FFF Daily - November 12, 2019

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Worrycrats, as I call them, are a special breed of totalitarian bureaucrats who spawn rapidly as society is socialized. These people concern themselves with our health, education, welfare, auto safety, drug intake, diet, and what have you. Worrycrats today outnumber any other professionals in history, so rapidly have they proliferated.

– Leonard E. Read, The Freeman [April 1971]

HORNBERGER'S BLOG

November 12, 2019
Foreign Aid and Sanctions
Amidst all the political brouhaha regarding foreign aid, it is important that we keep in mind the nature and purposes of this particular federal program, as well as its related program, sanctions. Foreign aid is money that the U.S. government sends to certain foreign regimes. The purpose of the money is to secure loyalty to the U.S. Empire. That loyalty comes ...

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FOREIGN POLICY

The Blob: Still Chasing After Pax Americana
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IMMIGRATION

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Baghdadi Died, but the U.S. War on Terror Will Go on Forever
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AFGHANISTAN

The Unwinnable War in Afghanistan (audio)
by Matthew Hoh with Scott Horton
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