What Can We Do about Gasoline Prices? | Mises Daily

Stop believing the solution will be found in participating in phony, feel-good, one-day boycotts of gas stations for starters says Mark Brandly.

Buy Two Wars, Get Another for Half Price | The Beacon

President Obama's logic for intervention in Libya has a low-brow quality to it says Ivan Eland.

Instead of Bombing Dictators, Stop Selling Them Bombs | Truthout.org

The best way to kill a Frankenstein monster, say Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis, is to stop it before it grows.

The Struggle to Control the Internet | The Daily Bell

A cooperative effort by the U.S. State Department, and the British Broadcasting Corporation to "save" the Internet from censorship in authoritarian regimes is really an effort to destroy it says Anthony Wile.

George Santayana with swagger

Gerald Celente, president of Kingston, N.Y-based Trends Research Institute, and a 1969 U.C. graduate, makes reference to his 1995 book "Trends 2000" about events he predicted then that are unfolding today during a candid, yet lively lecture this evening at the Emma Byrd Gallery on political and economic trends. The Bronx native said "the first great war of the 21st century has begun" by drawing parallels between the Stock Market Crash of 1929, the Great Depression, international price and trade wars that culminated with World War II to the Finanical Collapse of 2008, the current recession and U.S. military intervention, and occupation in the Middle East. Aside from taking stock in the "Three G's" - gold, guns and a getaway plan - the self-described "political atheist" said things won't change "until we regain our morality" by focusing on values, such as quality, that once made America great.

Paul Hardcastle 19 - Remix 2008 (HD)

Three-minute Cliffs Notes of U.S. foreign policy | Salon.com

A former CIA operative perfectly expresses the mindset driving the U.S. government's role in the world says Glenn Greenwald.

What Characterizes the Modern Totalitarian, Corporatized University? | Minding the Campus

The plague of Adminstrationism says Harvey Silverglate.

The Injustice of Social Justice | Mises Daily

Ben O'Neill debunks the myth that rights equal desires

Peter King’s Radical Ignorance | The American Conservative

Is not bliss given how the New York Republican's McCarthyite hearings on home-grown Islamic terrorism are a result of the U.S. Global War on Terror says Jack Hunter.

A Tsunami is Not a Stimulus | OpenMarket.org

Natural disasters are just that, disasters, says Ryan Young.

Ballad of Saint Patrick's Battalion by David Rovics

End Day Light Saving Time | Standardtime.com

Since it has not achieved its goal of energy savings, Day Light Savings Time needs to be put out to pasture says Sheila Danzig.

A Middle East Warning: American-Style Democracy Isn't the Answer | The Daily Bell

True freedom will not be achieved through mob rule says Ron Holland.

The Myth of Free-Market Healthcare - Kel Kelly - Mises Daily

Like with nearly every other sector of the economy, it's a joint venture between the state, and corporations says Kel Kelly.

The Essence of Just War Theory | The Partial Observer

Wars should be about survival, not principles says James Leroy Wilson.

Two Types of Abolitionism: IP and Chattel Slavery | Center for Study of Innovative Freedom

Steven Kinsella draws the parallels between 1851 and 2011.

Dealing with the sociopath next door (or in DC) | Backwoods Home Magazine

Claire Wolfe finds subtleties in Martha Stout's new book in identifying, and dealing with, toxic neighbors.