The famous line "We have met the enemy and he is us" is from Walt Kelly's comic strip, Pogo. Kelly adapted the line from a U.S. naval commandant who, during the War of 1812 against Great Britain, reported to his superior, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.”...
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Rights for the Synthetic
by Kym Robinson | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
"The future of human-AI coexistence depends on acknowledging the potential for sentient machines and reevaluating responsibilities towards them. It's crucial to consider the ethical implications of creating beings that may possess their own interests, desires, and...
A Critique of Pure Hasbara
by John Weeks | Jun 13, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Hasbara is a central feature of genocidal Zionism: “Since its establishment in 1948, Israel has successfully created a new illogic of its own; an illogic that has made the illegal seem legal, the immoral appear moral and the undemocratic sound democratic. It has...
On Wealth Inequality, the Left Has a Point
by Thomas Eddlem | Jun 12, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
The federal government has been waging a war against the middle class and working poor since at least 1970. Wealth inequality has steadily increased since the early 1970s, and it’s not a coincidence. It’s a result of a series of policies. The government wants the...
Joe Biden’s Time Interview Should Set Off Alarms
by Ted Snider | Jun 12, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On May 28, U.S. President Joe Biden gave an interview to Time. His delivery and content were concerning for a number of reasons. Biden, at times, seemed misinformed and detached from reality. Sometimes, he seemed off message; other times, he seemed convinced by his...
DOJ, Lay Off Live Nation!
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 11, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last month, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) finally came out with their long anticipated antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment. Alleging anti-competitive practices which “suffocates its competition,” everyone’s least favorite Attorney General (since...
Why Libertarians Loathe Tariffs
by Laurence Vance | Jun 11, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump loves tariffs. In his 2011 book Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again, Trump included as part of his five-part tax policy “a 20 percent tax for importing goods.” During his first campaign...
Politicians Will Always Be Damn Rascals
by Jim Bovard | Jun 10, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Former President Donald Trump was recently convicted by a New York jury after prosecutors claimed he was guilty of “hoodwinking” voters in the 2016 election by paying to cover up his boinking of a beefy porn star. Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg proclaimed that Trump...
Government Has Turned Universities and Businesses into DEI Bureaucracies
by David Brady | Jun 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on May 13, announced that they would be diverting the $2.3 million that the university spends on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies toward campus safety amidst protests over the...
TGIF: Freedom or Power
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 7, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, the Austrian-school economist who learned from Carl Menger and taught Ludwig von Mises, speaks to the ages. We ignore his lessons to our peril. One hundred ten years ago, in a journal article titled "Control or Economic Law," he wrote: [J]ust as...
The Lesson of the Trump Conviction
by Connor O'Keeffe | Jun 6, 2024 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Last week, Donald Trump was convicted of falsifying business records with the intent to commit, aid, or conceal another crime. The Manhattan jury found him guilty on all thirty-four counts. This entire case was always ridiculous. Trump was charged for labeling...
A Libertarian Guide to the United Kingdom General Election
by Owen Ashworth | Jun 5, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Rishi Sunak, has finally announced there will be an election on July 4. This comes after incessant badgering from every part of the political spectrum, all of whom have been calling for an election for months. It was quite a...
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US Signs $23 Billion F-16 Deal with Turkey
The US has inked a $23 billion deal with Turkey for 40 F-16 warplanes. Washington promised to sell dozens of the advanced fighter jets to Ankara and upgrade scores of Turkish F-16s in exchange for Turkey approving Sweden's NATO membership. The AFP reported the deal...
UN Report Details Israeli War Crimes During First Months of War on Gaza
The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry (COI) provides a detailed analysis of the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the Israeli assault on Gaza. The report finds both sides committed war crimes but concludes there is no evidence to support the...
Finnish Forces Conduct First NATO Deployment
For the first time since joining the alliance last year, Finland has deployed its fighter jets to another NATO nation. When Helsinki joined the bloc, it ended a decades-long policy of neutrality and doubled the length of the border between NATO and Russia. On...
Biden to Offer Saudi Arabia Treaty In Exchange for Official Ties with Israel
The White House is prepared to roll out a plan that will make Saudi Arabia a Japan-style ally in exchange for new official ties between Riyadh and Tel Aviv. While the Biden administration has invested substantial effort to get the deal inked, it is likely dead on...
US Bombers Drop Live Munitions in Threat to North Korea
Two US B-1 strategic bombers dropped live munitions on the Korean Peninsula in a show of force eyeing Pyongyang. Tensions in the region have ratcheted up during the Biden administration as the president has taken a hardline approach toward the DPRK.
Report: Saudis Still Slaughtering Migrants at Yemeni Border
On Wednesday, the Mixed Migration Centre (MMC) published a report that said Saudi Arabia is still slaughtering African migrants and Yemenis at its border with Yemen nearly a year after the indiscriminate killings were revealed.
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Robert Fisk – The Road to Palestine – Anti-War Blog
In Part Two of his Three part series, From Beirut to Bosnia, Robert Fisk gives detail to the tragedy of Palestine. As it was then when the series was made, 1993, the people of Palestine had already suffered tremendously. A lost people, those blamed for the crimes of...
New Book Is A Must Read For Iraq War 2 Enthusiasts
Iraq War 2 is ancient history, like Athens’ defeat at Aegospotami or the NATO-Russia Founding Act. But for some of us, it seems like only yesterday we were being lied into one of the greatest geopolitical disasters of the Western imperial order. There’s a new book...
It’s a Crazy World
What's to be said about people who grieve over the deaths of Palestinian children in Gaza at the hands of the U.S.-backed Israeli military while simultaneously cheering the Mengele-style wrecking of children's lives in America and elsewhere at the hands of...
Fat Amy Can’t Catch a Break
Fat Amy is a nickname for the F35 Lightning II. As long as an F16 and comparable in weight to a heavy class F15, the F35 isn't necessarily a light aircraft. Flying cost per hour may have been reduced to $34,000 per hour. Maybe. The mission capable rate, the percentage...
Not All Cops Are Child Rapists
But alot of them are. And they always get away with it because all judges are accessories to child rape. They go home and tell their wives and kids at dinner, "I did my job today. I helped a cop get away with raping a kid. Those cops sure do love raping kids. Those...
Consensual Dueling: Bring Back Single Combat
I happen to think that consensual dueling has many positive aspects for civilized societies that would make our lives better. Politicians especially liked to take part in these martial contests, the possibilities in the contemporary milieu are delightful. For those...