"I’ll repeat what I’ve been saying for at least twenty-five years: We have more to fear from the miserable miscreants in Washington D.C., than from anyone else. If you want to find monsters, you don’t have to look overseas to find one; just look at that putrid cesspool by the Potomac, and you’ll find hundreds of them."
Chuck Baldwin
"The destruction of Libya is one of the many crimes of Western colonialism that has undermined the confidence of Western intellectuals in Western civilization. It is crimes such as the murder of Libya that have resulted in the destruction or removal of statues and monuments and the teaching now institutionalized in schools that white people are racist.
When you think of the destruction of Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, and Palestine, and the attempted destruction of Syria and Iran, just to mention some of the atrocities of our current era, it is possible to comprehend why the West has lost its moral gloss and is increasingly despised by growing numbers of its own citizens in addition to Arabs, Africans, Latin Americans, Russians, and Asians.
Corrupt and evil Western 'leaders' have succeeded in marginalizing the West. Every western country now consists of refugees from countries that the West has destroyed and citizens who have lost confidence in their leaders and culture. We ourselves are experiencing the fall of Rome."
Paul Craig Roberts
"If you want to level the playing field for American producers and manufacturers, instruct the Fed to stop its inflationary policies, and, in fact, to get out of the way entirely so that the domestic economy can deflate its high prices, wages and costs and thereby become more competitive on the global markets.’ China, the warhawks claim, hurts our American economy by selling us goods at low prices and investing in our businesses. We should welcome 'harm' like this, which benefits American consumers, rather than aim to destroy the source of our good fortune."
Lew Rockwell
"They don’t actually burn books anymore, but only because books today are mostly electronic. But they do the equivalent of that on places like Google and Twitter.
There’s an excellent chance that these people will discredit the very idea of science because they’ve wrapped themselves in the veil of science. Or, more precisely, what’s become known as 'The Science.' They’re creating something much more serious than just another economic disaster."
Doug Casey
"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."
Benjamin Franklin
"Millions live and die and never know that their lives are regulated by unseen authority. Every detail of our lives is prescribed. Doctors, lawyers, Indians or chiefs, we are regimented into the system.
What is the system? It is the totality of laws, regulations, social pressures and morality which regulate our lives, including our very thoughts.
Some call the system democracy Some call the system Americanism. Most believe that we are free and that our freedom evolved from the Constitution.
Our lives are an expression of the confluence (the blending of influences) of the establishment. We do not feel or see the regimentation and the bridled force that programs our lives to produce for the system which George Orwell called 'Big Brother.'
We unconsciously give our minds and bodies to the system."
Bob Livingston
"The quicker we come to terms with reality about politics in America, the closer we come to serious action to restore freedom of the individual. The government and its politicians are at war with us in order to protect their interests, which are 180 degrees out of phase with ours.
Incumbents get re-elected to the tune of better than 90 percent, a number which hardly jibes with the low teens approval rating Congress enjoys at the moment. Eighty-nine out of 100 recognize what these people are. But only one in 10 of them is going to be looking for work come November.
But the American system was not one set up for royalty or professional politicians. The Founders would be horrified at the notion that one must be an 'experienced' politician in order to be deemed qualified for office, or that anyone would be continually voted back into office for what amounts to a lifetime position."
Bob Livingston
"Many social media concerns have deep financial interests in China. If China were to invade democratic Taiwan… would these outfits moan about China as they presently moan about Russia?
We are not convinced they would.
Mr. Putin is of course the high villain in this morality tale — and justly so. His hands are red with the blood of many, many thousands. He can never rinse it away.
And we would remind the Russian autocrat: As all men, he will one day stand before St. Peter. His deeds will judge him, regardless of his earthly station.
We do not expect Peter to stamp the fellow’s passport.
Yet we would caution the United States government against moralistic self-patting of the back.
It sobs openly for Ukraine, it is true. Yet in critical respects it sheds the crocodile’s tears.
That is, the United States government cares less about minimizing Ukraine’s agonies… than it cares about maximizing Russia’s agonies."
Brian Maher
"In the long run even the most despotic governments with all their brutality and cruelty are no match for ideas. Eventually the ideology that has won the support of the majority will prevail and cut the ground from under the tyrant's feet. Then the oppressed many will rise in rebellion and overthrow their masters."
Ludwig von Mises
"If one wishes to be exposed to news, information or perspective that contravenes the prevailing U.S./NATO view on the war in Ukraine, a rigorous search is required. And there is no guarantee that search will succeed. That is because the state/corporate censorship regime that has been imposed in the West with regard to this war is stunningly aggressive, rapid and comprehensive…
So prolific and fast-moving is this censorship regime that it is virtually impossible to count how many platforms, agencies and individuals have been banished for the crime of expressing views deemed "pro-Russian”...
Note that this censorship regime is completely one-sided and, as usual, entirely aligned with U.S. foreign policy. Western news outlets and social media platforms have been flooded with pro-Ukrainian propaganda and outright lies from the start of the war…
The censorship goes only in one direction: to silence any voices deemed 'pro-Russian,' regardless of whether they spread disinformation."
Glenn Greenwald
"That you are is much more interesting than how you are. You could be nothing. Instead you’re a giant-brained biped that gets to walk around and look at things and think abstract thoughts. That’s light years more interesting and impressive than, like, having a university degree or being good at the stock market.
That giant leap from being nothing to being a sentient ape mutant is much, much more vast than the relatively insignificant click from being unemployed to being a millionaire. If you just spend your life really being here, truly relishing this gift, then that’s a life well spent.
An entity that’s never gotten to be a human would be much more impressed with humanness itself than with the specifics of what a given human has achieved and whether it has won the approval of its parents. Just be human. Just be here. Look. Listen. Breathe. Be.
This is amazing."
Caitlin Johnstone
"Even if they were allowed a vote, the Ukrainians understood what anti-secessionist Americans refuse to admit: cultural minority groups that are out of favor with the central government’s elites have a better chance at true self-determination through secession rather than unity and democracy. Although Ukraine was the most important non-Russian component of the USSR, it was nonetheless in the minority. At the time, Ukrainian separatists believed Russian ethnics would dominate politics within a post-Soviet democracy. They were probably right.
So, democracy doesn’t solve the problems that only secession and radical decentralization can solve. Ukraine is just one example of this, although we can be sure that the American regime and its pundit allies will deny that any lessons about secession can be learned here."
Ryan McMaken
"Sam Houston didn’t win the Battle of San Jacinto with a bunch of cheerleaders."
Daniel Miller
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