Attorney General Eric Holder gave a green light on Thursday to two states whose efforts to legalize marijuana had been locked in by legal uncertainty for more than nine months. With that announcement, Colorado and Washington — both of which passed pro-pot initiatives at the polls last November — can now proceed with establishing a framework for the taxation and regulation of legal weed for adults.
Today is the first Monday of September, which in the United States and Canada (and only in the United States and Canada) is recognized as Labor Day. In this secessionist republic of one, Labor Relations Day is marked as a day of mourning. It is a bogus holiday, celebrated by the establishmentarian union bosses and originally fabricated by the federal government in 1894. The declaration was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland, as an election-year sop to the working class, six days after he had deployed the Army and the U.S. Marshals to break the Pullman Strike. It is celebrated today at the behest of state and federal governments, and the business unionists at the AF of L and Change to Win (sic), who, after all, have always been happy to suck up to State power in the name of a juicy private-public partnership. The real labor holiday in the United States is, of course, International Worker’s Day, celebrated each year on May Day, a wildcat holiday declared by labor radicals and celebrated not by edicts handed down from on high but by common consent of workers who just refused to show up for work on their holiday. …
Dear comrades, friends and allies In case we all forgot. Wars-domestic & abroad-will continue until we dismantle and destroy the systems of Power that thrive on and exploit them. Power is corru…
The NSA’s spy program allegedly targeted the communications of the Brazilian and Mexican presidents, US journalist Glenn Greenwald, who first published secrets leaked by Edward Snowden, has reported. It’s not clear whether the spying still goes on.
The other day, members from Oklahoma University and Southern Nazarene University’s S4SS chapters joined a few dozen people in Oklahoma City to protest potential American military intervention in Syria. It was well over a hundred degrees, and there were a few hecklers, but it’s important to show those who oppose this and any other war they’re not alone. …
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“The state of Slavery is a state of war…”
This rare, incendiary classic of radical Abolitionism, printed at Boston in 1858, was circulated in secret by the Abolitionist lawyer and radical libertarian, Lysander Spooner (1808-1887), later the author of No Treason, the “Letter to Bayard,” and “Vices Are Not Crimes.” Spooner defended the natural right of revolution against slaveholders and detailed a plan to destroy the slave system by overturning Southern society from the bottom up: emancipation brought about not by government wars, invasions or occupations; and not by legislative authority and political compromises; but with power taken into the hands of slaves themselves rising up to defend themselves from enslavement, free themselves of masters, claim the land and the fruits of their forced labor, and destroy the slave system by rendering the South ungovernable by the slavemasters.
“It is only those who have a false and superstitious reverence for the authority of governments, and have contracted the habit of thinking that the most tyrannical and iniquitous laws have the power to make that right which is naturally wrong, or that wrong which is naturally right, who will have any doubt as to the right of the Slaves (and those who would assist them) to make war, to all possible extent, upon the property of the Slaveholders and their abettors… .Make slavery unprofitable, in this way, if it can be done in no other… .” — Anonymous.
The “Plan” called on abolitionists and non-slaveholders to declare their support for uprisings and campaigns of sabotage against slaveholders and pro-slavery governments, guerrilla militias uniting enslaved blacks with poor Southern whites, and solidarity from Northern Abolitionists to provide aid to fugitive slaves, local slave uprisings and free maroon communities.
“We specially advise the flogging of individual Slaveholders… .” —Anonymous.
Originally published as a two page, anonymous circular in the radical abolitionist underground, only about 200 copies were ever printed. Spooner himself withdrew the circular at the request of John Brown — who feared that the appeal might tip off the government to his own plans for the raid on Harper’s Ferry the next year.
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In an unusual step, federal officials also warned agencies and companies of possible cyberattacks if the American military takes action against Syria.
