The rapid economic advance that we have come to expect seems in a large measure to be the result of this inequality and to be impossible without it. Progress at such a fast rate cannot proceed on a uniform front but must take place in echelon fashion... At any...
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The Senate is Back – Yemen Campaign is On
by Scott Horton | Sep 6, 2022 | Blog
The House returns next week. Go to 1833STOPWAR.com for talking points and then CALL 833STOPWAR and they will connect you right to Congress. If we can all focus on this together for just a few weeks, it could really make the difference. Please get involved, especially...
Freedom = Social Cooperation = Superabundance (feat. Marian Tupy)
by Keith Knight | Sep 3, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/L1WIoXexTmw After analyzing the prices of hundreds of commodities, goods, and services spanning two centuries, Marian Tupy and Gale Pooley found that resources became more abundant as the population grew. That was especially true when they looked at...
Hidden History: Churchill Kills 1,297 French Servicemen, 1940
by Keith Knight | May 10, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/eG9PEvSAMFA The human tragedy reaches its climax in the fact that after all the exertions and sacrifices of hundreds of millions of people and the victories of the Righteous Cause we have still not found Peace or Security, and that we lie in the grip...
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...
The Future Of Meat Production
by Steven Woskow | Dec 16, 2020 | Blog
The World Economic Forum, Wall St., Bill Gates, big food, venture capital, The Rockefeller Foundation - they are all in. Like it or not, this is the future of meat production. At Food Dive The beginning of the next big thing Analysts have said this is the beginning of...
As Coronavirus Explodes in Italy, Doctors Are Forced to Choose Who Gets Care
by Scott Horton | Mar 12, 2020 | Blog
From The Atlantic via Defense One: Two weeks ago, Italy had 322 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. At that point, doctors in the country’s hospitals could lavish significant attention on each stricken patient. One week ago, Italy had 2,502 cases of the virus, which...
Qassem Soleimani: Why His Killing is Good News for IS Jihadists
by Scott Horton | Jan 12, 2020 | Blog
Jeremy Bowen in the BBC: "In an editorial of the weekly IS newspaper al-Naba, the group said that Soleimani and al-Muhandis died at the hands of their 'allies'" - a reference to the US. It said the enemies of IS were busy fighting each other, which would drain their...
Pressure-Release Valves in Participatory Fascism
by Robert Higgs | Sep 21, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Almost every nation in the world has adopted a system of participatory fascism, whereby nominally representative governments can abridge and restrict someone’s nominally recognized private-property rights. Participatory fascism may enjoy the appearance of popular...
Falsified Drug Tests Impacted Parents Custody Of Children
by Steven Woskow | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog
More victims in the war on drugs. Department of Human Resource’s Pike County, Alabama drug testing vendor, Brandy Murrah of A & J Lab Collections faked drug tests that may have impacted thousands of families. All approved by The Department of Human Resources in...
Sources: The US Killed At Least 100 Russians in Syria Last Week
by James Holbrooks | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Ant-Media. Syria — At least 100 Russians were a killed last week when U.S.-led coalition forces clashed with pro-Assad fighters in eastern Syria, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, citing a U.S. official and three Russian sources....
Puerto Rico May Ditch Oil to Build New Electric Grid Using Renewable Energies
by James Holbrooks | Oct 3, 2017 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Puerto Rico — With the majority of Puerto Rico’s 3.4 million citizens still without power following Hurricane Maria, the commonwealth’s government is floating the idea of starting from scratch as it rebuilds —...
10/21/16 Jason MacLeod on imperial oppression in West Papua
by Scott Horton | Oct 21, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show
Jason MacLeod, author of Merdeka and the Morning Star: Civil Resistance in West Papua, discusses the brutal 50-year Indonesian occupation of West Papua; motivated by racial superiority, natural resources and political identity – and helped by US military aid.
02/07/04 – Frank Worley – The Scott Horton Show
by Scott Horton | Feb 7, 2004 | The Scott Horton Show
Philip Dru interviews Frank Worley, the founder of Operation Unification, about his attempt to bring many pro-liberty groups together to share resources. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIOPhUQN5oA&t=8s
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A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
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...
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