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Politics and Deception in Wartime. Foreign Service Officer (ret.) Peter Van Buren & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | May 2, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/3UxdR0MRArY The Libertarian’s basic attitude toward war must ... be: it is legitimate to use violence against criminals in defense of one’s rights of person and property; it is completely impermissible to violate the rights of other innocent people. War, then, is only proper when the exercise of violence is rigorously limited to the individual criminals. Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D., Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature, pp. 119 Peter Van Buren is a retired United States Foreign Service Officer and author of Hooper’s War Peter Van Buren spent a year in Iraq. He also writes...

How to Effectively Fight Global Poverty. Bryan Caplan & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Apr 30, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/FrAG6MpikUg Free markets are awesome because they give business incentives to do good stuff that sounds bad. Governments are awful because they give politicians incentives to do bad stuff that sounds good. Since the correlation between what IS good and what SOUNDS good is quite low, this is a huge deal. - Bryan Caplan, Ph.D. (December 27th, 2021) Dr. Bryan Caplan is the New York Times Bestselling author of Open Borders, The Myth of the Rational Voter, Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids, and The Case Against Education, has been blogging for EconLog since 2005. Labor Econ...

The Mark of a Civilized Society. Mark Skousen & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Apr 26, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/HX9SZHeDaoY Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success. - Mark Skousen, Ph.D. and Jo Ann Skousen, Persuasion vs. Force (1992) Mark Skousen earned his Ph.d. in monetary economics at George Washington University, is the editor of Forecasts & Strategies, author of 25 books, and is the founder of FreedomFest. Save $50 if you use the...

For a Christian/Libertarian Alliance. Kennedy Edwards & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Apr 24, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/-W_jY1iaW4I ... it is hardly “charity” to take wealth by force and hand it over to someone else. Indeed, this is the direct opposite of charity, which can only be an unbought, voluntary act of grace. Compulsory confiscation can only deaden charitable desires completely, as the wealthier grumble that there is no point in giving to charity when the State has already taken on the task. Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D., Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, p. 1319 Kennedy Edwards is the co-host of The State of Ohio podcast and Libertarian Party of Ohio, Trumbull County Chair....

Neoconservatives are the Flat-Earthers of Foreign Policy

by Keith Knight | Apr 23, 2022 | Featured Articles

Douglas Murray, the author of Neoconservatism: Why We Need It, claims: Neoconservatism is not a cabal or a party, but rather a sense, an instinct, a way of looking at the world. That way of looking at the world is, in my definition, a blend of idealism and realism. We look at the world as it is, but act in the world to make it as we would like it to be. This makes our instincts different from traditional conservatives who often distrust social engineering projects or any form of alteration of a status quo they perpetually see as being an irreversible if often quietly enjoyable decline. These...

The Biggest Lie of American Foreign Policy

by Keith Knight | Apr 22, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/gPItOqn8apA Then the fighters realized that the gang in the White House could not see things clearly, and that their leader (that idiot they obey) was claiming that we envied their lifestyle — when the truth, which this Pharaoh would like to hide — is that we are attacking them because of their injustice toward the Muslim world, and especially Palestine and Iraq, as well as their occupation of the land of the two sanctuaries. When the fighters saw this, they decided to come out of the shadows and take the fight into their territory, into their homes. – Al Qaeda in Its Own...

‘They Shot at Women and Children for 45 Minutes’ – Waco Survivor Speaks Out

by Keith Knight | Apr 19, 2022 | Blog

https://youtu.be/mN_JnWZtosY Waco by David Thibodeau: Amazon Help us fight the corporate press & military industrial complex by making a tax-deductible donation today: https://libertarianinstitute.org/donate/

The Communist Party of China Imposes Tyrannical Lockdowns and Deadly Food Shortages

by Keith Knight | Apr 16, 2022 | Blog

(Photo Credit: shimlatimes.in) Here are a collection of excerpts from mainstream sources on the Shanghai lockdowns. **Reminder**: China has one of the highest vaccination rates on the planet at 86.1%. In Shanghai, 25 million people remain locked down as 26,087 new COVID cases were reported on Sunday... The situation has grown increasingly dire: Two people who tried to leave their apartment to walk their dog were confronted by a COVID prevention worker who they ended up attacking. At least one man allegedly tried to get the cops to apprehend him so he could at least have food to eat....