Number 114
- Defying the zio-global dictatorship!
- The grim trail of ZIM terror
- Banned from Canada
- Why anarchists must confront totalitarian humanism
- Peter Marshall: an organic radical inspiration
- Acorninfo
1. Defying the zio-global dictatorship!
by Paul Cudenec, who reads the article here
I am sure you don’t need me to tell you that we are heading into a crucial period of history.
Not only is the shadow of a possible world war looming over us, but our freedom is coming under rapidly accelerating assault.
Here in France, for instance, the system started out by simply ignoring schoolkids protesting against the poor condition of their schools and their lives, then went on to gas and beat them, smear their uprising in the media, team up with far-right street gangs to attack the ever-broadening revolt, ban protests in city centres, pass a law to make demonstrators pay for windows they did not break on the basis of some kind of assumed collective responsibility, place protesters under house arrest as “terrorists”, constantly lie about the size of the turn-outs, manipulate social media algorithms so that people did not know about the demos and threaten to pull that communication plug altogether.
I should add that there is also the possibility that at least some of the protesters and looters were agents provocateurs working for the system to undermine public support for the youngsters’ cause, although I have not yet seen any hard proof of this.
In an article for Le Monde diplomatique (November 2026 edition), Benoît Bréville describes how politicians were lining up on TV to demand a fascistic response to the protests, with many blaming the left-wing opposition party La France insoumise – president of the French senate Gérard Larcher even suggested the party should be dissolved.
“Others suggested creating thousands of new places in prisons on the model of Nayib Bukele in El Salvador, of removing benefits from the trouble-makers’ families or of hardening the law against minors”.
Bréville notes that curfews were imposed in several cities, policed by drones and helicopters. “Gatherings are banned and in certain neighbourhoods it is even forbidden to walk around with a rucksack or hat”.
He adds that the French railways, SNCF, cancelled trains to prevent some people from attending demos and those arriving by road and rail were subject to police checks.
“In Paris, the army was mobilised to supervise the demonstrators, along with the brigade of regional intervention, the RAID (Recherche, assistance, intervention, dissuasion) and the national gendarmerie’s intervention group (GIGN)”.
But in the face of all that, numbers on the protests across France did not drop away and the uprising is still going strong as I write!
All across Europe protests are breaking out – including against what looks like an attempted German-backed EU coup d’état in Poland – and it seems that policing is increasingly being carried out by Eurogendfor (European Gendarmerie Force), the European mercenary army deployed, as one X user put it, “by the EUSSR to crush local uprisings, hijack demonstrations, and stage coups. They have no ties whatsoever to the local population (they don’t even speak the language) and will ruthlessly crush any form of civilian resistance with an iron fist”.
Meanwhile, hitherto unthinkable restrictions are being placed on people’s international travel on the basis of them not being appreciated by the zio-imperialist mafia (ZIM).
Take, for example, the way that veteran anarchist and co-founder of Food not Bombs Keith McHenry was banned from entering Canada essentially on account of the decades of state violence and harassment he has faced for feeding homeless people (see below).
Much of the repression centres, of course, around critics of Israel and its genocidal activities.
Swedish academic Andreas Malm was refused entry to the UK, where he was due to headline an anti-imperialist and pro-Palestinian conference, on the grounds that his presence in the UK “may not be considered to be conducive to the public good”.
New York journalist Jeremy Loffredo has also revealed: “The UK is refusing to let me enter the country to report on and investigate the ongoing crackdown against elderly Palestine supporters because my ‘presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good’”.
Regarding those protests, Council Estate Media relates that police in London are now saying that “providing logistical support” for supporters of the supposedly “terrorist” Palestine Action group, which could include passing a bottle of water to a sit-down protester, is an offence.
The blog states: “Not only are grannies and wheelchair users terrorists for expressing opinions the government doesn’t like, but anyone who is nice to those grannies and wheelchair users is also a terrorist”.
And an absurd report was accepted by the Zio-Labour government suggesting a frightening rise in “anti-semitism” which required the banning of Palestine badges in schools and heavy-duty brainwashing of British children to swallow zionist lies.
In fact, as Council Estate Media pointed out: “A key argument for this moral panic is that three out of five Jewish pupils have experienced antisemitism in schools. However, that figure comes from a survey of 5,000 kids, only 92 of whom were Jewish. That’s right, the sample size was just 92!
