Freedom Plaza Protesters Settle In

"Exhilarating" is the most appropriate word to describe our assembly since Thursday on Freedom Plaza — our “Tahrir Square” — in Washington, D.C., called into being by October2011.org. And it appears we will be staying for the duration to exercise our freedom to...

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Iranian Terror Plot: Fake, Fake, Fake

Fake, fake, fake – I’m talking about the latest anti-Iranian propaganda coming out of Washington, which claims the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were involved in a “plot” to take out the Saudi ambassador to the US and blow up both the Saudi and...

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A Dangerous Precedent

Listen to Rep. Ron Paul deliver this address. According to the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, Americans are never to be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law. The Constitution is not some aspirational statement of values,...

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The Real Story of How Israel Was Created

To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 U.N. action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel’s birth is that the U.N. created Israel, that the world was in favor of...

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The Boob Tube Does Surveillance Porn

Author Aldous Huxley once wrote, “Government-through-terror works, on the whole, less well than government through nonviolent manipulation of the environment and of the thoughts and feelings of individual men, women, and children.” Writing this in 1958, Huxley hadn’t...

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Bombs Leave Dozens Killed or Wounded in Baghdad

A double bombing rattled a Shi’ite neighborhood in Baghdad today. It was one of several bombing attacks in the capital. Bombs exploded elsewhere as well, while gunmen were able to kill a few more Iraqis. Overall, at least 24 Iraqis were killed and 36 more were wounded across the country.
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Why Oppose Interventionism?

I often hear a variant of the following from conservatives (and some liberals) when confronted with the foreign policy views of libertarians: “Sure, I’m all for a more peaceful foreign policy, but you guys take it too far – isolationism won’t...

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