LewRockwell.com | Theft and slavery are crimes, even if sanctioned by the majority of the people! Theft of the government, by the government, and for the government is somehow accepted and rationalized by the population at large. Why does that majority agree with this theft?

Historian Gwynne Dyer traces the evolution of warfare from earlier ages to the Total War of the Twentieth Century.

SzandorBlestman | Let’s say, for instance, that we’re two kids in a schoolyard. You have a small bouncy ball that I want. Sure, I could try to knock you down and take it from you if I was a bigger and stronger kid than you, but we all know that’s not very nice. That’s not a very good way to make friends. Not too many people like a bully. It’s also not very good economics. I might be happy, but you’re not going to be. We’ll call this theft. I think it’s safe to say that it’s more or less universally accepted that theft is wrong and those who engage in such practices need to stopped, punished and taught that theft is not acceptable no matter how big and strong one is.

GeorgeDonnelly.com | For public relations purposes, talking about your rights is obsolete. It’s a right-wing authoritarian faux talking point. It’s simply tedious – and often a non sequitur – to say that you’re doing something because it’s your right. Nor does it resonate with anyone who doesn’t already agree with you. Let’s shift the paradigm. Let’s spark some thought by talking about our actions in terms of responsibilities, instead of rights.

Wasaka2 | Mike Rivero has been the webmaster of What Really Happened.com since 1994 when it began as a sub-page on his business website asking pointed questions about the death of White House Deputy Council Vincent Foster. As more and more investigations revealed more government deceptions, the page grew in size and number and eventually moved to its own domain where it resides today.

C4SS.org | Federal taxes are put to especially violent use. According to the War Resisters League, 54% of the portion of the federal budget funded by income taxes (which excludes Social Security and other items separately taken from income) was put towards military spending in 2009. That’s more than $1.4 trillion dollars to kill people, prepare to kill people, and pay off past preparations and killings. Killings in the pursuit of expanding political power and boosting the profits of privileged industries. (The figures that War Resisters League gives can be found at: http://www.warresisters.org/pages/piechart.htm)

Institute for Injustice | Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property rights in the nation today. With civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize your property and use it to fund their budgets—all without charging you with a crime. Americans are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, but with civil forfeiture, your property is guilty until you prove it innocent—and law enforcement has a huge incentive to police for profit, not justice.

FlexYourRights | Do you know what your rights are if you're stopped by police? Most people don't, and the consequences can be severe. From simple misunderstandings to illegal searches and excessive force, a bad police encounter can happen to anyone.

Three films about the power of the past. This series by acclaimed filmmaker Adam Curtis investigates the way in which both history and memory (national and individual) have been used and manipulated by politicians and others.

CopBlock.org | police who break the law are often protected by their investigation process. A normal person who is seen breaking a law would be arrested, booked, given an arraignment date, and given a trial. He or she might even spend time time in jail. With cops, none of this will happen unless other police officers who conduct an “internal investigation” decide it’s appropriate. Without the go ahead from the offending officer’s co-workers, there will probably be no arrest, no booking process, no arraignment, no judge, no jury, and no justice.