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Ender's Review of the Web
 

Web articles of likely interest to individualists found during the week of Nov. 21 - 27, 2004.

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Political Liberty
Articles showing a positive influence of political action on the cause of Liberty.
 
What to Be Thankful For
        by David Boaz from Cato Institute
"If we ask how life in the United States is different from life in most of the history of the world -- and still in 2004 different from much of the world -- a few key elements come to mind."
 
Local Time
        by Jacob Sullum from Reason
"In the case the Supreme Court is considering, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit concluded that Congress' authority to regulate interstate commerce does not extend to medical use of marijuana in states that allow it."
 
Giving Thanks to Family, Friends and the Market
        by Anthony Gregory from LewRockwell.com
"We owe thanks to the market -- to the millions of men and women, Americans and foreigners, employers and employees, managers and workers -- for our Thanksgiving dinners, and for almost all else of material worth in our lives."
 
Life in Amerika
Articles depicting the negative impact of politics on Liberty.
 
We'll be busting your door in
        by Vin Suprynowicz from Las Vegas Review-Journal
"After the police were created, crime rates went up. Why? Because in order to keep the lower classes in line, police cause 'crime,' by defining as 'crimes' things that were never 'crimes' before."
 

Where's The Outrage?

        by Mary Starrett from NewsWithViews.com
"Where's the outrage when, by next summer we, the free people of the United States will be marching in lockstep with Europeans who can't buy the nutritional supplements they want to keep healthy. Thanks to GATT and the like, Codex Alimentarius will be the law of the land come July, 2005."
 
The Stupidity of Smart Growth
        by Steven Greenhut from LewRockwell.com
"The newcomers who sold their houses in the Silicon Valley and Seattle have plenty of money to buy the fancy log houses on 20 acres with views of the mountain ranges. Now that they are here they are doing everything they can to a) stop newcomers from coming; b) force anyone without their income levels to live in drab high-density housing. They get their piece of the Montana Dream, and everyone else can take a hike."
 
Ordered Liberty without the State
Some people say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is an interesting topic.
 
Blood, Power, and Freedom
        by Craig Urda Russell from Endervidualism
"Each time it gives a person another piece of flesh, Power draws that person a little closer, makes him love Power a little more fully.  It makes him feel that power himself as he chews and swallows the corpses that Power has given him.  He knows unconsciously that such massive wholesale butchery could never be done on such a scale without Power."
 
What's Cooking in Spain
        by Paul Hein from LewRockwell.com
"It's the same old story: those with power, whether declared legitimate or not, seek to impose their will upon others who must accede, or endure harassment of one sort or another. The more powerful group will promise you protection from its competitors, but at a price. That group becomes, by its own definition, legitimate: the government. "
 
Fixing the Tiger
        by Michael Bradshaw from The Libertarian Enterprise
"The actions of politicians are deliberate, for specific purposes and meant to work the first time. The results they produce are consistent and are the desired ones. No, it will not 'take awhile to unthread the nuts and bolts and to set things in proper order before beginning again.' Things are already in their 'proper order' according to the politicians; so there is no reason to begin again."
 
Spreading Decentralism
Articles demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of power.
 
Give 'Em What They Want
        by Lex Concord from The Libertarian Enterprise
"How would separate governments coexist within the same boundaries? The same way that geographically distinct governments coexist already -- through treaties, international organizations, and high level negotiations to resolve disputes. No one would have to be ruled by a government they don't like, or have their kids educated by someone else's government schools. No one would have to fund programs or activities they find morally objectionable."
 
One, Two, Many Somalias
        by Michael Tennant from Strike The Root
"Back when the Somali government operated the lone national airline, it had 'just one airplane and one international route.'  With anarchy, by contrast, have come '15 firms, more than 60 aircraft, 6 international destinations, more domestic routes, and many more flights.'  Not possessed of the means to ensure safety, the Somalis engage in the much-maligned outsourcing to foreign countries for airplanes, crews and maintenance."
 
Last Exit Before Gas
        by William S. Lind from Antiwar.com
"Knowing nothing about war, the neocons probably expect any Iranian response to be symmetrical: an air and missile counterstrike. But Iran cannot do much that way, and surely knows it. Why shoot a few ineffective missiles at Israel when you have two juicy targets right next door, in the form of American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq?"
 
