Friday, December 27, 2013

TGIF: The Moral Case for Freedom Is the Practical Case for Freedom

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So I, for one, don’t accept the division of the case for freedom into “the moral” and “the practical.” It’s a mistake, not to mention harmf...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

Op-ed: Congress Must Not Cede Its War Power to Israel

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I don't want Congress (or the president) to have the power to make war at all, but as long as it has such power, it must not turn it ove...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

The Christmas Truce of 1914

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Kevin Carson relates one of the most remarkable stories I know: The Christmas Truce of 1914 , "a spontaneous soldiers’ truce that broke...
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Saturday, December 21, 2013

TGIF: The Pope Dabbles in Economics

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The pope’s concern with the poor and excluded is well-placed. We should not tolerate their condition or its causes. But what the poor and e...
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Remember This . . .

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Soldiers don't die for their country. They die for vain politicians and war profiteers. That's what they kill for too.
Friday, December 13, 2013

TGIF: Will 2016 Be a Good Year for the Corporate State?

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It's shaping up that way. See TGIF .
Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Op-ed: Mandela Wasn't Radical Enough

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He led the effort to end the evil apartheid system, but he left in place the corporate state. It's all here .

TGIF: Crime and Punishment in a Free Society

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In the latest TGIF, I argue that there should be no crime and punishment, but only torts and restitution. Read about it here .
Saturday, December 07, 2013

Infamy, Indeed

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From my 1991 Future of Freedom Foundation article "Pearl Harbor: The Controversy Continues" : At 7:53 am. on Sunday, December 7,...

Ethnic-Cleansing Continues in Israel

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SEE UPDATE From Nadia Ben-Youssef's Huffington Post  article "Put a Stop to the Displacement of Bedouin Communities in Israel...
Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Are Journalists More Trustworthy than State Personnel?

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Art Silber says no, and he's right. Edward Snowden leaked a ton of documents, but the Guardian says it has published only 1 percent -- ...
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Friday, November 29, 2013

Op-ed: Iran: It's Not about Nukes

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If you want to understand the U.S.-Iran controversy, know this: It is not about nuclear weapons. It's all here .
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Did Sanctions Bring Iran to the Table?

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This is a popular view and is constantly reinforced by the news media. But it is not true. John Glaser addresses the claim in "Four E...

They Died in Vain

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In a remarkable exchange on MSNBC, correspondent Richard Engel said the personal investment of individual US troops was part of the calculat...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

The Sin of Herbert Spencer

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Benjamin R. Tucker Guest blogger Liberty welcomes and criticises in the same breath the series of papers by Herbert Spencer on “The Ne...
Friday, November 22, 2013

TGIF: Property and Force: A Reply to Matt Bruenig

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Last week’s TGIF, “ One Moral Standard for All ,” drew a curious response from Matt Bruenig , a contributor to the Demos blog, Policy Shop...
Saturday, November 16, 2013

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Predictable

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Iran, which has no nuclear weapons and is known not to be seeking to build one, is a party to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and...

TGIF: One Moral Standard for All

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Libertarians make a self-defeating mistake in assuming that their fundamental principles differ radically from most other people’s principle...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Op-ed: Preventing War with Iran is Top Priority

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The best way to keep Iran from building a nuclear bomb is for the Obama administration and its nuclear client Israel to stop threatening the...
Monday, November 11, 2013

No Thanks, Veterans and Troops

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Justin Doolittle nails it at Salon: "Stop thanking the troops for me: No, they don’t 'protect our freedoms!'”