https://youtu.be/qNiy2NfVQWg For centuries before, Europeans had enslaved other Europeans, Asians had enslaved other Asians and Africans had enslaved other Africans. Only in the modern era was there both the wealth and the technology to organize the mass...
Immigrants
TGIF: Immigration Foes, What’s the Beef?
by Sheldon Richman | Feb 24, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
If people are going to hate on immigrants, they should at least get their stories straight. Do immigrants take our jobs or do they sponge off us through welfare? Today, let's talk about jobs. Recently I was listening to Spiked's Brendan O'Neill interview Batya...
The 2100 B.C. Project
by Keith Knight | Feb 11, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized
[M]ore importantly to force us to grapple with what it means that slavery is one of the oldest institutions in our country that few things outdate African slavery and yet we've treated this as a marginal story so at its heart the 1619 project is the story of America...
Food Truck Owners Punished After Police Open Fire on a Crowd on Bystanders
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 24, 2022 | Blog
In July, a Denver police officer saw a man in a crowd carrying a gun. A group of cops responded by opening fire, injuring six people. Rather than addressing the police officers who fired on a group of innocent people, the city has responded by restricting where food...
TGIF: Heartless Immigration Restrictions Need Replacing
by Sheldon Richman | Jun 3, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Some elements of the right-wing are spreading the fear that Democrats are engineering a take-over of America by replacing white voters with nonwhites through liberal immigration policies. It's come to be known as "the great replacement," and in its ugliest form, it is...
New Report Reveals ICE Spent Billions Spying on Americans
by Kyle Anzalone | May 10, 2022 | News Roundup
Immigration and Customs Enforcement spent $2.8 billion to surveil Americans from 2008 to 2021. The report titled “American Dragnet: Data-Driven Deportation in the 21st Century” from the Georgetown Law Center for Privacy and Technology details how ICE used warrantless,...
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...
News Roundup 12/2/2021
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
US News The Trump and Biden Administrations awards billions in covid contracts to medical companies that had recent histories of producing dangerously flawed products. [Link] Biden will extend mask mandates on planes, busses, and trains through March. [Link] The...
‘Trooper of the Year’ Sentenced to 17.5 Years for Producing, Distributing Child Porn
by Matt Agorist | Nov 9, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In 2018, Louisiana State Police Trooper of 18 years, Jason Boyet received one of the department’s highest honors—Trooper of the Year. Fast forward two years, and this hero cop was thrown in a jail cell after being arrested on charges of production and distribution of...
Revealed: LAPD Officers Told To Collect Social Media Data On Every Civilian They Stop
by Steven Woskow | Sep 9, 2021 | Blog
Spend a little time reading articles at The Free Thought Project - are these the people you want to have all your social media info? "The Los Angeles police department (LAPD) has directed its officers to collect the social media information of every civilian they...
TGIF: A Refreshing Way to Think about Immigration
by Sheldon Richman | May 7, 2021 | Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
What I'm going to say about Chandran Kukathas's latest book, Immigration and Freedom, does not constitute a book review. Think of it instead as a book alert. Even having read only the preface and a couple of chapters, I am confident it is a book that fans of liberty...
Biden Is Rejecting Trump’s Border Wall But Not Border Control
by Steven Woskow | Feb 3, 2021 | Blog
He favors a technological wall using biometric data, surveillance, artificial intelligence, drones, facial recognition, cameras and radar. Expect this to start at the border and spread into the country. High-tech border control in a constitution free zone. President...
Mark Perry: The Revenge Of Colonel Douglas Macgregor
by Steven Woskow | Nov 15, 2020 | Blog
Mark Perry at Responsible Statecraft Macgregor, a West Point graduate, is an acquired taste: outspoken and controversial. He has flagged reporters with his statements about immigrants (we need martial law at the U.S.-Mexico border), Iranians (we need to look for areas...
Immigration Nation
by Steven Woskow | Aug 5, 2020 | Blog
The new Netflix series that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) tried to legally block. Although Clusiau and Schwartz make liberal use of text slates for statistics, Immigration Nation is mostly devoid of other context and narration. Instead, interview...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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