Vice President Kamala Harris visited Guatemala earlier this week to bestow millions of dollars in new foreign aid on that government. The Biden administration is pretending that giving more US tax dollars to Central American governments will miraculously reduce the...
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How the Corporate Press Pushes War
by Jim Bovard | Jun 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Fifty years ago, the New York Times began publishing excerpts from a massive secret report called the “History of U.S. Decision-Making Process on Vietnam Policy.” Those excerpts, which quickly became known as the “Pentagon Papers,” provided shocking revelations of...
The Cult of Keynes and Its Origins
by Robert Blumen | Jun 8, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
The British Austrian economist W.H. Hutt was a great critic of Keynes’s economic theories. However, his speculations on why the New Economics revolution happened are even more fascinating. Hutt shows it to be a fundamentally dishonest undertaking. Keynes held a...
Police Employee in Australia Caught Sexually Assaulting 13 Year Old in Elevator
by Matt Agorist | Jun 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Glenn Roche, 54, is a vile human being and thanks to surveillance footage from inside an elevator the world will now know just how vile. Also thanks to the surveillance footage from the elevator, this police employee will be going to jail. On Thursday, Roche was found...
Despite Withdrawal, U.S. Commits Billions to Fund Afghan Military
by Jason Ditz | Jun 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan was meant to mark the end of the war in Afghanistan. As it stands, however, it seems that the administration is going through any hoops possible that might keep the war going and the US deeply invested in it. The latest sign of the...
The Immortality of Lobbyists
by Ryan McMaken | Jun 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
Throughout much of human history, a political ruler was often considered to be only as good as his ability to distribute gifts, booty, and other material rewards to his most valuable and loyal servants. In the “barbarian” days of northern Europe, military men expected...
TGIF: What the State Really Is
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 4, 2021 | Economics, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
To better understand the nature of government, one can think of it as an agency that sells or, more precisely, rents power to others. The greater the power and the wider its scope, the more opportunities the state's agents will have to sell access to it in return for...
The Danger of ‘Great Power Competition’ with Russia and China
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jun 4, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Vital Dissent
The latest flare-up in the geopolitical standoff over Ukraine is a feature, not a bug, of Washington's most recent grand narrative of global affairs. The names of these grand narratives read more like B-list action titles than mass-murder campaigns: From the...