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October 2011

The US Has 761 Military Bases Across the Planet, and We Simply Never Talk About It

Here it is, as simply as I can put it: In the course of any year, there must be relatively few countries on this planet on which U.S. soldiers do not set foot, whether with guns blazing, humanitarian aid in hand, or just for a friendly visit. In startling numbers of countries, our soldiers not [...]

The Fractional Reserve System

This film illustrates how the Fractional Reserve System and more importantly, how the money supply functions in America and indeed any society with a central bank. The Fractional Reserve System from Greg Stuessel on Vimeo.

Common Ground

Are Law Schools and Bar Exams Necessary?

FOR decades the legal industry has operated as a monopoly, which has been made possible by its self-imposed rules and state licensing restrictions — namely, the requirements that lawyers must graduate from an American Bar Association-accredited law school and pass a state bar examination. The industry claims these requirements are essential quality-control measures because consumers [...]

Youths that changed the world

The American Nightmare That Is Civil Asset Forfeiture

Being innocent does not matter. Not being arrested or convicted of a crime is no protection. With amazing ease, the government can take everything you own. And to recover it, you must prove your innocence through an expensive and difficult court proceeding in which a severely lowered standard of evidence favors the government. This is [...]

How to manipulate money and get rich at everyone’s expense

Why the State Demands Control of Money by Hans-Hermann Hoppe Imagine you are in command of the state, defined as an institution that possesses a territorial monopoly of ultimate decision making in every case of conflict, including conflicts involving the state and its agents itself, and, by implication, the right to tax, i.e., to unilaterally [...]

The Debt Problem

Police fabricate drug charges to reach quotas

A former NYPD narcotics detective snared in a corruption scandal testified it was common practice to fabricate drug charges against innocent people to meet arrest quotas. Read More – How many innocent people have been abused by corrupt cops? It won’t end until we stand up against these injustices.

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