Maoists used “human shields” in forest encounter

khabarsouthasia.com Chandan Das in Jamshedpur for Khabar South Asia In this June 2010 file photo, government-backed troops stand guard as women walk in a Chhattisgarh village. India’s home ministry says Maoist insurgents, known as Naxals, used women and minors as human shields during a recent encounter with the […]

Myths of Individualism

Tom G. Palmer set the communitarian crowd straight. Kudos to Kyle Kidwell for bringing this to my attention. ____________ It has recently been asserted that libertarians, or classical liberals, actually think that “individual agents are fully formed and their value preferences are in place prior to and outside […]

The tax man cometh to police you on health care

By Stephen Ohlemacher WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold most of President Barack Obama’s health care law will come home to roost for most taxpayers in about 2½ years, when they’ll have to start providing proof on their tax returns that they have health insurance. That scenario puts the Internal Revenue […]

Dissident News Update July 7, 2012

A Groundswell of Activism Against Drones Activist opposition to Washington’s new affinity with unmanned aerial vehicles for use in surveillance and war is growing by the day. Anti-drone campaigns are now established in New York, Nevada, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona, as well as a growing movement […]

Special treatment for Israelis to enter the US

Program with Israel pre-clears Israeli travelers from immigration and customs into the United States. “Special friendship” says Napolitano. Listen to the interview here. —- forward.com Nathan Guttman Homeland Security Sec’y Defends Controversial Grant Program NATE LAVEY Secretary Speaks: Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano speaks to staff at the […]

Obamacare: Mo’ Money, Mo’ Problems

By Gavin McInnes Last week, the Supreme Court decided we all have to buy government broccoli for $1.7 trillion. This is the analogy fiscal conservatives are using to describe the Obamacare mandate that insists everyone pay their “fair share.” John Derbyshire says that “healthcare isn’t broccoli,” because while […]

The Court and the “Ring of Capitalists”

By David D’Amato Last week’s 5-4 decision from the US Supreme Court, holding that Congress did indeed possess the constitutional authority to enact the individual mandate that remains Obamacare’s most controversial provision surprised many. The Court’s majority opined that although the US Constitution’s Commerce Clause doesn’t give Congress […]

Why Congress Doesn’t Work

This sounds like a mainstream, reformist version of ARV/ATS. By Leo Linbeck III gary718 / shutterstock Faced with a complex, hard-to-solve problem, there is a natural human tendency to solve a much simpler, easier one instead. Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman, in his book,Thinking, Fast and Slow, dubs this cognitive process […]

Israeli National-Anarchism?

This looks to be an interesting book. This book reveals for the first time the ancient Israelite culture, which Moses established in the Sinai Desert, as an Anarchistic society. The Ancient Israelite culture rejected all forms of law and administration on principle because of their belief in Yahavah […]

10 Movements to Secede from the United States

By Lauren Davis From io9.com via nata-ny.blogspot.com This week, the United States celebrates its independence from Great Britain. But throughout the nation’s history there have been plenty of people who have sought their independence from the US, not in it. Some of these rebellions against the US have […]

Neuroscience linking race preference to brain activity

How the brain responds to and processes images of people from different racial groups is an emerging field of investigation that could have major implications for society. Psychologist Elizabeth Phelps of New York University, in New York, who in 2000 led one of the first studies in this area, tells Nature what her latest review of the field reveals about the neuroscience of race1.

V for Victory: Crowley and Infowars

ac2012.com Infowars.com has recently revived the “V for Victory” campaign as a way to “invoke the spirit of the French who were occupied by the Nazis in World War Two.” What does this have to do with Aleister Crowley 2012? While he certainly wasn’t the first person to […]

Islam’s Role in Slavery

From TakiMag: Jim Goad on the Trans-Saharan slave trade. ___________ While filling my car with gasoline possibly derived from Middle Eastern oil, I spotted a billboard for a local clothing store called US ARABIA. Though the sign’s head-swaddled male and female models appear to be Caucasian, palefaces are […]

Why Libertarians Should Oppose Conspiracy Theories

By Dan Bier and David Bier “Bilderberg conspiracies have become a handicap for the Liberty Movement,” says conservative commentator Jack Hunter in a recent article. “Bilderberg conspiracy theorists have become a political handicap. The Birthers probably have a few interesting points to make, but this doesn’t change the fact that […]

The First Liberty Library

by Murray Rothbard

The lone individual is seldom given credit as a shaper and mover of great historical events; and this is particularly true when that in­dividual is no famous statesman or military hero, nor leader of a mass movement, but simply a little-known person pursuing his own idea in his own way. Yet such a person, scarcely known in his day and totally forgotten by historians until the last few years, played an important role in one of the most significant events in mod­ern history: the American Revo­lution. know the great in­fluence of this man and his simple idea in forming an event that has shaped all of our lives.