“Those 92 kids were asked if they’d personally experienced antisemitism at school and only 70 responded. Twenty-nine said yes – that’s less than one in three of those asked! Only 12% of the kids who responded said they felt antisemitism was a problem at their school and only 2% said it was a big problem”.
In Australia, as Caitlin Johnstone has laid out, the country’s so-called “antisemitism envoy” is trying to demonise left-leaning pro-Palestine supporters for daring to challenge the “chosen” people’s God-given right to commit (demonic) genocide.
A new report by Jillian Segal (pictured) claims: “Over time, the language of human rights and its greatest crimes – apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide, etc. – has increasingly been appropriated to portray Israel (and, relevantly, members of the Jewish community who support it) as morally evil, often to the point of being equated to Nazis.
“In contemporary Australia, elements of Australia’s historically fringe radical left have sought to appeal to well-meaning mainstream progressive Australians who may perceive the Palestinian cause as a matter of social justice. This ‘gateway’ issue, of sorts, has been used by far-left activists to magnify their appeal and prominence and to attempt to introduce traditionally moderate Australians to radical and anti-Jewish propaganda that would previously have been of little interest”.
What we seem to be seeing everywhere is a desperate attempt by the ruling mafia to smother and crush the great wave of awakening that they have themselves unleashed by their barbarity and lies, as well as by the increasingly obvious reality of their control of governments and global media.
It is no coincidence that the first week of November saw the “The First International Congress of Noahides” staged in Jerusalem. As I previously reported, Jana S Bennun has warned: “The shift from just ‘abstract’ religious ideas to a real, functioning global Noahide legal system is happening right under our noses”.
“They are openly planning to draft a binding universal charter, elect councils across six continents, and officially launch the First International Rabbinic Court, or Beit Din.
“Led by Rabbi Oury Cherki (pictured), this supreme legal body will use regional judges to oversee a strict, three-stage process where non-Jewish people make official legal declarations, locking themselves into a centralized authority based in Jerusalem”.
In other words, because ZIM is now convinced that it wields overwhelming power in the world, it is pushing us into a judeo-supremacist dictatorship in which we goyim will be no more than slaves.
The enormity of this threat – to 99.8% of humankind and to all our unborn descendants – can hardly be overstated.
Because ZIM has, indeed, stolen most of the world’s wealth and captured most of the world’s institutions, this threat is not something we are going to be able to see off through letter-writing, petitions or voting for the usual political puppets.
I think this is why, in recent weeks, I have been returning to anarchism as a source of inspiration. It is not only the anarchist vision of a sane future built on natural order that we need, but its vital energy, its complete and courageous rejection of oppression and domination.
When I see the young generation out on the streets, often proudly brandishing Palestinian flags, I sense that they intuitively know that what is needed is the raw revolt I have written about.
The life force is shining in them, animating their resistance – and that is why ZIM and its puppets are so scared.
2. The grim trail of ZIM terror
Winter Oak has focused much in recent years on ZIM – the zio-imperialist mafia.
This is basically the entity long known as the military-industrial complex, but with the key additional insights that its scope is not just “Western” but global and that its underlying agenda is judeo-supremacist world domination.
We have shown how it deliberately and ruthlessly engineered the nightmarish slaughter of the First World War, the murderous Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the rise of both Fascism and Nazism.
Its blood-drenched hand can also be seen behind the Gladio false-flag terrorist attacks in the twentieth century and “Islamist” terrorism this century, including 9/11 and London’s 7/7.
In addition we have to consider Jeffrey Epstein, whose trafficking network indulged in the rape, torture and murder of children and who described himself as a representative of the Rothschilds, those ZIM bankster godfathers and proud creators of the state of Israel.
ZIM was obviously responsible for the genocide in Gaza and also, it would seem, for the October 7 killing that was the starting pistol for that crime against humanity.
In recent weeks there has been an accelerating wave of revelations about zionist involvement in all sorts of monstrosities.
For instance, after the uncovering of a regime torture dungeon in Ukraine, run by the neonazi Azov entity, word quickly circulated on social media that Azov was co-founded by a rabbi who has served in the Israeli army and that its principal funder has been Jewish oligarch Ihor Kolomoïsky, a key backer of the regime.