The New World Hegemon
Depictions of the coming Imperial power
 
U.S. Regime Change, Torture, and Murder in Chile
        by Jacob G. Hornberger from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"What mattered to U.S. officials was not democracy in Chile but rather the same thing that matters to them today in Iraq -- the installation of a ruler, brutal or benevolent, democratically elected or not, who was friendly to the U.S. government. If that meant supporting a cruel and brutal military dictator whose forces killed, tortured, or disappeared his own people, so be it."
 
The Lying Game, Revisited
        by Justin Raimondo from Antiwar.com
"This is reminiscent of nothing so much as the infamous Niger uranium forgeries, which, you'll remember, were accepted as fact by the Bush White House until they were exposed as fraudulent by International Atomic Energy Agency scientists, after a few hours with Google."
 
Might Makes Right (or Left)
        by Emiliano Antunez from Strike The Root
"The 'Chilean Miracle,' as the economic turnaround is described, was accompanied by some twisted magic tricks (disappearing acts.) Over three thousand Chileans were murdered or just simply 'disappeared' during military rule in Chile. Torture and arrest of civilians without the benefit of due process was rampant."
 
Politics by Other Means
War, rumors of war, and politicians fomenting war.
 
U.S. Policy Harms Prospects for Middle East Peace
        by Ivan Eland from The Independent Institute
"President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Ariel Sharon have finally gotten their wish: Yasir Arafat, their long-time nemesis, has passed from the scene. In their minds, Arafat's death brings exciting new possibilities for U.S. and Israeli policy gains in the Middle East peace process."
 
Once Again, Incumbents Are the Big Winners
        by Patrick Basham and John Samples from Cato Institute
"American elections do have competition between the political parties. After all, the Democrats could win back the House and Senate in 2006. What we lack is competition between insiders and outsiders. No one can seriously believe even 10 percent of incumbents will lose in 2006. This lack of competitive congressional elections is a direct consequence of public subsidy."
 
What Did We Do to Deserve Condoleezza Rice?
        by Sheldon Richman from The Future of Freedom Foundation
"Rice was one of the key administration people in the massive deception campaign leading up to the invasion of Iraq, which continues to cost the lives of countless Iraqis. (The U.S. government refuses to keep count.) More than once Rice stood before the American people and blatantly lied to them."
 
Spontaneous Order
Articles showing decentralized successes.
 
The Future of Freedom and the Impending Monetary Revolution
        by Steven Kane from anti-state.com
"The operators that provide the highest level of transparency and the most trustworthy audits of assets will attract more customers. Operators that hide assets and are secretive about their operations will lose customers and perhaps go out of business entirely. The trustworthy brand name operators will eventually become well known, and the fraud artists will be weeded out."
 
The 'blog' revolution sweeps across China
        by Xiao Qiang from New Scientist
"Any tech-savvy user can download and install blogging software themselves, bypassing the controls. Blogs play an important role in republishing and spreading information as quickly as it is banned from official websites."
 
Aaron Director on the Market for Goods and Ideas
        by Richard M. Ebeling from The Freeman: Ideas on Liberty (FEE)
"In the competitive arena of supply and demand each individual has the ability to select what options he finds most attractive, and the relative degrees to which he finds them desirable, without needing to persuade many others in society to 'vote' his way. The marketplace, therefore, offers pluralistic outcomes open to change every day through the consumption choices each of us makes, unlike the majoritarian winner-take-all outcomes of the democratic process."
 
Nonspontaneous Disorder
Articles showing centrally planned disasters.
 
A Good Way to Spend Thanksgiving?
        by Sheldon Richman from Institute for Health Freedom.
"There was a time when what you told your doctor was confidential. The information could not be passed on without your consent. But no more. The federal government's misnamed "medical-privacy rule" changed all that. Now whatever you tell your doctor can end up in lots of people's computers without your permission or, in many cases, your knowledge. "
 
Looking For Health - Naturally -- When Do You NEED To See The Doctor?
        by Susan Callaway, RN from The Price of Liberty
"So, what is the real problem? Government, of course. While everyone was arguing the relative merits of socialized medicine and 'national health care', our medical system became almost totally socialized without most people being aware... except most of the doctors and many other health care professionals."
 
The Fate of Medical Pot
        by Raymond Cushing from AlterNet
"The Supreme Court justices and their legal staff would appear to have a moral, if not a legal responsibility to acquire at least a rudimentary knowledge of the circumstances surrounding the great national issues they decide. In the case of medical marijuana, there is so much evidence about the healing potential of cannabinoids, even on the government's own web sites, that it suggests negligence to ignore it."
 
