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Proudly delegitimizing the state since 2005

"Aye, free! Free as a tethered ass!" —W.S. Gilbert

"All the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and . . . the State should be abolished." —Benjamin Tucker

"You must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself." —James Madison

"Fat chance." —Sheldon Richman

Friday, December 31, 2010

Should Labor be Paid or Not?

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Good stuff from Benjamin Tucker, Liberty , April 28, 1888; reprinted in Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write One (1893/1897): In...
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Thursday, December 30, 2010

The More Things Change...

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From the Washington Post : The president's recently departed budget director is joining Citigroup. The New York Federal Reserve Bank...
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Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Did I Mention...

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... that the January-February issue of The Freeman is now online? Contributors include James Bovard, Wendy McElroy, Joseph R. Stromberg, Da...
Saturday, December 25, 2010

Merry Christmas

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Peace & Anarchy on Earth. Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.5
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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Well, Mr. Moore?

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See update below. Cuba banned Michael Moore's 2007 documentary, Sicko, because it painted such a "mythically" favourable pic...
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Friday, December 17, 2010

Beware the Campaign for War against Iran

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The American people were stampeded into war against Iraq through a shameless propaganda and disinformation campaign led by government offi...
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TGIF: A Boost for the Managed Economy

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More important, all players in the game have revealed themselves to be interventionists. (Okay, we knew this already but confirmation is ni...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

About Those English Student Protests

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The best thing I've read about the English student protests against reduced government subsidies for higher education is here . In ...
Friday, December 10, 2010

TGIF: "F" as in Fed

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The Federal Reserve, America’s fatally conceited monetary central planner, is not terribly popular these days – which is cause for hope – a...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Anarchists Launch WikiLeaks Mirror, Assistance Program

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For Immediate Release 12/05/10 POC Thomas L. Knapp Media Contact: media@c4ss.org 530-618-C4SS Technical Contact: admin@c4ss.org ANARCHIST...
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Saturday, December 04, 2010

Why the Latest WikiLeaks Leaks Matter

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Why should anyone care about diplomatic cables? So what if State Department bureaucrats say unflattering things about other world “leaders...
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Friday, December 03, 2010

Inflation Doesn't Pay the Government Like It Used to

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Jeff Hummel and I have an opinion piece at Forbes.com by that title. Read it here .
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TGIF: "A Free Market in Banking? Not Even Close"

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Between the state and national governments, there has always been substantial regulation of money and banking in the United States. Read TG...
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Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Why Not, Indeed!

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 If all our emails, however personal, are to become subject to the scrutiny of the government, why shouldn’t all the government’s emails, ...
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Op-ed: TSA Intrusion Is One Price of Empire

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How gratifying to see Americans increasingly angry at the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) for using offensive full-body scans...
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010

WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning Is No Criminal

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My take on WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning, and the cost of Empire is in today's Christian Science Monitor .
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Op-ed: Afghanistan Digging In

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President Obama once said withdrawal from Afghanistan would begin in July 2011 — maybe, conditions permitting. But then he backed off that...
Friday, November 26, 2010

Chalmers Johnson (1931-2010)

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I do intend to post a tribute to Chalmers Johnson, one of the most thoughtful critics of the American Empire, who died last weekend. All I...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

TGIF: The Many Impositions of Government

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Belatedly: Not that I’m keeping score, but just in the last few weeks the news has overflowed with examples of how much we are at the mercy...
Saturday, November 20, 2010

Bush: More Lies

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The incomparable Bruce Fein on George W. Bush's memoir: Former President Bush’s selective memoir is a little like Hamlet without the Pr...
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Father, grandfather, writer, editor, pipe smoker, free thinker, libertarian market anarchist, grouser, flosser. Author of six books, including "America's Counter-Revolution: The Constitution Reconsidered"; "Coming to Palestine"; and "What Social Animals Owe to Each Other."
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