Hans-Hermann Hoppe brings some light to the unstable condition of democracy: The Paradox of Imperialism.

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Albert Jay Nock’s great piece about how he learned about the concept called state and its true nature: “Anarchist Progress”. It was originally published in the American Mercury in 1928, and now it is also available online as an ebook “On Doing the Right Thing“.

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Here’s an excerpt from “the Discovery of Freedom - a man’s struggle against authority” by Rose Wilder Lane. Worth a look.

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We create our reality. The world is only potential possibilities that we actively collapse into our own point of view. We are the observer and the observation. There is nothing external to us—only our consciousness that defines our reality.
We only know what we know. Our only limitations are bound by our own thinking patterns. We [...]

Jeremy Rifkin’s latest book, The European Dream: How Europe’s Vision of the Future is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream, takes a strong stand where he states that American dream is worth dying but European worth living. He questions USA’s superpower status in the economy and compares the Old Continent with US and surprisingly [...]

Something totally exceptional occured today: strangers were talking to each other and helping each other out to get their cars moving in the snow circus. Hard times make people come together. The same happened in 9/11 and in many other occasions.
I wonder when the times are “bad” enough for all of us to put [...]

Back from holiday. It was great to chill out and learn to ‘do nothing’ for a while. Also doing sports seems to give some good kicks…
Beside reading some Donald Ducks I found Jeremy Rifkin’s: The End of Work as a pretty good eye-opener. The book gives a good overview of the recent few hundred years [...]

No matter what you believe, it doesn’t change the facts.
- Al Kersha
I played with a thought that we live our lives in batches. Once in a while something big happens and we change the course of our life either professionally or personally. On those moments we are in tangent with the reality. Either by forced [...]