War Is The Health Of The State
War is the ultimate State intervention in society.
 
Selective Bullying
        by Harry Browne from HarryBrowne.org
"George Bush believes that you're either with us or against us. And if you're with us and powerful, you can do anything you want. But if you're a small state that can't fight back and has few residents in the United States, you're a target -- and nothing you say can stop the American military machine from overrunning your country."
 
An Era of End-Timers and Neo-Cons -- Whatever Happened to Conservatives?
        by Paul Craig Roberts from CounterPunch
"As more Americans are killed and maimed in the pointless carnage, more Americans have a powerful emotional stake that the war not be lost and not be in vain. Trapped in violence and unable to admit mistakes, a reckless administration will escalate."
 
Colombian Illusions
        by Alan Bock from Antiwar.com
"All of this is possible precisely because certain drugs have been made illicit, thus creating a risk premium in drug prices, which makes ridiculous profits possible to those most adept at violence, concealment, and corruption. So the connection between narco-trafficking and terrorism is that laws against (certain) drugs and those who use them create the conditions that make it possible for traffickers in politically-oriented violence to acquire money, weapons, and methods of operation more easily than if those drugs were not outlawed."
 
Bits of History
The Past seen with a fresh look.
 
Economic Fascism
        by Thomas J. DiLorenzo from LewRockwell.com
"Thus, it is important to recognize that, as an economic system, fascism was widely accepted in the 1920s and '30s. The evil deeds of individual fascists were later condemned, but the practice of economic fascism never was. To this day, the historically uninformed continue to repeat the hoary slogan that, despite all his faults, Mussolini at least 'made the trains run on time,' insinuating that his interventionist industrial policies were a success."
 
The Pilgrims' Real Thanksgiving Lesson
        by Benjamin Powell from The Independent Institute
"Once the Pilgrims in the Plymouth Plantation abandoned their communal economic system and adopted one with greater individual property rights, they never again faced the starvation and food shortages of the first three years. It was only after allowing greater property rights that they could feast without worrying that famine was just around the corner."
 
Property and the First Thanksgiving
        by Gary Galles from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"[W]hile the Pilgrims' 1623 'way of thanksgiving' represents what we wish to infuse in Thanksgiving, Plymouth Colony before 1623 was closer to a Thanksgiving host's worst fears -- resentments surface, harsh words are spoken, and people turn angry and unhappy with one another."
 
War and Peace
Articles showing the nature of War.
 
How Can Terrorism Ever Be a Rational Choice?
        by Ali Hassan Massoud from Strike The Root
"If you are the oppressed minority, the conclusion is this: The government army and police can attack you and your family, associates, businesses and community-based institutions at will. ... What can they do? ... The only compelling course is to redress the issue of safety. The weaker side reckons that if they can't live in safety, then neither can their oppressors. And so the point/counter-point spiral of violence and retaliation begins and continues until one side becomes exhausted."
 
Won't Get Fooled Again?
        by Paul Craig Roberts from Antiwar.com
"The Bush administration is recycling the lies that it used to invade Iraq: Iran is acquiring nuclear weapons that will be given to terrorists. In a display of loyalty to a ruthless neocon administration calculated to win him appointments to corporate boards, outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters that Iran was working on nuclear missiles."
 
A Few Thoughts Before We 'Liberate' Iran
        by Steven LaTulippe from LewRockwell.com
"While this system [the current Iranian government] is obviously not a prototype of Jeffersonian republicanism, it is nevertheless incorrect to call it a dictatorship. In fact, the Iranian government is probably the most representative and democratic government in the Muslim Middle East."
 
Great Individuals In History
Some people stand out from the crowd.
 
Publisher - Raymond Cyrus Hoiles : Nov. 24, 1878
        by East Valley Tribune of Freedom Communications, Inc
"R.C. Hoiles worked tirelessly during his lifetime on behalf of human liberty, self-reliance and personal integrity. His passion for his principles, and the enduring legacy of both, sets Freedom Communications apart from its contemporaries."
 
 
Writer - Frederik Pohl : Nov. 26, 1919
        From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
"In the 1970s, he made a comeback as a writer with novels like Heechee series and 'Man Plus'. 'Gateway', the first novel in the Heechee series, won the 1978 novel Hugo Award, while 'Man Plus' won him a Nebula Award in 1976."
 
