Taxation: Theft Legalized

by Jesse Mathewson, ZeroGov Modern voters from both parties will often have their personal reasons for either not supporting or supporting taxation. Some reason they are unconstitutional and others that we need more of them. Taxes are constitutional, Article I section 8 line 1 states clearly

The Shadow of Claude Dallas

by William N. Grigg Senseless, lawless violence -- government reduced to its essence: BLM employee C.J. Ross commits a felonious assault on Nevada property rights activist Ken Greenwell, in Palomino Valley, Nevada, November 13, 2001. Greenwell had staged a peaceful protest of the BLM's theft o

The U.S. Falls A Dramatic 135% On Press Freedom Index

from ActivistPost After TIME recently named "The Protester" 2011's person of the year, Reporters Without Borders said "Crackdown was the word of the year in 2011." Following a year of violent crackdowns on peaceful protests around the country, the United States fell 27 places on the Reporters

FBI releases plans to monitor social networks

by Jim Giles, NewScientist The US Federal Bureau of Investigation has quietly released details of plans to continuously monitor the global output of Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, offering a rare glimpse into an activity that the FBI and other government agencies are reluctant to

In Defense of Voting

by Chris Dates, ZeroGov “Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.” ~ H.L. Mencken I’ve heard many good arguments in opposition to voting. The arguments were so compelling that I adopted the non-voting stance for quite awhile. I mean, it just

John Galt has left California

from The Whited Sepulchre My employer, Jukt Micronics, recently opened a west coast warehouse to serve our customers in that region. Where did we go - L.A.?  Long Beach?  San Diego?  San Fran? Nope. We opened our west coast warehouse in Phoenix, Arizona.  That's a long way from the coast

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Police State 2012: No Need to Wait, It’s Already Here

by James Corbett, BFP A TV station in Boston airs a story about a library that sent a police sergeant to collect overdue library books from a 5-year-old girl. The Associated Press reports on a 70 year old woman in Utah who was wrestled to the ground and arrested for failing to maintain her

Discovery Channel’s show “Moonshiners”

by Libertarian Punk There’s a good new series on Discovery Channel, Moonshiners. Has real-ex moonshiners re-creating distilling and running untaxed booze like they’re really doing it. I thought it was reality TV until I looked it up. While no real illegal alcohol is produced on the sho

Anarchy in the United States

by Jesse Mathewson, ZeroGov It is well known that commonly accepted history is not always what is right, but what has been propagated the most. There is, however, a level of comfort afforded those who may be mistaken regarding our past. After all, what is repeated most often becomes reality. The

The Rights of the “Human” over the “Non-Human”: The Undeclared World War of Human Rights versus Corporate Rights.

by Prof John McMurtry, GR.ca The following essay by Professor John McMurtry is Part I of an eight part series, which will be published on Global Research in the course of the next month. The core problem of rights in general is that we have no life-value criterion whereby to tell whether a rig

USrael Vs. Persia: Destiny, or Insanity?

by Saman Mohammadi, Excavator "Everyone is aware of the difficult and menacing situation in which human society -- shrunk into one community with a common fate — now finds itself, but only a few act accordingly. Most people go on living their every-day life: half frightened, half indifferent, the