On Wednesday, August 16th, the Kaper-Dale for Governor campaign announced that Milltown and Newark, two New Jersey cities, has equal to or higher water lead toxicity levels than Flint, Michigan.…
Posts published in August 2017
Patrick Martin at wsws.org (associated with the Socialist Equality Party):
In a series of tweets Thursday morning, US President Donald Trump intensified his appeal to racist and fascist forces, bemoaning the loss of “beautiful statues and monuments” of Confederate generals like Robert E.…
Mark Anderson at Freedom Gulch:
An ugly trend continues to grow in America. Once held as the world’s standard, even if not entirely true, of liberty and tolerance, America has descended into darkness.…
One line I hear frequently in internal libertarian movement debate is that it’s entirely possible to be both a bigot and a libertarian. That is, one could conceivably have an aversion to some group (racial, gender/sexual minority, whatever) without advocating for the initiation of force against that group.…
(Note:Zoltan Istvan is founder of The Transhumanist Party, and ran for President in 2016. He is currently running as a Libertarian candidate for Governor of California in the 2018 election.…
(note:Zoltan Istvan, founder of The Transhumanist Party, has announced as a Libertarian Party candidate for Governor of California in 2018. This article is a response to an article on Transhumanism by Mr Istvan previously published in The American Conservative)
Last week in TAC, Zoltan Istvan wrote about “The Growing World of Libertarian Transhumanism” linking the transhumanist movement with all of its features—like cyborgs, human robots and designer babies—to the ideas of liberty.…
The situation at the University of Virginia reminds us that hate still exists in the country, and that no matter how far we move as a society, that the fringe right will stand against progress.…
Brian Shields at fosters.com by way of Cody Quirk at ATPR:
The recent events in Charlottesville have left me disgusted and ashamed. Our country is better than what was on display last week.…
Christopher Cantwell (SPLC file here), who tried but failed to get on the ballot as a Libertarian for US House in 2010, and has been kicked out of the Free State Project for threats of violence and off Free Talk Live for racism, has gathered unprecedented media attention in the last few days.…