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Web articles of likely interest to individualists found during the week of Jan. 11-17, 2004.

 
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Political Liberty
Articles showing a positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
 
There Is No Central Plan for Winning Liberty 
        by Richard M. Ebeling from The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty
"How, then, can we ever expect to win liberty through central planning? We would be handicapping all our efforts by subordinating them to the knowledge, wisdom, and insight of those who would construct the blueprint to which the rest of us would be required to more or less conform. The goal of establishing the free society can never be achieved through the application of such collectivist methods."
 
Principle is bad politics? 
        by Kent Snyder from The Liberty Committee
"Congressman Ron Paul is known as 'Mr. Constitution' or 'The Constitutional Conscience of Congress' because he consistently votes according to the strictures of the U.S. Constitution.  And, contrary to the myth of the political elite, Congressman Paul not only gets re-elected, but does so by an increasing percentage every election."
 
Open the borders, close the schools
        by Vin Suprynowicz from Las Vegas Review-Journal
"The solution comes in two parts. The second part is open immigration. Anyone who wants to come here can come here. ... The first part is: Shut down the social welfare state."
 
Life in Amerika
Articles depicting the negative impact of politics on Liberty.
 
I'm with John Madden: No More Commercial Flying For Me
        by Pastor Chuck Baldwin from NewsWithViews.com
"It's time to face it: President Bush is no friend of liberty, and neither is he a friend to constitutional government nor national sovereignty. Four more years of a Bush administration could very well mean the death knell of freedom in these United States. "

Slave Nation

        by Jack Duggan from LewRockwell.com
"Don't like your daughter dying for oil money? That's okay, because she can still be forced against her will to serve for low pay as, well, ............anything that strikes the fancy of the Congressional representatives in committee that week. "
 
Nostalgia for Caligula
        by Doug Casey from WorldNetDaily.com
"As readers know, I despised the Clinton administration. ... How could it get much worse? And then the Baby Bush, anticipating his shock and awe approach in Iraq, trumped Bill with his personal Axis of Evil Advisers: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and their neocon minions. And with himself."
 
Ordered Liberty without the State
Some people say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is an interesting topic.
 
Intentional Communities: The Fastest and Cheapest Way of Secession
        by Mark Gillespie from Strike The Root
"Yes, intentional communities, or ICs are the key to realizing anarchy, even in our lifetimes.  According to the Intentional Communities website, the term intentional community includes ecovillages, cohousing, residential land trusts, communes, student co-ops, urban housing cooperatives and other related projects.  Now don't let those bad words throw you.  The words, cooperative, co-housing, commune aren't the bad words that you think they are."
 
Interview with Mike Hoy, Regarding 'Evil' Books
        from Loompanics Unlimited
"People who call for censorship never call for the government to be censored. But what is 'the government' but a bunch of people? "
 
What Is Anarchy?
        by Butler Shaffer from LewRockwell.com
"Anarchy presumes decentralized and cooperative systems that serve the mutual interests of the individuals comprising them, without the systems ever becoming their own reasons for being. It is this thinking, and the practices that result therefrom, that is alone responsible for whatever peace and order exists in society."
 
Spreading Decentralism
Articles demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of power.
 
A Giant Awakens
        by Justin Raimondo from Antiwar.com
"It hardly takes a strategic genius to see that the fuel of Shi'ite fury spread over this smoldering rebellion will stoke the fires of resistance – and quite possibly flare up into a regional conflagration that could bring in Iran, and possibly others."
 
Raise Your Own
        by Cathy Cuthbert from LewRockwell.com
"We are in danger of becoming, wholly unwittingly, the next Spartan race with our children this country's first generation to be raised not by parents, or even part-time parents, but by a procession of strangers."
 
An Interview with Sabine Herold on Politics, France, and Freedom
        by Andrew Schwartz from TheAtlasphere.com
"The problem with libertarians, I think, is that we're all very individualistic, so it's hard to work together! But there are various groups in France with libertarian ideas working independently."
 
The New World Hegemon
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
 
Amending the Amendments, Post 9/11
        by Ralph Maddocks from Le Quebecois Libre
"We are likely to hear some seductive story about the present use of driver's licences and Social Security cards and numbers to identify people, so why not replace them all with a super card which will include all this information – plus a little biometric stuff on the side of course – and take up less space in your wallet as well."
 
Iraqis Hail Saddam's Demise -- They Will Cheer Louder When We Depart
        by Christopher Preble from Cato Institute
"Some argue that the United States is performing a great and moral mission by using its military might to overthrow undemocratic regimes. They assert that our military should be deployed around the globe on similar assignments...."
 
200-proof Perle
        by Stephen J. Sniegoski from The Last Ditch
"With their emphasis on fighting militant Islam, Perle and Frum reveal that the oft-alleged goal of establishing democracy in the Muslim world is, at best, a secondary neocon policy, which must take a back seat when it conflicts with fighting Islamic radicals. Democracy cannot be allowed if -- to cite Lobe again -- that means 'empowering Islamic radicals...'"
 