And there is strong suspicion of Israeli/ZIM involvement in the horrific train crash at Urda, Toledo, in Spain on October 28 2026 in which 69 people perished and more than 200 were injured.
The motive would to be to “punish” the Spanish people and government for their opposition to zionist genocide and, through undermining public trust in the current ruling group, pave the way for pro-zionist PP and Vox parties to take power in the November 29 general election.
And the means would have been by Israeli control over the safety systems which should have made this “accident” impossible. A Spanish train driver writes: “Don’t come at me with claims that it was human error. In the 21st century, a train doesn’t collide with anything. It can’t. That’s exactly why ERTMS, ASFA, interlockings, and track circuits exist: so that when the human errs, the machine stops on its own. That’s their sole purpose.
“If a high-speed train with 397 passengers could reach a stationary train, it’s because that layer of protection wasn’t there. Faulty, disconnected, or in degraded mode – it doesn’t matter. It wasn’t there. And a safety system that relies on an operator not screwing up isn’t a safety system. It’s a lottery with a schedule.
“Human error isn’t the cause. It’s the symptom. The cause is that someone decided it was okay to run at 300 km/h with the main system down and a single person as the only backup. In my line of work, when the primary fails, the secondary kicks in. When the secondary fails, the tertiary takes over. When there’s no tertiary, you don’t go out. It’s called redundancy, and it’s not a luxury. It’s what separates an incident from a funeral. Blaming the train driver is the cheapest move. And the most cowardly”.
Meanwhile the CGT trade union, representing railway staff, has demanded that the management of Renfe, the Spanish rail network, suspend its contract with I-SEC, an Israeli security company created by members of Israeli intelligence from Shin Bet.
Others have been pointing out that Isabel Pardo de Vera, president of the state-owned railway company Administrador de Infraestructuras Ferroviarias (ADIF) from 2018 to 2021 and Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing from 2021 to 2023, joined the advisory board of Israeli rail cybersecurity firm Cylus in February 2024.
Ismael A. Ingelmo explains in a detailed X post that Renfe had awarded surveillance of trains, stations, and workshops in Madrid, Barcelona, Catalonia, Basque Country, Cantabria, Asturias, and Galicia to Israel’s I-SEC, whose CEO boasts of managing “almost 50% of Renfe’s security”. He adds that the signalling failure leading to the crash was considered “mathematically almost impossible” and he asks: “Did it fail, or was it made to fail?”
Ingelmo notes that after the Adamuz (Córdoba) crash in January 2026, in which 46 died, the Civil Guard confirmed that the track had broken 22 hours earlier and the system had not raised the alarm, as it should have done. He asks: “Why hand over surveillance of our trains, cybersecurity of our tracks, and signalling of our lines to companies tied to foreign intelligence services? Shouldn’t this be national security? Trusting your safety to someone with no reason to help you isn’t strategy: it’s idiotic”.
Jaume Farrerons warns that the truth about what happened may never emerge, as “the Israeli military company [Cylus] will have the final say on the causes of the Urda accident… Will they investigate themselves? I doubt it”.
Suggestions that Israel/ZIM was behind the crash (or crashes) are of course being dismissed as “fake news” by the usual suspects, as Farrerons mentions.
But many Spanish people are putting two and two together, noticing that on May 27 2024 the Israeli foreign minister Israel Katz warned Spain that “those who harm us, we will harm in return”, adding that “the days of the Inquisition are over”. One remarked on X: “The Israeli ambassador already warned us: ‘Not helping Israel has a price for Spanish citizens’… Now those words make even more sense”.
Another insisted: “There’s definitely no doubt anymore. IsraHell has taken out 70 people to topple the government of Spain and to influence the elections”. And a further account declared: “Israel is carrying out a coup d’état in Spain. It’s as clear as that”.
3. Banned from Canada
The salmon and turquoise glow illuminated the Taos Mountains outside the dining room window. Allan Antliff, professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Victoria, glass artist Mary Shaffer, and I enjoyed dinner at her beautiful adobe home in Taos, New Mexico, one evening in 2017. Mary and Allan had just met in Marfa, Texas, during the former ghost town’s annual open studio exhibits.
