The @LibertarianInst has been crushing it with #books.
Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan by @scotthortonshow
No Quarter: The Ravings of William Norman Grigg
The Great @RonPaul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004 – 2019
Coming To Palestine by @SheldonRichman pic.twitter.com/acqE91pI2x
— Juggatarian (Principles over politics) (@NathanT1010) October 2, 2019
Blog
Year Zero: Et Tu Brute?
In Episode 70 Tommy once again looks at the Ukrainian story. Given all the crimes the US has committed, and the treatment of whistleblowers what makes this different? Quid pro quo? Or business interests?
Listen to Year Zero
War By Other Means
Syria’s economic struggle.
Syria’s hopes for recovery remain frustrated by the country’s shift from armed conflict to 
economic struggle. Secure in its military victory, Damascus now faces an uphill battle for economic survival. A hollowed-out state increasingly self-finances through graft and predatory governance, while failing to provide even basic support for ordinary citizens and businesses. Such tactics keep the system afloat even as they undercut the economy’s ability to restart.
The regime’s foreign adversaries compound these woes through new rounds of economic punishment. As tightening Western sanctions inflict ever more tangible pain on Syrian society—from crippling fuel shortages to a powerful chilling effect on even benign investments—their political objectives grow more nebulous and implausible. Damascus’ allies are only somewhat more helpful: Determined to keep the regime intact but with no visible interest in a broader revival, Russia and Iran are laying claim instead to their share of the country’s dwindling resources—from oil and phosphates to maritime trade.
Ordinary Syrians are left to suffer the consequences and improvise solutions of their own. Increasingly isolated, they remain relentlessly entrepreneurial in navigating an ever more corrupt and stifling economic climate. While that endurance alone will not fuel a large-scale recovery, it is Syria’s best chance for a partial, tentative stabilization after almost a decade of economic freefall.
Full article here
Your Window Tint is Too Dark
So government employee Daniel Wilkey is going to either anally rape you or forcibly convert you to protestant Christianity.
Thin blue line baby. Without them there would be chaos.
Israeli Barbarians Torture ‘Suspect’ Into Critical Condition
See, Israel is our greatest ally in the whole wide world — just don’t ask for specifics of anything they have ever done for the U.S. — and they love gays and pot and democracy and electric scooters. Israel, why it’s just like a little Connecticut on the Mediterranean.
Also, fully half of the population under their control have no rights their government is bound to respect, simply because they’re not Jewish. Israel, why it’s just like a little 1950s Mississippi on the Mediterranean.
Trump to Switch to Likud Party
Andrew Yang – The 21st Century Candlemaker
“(Close) all windows, dormers, skylights, inside and outside shutters, curtains, casements, bull’s-eyes, deadlights, and blinds—in short, all openings, holes, chinks, and fissures through which the light of the sun is wont to enter houses.” -Frederic Bastiat from his work ‘The Candlemakers’ Petition’
Frederic Bastiat creatively used satire as a vessel in order to explain somewhat complex and philosophical beliefs. In The Candle Makers Petition, he illustrates how special interest groups, (the candlemakers and tallow producers at the time attempted to lobby the Chamber of Deputies of the French July Monarchy to prevent unfair competition with their products), attempt to sway those in power to grant them protections from changes in the market due to advancements in technology.
Although Bastiat’s essay was written in the mid nineteenth century, fast forward to today and you’ll find an equally disturbing message from the likes of 2020 presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
Similar to the candle makers plea to the government to save their livelihoods, Yang is attempting to use neo-luddite scare tactics in order to garner popularity. He propagates fear of artificial intelligence using the argument that, on net, jobs will be lost and many will be unemployed. The same argument was made against motor vehicles, mechanized machinery and automation, all of which benefit us today.
Unfortunately, Yang’s message has been taken as gospel by those who fail to understand how resilient humanity and the market is. Although some professions are lost to advancements in technology, many others are created. Often, these professions are less laborious and less dangerous.
“Technology serves to make the economy stronger. Machines and tools make us more productive. The entire goal of economic progress is to make us more productive, more efficient, have more consumer goods available, more leisure time, and higher standards of living. This is achieved by higher productivity and efficiency. We are better off not needing twelve people with shovels to do the same thing as a bulldozer.” -Austin Pace (Contributing writer at Mises.org)
Furthermore, Yang ups the ante by dangling the $1,000 per month “stipend” carrot to all Americans of voting age. His attempts at creating both fear of technology, and dependence on the state, are worrisome at best, dystopian at worst.
Carrots and sticks. Beware the stick.
Blowback: CSIS Study Says 4 Times As Many Militants Since 9/11/2001
Blowback from the US war on terror is actually creating more terrorist. Zerohedge is reporting the results from a study published by Center for Strategic and International Studies including a map showing where the expansion of terrorism has occurred.
“Despite nearly two decades of U.S.-led counterterrorism operations, there are nearly four times as many Sunni Islamic militants today as there were on September 11, 2001,” the prior CSIS study found.
And yet it remains that as American troop presence in the Middle East and North Africa grows, so do the jihadists’ numbers, underscoring what former Congressman Ron Paul has long described as the ‘blowback’ of US imperialism and nation-building.
Podcasts
