Imperialism

Grading the Pledge to America

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 24, 2010

So….the Republicans have put out their Pledge to America. Is it any good? Jeffrey Tucker sums it up pithily by juxtaposing short quotes from it and the Declaration of Independence: Declaration of Independence (1776): “That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or [...]

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Article: Blowback, Provocation, and Perpetual War

by William N. Grigg September 11, 2010

It isn’t radical Muslims’ hatred for “our freedoms” that drives terrorist acts on U. S. soil, William Grigg argues.  It is the regime’s continued policy of aggression on foreign soil, and its leveraging of Muslim outrage to justify its perpetual wars. Read the Full Article by William N. Grigg Afterwards, discuss it below.

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Blowback, Provocation, and Perpetual War

by William N. Grigg September 11, 2010

No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures, Dr. Johnson informs us. In a somewhat similar vein,  the Regime’s post-9/11 “counter-terrorism” stings have avoided the official fiction that Muslim terrorism is inspired by a hatred for our “freedom.” The preferred bait to lure marginalized Muslims — many of whom have little commitment to the faith, no [...]

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9/11/01: Shocking, Unsurprising

by Wirkman Virkkala September 11, 2010

Nine years ago today, early in the morning, I woke up to my radio alarm. Usually, classical music woke me. This time, the radio announcer urgently related the horror that an airliner had hit one of the twin towers of the World Trade Center. There was no consensus on what it meant, at that early [...]

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Gingrich the Compulsive Mosque-Baiter: Reveling in Weakness

by William N. Grigg September 6, 2010

Newt Gingrich, a serial adulterer and disciple of New Age futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler, makes a singularly unlikely Crusader. Yet apparently at some point in the past year or so Gingrich looked in a mirror and saw Don John of Austria looking back at him. An epiphany of that kind would explain Gingrich’s perverse [...]

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TLS Podcast Pick: Islamocapitalism on The Lew Rockwell Show

by Robert Wicks September 3, 2010

Lew Rockwell interviews Turkish Journalist Mustafa Akyol. They discuss the capitalist origins of Islamic thought and the recent embracing of socialism by anti-colonialist movements in the Muslim world. From the show notes: Islam was founded by a successful merchant, and the religion was largely pro-market until the colonial disease of socialism infected the Muslim world. [...]

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Boston Legal’s Alan Shore on Americans

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché September 2, 2010

In a recent post, Akiva claimed that people (in general) get the government they deserve. The US is an imperial-warfare state and a growing surveillance-police state, not to mention a nanny-welfare state. Boston Legal’s left-liberal attorney Alan Shore echoes Akiva’s sentiments in a closing argument in defense of, oddly enough, a tax protester (video below). [...]

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