How the “Respectable” Media Serves the Political Elite

Murray N. Rothbard

[Editor’s note: Two interviews from August 1992 given by Murray Rothbard to the Swedish student publication Svensk Linje (continuously published since 1942) were recently discovered in the Rothbard Archives and translated by Sven Thommesen for the first time. In this interview, Rothbard offers his thoughts on the 1992 election and the role of the “respectable” media in promoting the campaign of Bill Clinton.]

The Covid Lockdowns Showed Us How Dangerous Social Engineers Have Become

Birsen Filip

(Originally posted on Mises.org)

Since the onset of the covid-19 pandemic, governments around the world, along with a handful of unelected medical experts, have been behaving as though they are the social engineers of totalitarian regimes (e.g., fascism, Nazism, and communism). To be more precise, this select group of political leaders and medical experts have upended economies, as well as the lives of billions of ordinary people, by implementing extremely coercive and restrictive lockdowns and physical distancing measures for the stated purpose of bringing the pandemic under control and preventing future outbreaks. Specific measures have included curfews; police patrols on the streets; the compulsory closure of businesses deemed nonessential, as well as workplaces, schools, and institutions of higher education; the banning of social gatherings; the cancelation of sporting and cultural events; the suspension of religious services; and restrictions on personal movement and interactions at the local, national, and international levels. In many parts of the world, people have been subjected to mandatory stay-at-home orders, requiring them to spend most of the day confined and isolated in their homes. Lockdown measures have also been used to prohibit people from engaging in public protests and freely expressing their opinions, as failure to comply with limits on social gatherings has led to people being arrested, detained, and fined. It has also not been uncommon to see excessive police force being used to enforce lockdowns and curfews, and to disperse protests against unreasonable restrictions. Some governments have also set up detention centers for international travelers entering into their countries, where they are forced to quarantine at their own expense while they wait for the results of their covid-19 tests. Shockingly, in early June 2021, the provincial government in Ontario, Canada, went so far as to announce that residents in long-term care homes would soon be permitted to engage in “close physical contact, including handholding” and “brief hugs” with visitors when both parties are fully immunized.

Thanks to Federal Megaspending, the Trade Deficit Has Only Gotten Worse

Mihai Macovei

(Originally posted on Mises.org)

President Trump’s protectionist trade measures against China and other external partners have not caused a reduction of the total US trade deficit. The latter actually grew further as China’s exports found indirect ways into the US and massive domestic spending schemes were expanded during the pandemic.

Is Guaranteed Basic Income the Solution to Robots Taking Our Jobs?

Robert Blumen

(Originally posted on Mises.org)

The idea of universal basic income (UBI) is near the peak of the hype cycle. Democrat Andrew Yang made it the flagship issue of his presidential campaign. A small industry of advocates tirelessly push arguments in its favor. I will address two in this piece. The first: the claim of permanent elimination of jobs. The second: the resulting need for income to compensate for the fall in purchasing power from the lack of work. Both rely on long-discarded economic fallacies. 

Texas Says It Can Enforce Immigration Restrictions. Texas Is Right

Ryan McMaken

(Originally posted on Mises.org)

Texas governor Greg Abbott yesterday announced that the State will build its own border wall and will jail anyone “who enters our state illegally and is found trespassing, engaged in vandalism, criminal mischief, or smuggling,” 

The Political Philosophy Of The Liberty Mind

Written by: Michael W. Howell
Senior Staff Writer and Editor at Fighting the Tyranny
February 17, 2019

Political Science has many subcategories if you will, and political philosophy, or political theory as it is also referred to, is the ideas of an individual that help form and shape the overall perception of how one sees freedoms and liberties. Throughout time there have been many “learned men and women” acting as philosophers offering us their educated perspectives to ponder and quarrel among each other on our own paths to self-enlightenment. From the minds of great men such as Plato, all the way to Thomas Paine, and including more modern-day political philosophers like Noam Chomsky and Friedrick Hayek, the direction of future societies are being shaped with their writings and debates of intellectual presumptions.

