My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
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Jack Teixeira, the Deep State, and ‘Captured Media’
by Thomas Eddlem | May 25, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Suspected Pentagon documents leaker Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Dighton, Massachusetts Air National Guardsman, allegedly released classified documents without permission about the sobering U.S. intelligence assessment of Ukraine's prospects in the Russo-Ukrainian War...
The Biden Crime Family and Our Corrupt Foreign Aid
by Jim Bovard | May 15, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I know Romanian corruption. When I was exiting the country after investigating its collapsing economy in 1987, I made sure to bribe every guard who searched my luggage at the Bucharest airport with a pack of Kent cigarettes. But I neglected to give a pack to the...
Kent State: The School Shooting the Government Doesn’t Want You to Remember
by Claire Bernish | May 8, 2023 | Featured Articles
On May 4, 1970, a disorganized and nonviolent antiwar protest turned violent and deadly when the Ohio National Guard inexplicably opened fire on students at Kent State University—indelibly polarizing the United States populace to an extreme arguably unabated since....
The Iraq War Is (And Will Always Be) Undefendable
by Ryan McMaken | May 4, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
This spring marks the twentieth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003. After an initial frenzy of war fever in the early years of the war, support for the war has since largely evaporated. Nearly two thirds of veterans now say the war was "not worth...
News Roundup 5/3/2023
by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2023 | News Roundup
US News Over the weekend, President Biden declared “journalism is not a crime” at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, a statement that rings hollow as his Justice Department is seeking the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for exposing US war crimes....
Debt Ceiling Drama Ignores Our Real Fiscal Crisis
by Ron Paul | May 2, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last week the House passed legislation increasing the debt ceiling. The bill was supported by all but four Republicans. For some Republicans, this was the first time they had ever voted for a debt ceiling increase. Perhaps the reason they did so this time was because...
Taiwan’s Leader Meets with John Bolton, Calls for Deeper Ties with US
by Kyle Anzalone | May 1, 2023 | News
Former American national security adviser John Bolton completed a week-long tour of Taiwan by meeting President Tsai Ing-wen. During the meeting, Tsai claimed Taiwan was on the frontline in the fight for democracy and, as such, Taipei needs stronger ties with like-minded nations.
Barack Obama, Progenitor of the Modern African Slave Trade
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | May 1, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Barack Obama was elected president some 143 years after the abolition of slavery in the United States. As teary-eyed African-Americans watched Obama’s 2008 election night speech in Chicago’s Grant Park, none could have imagined that America’s first black president...
Samantha Power, High Priestess of Insidious Authoritarianism
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Apr 26, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Most people who remember Samantha Power know her either as a pro-war propagandist masquerading as a journalist in Bosnia or as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s loyal servant in helping to orchestrate the Obama administration’s disastrous military interventions in...
Bannon, Guo, Yan: Where a Populist Right Idol Gets His Funding
by Kyle Matovcik | Apr 24, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
As we roll into the 2024 political season, you can rest assured the political right will be posturing more and more against China, while rightfully calling for an end to Ukraine aid. This trend was highlighted by a long line of recent Republican congressional and...
The Truth Will Set You Free (Unless You Leak Government Secrets)
by William Anderson | Apr 20, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Most readers might not remember Daniel Ellsberg, but for those of us who came of age during the Vietnam War, the maelstrom that formed around him and his actions helped to define that era. Ellsburg, of course, is famous because he leaked a number of internal...
Senator Manchin Travels to Ukraine, Calls for ‘Defeat of Putin’
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 12, 2023 | News
A group of three influential senators traveled to Kiev and met with President Volodymyr Zelensky. Accompanied by country music singer Brad Paisley, the lawmakers called for the defeat of Russian President Vladimir Putin and pledged more weapons for Ukraine.
America’s Mission in Ukraine is Creeping Towards World War III
by Brian Clark | Apr 12, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In February 2022, when Vladimir Putin sent 200,000 of his troops to topple the Ukrainian government, the Biden administration was quick to respond. Within days of the invasion, it approved $350 million worth of weapons to be sent to Ukraine, as well as a series of...
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A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
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