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What They Don’t Tell Us About Treating Pain

Most patients with chronic pain will typically first be recommended a variety of pain medications and physical therapy, then once those fail, steroid injections, and then a joint surgery. Unfortunately, each step in this process is often ineffective at addressing the patient’s pain or creates a variety of complications that make their situation even more unbearable. For this reason, it is critical to understand the risks of each part of this process and the safer alternatives that can permanentl...

Palantir: The Intersection of Government and Corporate Power

International Man: Palantir is a data analytics and AI company known for its work with governments, particularly in defense, intelligence, and law enforcement.

Critics argue it enables mass surveillance, predictive policing, and military applications. A significant portion of its revenue comes from classified government contracts, and some allege ties to the Deep State.

What is your perspective on Palantir?

Doug Casey: When Palantir was founded in 2003, all the initial funding came from Peter Th...

Remembering the Crimes of Totalitarian States

[This article is a selection from Chapter 5 of Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal.]

Whenever anti-Semitic attitudes or acts are mentioned, de Zayas observes, Goldhagen speaks of “the Germans”—not “the Nazis,” or even “many Germans”—offering no justification at all; it is simply a polemical trick. He neglects to mention well-known facts, e.g., that everyone connected with the killing of the Jews was bound by Führer Order no. 1, as well as by special orders from Himmler, mandatin...

Defiling Consecrated Ground

This year, 2025, marks 1,250 years of the German region of Westphalia, the place where a celebrated treaty was signed in 1648 which laid the legal foundations of the modern nation state. Ours is now an age of globalists, however, at least on the EU-governed continent of mainland Europe, where, at the behest of the little people’s political “betters,” all expressions of traditional national and civilizational identities are to be systematically dismantled from above—particularly that of Christian...

We Are Being Amused and Abused to Death

“But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell’s dark vision, there was another—slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love thei...

A “Great Thinker” at Work

Mr. Milei fancies himself to be a great monetary theorist in the Austrian tradition. To illustrate his unrivalled brilliance here are two revealing exhibits.

The first exhibit concerns the consequences of the closure of the central bank that Milei has claimed, already before his election, to be a non-negotiable demand of his. This is certainly an interesting question worthy of careful analysis. Kristoffer Hansen, for instance, has provided such an analysis from an Austrian perspective. And here ...

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Does Western Civilization Have Enough Belief To Continue To Exist?

Democrats for many long years have imposed race and gender privileges, which violate the 14th Amendment’s requirement of equal protection under law and the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s statutory prohibition of race and gender quotas. In order to give preferences to women, people of color, and sexual perverts at the expense of white heterosexual men, equal protection of law was set aside.  Now Democrats are proving to us that they are only concerned with alleged rights of people of color who are immig...

Trump Urged To Address Unconstitutional Childhood Vaccination Requirements in 4 States

A national coalition of religious and medical liberty organizations urged President Donald Trump to adopt a plan to restore First Amendment rights in four states — New York, California, Connecticut, and Maine — where unconstitutional vaccine mandates continue to deny children of religious families access to education and health care.

The coalition made the request after addressing a letter to members of President Trump’s newly established Religious Liberty Commission (RLC) that has a mandate fro...

Feds Gave $79 Billion in Pandemic Relief to People With Stolen or Invalid Social Security Numbers

The federal government paid $79 billion in Covid-19 relief to individuals who likely used phony or stolen Social Security numbers (SSNs), according to a recent report from the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC).

Under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020 and subsequent legislation, Uncle Sam shelled out $5 trillion to counteract the economic damage wreaked by federal, state, and local policies that shuttered businesses and put millions out of work...