Knowledgeable people (Bill Gates among them) had warned for years that governments were ill-prepared for serious pandemics. The US government was not just ill-prepared; it also maintained regulatory obstacles — in the name of public health — to others who were willing and able to act.
I’d say the case for statelessness looks better all the time.
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Every time the usual suspects start ginning up regime change, be it propaganda, street protesters, arming rebels, or insane bombing campaigns such as the current one in Iran, we always hear about the poor oppressed masses yearning to breathe free. The truth, however,...
War rarely begins with a single decision; it grows from motives, misreads, and momentum. We sit down with Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson to map how a promised era of “no new wars” gave way to a high-stakes confrontation with Iran that could redraw the strategic landscape....
https://youtu.be/ybD7vbnNDy4 The current President can teach us a lot about how incentives can alter a persons behavior. Assume you agree with me, that Trump is a nefarious actor. Was Trump more of a threat to humanity in the voluntary sector, or the political...
