Tag Archives: Government
Dear America: If You Want to Stop Racism, Tear Down the Drug War—Not Statues
We cannot change the future by trying to erase the past. Tearing down a statue is not a solution to racism — ending the drug war is. By Matt Agorist Source: The Free Thought Project On Monday, protesters — reacting … Continue reading
Are We (Collectively) Depressed?
By Charles Hugh Smith Source: Of Two Minds We need to encourage honesty above optimism. Once we can speak honestly, there is a foundation for optimism. Psychoanalysis teaches that one cause of depression is repressed anger. The rising tide of … Continue reading
Absent Without Leave
By James Howard Kunstler Source: Kunstler.com It ain’t bragging if it’s true. I’ve said repeatedly on this blog for years that the federal government would only become more impotent, more incompetent, and more ineffectual as The Long Emergency rolled out. … Continue reading
3 Questions You’re Never Supposed to Ask After a Terrorist Attack
By Isaac Davis Source: Waking Times In a world where defense budgets are astronomical and wars of occupation and destabilization never end, political leaders in the UK and in Europe want you accept street level terror as the new everyday … Continue reading
The Government Is Still the Enemy of Freedom
By John W. Whitehead Source: The Rutherford Institute “Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even … Continue reading
The United States of Work
Employers exercise vast control over our lives, even when we’re not on the job. How did our bosses gain power that the government itself doesn’t hold? By Miya Tokumitsu Source: New Republic Work no longer works. “You need to acquire … Continue reading
We’ve Been Sold a Lie – Time to Stop Watching the Show
By Julian Rose Source: Waking Times ‘The show must go on’ as they say in the theatre. And indeed, so it would appear. Only this particular show seems to have no beginning or end. The curtain never comes down; there … Continue reading
Anarchy vs. Statism: Uncontrolled Order Over Controlled Chaos
By Gary ‘Z’ McGee Source: Waking Times “Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.” ~Frederick Douglas Caught up, as we are, in the politics of statism, it is often extremely difficult to see the forest for the trees. We’re … Continue reading
