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Big Brother Is Still Watching You: Don’t Fall for the NSA’s Latest Ploy

By John W. Whitehead “You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 Supposedly the National Security Administration is going to stop collecting certain internet communications that merely mention a foreign intelligence target.

Privacy advocates are hailing it as a major victory for Americans whose communications have been caught in the NSA’s dragnet.

If...

South Korea Should Give U.S. Troops The Boot

By Jacob G. Hornberger

The best thing that South Koreans could ever do, both for themselves and for the American people, as well as the Japanese citizenry, is boot all U.S. troops out of their country.

Isn’t the reason obvious?

If President Trump, the Pentagon, and the CIA succeed in instigating a war with North Korea, guess who is going to pay the biggest price for such a war?

No, not the United States. At the end of such a war, the continental United States will remain untouched, just lik...

Facebook Puts New York Times Veteran In Charge of Stopping ‘Fake News’

By Anti-Media Staff

On April 10, Anti-Media published an article titled “Google Putting CNN, Washington Post, NYT in Charge of Fact-Checking News.”

The title says it all. Through its new Fact Check feature on news stories, Google has put the job of informing the citizenry of what’s true and what’s false — on Google searches, at least — squarely in the hands of the corporate media.

Now, it’s seeming more and more that in the future, Facebook will be relegating its share of the fight against...

Ask Ron Paul: NAFTA, Obamacare, Taxes, State Rights, And More...

Another edition of the popular "Ask Ron Paul" episodes, where Ron Paul answers question from our viewers...

Doug Casey On Why Gold Is Money

By Doug Casey

It’s an unfortunate historical anomaly that people think about the paper in their wallets as money. The dollar is, technically, a currency. A currency is a government substitute for money. But gold is money.

Now, why do I say that?

Historically, many things have been used as money. Cattle have been used as money in many societies, including Roman society. That’s where we get the word “pecuniary” from: the Latin word for a single head of cattle is pecus. Salt has been used as money,...

NAFTA Stays And Globalists Stay In Control

By Liberty Report Staff

Real free trade (and NAFTA is not free trade) produces a win-win for both parties to a transaction. After all, both parties are free to exchange, and free to reject the exchange. If exchange is chosen, it necessarily means that both parties are better off trading than not.

When government gets involved with trade, by wielding force, the transaction becomes win-lose instead of win-win. Someone is being forced against his or her will somewhere. Someone benefits from...

Trump Tinkers With The Crony "Food" For Kids Program

By Liberty Report Staff

We all remember seeing kids putting pictures of Michelle Obama's gross school lunches on social media. Well, it appears that President Trump is going to let schools opt-out of Michelle's central planning scheme. 

But even with this small tinkering, the central planning continues without a hitch. The wealth redistribution and income transfers of the National School Lunch Program get to continue.

Republicans (you-know those supposed "limited government" guys) had the...

Enemy Of The Week: US To Slap Iran With New Sanctions

Although the White House confirmed that Iran was living up to the 2015 JPCOA nuclear agreement, Congress is still moving forward with new sanctions against the country. Why? According to the Administration it's because they test missiles, support terrorists, and violate human rights.

The Horrors of Communist China

By Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

It's a scandal that few Westerners are even aware, or, if they are aware, they are not conscious, of the bloody reality that prevailed in China between the years 1949 and 1976, the years of communist rule by Mao Zedong.

How many died as a result of persecutions and the policies of Mao? Perhaps you care to guess? Many people over the years have attempted to guess. But they have always underestimated. As more data rolled in during the 1980s and 1990s, and specia...

Pope Francis Is WAY OFF on Libertarianism

By Chris Rossini

Sadly, the current Pope doesn't appear to have an affinity for individual liberty and voluntary interactions between individuals. In fact, his understanding of libertarianism is sorely lacking. Libertarianism is rooted in the idea that no one (and no group) may aggressively use violence against anyone else. Violent force is for defending oneself only.

Where to begin with the Pope's latest statements?

Somehow, Pope Francis sees American universities as bastions of libertari...