A Big Mistake by Rep. Ron Paul: "America’s policy of foreign intervention, while still debated in the early 20th century, is today accepted as conventional wisdom by both political parties. But what if the overall policy is a colossal mistake, a major error in judgment? "

The Sociopathic Cult by Butler Shaffer:"At base, politically-minded people believe what every street-thug believes: that dishonesty and violence are the most efficacious means of promoting one’s self-interests."

Devastated Iraq by Tom Engelhardt and Dahr Jamail - Get the news from a reporter that is not embedded.

Utopia and Reality by Butler Shaffer:" As our formal world continues to disintegrate before us, it is time that we abandon the utopian fictions in which we are conditioned and face the stark reality that whatever future we have will be decided by the content of our thinking. Because only you and I are in control of – and, thus, responsible for – our thinking, only you and I are capable of bringing order to our world."

The Importance of Free Expression by Butler Shaffer: "The institutional order resists such change. It is premised on the maintenance of the status quo; but a vigorous and creative society depends upon resiliency, the capacity to make effective responses to a changing environment. "

The Rose

Some say love it is a river
That drowns the tender reed.
Some say love it is a razor
That leaves your soul to bleed.

Some say love it is a hunger
An endless, aching need
I say love it is a flower,
And you its only seed.

It's the heart afraid of breaking
That never learns to dance
It's the dream afraid of waking
That never takes the chance

It's the one who won't be taken,
Who cannot seem to give
And the soul afraid of dying
That never learns to live.

And the night has been too lonely
And the road has been too long.
And you think that love is only
For the lucky and the strong.

Just remember in the winter
Far beneath the bitter snow
Lies the seed that with the sun's love,
In the spring, becomes a rose.

Iraq will be a Cakewalk . . . by Paul Craig Roberts

Your government is worse that all serial killers put together . . .
http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance29.html

Organ Transplants
Everyone needs to join this, including me . . . LifeSharers

Drug enforcement is Doomed to fail by the sheer impossibility of preventing consenting adults in a free society from engaging in extremely profitable transactions involving tiny amounts of illegal drugs.
A Small But Important Victory by James Ostrowski

How the cold war ended . . . "In August 1989 the Hungarian government opened its borders, allowing East German tourists to escape into Austria.
When word got back to East Germany, the trickle of escapees became a tidal wave. And three months later the Berlin Wall came down.
A year later the Soviet Union fell apart. The Cold War was over.
The impossible had happened.
(. . . Mikhail Gorbachev's economy measures had caused Soviet troops to withdraw from the satellite countries, with a warning that the Soviets wouldn't help the satellite governments put down any rebellion. The Hungarian government was already liberalizing in many ways, living standards there were rising, and the government no longer saw a reason to prevent people from moving freely in and out of the country.)"
- The Future Is Not Hopeless by Harry Browne