America’s central bankers are tasked with impartial oversight over aspects of the American economy. But could these individuals be making decisions on interest rates and bailout operations based on what is best for their own personal investment portfolios? After...
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He Thought I Was an Undercover Fed
by Jim Bovard | Sep 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
From the early 1990s onward, I was exposing FBI crimes, lies, and cover-ups. FBI director Louis Freeh publicly denounced me after I wrote a Wall Street Journal piece on the FBI’s killing of an innocent mother holding her baby at Ruby Ridge, Idaho. I continued...
On-Duty Cop Solicited Child for Sex, Will Serve No Jail Time And Won’t Be Registered as Sex Offender
by Matt Agorist | Sep 27, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Benjamin Reinhart, a disgraced officer with Genesee County received some great news this week. Despite being caught up in a child sexual trafficking sting, he won’t have to go to jail and he won’t have to register publicly as a sex offender. Reinhart was “sentenced”...
TGIF: Beware the Government-“Science” Complex
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 24, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The government-"science" complex ostensibly promotes the search for facts about our world, but it actually promotes and enforces orthodoxy, protects resulting paradigms, and manufactures apparent consensuses that are questioned only at one's reputational peril. That's...
The Fed Is Planning For More Inflation
by Ryan McMaken | Sep 24, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
In late August, Fed chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the Federal Reserve would begin tapering before the end of the year, an admission that price inflation was rising above the 2 percent target. Nonetheless, the Fed took no immediate action in the following...
Cop Arrested After Beating, Leaving Boot Marks on Face of Teen Over a Speeding Ticket
by Matt Agorist | Sep 23, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Body camera footage released in April highlighted the gang mentality of many police officers as it showed them violently beating a 17-year-old boy over a traffic stop “like a pack of wolves.” It also illustrates how far cops will go to enforce a speeding violation....
U.S. House to Vote on Amendments to End War in Yemen
by Dave DeCamp | Sep 23, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
The House is expected to vote Thursday on two amendments (#28 and #30) to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that call for the end or limitation of U.S. support for the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen. One amendment, sponsored by Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA), calls...
Evacuation Eyewitness: What I Saw in Kabul
by John Vaughn | Sep 22, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I watched a woman come through the North Gate of the Hamid Karzai International Airport holding a limp baby. It was tiny, pale, and naked against the hot, dry noon sun. I couldn’t tell for certain if it was alive or dead at that arms-length distance, but whether or...