Glenn Greenwald speaking about civilian deaths caused by drone strikes in Pakistan. “In reality the death of foreigners whom the american military kills has never been prominently featured in political discourse in the United States.”
Modern market societies — ownership societies — are the paradigm of interdependent, mutually advantageous cooperation, and are as far as can be imagined from the society of atomistic predators Obama invokes to stir the disdain of the fresh-faced graduates of Knox. Market societies — ownership societies — are wealthy because they rely on and reinforce a high level of social trust and norms of cooperation.
Will Wilkinson just kills it in this article. I’m quite surprised Libertarians haven’t been all over this. (via huskerred)
(Source: spectator.org, via logicallypositive)
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Obama Administration Wages A Secret War In Yemen, Dozens of Civilians Killed
Covert US drone attacks on Yemen have increased this month to exceed the number of strikes on Pakistan’s tribal areas, a Bureau of Investigative Journalism reports states.
Up to 516 people, many of whom were civilians, have been killed since last May as part of the US drive to eliminate al-Qaeda from the Arabian Peninsula, according to the report.New reports say there have been between 26 and 44 U.S. drone strikes. Most of them since the start of the Yemeni Uprising last year.
Between 54 and 104 civilians of those killed were civilians.
But, even after attacks with civilian casualties, there has been little reaction from the Yemeni government.Related News: Obama Covers Up War Crimes In Yemen And Silences The Journalist Who Exposed Him
I challenge my liberal followers to defend this.
Gary Chartier from C4SS on Radical Healthcare Reform.
Real healthcare reform that includes access for all, real choice and real affordability that doesn’t benefit the politically connected, the insurance companies, the drug companies, etc.
“Political factors drive up the costs of healthcare dramatically, while at the same time [they] limit access and care by driving down the incomes of people who want access to care but cannot afford it.”
Redeeming Faith: The "Stand Your Ground" law in Florida is effective.
It works. I like it.
The law is clear; it is not the issue here.
People are trying to make it the issue here; it is not the issue here.
George Zimmerman did not act within the law’s guidelines.
(3) A person who is not engaged in an unlawful activity and who…
(Source: doyoubelieveinanimorphs, via alexeikaramazov)
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does anyone ever stop to think that maybe all these stupid rules of taxes help the rich more than anyone???
fuck the IRS
With this many rules, a lot of them are bound to be exemptions and loopholes that the rich can afford to find. For the rest of us, it just means a higher risk of breaking the law and being audited.
Exactly. Having this amount of laws on the books only benefits the informed, People who can afford to be informed.
Libertarian Anti-capitalism
“[It] will help a lot to make it as clear as possible, in our terminology or at least in the process of our conversations, that “a free market” is not just the same thing as businessmen being left alone to do whatever they please; that it means ownership and economic freedom for everyone, and may well encompass forms that may look nothing like conventional corporate enterprises or business-as-usual today; that it is quite possible that many critics of “capitalism” may be pointing to very real social evils, while misdiagnosing the causes; and that many of the evils most commonly ascribed to “capitalism,” and thus blamed on the free market, really are not the results of market activities, but the results of “capitalism” in quite a different sense — in the sense of government-backed commerce and politically-enforced corporate privilege.”
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“So long as the confusion between free markets and plutocracy persists – so long as libertarians allow their laudable attraction to free markets to fool them into defending plutocracy, and so long as those on the left allow their laudable opposition to plutocracy to fool them into opposing free markets – neither libertarians nor the left will achieve their goals, and the state-corporate partnership will continue to dominate the political scene.
That’s why we need a left-libertarian alliance.” —Roderick T. Long
A lot of libertarians talk about how the state hurts businesses and the economy, but I think it’s important to emphasize how much the state props up mega corporations (they are a fiction of the state), protects their interests, and maintains an unfree market to ensure their survival. The point is the state, wether it is socialist or capitalist (corporatist if you’d like) perverts markets.