Allan asked if I would be interested in having my archives at his university, and I accepted his offer. I spent several months organizing my documents in the manner he suggested, and once they were ready, I drove cases of legal documents, flyers, sketchbooks, newsletters, and personal planners up to British Columbia, crossing into Canada on the ferry in my G20 conversion van. This would be one of nearly 40 trips to Canada I had made since I settled my 25-to-life Three Strikes Felony case on February 16, 1995, in Judge Lucy McCabe’s San Francisco court. The criminal case started when I was attacked by Mayor Frank Jordan’s film commissioner, Nick Rommel, in a first-floor City Hall phone booth. The near-daily arrests for felony conspiracy to share food in violation of a court order had not stopped us from feeding the homeless, so it seems that the mayor thought sending me to prison for a quarter of a century might do the trick.
After I made my first delivery for the archives, I periodically shipped more materials, including original paintings and the 750,000-word manuscript of what would become my 150,000-word memoir, Soup Street.
I emailed Allan to let him know my first memoir would be published in May 2026 and that I was ready to come up to Victoria as promised. Allan responded, “I propose organizing a Big Celebration of Food Not Bombs at University of Victoria to showcase your Food Not Bombs collection in the Anarchist Archive, plus you can launch your book at the event.” He purchased a round-trip flight from San Francisco and emailed me a link to request a table at the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair. He warned me that some of the local activists were smearing me and to make sure my application focused on my books. These were the same smears that had been used to cancel my presentation at the fifth anniversary of the founding of Food Not Bombs in Waltham, Massachusetts, suggesting there is an intelligence agency effort to silence anarchists who question obedience to government policies.
I was excited to speak at the dedication of the Food Not Bombs archives on Monday, September 21, 2026, and present my latest title, Soup Street, at the Victoria Anarchist Bookfair.
When I landed at Vancouver International Airport, all went well until I was stopped by Canadian Border and Customs. I have entered Canada at least 40 times since 1995. Each time I entered, I would be questioned about my felony conviction in San Francisco for assault, battery, and strong-arm robbery. I would explain that I had been framed by Mayor Jordan in San Francisco’s campaign to stop Food Not Bombs from protesting war by feeding the hungry.
I would share that I had to plead out in a case in which I was attacked in a phone booth at San Francisco City Hall by the mayor’s film commissioner. As I was telling them about the events of January 4, 1994, I would open a copy of one of my books, such as Hungry for Peace, and show them the photos of the riot police guarding the food from the homeless at Golden Gate Park. I would tell the story of the arrest, explaining that I was wearing a chef’s coat and a puffy chef’s hat and had been holding a sign saying “Viva Zapatista, No NAFTA” while waiting for the rest of the food to be delivered for that noon’s meal. “Some guy crossed over the street from City Hall and yelled at me.” The deranged man made a call on his flip phone, and before long, a tow truck arrived and towed my truck and its load of bagels from my legal parking spot.
I described how I walked through the City Hall metal detectors to the closest payphone to call parking and traffic to locate my pickup. The guy I would later learn was Nick Rommel cornered me and started attacking me.
I would tell them that while on the call, I told the woman at towing, “I am sorry; someone is smashing against the phone booth, and I have to find another phone to call from.” That often drew a smile from the Canadian officials.
I continued by explaining that I went to a second-floor payphone and, after locating my truck, I headed down that beautiful cascade of stairs in the rotunda. As I was about halfway down the stairs, one of those in the mayor’s police detail called out, “Hey Keith, we want to speak with you.” I described how one of the officers had a little blue book, holding it up and saying I was being arrested under the new California Three Strikes law, suggesting the code was in the publication.
Most of the time, the Canadian border officials would laugh at the insanity of the conviction and wave me through. If they didn’t, I would drive to the next border crossing; I would repeat the story, and they would wave me through.
Not this time.
A tall, lanky officer directed me to place my suitcase and backpack on a long stainless steel counter. His partner removed all my things and spread them out.
I shared the story of my having been arrested for feeding the homeless and gave her a copy of the letter of invitation from the University of Victoria. I opened the books Hungry for Peace and Soup Street to show the photos of riot police guarding the food from the homeless, but the young customs official, Jessica Vung, was not interested and told me she had to go to a back room to check things out.
