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Cops battle cultists in the Papua New Guinea highlands

PORT MORESBY: Riot police have been sent to a remote mountainous village in Papua New Guinea after a gun battle between police and members of a cult involved in human sacrifices, local media reported....

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The Decline of the Nation-State

FOR CENTURIES, the sovereign state has been the dominant form of political organization in the Western world. The most successful variant of the state was the nation-­state, which harnessed the power...

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The rise of the individual

Shloky on the decline of the state, and the rise of the empowered individual: As individuals are progressively empowered, which is to say progressively accentuated as humans, large scale collective...

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How to overthrow your government

The preface of Edward Luttwak’s classic work on how to overthrow a government reads as follows: AS THE EVENTS in France of May 1968 have shown yet again, insurrection, the classic vehicle of...

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Transnational crime and street gangs in Oceania

Originally posted on Coming Anarchy. If you would like to comment, please do so there. Home-grown street gangs are a growing threat to Oceania’s island states. In addition, criminal organizations from...

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Cursed by riches: Melanesian resource wars

Originally posted on Coming Anarchy. If you would like to comment, please do so there. Lihir gold mine, Papua New Guinea A history of conflict As has been explored in previous Oceania Day posts,...

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“Violence is a virtue”: Why the Urewera 17 were a genuine threat

This article originally appeared in SOLO. On the 15th of October 2007, several hundred armed police officers executed search warrants around New Zealand. They cordoned off Ruatoki, a small Maori...

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Heroes

This is a cross-post from a thread about heroism at SOLO Passion (Sense of Life Objectivism), an Objectivist forum. I do not identify myself as an Objectivist, merely a libertarian who found Atlas...

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Tuhoe Seventeen To Face Trial

The 17 Tuhoe Terrorists ‘Alleged’ Terrorists (well, the seventeen that the police have evidence against) have been committed to trial. They are, as usual, making outlandish claims of their complete...

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Sentinelese: An Island People

I was fascinated to read about the Sentinelese recently – a tribe of 250-odd hunter-gatherers living on a fairly big tropical island off the coast of India. They are extremely hostile to visitors and...

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