The defense of property is a relatively undisputed right of the citizenry. If someone threatens the safety of you or your family, or insinuates a threat by trespassing, breaking and entering, or burglarizing your property most people won’t blink at the use of force in...
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How Freedom Helps us Cooperate to Achieve Superabundance
by Gale Pooley and Marian L. Tupy | Sep 1, 2022 | Featured Articles
The following is a summary of Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Plant by Marian L. Tupy and Gale Pooley, reprinted with permission. In the first part of this book, the human propensity toward...
TGIF: National or Enlightenment Liberal Identity?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I find much to admire about Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch-American scholar, author, and one-time politician who has drawn international attention to the violence against women and girls not only in Muslim-majority countries but also in the West at the hands...
4/2/21 Immortal Technique on Slavery, Israel-Palestine and the Politicization of American Society
by Scott Horton | Apr 4, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews rapper Immortal Technique in a wide-ranging conversation covering the legacy of slavery in America, the false narrative about Palestine fed to most Americans and the ways that politics has become entwined in daily life like never before. He and Scott...
11/27/20 Stephen Zunes on Joe Biden’s Foreign Policy
by Scott Horton | Nov 29, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Stephen Zunes about Joe Biden's track record on foreign policy, and its potential implications for his presidency. Zunes rehashes some of the bad parts of Biden's record, beginning with his support for the invasion of Iraq. Although many Democrats voted...
8/7/20 Stephen Zunes on Susan Rice’s Pro-War Establishment Credentials
by Scott Horton | Aug 8, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Stephen Zunes about Susan Rice, one of the leading candidates for Joe Biden's VP pick. Rice fits Biden's criteria in that she's a black woman with political experience, but Zunes raises serious concerns about her track record. In particular, Rice turned...
The State in a State of Tantrum
by Scott Shearin | Feb 10, 2020 | Blog
People today, worldwide, are a wealthier lot than any previous collection of humans that have ever existed upon the planet. People today are living longer than any previous generation to come before us. A LOT longer. People today are insanely more literate and...
1/24/20 Stephen Zunes: Today’s US-Iran Crisis Is Rooted in the Decision to Invade Iraq
by Scott Horton | Jan 24, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Stephen Zunes discusses the catastrophic mistake of the U.S. plan to invade Iraq, then "divide and rule" along sectarian lines. Zunes says that although the relationship between Iran and the Iraqi Shiite government is a problem for those who worry about Iranian...
VA Declares State of Emergency to Stop ‘Serious Threats of Armed Militias Storming Capitol’
by Matt Agorist | Jan 16, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism
Richmond, VA — Since last month, tensions have been escalating in Virginia as lawmakers prepared a slew of gun laws that would have drastically changed the landscape of the state’s view on the Second Amendment. Protests have erupted, police officers have parted ways...
The IRS or The Libertarian Institute?
by Scott Horton | Jan 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Scott Horton
Friends, We should be so lucky to somehow know that the government has only wasted all the money they've stolen from us over the years, rather than doing something horrible to someone with it. America's completely insane and criminal income taxation system has one...
The Christmas Truce of World War I
by Will Grigg | Dec 21, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Will Grigg
For a tragically short time, the Spirit of the Prince of Peace drowned out the murderous demands of the State. n August 1914, Europe's major powers threw themselves into war with gleeful abandon. Germany, a rising power with vast aspirations, plowed across Belgium,...
Israel Bombs Several Countries Ahead of Elections
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 28, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #392, I discuss a string of Israeli bombing across the Middle East. In Iraq, the US has disclosed Israel is targeting the Popular Mobilization Forces. The PMF is a Shia fought against IS and received support from the US and Iran. In Syria, Israel targeted...
8/9/19 Hunter DeRensis on the Dangerous Foreign Policy of ‘National Conservatism’
by Scott Horton | Aug 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Hunter DeRensis about the National Conservatism Conference, part of a movement that DeRensis describes as trying to come up with intellectual rationalizations for Trumpism after the fact. Crucially, this new national conservatism movement did not...
Ethical Consistency, Does It Really Matter?
by Jared Nordin | Aug 6, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
We see or hear it all the time. Whether we're on social media or having a conversation with a friend or family member, you may hear something like this, your redneck coworker may say, "We just need to turn the middle east into a sheet of glass!" Meanwhile, your...
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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...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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