https://youtu.be/73Sq50YKR5c ...the conspiracy theorist asks himself the question cui bono? Who benefits from this measure? If he finds that Measure A benefits X and Y, his next step is to investigate the hypothesis: did X and Y in fact lobby or exert pressure for the...
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For One Day, Protestors Stopped the War Machine
by Jim Bovard | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I’ve attended most of the major antiwar protests in Washington since 9/11. At a 2005 protest, a cop tried to whack me on the head with a wooden pole. At a 2007 protest, I snapped a picture showing George W. Bush hanging next to the U.S. Capitol. But my favorite...
The Conspiracy Theory of History – Murray N. Rothbard, Ph.D. & George Carlin
by Keith Knight | Dec 19, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/hBu7Kxx-roQ THE conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is...
Episode 654: Libertarian Strategy From The Jacksonians w/Patrick Newman and Tho Bishop
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 8, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
60 Minutes PG-13 Patrick Newman is a Professor of economics at Florida Southern College and a Mises Institute Fellow. He is the author of the new book, "Cronyism: Liberty versus Power in Early America, 1607–1849." Tho Bishop is the associate editor of Mises.org Pete...
The Most Powerful Social Influence
by Keith Knight | Sep 25, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/XYoq1FKK5_w ... an opposition or revolutionary movement, or indeed any mass movement from below, cannot be primarily guided by ordinary economic motives. For such a mass movement to form, the masses must be fired up, must be aroused to a rare and...
The State is the Health of War, and War is the Health of the State. Chris Coyne & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Aug 29, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/Od-djgYHnqM Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose policies have the best chance of success, but to those who can best “sell” their propaganda ability. Without grasping logical chains of...
The Secret to Refuting Propaganda: Understanding Economics. Abigail R. Hall, Ph.D. & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Aug 19, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/rorurOdpCe4 ... political economy is not to be considered, as had Smith and the classicals, a study of wealth; it is instead a study of human exchanges. Murray N. Rothbard Classical Economics, p. 120 Abigail R. Hall, Ph.D. is an associate professor of...
Dear Cenk Uygur, Supporting Government is Worse Than Supporting the Ku Klux Klan
by Keith Knight | Jul 30, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/ldmXyqAnbmI Mankind is a mixture of good and evil, of cooperative and criminal tendencies. In my view, the anarchist society is one which maximizes the tendencies for the good and the cooperative, while it minimizes both the opportunity and the moral...
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Speaking of democracy…
Democracy has been a much discussed topic of late, what with the separation of President Joe Biden from his delegates only weeks before the upcoming Democratic party convention, to be held in Chicago from August 19 to 22, 2024. There have been brokered conventions in...
Corruption-A-Go-Go: Taliban Continues to Receive US Funding
The US State Department needs to be disbanded and all overseas embassies should be converted to ATM-style kiosks. The Taliban has just received 239 million debt-bucks in US State Department aid. 239 millions dollars. The disaster in Afghanistan continues to cascade...
Further China Reading
From a reader: “Hello Joseph. I just ordered your book, and I noticed it was short. I would like to know if there is an up to date book on American foreign policy towards China that you could recommend that is well-researched and truthful with good policy suggestions....
Raptor Woes Continue to Plague the Air Force
More mismanagement and strategic deficit disorder at the Pentagon. The F22 Raptor is a very capable late 20th century aircraft and arguably superior to the much more expensive and increasingly anachronistic F35; it is being put out to pasture early because of...
Anti-War Blog – What Will You Do On The Day After?
They did it, finally. The wisdom of the statists, the planet ruined. Desolation, misery, nature blackened to near extinction. The whispering legacy of civilisation. The educated mastery of science and technology used to destroy it all, everything. They called it...
Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
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