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The Invisible Palm; War
Finance; And the Word was made
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Political
Liberty
Articles showing a
positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
Voting advice
from two LewRockwell.com authors
Be Patriotic: Don't
Vote by
Thomas J. DiLorenzo -
http://www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo59.html
Libertarians for who?
by L.Neil Smith
from Rational Review
"We've all been hearing lately that some disgusted and
determined libertarians, rather than see the despicable George
Bush reelected in November, are throwing their support to
certain Democratic candidates. There's a lot of talk about it on
the Internet, and even a website or two."
New York City Wants Easing of
Patriot Act
by Jim Lobe
from Antiwar.com
"New
York, the city most affected by the 9/11 attacks almost two
and a half years ago, has become the latest U.S. municipality
to formally urge major reforms to the USA PATRIOT Act to
eliminate threats to basic civil rights and due-process
protections."
Life in
Amerika
Articles depicting
the negative impact of politics on Liberty.
Entire United States
Expatriates - Fred Left Behind
by Fred
Reed from FredOnEverything
"They
think that just because I went to Mexico, I left the US. They
don't understand. I
didn't leave the
United States. It left me. It was a bait-and-switch operation.
I signed on to one country, and they slipped another in under
me."
George W. Bush: Seeing the Big Picture
by Doug
Newman from Strike The
Root
"Just what kind of
America do GWB supporters want to live in? A socialist
police state that has eradicated God from the public
square and surrendered its sovereignty in the name of some
new world order? This is exactly where GWB and company are
taking us."
Gigantic Outlay Party
by Ralph R. Reiland from
Reason
"The
bottom line? The Congressional Budget Office is
projecting that the federal government will build up
$2.4 trillion in red ink spending over the next decade,
a number $1 trillion higher than the CBO's estimate in
August."
Ordered Liberty
without the State
Some people
say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is an
interesting topic.
And the Word Was Made Web
by Llewellyn H.
Rockwell, Jr. from LewRockwell.com
"If academia, civilization, and the world are saved, the
web will deserve a good share of the credit because it is the
best system for communicating and transmitting ideas to ever
come along in the history of the world."
The Invisible Palm and
Multiplication of Labor
by Catfarmer
from The Price Of Liberty
"The men who would
govern us are pros at cons to deprive us of voluntary
divisions of labor, setting up fines, licenses, regulatory
agencies and even prohibitions to serve as 'tollbooths'
between persons A and B."
Fifth Generation Warfare?
by William S. Lind from
LewRockwell.com
"Despite
the fact that the framework of the Four Generations of
Modern War is relatively new, first appearing in print
in 1989, some observers are now talking about a Fifth
Generation. Some see the Fifth Generation as a product
of new technologies, such as nanotechnology. Others
define it as the state's
struggle to maintain its monopoly on war and social
organization in the face of Fourth Generation
challengers."
Spreading Decentralism
Articles
demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of power.
A Golden Opportunity for Every State
by Chris
Edwards from Cato Institute
"I'm hoping that a
few smart states will 'pull
an Ireland' by
attracting large investment inflows with a big corporate tax
cut. That would spur state competition to drive tax rates
down, just as corporate tax rates have tumbled across Europe
in recent years."
On
Repelling Predators, Criminals, and Tyrants
by Harry Goslin from
LewRockwell.com
"An
individual does not even have to possess arms to
ensure that his rights are secure from government
oppression. I benefit because enough of my neighbors
might possess arms."
Who
Speaks for Liberty in Cuba?
by
Nat Hentoff from
The Village Voice
"All these years, there have been men and
women in Fidel Castro's prisons who exemplify a
quality that Albert Camus described in The
Rebel as characterizing those who are
impelled to resist tyranny...."
The New
World Hegemon
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
Are We Electing a Military Ruler
or a President?
by
Jacob G. Hornberger from The
Future of Freedom Foundation
"Why,
we might even get to see our newest tanks and armored
personnel carriers in our Fourth of July freedom
parades. All just as in the Soviet Union."
Imperial Destiny--or
Curse?
by Wayne Merry from The
American Conservative
"Today,
every government on earth, in every action or policy
it undertakes, is influenced by American power and
policies or, even more subtly, by its perceptions
and expectations of American power and policies."
WMDs: Burning away the
fog
by Stephen
J. Sniegoski
from The Last
Ditch
"Of course, the neocons in the Bush
administration had planned for the war for some
time; their presentation of the 'intelligence'
got them exactly what they wanted."
Politics by Other Means
War, rumors of war, and politicians fomenting war.
