Sheldon Richman Articles

TGIF: The Man Behind the Curtain

by | Jan 13, 2017

Although the Grateful Dead told us that "every silver lining's got a touch of grey" (lyric by Robert Hunter), it's my nature to look for one anyway. At the risk of being accused of gross naivete, I'd like to hope that the Trump presidency (I still can't believe I have...

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Br’er Rabbit and the Neocons

by | Jan 13, 2017

Considering the hawkishness of Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson and Secretary of Defense-designate James Mattis, the neocons' opposition to Donald Trump looks more like Br'er Rabbit's opposition to the briar patch.

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Search and Replace

by | Jan 12, 2017

The declassified intel report on the hacking of the DNC/Podesta accounts contains this sentence: “By their nature, Russian influence campaigns are multifaceted and designed to be deniable because they use a mix of agents of influence, cutouts, front organizations, and...

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Our Peace President

by | Jan 12, 2017

"In President Obama’s last year in office, the United States dropped 26,171 bombs in seven countries. This estimate is undoubtedly low, considering reliable data is only available for airstrikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya, and a single “strike,” according...

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US Created Cyberwarfare

by | Jan 12, 2017

"One can reasonably argue that Washington started the practice of cyber-warfare and has been a long-time practitioner of both regime change and election tampering in its relationship with much of the world.... Stepping back a bit, it is difficult to avoid the...

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Your Tax Dollars at Work

by | Jan 12, 2017

“Judgments are not intended to imply that we have proof that shows something to be a fact.” -- "Declassified Intelligence Community Assessment of Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections," Appendix B, Estimative Language

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Thanks for the Candor, Chuck

by | Jan 11, 2017

“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this.” --Sen. Charles Schumer, re Donald Trump

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Bovard to Trump: Open Obama’s Secret Records

by | Jan 6, 2017

My old friend Jim Bovard, a one-man watchdog against government wrongdoing, wisely calls on incoming president Donald Trump "to open the books and expose how the Obama administration commandeered far more power than most Americans realized." Bovard specifically refers...

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Grounds for Impeachment

by | Jan 5, 2017

David Swanson points out an irony on the eve of Donald Trump's inauguration: possibly real grounds for impeachment on Day 1 are being given a backseat to the groundless hysteria about Russian President Vladimir Putin's alleged interference with the presidential...

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TGIF: What’s a Secular Heretic to Do?

by | Dec 16, 2016

Secular and religion-based political systems can bear an uncanny resemblance. Observing their respective dogmas, catechisms, and sacraments, we might even wonder, with William Cavanaugh, whether the divide is as sharp as we commonly think. Recent events certainly call...

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Ralph Raico, RIP

by | Dec 13, 2016

  My old friend and mentor Ralph Raico has died. He was 80. I cannot adequately describe how much I learned from him over the years: about liberalism, about how to be a historian, about how to lecture, about how to be an honest scholar. I will miss his wisdom, his...

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Commerce Promotes Peace, But …

by | Dec 13, 2016

"They who propose to influence by force the traffic of the world, forget that affairs of trade, like matters of conscience, change their very nature if touched by the hand of violence; for as faith, if forced, would no longer be religion, but hypocrisy, so commerce...

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Sheldon Richman

Sheldon Richman is the executive editor of The Libertarian Institute and a contributing editor at Antiwar.com. He is the former senior editor at the Cato Institute and Institute for Humane Studies; former editor of The Freeman, published by the Foundation for Economic Education; and former vice president at the Future of Freedom Foundation. His latest books are Coming to Palestine and What Social Animals Owe to Each Other.

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