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Who can it be now?

By jpeacott | February 15, 2003 - 9:30 pm |August 30, 2014 anchorage anarchy, Elayne Riggs, war

So we’re all like, “Hey, let weapons inspectors back in!” and the Iraqis are all like, “Dude, you pulled out, inspectus interruptus was your idea from the last time you bombed, and you’re like spying on us anyway!” and we’re …

The State of the State in Alaska

By jpeacott | February 15, 2003 - 9:20 pm |August 30, 2014 alaska, anchorage anarchy, Joe Peacott

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Alaska is tightly wrapped in the tentacles of government, authoritarianism, and intolerance. The state is dependent on huge quantities of federal money, corporate welfare is the order of the day, police agencies of various sorts acquire more and more power, …

By jpeacott | February 15, 2003 - 9:10 pm |August 30, 2014 anchorage anarchy, John Zube, land

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All exclusive land-“rights,” except those small ones required to live and work somewhere, are claimed and practised at the expense of the rights and liberties of other people. Do apply the concept of “spaceship” Earth to this planet and keep …

A Latter-day Altgeld?

By jpeacott | February 15, 2003 - 9:06 pm |August 30, 2014 anchorage anarchy, death penalty, Joe Peacott

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Maybe it’s in the water. Another governor has stood up to the unjust judicial system in illinois and has pardoned and released a number of obviously innocent prison inmates. Those who were freed were jailed after false confessions were tortured …

Healthcare Without Government

By admin | October 24, 2002 - 5:31 pm |September 8, 2012 health care, Joe Peacott, The Individual

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The Therapeutic State

Health care systems all over the world are, to varying extents, dominated by government intervention. Whether it is a largely ‘private’ system driven by state funding and regulation, like that in the US, or a ‘socialized’ model …

Great Land of Government

By jpeacott | August 15, 2002 - 10:10 pm |August 30, 2014 alaska, anchorage anarchy, Joe Peacott

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There is a perception both here in Alaska and elsewhere in the united states and the rest of the world that this state is some sort of last frontier, peopled by independent sorts who prefer to fend for themselves and …

War and Rumors of War

By jpeacott | August 15, 2002 - 10:00 pm |August 30, 2014 anchorage anarchy, Joe Peacott, war

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As the united states government gears up to escalate the ongoing war they and the british rulers are waging against the people who live in iraq, the slaughter in afghanistan, which the military hypocritically calls Operation Enduring Freedom, continues apace. …

Poor Like Me?

By jpeacott | August 15, 2002 - 9:50 pm |August 30, 2014 anchorage anarchy, Joe Peacott, poverty, work

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The positive reception given Barbara Ehrenreich’s new book Nickeled and Dimed by so many reviewers reminds me of nothing so much as the critical acclaim granted to Black Like Me. In both cases, comfortably middle class writers pretended to …

Martinique

By jpeacott | August 15, 2002 - 9:40 pm |August 30, 2014 anchorage anarchy, imperialism, Joe Peacott, racism, Rosa Luxemburg

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2002 is the hundreth anniversary of the volcanic eruption which destroyed the city of St Pierre on martinique. In the following essay, published in the Leipziger Volkszeitung on May 15, 1902, Rosa Luxemburg took the imperialist governments of the world …

Chomsky’s Statism: An Anarchism for the Next Millennium?

By jpeacott | March 17, 1999 - 9:06 pm |September 7, 2012 Joe Peacott, Total Liberty/Anarchist Voices

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Noam Chomsky is seen by many as one of the more prominent anarchists in the united states. But, many times in the last several years he has come out publicly in favor of strengthening the federal government. Moreover, he argues …

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Who can it be now?

The State of the State in Alaska

A Latter-day Altgeld?

Healthcare Without Government

Great Land of Government

War and Rumors of War

Poor Like Me?

Martinique

Chomsky’s Statism: An Anarchism for the Next Millennium?

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