TOR Radio | Download TOR Radio: May 18, 2013 | Guests: Lucy Steigerwald (1st Hour) and Marc Victor(2nd Hour) | Topics: MOVE Bombing, Philadelphia 1985, comparisons to Waco and all manner of police state madness. Plus, checkpoint tyranny along the border, the arrest of Cosme Cortez Jr., and much more.

Traces of Reality | Tomorrow on TOR Radio: Lucy Steigerwald (1st hour) and Marc Victor (2nd hour) | Tune in LIVE tomorrow, Saturday, May 18, 5-7PM Central (6-8PM EDT) on RBN!

Traces of Reality | Guillermo Jimenez, host of Traces of Reality Radio, on local FOX 39 Laredo regarding the arrest of Cosme Cortez Jr. for refusing to cooperate with agents at the internal checkpoint on IH35 north of Laredo, Texas.

TOR Radio | Download TOR Radio: May 11, 2013 | Guests: Sheldon Richman (1st Hour) and James Corbett (2nd Hour) | Topics: The Drug War, history of federal drug laws, “gun control,” 3D Printing, Boston Bombing, Tsarnaev-CIA Connections, Syria and much more

Traces of Reality | Tomorrow on TOR Radio: Sheldon Richman (1st hour) and James Corbett (2nd hour) | Tune in LIVE tomorrow, Saturday, May 11, 5-7PM Central (6-8PM EDT) on RBN!

Philip Giraldi | Sinclair Lewis once wrote that if fascism ever comes to the United States it will be wrapped in the American flag and carrying a cross. Lewis might have been describing our contemporary “political Christians,” the mostly evangelicals who believe that Washington has a manifest destiny…

Conor Friedersdorf | Attorney General Eric Holder has just sent a truly incredible letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. In it, he acknowledges that the U.S. has killed four of its own citizens in drone strikes. Casual news consumers may find that confusing.

Spread Liberty News | On Friday, former acting IRS Commissioner Steve Miller, testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, said that America’s tax system is “voluntary.” During the hearing, Rep. Devin Nunes (D-CA) said in passing that the U.S. tax code is a “voluntary system.”

Glenn Greenwald | It is now well known that the Obama justice department has prosecuted more government leakers under the 1917 Espionage Act than all prior administrations combined – in fact, double the number of all such prior prosecutions. But as last week’s controversy…

Ron Paul | “What do you expect when you target the President?” This is what an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) agent allegedly said to the head of a conservative organization that was being audited after calling for the impeachment of then-President Clinton.

Dylan Murphy | The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been engaged in massive surveillance of peaceful protesters which undermines protections enshrined in the First and Fourteenth Amendments. Two recent studies raise serious questions about the way the DHS…

John Glaser | This past weekend, Kokesh attended a marijuana legalization event in Philadelphia. Armed with a nothing but a microphone, Kokesh and several dozen others counted down from ten to light up their joints in defiance of the authoritarian drug prohibitions.

John W. Whitehead | Immediately following the devastating 9/11 attacks, which destroyed the illusion of invulnerability which had defined American society since the end of the Cold War, many Americans willingly ceded their rights and liberties to government officials who promised…

Lucy Steigerwald | Like Waco, this standoff with so-called radicals involved disputed who-fired-first exchanges of gunfire; it also involved members being jailed, while government and law enforcement officials got — at best — a stern talking-to. By 1999, when law enforcement finally…

Will Grigg | “What does it hurt,” asked Sheriff Ric Bradshaw of Florida’s Palm Beach County, “to have somebody knock on the door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’” The answer to that question obviously depends on the identity of the “Somebody” who is making that inquiry.

Clarence Walker | As Colorado, California and Washington including 16 other states enjoy freedom under state law to operate legal medical marijuana-cannabis businesses the owners are often faced with arrests and constant harrasment by Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

Mark Thorton | The new adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is a good movie, but it is no indictment against capitalism, as some may contend. It is rather an implicit condemnation of government prohibition. When I read the book in high school…

Paul Craig Roberts | There are many signs of gangster state America. One is the collusion between federal authorities and banksters in a criminal conspiracy to rig the markets for gold and silver. My explanation that the sudden appearance of an unprecedented 400 ton short sale of gold…

Peter Schiff | In the opening years of the last decade, most mainstream investors sat on the sidelines while “tin hat” goldbugs rode the bull market from below $300 to just over $1,000 per ounce. But following the 2008 financial crisis…

Newsy | The value of Bitcoin crashed in less than six hours Wednesday, sparking fears the servers that exchange the newly popular currency were victim to a hacker attack. The virtual currency’s value dropped from $265 to $105 due to a “panic sell-off.”

Mark Dewey | A new rifle goes on sale on Wednesday, and it’s not like any other. It uses lasers and computers to make shooters very accurate. A startup gun company in Texas developed the rifle, which is so effective that some in the shooting community say it should not be sold to the public.

Andrew Napolitano | Judge Andrew Napolitano on the history of “The FBI Terror Factory”, it’s history of entrapment. “Does the federal government work for us, or do we work for the federal government? Can the government save us from a plot of their own creation?”

Guillermo Jimenez | The “mystery men” in matching black and khaki uniforms present at the Boston Marathon the day of the bombing were the topic of much discussion and speculation last week–heavy on the speculation.

Tom Secker | The bombings at the Boston marathon on Monday were yet another atrocity in a nation that has seen considerable bloodshed in recent months. 2012 was a record year for mass shootings in the US, and just like many of those events…