“There will come a time when it isn't ‘They’re spying on me through my phone’ anymore. Eventually, it will be ‘My phone is spying on me.’” ― Philip K. Dick If ever Americans sell their birthright, it will be for the promise of expediency and comfort delivered by way of blazingly fast Internet, cell phone signals that never drop a call, thermostats that keep us at the perfect temperature without our having to raise a finger, and entertainment that can be simultaneously streamed to our TVs,...
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Ron Paul: Paris Attack ‘Obscene,’ But Blowback for French Interventionism
by Daniel McAdams | Jan 7, 2015 | Featured Articles
RPI Chairman Ron Paul was on NewsMax today to discuss the attack on a Paris-based satirical magazine that left 12 people dead. The attackers are said to be radical Islamists who objected to the magazine's vulgar depictions of their faith and of Muhammad, Islam's prophet. Dr. Paul made it clear that libertarians reject all such initiation of force, which he described as "obscene," but he also pointed out that these kinds of attacks do not happen in a vacuum. Said Dr. Paul: France has been a...
What Didn’t Happen in 2014: The Paranoia Year in Review
by Peter van Buren | Jan 6, 2015 | Featured Articles
So how’s 2015 so far? Outside playing on your hoverboard while Dad brings in the family helicopter? Mom inside serving up a hearty meal, all in pill form? Planning a trip to the Lunar Grand Hyatt? Enjoying a life free from all disease, war and hunger, courtesy of the alien overlord world government? Good, good. With 2015 underway, let’s take a quick look back at the highlights of government paranoia from 2014. America’s War of Terror requires all of us (do your part!) to maintain a high state...
Speaker Vote Highlights US House’s Unchecked Procedural Corruption
by Adam Dick | Jan 6, 2015 | Congress Alert
It seems unlikely that the current members of the United States House of Representatives will effectively rise up against their Democrat and Republican leaders to require that the House be run in a fair and honest manner. Yet, the potential of more Republican members opposing on Tuesday the reelection of Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) as speaker of the House than the 12 Republican representatives who chose not to vote for Boehner in 2013 is helping bring to light the crooked process by which “the...
Blowback on the Saudi Border – Senior General Killed
by Mark Almond | Jan 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
Anyone reading the New York Times report of a minor skirmish on the Saudi-Iraqi border on 5th January, 2015, would probably have shrugged and moved on. What with ISIS controlling roughly one third of Iraq and Syria and Shiite Houthi rebels overrunning about 70% of Yemen, Middle East watchers surely had more pressing violence to concern them than “a confrontation that left three guards and all the assailants dead”? [1] But then reports leaked out of the Kingdom that put the border clash in a...
Total National Security Spending Is Much Greater than the Pentagon’s Base Budget
by Robert Higgs | Jan 5, 2015 | Featured Articles
click to enlargeIn a recent publication of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, “Defense Spending Extends Beyond the Pentagon’s Budget,” Veronique de Rugy presents a valuable compilation of data for fiscal year 2013, showing how much of the government’s national security spending appears not in the base budget of the Department of Defense, but elsewhere in the government’s budget. This point is important because in debates about Pentagon funding, those who favor giving the Pentagon...
Ten New Year’s Resolutions for Congress
by Ron Paul | Jan 4, 2015 | Featured Articles
Since New Year’s is traditionally a time for resolutions, and since the new Congress convenes this week, I thought I would suggest some New Year’s resolutions for Congress: 1) Bring the troops home — Congress should take the first, and most important, step toward ending our hyper-interventionist foreign policy by bringing our troops home and closing all overseas military facilities. The American people can no longer afford to bear the cost of empire. 2) Pass the Audit the Fed bill — The...
Without ‘Qualified Immunity,’ Would Cops Be So Quick to Kill?
by William Norman Grigg | Jan 1, 2015 | Featured Articles
The story had a familiar beginning, but took an unexpected detour en route to an unanticipated conclusion. Dante Price, a young black man, was trying to visit his girlfriend and infant son at the Summit Square apartment complex in Dayton, Ohio. Price was confronted by two uniformed, armed officers who told him he had been banned from the property as a trespasser. As the encounter grew heated, the officers drew their guns and ordered Price from his car. After the driver refused to comply, one...
