“I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, we stole...We had entire training courses...” - Former CIA Director and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo The concept of whistleblowing seems simple on its face: a government employee recognizes that crimes are...
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Police Refuse Comment After Killing Hero Who Prevented Mass Shooting
by Matt Agorist | Aug 2, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In June, a deranged gunman, 59-year-old Ronald Troyke, began what was about to be a deadly mass shooting. His first victim would be Arvada Police Officer Gordon Beesley, and, according to the reports that evening, his next victim would be liberty activist and friend...
Why Can’t Johnny Kill? 11th Hour Conscientious Objection and Moral Injury
by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 1, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Vital Dissent
In 1996 Lt. Col. Dave Grossman authored “On Killing,” a seminal study on “the psychological cost of learning to killing in war and society.” In it, Grossman documents the unheralded history of man’s inherent resistance to taking fellow human life. This history is so...
TGIF: How Science Becomes Religion
by Sheldon Richman | Jul 30, 2021 | Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The popular slogan today is "Believe in science." It's often used as a weapon against people who reject not science in principle but rather one or another prominent scientific proposition, whether it be about the COVID-19 vaccine, climate change, nutrition (low-fat...
Happy 140th Birthday, Smedley Butler
by Hunter DeRensis | Jul 30, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For the first thirty years of the twentieth century, when there was trouble on the peripheries of the emerging U.S. empire in the form of rebellions, bandits, or resistence, Washington could always rely on one soldier to restore order. Invariably, days after his...
Revenge of the Masks
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jul 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
Just when the forces of rationality had seemingly established a beachhead in the public health domain, they’re back on defense again, as the CDC declares vaccinated and unvaccinated people should wear masks indoors in areas of the country experiencing high...
The Political Prisoners of January 6th
by Ron Paul | Jul 29, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
The recent felony conviction and eight month prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless of political persuasion should...
ACLU Declares Second Amendment ‘Racist,’ Launches ‘War on Bill of Rights’
by Matt Agorist | Jul 28, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
For years, the American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU, has chosen to stand against those who would attack our Constitutional rights. Even the Free Thought Project has been supported by the organization when a California sheriff attempted to force us to delete an article...