Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 279

Lies, Damn Lies, and Network News

In the summer of 1980, I was a naive 19-year-old on a mission to backpack around the world. To achieve my goal, I had to pick up odd jobs and gigs along the way, since wiring money from home was a slow, expensive and laborious task.

I had gotten a job crewing on a sailing yacht from Amsterdam to Monaco for the season, which paid and fed well. I later found myself in Corfu, caddying for wealthy Greeks and crewing on the Bond film For Your Eyes Only. This gave me enough money to achieve one of my ...

A NATO Invasion of Nuclear Russia Is Currently Underway, and the World Is Unaware that It Is in World War III

A NATO invasion of nuclear Russia is currently underway, and the world is unaware that it is in World War III, as reported by Megatron (14 August 2024).

The Kursk region of Russia is currently full of NATO weapons, troops, logistics, and more, many of them destroyed. See map, below.

Ukrainian aims to destabilize Russia with Kursk incursion. (BingMaps/Institute For The Study Of War/USA TODAY)

Video footage comes out of dozens of NATO vehicles, air defense systems, tanks and more; even if destroy...

Five Faces of Invasion-Hidden Agendas and Treason Leading Us to War

An invasion can be the cause of a war, be a part of a larger strategy to end a war, or it can constitute an entire war in itself. Due to the large scale of the operations associated with invasions, they are usually strategic in planning and execution.

When I hear the word invasion, what immediately comes to mind is one country invading another. We have ultimately learned that the reasons we are given for the invasion are rarely the whole story. There is more often than not a hidden agenda, some ...

Julian Assange Describes a Dangerous Tendency in Government

On Thursday, I wrote about the testimony of Julian Assange of WikiLeaks at a Tuesday meeting of the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE). Assange’s testimony provided an informative overview of his persecution for helping expose disturbing government secrets.

In his testimony, Assange stepped back at times from the particulars of his story to address broader issues related to government that are important for proponents of free...

Oligarchs, Puppets, and Wealth Transfers

Unrestrained federal debt is the Original Sin. Yielding to the temptation to create and disburse trillions to special interests and industries has resulted in the Fall of the U.S. Constitutional Republic. This calamity is visually expressed by the following chart.

We are now governed by oligarchs who have installed a puppet in the White House who approves every scheme for transferring trillions of federal money to companies (owned by oligarchs) in the following industries.

1). Wars in foreign c...

Natural Immunity Is an Opportunity Cost of Covid-19 Vaccination

In economics, the term “opportunity cost” is used to refer to any potential benefits that are lost because of a decision to do one thing instead of another. For example, if you spend $20 each month for a subscription to the New York Times, that’s twenty bucks you will no longer have available on a monthly recurring basis to instead support independent journalism that debunks the lies and deceptions propagated by the mainstream media.

The French economist Frédéric Bastiat provided a famous illust...

Why Biden-Harris Could Not Print, Borrow, or Spend Their Way to a Strong Economy

A goodly part of the “strong” economy illusion derives from cherry-picking the hideously misleading numbers contained in the BLS establishment survey’s monthly “jobs” count. As we noted in my previous piece, for instance, the index of hours worked in the high-pay, high-productivity goods-producing sector has actually contracted by 18% since peaking way back in 1978, but that has purportedly been more than off-set by a 128% rise in the hours index for the Leisure & Hospitality (L&H) sector, of wh...

John Kerry and the Assault on Free Speech

The presidential and vice-presidential candidates on the Democratic ticket are openly endorsing censorship and suppression of free speech. This is in open violation of the First Amendment.

Gov. Walz openly endorsed the United States government censoring Americans during the week’s vice-presidential debate.

The use of censorship to control free speech has been slowly ratcheting up in the USA for the last decade.

The essay below from Brownstone Institute documents the mind-virus that has infected ...

Let Me Be Clear

We can learn a lot from the knuckleheads, airheads and sociopaths of death and slavery in Washington, and among US allies.

We are told by the federal state that Governor “knucklehead” Walz, Vice President Kamala “airhead” Harris, and “mass murderer” Netanyahu are patriots, friends and supporters of Americans.  What we can learn from these “patriots?”

From Timmy Walz, we learn that urban riots, and destruction of communities and businesses can be excellent, as long as you can watch from a safe pl...

The Many Roads to Liberty

Most readers of my weekly column already favor a libertarian society, with either a strictly limited government or no government at all. They realize what a disaster the state has been. What are the philosophical foundations of this outlook?  There are many possible answers, but in this column, I’m going to discuss three of the most important of these, the way Ludwig von Mises, Murray Rothbard, and Hans-Hermann Hoppe address this issue. I’m not going to take a stand on which is best but just set...