The 2012 FPP Peace Prize

Writes Darryl W. Perry: The FPP Peace Prize was founded in 2009 due to the history of the Nobel Prize Committees reputation for selecting pro-war recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. The FPP Peace Prize has a mission to recognize a person (or group) that actively supports and subscribes (or supported if deceased) to the non-aggression principle 'that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being for any reason whatever; nor advocate the initiation...

I never did like them Republicans

You see what bastards they are?: "When the Democrats ran the House, they tended to be polite and generous to Ron Paul. Even the moderate Republicans were decent. But the neocons, from Gingrich to Boehner-Cantor, have been monsters. They even tried to prevent him from getting time to deliver his magnificent Farewell to Congress. Thank goodness that staffers, who love Ron as the people do, arranged for him to get his time without the leaders finding out. It's a model of the Peaceful Libertarian...

The Scott Horton Show 11/19/12

Today on the show: Ry Dawson on Hatteras Island, Shane and Amy Bugbee on their  year at the wheel, and Gareth Porter on Petraeus's many failures. 12-2 eastern scotthorton.org noagendastream.com

Some things you need to know about the attack on Gaza

First of all, Israel started it. It's not defense at all, but selfish electoral politics and grand theft. Says John Mearshiemer: "So what is going on here? At the most basic level, Israel’s actions in Gaza are inextricably bound up with its efforts to create a Greater Israel that stretches from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Despite the endless palaver about a two-state solution, the Palestinians are not going to get their own state, not least because the Netanyahu government is...

Anthony Gregory on Rothbard on Left and Right

"Nothing is deadlier than the pursuit of liberal ends through conservative means." A couple of weeks ago I interviewed Anthony Gregory from the Independent Institute and the Future of Freedom Foundation about Rothbard's great essay Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty. Well now he's written a new essay developing his arguments further for the C4SS: "The Carnage in the Middle of the Road.": Within the United States, it was not so much communism, but progressivism, that wedged itself...