll probably also do a tribute to the late but still great John Holt too.

I’ve noticed that its slipped my mind to include songs of the week in my last seven digests.

The good news is that this provides me with a chance to list seven choice tunes in one post

I’ve recently become quite a fan of the band Journey, after listening to their song called Don’t Stop Believin’. They also do a dynamite performance in:

Open Arms

When You Love A Woman

Lovin’ Touchin’ Squeezin’

It’s possible to view all of these tunes in video form on YouTube.

My other recent musical addiction is The Weather Girls. My love of this duo started off with a Maryland trip listen to It’s Raining Men. This led me to purchase an entire album titled The Weather Girls: Super Hits , and I was thus introduced to these great tunes:

- Dear Santa

- Well-A-Wiggy

I was not able to locate any sites that had lyrics for the last two songs.

This is my contribution to the last Carnival of Anarchy.

The infamous circled A is a very popular anarchist symbol , yet its origins may not be as well known. It’s symbolic of the seemingly paradoxical — from the standpoint of conventional wisdom on the source of stability in society — statement that anarchy is order. This comment is attributed to the French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon who put it forth in his book titled The Confessions of a Revolutionary. It rests on a conception that sees order as emerging spontaneously from the multitude of peaceful interactions between individuals. The intrusion of a centralized aggressively coercive authority into the peaceful relations of individuals would be viewed as destructive to this harmony.

A comparison can be made between the anarchist idea of order (defined as a relatively stable and peaceful society), as emerging from a source other than a central authority, and the ecological balance that results in nature without divine or directed assistance. A good example of this is the phenomenon of evolution, whereby a balance between animal species and other aspects of the environment is achieved without central direction.

Note: I realize that this post ends rather abruptly, but I was very curious to see what others thought of the validity of my argument. I feel like it may be kind of rough, so please do fire away in the comments section.

I’ll be on a blogging hiatus — unless I have a chance to access the internet — until next Monday. I’ll be visiting Yellowstone National Park with my father, stepmother, stepsister, and others. I actually will use it as a chance to get away from the net for a bit, but I may check my email or the news, if I get a chance to do so.

I’ve been told that I have a late birthday present awaiting me in Yellowstone too
I recently turned the grand ol age of 20, and had been intending to do a blog post on it, but I forgot to. It doesn’t really feel any different from 19 so far, but my time being 20 is just beginning.

Anyhow, I do plan to use this trip to work on some writings that are long overdue for completion. I want to get my critique of Keith Preston finished, and a summary of what I learned from the Beyond Bullets or Ballots conference. I also would like to offer my analysis of whether the United States is likely to experience a major descent into totalitarianism sooner rather than later. I regard this as a very very pressing matter and would like to bring it to the attention of fellow friends of liberty.

I’ll also be enjoying the scenery of Yellowstone, since I’ve been told that it’s quite beautiful. I may even have material for a blog post on it when I return.

I happily announce the addition of two juicy new items on the sidebar. The first is a wonderfully passionate essay by Arthur Silber titled “Some Races Are Just Not as Good as Others”, while the second is the website of an organization called the Iraq Freedom Congress. They apparently have a U.S. chapter too, and I offer my support to them.

I guess this makes me quite “traitorous”, but I don’t think you can truly be considered a traitor, if you don’t believe in the legitimacy of the state in the first place. The writing of this post is reminding me that I haven’t ever read No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority in its entirety. I’ll have to add it to my summer reading list!

There are not many uplifting links to provide this week, but I just haven’t
been overly focused on the positive lately.

I do have a large batch of links that pertain to the crucial issues of U.S.
imperialism abroad, and the accompanying repression at home.

A Heavy Dose of Foreign Policy

Iran: The Next War?

Setting the Stage for the Next War

Slandering the Dead: The American Massacre at al-Khalis

The Numbers Surge in Iraq

The ‘Family Jewels’
The CIA: Still Evil After All These Years…

Revision for Our Time

Bush Turns Iraq Into Israel/Palestine

Reshuffling the Deck Chairs on the National Review Cruise

This one could probably go under humor too. It’s truly amazing what
perspectives that people can end up having on the world. This piece
definitely has some bitterly humorous opinions put forth. The Muslim
monolith is apparently about to strike Europe! And Iraq is actually in great
shape.

Civil Liberties: Even More Destruction

Imperial Presidency Declared Null and Void

Bush’s Secret War on America

Misc. Good Readin

The Worst Way to Do Anything

Identifying with the State

A blog post of this digest will be up tomorrow at www.lifeloveandliberty.com.