Open Thread to discuss Stan’s recent ‘Homeland Security’ essay series published at InsurgentAmerican
(excerpt) The attacks of 9-11 were not motivated by irrational hatred. They were carefully calculated and limited. The targets were both strategic and symbolic: the financial, political, and military headquarters of the American Empire.
It is essential that we rebut this “irrational hatred” […]

Just had a friend forward me the Executive Order pasted in (entirely) below. This is a clear continuation of the whole Global Battlespace scam I wrote about two years ago. Any further thoughts, especially from those who speak Legalese, are welcome… to make more sense of this latest Bush stunt (and the continuing […]

Watching C-SPAN’s re-run of an interview with Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chair and Maryland Rep. Chris Van Hollen…
When asked about the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq, and what 2006 voters expected the Democrats to do about it, he used the term “changing direction” about 50 times in succession. Maybe Karl Rove […]

Reading Zodiac, by Neal Stephenson, courtesy of my co-conspirator DeAnander, and I run into a description of diaminobutane, aka putrecine. Protagonist and eco-sabateur Sangamon Taylor is a chemist who makes this stuff… which is the essence of decaying flesh — guaranteed to clear a city block with the right wind conditions, and a busy […]

Counter-insurgency doctrine consists of retrospective corrections for past failures to create fresh failures.
Counter-insurgency is a 25-cent, sometimes-hyphenated euphemism for attempted military solutions to populations who refuse to be quietly dominated by invading foreigners. The problem is it doesn’t work… or perhaps that’s the upside.
Military success is not determined by tactical outcomes, but by political ones. […]

When I was discharged from the army, one of the many things I was relieved about was that I would never again, as the lone female in my unit, have to share transportation with the rest of the guys when we were on travel. I would never again have to listen to Howard Stern on […]

“We made 500 bucks before she hung herself… she was unhappy.”
Since the whole Support the Troops loyalty oath assumes some cardboard cutout as “the troops,” let’s have a look at what the Boy-War culture really produces. I can assure readers, who may find this shocking, that this is a very typical attitude in combat […]

After much experimentation…
One big head of kale
Raw honey
Two strips of bacon
Apple cider vinegar
Salt
Black pepper
Pull the kale. Wash the roots to put topsoil back. Cut the stems free from the stump. Compost the stump.
Wash the individual stalks, point down, to remove garden grit.
Put the bacon on to fry at medium heat in a […]

I have been working as a stone mason’s apprentice for a few months now… necessity, more than anything else. Believe me, as the highs go daily into the nineties and my aching, approaching-56-year hands wake me every night with aching, this is not some weird attempt to recapture my lost youth. Just haven’t […]

Open thread for discussion (if any) of Insurgent American article.
Something to be Enthusiastic About: thinking about Demand Reduction