SEZ Developmental Economics
San Fransisco California Aug 11, 2017 Lotta Moberg Researcher, Various
Threat Management In Startup Societies
San Fransisco California Aug 11, 2017 Dale Brown Founder, DTMC
Being a Dissident in Putin’s Russia
Mikhail Svetov, a founding member of the Libertarian Party of Russia, speaks about being in opposition to Vladimir Putin.
Spreading Startup Societies
Mark Frazier, founder of OpenWorld.com, speaks about the best methods of spreading startup societies.
User Generated Currencies & Decentralized Value
Startup Societies Summit San Francisco, California Aug 11, 2017 Galia Benartzi Co-Founder, Bancor
Why the world needs charter cities
How can a struggling country break out of poverty if it’s trapped in a system of bad rules? Economist Paul Romer unveils a bold idea: “charter cities,” city-scale administrative zones governed by a coalition of nations.
“Startup Cities,” Honduras, and Experiments in Freedom
Startup Cities
Michael Strong, confounder of the Startup Cities Institute, talks Honduran Zedes and the principles behind them.
Free Private Cities
Titus Gebel from Free Privates Cities talks with us in the Startup Societies Podcast.
Andreas Kohl: “Mr Liechtenstein”
Andreas Kohl discusses Liechtenstein
What is a Startup Society?
Thibault Serlet’s talk at the Startup Societies Summit. July 1 2016.
Working With Governments To Make Startup Societies
San Fransisco California Aug 11, 2017 Mark Lutter Lead Economist, Neway Capitol
The Importance of Special Economic Zones
Seasteading In French Polynesia
Startup Societies Summit San Francisco, California Aug 11, 2017 Joe Quirk Seavangelist, The Seasteading Institute
Independence Movement And The State Of Jefferson
Startup Societies Summit San Francisco, California Aug 11, 2017 Tom Reed New State Movement Chair, d10e
Evolving Beyond Politics And The Nation State
San Fransisco California Aug 11, 2017 Max Borders CEO, Voice And Exit
Eco-Villages And Land Endowments
San Fransisco California Aug 11, 2017 Mark Frazier President, Openworlds
Startup Societies And Their Importance
Startup Societies Summit Aug, 11 2017 San Francisco, California Joe McKinney CEO, Startup Societies Foundation Thibault Serlet – Opening Announcement CEO, Economic Zone Intelligence
Separatism, Revolution, and War
I disagree with certain things that are said in this, but it’s a very interesting discussion. Preston Martin interviews Matthew VanDyke and Mikhail Svetov about foreign policy.
What is a Startup Society?
Are startup societies a way of building the infrastructure for pan-secessionist action?
George Hawley: Making Sense of the Alt-Right
A new book by a scholar of the American right-wing examines the Alt-Right. This is the best and most comprehensive work on the Alt-Right that has been published to date. Available from Amazon. A number of reviews are currently available from mainstream as well as libertarian, far right […]
Libertarians Have a Class Theory, Too (and It’s Better Than Marx’s)
A great interview of Gary Chartier by Tom Woods. Listen here. I can’t recommend Gary’s book more highly. It’s available at Amazon. These classical liberal class theorists along with the early anarchists and “libertarian socialists” are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how modern state-capitalism developed […]
President Trump’s ‘Friends’ in Saudi Arabia
Isn’t it interesting that the two greatest allies of the US are an ethno-supremacist state and a Bronze Age theocracy? By Andrew Bacevich The American Conservative In the long arc of history, while regimes come and go, civilizations endure. Bet on the former against the latter, and you’re […]
Neocon Think Tanks Not Russian Media Are the Enemy Within
“Neocon think tanks” are merely organizations that develop the “policy” programs that serve the interests of the state. By Jon Wight Ron Paul Institute for Prosperity The latest salvo in the ongoing attempt to de-legitimize and demonize Russia-based media has arrived with a directive from the US Justice […]
Trump’s Failed Coup in Iran
Efforts by the Empire to turn Iran into a wrecked nation like Iraq, Libya, and Syria have thus far failed. By Eric Margolis Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity Listen to the state-“guided” US media this past week and you’d believe a series of spontaneous anti-government protests […]
Trump Isn’t Another Hitler. He’s Another Obama.
The great thing about the Obama and Trump administrations is that they have proven that supposed “maverick” heads of state are no different than ordinary dynastic centrist politicians like the Bushes and the Clintons. US foreign policy and economic policy reflects the general consensus of the dominant factions […]
Breaking – Tillerson Unveils ‘New’ US Syria Plan: ‘Assad Must Go!’
