Archive for July, 2009

Prof. Ralph Raico’s lecture at Mises University 2009 – “Liberalism” – 28 July 09

Lifting the veil of socialized medicine…

Clinton is threatening U.K. if doesn’t continue to bury evidence of C.I.A. torture; Eric Holder shouldn’t have passed his first semester of law school; CPD backtracking on its “deadly force” policy announcement; “Land reform” is a global heist with more guns than any other; Senior U.S. military adviser: Get out of Iraq; H.R. 1207 up to 271 co-sponsors; and more…

Iraq launces attack on U.S.-backed terror group; Majority of U.K. see Afghan War ‘unwinnable’; Colombia joins U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan; Chicago Police issue new “deadly force” policy; Deaf, disabled man tasered for not listening; HuffPo hires David Axelrod’s son as an editor; Walter Block is an anarchist; and more…

Chicago Police Department (CPD) Superintendent Jody Weis issued a new “deadly force” policy allowing cops to arbitrarily shoot drivers and passengers in vehicles to go into effect after this weekend. “Effective next Monday, police officers will be able to fire their guns under circumstances where they previously could not,” Mike Krauser reports.

What is wrong with American health care, and the simple steps you can take to start fixing it.

The late-Prof. Murray Rothbard speaks at the 1989 Michigan Libertarian Party Convention with a QandA session.

Amy Goodman and Anjali Kamat of Democracy Now! (DN!) interview Washington activists spied on by the military double agent. The operative reportedly spied on activists from organizations including Students for a Democratic Society, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Port Militarization Resistance.

Interview with a recently released Bagram detainee; U.S. military possibly breaks Posse Comitatus spying on activists for two years; The sheep are begging for the Police State; 96% of risk in the hands of five banks; and more…

AntiWar Radio host Scott Horton interviews David Vine, author of Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia, the most illuminating book I’ve read all year and the 2004 documentary by John Pilger, Stealing a Nation.

Kevin Carson breaks down the hypocrisy of the Democratic Party ‘philosophy’.

UNLV Professor Emeritus of Economics Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s lecture at Mises University 2009: “Praxeology: The Austrian Method”

WaPo wants high-level Bush officials not investigated for torture; Third party emerges strong in Kurdish election; U.S. is continuing and will continue to supply Israel with advanced weapons, unconditionally; Afghanistan wants a “new contract” with the U.S. occupation; Leonard Peltier parole hearing Tuesday; Denver cop demands faster McDonald’s service at gunpoint; and more…

Bush Administration considered breaking the Posse Comitatus Act in 2001 to have the military arrest people on U.S. soil; U.S. admits it has no evidence to supporting holding teenager at Gitmo; India launches nuclear sub; U.S.-allied refugees labeled “terrorists”; Police sodomize man with taser; and more…

Prof. Howard Zinn discusses the lost realities of three ‘romanticized, idealized’ American wars: the American Revolution, Civil War, and World War II.