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[ad_1] I WANT FREE MINDS AND FREE MARKETS! Help Reason push back with more of the fact-based reporting we do best. Your support means more reporters, more investigations, and more coverage. Make a donation today! No thanks I WANT TO FUND FREE MINDS AND FREE MARKETS Every dollar I give helps to fund more journalists, more videos, and more amazing stories that celebrate liberty. Yes! I want to put my money where your mouth is! Not interested SUPPORT HONEST JOURNALISM So much of the media tries telling you what to think. Support journalism that helps you to think for yourself.…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: Kremlin.ru – CC BY 4.0 The Kremlin can count on only one real ally in its war in Ukraine. Belarus has offered its territory for the staging of the war, and China has provided some dual-use exports that certainly contribute to the war effort. But only one country has sent a significant number of troops to fight alongside the Russians: North Korea. Today, about 10,000 North Korean combat troops are stationed in Kursk—along with another 1,000 engineer troops—to protect this western-most city from another Ukrainian incursion and to free up Russian troops to participate in offensive operations inside…

[ad_1] As the state unleashes AI to police your bank account, starving the beast with decentralized privacy networks is the ultimate act of peaceful defiance. We are living in an occupied nation, but the occupying force didn’t arrive in tanks or uniform. They arrived in server racks and boardrooms, selling our enslavement back to us under the guise of convenience and national security. The creeping surveillance state isn’t being forced upon a resistant public; it is being welcomed with open arms by a populace asleep at the wheel. Palantir is the Lockheed Martin of the domestic data war, acting as…

[ad_1] Sixty years ago today, Mao Zedong issued the May 16 Notification, a document frequently seen as the opening shot of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution. In this period, Mao fought his rivals in China’s power structure by declaring them counterrevolutionaries and urging the country to rise up against them. Young radicals known as Red Guards heeded the dictator’s call, and soon a mishmash of groups were chaotically clashing. The ensuing years saw violent rebellion, even more violent repression, and intense attacks on allegedly reactionary forms of culture. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed—probably well over a million. At…

[ad_1] Forests surrounding Garnet, Montana, in the Garnet Range, 1898. If you’re wondering why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies wins 80% of its lawsuits against Forest Service logging projects, the answer is simple: It’s because the agency repeatedly breaks the laws that govern management of our forest ecosystems and the fish and wildlife that depend on them. Rather than follow the law, however, the Forest Service and timber industry fund scientists and corporate research groups to falsely claim that environmentalists are to blame for wildfires. It’s the same tactic the tobacco and fossil fuels industries used to find a…

[ad_1] Photo by Immo Wegmann In April, the General Services Administration announced plans to automate 1 million work hours annually after cutting nearly 40 percent of its staff since October 2024, with similar reductions being seen across the government workforce. While the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) may have receded as a formal initiative, it has been hiring staff members who have been working across several agencies and accelerating further government automation. Washington first adopted large-scale automation during World War II to manage massive military datasets, before its expansion into the postwar administrative state. Unlike previous waves, however, AI-driven automation is reducing jobs across both government and private…

[ad_1] Image of Ruth Eleonora López in the video Encuentro de organizaciones de San Salvador. Photograph Source: Todas TV – CC BY 3.0 Who of us has the right to live without fear? This is the question human rights lawyer Ruth Lopez has asked fearlessly in El Salvador — the country of my birth — for decades. It’s a question we all need to ask ourselves in the United States as well. For speaking boldly, Ruth is now in prison. She’s been held without trial since May 18, 2025 — now a year ago — when she was torn from…

[ad_1] I WANT FREE MINDS AND FREE MARKETS! Help Reason push back with more of the fact-based reporting we do best. Your support means more reporters, more investigations, and more coverage. Make a donation today! No thanks I WANT TO FUND FREE MINDS AND FREE MARKETS Every dollar I give helps to fund more journalists, more videos, and more amazing stories that celebrate liberty. Yes! I want to put my money where your mouth is! Not interested SUPPORT HONEST JOURNALISM So much of the media tries telling you what to think. Support journalism that helps you to think for yourself.…

[ad_1] Imagine you’re a sheriff’s deputy and a detainee arrives, unresponsive and moving slowly after ingesting a large quantity of unknown pills. After a doctor clears him for jail, with a warning that any “deterioration” will require immediate medical care, the detainee is sent into a cell where he vomits profusely and remains unresponsive in the same position all night. Should you, as the deputy, call for help? And should you be legally held responsible if your inaction leads to the detainee’s death?   Earlier this week, the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled no, granting qualified immunity—the legal doctrine that…

[ad_1] Cover art for the book Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth – Fair Use A machine made of human parts. This is what (Lewis) Mumford called the ‘megamachine’: an entire society ordered from the top down, justified by a mythos employed by its leaders and driven by a desire for ‘order, power, predictability and above all, control.’ –Paul Kingsnorth, Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity ‘Communities never exert themselves to the utmost…except for what they regard as a great religious end…Where such efforts and sacrifices [are]made for purely economic advantages it will turn out that this…