Liberty Links 12/11/16

Must Reads Anonymous Leaks to the WashPost About the CIA’s Russia Beliefs Are No Substitute for Evidence (Read this and share, The Intercept) Senate Quietly Passes The “Countering Disinformation And Propaganda Act” (We are officially the USSA, Zerohedge) Site Behind Washington Post’s McCarthyite Blacklist Appears To Be Linked to Ukrainian Fascists and CIA Spies (Wild stuff in … Read more

Liberty Links 12/4/16

On December 16th, 1961 the world turned upside down and inside out, and I was born screaming in America. I was told when I grew up I could be anything I wanted a fireman, a policeman, a doctor, even president it seemed. But like many kids growing up on a steady diet of westerns I always … Read more

Thank You and Welcome New Readers – A Liberty Blitzkrieg Mission Statement

Being included in the now infamous, and laughably shoddy, PropOrNot hit list of so-called “Russian Propaganda” websites directly led to the most rewarding professional day I’ve had since I started blogging nearly five years ago. As soon as I saw the transparently ridiculous list and noticed that The Washington Post was giving legitimacy to it, I wasn’t outraged at … Read more

Liberty Links 11/19/16

Must Reads Ringside With Steve Bannon at Trump Tower as the President-Elect’s Strategist Plots “An Entirely New Political Movement” (The Hollywood Reporter) Trump’s Pick for Attorney General Scoffed at ‘Too Big to Fail’ (Sessions seems pretty good on corporate crime, Bloomberg) Harsher Security Tactics? Obama Left Door Ajar, and Donald Trump Is Knocking (The New … Read more

Liberty Links 11/6/16

Op-eds/Must Reads Five Reasons You Should Blame The Economics Discipline For Today’s Problems (Excellent read, Forbes) Clinton’s Charity Confirms Qatar’s $1 Million Gift While She Was at State Dept (Very, very disturbing, Reuters) Don’t Be So Sure Russia Hacked the Clinton Emails (Dangerous game being played, Reuters) How PE Firms Are Flipping Drugs in Price-Gouging Scheme that … Read more

Liberty Links 10/22/16

Opinon/Must Reads  The Cashless Society Is a Creepy Fantasy (Bloomberg) Sorry Not Sorry: Politico’s Thrush Doubles Down on Podesta Emails (U.S. media is a total disgrace, The Hill) Dangerous Idiots: How the Liberal Media Elite Failed Working-Class Americans (The Guardian) The Slide Toward War With Russia (The Nation) Geopolitics/Foreign Affairs Nationalists and Populists Poised to … Read more

Liberty Links 9/10/16

I’m trying something new with the links post today. Separating articles into categories so scanning through them is easier. 24 links for your weekend reading pleasure. Enjoy. Opinion Pieces Matt Lauer’s Pathetic Interview of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump Is the Scariest Thing I’ve Seen in This Campaign (Great window into the mindset of a mainstream … Read more

Negative Retail Interest Rates Have Arrived in Germany

I only have three words in response to the following article. Gold. Silver. Bitcoin. Bloomberg reports: When the European Central Bank introduced a negative interest rate on lenders’ deposits two years ago, few thought things would ever go this far. This week, a German cooperative savings bank in the Bavarian village of Gmund am Tegernsee — population … Read more

Liberty Links 8/1/16

22 links today. Enjoy. Welcome to the 2016 DNC, Sponsored by Special Interests (It’s all so dirty, this is a must read, The Nation) U.S. Trade Rep Insists TPP is Not Dead Yet (WARNING: Obama will try to pass the TPP in the lame duck, McClatchy) Facebook Admits It Blocked Links to Wikileaks DNC Emails (Gizmodo) Night … Read more

Liberty Links 7/21/16

23 links today. Enjoy. What I Saw Last Friday in Hebron (One of the most uplifting articles I’ve read all year, Haaretz) Writing as Resistance (Extremely touching, extremely important read, Chris Hedges, TruthDig) Apple and Facebook Helped Bust the World’s Biggest Torrent Site (Why is “Homeland Security” focusing on copyright violations? Engadget) Lobbyists Bolting Trump … Read more