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...
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In Defense Of Libertarianism
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 13, 2021 | Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
They’re usually very similar. There may be hills in one place, or flat terrain in others. It could be seventy-degrees in January, or minus-twenty. With all of their aesthetic differences, these locales usually have one thing in common: the spirit of libertarianism...
Mom Sues Cop Who Shot Her Daughter in the Head During a School Fight
by Matt Agorist | Dec 13, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The family of Mona Rodriguez was shocked and heartbroken in September after learning their 18-year-old daughter was shot in the head by a Long Beach Unified School District police officer. Rodriguez, who was unarmed and presenting no threat to the cop who shot her,...
Biden’s Keynesian Course: Riding the ‘Multiplier’
by Jim Bovard | Dec 9, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
White House Chief of Staff Ronald Klain tweeted on Wednesday: “Stronger COVID measures produce STRONGER ECONOMIC outcomes. That’s why jobs, growth, and economic activity are UP this year, significantly over last year.” Actually, jobs and economic activity have...
What a Homeschooling Surge Means for Our Future
by Alice Salles | Dec 2, 2021 | Featured Articles
Parents across America were caught unprepared for the mass closure of government schools in 2020. Soon after, however, many decided they and their children had had enough of the status quo. Now at a crossroads, will they choose reform or repudiation? The wave of...
The Ticking Time Bomb of Social Security
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Nov 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
At a time when President Biden and congressional Democrats are pushing to expand the breadth of entitlements to include free preschool and subsidized child care, little attention is given to the fact that the country’s biggest existing entitlement program—Social...
How I Said Phooey to College
by Jim Bovard | Nov 22, 2021 | Featured Articles
President Biden is tub-thumping for Congress to create new federal handouts to make college free for the vast majority of students. But as Ryan McMaken and other commentators on mises.org have pointed out, college is vastly overpriced and overrated nowadays. My view...
The Government Is Coming for Your 401K
by Mike Fedele | Nov 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
Quiet conversations are occurring in the halls of Congress, think tanks, NGOs, and academia on how to continue the enrichment of the public sector elites and their various complexes (military, education, financial, healthcare, and “non-profits”). The “wise men” know...
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David Boaz (1953-2024)
With great sadness I note the passing of David Boaz today, June 7, 2024, at age 70. He had been ill for some time. He was a good man and a giant of the libertarian movement. Very much because of David's influence and example, libertarian organizations not only...
Provoked Book Update
As many of you know, I'm working on a book called Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. You may also know that it's way overlong and way overdue. Well, the news is that I got it up to 1,400 pages, and more than...
Wonderful Israeli Best Friends and Most Moral Army in World History™ Torture, Murder Palestinians with Electro-shock, Sodomy
New York Times: Eight former detainees, all of whom the military has confirmed were held at the site and who spoke on the record, variously said they had been punched, kicked and beaten with batons, rifle butts and a hand-held metal detector while in custody. One said...
Nothing New in Military Technology Disasters
Readers think I am highly critical of Western military foibles and bad decisions (I am) but history is replete with mismanagement and poor planning planet-wide in military technology. Like the Indian nuclear submarine disaster from leaving a hatch open on the INS...
What Inequality?
According to research conducted by Phil Gramm, the late Robert Ekelund, and John Early, documented in The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate and summarized in this video: The bottom 20 percent of households have an average annual income...
Immigration Talk
I talk about immigration with Michael Liebowitz on The Rational Egoist.
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