Calling All
Democrats
by L. Neil Smith
from The Libertarian Enterprise
"Require
your presidential candidates (all of them,
because nobody knows who's going to win the
nomination, and I can't tell the buggers
apart) to sign a written pledge that two laws--that
would not have passed during the Clinton years
without the enthusiastic help of Republicans--will
not be renewed when they 'sunset'
later this year."
The Dean
derailment
by Stephen
J. Sniegoski
from The
Last Ditch
"My
point is that leading elements of the
American Establishment are now demonstrating
their preference for an internationalist
Democrat as opposed to Bush and the neocons.
Remember that the major media gave Bush the
Elder a favorable press during Gulf War I
and moved into the attack mode only some
months after the war's
end."
Was It Something I Said?
by Jonathan
David Morris from Strike
The Root
"Think
about it: When was the last time someone
made a run for the White House without
promising to bring honor and integrity back
to Washington? Hell, even Beltway insiders
advertise themselves as outsiders now. "
Spontaneous Order
Articles
showing decentralized successes.
In Defense of
Derivatives
by Gene Callahan and
Greg Kaza from Reason
"Derivative
products are not just a sophisticated way for investors to gamble.
They also give producers a crucial tool for hedging against risk
and uncertainty."
The Bogeyman of Lost Jobs
by Jude Blanchette
from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"The greatest force for the limitation of miliary [sic]
aggression is trade, both in goods and ideas: it is the ultimate
pacifier. ... [W]hen we
are busy making money and buying DVD players, we have no stomach
for war."
We Need Real Free Trade Now
by
Sheldon
Richman from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"The
premium from the division of labor is universal. It is inherent
in human action. That information can move at the speed of light
from Manhattan to New Delhi and back does not change that."
Nonspontaneous Disorder
Articles
showing centrally planned disasters.
Republicans Become the Party of Big Government
by Chris
Edwards and Tad DeHaven from Cato Institute
"It's true that many
of the budget cuts of Reagan and of the GOP in the mid-1990s
did not last very long. But at least they were pushing in
the right direction. By contrast, President Bush has sought
large spending increases...."
A murderous
system? Let's try it here!
by Vin
Suprynowicz from Las Vegas Review-Journal
"The Soviet Union
was, of course, the first country to adopt all-round
socialized medical care --
the dream of most of America's
modern politicians, Republicrat and Demopublican alike. In
1919, Lenin signed a decree that said every Soviet citizen
had a right to free medical care."
The
Government Doesn't
Belong in Television
by
Scott McPherson from The Future of
Freedom Foundation
"What
those who like government regulation of the airwaves don't
realize is this: 'trash'
is as much a part of the 'free
expression of ideas'
as anything else."
War Is The Health Of The State
War is the ultimate State intervention in
society.
I
Still Owe the Military Nothing
by Brad
Edmonds from LewRockwell.com
"The only thing
the military can do for our freedom is to repel an
attack from an invader who, in occupying, would offer us
a less free society than we have now."
Lament
for the Lost Republic
by Alan
Bock from Antiwar.com
"Overseas
diplomacy is becoming more the province of the Defense
(there's a
lovely euphemism!) Department rather than the State
Department. He argues that 'the
CIA has evolved into the president's
private army...
Other special forces have become almost private
armies of the president, and much of the apparatus
operates in secrecy."
Nowhere to Go and Nowhere to Hide
by SARTRE from
Strike The Root
"Communication
by satellite means integration into the matrix of
global merging. Under the auspices of a carnivore
aphid, a spider web entraps prey and sucks out all
personal privacy."
Bits of History
The Past seen with a
fresh look.
Alexander
Graham Bell Meets George Eastman
by
Lawrence W. Reed from Mackinac Center for
Public Policy
"No
central planner could have foreseen what either man
did in his time, or what their successors have since
done in ours. ...
They didn't
require a government venture capital fund, tax-funded
subsidies, or job training grants --
only an environment of low taxes, minimal regulation
and freewheeling risk-taking
by the inventors and marketers themselves."
The Middle
Ages of reason
by
Terry Jones from Guardian Unlimited
"But the
medieval world wasn't a time of stagnation or
ignorance. A lot of what we assume to be medieval
ignorance is, in fact, our own ignorance about the
medieval world."
US
Policy of Preemption is Nothing New
by Jim Lobe from
Antiwar.com
"While
critics and supporters of the Bush administration's
preemption doctrine have described it as
unprecedented in U.S. diplomacy, the release of a
34-year-old memo advocating 'regime
change' in
Chile shows the policy has been around for quite
some time."
War and Peace
Articles showing the
nature of War.
