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** THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2019
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The ultimate ends of the activities of reasonable beings are never economic. Strictly speaking, there is no “economic motive” but only economic factors conditioning our striving for other ends. What in ordinary language is misleadingly called the “economic motive” means merely the desire for general opportunity, the desire for power to achieve unspecified ends.
– Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom ([link removed]) [1944]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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December 11, 2019
Free Trade Equals Liberty, Peace, Prosperity, and Harmony ([link removed])
The largest free trade zone in history is the United States. Every day, people are free to carry or ship goods and services from one state to another and one city to another. There are no government officials at the border monitoring or controlling what goods and services cross the borders. There are no customs agents at the borders collecting taxes. States ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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ECONOMICS
Wasserman's Twisted Tale About the Austrian School of Economics ([link removed])
by Richard M. Ebeling
The Future of Freedom Foundation
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Why Did The Saudis Kill U.S. Sailors While Three Others Filmed It? ([link removed])
by Doug Bandow
American Conservative
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by Gareth Porter
American Conservative
No US-Israel Defense Pact! ([link removed])
by Sheldon Richman
Free Association
CONSTITUTION
FISA contradicts the Constitution ([link removed])
by Andrew P. Napolitano
Washington Times
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by Jacob G. Hornberger
The Future of Freedom Foundation
TORTURE
The CIA Tortured Prisoners. Americans Should Know the Whole Truth. ([link removed])
by Daniel J. Jones
Washington Post
VIETNAM
Soldiers Who Fight War ([link removed])
by John Feffer
Foreign Policy in Focus
AFGHANISTAN
Reflecting on the War in Afghanistan (audio) ([link removed])
by Danny Sjursen et. al.
The Scott Horton Show
They Couldn’t Have Done It Without Lapdogs Like the Washington Post ([link removed])
by Ted Rall
Common Dreams
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