Tag: William Lloyd Garrison

  • What's in your wallet?  If CBDC proponents have their way, nothing reliable

    What's in your wallet? If CBDC proponents have their way, nothing reliable

    Governments around the world don't like “cryptocurrencies” very much, but they do like two things about it. First, they like that Bitcoin, Ether and other cryptocurrencies have popularized the “next step” of taking money into a fully digital paradigm… not just bank cards connected to bank accounts, which in turn are connected to theoretical dollars,…

  • Cacophany, Not Harmony: The Terrible Tune of US Foreign Policy

    Cacophany, Not Harmony: The Terrible Tune of US Foreign Policy

    On March 14th, a Russian SU-27 fighter jet shot down a US MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Black Sea. The exact details of where and how remain a mystery even after the release of drone video of what appears to be a jet fuel dump on the drone, but those details don’t matter much. The…

  • Nuclear deal: Iran will do it "expect"

    Nuclear deal: Iran will do it "expect"

    That’s a strange way to put it, seeing as how Joe Biden spent the last year taping, barking and finding new excuses to avoid “returning” to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, aka the “Iran Nuclear Deal.” The Iranians have consistently stated that they are happy to “return” to the deal whenever the US does.…

  • Don’t expand NATO.  Break it down

    Don’t expand NATO. Break it down

    Decisions made at the summit include inviting Sweden and Finland to become NATO’s 31st and 32nd members, increasing “high readiness” forces to over 300,000, more money in general, and of course more money for non-EU Ukraine. its conflict with Russia. None of this, of course, “keeps the peace” or “prevents conflicts,” and given the Alliance’s…

  • Why Elon Musk shouldn’t buy Twitter

    Why Elon Musk shouldn’t buy Twitter

    There are many complaints of anxiety from representatives of the “left” (not the right left – that would be us libertarians) who are accustomed to an echo chamber that “protects” them from EVIL PEOPLE and their heterodox political views. Perhaps the craziest view of the opportunity came from the former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert…

  • Ukraine: Do not expect peace from politicians

    Ukraine: Do not expect peace from politicians

    Every international conflict tests this belief: Is THIS war that will make me reconsider and decide “hey, THIS war, unlike anything else I’ve seen, is inevitable, necessary, and just?” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not a war. Like all other wars in my life (I was born during a U.S. adventure in Vietnam), this is…

  • Ukraine: USA "diplomacy" is a problem.  Can it become a solution?

    Ukraine: USA "diplomacy" is a problem. Can it become a solution?

    NATO member countries by year of accession. Author: MK-CH1. Public domain. Reuters reported that Biden at the urging of the French president Emmanuel Macron, is “basically” ready to hold a summit with Putin. “We are always ready for diplomacy,” says the White House press secretary Jen Psaki. Unfortunately, U.S. “diplomacy” brought the U.S., Russia, Ukraine…

  • Circumcision: Pope Francis notes the obvious, but omits half of humanity

    Circumcision: Pope Francis notes the obvious, but omits half of humanity

    For some reason, however, the UN does not name “International Day for the Tolerance of Male Genital Mutilation,” and as far as I know, the Holy Father has never publicly applied the catechism of his church to the practice of involuntary circumcision of men. According to that catechism, “with the exception of amputations, mutilation, and…

  • Who Owns the Holocaust?

    Who Owns the Holocaust?

    He describes the Nazis and the six million Jews they murdered as “two white groups of people.” Oddly enough, Goldberg’s structure is partially correct insofar as it follows fairly closely the modern identification of race as a “social construction”. The term “white” was born precisely to identify those who should not be considered slaves to…

  • "For children": The last refuge for villains against encryption

    "For children": The last refuge for villains against encryption

    “Patriotism,” Samuel Johnson said in 1775, “is the last refuge of the villain.” Today, it is working more towards the first resort than the last resort. Both the UK and US governments have relied on this approach for years – “TERRORISTS use encryption! You don’t like TERRORISTS, do you?” – poor success in creating public…

  • Vladimir Putin is not the Neville Chamberlain the US / NATO is looking for

    Vladimir Putin is not the Neville Chamberlain the US / NATO is looking for

    It is the boiler that calls the boiler black. More than 30 years after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, 77 years after the end of World War II, the United States still holds 40,000 troops in Germany. For 45 years, it was justified to defend Germany from the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact.…

  • We need a great reset – and a different burden of proof

    We need a great reset – and a different burden of proof

    That meeting and its theme give rise to a number of new theories – we all get microchips for continuous monitoring by a “social credit system” run by a single world government, etc. – and in our 21st century authoritarian era, it’s hard to accuse anyone of fearing movements in that direction. I think the…

  • Cryptocurrency and the shocking revelation that white supremacists like money

    Cryptocurrency and the shocking revelation that white supremacists like money

    I have no doubt that the claim is true. It is also true of a remark in several paragraphs: “Nothing is inherently criminal or extreme in it, and most of its users have no connection to the far right.” However, you won’t hear much from this perspective in the mainstream media reports on the subject.…