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"New research shows the
terrorizing impact of drones in Pakistan, false statements from US
officials, and how it increases the terror threat."
The latest Eurozone crisis
is fueling secessionist movements in Catalonia and Basque. Here's hoping
this spirit finds it way across the Atlantic.
"I've long found electoral
politics seedy and dispiriting, but that sensibility has lately become a
debilitating affliction: like being a sportswriter struck by the
unhelpful epiphany that it's silly for a grown man to write about other
grown men playing a game for kids."
Gerard Casey discusses his latest book, anarchism, and liberty.
"The problem we have in
America today is too many people are making their living from “political
means” and too few from “economic means.” Socialism, communism,
corporatism, or any other form of collectivism is a form of low-grade
economic civil war. In a society like the United States, where an
enormous amount of capital has been accumulated, a corporatist system
can seem to function well for decades before it collapses under the
weight of its own internal...
"Flemington, New Jersey has
all of 4,500 people. It hasn’t seen a murder in well over a decade. But
it does have its own SWAT team. And now the town wants to buy assault
rifles for its regular patrol cops, too."
The Honduran government is
selling off land to an investment group to build an experimental city
with no taxes on income, capital gains, and sales.
“Liberty, then, is the sovereignty of the individual, and never
shall man know liberty until each and every individual is acknowledged
to be the only legitimate sovereign of his or her person, time, and
property, each living and acting at his own cost”
–Josiah Warren
What’s So Special About Special Ops?Using little more than a backyard telescope and his experience observing the night sky, amateur astronomer Emmanuel Kardasis has produced a detailed map of Jupiter’s largest moon Ganymede
