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** MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 2022
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Thus politics, under democracy, resolves itself into impossible alternatives. Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy on the one side and a rabble of preposterous impossibilists on the other. … It is a pity that this is so. For what democracy needs most of all is a party that will separate the good that is in it theoretically from the evils that beset it practically, and then try to erect that good into a workable system. What it needs beyond everything is a party of liberty.
— H.L. Mencken, Notes on Democracy ([link removed]) [1926]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 8, 2022
JFK's War Against the Military Industrial Complex ([link removed])
A question I often receive in response to my articles and books on the Kennedy assassination is: What difference does it make? The assassination took place almost 60 years ago. My answer: Look at three things: (1) the current budget of the military-industrial complex; (2) the perpetual foreign-policy crises into which our nation has been plunged; and (3) the totalitarian-like, dark-side powers wielded ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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The Provocations Behind the “Unprovoked” War ([link removed])
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The Mess That Pelosi Made ([link removed])
by Dave DeCamp
Antiwar.com
The Mythology of War ([link removed])
by Andrew Bacevich
with Chris Hedges
Substack
Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit Didn’t Cause Heightened China-U.S. Animosity. But It Isn’t Helping ([link removed])
by Minxin Pei
Los Angeles Times
THE FREE SOCIETY
Westerners Think They Are Free-Thinking Individualists And It’s Effing Adorable ([link removed])
by Caitlin Johnstone
Caitlin's Newsletter
IMMIGRATION
Border Patrol Agents Are Trashing Sikh Asylum-Seekers’ Turbans ([link removed])
by John Washington
The Intercept
DRUG WAR
1 in 5 Incarcerated People Is Locked Up for a Drug Offense ([link removed])
by Wendy Sawyer and Peter Wagner
Prison Policy Initiative
MONETARY POLICY
The Empire & The Fed — Born Together, Dying Together ([link removed])
by Ron Paul
Ron Paul Institute
ECONOMICS
Inflationary Vice ([link removed])
by Theodore Dalrymple
Law & Liberty
NATIONAL SECURITY STATE
The US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation Into the Pandemic ([link removed])
by Jeffrey Sachs
Current Affairs
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