She returned, asked more questions, and went to the back office. When she returned, she asked if I had ever had any problems getting into Canada before. I replied that I am always questioned about this arrest, but I have always been let in. I told her about the time I was crossing over at Niagara, and an officer found two glass vials in my ashtray, unscrewed the cap on one of them, licked her finger, and tasted the powder. When the officer asked what it was, I told her that it was my friend Eric Weinberger’s ashes. The seven border officers searching my vehicle all stepped away from my van and let me into Canada.
While I was sitting and waiting for the border and customs officer to return from the back room, I got a text from Air Canada saying my flight to Victoria was boarding. The official came back and asked more questions. The next time she returned, she asked if I wanted any food or water and showed me a menu. I requested water, coffee, and their vegetarian sandwich without cheese. They also let me charge my phone. I called my girlfriend, Kathleen, in Santa Cruz to tell her what was happening. She called Allan to let him know that I still hadn’t made it through customs.
The officer was growing more sympathetic with each encounter. When she would return from the back office, I started to greet her with “Fantastic, so they are letting me in,” and she would smile, but there were others in the back room who had other ideas. Kathleen suggested I show them the letter from Amnesty International in which they would declare Food Not Bombs activists “prisoners of conscience” and call for our unconditional release if convicted. I found the document on my phone and showed it to them, but they didn’t seem too interested.
At one point, she asked me about the FBI and its interest in Food Not Bombs. I shared that according to a 2009 U.S. State Department lecture on C-SPAN comparing the people who share vegan meals in the parks with al-Qaeda and asking who was more dangerous, the Obama State Department official claimed that the people sharing vegan meals were more dangerous because they were friendly local community members who were advocating that our taxes should be “diverted from the military to fund healthcare, education and other social services.” He claimed that if Americans were to agree with the vegans, there wouldn’t be enough funding to fight al-Qaeda.
I ate the Tim Hortons sandwich with lettuce and a slice of tomato before she led me to the back room. That officer told me that under Canadian law, they couldn’t let me in because in Canada my “conviction” would be penal code —blah, blah, blah. She told me they would not charge me with a criminal violation of Canada’s immigration laws and would just send me back to the United States.
The officer placed two papers in front of me. One was “Allowed to Leave Canada,” and the other said “is a person who is a foreign national who has not been authorized to enter Canada and who in my opinion, is inadmissible pursuant to: Paragraph 36(1)(b) in that there are reasonable grounds to believe is a permanent resident or foreign national who is inadmissible on grounds of serious criminality for having been convicted of an offense outside Canada that, if committed in Canada would constitute an offense under Act of Parliament punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of at least 10 years.”
Below that, in the section titled “This report is based on the following information,” item 4 stated “Sought entry on 2026/09/18 at Vancouver International Airport for the purpose of speaking at a presentation in Victoria.”
Item 5 read, “Was convicted on 1994-10-28 for Force?ADW Not Firearm:GBI Likely (245(A)(1)PC San Francisco.”
It is odd that they claimed I was convicted on October 28, 1994, since I pleaded out, getting credit for 500 days served in jail to avoid life in prison on February 16, 1995, and the only court appearance of mine in October 1994 was on Halloween. It was a very memorable court appearance because those who came to support me took Halloween candy set out at offices throughout the courthouse and shared the treats with the public to mock the law against sharing food that had placed me in this position.
The Notice of Transporter had the checkbox labeled “allowed to withdraw his/her application to enter under section 42IRPR” checked.
I signed the forms.
They had said that they had to put me on the first flight to the United States, which was leaving for Austin, Texas, at 2:00 a.m., because that was Canadian policy. I asked if Air Canada would fly me to San Francisco from Austin, but that was not possible. I would have to buy my own ticket home. Finally, they agreed to send me on the morning flight to San Francisco.
A security team directed me to remove all my belongings, including my wallet, phone, belt, shoes, and pain medication, and ordered me to stand against the wall with my hands spread out. They frisked me, checked under my hair, and placed me in a chilly holding cell with the lights blazing. I tried to sleep on the metal-ribbed bench, but it was impossible. It would turn out that this aggravated the back injury I had been seeking surgery for, and I suffered level-10 pain for the following two weeks.
