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.

Governments of any sort simply can’t be trusted with nuclear weapons.