Empires, unlike revolutions, don’t have heralds; they work off quiet aggrandizements of power, not bold declarations of freedom. But America’s imperial class appears to have a member who’s missed that memo: the Zionist hedge fund manager William Ackman, a...
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The ‘Fake China Threat’ Vindicated
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For several years and in a variety of works at the Libertarian and Mises Institutes, I have argued that Washington’s bipartisan consensus about Beijing as an aggressive, revisionist challenger to U.S. global supremacy was deeply misguided. Far from seeking global...
The Strange Case of Summary Execution of Eleven Suspects in Caribbean Waters
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 17, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. government has been executing suspected terrorists without indictment, much less trial, since the dawning of the Drone Age, on November 3, 2002. On that day, the George W. Bush administration used a Predator drone to dispatch six alleged terrorist suspects in...
Shooting Down Russian Drones Over Poland
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Sep 17, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The world is now closer to a full-scale war between NATO and Russia than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. In the early morning hours of September 10, 2025, Western air defenses spotted a fleet of Russian drones that had entered Poland’s...
Is Cover-Up of Epstein’s Financial Crimes Finally Collapsing?
by Jim Bovard | Sep 16, 2025 | Featured Articles
In 2025, the Justice Department declared that billionaire Jeffrey Epstein "harmed over one thousand victims”—mostly young females, many of them underage. But a dozen years before his suspicious death in a New York prison cell, Epstein "was granted immunity from...
Charlie Kirk and ‘Cancel Culture’
by Thomas Eddlem | Sep 16, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
The right is calling for revenge in the form of firing every leftist who talked out of turn over Charlie Kirk’s assassination last week. This mentality does threaten to tear the country apart. Already, there are firefighters, publicists, teachers, and a whole host of...
‘We Are All Charlie Kirk’
by Kym Robinson | Sep 15, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In 2015, the French comedy magazine Charlie Hebdo was attacked by terrorists and twelve people were murdered. It was the second of three violent attacks on the magazine because they had dared to published cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, an insult to followers of...
‘The Ethics of Dynamite,’ Again
by Scott Boykin | Sep 15, 2025 | Featured Articles, Politics
In his 1894 essay “The Ethics of Dynamite,” English individualist Auberon Herbert likened the use of violence by revolutionary anarchists to the violence the state itself represents, and he drew out in his characteristically beautiful prose the nature of the state as...
TGIF: Hurray for the Industrial Revolution!
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 12, 2025 | Economics, History, Justice, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Unbelievably, in 2025, walking among us are people, many of them young and college-educated, who believe the Industrial Revolution (spawned by the liberal Enlightenment) was a disaster for most of mankind. They yearn for what they imagine was the tranquil, plentiful,...
H.L. Mencken at 145: Proverbs from the Sage of Baltimore
by Alan Mosley | Sep 12, 2025 | Featured Articles
Henry Louis Mencken was born in Baltimore on September 12, 1880. After completing only a few years of formal schooling, he taught himself the craft of journalism and, by the age of eighteen, was working as a reporter for the Baltimore Herald. Over the next four...
Trump, India, and the China Hawks’ Horror
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Sep 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For more than two decades, Washington labored to bring India closer—easing sanctions, opening high-tech trade, recognizing India as a responsible nuclear power, and embedding it in U.S.-led Indo-Pacific strategy. From President George W. Bush’s civil nuclear deal and...
For Both Ukraine and Russia, Compromise Aligns With Necessity
by Ted Snider and Nicolai N. Petro | Sep 11, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
As peace in Ukraine struggles to be born after three-and-a-half years of war, necessity prompts each of the participants in different ways. For Ukraine to achieve its best possible outcome, it must find a diplomatic way to avoid outright military defeat. Russia, by...
The Psychology of Corruption
by Alexander Oakes | Sep 10, 2025 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This quote, coined by the British Lord Acton during the late nineteenth century, is beloved by libertarians, and for good reason. In essence, it challenges the notion that any one person, regardless of...
Trump White House Flips Script at FTC
by Norman Singleton | Sep 10, 2025 | Economics, Featured Articles
On August 13, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order repealing predecessor Joe Biden’s July 2021 executive order “Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” The Biden order called for greater enforcement of antitrust laws and other efforts to...
I Helped Israel Propagandize American Christians
by Brandt Burleson | Sep 9, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Sun Tzu wrote, “All warfare is based on deception." You have heard many stories about the Israeli government deceiving and manipulating U.S. officials, steering our country towards funding and even fighting their wars. Let me tell you one more: Israel exploits the...
America’s Vestigial Constitution
by Thomas Eddlem | Sep 9, 2025 | Featured Articles
Does the United States Constitution grant President Donald Trump the power to unilaterally blow up boats of alleged drug smugglers on the high seas? No. “The Congress shall have Power To... To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and...
The Allies Could Have Done More, and Chose Not To
by Clark Patterson | Sep 8, 2025 | Featured Articles, History
Over the last year, a renewed controversy has arisen over the morality of World War II. For the last eighty years, World War II has been sold in the West as "The Good War" in which the United Kingdom and the United States, in spite of committing some war crimes, saved...