Like the Obama regime, the Trump regime is turning out to be a bunch of neocons after all. There is nothing that the Rome on the Potomac hates more than independent nations who defy the Empire. The US Empire would rather liquidate Syria into a failed state like […]
Is America Becoming a Police State? The Disturbing Questions of ‘Do Not Resist’
Duh? To ask the question is to answer it. This appears to be an interesting and generally unbiased documentary made by the son of a SWAT team commander. This is the single most important domestic issue in the United States at present, and one that transcends the usual […]
The Endurance of Empire
This looks to be an interesting conference. The 2018 Telos Europe Conference Friday, August 31, to Sunday, September 2, 2018 Ragusa, Sicily About the Conference The end of the two world wars saw the fall of mighty empires—from the Tsarist Empire, the Kaiserreich and the Ottoman Empire to […]
Sovereignty and Grand Strategy: Some Observations on the Rise of China and Decline of the Americans
In the past, much of my own work has focused on critiquing a world order where the USA is the dominant hegemon because, well, that’s the world we’ve had for the past 30 years (and, really, for 73 years when it is considered that during the Cold War […]
A New Year Means a New California Secession Movement
By Scott Shackford Reason Another movement to split up California is brewing. This one wants to create a state called “New California,” essentially by separating the red from the blue. New California would be made up of the inland and non-metropolitan parts of the state (with the notable […]
More U.S. States Are Knocking Down Gold & Silver Barriers
By J.P. Cortez Listen to the Podcast Audio: Click Here Here’s What Arizona, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, Idaho, Etc. Are Doing… In 2017, Arizona, Louisiana, Virginia, Texas, and North Carolina, and even Minnesota made progress on the sound money front. In 2018, other states could do so as […]
Peter Tatchell and the Total State
Like Sean, I have some level of respect for Peter Tatchell. However, these troubling statements of his indicate what I have always said, i.e. that any ideological system, no matter how much it may seem to represent “good causes,” can be twisted towards state-centric and authoritarian ends. Additionally, […]
‘Oil Wars’: Is This an Accurate Summary of U.S.-Led Interventions in the Middle East of the 21st Century?
Duncan Whitmore argues that US imperialism in the Middle East is about maintaining the hegemony of the petrodollar, countering the influence of Russia and China, and advancing the interests of Israel and Saudi Arabia. To all of that I would add maintaining hegemony over the oil trade by […]
How President Trump Normalized Neoconservatism
The Never Trumpers need not have worried. As I have always said, the US President is merely a celebrity-administrator whose only genuine function is to preside over the implementation of policies that reflect the general consensus of the dominant factions of the elite. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO […]
A New Poll Shows the Public Is Overwhelmingly Opposed to Endless US Military Interventions
This is great news in that it really does place the general public at odds with the ruling class. One of the most important and successful political movements in US history was the anti-Vietnam War/anti-draft movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The long range effect of the movement […]
An Indian city run entirely by corporations hasn’t had a functioning government for 40 years
By Chris Weller Business Insider Gurgaon, India is a city where normal functions of a local government do not apply — because there is hardly any government at all. Instead, private corporations dominate the city, offering sewage removal systems, firefighting services, health care, and education. “The interesting thing about Gurgaon is […]
Mexican cities secede to escape corruption and cartels, forming corporate dystopias, precarious utopian projects, and Mad Maxish militia towns
The infrastructure of pan-anarchism is already being created. Boingboing.Net Mexico’s corrupt, failing government that covers up official mass murders by attacking journalists and dissidents with cyberweapons is locked in a stalemate with the country’s horrific, mass-murdering gangs, and the Mexican people are caught in the crossfire. The weak […]
Getting Grand Strategy Wrong
By William S. Lind Traditional Right One of the iron laws of warfare is that a higher level dominates a lower. You can be brilliant tactically, but if you are defeated operationally, you lose. You can win tactically and operationally, but if you get beaten strategically, you lose. […]
Problems with the Private Production of Defense Part 3: Strategy
Todd Lewis is joined by Will Mclean to finish our discussion on the privatization of defense. Today we will be focusing on strategy and tactics envisioned by the libertarians.
Nietzsche on Self Recovery
Knew some of you would appreciate this. Enjoy. —– Editor’s note: I couldn’t find a non downloadable link to the Walter Kaufmann translation of Nietzsche’s “Why I Am So Wise” anywhere online, which is weird given that Nietzsche’s most well known quote belongs to this text. To my knowledge, this […]
When Will Trump Supporters in The Freedom Movement Realize They Were Duped?
By Derrick Broze The Activist Post What will it take for Trump supporters to admit they were duped like Obama supporters before them? One of the most surprising (and disappointing) effects of the Trump presidency has been the shift of certain “independent” and ” alternative” media outlets from […]
Keith Preston: Trump represents a tradition of ‘xenophobic isolationism’
Press TV. Listen here. US President Donald Trump’s administration represents a tradition of “xenophobic isolationism” which is different from conventional GOP foreign policy, and may curb US imperialism, says a political analyst from Virginia. “We have this isolationist tradition that is very xenophobic in the sense that we […]
Can A Libertarian Society Provide National Defense?
A former military officer weighs in. By Zack Sorenson Libertarian Institute A recent Tom Woods podcast featured a debate about whether the free market can provide for national defense. Arguing that libertarian society can offer defense “services”, Bob Murphy relies on the idea of insurance paying the costs […]
Murphy 1, Shoguns 0
A specialist on Japanese military history weighs in on the Lewis-Murphy debate on private defense services. Regarding my recent debate on the Tom Woods Show with Todd Lewis–regarding private defense–I got the following email (permission to reprint): Dr. Murphy, Following your recent debate with Todd Lewis I felt […]
Problems with the Private Production of Defense Part 2: Mobilization
Todd is joined by Keith Preston and Will Mclean to discuss the problems of privatizing mobilization of armed forces.
Problems with the Private Production of Defense Part 1: Financing
Todd Lewis joined by Logos to discuss the problems of financing problems of private defense.
Keith Preston: US war against North Korea would have ‘catastrophic consequences’
Press TV. Listen here. A military option by the US against North Korea to resolve the crisis on the Korean Peninsula would have “catastrophic consequences,” says a political analyst in Virginia. “An attempted invasion by the United States of the Korean Peninsula or the region of North Korea will certainly […]
Keith Preston: Republicans advancing interests of upper classes
Press TV. Listen here. Republican administrations in the United States have often been serving the interests of the upper classes, says a political analyst. US President Donald Trump told a group of his billionaire friends Friday shortly after signing the historic US tax bill into law that they […]

















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