Working with Wikileaks almost a decade ago, Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning provided some of the most damning revelations on U.S. foreign policy and military atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan. Trump’s Justice Department indicted Wikileaks’...
Libertarianism
The Hidden Link Between Fiat Money and the Increasing Appeal of Socialism
by Patrick Barron | Nov 27, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
What causes the seemingly unfounded confidence in socialism we encounter more and more in the news media and among political activists? In the Extinction Rebellion movement, for example, activists are quite certain they have learned that there is an alternative to...
Doctors Speak Out, Say Julian Assange ‘Could Die in Prison’ Due to Horrific Treatment and Neglect
by Matt Agorist | Nov 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
As TFTP reported in April, several men in black suits, surrounded by a dozen cops, raided the Ecuadorian embassy in London and kidnapped Julian Assange. Since that day, Assange has been rotting in solitary confinement as his health drastically deteriorated. “Unless...
Monsters and U.S. Foreign Policy
by Laurence Vance | Nov 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
It looks like the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity will be having some competition. The formation of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft was recently announced. The think tank gets its name from John Quincy Adams. According to the organization’s...
No Medicare At All
by Danny Chabino | Nov 27, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Last week I wrote about Medicare for All being an unnecessary political power grab. Rather than a rally cry of Medicare for All, I think the conversation should shift: Instead, there should be a rally cry for “No Medicare At All!” Is government-controlled medical care...
The Next Curse
by Mark Thornton | Nov 26, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Zero Hedge reports “China’s Skyscraper Boom Comes Crashing Down Amid Developer Default,” noting reports that construction work was recently halted on the nation’s potentially tallest skyscraper, after the developer defaulted on a payment to the construction company....
South Carolina Legal Tender Act Would Treat Gold and Silver as Money
by Michael Maharrey | Nov 26, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
A bill prefiled in the South Carolina House would make gold and silver coins legal tender in the state. Passage of this bill would take a step toward creating currency competition in South Carolina and undermine the Federal Reserve’s monopoly on money. Rep. Stewart...
Federal Reserve: Enemy of Liberty and Prosperity
by Ron Paul | Nov 26, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Lost in the media’s obsession with the impeachment circus was Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s recent testimony on the state of the economy before the Joint Economic Committee. In his testimony, Chairman Powell warned that when the next recession inevitably...