If you're looking for morality tales — clashes between the clearly good and the clearly bad — I suggest you look elsewhere than to the geopolitical theater. There we find only conflicts between shades of darker gray. This seems to have been the case throughout...
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‘Best of the Best’: A Karate Team of Individuals
by Kym Robinson | Apr 14, 2022 | Featured Articles
“A team from the United States is going to compete against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do tournament. The team consists of fighters from all over the country - can they overcome their rivalry and work together to win?" The 1980s gave us a wave of action movies like no other...
Real Wages Continue to Fall as the Fed Scrambles
by Ryan McMaken | Apr 14, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
According to a new report released Wednesday by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Consumer Price Index increased in March by 8.6 percent, measured year over year (YOY). This is the largest increase in more than forty years. To find a higher rate of CPI inflation,...
America’s Exceptional Amnesia (About Those War Criminals…)
by Laurie Calhoun | Apr 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The top-ranking U.S. diplomat, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, recently denounced Russian president Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, which has resulted in a marked uptick in the usage of that term throughout the media. Putin decided to invade Ukraine in February...
Cop Enters Family’s Backyard, Shoots Innocent Father, ‘Sentenced’ to Firearms Training
by Matt Agorist | Apr 13, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As frequent readers of the Free Thought Project understand, police officers mistake innocent individuals for criminals all the time. Often times, their fear gets the best of them and these folks who have committed no crime and harmed no one, are beaten or arrested...
Abolish Society Security
by Starte Butone | Apr 12, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
Social Security is the compulsory government retirement program Americans are required to pay into for as long as they are employed. All revenue which is used to pay for Social Security is acquired through payroll taxes. More specifically, it is acquired through...
Smear Bund Labels House GOP Dissenters ‘Pro-Putin’
by Dave DeCamp | Apr 12, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
While legislation aimed at Russia has been overwhelmingly passing through Congress, each bill has seen “no” votes from a small handful of Republicans in the House. The opposition to the measures has led to Democrats smearing the GOP members as “pro-Putin.” Rep. Thomas...
Lew Rockwell Was Right About China
by Patrick Macfarlane | Apr 11, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Over the last year, I have focused much of my work on opposing the New Cold War with Russia and China—particularly with China. In a recent piece, “‘No One is Calling for War with China,’” I tackled a claim that I’ve been hearing recently. I understand the argument to...