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Cops Shoot and Kill 12 Year Old Boy in Back, Claim He Was a ‘Threat’ While Fleeing
by Matt Agorist | Mar 3, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
A tragedy unfolded on Tuesday in Philadelphia after a 12-year-old boy was shot in the back and killed. The boy was running from several police officers when two of them opened fire. Police have since claimed that even though 12-year-old Thomas Siderio was running...
The Human Under the Numbers
by Kym Robinson | Dec 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
The story of Anne Frank is tragic. If not for the words that she wrote in her diary, she would be a digit of history. Her diary is relatable, and the thoughts that collected inside her being during a horrible time in history gives the reader an idea of who she was....
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
Episode 660: Is Social Media A ‘Necessary Evil’ And Some Rittenhouse Commentary w/ Steppy From ‘Not a Podcast’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 21, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
64 Minutes Some Strong Language Steppy is one of the hosts of "Not a Podcast" and a Twitter legend Steppy joined Pete for a livestream to do a little commentary on the Rittenhouse trial but also to talk about the good and bad of social media in general. Considering...
TGIF: Targeted Advertising Violates No Liberty
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 2, 2021 | Economics, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Last week I modestly attempted to show that no injustice takes place when A sells B the opportunity to pitch its product to C. This is the principle behind print, television, and radio advertising, and it is no different in the era of social networks like Facebook. In...
Episode 557: Communicating ‘Self-Evident’ Truths w/ Keith Knight and Sal the Agorist
by Peter R. Quiñones | Mar 31, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
85 Minutes PG-13 Keith Knight of the "Don't Tread on Anyone" podcast invited Pete and Sal the Agorist to come on his show to about ways to communicate the "self-evident" truths mentioned in the Declaration of Independence to the masses. They also get into ways using...
The ‘Social Credit Score’ Is Coming
by Peter R. Quiñones | Mar 26, 2021 | Blog
I was turned on to the Netflix series “Black Mirror” a few months after the first season was released. If you started with Season 1, Episode 1 - “The National Anthem” - as I did, you instantly knew this was a different kind of show. The four seasons that followed...
TGIF: The Bias against Advertising
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 26, 2021 | Sheldon Richman, TGIF
People who dislike markets harbor a special animosity toward advertising as cynically controlling. This is not new. In the mid-20th century John Kenneth Galbraith and other market opponents condemned advertising as business's way to manipulate people into buying...
More Interviews of Me
by Scott Horton | Feb 25, 2021 | Blog
The Roots of the War on Terror - Tom Woods The Iraq Fiasco Revisited - Tom Woods Backgrounder on Syria, and Why the US Should Stay Out - Tom Woods War All the Time: The Perpetual War on Terror - Tom Woods The Truth About the Iran Nuclear Program - Tom Woods Further...
Episode 537: Winning the Social Media and Culture War w/ Ryan Dawson
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 12, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
82 Minutes PG-13 Ryan Dawson is the host of the Anti-Neocon Report and a documentary filmmaker. Ryan joins Pete to talk about YouTube deleting his account, the answer that he has created, and to give his take on current events. ANCReport.com vid.ancreport.com Get...
Episode 515: Social Media Wars w/ Pete, Jack Spirko, John Bush, Xavier Hawk and Nicole Sauce
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 25, 2020 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
90 Minutes PG-13 This is recently released recording on the Unloose the Goose podcast where Pete is a contributor. It features Pete, Jack Spirko, John Bush, Xavier Hawk and Nicole Sauce discussing social media censorship and how to combat it. Unloose the Goose Get...
DEBATE: Big Tech Censorship. Stephan Kinsella vs. Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Nov 29, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/5xtW4Uxx2EU War has always been the occasion of a great — and usually permanent — acceleration and intensification of State power over society. War is the great excuse for mobilizing all the energies and resources of the nation, in the name of...
The ‘Private’ Dilemma
by Peter R. Quiñones | Oct 30, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Op Eds, Peter Quinones, Politics
There is an issue that “Libertarianism” refuses to take a nuanced approach to that will inevitably further marginalize it in the eyes of the general public. When it is brought up the “consistent” libertarian/anarchist retreats into the world of informal fallacies,...
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Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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