Over the last few days, the United States and Iran came dangerously close to going to war. Thankfully, both sides backed down. The event which precipitated this latest crisis was the decision by the Trump Administration to unilaterally and illegally assassinate...
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TGIF: Trump’s Escalation Imperils Innocents
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 10, 2020 | Foreign Policy, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
While an eerie, surreal calm has fallen over US-Iranian relations, I wouldn’t assume we’re out of the woods yet. Trump had no reason to be confident that Iran’s response to his most recent escalation of violence would be little more than symbolic. Although he’s...
Conservatives Are Increasingly Wrong about Free Markets
by William Anderson | Jan 10, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Capitalism creates poverty. Capitalism has stolen our future. Capitalism ravages the planet. Capitalism oppresses us. Capitalism needs to be controlled by government or it will throw most of us into poverty and misery and enrich only the well-placed few. These are not...
Where were all the Constitution’s defenders when the feds raised the smoking age?
by Rob Natelson | Jan 10, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
On December 20, President Trump signed legislation purporting to impose a single national age of 21 for selling tobacco products. Obviously, the measure reduces the freedom of millions of Americans who are legally adults in almost every other respect—including...
Come Home, America: Stop Policing the Globe and Put an End to Wars-Without-End
by John Whitehead | Jan 10, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad. This is also the time to turn away from excessive preoccupation overseas to the rebuilding of our own nation....
Atlanta Police Make Monumental Move, Disband Entire Drug Unit to Focus on Actual Crime
by Matt Agorist | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Atlanta, GA — In one of the most revolutionary moves we’ve reported on to date, the Atlanta Police Department announced this week that they are disbanding their narcotics unit so they can fight actual violent crime. This move is both revolutionary and heartening and...
Two Sets of 100 yr Periods in American History — Each Guided by Completely Opposite Ideas
by Chris Rossini | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The great Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises wrote: "History is a struggle between two principles, the peaceful principle, which advances the development of trade, and the militarist-imperialist principle, which interprets human society not as a friendly division of...
Maximum Failure: Trump’s Convulsive North Korea Strategy Can’t Bring Kim to the Table
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Through a combination of myopic diplomacy and disastrous personnel picks, President Donald Trump has wasted a chance to fundamentally remake US relations with North Korea, throwing away a “Nixon goes to China” moment in exchange for a confused “maximum pressure”...









