Since Saturday night, Derek Brown and Julie-Barecki Brown have been morning the loss of their 18-week-old puppy named Apollo. Apollo didn’t die from being hit by a car or from medical complications, however, his life was taken from him by a member of New Orleans’...
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Paying Respects to Reese Erlich
by Eric Garris | Apr 13, 2021 | Featured Articles
Longtime antiwar activist Reese Erlich passed away on April 6 after a long battle with cancer. He was 73. Reese was most recently a bi-weekly columnist at a number of publications, including Antiwar.com. He wrote his last column two weeks ago saying goodbye to his...
Unprecedented: Maryland Repeals Blue Privilege
by Matt Agorist | Apr 13, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
For decades, Maryland and dozens of other states across the union have upheld a special set of rights for cops which citizens do not get to enjoy. It was called the police bill of rights and it shielded cops from accountability by blocking civilian inquiries into...
Looking Towards a Productive, Robotic Future
by Marcel Gautreau | Apr 12, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
One argument against the idea of technological unemployment, offered by many people who today sincerely style themselves as leading defenders of the free market, goes that automation will create more jobs than it destroys but due to the nature of the market, the...
TGIF: The Fraught World of Second-Bests
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 9, 2021 | Economics, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
When discussion turns to how to make government "better," however any particular person would conceive that condition, libertarians understand that we are in the fraught world of second-bests. In other words, because of the nature of the state, no solution that merely...
Independent Media Parrots Questionable Uyghur Genocide Claims
by Patrick Macfarlane | Apr 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Vital Dissent
On January 19, 2021 during the Trump administration’s twilight hours, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo formally accused the Chinese government of committing genocide against the Uyghur Muslims of the Xinjiang region of western China. The press statement alleged:...
A Critique of Turkey’s Healthcare System
by Mehmet Aydin | Apr 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
I am writing this article upon the death of Aslı Özkısırlar (38) on account of multi-organ failure. This painful incident...
Cop Kills Innocent Woman, Taxpayers Liable
by Matt Agorist | Apr 9, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
A tragedy unfolded in 2019 in Houston, Texas when a Baytown police officer approached a woman, 44-year-old Pamela Turner, and killed her. Turner’s last words before she was shot five times by the officer were “I’m pregnant.” Now, nearly two years later, the family has...