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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...
Who Killed Bond Yields?
by Steven Woskow | Aug 4, 2020 | Blog
Central Banks of course. "In lieu of common sense, however, the guilty will use a whole lot of those impressive sounding words to obfuscate instead of argument, while very much counting otherwise on the favorable rulings of the judge (politicians) who lets this...
Judge Rules Biden to Be Named in Ukrainian Criminal Probe
by Kyle Anzalone | May 27, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #497, I discuss the developing story of a Ukrainian judge ruling Joe Biden is to be named in a criminal probe from his time as Vice President. The criminal probe is looking into the firing of former-Ukrainian Prosecutor General Victor Shokin. Biden has...
Swedish Court Rules Not to Extradite Assange for Rape Probe
by Scott Horton | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog
AP: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to Sweden for a revived rape investigation, but should still be questioned in the case while he is imprisoned in Britain, a Swedish court ruled Monday. The ruling by the Uppsala District Court doesn’t mean...
18 ways Julian Assange changed the world (by Lee Camp)
by Steven Woskow | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog
Comedian Lee Camp reminds us that for all the evil Wikileaks exposed the only one in jail is the person that exposed it - Julian Assange. Nearly every government on our third rock from the sun despises the man for bringing transparency to the process of ruling the...
Trump’s Iran Hawks Are Nuts
by Scott Horton | Jan 13, 2019 | Blog
Mike Pompeo: US will never accept Hezbollah presence in Lebanon. Jason Ditz: That's funny, they're part of the ruling coalition government the U.S. supports there.
The Right to Rule
by David D'Amato | Jun 18, 2018 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
We reject the idea that some people are born superior to others, with a right to rule them. What, then, if anything, justifies a state’s power over its citizens? In any American election, the vast majority of people don’t vote. Even among the portion of the American...
3/13/17 Chris Deliso on the foreign provocateurs exacerbating Macedonia’s political crisis
by Scott Horton | Mar 13, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Chris Deliso, director of the independent Balkanalysis.com, discusses the three-year-long political crisis in Macedonia brought about when a consortium of internal and external agitators tried to replace the long-ruling conservative party. These agitators...
Freedom Zealot Podcast July 16, 2016
by Will Grigg | Jul 16, 2016 | Will Grigg Radio
A citizen being unlawfully deprived of his liberty by a police officer has "the right to regain it, and to use all force necessary for that purpose," ruled the Georgia Court of Appeals. When, and in what context, that ruling was issued might surprise you.
Freedom Zealot Podcast May 16, 2015
by Will Grigg | May 16, 2015 | Will Grigg Radio
Thirty years ago, the Philadelphia Police Department fire-bombed Osage Avenue, killing 11 people -- including five children -- and leaving hundreds homeless. Indiscriminate annihilation of perceived enemies by fire, including women and children, is a recurring theme...
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The US Government Has Been Lying About How to Lose Weight for Decades
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI Fat Fiction Movie Website Research by Ann F. La Berge: How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America Turns out a low-carb diet does far more to help people lose weight than a low-fat diet.
The “Rich Get Richer” Myth
Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade. Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the...
The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
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...
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