Politics by Other Means
War, rumors of war, and politicians fomenting war.
 
Is Bush Doomed?
        by Paul Craig Roberts from Antiwar.com
"Desperate to extricate himself from the weekly carnage well before the November election, Bush can neither deliver on his promise of democracy via direct elections nor impose his plan for an Iraqi assembly elected indirectly by caucuses."
 
From the First Instant It Was About Iraq - Will Anyone Hold Bush Accountable?
        by Jason Leopold from CounterPunch
"In dozens of transcripts posted on the Defense Department's web site between January and May 2001, months before 9-11, Rumsfeld said the United States needed to be prepared for surprises, such as launching preemptive wars against countries like Iraq."
 
Uncritical Masses 
        by Brendan O’Neill from Reason
"Such arguments...present people as blank slates onto which evil leaders project their prejudices. In this view of propaganda as a one-way relationship... something important is overlooked: Our ability to judge the evidence for ourselves, to weigh politicians’ claims, and to make a reasoned assessment as to whether we should support a course of action."
 
Spontaneous Order
Articles showing decentralized successes.
 
Free Trade and Factor Mobility 
        by Robert P. Murphy from Ludwig von Mises Institute
 
"What matters is not how many physical items are assembled in the US, but rather how much enjoyment US citizens get from the goods that they end up consuming."
 
Immigration Shuffle . . . and Mood Music
        by Alan Reynolds from Cato Institute
"The president wants to give illegal immigrants a three-year visa if they prove they have a job and pay a fee. These people are here anyway. That doesn't change. But until now they never had to prove they could support their families, pay a fee or leave after a few years."
 
The Fraud of Insider-Trading Law, Part 2
        by Sheldon Richman from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"A good place to start when inquiring whether an act is a crime is to ask: who’s the victim? Current law has two in mind: the specific buyers or sellers of stock shares who did not possess the inside information and 'the market.'"
 
Nonspontaneous Disorder
Articles showing centrally planned disasters.
 
Bandits and Loopholes
        by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. from Ludwig von Mises Institute
 
"No government can possibly get away with taxing you as much as it would like. No people will put up with a complete fleecing, and so people are always trying to find ways to keep more of what they earn."
 
The Daukas Family - Friends of Freedom, Victims of Socialism
        by Louis James from Free-Market.Net: The Freedom Network
"There is no such thing as a social organism in this world -- it's just a metaphor, an often destructive and sometimes deadly metaphor. What's real is people. And they are not expendable means to greater ends, but each a unique, irreplaceable end, in and of him- or herself, free to make the most they can of their lives."
 
I'm OK, You're Despicable
        by John Markley from Strike The Root
"In a great many cases that I have observed, a person’s support for this or that government control seems to stem from the belief that the great majority of people are, in one way or another, utterly depraved. However, the advocate of the control will always, without exception, refrain from including himself among those who need the law to be forced into decency."
 
War Is The Health Of The State
War is the ultimate State intervention in society.
 
Making Enemies
        by N. Joseph Potts from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"Restrictions on trade between nations do indeed lead to wars, and while it is harder to observe, freedom to trade prevents wars."
 
Last Copter Out of Baghdad
        by Rick Perlstein from The Village Voice
"Once again, as so often in these last few months, an analogy is Vietnam. And, as so often in the last three years, the analogous president is Nixon."
 
Worshipping War
        by Bob Murphy from Strike The Root
"Just as a liberal Democrat blames everything bad in domestic affairs on capitalism, and credits everything good to government intervention, so too does the war hawk blame everything bad in foreign affairs on isolationism, and credits everything good to military intervention."
 
Bits of History
The Past seen with a fresh look.
 
Americans, Muslims and Capitalism
        by Chris Leithner from Le Quebecois Libre
"Muslims, it has been alleged, are an inherently fanatical people because Islam is an intrinsically intolerant religion. Muslims, it is said, abhor liberty and therefore seek to extinguish others’ liberty."
 
The Economics of the Civil War
        by Mark Thornton and Robert Ekelund from LewRockwell.com
"What caused the war? Why did the Union defeat the Confederacy? What were the consequences of the War? The premise of the book is that historians have a comparative advantage in describing such events, but economists have the tools to help explain these events."
 
His master’s voice 
        by John Laughland from The Spectator (via LewRockwell.com)
The Red Millionaire: A Political Biography of Willi Münzenberg By Sean McMeekin -- "In fact, it is the Western powers, and the United States in particular, which have now established a huge network of non-governmental organisations, front organisations and friendly media outlets (especially television) which influences not only public opinion but also the crucial events of political change itself. "
 
War and Peace
Articles showing the nature of War.
 
Enola Gay, Just War, and Mass Murder
        by Scott McPherson from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"For centuries, it has been understood that noncombatants should be spared the hell of war, as they are its innocent bystanders. Warfare is meant to be conducted only against those who are actively participating in the conflict."
 