The distant clanging of doors and muffled conversations filled me with the dread I remembered when locked up during my days in jail facing the Three Strikes sentence.
Finally, they opened the cell and told me to get dressed. A security woman took me to the ticket desk where papers had to be signed. After that, she led me through the TSA-style security check, then took me to U.S. Customs, where the officer asked why I was being removed. I said for feeding the hungry. After that brief interaction, the security officer walked me to the gate. Following a 30-minute wait, the security officer led me to the boarding agent.
While waiting to board, I spoke with another passenger who it turned out was headed to TrueNorth Health in Santa Rosa, California. I let her know I had done several water-only fasts at TrueNorth and found it very helpful. I shared that my first 23-day water-only fast cured me of 20 years of suffering from fibromyalgia. This seemed to give her hope that she could recover from her autoimmune illness. Sadly, after all the “coincidences” in my life that have turned out to be part of an intelligence operation, I worried this might also be the case, but so far there is no evidence of this, and it was likely one of the many non-state-sponsored events of serendipity that have blessed my life.
There were more papers signed at the gate. I boarded, and a white envelope was handed over to an Air Canada employee. I was tired and in so much pain that I found the flight exhausting.
When I was leaving the plane in San Francisco, an airline attendant handed me a white envelope with legal documents and my passport. I phoned Kathleen to let her know I had landed and headed for the area where Ubers do their pickups. A young man was standing outside his car and I asked if he was an Uber driver. He was, and he was willing to drive me home to Santa Cruz.
My girlfriend, Kathleen, had emailed my emergency contacts while I was in the holding cell. Among those who responded was my friend and one of my lawyers, Randy Baker, who had defended me against the attacks by the government in San Francisco and had filed the civil rights lawsuits that included documents in discovery that provided me with the September 27, 1988, wiretap memo by San Francisco Police Department commander Richard Holder that was used to justify the police beating I took outside the Presidio on October 15, 1988, during a protest against the U.S. war in El Salvador. This is the text of his response to Kathleen’s email.
“Keith is indeed an exemplary man. Few people have allowed themselves to be subjected to the scores — perhaps hundreds — of arrests, and numerous beat-ups that Keith has suffered in the cause of advocating for a society in which our abundant resources are devoted to human needs, rather than to unnecessary wars.
In the course of representing Keith and Food Not Bombs in the early 1990s a letter from the San Francisco D.A. to the San Francisco City Attorney that I obtained in discovery in one of Keith’s suits underscored that law enforcement was not the objective underlying the City’s relentless brutality towards Keith and Food Not Bombs. The letter told the City Attorney to stop the arrests, because his office would not prosecute the cases. Yet the arrests and police harassment continued.
Since Food Not Bombs’ dispensing of free bagels, miso soup and anarchist literature was not threatening public safety, and prosecution was off the table, it became rather difficult to conclude anything other than that the point of the City’s persecution of Food Not Bombs was to stop their highly visible and poignant representation of the insanity of our current system, attracting groups of largely unsheltered people standing in line for food in highly visible venues — along with the message that things didn’t have to be this way.
In light of the City’s clearly speech-suppressive objective underlying its relentless persecution of Keith and Food Not Bombs, I think it virtually unbelievable that the prosecution that resulted in Keith’s convictions cited by Canadian officials was not the result of the City’s presentation of a grossly misleading account of an incident, rather than any felonious conduct on Keith’s part.
Insofar as Canada has relied on those convictions in considering the appropriateness of Keith’s entry into the country, it is grossly mistaken. Canada can only benefit from his presence. The government needs to reconsider its decision to exclude him.”
“Randy Baker
Attorney at Law”
During this ordeal, I often thought of how lucky I was, thinking of all those people captured by ICE, often disappeared from their families and held in horrid conditions for weeks and months before being shipped off to countries with which they often have no connection. Stories like that have been shared by a young Food Not Bombs volunteer in Monterrey, Mexico, who had spent his life in San Antonio, only to be dropped off in a remote area of Mexico and forced to search for his friends who had come to the border to meet him.
