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** MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 2021
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In spite of its alluring name, the welfare state stands or falls by compulsion. It is compulsion imposed upon us with the state's power to punish noncompliance. Once this is clear, it is equally clear that the welfare state is an evil the same as every restriction of freedom.

– Wilhelm Röpke


** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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January 4, 2021
British Judicial Cowardice on Assange ([link removed])
This morning British Judge Venessa Baraitser denied the U.S. government’s extradition request for Julian Assange. That of course was the right thing to do. The problem though is with Baraitser’s reason for the denial: She says that there is a high danger that Assange will commit suicide if he is extradited. That was the justification she used for her decision. [caption id="attachment_97363" align="alignleft" ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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PATERNALISM
Freedom versus Paternalism in the Coming Decade ([link removed])
by Richard M. Ebeling
The Future of Freedom Foundation
WAR ON TERRORISM
Drone Murder Has Been Normalized ([link removed])
by David Swanson
Counterpunch
MONETARY POLICY
Adopting a Gold Standard Would Promote Fiscal Discipline ([link removed])
by James L. Caton
AIER
IMMIGRATION
A Wish For 2021: Roll Back Border Socialism ([link removed])
by Art Carden
Forbes
FREE SPEECH
Prosecution of Assange Is an Attack on Our Own Humanity ([link removed])
by Nozomi Hayase
Antiwar.com
CRIMINAL JUSTICE
The Official Whitewash Of The Killing Of Duncan Lemp ([link removed])
by James Bovard
American Conservative
THE FREE SOCIETY
The Kafkaesque Imprisonment of Julian Assange Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom and Tyranny ([link removed])
by Glenn Greenwald
SubStack
VIETNAM
What Aaron Sorkin Got Wrong in “The Trial of the Chicago 7” (audio) ([link removed])
by Jon Wiener with Robert Scheer
Scheerpost.com
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Iraq Today Is a Nightmare that Americans Largely Sleep Through ([link removed])
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