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The Eternal Panopticon: The State as Predator

by Bill Buppert | Mar 27, 2024 | Blog

Lizard Farmer did an excellent synopsis of how the state stalks its prey. The observations are older but still germane. If London had this technology in 1770, America would not have been born and Paul Revere, the Committees of Correspondence and his colleagues would...

The Antiwar Comic: Torture Still Doesn’t Work

by Tony DiGerolamo | Nov 10, 2018 | Blog

Hey, fellow Liberty-lovers. We're back with another installment. To get caught up on all the comics you missed, visit The Webcomic Factory.

The Antiwar Comic: This is What He Wants

by Tony DiGerolamo | Sep 9, 2017 | Blog

In many ways, it doesn't surprise me that Trump wants this. No skin off his back, right? Still, would've been nice of him to close it. For a few minutes during the campaign, I thought he might just to spite Obama. For more comics, visit The Webcomic...

Black Sites, Torture, and Death: New CIA Deputy Director Has Done It All

by James Holbrooks | Feb 25, 2017 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Washington — As neocons celebrate Donald Trump’s selection of General H.R. McMaster to replace Michael Flynn as national security advisor, the Department of Justice on Wednesday sought to block the deposition of...

News Roundup 2/6/17

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog

The Trump Administration is walking back its plans to reopen CIA black sites. [Link] The US military underreports the number of airstrikes it conducts by the thousands. [Link] The US has agreed to a $8.5 billion deal with Lockheed Martian to buy 90 F-35As. The cost is...

Jose Rodriguez, Who Ran Bush’s Torture Program, On Short List to Head CIA

by Scott Horton | Nov 11, 2016 | Blog

"Donald Trump may select Jose Rodriguez, one of the primary architects of the George W. Bush torture program, to run the Central Intelligence Agency, according to a law firm with close ties to Trump. Rodriguez, the former director of the National Clandestine Service,...

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Restricting Production

"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...

Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving

Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...

“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital

"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...

Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink

The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...

US Forces Booted Out of Niger

2024 is the end of the ten year lease after expending $110 million to build and $30 million a year to maintain the base. The French forces were booted in October 2023. American troops are leaving now and the German troops will leave in September. The military regimes...

They Hate Our Freedom

They Hate Our Freedom Near the end of 2022,[1] the government finally released the notes from the 9/11 Commission’s interview of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from April 29, 2004. Would you believe it turns out the president admitted that his...

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Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism

by Keith Knight

Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...

Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania

by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.

FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...