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I was working on an article about last month’s rampage massacre in Afghanistan that left 17 villagers dead, when news hit of this past Monday’s massacre at an Oakland, California, religious college, leaving seven dead. In both cases, the shooters survived and face a possible death penalty — which is rare: Usually these rampage killings end with self-inflicted bullet in the mouth. (more…)
April 9th, 2012 | Comments (149)
We call our 1-point comeback campaign “Brigham Shrugs” and it boils down to this:
“Baptize Ayn Rand, already!”
February 17th, 2012 | Comments (25)
Mark Ames goes on Boulder, Colorado radio station KGNU to explain the banality of Russian-born author Ayn Rand, the guiding light of the libertarian/teabagger movement. Ames discusses his article “Atlas Shrieked” about how a sad ‘n’ lonely half-wit, Ayn/Alyssa, was nothing but…
May 30th, 2011 | Comments (52)
Will Wilkinson: Libertard With Sadditude Ever since Yasha and I first broke the story about the Koch brothers financing the Tea Party Campaign in February of 2009, I’ve been wondering: Have all those billions that the Brothers Koch invested into their…
October 3rd, 2010 | Comments (69)
![Ayn Rand (nee "Alyssa Rozenbaum") Calls Arabs "Primitive Savages" On Daytime Television...Funny How Ayn Rand Sounds Like A Typical Modern-Day Russian Bigot, Right Down To The "Primitive Savages" Epithet...Also, Eesh, Poor Nathan Branden Had To Stick His Dick Into That Skanky Old Baglady--He Deserves To Be Honored, Like From Now On When a Guy Is Pressured Into Having Sex With A Paranoid-Schizophrenic Baglady, It Should Be Called "Going Nathan Branden" [HT: Scott]](http://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/rand1-270x270.jpg)
August 27th, 2010 | Comments (6)
![Exiled Bullshit Alert! Who Is "Nick Newcomen"? Answer: An Ad Agency Campaign Paid For By Libertarian Foundation Money...According To Which "Nick Newcomen" Is An Overaged Ayn Rand Groupie With The Face Of A Sexual Predator, Who Spent 30 Days [Cuz He Can't Hold A Day Job] Driving 12,000 Miles Around America [On Government-Funded Roads] Marking A Giant "Read Ayn Rand" On [Government-Invented] GPS, Posting The Satellite View On The [Government-Invented] Internet...Thanks To PR Releases, "Nick Newcomen" Gets Picked Up By Wired, ABC News...We At The eXiled Call Bullshit: Nick Newcomen, If You Are A Real Person With No Financial Ties To The Libertarian Nomenklatura, Prove It To Us, And You Can Take Over The eXiled Online For A Day And Publish All The Ayn Rand Drivel Your Freakish Randroid Brain Can Pump...Meanwhile, Exiled Readers: The First Person Who Can Identify The Sex Offender Claiming To Be "Nick Newcomen" Will Win A Free Signed Copy Of A Rare Exile Newspaper Plus $120 Dollars (1 Penny For Every Mile Nick Newcomen Drove To Paint "Read Ayn Rand")...](http://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/rand-america1-270x270.jpg)
August 25th, 2010 | Comments (1)
This article was first published in Alternet. Why are the hoppin’-mad Teabaggers so oddly quiet these days, ever since the BP oil disaster? That’s what Thomas Frank, author of What’s The Matter With Kansas? asked last week in his column, “Laissez-faire…
June 13th, 2010 | Comments (30)
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The US was the bulwark of The Alleged West. And even in Europe, everyone who mattered supported NATO, as far as we knew.
Looking back now, it’s our acceptance of the whole farce that seems odd. You’d think people would catch on after a few decades, but we never did.
This was first published as a Radio War Nerd subscriber newsletter on May 21, 2021. But with the total collapse of the US-backed Kabul regime, it’s even more relevant now to ask: What was the strategy? Was there ever a plan there?…
Republished from the Radio War Nerd subscriber newsletter. Subscribe to the Radio War Nerd podcast hosted by Gary Brecher & Mark Ames for podcasts, newsletters and more! It’s a full-time job, keeping track of the US/NATO campaign to start a fire somewhere on China’s borders. It’s…
Republished from the Radio War Nerd subscriber newsletter. Subscribe to Radio War Nerd co-hosted with Mark Ames for podcasts, newsletters and more! There’s a gigantic, well-organized, extremely violent fascist group with tens of thousands of active members in Germany right now. And nobody notices. You’d think all the…
There’s a very naïve theory of language at work here, roughly: “if people speak nicely, they’ll act nicely” — with the fatuous corollary, “If people mention bad things, they must like bad things.”
The simplest refutation of that is two words: Victorian Britain.
Victorian Britain carried out several of the biggest genocides in human history. It was also a high point of virtuous literature…
Republished from the Radio War Nerd subscriber newsletter. Subscribe to Radio War Nerd for podcasts, newsletters and more! The headline here is not a joke, unfortunately. It’s a question you can’t help asking if you’ve followed the war in Yemen. You probably…
We’re living through a massive artificial famine, right now. In NW Yemen, home of the Yemeni Shia who’ve fought off a Saudi-financed invasion, the “coalition” of invaders has settled on a slower, more effective strategy: artificial famine and blockade. This is how you kill off a troublesome population, not with bombs and guns alone. Hunger and disease are much better mass killers than firearms and bombs.
