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Hero Of War

The official Facebook page for Rise Against posted this today:
“We’ve just completed our new video for the song ‘Hero Of War’ off of our record, Appeal To Reason. ‘Hero Of War’ is the story of one soldier, not all soldiers, as he battles Read the rest of this entry »

By Roderick T. Long

Noam Chomsky is perhaps the United States’ best-known anarchist. There’s a certain irony to this, however; for just as St. Augustine once prayed, “Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet,” Chomsky’s aim is in effect anarchy, but not yet.

Chomsky’s reason for the “not yet” is that a powerful central government is currently necessary as a bulwark against the power of the corporate elite; thus it will not be safe to abolish or even scale back the state until we first use the state to break the power of the corporate elite:

In the long term, I think the centralized political power ought to be eliminated and dissolved and turned down ultimately to the local level, finally, with federalism and associations and so on. On the other hand, right now, I’d like to strengthen the federal government. The reason is, we live in this world, not some other world. And in this world there happen to be huge concentrations of private power that are as close to tyranny and as close to totalitarian as anything humans have devised.

There’s only one way of defending rights that have been attained, or of extending their scope in the face of these private powers, and that’s to maintain the one form of illegitimate power that happens to be somewhat responsible to the public and which the public can indeed influence.
(You Say You Want a Devolution)

Now Chomsky’s notion of the state as a crucial bulwark against Read the rest of this entry »

Rare Interview with Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails (NIN) by Kevin Rose from Digg.