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3/12/20 Stephen Zunes on Biden’s Sponsorship of the Invasion of Iraq

by Scott Horton | Mar 12, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Stephen Zunes talks about Joe Biden's shameful history helping to advocate for the invasion of Iraq in 2002 and 2003. These days he claims he was caught up in the aftermath of 9/11 and was simply mistaken about the intelligence, like everyone else who voted for the...

Greater Idaho Movement Is the Latest Indicator of a Shift toward Decentralization

by José Niño | Mar 11, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism

Recently disgruntled residents of rural counties in southwest Oregon have been organizing a petition to move Idaho’s border westward to form a “Greater Idaho” that could also potentially include parts of Northern California. This petition...

Year Zero 101: A Direct Republic with Donnie Gebert

by Tommy Salmons | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog, Year Zero

Donnie Gebert of the Direct Republic podcast and author of The Null Hypothesis of Politics joined Tommy for episode 101. Donnie's idea of a Direct Republic, decentralization down to the individual, was thought up within a mind trained and educated by the DOD to topple...

The Reality of the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus

by Zack Sorenson | Mar 8, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics

Exponential functions. Understand this, and you’ll grasp the reality of the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus from China. I know math sucks, but if you can get this, you’ll lift the fog on just how bad this is. With the Novel Coronavirus (called SARS-CoV-2), some speculate that...

Separation of Economy and State

by Keith Knight | Mar 8, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQdldtKPRo&t=4s If a group of people do not coercively monopolize how a country thinks, won't people think bad thoughts thus do bad things? Shouldn't we have common sense thought control? If this "cure" seems worse than the...

2/28/20 Peter Van Buren on Russiagate II and the Coronavirus Panic

by Scott Horton | Feb 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Peter Van Buren about the resurgence of the narrative that Russia is interfering in American elections, this time in the form of apparent support both for Trump's reelection and for Bernie Sanders to get the Democratic nomination. Van Buren notes that...

It’s the Bureaucracy, Genius: How Bureaucracy Has Lowered Productivity and Income

by Craig Cantoni | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured Articles

The supposed brightest minds, educated in the supposed best universities, can’t figure out why American productivity has languished in this era of technological innovation, resulting in income growth being lower than it would otherwise be. Well, my mediocre mind came...

The WTO Is Both Irrelevant and Unnecessary

by Ryan McMaken | Feb 26, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in a state of crisis. Despite grandiose dreams of a global trade organization that would enforce global bureaucrats' broad vision for multilateral trade agreements, the world looks more and more like it neither wants nor needs an...

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Anti-War Blog – Osama Bin Laden won

Bin Laden Won He won and the US warmasters are celebrating. Imagine rejoicing after a government falls to the descendants of Al-Qaeda. We don’t have to because the Washington gang are doing just that. The Islamo-Fascist Jihadis who terrorised the minds of the West for...

We Can’t Consume Our Way to Prosperity

Once upon a time, John Stuart Mill could write these words truthfully ("Of the Influence of Consumption on Production," 1844): It is no longer supposed that you benefit the producer by taking his money, provided you give it to him again in exchange for his goods. He...

Pearl Harbor: Not What You May Think it Was

I have always had my doubts but Jane Shaw brings the receipts. RedDR needed the war because his communist takeover of America was failing bigly and a war empowered government like nothing else. A decade ago I began to research the history of the Pearl Harbor attack....

Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 2

"It might be argued that only the 'rich' can afford to be capitalists, i.e., those who have a greater amount of money stock. This argument has superficial plausibility, since ... for any given individual and a given time-preference schedule, a greater money stock will...

Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 1

"[A]ny man can be a capitalist if only he wants to be. He can derive his funds solely from the fruits of previous capitalist investment or from past 'hoarded' cash balances or solely from his income as a laborer or a landowner. He can, of course, derive his funds from...

Billion Dollar Disasters Continue to Steam Ahead

Word. The Zumwalt-class destroyer will never be the battleship of the twenty-first century. It’s the U.S. Navy’s version of the Russian Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier. Yet another multi-billion dollar failure. Yet, the instant that the Zumwalt-class appears to...

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