Is War Necessary?
        by Harry Browne from HarryBrowne.org
"It may seem that war is inevitable for many countries -- such as the warring factions in the Balkans or some countries in Asia or Africa. But Switzerland has proven that it isn't inevitable for anyone -- not even for a country as poorly situated as Switzerland is."
 
Paul O’Neill
        by Tibor R. Machan from LewRockwell.com
"In short, we are not to treat other adults as our own children, whose well-being is our responsibility up to a certain stage of their lives, nor as our serfs or slaves. And when one takes this simple but true ethical principle into international relations, it spells out 'defensivism,' not interventionism...."
 
Great Individuals In History
Some people stand out from the crowd.
 
Actress - Luise Rainer : Jan. 12 1910
        from Spartacus Schoolnet
"Rainer received an Oscar for her performance in her second American movie, The Great Ziegfeld (1936). She also won the the award for best actress the following year in the The Good Earth (1937). Rainer therefore became the first two-time Oscar winner in the two major acting categories."
 
Mutualist anarchist - Pierre-Joseph Proudhon : Jan. 15,1809
        from Wikipedia
"In his vision self-employed artisans, peasants and cooperatives would trade their products on the market. ... The state would be abolished, instead society would be organized by a federation of 'free communes' (community assemblies)."
 
Inventor/Entrepreneur - Benjamin Franklin : Jan. 17, 1706
        from USHistory.org
"The remarkable Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, a scientist by fame, and a man of action by all accounts, continues to shape American thinking and action."
 
Culcha'
Books, Movies, TV, Media, Music, poetry, etc.
 
Books by the Beat Generation
        by Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD from LewRockwell.com
"Initiated by two disaffected students at Columbia University in the late 1940s and named the Beat Generation by its leader, Jack Kerouac, this movement has had a profound effect on American culture...."
 
Bennett still a one-of-a-kind crooner
        by Tim Ryan from Honolulu Star-Bulletin
"'I grew up in an era of individualism,' he told us via e-mail recently, 'and it's humorous to me and tragic at the same time that everyone thinks they have to look alike and dress alike. ... We are all so much more wonderful when we are all different from one another, instead of all just the same.'"
More Tony Bennett at  http://www.tonybennett.net/
 
Tantrums on the Tarmac
        by Jesse Walker from Reason
"The new series Airline contains no celebrities, no courtships, no game-show rules—just a bunch of cameras recording the everyday Fear Factor of American airports."
 
The lighter side
Humor, satire, cartoons, parodies, food, popular music and other things to amuse.
 
Dave Barry covers the Presidential race, starting in Iowa 
        by Dave Barry from Miami Herald
 
NASA Caught Lying - Made Up Solar System
        by Fred Reed from Fred On Everything
"Why do we think Mars even exists? Have you ever been there? Know anyone who has? Have you ever even seen it? Sure, maybe some teacher pointed to a dot in the sky and said, 'Yay-us, brother, thass Mars. Fulla them little green rascals. Got canals all over the place too. Go fishing.'"
 
Fascism: 21st Century Americanism
        by Matt Taibbi from NYPress
"The Democrats’ problem is that they are trying to counter the actual, admirable viciousness of the Republicans with a cheap imitation of viciousness. Both parties are equally unscrupulous, but the viciousness gap will remain real and unbridgeable--until some changes are made."
 
Deep Thought
Scientific and scholarly studies, philosophical essays, in-depth and longer articles.
 
Friedrich the Great
        by Virginia Postrel from Boston.com
Dismissed by critics as a free-market extremist, economist Friedrich Hayek is gaining new attention as a forerunner of cognitive psychology, information theory, even postmodernism.
 
Space molecules point to organic origins
        from NewScientist.com
"The most complex molecules yet found in space have shown astronomers how such organic matter is created. The evidence points to a rare type of star as the origin for life's building blocks."
 
A talon is caught ...
        by Ronald N. Neff from The Last Ditch
"In other words, modern libertarians are able to look at unconstitutional acts and proposals and not be troubled by their unconstitutionality if -- on some other grounds -- they think the acts and proposals are good ideas."
 
Miscellany
Articles not easily classified.
 
Children Victimized By System Secrecy 
        by Wendy McElroy from ifeminists.com
"A column that questions the fundamental value of the current CPS will elicit outraged feedback from social workers who protest that they sincerely care for children. I believe them without question. For one thing, I have a sister-in-law working within that system."
 
Sail Away: Family packs it up, takes trip around world
        by Peggy Townsend from Santa Cruz Sentinel
"It was the kind of decision people dream about, but that everyday, middle-class families with two small boys seldom do."
 
Lux Lucre, R.I.P. 
        from The Libertarian Enterprise
"Kerry Pearson, the man we know as Lux Lucre, is dead. His death is somehow related to diabetes...." Follow links in the article to see his work.
 
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