Answering Ron Paul’s ‘What If…’ Speech
by James Rushmore | Sep 8, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On February 12, 2009, Dr. Ron Paul (R-TX) delivered one of his most striking speeches on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Since referred to as the “What If…” speech, Paul’s remarks offer a precise distillation of the libertarian critique of U.S. foreign...
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Israel Wants ‘Aerial Corridor’ Over Syria to Strike Iran
Tel Aviv’s primary objective in discussions with Damascus is to establish an aerial corridor over Syria so Israel can restart its war against Iran. Axios reports that Israel presented the Syrian government, led by Ahmed al-Sharaa, with a maximalist agreement that...
Zelensky: Ukraine Needs $60 Billion from Foreign Backers to Pay for War Next Year
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it will cost $120 billion to fund the war against Russia next year, and Kiev will need $60 billion from foreign backers. Ukraine’s Western backers have sent Kiev hundreds of billions in military and financial assistance...
Israeli Attack on Gaza City: Gaza Has Never Been Hit Like This Before
The Israeli war plans for Gaza City call for an “unprecedented” level of destruction. Wall News reported Wednesday that Major General Asor’s battle plans for Gaza City are broken into three stages that include destroying the infrastructure. “The first stage, dubbed...
Trump Backs AG Bondi’s Assertion that Hate Speech Is Not Protected Speech
Attorney General Pam Bondi said that people saying that Charlie Kirk’s assassination was okay are not engaging in free speech. President Donald Trump backed Bondi’s remarks when asked by the press. "There's free speech and then there's hate speech," the Attorney...
Senate Republican Lashes Out at Trump Over ‘Love Affair’ With Putin
Senate Republicans criticized President Donald Trump for not taking an aggressive enough stance towards Russia. The lawmakers want to add more sanctions on Moscow and its trading partners, but have not received a green light from the White House to pass legislation. ...
Maduro: Secretary of State Rubio Is the Lord of Death and War
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro issued a fiery response to the US detaining a fighting boat within Venezuelan waters. He slammed Secretary of State Marco Rubio as the “lord of death and war.” On Sunday, a US warship detained and searched a tuna boat within...
Israeli Officials Claim Trump Knew About Qatar Assassination Plot Before the Attack
Israeli officials are disputing the White House's claim that President Donald Trump was only informed of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plot to assassinate Hamas leadership in Qatar after the missiles were fired. Last week, Israel attempted to assassinate the...
Trump, Treasury Secretary Say Deal to Buy TikTok From China Is Close
President Donald Trump suggested a deal for an American company to buy TikTok from ByteDance could be completed this week when he speaks with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday. “The big Trade Meeting in Europe between The United States of America, and China, has...
68 Palestinians Killed Across Gaza Over 24 Hours
A former IDF chief backed up the Gaza Health Ministry's casualty count The daily massacres in Gaza have continued, with the Gaza Health Ministry reporting 68 deaths across the Strip. Dozens of people were killed by the Israeli bombardment of Gaza City. Officials in...
300,000 Palestinians Forced To Flee as Israeli Strikes Pound Gaza City
The displaced people will be forced to al-Mawasi. A so-called safe zone that Israel has repeatedly bombed Israel has ramped up its military operations in Gaza City, destroying dozens of buildings that Tel Aviv claimed are used by Hamas. Hundreds of thousands of...
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Mass Production Equals Mass Consumption
[R]elative shares in national income have remained substantially constant over the last hundred years. This, however, is true only if we measure them in money. Measured in real terms, relative shares have substantially changed in favor of the lower income groups. This...
Murder
Why would anyone think that condemning a murder must imply any particular judgment about the victim?
Crossing the Rubicon
I am saddened by Charlie Kirk's passing and the method by which he left this life. Whether you agree with him or not, there is never a good reason for this kind of speech cancellation to take place. Kirk took the fight to Ground Zero for American government...
Charlie Kirk’s Assassin Caught
My thoughts on the news that they caught Charlie Kirk's murderer.
Charlie, Iryna, and MMA
My boy Kym is back to discuss the news and MMA.
Violence Did Not Silence the Voice of Charlie Kirk
Charlie Kirk’s last word was “violence,” but his last act, before an act of violence took his life, was an act of non-violence: the act of speaking that word. He died doing what he did all his brief adult life: working to persuade others through peaceful, yet...
Anti-War Blog – “Never Again”
“Never again.” Those words were spoken in the wake of the second world war, the revelation and realisation that a sophisticated, educated and civilsed nation of people could commit atrocities of such a scale. Not merely a genocide, a regime of torture, slavery and...
The F35 Follies: The Grift Keeps on Giving
I took months off to work on other projects and catch up on other business. I'm back. The F35 continues to be the gift that keeps on grifting. The F35B and C models are the Marine Corps Short Takeoff/Vertical Landing (STOVL) and US Navy aircraft respectively. Both the...
Trucking w/Gord
Gord is back to discuss the problems being exposed in the trucking industry.
Capitalism Civilizes
"Participation in capitalist markets and bourgeois virtues has civilized the world. It has 'civilized' the world in more than one of the word's root senses, that is, making it 'citified,' from the mere increase in a rich population. It has too, I claim, as many...