Drone killing has long been billed by the military as a cleaner, smarter way to conduct war. The standard marketing line has been that with drones it is possible to neutralize even elusive enemies such as factional terrorists while sparing the lives of innocent...
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Cop Who Shot Fleeing 12yo Boy Charged With Murder
by Matt Agorist | May 4, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In March, a tragedy unfolded in Philadelphia after a 12-year-old boy was shot in the back and killed. The boy was running from several police officers when two of them opened fire. Police have since claimed that even though 12-year-old Thomas Siderio was running away,...
The Long, Lucrative, and Bloody Road to World War III
by Connor Freeman | May 3, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Well, this war in Ukraine will last "months and years." At least, that is what the leaders of the D.C. foreign policy blob, the media, President Joe Biden’s men, Pentagon and NATO leadership have decided. Their plan is to pour oil on the flames and keep the fire...
No, Disney World Isn’t the First of ‘One Thousand Liechtensteins’
by Ryan McMaken | May 3, 2022 | Featured Articles
One of the stranger narratives coming out of the controversy over Disney's "special district" in Florida is the notion that Disney's Florida property is some sort of truly independent self-governing entity operating without government oversight. Most claims in this...
Elon Musk, Twitter, and the ‘Ministry of Truth’
by Bas Spliet | May 2, 2022 | Featured Articles
Just last week, I finally got around with starting to read Crime and Punishment, Fyodr Dostoevsky’s famous novel about a Saint-Peterburg student’s murder of an old lady pawnbroker. The murderer and book’s main character, Rodion Raskolnikov, got the idea from a fellow...
Florida Judge Uses Compelled Speech to Perpetuate Pulse Nightclub Myth
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 2, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In a jaw-dropping example of government imposing woke mythology on an individual citizen, a Florida judge has ordered a man who defaced an LGBT mural to write a 25-page essay centered on a thoroughly false premise—that the 2016 massacre at the gay Pulse nightclub in...
TGIF: What Really Protects Liberty?
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 29, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, as if we needed another demonstration, that little stands between the government and our liberty. Champions of individual freedom have been properly disturbed by how much power governments at all levels have seized since the...
Support Ukraine’s Independence? Then Support Secession Everywhere
by Ryan McMaken | Apr 28, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
By now, it should be abundantly clear to all that the official U.S. regime narrative on Ukraine is that one is supposed to be in favor of Ukrainian political independence. That is, we’re supposed to support the idea that Ukraine is a separate state that is politically...