Open Letter To The Silent Liberty Movement

Written by: Michael W. Howell
Senior Writer and Editor at Fighting the Tyranny
February 16, 2020

While open letters are commonly addressed towards a specific person and intended for the general public, in this case, I want to talk to a particular collective – the liberty movement. The purpose of this letter isn’t to call out the liberty movement in a negative way. It is, instead, meant to serve as a reminder of our goals and as a challenge for the upcoming obstacles impeding the complete liberty we seek. I’ve observed over the years the liberty movement has failed to keep our direction and our once unshakable resolve. We have compromised our beliefs as we’ve looked the other way in times when we should have stood on the principles we once advocated so firmly in the past to bring forth. The constitutional Republic can not continue the values and beliefs of freedom under the eternal plan of compromise to the political games.

Moving “Toward Anarchy” With Michael Storm

Written by: Michael W. Howell
Senior Writer and Editor at Fighting the Tyranny
December 5, 2019

The political climate or atmosphere today is at the highest I can ever recall in modern times. The party of tolerance has become some of the most intolerant, and the party of being financially fiscal continues to turn a blind eye to the manufactured artificial inflation that is plaguing the Republic’s economy. Both parties have become an obvious joke to behold, with the only ones still clinging to this corrupt and controlled system are those that see freedoms and liberties as something being approved and passed out in Washington, D.C. As more and more are leaving the false left/right paradigm or “two heads of the same snake,” where are they going, and how is their voice being heard?

How Cognitive Dissonance And Stockholm Syndrome Is Driving Our Love Of Globalism

Written By: Michael W. Howell
Senior Writer and Editor at Fighting the Tyranny
Nov 11, 2019

I am sure this is a topic you have encountered many times when discussing the paradigm shift in American politics that is taking place. As the transformation of the Republic starts to take on its new shape, in a “ready-or-not manner”, many are coming to terms with two main issues that have been holding back, both, society and personal growth – Cognitive dissonance and Stockholm syndrome. In many aspects of our lives, the two are what led us to the failed policies and political system we operate under today. To some, the two are blurred and confused into one. Don’t let this happen to you because cognitive dissonance and Stockholm Syndrome are in fact separate cases.

End The Fed, End The Nonsense Of Tyranny

Written by Michael W. Howell
Senior Writer and Editor at Fighting the Tyranny
Oct. 27, 2019

What is happening today in society is manufactured by an oligarchy. Let me say that one more time, and as you read the statement, let the words fully enter your collective conscience. What is happening today is being manufactured against us by a small oligarchy hellbent on global tyranny for mass profits. The sole purpose of the division is so that the ruling class elitists can transfer our wealth, in return, our individual sovereignty, over to the shadow government. Once this objective is accomplished, it is then on to conquer our national sovereignty through the game plan of divide and conquer.

The New Space Race Will Be Lead By A Space Force

Written by Michael W. Howell
Senior Writer and Editor at Fighting the Tyranny

What does a country with over 700 military bases in over 130 countries do next? What could possibly be the last remaining Superpower’s next move having already conquered global dominance through its military might? An expansion, of course. This time the threat is inter-galaxy. Or is it interstellar? I better brush up on my, what use to be considered as Sci-Fi talk, because it looks like I may need to know the lingo now with America, or Earth, getting a Space Force! Yes, a Space Force. Remember our reactions when Newt Gingrich talked about the need for a Mars exploration during a Presidential debate? Well, President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday wasn’t that of expanding space exploration, or even a new mission to hopefully uncover new technology. Nope, the silliness of this administration hit a new laughable level with his revealing of a new “Space Force.”

TV- Rated PC For Politically Correct

By: Michael D. Jacobsen
Staff writer for Fighting the Tyranny

I am about to tell you something that may blow your mind. Television is not politically correct.  You might think with the title I wrote and from some of the programs that you have seen in primetime that it is. But it really is not. Of course, most network executives may want you to think that it is. But when you look at all programming you see it really is not the case. There are plenty of off-color remarks but those are usually directed at conservative white people. You see the TV executives know that most white viewers will not get offended so they fill their series with as much non-PC material as they can.

The DNC Continues To Blame Trump, Russia, And Wikileaks But Not Themselves For Losing The Election

By Michael W. Howell
Staff Writer and Senior Editor at Fighting the Tyranny

The Democratic National Committee (DNC) has been successful in blaming everyone around them for their historical loss to Republican candidate Donald Trump in 2016. With no real platform to reign in voters that were divided between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, the Democrat’s defeat is still sending shockwaves through the party. What does the party do in response? Bring their base together on issues? Reach out across the political aisle? Not these ideologues. They continue to play the victim card by blaming others for their lack of political solutions for middle America.

