"Shut up and submit” is now the favorite COVID cure of some of America’s leading progressives. Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist, revealed on Tuesday that since freedom is a mirage, people have no good reason not to comply with endless...
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Biden’s New Budget Busting Bill
by Jim Bovard | Aug 3, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
Since the 1800s, surly Americans have derided politicians for spending tax dollars “like drunken sailors.” Until recently, that was considered a grave character fault. But Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan Act shows that inebriated spending is now the path to national...
The Political Prisoners of January 6th
by Ron Paul | Jul 29, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
The recent felony conviction and eight month prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless of political persuasion should...
“Independent” Media Sells America’s New Cold War Ep. 176 ft. Connor Freeman
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jul 26, 2021 | Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/kFwjOrInBYU Connor Freeman is a writer at the Libertarian Institute, where he covers issues in noninterventionist foreign policy, focusing on the middle east and America's new cold war footing against Russia and China. His writing has also appeared at...
Leaked: How GOP Insiders Torpedoed Attempt To Add ’28 Pages’ Declassification to Party Platform
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jul 26, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
According to leaked emails obtained by Middle East Eye, an unnamed Republican Party figure orchestrated the defeat of a proposed 2016 GOP plank calling for the declassification of 28 pages on Saudi government links to the 9/11 plotters. That individual then notified...
America’s Gubernatorial Dictatorships
by Jim Bovard | Jul 15, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
There are no fact-checkers for victory laps. Last week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo summarized his experience with the COVID-19 crisis: “Speaking for myself, it was a tremendous personal benefit.” Cuomo made that declaration in a speech concluding his one-year...
American Historians Misjudge American Presidents
by Hunter DeRensis | Jul 7, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
"They adored him as no man in a democracy deserves to be adored,” Walter Lippmann wrote, describing progressive worshippers of Theodore Roosevelt in 1916. American historians suffer from the same malady, a predisposition to hero-worshipping chief executives (T.R....
“Stain of the Century?” An Investigation of Uyghur Genocide Allegations Ep. 173
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jul 5, 2021 | Foreign Policy, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://youtu.be/Ax8uPZLINvQ In the midst of the United States' renewed great power competition with Russia and China, the western foreign policy establishment has launched a sustained propaganda campaign to steel the American public into supporting...