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News Roundup 12/29/16

by | Dec 29, 2016 |

Trump has given his Supreme Court short list. [Link] The CIA sends a letter admitting that it has not looked at a FOIA request that was sent to the CIA over six years ago. [Link] This article details how al-Qaeda has grown while the world is focused on ISIS and how...

News Roundup 12/19/16

by | Dec 19, 2016 |

California puts emergency regulations in place that ban high-capacity magazines. Citizens will have until July 1 to give up their high-capacity magazines. [Link] US Police have killed 86 people in the past 2 years who had guns that were fake but looked real. 38 of...

Bicoastal Hoity-Toities and the Imperial City

by | Dec 18, 2016 |

As measured by household income, nine of the twenty wealthiest counties in the USA surround metro Washington, D.C., or if you will, the Imperial City. Three of the twenty wealthiest counties are in New Jersey.  My wife and I used to live in one of them, and, to top it...

Wikileaks Releases ‘The Yemen Files’

by | Nov 25, 2016 |

Documents here; Emails here. From https://wikileaks.org/yemen-files/releases/ : "Friday 25th November, WikiLeaks releases The Yemen Files. "The Yemen Files are a collection of over 500 documents from the United States embassy in Sana'a, Yemen. Comprising of over 200...

News Roundup 11/4/2016

by | Nov 4, 2016 |

At least 30 civilians, including children, were killed by NATO airstrikes in Afghanistan. The airstrikes were supporting US and Afghan forces near Kunduz. [Link] 2 US service members were killed while conducting operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan. [Link]...

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The Steady Rise in Living Standards

"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...

Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe

The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...

The Business of America: War, War, War!

Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...

Mises on Wages under Capitalism

"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...

Anti-War Blog – Do They Really Know It’s Christmas?

Every year as the end of December crawls near, the spirit of Christmas grips those sometimes Christians, even atheists join in and celebrate it as a cultural habit and the true believers further confirm their faith. The spirit of celebration is one of joy, community,...

Winter Reading

Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton’s new book is shaking things up and making a stir all at once. Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine is a read it and weep. Or, for the War Party hacks, don’t read it;...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

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Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

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