SOUP STREET – A memoir by Food Not Bombs co-founder Keith McHenry
https://foodnotbombs.net/soup_street.html
4. Why anarchists must confront totalitarian humanism
It can reasonably be said that the overwhelming majority of liberals, progressives, social democrats, and Marxists would affirm all or most of the following presumptions:
- The state is an expression of popular democracy (see Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
- The ever increasing centralization of institutions is conducive to economic and technological progress
- Ever larger states with an ever greater number of functions are necessary to modern society
- The state is a means of advancing the disadvantaged and imposing progressive values on benighted or reactionary local communities and regions
- The legitimacy of an eventual world federal government, and the principles of collective security, liberal internationalism, human rights internationalism, or what Noam Chomsky critically calls “military humanism”
- The desirability of forging a national and international consensus around “progressive” values with these to be imposed by national governments and international institutions
- The desirability of the welfare state, the managerial state, and managed economy
- The core principles of the Enlightenment religion of reason, progress, and scientism
- The legitimacy and necessity of the public administration state
- The desirability of the nanny state and its involvement in such issues as the compulsory use of seat belts, smoking bans, diet regulation, firearms prohibition, compulsory education, far reaching measures aimed at “child protection,” etc.
It goes without saying that the overwhelming majority of these precepts, perhaps all of them, cannot be reconciled with libertarian, anarchist, anti-statist, decentralist, or anti-authoritarian values of ANY kind.
It also goes without saying that since the days of the rivalries between Marx and Engels, and Proudhon, Stirner, and Bakunin, authoritarian leftists, statist socialists, and centralizing progressives have been our enemy. Period.
It is time for anarchists to carve out an entirely new paradigm for themselves that defines the political spectrum not in terms of left and right or reactionary and progressive, but in terms of anti-authoritarian vs authoritarian, anti-statist vs statist, and decentralist vs centralist. This will be among the primary dividing lines of the future.
5. Peter Marshall: an organic radical inspiration
The latest in our series of profiles from our sister organic radicals site.
“Living systems do not form hierarchies but rather networks at different levels”
Peter Marshall (1946-) is an anarchist philosopher, historian, biographer and poet.
His broad and inspiring vision also includes ecology, alchemy and archaeology and he has been described by Resurgence magazine as one of the 25 ‘visionary voices’ who shaped the new world view in the last quarter of the 20th century.
In the best organic radical tradition, he stresses the importance of holistic thinking as the basis of any authentic philosophy.
He wrote in the 2000 book Riding the Wind: “Ultimately, holistic thinking recognizes that all things come from the One and proceed to the One. All is One and One is All.
“There is unity in diversity throughout the universe; indeed, the greater the diversity, the more overall the harmony. It comes as no surprise that the Greek word kosmos originally meant both the universe and harmony: they are synonymous”. (1)
Marshall traces the thread of this holistic thinking through Eastern religions to the medieval alchemists’ belief in an anima mundi or world spirit. (2)
Anarchism very much forms part of this philosophical tradition. In his book Demanding the Impossible, Marshall traces anarchism’s roots back to the Taoists of ancient China. (3)
Explaining the later development of anarchist theory, he described how its thinkers had challenged the idea that order and stability had to be imposed on human communities from above.
He wrote: “The State with its coercive apparatus of law, courts, prisons and army came to be seen not as the remedy for but rather the principal cause of social disorder.
“Such unorthodox thinkers went still further to make the outlandish suggestion that a society without rulers would not fall into a condition of chaotic unruliness, but might produce the most desirable form of ordered human existence”. (4)
From this anarchist perspective, the “state of nature” without government would not be Thomas Hobbes’ nightmare of a permanent war of all against all, but a harmonious and peaceable way of living.
Marshall endorses Peter Kropotkin’s nature-based understanding of authentic society when he notes: “Living systems, it is now clear, do not form hierarchies but rather networks at different levels.
“An ecosystem is a network of organisms, in which each organism forms a node, with each node itself a network of organs and so on”. (5)
Video link: No Escape – A Conversation with Anarchist Peter Marshall (55 mins)
Audio link: Anarchism – In Our Time (42 mins)
1. Peter Marshall, Riding the Wind: A New Philosophy for a New Era (London: Continuum, 2000) p. 8.
2. Marshall, Riding the Wind, p. 16.
3. Peter Marshall, Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism (London: Fontana Press, 1993) p. 4.
4. Marshall, Demanding the Impossible, p. x.
5. Marshall, Riding the Wind, p. 31.
6. Acorninfo
On Monday November 2 2026 activists from People Against Genocide smashed military satellites bound for Israel, inside Ultra I&C’s arms facility in Hertfordshire, UK. The action coincided with the 109th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, when the British signed away the land of Palestine to zionist militias.