A Radical Question About the CIA in the Mainstream Press
by Jacob G. Hornberger | Dec 31, 2014 | Featured Articles
Several days ago, the New York Times, which of course epitomizes the mainstream press in America, asked a question that ordinarily would be found mainly on libertarian websites like that of The Future of Freedom Foundation. In the Room for Debate section of the Times’ Opinion Pages, the Times asked: “Do We Need the C.I.A.?” In the introduction to the debate, the Times pointed out: Since Senator Daniel Patrick Moynahan introduced bills in 1991 and 1995 to abolish the Central Intelligence Agency...
The Victory of ‘Perception Management’
by Robert Parry | Dec 30, 2014 | Featured Articles
To understand how the American people find themselves trapped in today’s Orwellian dystopia of endless warfare against an ever-shifting collection of “evil” enemies, you have to think back to the Vietnam War and the shock to the ruling elite caused by an unprecedented popular uprising against that war. While on the surface Official Washington pretended that the mass protests didn’t change policy, a panicky reality existed behind the scenes, a recognition that a major investment in domestic...
Sen. Lindsey Graham in Israel: ‘We Will Follow Your Lead’
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 30, 2014 | Neocon Watch
Imagine the reaction if a sitting United States Senator travelled to France, or Russia, or Saudi Arabia and assured the foreign leader that the US lawmaking body would "follow your lead" when it comes to a decision on whether “more sanctions, and stronger sanctions” should be placed on a third country. That a US government official would openly subject his own country's policies to the national interest of another country seems to be unpatriotic by definition. But Senator Graham was not in...
Why is it Illegal to Buy Food From Your Neighbors?
by Kenric Ward | Dec 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
Virginians who try to sell homemade food from their kitchens are feeling the heat from state and local inspectors. “I have to turn down my neighbors when they ask if they can buy pesto I make from my own basil plants,” says Bernadette Barber, a farmer in Lancaster, Va. And this isn’t just a rural phenomenon. In Arlington, government inspectors shut down a home-based soup maker, even though no customer complaints had been registered. Others have encountered similar fates, stripping them of...
America: Australia’s Dangerous Ally
by Malcolm Fraser | Dec 29, 2014 | Featured Articles
It is time for Australia to end its strategic dependence on the United States. The relationship with America, which has long been regarded as beneficial, has now become dangerous to Australia’s future. We have effectively ceded to America the ability to decide when Australia goes to war. Even if America were the most perfect and benign power, this posture would still be incompatible with the integrity of Australia as a sovereign nation. It entails not simply deference but submission to...
The Real Meaning of the 1914 Christmas Truce
by Ron Paul | Dec 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
One hundred years ago last week, on Christmas Eve, 1914, German and British soldiers emerged from the horrors of World War One trench warfare to greet each other, exchange food and gifts, and to wish each other a Merry Christmas. What we remember now as the “Christmas Truce” began with soldiers singing Christmas carols together from in the trenches. Eventually the two sides climbed out of the trenches and met in person. In the course of this two day truce, which lasted until December 26, 1914,...
‘The Interview’ Flops, FBI ‘North Korean Hack’ Story Also Debunked
by Patrick Henningsen | Dec 28, 2014 | Featured Articles
Official FBI claims that North Korea was behind the "Sony hack" were debunked today by two leading cyber security firms. More on that later, but first, let’s look at the failure of film itself… To anyone in media or politics who said this week that it was our “patriotic duty as Americans” to go and see this movie, I hereby banish you to the outer realm of the consensus reality Bardo (in other words, you should be working for the North Korean government, not ruining America). Despite being...
2014: The Year Propaganda Came Of Age
by Daniel McAdams | Dec 27, 2014 | Featured Articles
From just about as early in my life as I can remember, growing up as a child in Holland, there were stories about World War II, and not just about Anne Frank and the huge amounts of people who, like her, had been dragged off to camps in eastern Europe never to come back, but also about the thousands who had risked their lives to hide Jewish and other refugees, and the scores who had been executed for doing so, often betrayed by their own neighbors. And then there were those who had risked...
Iraq and Libya Imploding – Another 'Successful' US Intervention!
First Afghanistan imploded and now it appears Iraq and Libya are about to follow suit. Syria simmers. The fruits of US interventionism are everywhere the same: chaos and death,...
Iraq and Libya Imploding – Another 'Successful' US Intervention!
Aug 29, 2022
First Afghanistan imploded and now it appears Iraq and Libya are about to follow suit. Syria simmers. The fruits of US interventionism are everywhere the same: chaos and death,...
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