reason.com: The Anti-Porn Crusade Comes for Online Games -- -- Activists pressure payment processors, who in turn pressure game marketplaces. The result? A whole lot of video games and visual novels are disappearing. #liberty #news
reason.com: Pentagon Draws Up Plans To Send Troops to American Cities -- -- The Trump administration is considering plans for a Reaction Force of National Guard troops to deploy quickly to American cities with signs of civil unrest. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Trump-Putin Meeting: How We Got Here -- -- The disheartening and frustrating fact is that Russia is in a much stronger negotiating position now than they were earlier in the war, when Western officials convinced Ukraine to walk away from peace talks and fight. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Silent War for Latin America: How the Foro de São Paulo Subverted Liberty from Within -- -- From seminary classrooms to Supreme Courts, a network redefined justice, democracy, and freedom in the name of social control. Many goals of the Foro de São Paulo, launched in 1990 by Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Fidel Castro, sadly, are being realized. #liberty #news
mises.org: The "Libertarians" Who Say the Private Sector Is the Real Threat to Freedom -- -- The classical liberals—especially those of the more radical variety such as Molinari, Bastiat, etc.—saw the state as a far greater threat to freedom than any other organization. #liberty #news
mises.org: Harry Truman: Founding Father of the National Security State -- -- Following World War II, President Truman helped produce the modern national security state by creating the Central Intelligence Agency. Only later did Truman regret what he did, as the CIA turned into a monster that could never be tamed. #liberty #news
reason.com: To Truly Fix Debanking, We Need Structural Reforms -- -- Trump’s new executive order addresses political discrimination in banking, but we need deeper reforms to money-laundering laws and the Bank Secrecy Act to truly protect freedom and privacy. #liberty #news
reason.com: Trump Has Issued More Executive Orders So Far This Term Than Biden Did in His Whole Presidency -- -- The president is on a record-shattering pace for executive actions. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Meaning of Coercion in Hayekian Philosophy -- -- How do we define liberty? Hayek saw it as the absence of most (but not all) coercion, but that depends upon how one defines “coercion.” Murray Rothbard believed that Hayek was too willing to accept forms of coercion that were anti-freedom. #liberty #news
mises.org: Harry Truman: Founding Father of the National Security State -- -- Following World War II, President Truman helped produce the modern national security state by creating the Central Intelligence Agency. Only later did Truman regret what he did, as the CIA turned into a monster that could never be tamed. #liberty #news