Whoever argues in favor of granting rights to animals, has first accepted that humans have rights and believes that animals must also be recognized as subjects of rights. And only someone who has a notion of what having rights means can meaningfully ask for this. Yet...
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A Neocon Will Always Lie to Get What He Wants
by Jack Hunter | Jun 4, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
When Barack Obama bombed Libya in 2011, a number of conservative voices spoke out against the president starting an unconstitutional war. Those Republicans insisted that presidents must go through Congress to declare war, as Article I, Section 8 of the U.S....
In Washington DC, It’s Still ‘Legal’ to Steal Your House
by Patrick Carroll | Jun 4, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
An old family home in Washington DC has become the latest center in the battle over home equity theft—a practice where government can legally seize a property to cover an unpaid tax debt, sell it for far more than the amount of the debt, and then keep all the money...
The Failed Blackmailing of Glenn Greenwald
by Kym Robinson | Jun 3, 2025 | Featured Articles
It is not a new thing to try and shame or blackmail an individual into silence. Whether the evidence is real or doctored doesn’t matter; only the judgement of the public is needed to destroy a person's credibility. Governments and criminal organizations have deployed...
Marco Rubio’s Hunt for Renegade College Students
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jun 3, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Given Marco Rubio’s long history of subservience to the State of Israel—which has earned him a mountain of campaign cash from the country’s U.S.-based collaborators—many Americans were understandably wary that his ascension from senator to secretary of State portended...
COVID Doubts Made You a ‘Violent Extremist’
by Jim Bovard | Jun 2, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Biden administration policymakers hated you more than you knew. Four years ago, I warned at the Libertarian Institute: “Libertarians are in the federal crosshairs…Many libertarians assume they have nothing to fear because they are not engaged in seeking to violently...
Labour Learns a Trade
by Owen Ashworth | Jun 2, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
Recently, the United Kingdom signed two “free trade deals” with India and the United States. Adam Smith and David Ricardo would justifiably take issue with the label of free trade because these deals have not established what the term refers to in the classical...
TGIF: The Worst Are Already on Top
by Sheldon Richman | May 30, 2025 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
After Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem made a fool of herself by defining habeas corpus as "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," Justin Amash, the libertarian former congressman, posted an apt quotation...