Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 507

Popular Ruins

I don’t watch much television anymore, but there’s one show that I once found funny enough to watch every so often; its lead character, Homer, captured all the mediocrity of beer-can living with his crude quips and vacant observations. However slovenly Homer Simpson was, he will long be remembered for his infamous bits of fatherly advice. Speaking to his son Bart, he advised, “being popular is the most important thing in the world!”

To witness our national plunge into absurdity and decay, it see...

Tale of Two Canals: Taking Down China Trade

The Panama Canal is an artificial waterway built in the early 1900’s to connect trade between the Atlantic and the Pacific.  It is subject to “climate change”, aka droughts, due to El Nino and La Nina events every few years.   Today, they are in drought mode and the Powers that be are claiming the Canal might never recover and become obsolete…   Ownership of the Canal passed from the French to the US to a joint Panamanian/US control to sole control by the government of Panama as of 1999.  

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De-Banking, Financial Censorship, and a Social Credit System

International Man: Since 2020, we’ve seen measures aimed at censoring and de-platforming voices that challenge the mainstream agenda.

Dr. Joseph Mercola has been targeted as a misinformation spreader and deplatformed. Nigel Farage has been de-banked because of his political views.

What’s your take on this trend of hyper-politicization of everything?

Doug Casey: It seems that most everything has been hyper-politicized. But it’s worse than that. There’s a more fundamental problem. The basic philos...

7 Wars Are Happening Right Now, and America Is Behind Them All

Remember the “War on Terrorism?” What ever happened to that? Supposedly, a couple dozen years back, a bunch of illegal immigrants flew some planes into some tall buildings in New York City, except both buildings, constructed with 200,000 tons of steel, were reduced to rubble, demolition style, not to mention a third building half a mile away, that never even got “hit.” Any intelligent person would have to question the “official” narrative, and highly suspect the whole thing was staged as an “ins...

Nikki Haley Was Right

Nikki Haley was right, poor soul. The “Civil War” was not about slavery, until Lincoln in his Gettysburg address tried to make it so.

Why not believe Lincoln in his first Inaugural Address in 1861, where he says that he had “no right…and no inclination” to end slavery”—in fact he supported an amendment passed by Congress in 1861 that said the  Federal government should never have “the power to abolish or interfere” with slavery where it existed.  His only interest was in making sure the country ...

Holiday Time Is Over, Brutal Cold, and a World in Chaos

“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.”

~ Herbert Marcuse

I am back from my trip to south Florida, but so far, in body only. I am facing at least a week of an extreme arctic front with snow and temperatures approaching 40 below zero here in Montana. This is brutal, and apparently, ‘global warming ‘ has taken a holiday as well. I have been researching since my return, but have not written anything to publish these past three days, but alas, the world is in even mor...

Immigration and Geopolitics: Should Latvia Have an Open Border with Russia?

In the debate over immigration among laissez-faire liberals and libertarians, one aspect of the open-borders side becomes quickly apparent: the debate generally ignores problems related to geopolitics such as international conflict, ethnic strife, and expansionist states. Rather, the libertarian advocates of open borders tend to focus overwhelmingly on why rich countries should open their borders to migrants from lower-income countries. These open-border arguments generally stick to listing the ...

Westerners Have an Absolutely Psychotic View of Airstrikes

Canadian online outlet The Breach has published a letter by CBC’s senior manager of journalistic standards Nancy Waugh which highlights perfectly the bizarre psychological relationship that westerners have with bombs and airstrikes in foreign countries.

In response to multiple complaints from a retired Humber College professor about the wildly biased language that Canada’s state broadcaster has been using to describe Israel’s war on Gaza, Waugh acknowledged that the CBC routinely uses words like...

Sunsetting the War on Terror — Or Not

This week marks the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention facility, the infamous prison on the island of Cuba designed to hold detainees from this country’s Global War on Terror. It’s an anniversary that’s likely to go unnoticed, since these days you rarely hear about the war on terror — and for good reason. After all, that response to al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks, as defined over the course of three presidential administrations, has officially ended in a cascade of silence....

Hey, Freedom-Lovers, Ready To Surf the Milei-Wave?

A plea for uncompromising libertarianism .

Javier Milei’s victorious election for Argentinian president is nothing short of a sensation. Milei openly declares himself to be a radical libertarian and even an anarcho-capitalist and almost 70 percent of young Argentinians (and 56% of all Argentinians) gave him their vote.

Whatever may happen next, Milei has already made history. He has hoisted the concept of anarcho-capitalism onto the world stage of politics, and he has proven that a radical call f...