Tag Archives: Paul Rosenberg

The Truth About War Heroes in America

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE For the past dozen years or so, Americans have been deluged with talk about “heroes,” and especially “our brave soldiers.” I was at a funeral recently, and was shocked to see the funeral director conduct a ritual: he had … Continue reading

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Bitcoin Is a Revolution, Not an Investment

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE It has been interesting to see large numbers of people pay attention to Bitcoin in the past year or so. The reason for that attention was the exchange price of Bitcoin, which made a lot of early adopters wealthy. … Continue reading

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The War Drums Are Beating

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FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE Last year, lots of powerful groups tried to get a war going in Syria. It seemed to me that the necessary ground work hadn’t been done and that they might not be able to pull it off. Thankfully, that’s … Continue reading

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The Insane Dream: Hoping and praying for politicians to bring us peace

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein (attributed) The insane dream has streamed endlessly through my lifetime. I saw it as a boy, and I see it still. It … Continue reading

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Toddlers Know the Truth… Until They’re Talked out of It

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE I’m hardly the first person to recognize that basic truths are more easily grasped by the young and the uneducated. For example, here’s a passage from a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote to Peter Carr in 1787: State a … Continue reading

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The Suppression of Happiness

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE One of the great errors of freedom people (myself included) is that we’ve sometimes based our arguments on less-than-optimal grounds. What I mean is that we argued for freedom on political or legal grounds. And while those arguments were … Continue reading

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Government Debt: The Earth Belongs to the Living, Not to the Dead

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE What if your grandfather had gone on a wild spending binge, long before you were born, and put himself millions of dollars in debt to people who knew he could never pay? Would it be your obligation to work … Continue reading

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Yes, You Are Being Manipulated by Your Government

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE The truth that government agents are influencing people online has been visible for some time to those who were looking. For example, in 2011, we got proof that military contractors and the US Air Force were doing this. (See … Continue reading

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Your Relationships Have Been Defiled

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE Relationships matter, a lot. We are formed by relationships with other people: parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends, neighbors, spouses, children, business associates, and more. The impact of relationships in our lives is profound. But there is a factor … Continue reading

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Why the Founding Fathers Made Their Own Money

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE It is an interesting historical fact that people who take part in rebellions tend to coin their own money – not when the rebellion concludes, but as it starts. There is good evidence that silver half shekels, like the … Continue reading

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The End of the Great American Fantasy – Why it is Falling Apart

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FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE Through all of my life there has been an odd and persistent bias on the part of otherwise honest Americans: What America does overseas is always good and right. We do not speak against it. The protests against the … Continue reading

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Why the Banksters Don’t Care About Your Gold

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE I regularly hear how important it is to hold silver and gold and how dangerous the central banks and their banksters (a combination of bankers and gangsters) really are. I’m sympathetic, of course, since I don’t like central banks … Continue reading

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My Look Inside the United Nations

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE Life is a lot more entertaining with cool friends. In 1999, my friend Henry Lamb mentioned that he had been attending UN meetings. I thought it sounded intriguing and asked for details. After all, reading about an organization is … Continue reading

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Thomas Jefferson’s Final Warnings

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE People remember Thomas Jefferson for the Declaration of Independence, which he wrote in 1776. A few will remember that he served as president from 1801 to 1809, but aside from that, they know almost nothing of his life and … Continue reading

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The Secret Appeal of Politics

FREEMANSPERSPECTIVE The Internet is full of stories about politicians acting badly and doing the opposite of what they promised. Talk radio is full of the same things, all day, every day. Even around office water coolers, almost everyone will admit … Continue reading

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