Eapen Thampy has worked in politics and advocated to legalize cannabis for years. But now, he is among those who need the policies he advocates for to become reality. Currently, he is facing federal marijuana charges to which he has pled guilty. Over the years, Eapen has built relationships with an incredibly diverse number of…
It’s strange how we Americans have routinely accepted that those sending our sons and daughters to seemingly never-ending wars will never be asked to likewise serve in harm’s way. As Major Daniel Sjursen says, the “elites have opted out fully.” In “Patriotic Dissent: America In the Age Of Endless War,” Sjursen writes about never-ending wars,…
Joe Biden is declaring himself the “president-elect”, while Donald Trump and his team are still claiming mass voter fraud and illegal ballots in key states. He and his hardcore supporters aren’t admitting defeat, but the Supreme Court keeps making any court battle look less likely for Trump. On Friday, they rejected the Texas lawsuit to…
The United States began lobbing missiles in Afghanistan in early October of 2001, and boots were on the ground by October 19th. Nineteen years of war means some of the soldiers fighting this never-ending war were not even born when it began. President Trump is currently reducing the number of troops in the country known…
Anarchists provide one essential reminder—governments are capable of extreme evil. Government atrocities are inflicted on a scale that individuals would never be able to reach. The obvious answer for an anarchist is to take power and legitimacy away from the government and, instead, give that power to the individual. Many self-described anarchists do not advocate…
Weldon Angelos was sentenced to 55 years in prison for a marijuana offense in 2002. In May of 2016, President Obama commuted his sentence. Angelos has never stopped in his fight for criminal justice reform since he was released. “I hit the ground running, I started working with the White House and the Koch brothers…
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Diego Adrian Rivera saw a void in culturally accessible liberty clothing and merchandise. So he launched I Am the Remnant to be artistically interesting and aesthetically appealing, while representing deep philosophical principles. He explained that the name comes from an essay by Albert Jay Nock, “Essentially, it is about the truth teller who is out there…
Individual cops are good. The system is oppressive. That sounds cliché and can be taken to mean many different things. We don’t need to replace our current system with anything other than a Constitutional Republic. The answer to our woes is to strengthen our commitment to individual liberty, limited government, and capitalism. The US has…
Across the nation, protests were spurred by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis. I talked to a protester, who for this article will be known as “Charli”. Charli is a vocal, concerned citizen and she was motivated to join the protest after years of education and experience in the legal field exposed issues in…
Our country has erupted with calls for justice for both George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, who were murdered at separate times, in different cities, and in different ways. Floyd was murdered by an authoritarian brute who used his power to stand on Floyd’s neck for no good reason. Taylor was murdered by a systemic policy…