Are
We Fighting a Real War on Terror at All?
by Ivan
Eland from Antiwar.com
"Given
the administration's
past tepid and even counterproductive efforts to
fight al Qaeda, one can correctly examine its new
advertising for a spring offensive in the context of
the election year back home."
The
Civilian or the Soldier? An Answer to Critics
by
Scott
McPherson from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"Do I
value the life of the coal miner who works under
highly dangerous conditions to dig for the fuel
that will keeps me warm or the policeman who
patrols the unpredictable streets outside my home?
The question is moot. That's
what they're
there for! ...
And that's
why we have soldiers: to fight our wars.
Against other soldiers."
War
Finance: Theory and History
by
H.A. Scott Trask from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"Americans
show not the slightest awareness that every dollar
spent on the ongoing Afghan and Iraqi wars, the
continuing occupations, and the rebuilding of
those failed societies is one less dollar that can
be spent at home...."
Great Individuals In History
Some people stand out
from the crowd.
Champion
of common law -
Sir Edward Coke : Feb. 1, 1552
from AllRefer.com
(Encyclopedia)
"...Coke
became the champion of common law against
the encroachments of the royal prerogative
and declared null and void royal
proclamations that were contrary to law."
"King" of
Hollywood - Clark Gable: Feb. 1, 1901
by
Author/writer from Website/source
"Gable
decided to become an actor after seeing
the play 'The
Bird of Paradise'.
He toured in stock companies, worked oil
fields and sold ties."
Writer/Philosopher - Ayn Rand: Feb. 2, 1905
from The Ayn
Rand Institute
"At
age six she taught herself to read and two
years later discovered her first fictional
hero in a French magazine for children,
thus capturing the heroic vision which
sustained her throughout her life."
Culcha'
Books, Movies, TV,
Media, Music, poetry, etc.
License for Tyranny
by Karen De Coster from
Ludwig von Mises Institute
"You
get a feeling about a book and its author, when, in
the book's
very first sentence, he rivets you to your chair
with jackhammer force by stating that 'the
war on terrorism is the first political growth
industry of the new millennium.'"
Spinning on the Axis of
Evil: America's War Against Iraq
by Christopher Deliso
from Antiwar.com
"Spinning
on the Axis of Evil documents the trips
Canada's
top war reporter has made to Iraq since 2000...
Unlike the usual 'embedded'
Iraq war reportage-lite,
Taylor's in-depth
focus...adds
considerably to our understanding of America's
most destructive intervention since Vietnam."
The Great Breast Sighting of 2004
by Nicholas Strakon
from Strike The
Root
"It
was supposed to be amusing --
and in fact it seems to have amused a large
proportion of the same viewing public that is
purported to have been outraged by the momentary
mammarian display. "
The lighter side
Humor, satire, cartoons,
parodies, food, popular music
and other things to amuse.
Students for
an Orwellian Society
from Students for an
Orwellian Society (SOS)
Because 2004 is 20 years too late
(satire?)
The Patriot Act's Problem
Parts
from The
Onion
The
Onion Infograph - "sorta" like a "top-ten list."
Digital Democracy
by Mark
Fiore from The
Village Voice
An
animated cartoon outlining some of the issues with
"digital democracy."
Deep Thought
Scientific
and scholarly studies, philosophical essays,
in-depth and longer articles.
Two
somewhat different viewpoints about
a few of today's issues in science
The Ice Age Cometh
by Thom Hartmann
from AlterNet
-
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17711
A New
Politics
by Frederick Turner
from Tech Central Station
"A realignment is
taking place in the politics
of this country and indeed of
the world at large. It is
increasingly difficult to
define the meanings of left
and right, liberal and
conservative."
The
Moral Case for Free Trade
by Laurence M. Vance from
LewRockwell.com
"Is the state
responsible for protecting
American industries from
foreign competition? Then why
not protect industries from
domestic competition as well?"
Miscellany
Articles not
easily classified.
What's wrong with national service
by Bill Winter from LP
News
"All
this begs the question: If service is so glorious, and
has so many benefits, why must it be mandatory? American
politicians never answer that question. And, given the
history of national service, that's not surprising."
"Dominate. Intimidate.
Control."
by James Bovard from Reason
"More
than 1,000 people have been arrested at airport
checkpoints since the feds took over security in
February 2002. A regulation passed that month made it
a federal crime to interfere with airport screening
personnel."
The anti-free trader's true enemy
by Walter E. Williams
from Townhall.com
"Made
in America Shirt might ask Congress to enact an Aid to
Dependent American Shirt Manufacturers law, whereby it
would receive a $5 per shirt handout --
then it could meet U-Needa
Shirt Co.'s
price."
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