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He Volunteered to Go to Auschwitz

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“Are you wondering why you’ve never heard of this man before?  For decades, information about Pilecki was kept hidden by the leaders of the postwar, Soviet-installed regime. They couldn’t recount his anti-Nazi activities without completing the story and telling of his anticommunist work as well. With the release in recent years of previously classified or suppressed documents, including Pilecki’s own reports in their entirety, his superhuman exploits are finally becoming known around the world.”

http://fee.org/freeman/he-volunteered-to-go-to-auschwitz/

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No More “Free Trade” Treaties: It’s Time for Genuine Free Trade

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“In 2012 we endured a fresh attempt by our governments to reduce our freedom to create and share intellectual works with the ACTA. And, if we look at the negotiations mandates of these trade agreements, we can see they all include a chapter on the reinforcement of ‘intellectual property’ rights. Intellectual property has become a key concept of the international economy. But this must not hide its illegitimacy.  Each time a new ‘free trade’ treaty is enacted, what is seen is the attenuation of tariff barriers, but what is not seen is the sneaky proliferation and harmonization of non-tariff barriers impeding free enterprise and creating monopolies at an international scale.”

https://mises.org/library/no-more-free-trade-treaties-its-time-genuine-free-trade

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Jeffrey Tucker, Captured, Cuffed, and Jailed: A Personal Story

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“He stared at me and said: put your hands behind your back. I was cuffed and led to the car.  My car would be towed to a wrecker lot, he explained. If I get out on bail, I could pay to get it back. Would the lot still be open by then? I asked. The policeman had no answer, no concern. And this is generally what you come to realize. Once arrested, you are a captured animal. Nothing else matters. You are no longer a consumer, a citizen, a person with a job, a normal human being. You are now just fodder, a thing they can use as they see fit.  The notion that you have any rights at all once you are arrested is a joke. What happens to you is entirely the decision of your captors.”

https://tucker.liberty.me/captured-cuffed-and-jailed-a-personal-story/

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‘Production Versus Plunder’ Part 19: Life in the New Empire

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“Plato goes on: ‘Not in the present generation… there is no way of accomplishing this; but their sons may be made to believe in the tale, and their sons’ sons, and posterity after them.’ This is precisely what was done in medieval Europe. The people were made to believe something that did not come naturally to them – and it enslaved their minds for a thousand years. And, to an extent, this idea remains. This formulation of Plato and his empire has strongly contributed to the gut feeling of many mixed-race people that they are somehow inferior. The amount of human suffering caused by this giant lie has been astronomical.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/36462/Paul-Rosenberg-Production-Versus-Plunder-Part-19-Life-in-the-New-Empire/

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They Live, We Sleep: A Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy

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“What most Americans perceive as life in America—privileged, progressive and free—is a far cry from reality, where economic inequality is growing, real agendas and real power are buried beneath layers of Orwellian doublespeak and corporate obfuscation, and ‘freedom,’ such that it is, is meted out in small, legalistic doses by militarized police armed to the teeth. Tune out the government’s attempts to distract, divert and befuddle us and tune into what’s really going on in this country, and you’ll run headlong into an unmistakable, unpalatable truth: the moneyed elite who rule us view us as expendable resources to be used, abused and discarded.”

http://rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/they_live_we_sleep_a_dictatorship_disguised_as_a_democracy

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Hiroshima: Lincoln’s Legacy to Civilians

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“Truman had two choices: drop the two bombs or else abandon unconditional surrender as civilian policy governing the military. He was unwilling to drop unconditional surrender, just as Lincoln had been unwilling to drop it in the summer of 1864. So, he decided to escalate the war on civilians.  The main criterion of conditional surrender for Japan would have been the maintenance of the Emperor’s formal control, at least officially, over Japan. That was exactly what Truman unofficially gave to Japan. American military forces did not bomb his residence during the firebombings of Tokyo. After the war, he was not removed from command.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/14128.cfm

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Sheldon Richman: Truman, A-Bombs and the Killing of Innocents

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“Nothing can justify what Truman did – neither revenge for the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval fleet at Pearl Harbor nor avoidance of a U.S. invasion of Japan. (Truman first justified the bombings in terms of vengeance.) Top American military leaders – Eisenhower, MacArthur, and Leahy among others – opposed the bombings. The estimate of American casualties in an invasion have been grossly exaggerated. Truman’s Secretary of State James Byrnes said the death rate would be in the thousands. But even if we accept the high guesses, why was the slaughter of Japanese noncombatants preferable to the deaths of military personnel?”

http://fff.org/explore-freedom/article/tgif-truman-killing-innocents/

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Jeffrey Tucker: How Can We Protect Ourselves from the Police State?

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“With the rise of the police state, the stakes are finally dawning on people. If you don’t comply, or even give the impression that you are anything less than a supplicant, you can be shot dead, right in your own community, or home, with weapons provided by the federal government and funded by you and me.  It will only make the news if a community uproar follows. Otherwise, you are another statistic.  Even under the best conditions, there will be no justice. Those in power will wait it out and eventually get back to building their unquestioned power backed by their increasingly deadly arsenal.  Yes, this is what’s it’s come to. It’s the revelation that could change everything.”

https://tucker.liberty.me/join-us-in-the-free-world/

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The Gig Economy Makes Karl Marx’s Dreams Come True

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“Marx should be delighted — oh, except that it’s capitalism, not communism, that’s allowing Joe to be a fisherman and a critic on his own terms.  The sharing or ‘gig’ economy is not only disrupting the way people live and work; it’s dividing the left considerably.  On the one hand, you have the nostalgic leftists who want Joe to work a nine-to-five job and skip the fishing. You know, like people did in the 1950s. [..] Should we be upset that the guy who founded Lyft is getting rich from the tech? Some people see the accumulation of wealth as taboo. But Joe’s life is better than it would have been in the absence of Lyft. The company allows him to live more of the life he wants to live.”

http://fee.org/freeman/detail/the-gig-economy-makes-karl-marxs-dreams-come-true

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How Life Finds a Way in the Regulatory State

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“Instead of calling it the sharing economy, perhaps a better name for these phenomena might be the ‘gap economy’ — the economy that grows like a weed in the interstices of regulated markets and incumbent cartels. In an interventionist, mixed economy, it’s not hard to find examples of both ‘differentiation from generality’ and ‘life finds a way.’ It’s in the spaces left free from arbitrary government constraint and meddling where the ingenuity and resourcefulness of ordinary people are comparatively free to do extraordinary things.”

http://fee.org/freeman/detail/how-life-finds-a-way-in-the-regulatory-state

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