The unending Syrian conflict has become the most prolonged and bloodiest since the start of the twenty-first century. It carried off the lives of millions of Syrian, turned the country into a battlefront and caused an immigration crisis in Western states. Moreover, a...
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Why Patriots Shouldn’t Pledge Allegiance
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jun 14, 2021 | Featured Articles
Flag Day is upon us, with the Fourth of July not far behind. No better time for a frontal assault on a cherished American ritual—the Pledge of Allegiance. Though conservatives will be most aghast at this undertaking, the open-minded ones will soon discover they should...
TGIF: VP Harris Tells Guatemalans to Stay in Their Place
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 11, 2021 | Economics, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Shame on Vice President Kamala Harris. On her recent trip to Guatemala she said, "I want to be clear to folks in the region who are thinking about making that dangerous trek to the United States-Mexico border: Do not come. Do not come. I believe if you come to our...
The Case of Colonialism: Secession for Thee, But Not for Me
by Ryan McMaken | Jun 11, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The twentieth century was a century of secession. Since the end of the Second World War, the number of independent states in the world has nearly tripled as new states, through acts of secession, came into existence. This was driven largely by the wave of...
How America Destroyed the Middle East
by Scott Horton | Jun 10, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Scott Horton
The following is the Introduction to the Libertarian Institute's Executive Director Scott Horton’s new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. The Middle East, North Africa and South-Central Asia are in chaos. Populations have been riven by sectarian...
WATCH: Cop Flips Over Pregnant Woman’s SUV to Give Her a Speeding Ticket
by Matt Agorist | Jun 10, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Cops, as the Free Thought Project reports on a regular basis, are extremely quick to escalating force. From baton blows to trigger pulls, American cops love to dish out the violence with extreme prejudice. There is another form of violence police use that doesn’t get...
How the American War on Drugs Demolished Guatemala
by Jim Bovard | Jun 9, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
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...
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...









