In an email to my father on July 18th, 2013 from my computer on Forward Operating Base Wolverine, I wrote, “This country is the hopeless dream of arrogant experts.” To this day, that line sums up my feelings about the entire war in Afghanistan. Now that the war is...
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Twenty Years of Tracking U.S. ‘Progress’ In Afghanistan
by Jim Bovard | Nov 8, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The 20-year U.S. war in Afghanistan ended with a bang in August as a terrorist attack killed a dozen Marines at the Kabul airport. For almost 20 years, The Future of Freedom Foundation has been one of the few organizations that stalwartly criticized the Afghanistan...
The Truth About Slavery – Thomas Sowell, Ph.D.
by Keith Knight | Nov 6, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/0tur_Zpvl8I Slavery is one of the oldest and most universal of all human institutions. Slavery has existed among peoples around the world, as far back as recorded history goes— and archaeological explorations suggest that it existed before human...
Don’t Let the Government ID Your Medical Records
by Ron Paul | Nov 3, 2021 | Featured Articles
If people who torture animals are psychopaths, then what are government officials who use taxpayer dollars to fund animal torture? Many are asking this question in the wake of revelations that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, headed by Dr....
10/28/21 End of the Empire – Julian Assange, Havana Syndrome and the legendary Will Grigg – Episode 5
by Scott Horton | Nov 2, 2021 | End of the Empire
Scott and Pete are back for episode 5 of End of the Empire. The two discuss the legacy of the great Will Grigg. Just about all of Will’s work can be found at the Libertarian Institute website and is absolutely worth checking out. Scott and Pete also have a lengthy...
Weren’t the Police Supposed to Be Defunded or Something?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 2, 2021 | Peter Quinones
What should’ve been an obvious propaganda campaign/slogan to most, didn’t even turn into the conversation libertarians would’ve wanted to have: if you’re going to defund the police, or even replace them, what are you replacing them with? The overwhelming majority of...
Natural Resources Make Countries Rich – DEBUNKED
by Keith Knight | Oct 29, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/NUjIIBjxQAE Indeed, even the capacity to discover natural resources depends upon institutions; countries with market-oriented institutions are far better at discovering their natural resources than countries with non-market institutions. Jason...
Imperialism Made the West Rich – DEBUNKED
by Keith Knight | Oct 26, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/COc7hvB8TpE ...nations are made up of different people with different levels of power and different interests. The benefits of the empire-building were concentrated among the politically well-connected few, such as weapons makers, certain monopoly...
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About Bloody Time They Let Him Go…BUT…
“About Bloody Time,” the common Aussie utters to the news that Assange is now free. They are letting Assange go free, to return to Australia. The condition was that he had to reach a plea deal. Admit he was guilty. A compromise that removes a man from his legal limbo,...
The Continuing US Icebreaker Fiasco
There will be no more new US icebreakers. There is no capability in the manufacturing base. There are no industrial design talent stacks or ability to build icebreakers that work under government contracts. The shipyard throughput is a little above zero. The Arctic is...
Kyle Anzalone on the Tom Woods Show!
Our very own news editor Kyle Anzalone has hit the Big Time. Check out his first (but surely not last) appearance on the Tom Woods Show, where he discussed all the latest in foreign policy news, from the Middle East to Eastern Europe.
The Yemeni Mouse That Roared
The picture above is the anti-ship missile employed by the Houthi in Yemen. American taxpayers have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on the world's most advanced naval force. The U.S.-led campaign against the Houthi rebels, overshadowed by the Israel-Hamas war in...
American Zampolit: The Coprophilia Military Media Complex
The Modern War Institute at West Point, like the War on the Rocks website, has been institutionally captured by a curious hybrid of left-wing culture warriors and the neoconservative "war on the world" fetishists. I used to have great admiration for a considerable...
Justin Raimondo Speech, ‘Why War Matters’
Our Anti-Imperialist Heritage Audio: From the Rothbard-Rockwell Conference in November 1995. Thanks to Pete.
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