Author: Bionic Mosquito

I am uncertain as to what libertarianism means if it does not allow for individuals to exercise control over their life and property.  This would inherently mean – to the extent possible in an imperfect world – that individuals would be free to choose from any available option of governance / governing structures, or create their own if they are able. “If they are able”…of course, we know that those who currently govern such free thinkers will not be very agreeable to letting their cattle go free…. We also know that more choices in governance units increase the possibility that each … Continue reading →

The post Secession appeared first on LewRockwell.

The Libertarian Forum, edited by Murray N. Rothbard; April 1, 1969.  The second issue of this obscure journal and already a tremendous insight.  But this can wait…. FBI And CIA After identifying a stupefying (well, for the time) list of government and crony-corporate abuses, Rothbard offers: Libertarians have every reason to view all of these matters with knowledgeable horror.  They could predict any enormity of the state simply because they know that enormities are the nature of the state, enormities and crimes against liberty. There is one area of struggle in Washington, however, that may be viewed with special horror.  It is the struggle between … Continue reading →

The post Libertarianism Summed Up appeared first on LewRockwell.

America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East, by Hugh Wilford Wilford continues the story with the Americans moving into Cairo; there was a need to coordinate Lend-Lease activities in the region.  It turns out that Lend-Lease was useful for purposes other than sending Jeeps to Europe.  From the time of his transfer from the State Department to the OSS in April 1944… …Kim [Roosevelt] was a key player in Project SOPHIA, a secret program for spreading OSS officers throughout the region under cover of [Lend-Lease.] Bill Donovan had been looking into setting up a … Continue reading →

The post America in the Middle East appeared first on LewRockwell.

The Libertarian Forum, edited by Murray N. Rothbard from 1969 to 1984, had a small — even tiny — circulation but it forged the intellectual edifice known as libertarianism. Month after month, the newsletter thrilled, enlightened, shocked, and awed its subscribers. Everything was on the table. The Mises Institute has compiled and published every issue of this obscure journal, in a two-volume book of 1200 pages in total.  It offers a glimpse into the world as Rothbard saw it – real time, during some of the most dramatic events in US history. Think about the Vietnam War and the protests (Kent State … Continue reading →

The post The Libertarian Forum appeared first on LewRockwell.

The subject is North Korea.  An interesting conversation at the John Batchelor Show: Gordon Chang, in discussing a piece he wrote at the Daily Beast regarding North Korea and the seeming inevitability of war; I paraphrase the concluding remarks: Thaddaeus McCotter: let me be sure I understand you: there are means at our disposal to pressure communist China to stop their client state from developing nuclear weapons and generally being a rogue state, but there seems to be a lack of political will [within the US] to do that so instead they are willing to risk American soldiers’ lives to stop him? I will … Continue reading →

The post War Is a Racket appeared first on LewRockwell.

To: Matt@Occidentalism.org September 23, 2017 at 7:00 AM Matt, I am not concerned with my friend’s opinion about a white America.  I am concerned that he was confused about my opinion.  Allow me to clarify: To set the stage, what does one mean by “white America”?  No more non-European migration?  Deporting all those from a non-European ancestry, no matter the small percentage in the blood?  Disallowing mixed marriages?  All these must occur to achieve a “white America.” The first could be achieved relatively easily – it would require modifying the current government enforced immigration policies with a different set of government enforced immigration policies.  As there is no … Continue reading →

The post Secession, Liberty, and Private Property appeared first on LewRockwell.

I meant to make a new nation… –        T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922) I had formed a beautiful and gracious image and I saw it melting before my eyes….I did not think I could bear to see the evaporation of the dream which had guided me. –        Gertrude Bell to King Faisal of Iraq (1922) It was in this world made of failed British utopians such as Lawrence and Bell, those who were doing the work of the imperialists, into which America entered. America’s Great Game: The CIA’s Secret Arabists and the Shaping of the Modern Middle East, by Hugh … Continue reading →

The post America’s Great Game appeared first on LewRockwell.

