On the Wednesday of the last week of July, a former Florida State University employee approached a man wearing an Israeli Defense Force (IDF) shirt on campus and began berating him for his support of a state she believed was committing genocide. By the next day, she...
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Europe’s Fake ‘Immigrant Crime Wave’ Narrative and Its Salesmen
by Thomas Eddlem | Sep 24, 2025 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
If you could be shown that you were being lied into a narrative about an immigrant crime wave in Britain, would that make you more skeptical of the wider narrative of a refugee crime wave across both Europe and America? Migration Central, one of Britain’s immigration...
My Attempt and Failure to Achieve ‘Interfaith Dialogue’ At the Israeli Consulate
by Brandt Burleson | Sep 23, 2025 | Featured Articles
Though I do not personally identify as a libertarian, one of the things I admire about libertarians is their emphasis on protecting individual rights. Freedom of conscience and freedom of religion are among our most important rights. I’ve made no secret about not...
U.S. Threats to Venezeula Are Ramping Up, Not Down
by Ted Snider | Sep 23, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Reporting has recently emerged that the United States is considering direct strikes on Venezuela that could increase volatility in the region and the risk of war. Under the pretext of disrupting the flow of drugs into the United States by Venezuelan drug cartels, the...
Was the Bolshevik Revolution Inevitable?
by Michael Ellis | Sep 22, 2025 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, History
If you had to pick the single most influential individual of the twentieth century, Vladimir Lenin would almost certainly be in the top of your bracket. While a certain Austrian art student might have a bit more x-factor—as we say in the sales business—the leader of...
Promises Made, Promises Betrayed
by Alan Mosley | Sep 22, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
In his polemical essay Vision of the Anointed, economist Thomas Sowell argues that grand political visions seldom survive contact with reality. Politicians promise to banish war and debt, only to preside over more of both. The bigger the promises, the easier it is to...
TGIF: Social Peace through Government Retrenchment
by Sheldon Richman | Sep 19, 2025 | Economics, Featured, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
For at least 200 years, classical liberals (aka libertarians) have warned that the more power the government wields, the greater the lengths people will go to get their hands on it before their ideological opponents do. This is not rocket science, yet resistance to...
Billionaire Bill Ackman’s Plan to ‘Educate’ America’s Next Elite
by Matt Wolfson | Sep 18, 2025 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
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...
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...
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Israel Destroys Medical Center in Gaza City
An Israeli bomb leveled a six-story medical facility in Gaza City on Tuesday. According to The Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), its medical center was destroyed after Israel ordered its evacuation. PMRS is a Christian Aid organization. Israeli airstrikes...
Israel Expanding Support of Anti-Hamas Militias in Gaza, Including ISIS-Linked Group
Israeli forces are supporting armed Palestinian groups that are opposed to Hamas. The groups have established two areas outside of Hamas' control. One of the militias, Abu Shabab, is tied to the Islamic State. A new Palestinian armed militia, Strike Force Against...
Trump: Ukraine Is in a Position to WIN All of Ukraine Back, Some of Russia
President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that Ukraine is in a position to win the war, and the Russian economy is in trouble. “After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine/Russia Military and Economic situation and, after seeing the Economic trouble it...
NATO Chief Says Bloc May Shoot Down Russian Planes that Violate Allied Airspace
UPDATE: At a press conference with Zelesnky on Tuesday, Trump said NATO should shoot down Russian aircraft that enter alliance airspace. NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said the alliance is prepared to shoot down Russian aircraft that enter the territory of member...
Maduro Sent Letter to Trump Offering Talks to Prevent Conflict
A top Venezuelan official confirmed that President Nicolas Maduro sent a letter to President Donald Trump earlier this month offering talks to prevent a war. The letter was published on Vice President Delcy Rodríguez’s Telegram account on Monday, and dated September...
Kim Says North Korea Open to Talks with US If Demand for Denuclearization Dropped
North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un says he still has “fond memories” of President Donald Trump, and is open to negotiations with Washington under certain conditions. “If the United States drops the absurd obsession with denuclearising us and accepts reality, and...
US Prepares to Sanction ICC in Retaliation for Investigation Into Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
The Donald Trump administration could impose sanctions on the entire International Criminal Court (ICC). The move is a response to the ICC’s investigation into Israeli war crimes in Gaza that have led to an arrest warrant for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ...
US Claims to Kill Senior ISIS Member in Syria
The US and Iraqi forces conducted a joint air raid against the Islamic State in Syria, claiming to kill a senior member of the terrorist organization. A statement released by US Central Command (CENTCOM) on Friday said “forces conducted a raid in Syria that resulted...
Netanyahu Vows to Never Allow Palestinian State
Following several Western countries' support for the creation of a Palestinian state, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised never to allow the two-state solution to occur. On Sunday, the UK, Canada, and Australia officially recognized the state of...
Taliban Respond to Trump’s Threat: US Return to Bagram ‘Not Possible’
President Donald Trump threatened that bad things will happen if the Taliban do not allow the US to reestablish the Bagram Air Base. The Taliban said they would not allow the US to return to the military facility. On Friday, during a press conference with UK Prime...
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Bertolt Brecht’s “A Worker Reads and Asks”
In 1935 while in exile Brecht wrote his poem challenging the aristocracy of history. The belief that events and the entire of human existence occurs because of a great man, the dear leader. In contemporary moments, politicians and influential people are looked at with...
How the CIA Deliberately Allowed Two 9/11 Hijackers Into the US
Tucker Carlson’s new investigative series revisits how the CIA tracked two of the 9/11 hijackers into the US without notifying the FBI.
Max Blumenthal on How Charlie Kirk Rebelled Against His Zionist Controllers
Max Blumenthal explains how Charlie Kirk was controlled by Zionists but started breaking ranks before his assassination.
You Don’t Hate Them Enough
24 years after their last September visit, al-Qaeda has flown into New York again. Now the US and General Petraeus welcome a long-time Al Qaeda leader, on whose head DOJ had a bounty of ten million dollars less than a year ago because he serves the US on the Devil’s...
Veterans Group FOIAs Tennessee Government
Last Monday, Chairman Dan McKnight of Bring Our Troops Home formally submitted a request in both physical and digital form for public records to the Tennessee General Assembly, the Office of the Governor, and the Tennesse Military Department regarding a recent...
The Legacy of Charlie Kirk w/Red Hawk
Red Hawk joins me to discuss how Charlie Kirk’s legacy shapes our future.
Fat Amy Follies Break the Bank
The F35 continues to disappoint. Socialism for the rich, capitalism for everyone else. Incentives matter. You want to see over-promise/under-deliver fixed? Limit total compensation for the top 10 executives in any year they miss their own promises. It's really that...
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...