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“This warsterity that we’re being forced into is being done to perpetuate their forever war… Elbit is making money killing people like you”. This was the message from one of 12 people who blockaded the roads to Elbit’s Israeli weapons facility in Filton, Bristol, on Wednesday November 4 2026.
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“You are under attack from the most violent, terrorist, extremist, psychopathic scum there has ever been, and they head governments, NGOs, huge investment banks and international corporations. These and their senior underlings are the people named in the Epstein files and who commit murder, rape, torture innocent children, start and profit from wars and the theft of the commons and our labour”. Powerful straight-talking from The Light paper.
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“Creepy and weird” people are now running the world, complains Neil Oliver, citing as prime examples French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte. He notes that “creepy and weird is also sinister, malevolent” and that “without money, creepy and weird doesn’t get far”.
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Political commentator Ana Kasparian spells it out: “We don’t live in a real democracy here in the US. It doesn’t matter how many Americans oppose US support for Israel. Our government will carry out the Israelis’ wishes because they control our government”.
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“Thailand has revoked the Thai citizenship of Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor, the long-time leader of Chabad operations in the country. Authorities are now investigating his relatives and 19 companies linked to him – a widening inquiry that could lead to asset seizures and forced land sales if investigators establish ownership violations”. An interesting news report from Freddy Ponton of 21st Century Wire confirms that Chabad Lubavitch is less religious organisation than global criminal network.
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“Imperial Israel is doing a genocide. It’s now a ‘hate crime’ to hate crimes”. Sam Husseini comments on the fact that Matthew Arndt, who is running for Congress in Wisconsin, USA, is being charged with hate crimes for condemning a foreign country’s illegal actions.
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“The dichotomy between an American-centric ‘unipolarity’ and a polycentric ‘multipolarity’ has proven to be nothing more than a maneuver designed to mislead the gullible into believing that there are countries resisting the New World Order. Along with a small number of other authors, I have demonstrated that ‘global governance’ is exercised from the same power centers, to an equal degree, in every country across the globe”. Iurie Rosca reminds us of the obvious.
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A historic civil lawsuit is currently being brought in the Netherlands by seven Pfizer jab-injured individuals, represented by attorney Peter W.H. Stassen, seeking individual accountability from global figures like Bill Gates, Albert Bourla and Mark Rutte, along with the State of The Netherlands and no fewer than thirteen high-ranking defendants from politics, business, media, and science. For more info go to https://thenetherlandscase.com/
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“The future generations will lose access to incredibly vital, beautiful, and alive places, and mock us for ranting about sustainability while promoting endless destruction. When will the Contemporary Environmental Movement admit it is destroying large swathes of land that won’t be easily recoverable, all in the name of endless growth, endless destruction, and a ‘everybody can win’ mentality?” Astute stuff from Wyatt Verlen on his blog.
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Canadian campaigner Lisa Miron has put together an interesting collection of videos illustrating the way in which “Communists, Christians, Environmentalists, NWO Opposition unite against data centres in Chinada”.
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“If anything really is mysterious and magical, it’s human intelligence and consciousness. This live, dynamic, and organic miracle of nature can’t be manufactured inside a dead computer. The term Artificial Intelligence is an oxymoron; a contradiction in terms. Intelligence is not intelligence if it’s artificial. Giving the name ‘Artificial Intelligence’ to computer algorithms is a joke”. Rusere Shoniwa cuts through the computerhead crap.
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“The more control we have over our food supply and the more of it we can grow for ourselves means we become less dependent on a dehumanised, technocratic system for our needs. This would be the start of a genuine revolution”. The Avon Stirrer digs down to the root of the issue.
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“A worldview which fragments reality necessarily disconnects people from their context and leads directly to a lack of meaning. Conversely, a worldview which connects life, matter and consciousness to an underlying process reinstates the sense of meaning and overcomes fragmentation”.
David Lorimer, Whole in One
(For many more like this, see the Winter Oak quotes for the day blog)
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