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IBM Announcement Proves the Blockchain Has Officially Gone Mainstream

by James Holbrooks | Mar 12, 2018 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. In January, tech giant IBM was able to happily report to investors that after 22 consecutive quarters — nearly six years — of declining revenue growth, the company saw gains in the last quarter of 2017. In a news...

SEC Warns of ‘Potentially Unlawful’ Platforms That Trade in Cryptocurrency

by James Holbrooks | Mar 8, 2018 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. A federal crackdown may be looming over the cryptocurrency world. On Wednesday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) published a warning on “potentially unlawful” online platforms used to trade digital...

SEC Warns of 'Potentially Unlawful' Platforms That Trade in Cryptocurrency

by James Holbrooks | Mar 8, 2018 | Blog

For the First Time, A Country Just Made a Cryptocurrency Its Legal Tender

by James Holbrooks | Mar 7, 2018 | Blog

This article originally appeared at Anti-Media's Steemit blog. Republic of the Marshall Islands — In a move that, for anyone following the progress of cryptocurrencies, was truly inevitable, the world’s first country has adopted a digital asset as legal...

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Protecting Vested Interests

"There were and there will always be people whose selfish ambitions demand protection for vested interests and who hope to derive advantage from measures restricting competition. Entrepreneurs grown old and tired and the decadent heirs of people who succeeded in the...

From Savagery to Civilization

"The market economy is a man-made mode of acting under the division of labor. But this does not imply that it is something accidental or artificial and could be replaced by another mode. The market economy is the product of a long evolutionary process. It is the...

Peace on Earth

Peace on Earth is the mantra that we hear, especially now but on and off over the coming year. Those who use violence, will smile it out. Those who profit from war may cheer those words from corporate offices. Those who hate will do so for entire collectives of...

Human Rights Watch: Yes, Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza

A growing body of legal experts and international humanitarian organizations have concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

What Corporatism Actually Is

"The fundamental idea both of guild socialism and of corporativism is that every branch of business forms a monopolistic body, the guild or corporazione. This entity enjoys full autonomy; it is free to settle all its internal affairs without interference of external...

The Pause That Refreshes

I will be spending the holidays with my children and grandchildren at an undisclosed bunker location in the inland Rocky Mountain west and off the 'net until the new year when I will resume blogging at the Institute... Since I paused Chasing Ghosts and started...

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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine

by Scott Horton

Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...

Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War

by Gary Vogler

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...