The Establishment and Free Exercise Clauses bar Congress from establishing religions and interfering with free religious exercise. How should anarchists feel about that? Well, the first clause should positively thrill anarchists, what with anarchists’ well-documented...
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Bitcoin vs. Wall Street
by Tom Luongo | Dec 14, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
The big worry among the bitcoin perma-bears is the threat of government ‘making it illegal.’ The latest bogeyman on this front is none other than U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin. Rumors float that he’s considering outlawing ‘self-custody wallets,’ in effect...
Nothing Delivered: Trump’s ‘Antiwar’ Deception
by Connor Freeman | Dec 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Donald Trump seems uninterested in ending any “endless wars.” Before leaving office, he could and should do so in Afghanistan, for example, where U.S. forces—while losing the longest war in our history—have led a brutal occupation for nearly 20 years....
Will Washington Review the Double Standards of Its Syria File?
by Ahmad Salah | Dec 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The mayhem of the presidential elections left the American policy-makers locked in heated arguments about the future of the U.S. domestic and foreign policy alike. One of the most pressing issues on the agenda is the Middle East developments, especially the U.S. role...
Walter Q. Gresham, America’s Anti-Imperialist Secretary of State
by Hunter DeRensis | Dec 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President-elect Joe Biden will soon finish selecting the men and women who will staff his incoming administration. The first announcements comprise the core of his foreign policy team, including the nomination of his longtime confidant Antony Blinken to be the next...
Syrian Oil Smuggling Ring Unites Turkey, Syrian Kurds, Barzani Family
by Ahmad Al Khaled | Dec 8, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A reluctant decline of violence on the fronts of the Syrian conflict over the past few years brought a flickering hope for an improvement of the overall situation in the country battered by the almost decade-long conflict. This positive impulse, however, failed to...
Libertarian Messaging For 2021: Part 2
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 7, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
Let’s just jump right in since you can go to part 1 and see my yada, yada qualifications and such. Here’s the Tweet: End all corporate bailouts/welfare For those of you who remember the great recession of 2008, or have read about it in books such as Tom Woods’...
Beware the ‘Nurse Ratched’ State
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 6, 2020 | Featured Articles
Advocates of minimal government have often warned against “The Nanny State,” which rears its ugly head whenever bureaucrats try to tell people what they should do and how they should live. There is a sense in which all governments do that, through the very enactment...