Paste, “The Violence in Berkeley is a Very, Very Bad Idea For the Left”
I have to admit: When I heard that a group of anarchists called the Black Bloc had sent “150 masked agitators” to an otherwise peaceful protest in order to disrupt a planned speech at UC-Berkeley by alt-right shithead Milo Yiannopoulos, and that they’d succeeded in scaring the hell out of everyone and shutting the whole […]
The Boston Globe, “Trump’s backers see immigration crackdown as a promise kept”
Other Trump supporters said it was the work of anarchists and professional agitators who have been organized by billionaire liberal philanthropist George Soros or the Muslim Brotherhood. Those well-choreographed protests, they said, do not accurately reflect the broader public sentiment. Continue Reading
New Republic, “America’s New Opposition”
In late October 2011, I was volunteering at the Occupy Wall Street library in lower Manhattan. Tucked into a corner of Zuccotti Park, the library was staffed mainly by anarchists of an exceedingly orderly bent. If society were suddenly freed from coercive institutions like libraries, these people would gladly spend the morning sorting donated books […]
Treasure Coast Palm, “Another view: Where’s the evidence against arrested inauguration reporters?”
Horse calls himself “an anarchist and a journalist” and uses his photography to highlight social injustices. Cantu was recorded on camera explaining how he’d played a small role in organizing the Jan. 20 protests, and noted that his style of journalism is “more Gonzo than investigative.” Continue Reading
San Francisco Chronicle, “Inauguration Day charges against 3 journalists dropped”
All three were working as journalists chronicling the mayhem in downtown Washington after President Donald Trump was sworn into office. A group of self-described anarchists broke windows at businesses and destroyed other property. Police arrested 230 people and charged them with felony rioting, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Continue Reading
Al Jazeera, “Six other times the US has banned immigrants”
3. Anarchists banned President Theodore Roosevelt. Signed on March 3, 1903. In 1903, the Anarchist Exclusion Act banned anarchists and others deemed to be political extremists from entering the US. Continue Reading
Met Media (Denver), “Auraria alerts reports inauguration day ‘civil unrest’”
Auraria campus was locked down the night of Jan. 20 as anarchist protesters attempted to enter buildings on Auraria campus. It was one of several protests that took place throughout the day over the inauguration, including a walkout from East High School that joined a larger protest in front of the Capitol building. Continue Reading
Thump (Vice), “Trumpwave and Fashwave Are Just the Latest Disturbing Examples of the Far-Right Appropriating Electronic Music”
Spencer recently became a national meme when he was punched in the face by an anarchist while giving an interview to ABC News, footage of which has been set to different popular songs, including “Sandstorm,” and which gave rise to the hashtag #punchanazi. Continue Reading
The Boston Globe, “Trump’s anti-immigration playbook was written 100 years ago. In Boston.”
Anti-immigrant sentiment grew in response to fears of Bolshevik radicals and the deadly bombings by anarchists — the Islamic terrorists of their day. It reached a fever pitch in 1919 and 1920 with the Palmer Raids, the mass arrests and deportations of thousands of Eastern European immigrants. A key tool in those roundups had been […]
Forbes, “The Left Wages War On Donald Trump, Its Godzilla”
I promptly called up my old arch-nemesis, Patrick Reinsborough. He is one of the Secret Masters of the Anarcho-Populist Universe, one of the chief architects of the epic “Battle in Seattle” against the WTO and of the massive protest against the World Bank and IMF, Washington A16, 2000. Since then he, presumably, has been systematically […]