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Freedom News Digest: WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2022

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The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
— Alvin Toffler, Future Shock [1970]
May 24, 2022
Statist Ecstasy Over Cuban Suffering
American conservatives, especially the Pentagon and the CIA, have to be in a state of ecstasy over an article about Cuba that appeared in last Sunday’s Washington Post. The article stated that “in a nation plagued by malnutrition,” there is no milk for the Cuban people to purchase. The article points out that Cuba “careens through its worst economic crisis in 30 years” …
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MILITARISM
The Vicious Cycle Fueled By America’s Toxic Cult of Violence
by John W. Whitehead
The Future of Freedom Foundation
THE FREE SOCIETY
Watch for a Return of the Ignominious Disinformation Governance Board
by George F. Will
Washington Post
They’re Worried about the Spread of Information, Not Disinformation
by Caitlin Johnstone
CaitlinJohnstone.com
U.S. MILITARY
Arsenal of Autocracy?
by William D. Hartung
TomDispatch
ECONOMICS
Social Desirability as the Enemy of Truth
by Bryan Caplan with
Richard Hanania
CSPI
JFK
An Encounter with Evil: An Interview with Jacob Hornberger
by Jacob Hornberger
with Robbie Robertson
Out of the Blank
EDUCATION
Let’s Cancel Student Loans – Not Forgive Them, But Cancel the Program
by George Leef
AIER
FOREIGN POLICY
No Way Out but War
by Chris Hedges
Scheer Post
The Arrogance of War Hawks on All Sides
by Patrick Cockburn with
Scott Horton
The Scott Horton Show
Pushing Nuclear War
by Doug Bandow
Antiwar.com
Federal Testing Debacle Multiplied COVID Carnage
by James Bovard
On a bitter cold January afternoon, lines of people awaiting free COVID tests stretched around the block at a Rockville, Maryland, public library. Looking …
Conservatism, Libertarianism, and John Stuart Mill
by Laurence M. Vance
Although most conservatives of today seem to have forgotten him, conservatives of yesteryear honored and revered Russell Kirk (1918–1994). After receiving his bachelor’s degree …
Additional Adverse Consequences of Inflation
by Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling
Are there adverse consequences to inflation in addition to rising prices? FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel …
Get Ready to Be Muzzled: The Coming War on So-Called Hate Speech
by John W. Whitehead
Beware of those who want to monitor, muzzle, catalogue and censor speech. Especially be on your guard when the reasons given for limiting…
The Ninth Circuit Upholds the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
by Scott McPherson
California’s Ninth Circuit has ruled in a 2-1 decision that a state ban on 18- to 20-year-olds buying semiautomatic rifles is inconsistent with the …
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