The FCC looks to roll back Obama-era net neutrality regulations. [Link] Patrick Cockburn explains how the US and Saudi Arabia could cause war in the Middle East. [Link] The US has added nearly 14,000 troops and contractors to the Middle East in the past four months....
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Continued Intervention in South America
by Javier Quiros | Nov 21, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite his anti-establishment reputation, Trump is continuing the U.S. empire tradition of threatening regime change and meddling in other countries’ affairs, not only in the Middle East and Africa, but now with a focus on South America as well. The Trump...
Republican Tax Reform Plan: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
by Laurence Vance | Nov 14, 2017 | Featured Articles
Last month I did a preliminary libertarian analysis of the Republicans’ newest tax-reform plan. I concluded that their “Unified Framework For Fixing Our Broken Tax Code” left us with too many unanswered questions to render a verdict. Now the Republicans have issued...
Searching for a Doctor, Hair Stylist, and Auto Mechanic
by Craig Cantoni | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
In preparing for our move this coming January from our current home in metro Phoenix to our new home in metro Tucson, my wife Kim and I were recently in Tucson to find a new family doctor, a new hair stylist for her, and a new auto mechanic. These were stressful...
Due Process Is Fading Away. Thank the National Security State
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Nov 13, 2017 | Featured Articles
Equating mere allegations of misconduct with definitive evidence is a growing habit in the United States. That tendency is most prevalent regarding national security matters, and the trend has been building since the onset of the so-called war on terror following the...
GOP Tax Plan Increases the Most Insidious Tax
by Ron Paul | Nov 6, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
Last Thursday, congressional Republicans unveiled their tax reform legislation. On the same day, President Trump nominated current Federal Reserve Board Governor Jerome Powell to succeed Janet Yellen as Federal Reserve chair. While the tax plan dominated the...
A Day in the Life of the Empire
by Charles Goyette | Nov 3, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 9, 2015 President Obama formally declared a new national emergency. Most Americans went about their business that day without ever suspecting that what the White House called “an unusual and extraordinary threat to our national security” had suddenly popped...
Going After Iran Would Confirm to the World the US Is a Rogue State
by Emma Ashford and John Glaser | Oct 11, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
During the 2017 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump was open about his hostility toward Iran and his disdain for the Obama administration’s diplomacy with that country. Since January, the Trump administration has been engaged in an Iran policy review....
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What Corporatism Actually Is
"The fundamental idea both of guild socialism and of corporativism is that every branch of business forms a monopolistic body, the guild or corporazione. This entity enjoys full autonomy; it is free to settle all its internal affairs without interference of external...
The Pause That Refreshes
I will be spending the holidays with my children and grandchildren at an undisclosed bunker location in the inland Rocky Mountain west and off the 'net until the new year when I will resume blogging at the Institute... Since I paused Chasing Ghosts and started...
Good Plan Means My Plan
"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...
Who Needs What?
"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...
Whose Plan?
"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...
What Full Liberalism Is Not About
"Liberalism is a doctrine directed entirely towards the conduct of men in this world. In the last analysis, it has nothing else in view than the advancement of their outward, material welfare and does not concern itself directly with their inner, spiritual and...
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