Bruno walks into a neighborhood shop and threatens the shopkeeper with unspecified “bad things” if the shopkeeper doesn’t fork over $200 a week. The shopkeeper pays. If Bruno runs a “legitimate” protection racket, bad things […]
CHARLES HUGH SMITH Other governments are keenly interested in following China’s lead. I’ve been pondering the excellent 1964 history of the Southern Song Dynasty’s capital of Hangzhou, Daily Life in China on the Eve of the […]
Brandon Smith The question often arises in liberty movement circles as to how we get to the point of full blown tyranny within a society. There are numerous factors that determine this outcome, but through […]
Raúl Ilargi Meijer This morning I woke up, looked around me, and saw a world sinking into a quagmire of voluntary censorship, a world willing to let someone far away choose what it can and […]
by Raúl Ilargi Meijer One thing that’s not receiving enough attention in the respective Assange and Russia coverage is to what extent both protagonists are needed in each other’s narratives to keep each of these alive. […]
“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”—Benjamin Franklin The ease with which Americans are prepared to welcome boots on the ground, regional lockdowns, routine […]
by Robbie Travers Is the real, secret, goal of the French state to have no one who disagrees with it speak out? Marine Le Pen did not suggest that all Muslims are terrorists. She did not […]
by BILL WILLERS “It would be some time before I fully realized that the United States sees little need for diplomacy; power is enough.” —Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 6th Secretary General of the United Nations, 1999 “The […]
by Tyler Durden Elon Musk unveiled his apocalytpic vision of the world a few weeks ago… “Until people see robots going down the street killing people, they don’t know how to react because it seems so ethereal,” he said. […]
By Julian Rose Quietly, without most people noticing, the European Commission is moving ahead with a strategy that will arguably make the EU into the first fully operational model of a centralised ‘one state’ supranational authority: […]
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