Everything-Voluntary.com | An important part of revolution is thinking for oneself and diversifying sources of information and education. Defiance and creativity go hand-in-hand. As Martin Luther King, Jr. said over and over, the world is in dire need of an "International Association for the Advancement of Creative Maladjustment." Much of education today focuses on obedience skills rather than critical thinking skills. This is because if you teach a child true critical thinking skills, you potentially create a problem for the system, because the system is profoundly nonsensical, and the child is likely to challenge or reject the system. Young adult students possessing true critical thinking skills are unmanageable, and therefore undesirable to many schools.

LewRockwell.com | People forget, it seems, that this school business is a very recent invention in terms of humanity. Truth is, if our ancestors could not have learned without schools what they needed to know in order to survive and prosper, none of us would be here. By not trusting children to learn what they need to know on their own, we are essentially breaking the shopkeeper’s window on purpose, over and over again, because we do not trust that he will spend his money wisely if he doesn’t have to use it to fix the window.

FEE.org | The economic effect of a tax is clear. When a tax is placed on a product, producers end up receiving less money per unit sold while consumers end up paying more money per unit purchased. When prices fall for producers, they reduce their production. When prices rise for consumers, they reduce their consumption. This means taxes amount to little more than a reduction in trade. Reducing taxation, therefore, would have the opposite effect: Lowering the price felt by consumers while simultaneously raising the price that producers receive would increase the amount of trade that happens. Read Entire Article

Gawker.com | Daniel Somers was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. He was part of Task Force Lightning, an intelligence unit. In 2004-2005, he was mainly assigned to a Tactical Human-Intelligence Team (THT) in Baghdad, Iraq, where he ran more than 400 combat missions as a machine gunner in the turret of a Humvee, interviewed countless Iraqis ranging from concerned citizens to community leaders and and government officials, and interrogated dozens of insurgents and terrorist suspects. In 2006-2007, Daniel worked with Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) through his former unit in Mosul where he ran the Northern Iraq Intelligence Center. His official role was as a senior analyst for the Levant (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, and part of Turkey). Daniel suffered greatly from PTSD and had been diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and several other war-related conditions. On June 10, 2013, Daniel wrote the following letter to his family before taking his life. Daniel was 30 years old. His wife and family have given permission to publish it.

TheAnarchistAlternative.info | There are some differences, see below, but organized crime is closely similar to government. If it's dishonest and destructive to work for the Mafia (and it obviously is) then it's dishonest and destructive to work for government. Consider and compare their key characteristics.

HollieMcNish | A poem about immigration, based on a guy I used to have to listen to when I worked in a clothes shop.

LearnLiberty | Although many conflate capitalism and imperialism or think the two systems are closely connected, they are actually quite different, even at odds with one another. Capitalism is a system based on voluntary exchanges that benefit all of the parties involved. In contrast, imperialism is based on exploiting the poor through political power and military force. Prof. Stephen Davies shows that capitalism has been blamed through the years for a number of catastrophes—such as political corruption, exploitation of the poor, mass famines, and others—that were in fact a result of imperialism.

KentForLiberty.com | Cops are such crybabies. I am now expected to structure my life around the demands of these most broken, twisted, violent, and terrified individuals. When society is fashioned for the convenience of the police, you have a police state- even before the brutality reaches a crescendo.

Snordster | The printing press was at first mistaken for an engine of immortality by everybody except the Brothers Grimm.

Oak Norton | The use of emotional words instead of logic or reason to get what you want.