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Ayn Rand Is for Children

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By David Sirota - Jan. 22 (Opinion) - relatively few Americans make the kind of trip Saunders made. According to government data, only 30 percent of Americans even possess a passport (which is a very low rate compared to citizens in other industrialized English-speaking countries). Additionally, of those who do, only a fraction use their travel papers to visit parts of the developing world that perfectly spotlight the failures of the Rand vision.

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Noam Chomsky on Ron Paul

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Noam Chomsky - Jan. 19 (Opinion) - it goes across the board. In fact, it goes through the whole so-called Libertarian ideology. It may sound nice on the surface but if you think it through, it's just a call for corporate tyranny. It takes away any barrier to corporate tyranny. But, it's all academic. The business world would never permit it to happen because it would destroy the economy. They can't live without a powerful state, and they know it.

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Populist Alliances or Senseless Wars and Corporate Welfare

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

truth-out.org - By Bruce E. Levine - Jul. 08 (News Analysis) - We Americans are routinely grouped as Democrats, Republicans and Independents and divided into left-liberal, right-conservative and center-moderate camps, but these categories tell us little about where we stand on two historically important questions: (1) Do you favor some fashion of elite rule, or are you a populist who believes in government that is genuinely of, by and for the people? (2) And if you believe that a ruling elite exists, who exactly are they?

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FactChecking Paul

Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Lori Robertson - May. 21 (News) - Up next in our look at past claims made by the 2012 presidential candidates: Rep. Ron Paul. No stranger to presidential campaigns, the Texas Republican has made his share of factual flubs. Paul declared his 2012 candidacy May 13. He falsely claimed last December that the estate tax "especially harms small and family-owned businesses." But if [...]

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Rand Paul: 'Right to Health Care' Is Slavery

Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Kate Nocera, - May. 11 (News Report) - 'A hearing of the Senate HELP Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging looked at emergency room use and took an odd turn Wednesday when Sen. Rand Paul compared the 'right to health care' to slavery. 'With regard to the idea whether or not you have a right to health care you have to realize what that implies. I am a physician. You have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. You are going to enslave not only me but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants, the nurses.... You are basically saying you believe in slavery,' said Paul (R-Ky.), who is an ophthalmologist.'

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Here's what really makes it tough to create jobs

Sat, 07 May 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Science Monitor - May. 07 (Opinion) - Regulations hamstring one Maryland candle company from shifting production to the United ...

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Koch’s web of influence

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Center for Public Integrity - By John Aloysius Farrell - Apr. 06 (Special Report) - At an EPA hearing last summer, representatives from Koch Industries argued that moderate levels of the toxic chemical dioxin should not be designated as a cancer risk for humans.

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The Broadening of the Libertarian Movement

Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

The Volokh Conspiracy - By Ilya Somin - Feb. 20 (News Analysis) - With the proliferation of libertarian blogs and other websites on the internet, any high school or college student who has a strong interest in politics is likely to become aware of libertarianism as a potential alternative to liberalism and conservatism. The fact that these people learn about libertarianism while they are still young is critical; most people become less receptive to new ideas as they get older, especially if they go against their preexisting views.

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The Tea Party and civil liberties

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Feb. 09 (Opinion) - It's long been clear that the best (and perhaps only) political hope for civil liberties in the U.S. is an alliance that transcends the standard Democrat v. GOP or left v. right dichotomies.

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Are Right-Wing Libertarian Internet Trolls Getting Paid to Dumb Down Online Conversations?

Wed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By George Monbiot - Dec. 15 (Opinion) - Over 75% of the funding for American Majority, which hosted this training session, comes from the Sam Adams Alliance. In 2008, the year in which American Majority was founded, 88% of the alliance’s money came from a single donation, of $3.7m(13). A group which trains rightwing libertarians to distort online democratic processes, in other words, was set up with funding from a person or company with a very large wallet.

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7 Ways the Koch Bros. Benefit from Corporate Welfare

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

New York Observer - By Yasha Levine - Sep. 01 (Investigative Report) - Koch Industries is America's second-largest private corporation, with revenue of $100 billion in 2009, and 80,000 employees in 60 countries. How libertarian are they? The short answer...not very. For the past fifty years, through its Matador Cattle Company subsidiary, Koch Industries has been quietly milking a New Deal program that allows ranchers to use federal land basically for free.

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The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:54:46 -0700

Scholars & Rogues - Jun. 01 (Opinion) - There is something magnificent about the way that modern, market-driven businesses get ever more efficient. How they are able to derive ever more from ever less. Agriculture used to be a matter of ploughing the soil, dropping in the seeds and rotating the crops every season to get nitrogen back into the ground. Now entire farms are mapped according to alkalinity, fertility, moisture, sunlight, orientation. Tractors are linked via GPS to ensure that precisely the right amount of fertiliser and water gets put in just the right places. Sophisticated breeding programs and genetic modification produces bumper yields.

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