‘America: The Sucker of Last Resort’ (Video)

Rep. Alan Grayson (D-Fla.) tells you how you became part-owner of the toxic Red Roof Inn—but not really the owner at all, just the one covering the liabilities with your homes (10:58):

AntiWar.com’s Rebuttal to Justin Raimondo

AntiWar.com has posted a rebuttal to its editorial director Justin Raimondo’s column from yesterday calling for harsher enforcement on illegal immigration that Sayyid and I immediately jumped on. We applaud it and maintain our respect for the group affiliated with the site that never ceased. While standing by the moral indignation Mr. Raimondo’s column aroused in us, he is still one of the commentators on geopolitics we trust and admire most. Read the column by Anthony Gregory and Eric Garris, Mr. Raimondo’s co-founder at AntiWar.com’s, response here.

Benjamin Tucker: Who is the Somebody?

Benjamin Tucker on the source of capital, first published in an 1881 issue of Liberty, and later in his classic, Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write One.

Justin Raimondo is Wrong on Immigration

Little Alex and Sayyid’s joint response to an editor of AntiWar.com’s stance against open borders.

Benjamin Tucker: The Right of Ownership

Benjamin Tucker on property rights in an anarchist society, in response to a letter. This letter was first published in an 1890 issue of Liberty and later in his classic, Instead of a Book, by a Man Too Busy to Write One.

The Libertarian Dialectic and Social Dilemma

Elinor Ostrom’s findings on behavioral theory’s relation to collective action are imperative to the formation and sustainability of a libertarian order.

Paul, Kucinich on Their Minority Votes Against Economic Terrorism (Video)

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 403-11 to advance sanctions against Iran. Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), who correctly identified the sanctions as motion toward an “act of war”, and Dennis Kucinich, who said they would only harm the Iranian people and fuel anti-American sentiments, were among the minority vote. Their verbal statements in opposition before the House.

Dr. Paul (5:31):

Rep. Kucinich (2:23):

‘Free Markets’ Mean the Welfare’s Only for Rich People

Kevin Carson on ‘liberal’ bloggers seeing the G.O.P.’s “small government” heart of darkness.

Zubaydah’s Torture, Detention Subject of Senate Intelligence Inquiry

Jason Leopold, deputy managing editor at Truthout, reports on the U.S. investigation of the kidnapped, rendition and extensive torture of Abu Zubaydeh. He was regarded as a “high-value detainee” of the Bush Administration—a claim which has since been recanted by the government, after submitting him to secret prisons around the world and numerous application of torture as a ‘guinea pig in an experiment’, a former N.S.C. official said.

Government, Violence, and Bill Clinton

Radley Balko, senior editor of Reason magazine, on Bill Clinton distracting people from ‘the day we remember and lament the Clinton’s administration’s monumental fuck-up, and possibly reflect on massive power of government to simply eliminate people it deems weird or fringe or threatening to take to the pages of the New York Times to celebrate government, and to denounce and marginalize the people who dare to criticize it’. (h/t: Jeremy Weiland)

[pictured: children murdered by the U.S. government during the Waco Massacre]

Waco and the New Brown Scare

Anthony Gregory on the real meanings of Waco and Oklahoma City on their anniversaries and the partisan fearmongering to create loyalty and submission to the ruling class because, of course, no matter who you vote for, the government wins and humanity loses.

[pictured: children murdered by the U.S. government during the Waco Massacre]

The Story of Your Enslavement (Video)

We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. A brief history of human enslavement—up to and including your own. From Freedomain Radio, the largest and most popular philosophy conversation in the world (13:10):

Daily Briefing—16th April 2010

News and views from around the web posted to the Wonderland Wire:

Was Joe Stack a Terrorist? (Video)

Jack Hunter, a.k.a. “The Southern Avenger”, doesn’t think to nonsensically disagree he was. But adds that understanding terrorism isn’t condoning it, but imperative to ending it—no matter what dirt on what hemisphere on which the terrorist was born (5:24):

Optimal Education Requires ‘Opening the Source’

Miles Berry’s ‘provocation paper’ for the recent Open Source Schools think tank on open source education. (h/t: Michael Bauwens)