He knew what was at stake. “My people are dying and I am waiting my turn,” he wrote. Maya knew that powerful forces were at work maligning his country. The 33-year-old journalist placed his own life in danger on several occasions because he wanted the world to know the truth about ... … Read entire article »

G. Edward Griffin is a film producer, author and political lecturer. He is the founder of Freedom Force International, a libertarian-oriented activist network focused on advancing individual freedom. First released in 1994, Mr. Griffin’s best-selling financial book, The Creature from Jekyll Island, is a no-holds-barred look into the inner workings ... … Read entire article »

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.” — Colin Wilson. Society, it seems, has become less filled with life. Humanity as a whole is becoming more impotent and brain-dead by the minute, people finding meaning only in the most ... … Read entire article »

“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” — Oscar Wilde. All governments, no matter how they might appear, are made up by nothing but thieves and crooks — poisonous snakes who ... … Read entire article »

“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.” ~ James Madison For most Americans, the detention center at Guantanamo Bay — once the topic of heated political debate by presidential hopeful Barack Obama but rarely talked about by the incumbent President Obama — ... … Read entire article »

Physicalism is the philosophical claim that only what is physical is real, where physical means: To be found or inferred by measurement and reason as existing in the world observable by the outer senses (mainly sight, hearing and touch). Physicalism is distinct from physics. Physics is (a) an activity based ... … Read entire article »

You know how they say history does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme? Well, it’s absolutely true, especially in the case of governments. States pull the same nonsense repeatedly throughout history, but they don’t do it in exactly the same way, so most of the history-challenged populace never catches ... … Read entire article »

I am going to tell you some stories. To make it interesting, I will begin with one which could make one of my readers the deal of a lifetime. It ends on September 30. He who hesitates is lost. I begin with the obvious: the falling cost of Internet communications is ... … Read entire article »

There is no hope, I tell you. There are no reasons. We kid ourselves. In politics we think we do things for reasons. We don’t, except in the details. We do as we do because of what we are. We have wars because having wars is what men do. Reasons are ... … Read entire article »