"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting."– Sun Tzu On March 12, 2006 five U.S. soldiers violated, then murdered, 14-year-old Abeer Hamza in her home at...
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Inflation Is Robbing Your Pocket, Whether You Realize Or Not
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jan 5, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
All across the economic dashboard, inflation indicators are blinking red. Most recently, the Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) index, calculated by the Bureau of Economic Analysis, rose 5.7% from November 2020 to November 2021. That’s the biggest year-over-year...
Drop Your Left vs Right Blinders
by Gary Galles | Jan 3, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
As a libertarian, I have long objected to being characterized on a left-right political spectrum (as with studies of political affiliations that group libertarians with republicans or conservatives on the right). In response to inquiries about where I fit in that...
TGIF: Pursue Your Happiness and Forget the Rest
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 31, 2021 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
How about we do something novel in the new year? Let's stop worrying about the stuff most politicians, pundits, and activists want us to worry about and instead think about ourselves, our families, our friends, and whatever communities we choose to be part of. Let's...
Vaccines, Autonomy, and Mandates: A Libertarian Analysis
by David D'Amato | Dec 30, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Prefatory Note Given the subject matter discussed below, I believe it prudent to state at the outset that I am not at all opposed to vaccinations themselves: indeed, I have received a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as all other normal-course vaccinations recommended for...
For One Day, Protestors Stopped the War Machine
by Jim Bovard | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I’ve attended most of the major antiwar protests in Washington since 9/11. At a 2005 protest, a cop tried to whack me on the head with a wooden pole. At a 2007 protest, I snapped a picture showing George W. Bush hanging next to the U.S. Capitol. But my favorite...
Episode 676: The Life Of Libertarian Hero John Randolph Of Roanoke w/ Patrick Newman
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 26, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
50 Minutes Suitable For All Ages Patrick Newman is a Professor of economics at Florida Southern College and a Mises Institute Fellow. He is the author of the new book, "Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849." Patrick comes back on the show to talk...
Propaganda Analysis: The Constitution of North Korea
by Keith Knight | Dec 26, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/9jNnegkLdtY ...the public obviously believes that the ideology of the people who serve as judges influences the way the law is interpreted. This, however, in no way prevents people from simultaneously regarding the law as a body of definite,...
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Nearly 2,000 Children Killed in Ukraine, Over 15,000 in Gaza
Guess which one has been described by US government officials as a “genocide”.
Niger Tells Americans To Leave: American Influence in Africa will be Non-existent in Ten Years
More please. More State Department behavior like this will reduce the American footprint of influence planet-wide. “[Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine] said the Nigerian leaders took particular umbrage at remarks by Molly Phee, the State Department’s top...
The Logic of It All
This is how some people think: Business has long used the government to gain benefits it could not get in the marketplace. I have the cure for that: Abolish the market and expand the government to encompass all of society.
Another Aspect of the Eternal Intelligence Failure in the West
Had a brain zephyr. I know this because I am on the spectrum. The intelligence community (IC) hires high IQ but neuro-divergent individuals who have difficulty with tone and context and that colors reporting, assessments and final analyses. Couple that with...
What Is Easy and What Is Not Easy
It is easy to oppose Israel's massacre in the Gaza Strip. Just watch a few horrifying videos. What is not easy is understanding the price system, its prerequisites -- private property and free exchange -- and its benefits for mankind, including civil peace.
Firing Blanks: The Pentagon as a Fiscal Disaster Factory
I have mentioned previously that the introduction of all the latest and greatest western weapons in the inventory given to the Ukraine would have some very deleterious effects in the future. One was permitting possible future antagonists to observe and and take...
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