History
The Age of Neo-Feudalism
From The Rutherford Institute By John W. Whitehead January 28, 2013 “The shaping of the will of Congress and the choosing of the American president has become a privilege reserved to the country’s equestrian classes, a.k.a. the 20% of the…
Crisis In The Congo: Uncovering The Truth
Tesla: Master of Lightning
Americans Are The Most Spied On People In World History
From Washington’s Blog More Spying On Citizens than in Stasi East Germany TechDirt notes: In a radio interview, Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin (who’s been one of the best at covering the surveillance state in the US) made a…
Electronic Publishing and the Internet Reformation
From The Daily Bell The Wall Street Journal reported last year on the accelerating trend in the US newspaper circulation slump. Circulation numbers released by the Audit Bureau of Circulations in the mid-2000s showed industry-wide declines of 8 to 15…
Leopold Kohr; The Modern Breakdown of Nations
Who Was Leopold Kohr? Leopold Kohr was born in 1909 in the small town of Oberndorf, near Salzberg, in Austria, and grew up there. He retained fond memories of the town, which was seemingly governed efficiently and effectively. It remained…
Origins of Israel Palestinian Conflict
The Culture of Violence in the American West: Myth versus Reality
From The Independent Institute The Not-So-Wild, Wild West In a thorough review of the “West was violent” literature, Bruce Benson (1998) discovered that many historians simply assume that violence was pervasive—even more so than in modern-day America—and then theorize about…
Anatomy of the State
By Murray N. Rothbard Anatomy of the State What the State Is Not The State is almost universally considered an institution of social service. Some theorists venerate the State as the apotheosis of society; others regard it as an amiable,…