Donald Trump gave his first speech at the United Nations. Irony: the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning. Henry Watson Fowler, in The King’s English, says, “any definition of irony—though hundreds might be given, and very few of them would be accepted—must include this, that the surface meaning and the underlying meaning of what is said are not the same.” Also, Eric Partridge, in Usage and Abusage, writes that “Irony consists in stating the contrary of what is meant.” Let’s examine Trump’s speech; his words will be in italics, below. Verbal Irony Time … Continue reading →

The post Isn’t It Ironic? appeared first on LewRockwell.

I was beginning work on my final post regarding Sean McMeekin’s book The Russian Origins of the First World War, when in my further research, I came across the notes of Maurice Paléologue, the French ambassador to Russia during the war.  The specific section is regarding an inter-Allied conference, held in Petrograd amongst the Allies: Britain, France, Italy and Russia. What is of primary interest to me at this moment is the date of the conference: it began on January 29, 1917.  If I must put this date in context, the Russian February Revolution was only weeks away. Reading these notes, I am struck by … Continue reading →

The post The Surrealism of War appeared first on LewRockwell.

We are all familiar with the story of the Sykes-Picot Agreement, the agreement between Britain and France for carving up and dividing large portions of the Ottoman Empire after the war.  There is one Entente power not formally included in this common narrative, despite being involved in some of the heaviest and most successful military campaigns in Anatolia, Persia, and Mesopotamia. Let’s rectify this… The Russian Origins of the First World War, by Sean McMeekin On 4 March 1915, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Sazonov delivered to his ambassadors in Paris and London a message that came directly from Tsar Nicholas II: … Continue reading →

The post Victors Partition the Ottoman Empire appeared first on LewRockwell.

The Enemy Population Forced displacement or forced immigration is the coerced movement of a person or persons away from their home or home region and it often connotes violent coercion….Some migrants are impelled to cross national borders by war or persecution, due to political, social, ethnic, religious reasons. Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country….Definitions of deportation apply equally to nationals and foreigners….Deportation is the removal of an alien out of the country, simply because his presence is deemed inconsistent with the public welfare… Population transfer or resettlement is the movement of a large … Continue reading →

The post The Enemy Population appeared first on LewRockwell.

…very, very slowly…in my brain, at least. I refer to the events in Berkeley about ten days ago: Trump supporters planned an event; antifa crashed the event and began their chaotic violence.  As I felt at the time, the news to me was not so much the news; the news was how the news was covered. I wrote something on the events the day after, based on a report from the Los Angeles Times.   The Times placed the blame on the left and antifa, and not on the right and Trump supporters (aka fascists, Nazis).  This was quite surprising to me at the time, considering the completely opposite narrative a couple … Continue reading →

The post Regime Repudiates Antifa appeared first on LewRockwell.

The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies. –        Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, known as “the war guilt clause.” The simple answer as to which government was to blame for the beginning of World War One is Germany.  As anyone who has studied the war will tell you, when it comes to the origins … Continue reading →

The post Maybe It Wasn’t Germany appeared first on LewRockwell.

Violence breaks out at Berkeley protest So reports the Los Angeles Times. Some Trump supporters planned a protest; some others showed up in counter-protest.  I will say up front, the rest of this post will shock you; not for what happened, but for the reporting when considering the source. As I have mentioned, I normally don’t react immediately to such events.  But the news here is the source as much as it is the event. I will let the Times reporters speak (mostly) for themselves: …it was soon punctuated by tear gas and a scattering of violent skirmishes. Some anti-fascist protesters, wearing black and with … Continue reading →

The post Where Is the Outrage? appeared first on LewRockwell.

This post will only begin with Charlottesville; it will thereafter flow into other topics – I think all related, flowing through the same stream. Charlottesville On the day of the events many stories were told, all parroting some version of the mainstream narrative: white supremacists and Nazis did it; everyone else there just wanted peace. I decided at the time not to comment: most importantly, I was certain that whatever we heard in the mainstream was a lie, so why not let things settle a bit before opening my mouth; second, I guess I would consider myself more of a … Continue reading →

The post Libertarians, Never Believe the First MSM Account appeared first on LewRockwell.