I've never heard of the "National Communist Front" before. I started reading this interview assuming it was some sort of fascist "communist" party, but the interviewee was both informative and came across as rather reasonable (and they explicitly denounced so-called nationalist "communist" groups like national Bolshevism)

"The American public has never had an atheist president, although three of them have had no formal religious affiliation. The most recent one, Andrew Johnson, left office in 1869. Since then, every president has been affiliated with a Christian church. (Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln are the other two.)"

I don't know what direct democracy is, but it sounds tedious.

I quite enjoyed this piece of journalism on the American libertarian movement. I liked how the author used Déjacque as the communist foil to the "libertarian" capitalists of the Cato Institute. I guess she chose him because he coined the term "libertarian," but it's good to see a crazy anarchist who was not sexist like Proudhon or already well-known like Kropotkin get some mention.

3 Quarks Daily is one of my favorite link-aggregator logs on all of the internet. It is strange and charming, and, um, top-ish. They post a lot of poetry, but that's usually easy to ignore. On Monday's they post original content.

I keep finding quality articles here. Paleoconservative is the best kind of conservative.

Hobbes was right. Without the government monopoly on violence, life is nasty brutish and short. The moral of Takhar Province: it is the fear of the greater power of the state that keeps us in line. The moral of Beirut: injustice is better than Civil War. The moral of New York: abandoning state control is a political decision, as is reclaiming it. The moral of Basra: the return of stability will be welcomed everyone of no matter what political affiliation, except perhaps the gunmen.

A popular introduction to anarchism in the Guardian's Comment is Free (from 2011). I can't help but think the subtext of these sorts of articles is always "Anarchism: It might not be quite as stupid as you first thought it was."

"Zinn talks about Obama and the “possibility of change.” It seems odd to be asking this of an octogenarian but: Exactly how much time do you think we have?"

"Waging Nonviolence is a source for original news and analysis about struggles for justice and peace around the globe."

I keep finding good articles here.

Appears to be consistently good coverage and analysis of global protest movements.

I like how Žižek contrasts "radically leftist notion" with "something that exists [...] and functions basically relatively well."

A reading list on the "Right to the City."

"The broader implications of this go beyond Brown; one might think that what we are looking at is Cointelpro 2.0—an outsourced surveillance state—but in fact it’s worse. One can’t help but infer that the US Department of Justice has become just another security contractor, working alongside the HBGarys and Stratfors on behalf of corporate bidders, with no sense at all for the justness of their actions; they are working to protect corporations and private security contractors and give them license to engage in disinformation campaigns against ordinary citizens and their advocacy groups."

I love the New Yorker for still using diaeresis. I also liked this article despite its sometimes snarky dismissal of anarchism. Or maybe because of the cynicism

Denver!

Global news and services.

While I obviously disagree that economic rent is ever a good thing, this is a well presented introduction to rent-seeking. I also liked the same author’s (Dr. Ross) article presenting the classical-liberal view of the state (http://www.friesian.com/freestat.htm). There seem to be many interesting articles on this website.

Mike Leung and David Ellerman’s page about wage slavery and worker cooperatives.