Things You Might Have Missed
Great post by Jason Laning In Defense of Anarchism. In response to the idea that anarchists wouldn’t be able to “resist power-seekers who want to dominate and control others” he says,
That is, his hypothetical scenario of an anarchist society doesn’t seem to have many anarchists in it. Instead, it’s full of roving fascists (which seems more appropriate for a hypothetical society of roving fascism, no?)
Love it.
Radley Balko has a nice summary of the snowball war drama in Reason. If this story doesn’t clearly show how far gone police and corporate media are, I don’t what would.
At the Republic of T there is a response to Newsweek’s recent cover about the “People Who Matter.” Some interesting quotes on “rankism”, which I know nothing about, but it seems like a theory that just needs a little push into anarchism.
Kevin Carson’s post at CSS calls out the hypocrisy of people who claim the surveillance state isn’t problematic…until it effects them.
At Anarchist6[zero]6 there is information on a study that shows how power corrupts.
And, finally, on the Daily Beast there is a lengthy post about Pope Pius XIIs collusion with the Nazis and the Vatican’s current attempts to canonize him. (If you have never read Hitler’s Pope, I would highly recommend it.)
