Category Archive: 6b.) Mises.org

The Navy says it has no ships available to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz.

"While the Trump administration is calling for tanker protection, the U.S. Navy told shipping industry leaders that the sea service does not have naval availability to provide escorts."

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The White Hosue retroactively tries to come up with a rationale for war

Meanwhile, the administration has stopped claiming regime change is a reason for the war. But instead claims Iranian missiles, which can't reach the USA, are the "threat."

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Realtors report a ‘new housing crisis’ as January home sales tank more than 8%

Potential buyers are “still struggling,” and “renters are not participating in housing wealth.” The NAR characterized the current market as a crisis because, “the movement is not happening. Americans are stuck.”

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Emotion versus Principle: The Fragility of Modern Governance

The substitution of economic and moral principles by emotional imperatives does not represent a technical failure, but a profound philosophical divergence about human nature and the function of the state.

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The Iran War Exposes the Farce of American “Representative Democracy”

The current war is a timely reminder that the US ruling elites regard the US taxpayers and ordinary Americans as little more than inconvenient afterthoughts in US foreign policy.

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Celebrate Murray’s 100th Birthday with Us!

Today would have been Murray Rothbard’s 100th birthday. Help us celebrate!

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War Guilt in the Middle East

Into the heart of the peasant and nomadic Arab world of the Middle East there came, on the backs and on the bayonets of British imperialism, a largely European colonizing people.

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Gatekeeping Historical Truth

Modern historians are all about protecting their politically-correct narratives at all costs, and especially the cost of historical truths.

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Murray N. Rothbard: March 2, 1926-January 7, 1995.

On this centennial, we celebrate not only a towering scholar but a teacher whose ideas continue to animate the cause of liberty.

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The Fight for Liberty and the Beltway Barbarians

Are we emphasizing “the negative”? In a sense, yes, but what else are we to stress when our values, our principles, our very being are under attack from a relentless foe?

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Oil prices keep climbing as expanding conflict heightens supply risks

"Crude oil benchmarks rose more than $4 on Tuesday, soaring for a third session as the U.S.-Israeli conflict with ​Iran widens..."

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Trump won’t rule out sending US troops to Iran. Says he doesn’t care about polling.

President Trump told The Post Monday that he’s not ruling out sending US ground troops into Iran “if they were necessary.”

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‘Paranoid’ Pentagon Officials Are Secretly Panicking

"While the president boasts... military leaders are sounding the alarm behind the scenes about U.S. air defense stockpiles running out if the fighting goes on" for several weeks.

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Underlying the Connection Between Aristotelian Ethics and Austrian Economics

While Aristotle did not have advanced knowledge of economics, his causal-based view of reality set the stage for the development of the Austrian School.

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33 Choice Quotes from the Great Murray Rothbard

“The State is a gang of thieves writ large.”

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Just 1 in 4 Americans Support Trump’s War on Iran

According to a Reuters poll conducted on Sunday, only 27% of Americans support the US attacking Iran. 43% of Americans oppose the war.

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Patriotism

“When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don’t care if they are shot themselves.”

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Iran closes Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices soar.

"Analysts have warned that prices could top $100 a barrel if oil trade is disrupted for a prolonged period of time, or if the war spills over into neighboring countries."

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Pentagon Tells Congress No Sign That Iran Was Going to Attack US First

"Trump administration officials ⁠acknowledged ⁠in closed-door briefings with congressional staff ⁠on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces."

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Kuwait ‘mistakenly’ shoots down 3 US F-15s: Pentagon

Kuwait “mistakenly” shot down three U.S. F-15 fighter jets on Sunday after strikes were launched against Iran one day earlier, according to U.S. Central Command (Centcom).

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