Performer - Tina Turner : Nov. 26, 1939
        from PhillyWire.com
"Tina Turner is noted for her overpowering stage presence -- long legs, big hair, and powerful voice."
 
Culcha'
Books, Movies, TV, Media, Music, poetry, etc.
 
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
        Reviewed by Tom Ender from Endervidualism
"Lives of individuals (e.g. Strelnikov) are swallowed by the political, as the personal is 'sacrificed.' However, in contrast to the destruction engendered by the State, even amidst the catastrophes of World War I and the Russian revolution, Yuri and Tonya produce children. Zhivago and Lara have their romance. Zhivago produces his poetry, which is loved by the Russian people."
 
The Incredibles
        by David Kelley from The Objectivist Center
"To judge by the discussion of 'The Incredibles', Rand is known as much for her unapologetic love of excellence as for her ethic of self-interest and libertarian politics. She was indeed a great admirer of human achievement, and, as a consequence, defended the rights and the honor of the highest achievers."
 
Natural Born Killer
        by Michael Atkinson from The Village Voice
"But despite all of the fringe benefits, Alexander is a patience tester, clotted with relentless Vangelis hosannas and declamations of glory. Unsurprisingly, it's a political lemon. The 'we're superior to the Persians' speeches and Alexander's cant about nation-building for the benefit of the poor 'barbarians' might constitute a critique of Alexander or Bush II or both, if they weren't undermined by the film's exalting wail of praise."
 
The lighter side
Humor, satire, cartoons, parodies, food, popular music and other things to amuse.
 
White House Thanksgiving Turkey Detained Without Counsel
        from The Onion
"Cousin Wattle, the official National Thanksgiving Turkey who was to have been pardoned by President Bush in an annual White House ceremony that dates back to the Truman administration, is currently being held without formal charges or access to legal counsel, White House press secretary Scott McClellan confirmed Tuesday."
 
Bush Kills Turkey, Pardons Tom Delay -- Departure From Thanksgiving Tradition
        by Andy Borowitz from Borowitz Report
"Jenny Colver, 11, of Silver Spring, Maryland, expressed a view shared by many who witnessed the history-making event: 'He pardoned the wrong turkey'."
 
One Hand Jerking
        by Paul Krassner from New York Press
"Finally, a decade ago, I was at the home of a friend when someone visited him in order to borrow some pornography. The someone was the late Francis Crick, who in 1962 won the Nobel Prize in medicine for his 1953 seminal (yes, I said seminal) discovery with James Watson of the double-helix structure of DNA."
 
Deep Thought
Scientific and scholarly studies, philosophical essays, in-depth and longer articles.
 
The Perfectly Wrong Enemy
        by Bob Wallace from Endervidualism
"Even people who have no religious beliefs still often believe in absolute good and absolute evil, even if they claim they don't. Even if they insist they don't, they still often define their opponents as evil and imbue them with great, almost magical powers that they will use to 'conquer the world'."
 
The Case Against Antitrust
        by Robert A. Levy from Cato Institute
"Antitrust laws -- statutes that supposedly keep any one firm or group of firms from dominating the marketplace -- are thought by some to be the bulwark of free enterprise. ... But antitrust has a dark side; it often is used to the detriment of the consumers it's supposed to protect. Here are seven reasons to repeal existing antitrust laws and reject new proposals...."
 
Böhm-Bawerk’s Critique of the Exploitation Theory of Interest
        by Robert P. Murphy from Ludwig von Mises Institute
"If the worker is willing to wait until the product of his labor actually accrues into a saleable product, then he will have the 'full value' that even a socialist analysis would require. However, if the worker is not willing to wait, and desires an advance in the form of present goods in exchange for his labor (that will not produce consumable goods until the future), then he must be willing to pay the market premium on present goods."
 
Miscellany
Articles not easily classified.
 
L'Accuse!
        by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. from LewRockwell.com
"I won't list the really stupid ones, such as those accusing me of being anti-American, unpatriotic, a traitorous left-liberal Democrat ... or any of the other ad hominem attacks that some people confuse with argument. But I would like to address some of the more substantial common remarks."
 
Memory Lane
        by Manuel Miles from The Libertarian Enterprise
"Even though we drift apart over the years, and philosophical and ideological