C4SS News Analyst Thomas L. Knapp walks through a short lesson for tea party attendees — taxation is a failed experiment!
Kevin Carson examines the claim that Norman Borlaug and the Green Revolution “saved a billion lives” and pins the blame for hunger in developing nations on statism.
C4SS News Analyst Thomas Knapp notes that April Fool’s Day may be the ideal day for celebrating government.
C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson on the relationship between government regulation and business cartels.
C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson: “There are all too many people in American politics whose real concern, concealed behind all the “free market” rhetoric, is not so much “statism” per se as statism that benefits the wrong class of people.”
Kevin Carson on self-sufficiency and sustainability in the counter-economy.
There seems to be a great deal of authoritarian weirdness among professed libertarians.
Nicholas Hildyard, writing for The Corner House (March 1998), pointed out the phony nature of most of what passes for “privatization” under neoliberalism: While the privatisation of state industries and assets has certainly cut down the direct involvement of the state in the production and distribution of many goods and services, the process has been…
The conventional wisdom, among the punditocracy, is that a major part of any Obama stimulus package will be large-scale funding of “infrastructure.” To maximize the bang for the buck, to have a rapid effect on unemployment numbers, and to get the money into people’s hands quickly, it’s anticipated that such spending will likely go to…
The Senate Republicans have made it clear they have no principled objection to bailouts. As The Freeman editor Sheldon Richman pointed out, if they’d been motivated by free market principle, they would have just refused a bailout–period. But instead, they demanded a rewrite of the House version because it wasn’t tough enough on auto workers….
Ecuador’s president announced in early December that his country would not be paying the interest on its foreign debt in 2009, repudiating it as “illegal” … As the Australians would say, good on them.
Gratuitous insults from Naomi Klein undercut left-wing free marketers.
Democratic congressmen and activists are outraged by the “new war strategy” presented in President Bush’s “Iraq speech” of January 8… but it should be no surprise that the President seeks to follow this war through no matter the cost.
Large-scale terrorism and the spread of nuclear weapons have exposed the sham of government protection.
The recent brutal taser assault on a UCLA student dramatically demonstrates the inequality of authority inherent to government. As such inequality is unnecessary to the provision of security services, government should be abolished.
The Hungarian workers and youth in 1956 were fighting against the power which was supposedly governing in their interest. Despite the revolution’s failure, its spirit is of as much relevance today as it has ever been.
Grameen Bank is, contrary to popular belief, an institution which relies heavily on state subsidies and its methods are not as much of an example of development from below as one would hope.
The best way to protect the rights of a minority from other groups is the elimination of the State.
How can government possibly be trusted to protect minors?
The problem in Iraq is government itself.
