C4SS News Analyst Thomas L. Knapp takes a critical look at the vaunted panacea of political decentralization.

C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson: “If it had been dreamed up by Satan himself in the bowels of Hell, the War on Drugs couldn’t be more diabolically calculated to destroy our liberties and promote the cause of evil in the world.”

C4SS News Analyst Thomas L. Knapp deconstructs American militarism and global hegemony.

Thomas L. Knapp calls out the statist butchers for what they are.

Kevin Carson examines the mindset of those who put their faith in legislation — and finds it lacking!

Thomas L. Knapp recommends consistent anti-statism in the Tea Party aftermath.

Thomas L. Knapp discusses why you wouldn’t want to even buy a used car from the U.S. government, let alone law and security.

C4SS Research Associate Kevin Carson on the lawless Obama Justice Department.

C4SS News Analyst Thomas L. Knapp debunks the myth of fascist efficiency.

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.

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….

Gratuitous insults from Naomi Klein undercut left-wing free marketers.

Large-scale terrorism and the spread of nuclear weapons have exposed the sham of government protection.