The power of language is magical to behold. Through the mere pronouncement of words, people can be persuaded to do what they would never have thought to do, left to their own devices. The playbook with the most success in this regard is that of war. When people are...
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Biden Admits His Own Sanctions on Russia Won’t Work
by Ryan McMaken | Mar 28, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
President Biden on Thursday made two big admissions about the US-led economic sanctions on Russia. The first is that the sanctions will lead to food shortages for many countries other than Russia, and that this is simply the price that Americans ought to be forced to...
TGIF: Our Age of Character Assassination
by Sheldon Richman | Mar 25, 2022 | Featured Articles, Justice, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I am not one for romanticizing the past because in every alleged golden age you find grumblers looking longingly to some earlier alleged golden age. Nevertheless, our own time has earned its share of criticism. For example, we live in a time when, for many, character...
Don’t Apologize, the Antiwar Movement Was Right
by Connor Freeman | Mar 24, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The antiwar movement, the anti-imperialist movement of America, has nothing to apologize for and obediently doing so now is tantamount to facilitating our own systematic demonization, silencing, and persecution. There were notable analysts in the independent media,...
Medusian Liberty
by Kym Robinson | Mar 24, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
“A home might be a pretty little house Filled with people and things Comfort and ease A home might be a lean to on the beach Nothing but waves rolling in The sun on my skin A home might a tent filled with friends And wherever I go I’m home with them A home might be...
The Cheese in the Trap: When Will the Populist Right Join the War Party?
by Patrick Macfarlane | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
On Wednesday, March 13, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene released a statement on the war in Ukraine. As the White House is purposely prolonging the conflict, risking a wider war, Greene’s statement is praiseworthy and needed. She condemned weapons shipments to Ukraine,...
Cop Convicted of Killing Unarmed Kid, But Will Remain on the Police Force
by Matt Agorist | Mar 23, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As we have been reporting since last year, the officer who shot and killed an innocent teen, 17-year-old Hunter Brittain, was given blue privilege since the start of this case. The former sergeant with the Lonoke County Sheriff’s Office, 31-year-old Michael Davis...
Ukraine, a New Safe Haven for Mercenaries
by Ahmad Salah | Mar 22, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Onrush of the Russian military operation in Ukraine has placed President Volodymyr Zelensky into a troublesome situation. Due to the lack of weaponry and ammunition, copious human losses, and destruction of vital military infrastructure the Ukrainian leader started...