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Detox! A Survival Tool-box

The fact that we are all contaminated with the toxic filth of our industrial technologies is a well kept secret of government-protected polluters and profit-driven “healthcare.”   Corporate energy, agriculture/ food, drug, chemical, mining and defense monopolies have loaded our bodies with metals, pesticides, nano-plastics, aromatic hydrocarbons, pharmaceuticals, junk foods and tens of thousands of chemicals “presumed safe?”….just as corporate media fills our minds with toxic propaganda…the very...

Frédéric Bastiat Was a Radical Opponent of War and Militarism

Frédéric Bastiat is well known for his radical free-market positions as expressed in his still-famous book The Law and in insightful essays such as “That Which Is Seen and That Which Is Not Seen.” Joseph Schumpeter called Bastiat “the most brilliant economic journalist who ever lived.”

Bastiat’s radicalism did not end with economic policy, however. Bastiat, like most other radical liberals of his period—such as Richard Cobden, John Bright and Charles Dunoyer—was a radical anti-militarist and opp...

A Critique of Latin American Neocons

In attempting to counter Marxists, some libertarians inadvertently align themselves with statist institutions and support immoral war efforts. This concession to evil contradicts the foundational principles laid out by authors like Murray Rothbard and should be challenged.

A couple of months ago, I heard such a naïve perspective from an Argentinian libertarian in an X Spaces, reflective of a broader trend within the libertarian liberty movement. Recent foreign policy decisions made by prominent ...

Is the Vatican About to Destroy the TLM Once and for All?

As we approach the third anniversary of the new iconoclastic regime in the Vatican (which began with Traditionis Custodes), our friends at Rorate have put out a significant and urgent appeal to Trads worldwide:

Dear readers,

Once again, as at least twice in the past (before the crackdown on the Franciscans of the Immaculate, and in the twelve months leading up to Traditionis custodes), Rorate Caeli is sad to be the first bearer of grave, heavy, and persistent rumors coming from the circles close...

The West Is Lighting the Fuse of War

The Western media is a lie machine. Western governments live in a make-believe world of their own impunity. Consequently, the Western peoples lack awareness of the dangerous situation that Washington has created with Russia.

The so-called “peace conference” in Switzerland was a fraud. Russia was not included, so how was it a peace conference? It was a propaganda event to rally support around Washington’s puppet, Zelensky, whose term has expired and who is ruling illegitimately as a dictator. Man...

Science Follows Politics

I have talked a lot about technocracy here at the plague chronicle, but I realise I’ve not thought nearly hard enough about it.

There is an approving view of technocratic politics, which holds that it is good for politicians to “follow the science” in as many areas as possible. Because I doubt that there is anything like a unified Science that one could follow, and that our rulers would never be able to follow the directives of an oracular Science even if it existed, I find this view is superfic...

The Woke Movement Is Actually Corporate Enslavement

I was recently watching a video by some of my favorite movie commentators in which they were lamenting the apparent death of the movie theater business. They cited a long list of recent blockbuster bombs with some confusion as to why so many films were failing. In particular, they had predicted the film ‘Furiosa’ (a feminist bait and switch movie designed to replace the more popular male Mad Max character) would do relatively well. Yet, the movie bit the dust in epic fashion. They were bewildere...

A Father’s Day Message to Rory McIlroy

I’m easily old enough to be your father, and as I was watching and rooting for you when you missed those putts earlier today at The U.S. Open, I was thinking about my own father, and fathers and sons, winning and losing, and what those terms mean.  I have a son your age, also an excellent athlete in a different sport, as I was in my youth and my father in his turn.

Bitter it no doubt was to miss those putts, and shocking for the fierce competitor that you are.  It no doubt hurts a lot.  When you...

The State’s Best-Kept Secret

Money is never an object when you have a legal counterfeiting racket at the center of the economy, yet counterfeiting, provided it has monopoly power and conducted by the “best and the brightest,” is virtually unchallenged as necessary for economic growth.

How did this fraud come about?  First, some basics:

1. We are all under State rule, meaning under the rule of a monopoly of force that most people cherish in principle as a necessary precondition for civilization, however that might be defined...

Questioning Our Writers, Whether Living or Dead

On Monday I published a long article describing my recent discovery of the enormous potential value of AI chatbots to my own work.

Like many of us, I’d vaguely followed the growing advances of Artificial Intelligence (AI) software over the last few decades, culminating in the development of systems that could beat the world’s best players at Chess and Go. Then in late 2022 OpenAI released ChatGPT, a revolutionary product that after digesting billions or trillions of words of text from the Intern...