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Bipartisan House Bill Pushes to End US Intervention in Yemen

by Will Porter | Jun 4, 2022 | News Roundup

US lawmakers have introduced a measure to end all American involvement in the war in Yemen, where Washington has heavily backed a Saudi-led military coalition despite repeated charges of indiscriminate civilian bombings for years on end.

Whose Libertarian Party?

by Jeremy Kauffman | Jun 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Op Eds, Politics

This last weekend, the Mises Caucus, a coalition within the Libertarian Party, was elected to all national positions within the party. For some, Mises control caused consternation: Aaron Ross Powell is a research fellow at the Cato Institute, a premier libertarian...

Hearing the Other Side: Libertarian Interviews Progressive (Bob Fenster & Keith Knight)

by Keith Knight | Jun 1, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/ehul8IB1E_8 Defenders of free enterprise do not believe in a perfect administration under a market economy. Rather, we do not believe in the possibility of such. To the extent imperfect decision-making is accepted, we then seek to solve for who has...

5/25/22 Mark Thornton on Paper Money, Housing Bubbles and Free Trade

by Scott Horton | May 31, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott is joined by Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, to discuss an article he wrote recently on the current housing bubble. They begin by discussing the damage that unbacked government-managed paper money does to the United...

5/25/22 Peter Van Buren on Michael Sussmann and the Unraveling of Russiagate

by Scott Horton | May 30, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott interviews Peter Van Buren about his most recent article at the Libertarian Institute. They discuss the developments with Michael Sussmann who Special Counsel John Durham brought to trial for allegedly lying to the FBI. Their conversation...

I Attended a Marxist University and Became a Capitalist! (w/ Brad Polumbo)

by Keith Knight | May 29, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/NWssd_IuklE To the extent that the years between the end of World War II and today are a story of competing economic visions, the short version is this: Karl Marx was wrong, and Milton Friedman was right. Market-oriented reforms over the past several...

5/24/22 Chas Freeman on America’s Messy Taiwan Policy

by Scott Horton | May 28, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott is joined by Chas Freeman to discuss the history of U.S. policy concerning Taiwan. And they talk about President Biden’s recent press conference where he misstated the official U.S. policy on Taiwan for the fourth time as president. ...

COI #281: America Is on the Highway to Great Power Wars

by Kyle Anzalone | May 26, 2022 | Conflicts of Interest

On COI #281, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover the Democrats’ lockstep anti-Russia hawkishness, the Blob’s refusal to hit the brakes, and the next target: China. Connor breaks down hist latest column for the Libertarian Institute, the article discusses the...

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Biden’s Middle East Legacy: Reality or Illusion? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show

In this episode of the Kyle Anone Show, we unpack the narratives being crafted by officials in the waning days of the Biden administration. Jade Sullivan's recent interview with Ian Bremmer reveals surprising developments in the Middle East that have shaped our...

Competition Is Cooperation

"The pricing process is a social process. It is consummated by an interaction of all members of the society. All collaborate and cooperate, each in the particular role he has chosen for himself in the framework of the division of labor. Competing in cooperation and...

Anti-War Blog – “The world is so beautiful. Let me leave calmly…”

“That's it, mum, goodbye,” he is dying, dead, a Ukrainian soldier in his last moments caught on helmet camera makes his peace. The eight minutes leading up to his death have been shared on social media, a close combat struggle between him and his Russian counterpart....

Crucial Economic Calculation

"The advocates of totalitarianism consider 'capitalism' a ghastly evil, an awful illness that came upon mankind. In the eyes of Marx it was an inevitable stage of mankind’s evolution, but for all that the worst of evils; fortunately salvation is imminent and will free...

If You Read One Book This Year

Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell This new year, please take the time to read this book, one of the most important books for my thinking in my lifetime. It speaks to my observation on war being a collision of complex adaptive systems informed by “institutional...

Which Came First: The Individual or the Group?

"It is illusory to believe that it is possible to visualize collective wholes. They are never visible; their cognition is always the outcome of the understanding of the meaning which acting men attribute to their acts. We can see a crowd, i.e., a multitude of people....