Sophia, Artificial Intelligence, And The New Future Of Currency

By Michael W. Howell
Staff Writer and Senior Editor at Fighting The Tyranny
April 12, 2018

We are incrementally and methodically inching towards the technocratic era that Zbigniew Brezinski’s book titled, Between Two Ages, spoke of. The push for transhumanism is in hyper-drive as we try to catch up to the technology that we once only dreamed could exist. In the past, we seemed to control technology. However, as the boom in artificial intelligence rises, we may be the ones chasing the technology shortly. From virtual clouds that can store what appears to be unlimited data to a new blockchain technology promising to revolutionize our monetary system, we are seeing a massive wave surging mankind into the digital age, unlike years prior.

What we used to marvel at as science fiction is now performing outlive, in real-time, on stages around the world at high-tech conventions. Investors are mortgaging the farm to jump onboard the latest advancement and growth opportunities that artificial intelligence promises.

The Shadow Government’s Deep State

Written by: Michael W. Howell
Senior Writer and Senior Editor at Fighting the Tyranny
February 2018

We are now well over a year after the election of President Donald Trump over the heavily favored and seasoned career politician, Hillary Clinton. The election was seen as middle America rising against the Deep State controlled Republic in the effort to “Make America Great Again.” The economy was in the tank from the previous administration, and unemployment, when real numbers were used, showed little signs of growth from the middle-class. The American people were fed up and looking for answers. What have we really gotten in reality? Same company with a new CEO.

The Electronic Voting Machine Fraud

By Michael D. Jacobsen
Staff writer at Fighting the Tyranny

Voting has been a part of many civilizations in history.  As time marches on, the technology to record these votes continue to progress. From its simplistic beginnings such as dropping a colored chit into a clay pot, the process changed to paper ballots being deposited into boxes, which in turn paved the way for the electronic voting machines that we use today.

Fair and honest elections are the right of every American citizen. It is the backbone of the Constitutional Republic that ensures a check and balance system through the voice of the American people.

We Are In The Fourth Reich

Written by: Michael W. Howell
Senior Writer and Senior Editor at Fighting the Tyranny

You think the Third Reich was destroyed and conquered after World War II? Well, if wars are about ending an ideology to maintain person liberties and national sovereignty, then you couldn’t be farther from the truth. Sure we took out Hitler, supposedly, but his doctrine can be found on a global mass scale today. Even right here in the good ole U.S.A. I know what your thinking, but the truth pill is always a hard one to swallow.  It takes shaking off our cognitive dissonance and examining the facts before us.

The Elite And Their Secret Societies

By Michael W. Howell
Staff Writer and Senior Editor at Fighting the Tyranny

“The very word secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society, and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweigh the risks which are cited to justify it.

“Even today, there is a little threat of opposing a secret society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in ensuring the future of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it, and there is great danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment – that I do not intend to allow to permit to the extent that it is in my control.

Welcome To The Truth

By Michael W. Howell
Staff Writer and Senior Editor at Fighting the Tyranny

You’re scratching your head wondering how this country got to where it is today, right? You just can’t fathom what led us here. You voted for the candidate that promised you everything you were looking for. You grew up patriotic. Your family is patriotic. You said the Pledge of Allegiance every morning in school and seemed to be surrounded by patriotic people, so what happened? Where and how did we deteriorate so fast and to such depths? Truth is we have been on this path for decades, no centuries. Yes, centuries. Don’t act like you haven’t heard this before.

Monsanto, Geo Engineering, and the Chemtrail Agenda

By Michael W. Howell
Staff Writer and Senior Editor at Fighting the Tyranny

Man is God, God is man. Where the line is, that separates God and man is in full effect to be erased and is coming at a hefty price. Mankind has always dreamed of controlling the weather to have a good harvest or to divert possible bad weather, but do we really understand how far we have gone? The better question is, do we collectively care enough to stop weather modification? What we have seen of late with the recent increase in earthquakes, has many scientists, activists, and even skeptics talking about Pandora’s box that seems to be on the edge of the opening. With programs like C.E.R.N., H.A.A.R.P., and the chemtrail program to corporations all vying for control of the world’s food source, all the way to the global depopulation program it is a convoluted ball of yarn that is slowly being unraveled for all to see.