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Tariffs Are Not the Answer

by Ron Paul | Mar 12, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

President Trump’s planned 25 percent tariff on steel imports and 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports may provide a temporary boost for those industries, but the tariffs will do tremendous long-term damage to the American and global economies. Tariffs raise the price...

Capitalism’s Biggest Enemies Are Capitalists

by Randall Holcombe | Jan 24, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles

For most of human history, mankind’s standard of living remained perilously close to a bare subsistence level. Then, a few hundred years ago, capitalism brought with it the Industrial Revolution that has generated unprecedented economic progress. Capitalism is by far...

7/17/17 Kelley B. Vlahos: the Insidious Nuclear Weapons Industry

by Damon Hatheway | Jul 18, 2017 | Hotter Than the Sun, The Scott Horton Show

Kelley B. Vlahos joins Scott to discuss her latest article on the failures of the nuclear weapons industry for the American Conservative Magazine, "Dr. Strangelove and the Los Alamos Nuclear Fiasco". Vlahos details how the government has corporatized nuclear labs with...

Massive Corporate Consolidation of Local Media Underway

by James Holbrooks | May 13, 2017 | Blog

In a deal that will allow one broadcasting company to reach 72 percent of U.S. households, it was reported this week that Sinclair Broadcast Group is buying Tribune Media for nearly $4 billion. Such a move wouldn’t have been possible a few weeks back, but...

The US Tax Code: Welfare for Accountants

by Eric Schuler | Apr 4, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

The US income tax system has earned an appropriately notorious reputation. Each year around this time, Americans go through the unpleasant tradition of gathering up their paperwork, transferring numbers from one set of government forms to another, and answering...

Steve Bannon Believes Winter Is Coming

by Dan Sanchez | Feb 15, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics

"History is seasonal and winter is coming.” No, that’s not a Game of Thrones quote. It’s the last line of a 2010 documentary called Generation Zero, written and directed by Steven K. Bannon. Perhaps you’ve heard of him. Bannon is President Donald Trump’s senior...

The Sordid Truth about Tuition Loans

by Craig Cantoni | Jan 27, 2017 | Blog

Want to know the truth about student loans? Good luck. As with so many emotionally-loaded and politically-charged issues of the day, it’s nearly impossible for someone to know the full truth about student loans. By the time the issue is run through the propaganda...

Mike Pence Thinks the “Free Market” Is Making You Poor

by Brittany Hunter | Dec 11, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles

Vice President-elect Mike Pence has no idea what the term “free market” means, or at least, that is what his most recent statement would suggest. Defending President-elect Trump’s $7 million deal with Carrier, Pence recently stated, “the free market has been sorting...

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The Aircraft Carrier is the Crossbow and Chariot of the Modern Age

The US Navy, of course, is desperately trying to get authorization to build more Ford-class carriers. Ironic that they name the carrier after a violence broker famous for being rather clumsy and unable to navigate around. The first of class doesn't work properly: it...

Here’s an Idea

If you can't tell the difference between 2024 America and 1930s Germany, let's not have a conversation, okay?

Meanwhile, Over in Sadist Land

Palestinian baby rescued from dead mother’s womb dies in Gaza hospital

Kyle Anzalone on Judge Nap: US Troops to Ukraine?

Watch Kyle's latest appearance on Judge Napolitano's show 'Judging Freedom.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG37NaExv_0

If Israel’s Apologists Insist ‘From the River to the Sea’ Is Genocidal…

Apologists for Israel’s genocide in Gaza reject freedom for Palestinians and insist on Israel’s continued existence as a Jewish supremacist state.

I Met a Man

Located nearly three hours drive from Adelaide, the property rested in the South-East. The nearest township a good thirty minutes if you pushed your vehicle over dirty unselaed road. It was a job that a mate threw my way, help out some old timers that he knew through...

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