Talking Radical Decentralization With Sheldon Richman
podcast with Sheldon Richman about limited government, and decentralization: here
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The Bully’s Pulpit: On the elementary structure of domination
source David Graeber In late February and early March 1991, during the first Gulf War, U.S. forces bombed, shelled, and otherwise set fire to thousands of young Iraqi men who were trying to flee Kuwait. There were a series of such incidents—the “Highway of Death,” “Highway 8,” the “Battle of …
Recent News of Interest 9/15
Why Are Stocks Going Berserk Europe’s Elections: a Coming Storm? Now for the good news: things really are getting better Library Will Vote On Giving Patrons Access To Anonymous Tor Browsers Federal Court Lifts National Security Letter Gag Order; First Time in 14 Years Decoding the Current War in Syria: …
Robo future
Related to this recent post, Leonard Lopate talks with Jerry Kaplan to explore how robots-might-drive-our-cars-and-take-our-jobs. These 4 hour work day calls came to mind in listening to the show. Or was it 4 days, and 4 hours? Sweden is trying for 6 hour days. More thoughts from The Economist.
A Wrench to Edward Abbey, though dead
Edward Abbey was an anarchist, of sorts, but he was far from a saint, or smart, if not a blind hypocrite when it came to the size of his environmental footprint as he chose to have 5 kids (not to mention 5 different wives). Once you pass replacing yourself in …
Death by Veganism
http://www.newhopejournal.com/june07.html: The Assault on the Plant Based Diet The Rugged Vegetarian strikes back by Larry L. Dill Ever since the rough hewn darling of the American environmental movement, Edward Abbey (The Monkey Wrench Gang) wrote an essay years ago decrying the wimpiness of vegetarians, I knew we were in for …
1 in 4 US Renters Must Use Half Their Pay for Housing Costs
Say it ain’t so: Half Their Pay for Housing fitting to be printed on May Day
Pierre Omidyar co-funded Ukraine revolution groups with US government, documents show
Pando news Are we supposed to be surprised? more and hey: Covert United States foreign regime change actions
Labor Theory of Property: Intellectual History
source: http://cog.kent.edu/lib/Ellerman4/Chapter4.htm David Ellerman CHAPTER 4: Labor Theory of Property: Intellectual History Locke’s Theory of Property The purpose of this chapter is primarily to relate the modern treatment of the labor theory of property to Locke’s theory of property, to the labor theory of property as developed by the Ricardian …