https://youtu.be/K5j4_CwtW8I On November 4th, the Kansas City, MO Health Department sent police to confiscate food that was to be distributed to homeless people, throwing it in trash bags and pouring bleach on it to make it inedible, Fox 32 reports. The food,...
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21 Years of the Global War on Terror
by Dan McKnight | Oct 7, 2022 | Blog
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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...
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Lunatic With a Plan: Erdogan and Turkey’s Economic Woes
by Tom Luongo | Dec 28, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Since the first assault on Turkey’s finances in 2018, which I wrote about multiple times (here, here, and here), I’ve been the lone voice telling everyone that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is a lunatic but he’s a lunatic with a plan. That plan is to de-dollarize the...
TGIF: Are Organizations Unlibertarian?
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 16, 2021 | Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
A few weeks ago YouTube suggested that I watch a 1988 episode of William F. Buckley's PBS TV show, "Firing Line," featuring Ron Paul, who at the time was the Libertarian Party candidate for president. I had to chuckle right at the top when Buckley introduced Rep. Paul...
Deputy Faked Being Shot by Sniper
by Scott Horton | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog
Cops lie all the time. Because they're criminals. Also: The [apartment] building, which overlooks the sheriff’s station parking lot and is used by a nonprofit organization to house people with mental illness, is a safety hazard, [Lancaster Mayor R. Rex Parris] said....
Ranked: Top 10 organizations with the worst reputations
by Steven Woskow | Jul 30, 2019 | Blog
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Israel Funded Hamas
by HypocriteTwins | Jun 8, 2019 | Blog
The terrorist organization Hamas originally was a charity that got start-up money from Israel. How did this cozy relationship go awry to turn them into one of Israel’s biggest enemies? This episode teaches you the basics of: -What is Hamas? -What is the PLO? -How...
Moderate Rebel Plots Attack on French Nursery School
by Scott Horton | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog
The Jerusalem Post says "he had trained with the al Qaeda organization." Do they mean Jabhat al Nusra, a.k.a. Hayat Tahrir al Sham?
Liberty is like a Healthy Marriage
by James Reilly | Nov 28, 2017 | Blog
There is a view in some circles that one system of social organization or another will be self-perpetuating. That if we arrive at libertarian paradise, it will exist forever. This is an absurd notion. As long as there is social organization, there is the potential...
4/19/17 Nick Mottern on his campaign to educate Americans about the illegal and immoral use of drone attacks
by Scott Horton | Apr 19, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Nick Mottern, the founder and coordinator of Knowdrones.com, discusses his organization's use of targeted advertising to educate military drone operators and the general public that these deadly strikes are illegal, kill innocent civilians, and are not about fighting...
10/26/16 Max Blumenthal on the White Helmets and Syria War
by Scott Horton | Oct 26, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show
Max Blumenthal, author of Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel, discusses his two-part investigative series on the organizations running a sophisticated PR campaign to win Western public support for Syrian regime-change, and why most of the Left has fallen for...
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Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
Democratic Socialist Turns Libertarian! #PorcFest2023
https://youtu.be/G2eSuiXNaaQ Once you accept the principle of government, namely that there must be a judicial monopoly and the power to tax, once you accept this principle incorrectly as a just principle, then any idea or any notion of restraining or limiting...
What War Hawks Would Sound Like If They Weren’t Psychopaths
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
The Free Market Serves the Masses, Governments Commit Genocide
Amazon is simply the best store that ever existed, by far, with incredible selection and unearthly convenience. The price: cheap. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media let us socialize with our friends, comfortably meet new people, and explore even the most...
Democracy is Mob Rule by the Ignorant, Embrace Free Markets
https://youtu.be/kQToT7640h4 A democratic vote is like the captain of a ship having to consult every passenger about the best course to chart through an approaching storm. – The School of Life, Philosophy in 40 Ideas (2020), p. 13 Watch on Odysee
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