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!

Ron Paul | Congressional hearings, White House damage control, endless op-eds, accusations, and defensive denials. Controversy over the events in Benghazi last September took center stage in Washington and elsewhere last week. However, the whole discussion is again more of a sideshow.

James Corbett | In the days of hysteria immediately following the Boston bombing, an unlikely media darling emerged. Ruslan Tsarni, the alleged bombers’ uncle, known to the press as “Uncle Ruslan,” gained notoriety for the ferocity with which he denounced his own…

Tim Cushing | When discussing NYPD Police Chief Ray Kelly’s assertion that “privacy is off the table” as a result of the Boston bombing, I mentioned I hadn’t heard any public outcry demanding the government and law enforcement step in and do something (i.e., curtail civil liberties) in response to the tragedy.

Andrew Gavin Marshall | Where there is the possibility of democracy, there is the inevitability of elite insecurity. All through its history, democracy has been under a sustained attack by elite interests, political, economic, and cultural. There is a simple reason for this…

Guillermo Jimenez | Boston Bombing investigators issue formal complaint against 3 young men, Dias Kadyrbayev, Azamat Tazhayakov and Robel Phillipo, all friends of Dzhokar, and allegedly “co-conspirators.” Mainstream press ignores, dismisses Uncle Ruslan, Graham Fuller, CIA leads

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.

Ron Paul | Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes at gunpoint to be searched without probable cause. Businesses forced to close. Transport shut down.

Sheldon Richman | It would be nice if Benjamin Franklin’s famous aphorism were as widely believed as it is quoted. I doubt that Sen. Lindsey Graham and his ilk would express disagreement, but one cannot really embrace Franklin’s wisdom while also claiming that “the homeland is the battlefield.”

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.”

Forbes | As Adam Ozimek points out Bitcoin has so far largely been greeted with eye-rolling by professional economists. One reason is that the cryptocurrency’s most enthusiastic advocates tend to subscribe to a hard-money, end-the-Fed worldview…

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…

Antiwar Blog | The Neo-Conservative Era Is Dead. Former Congressman Ron Paul will hold a press conference this Wednesday to launch his next big project: the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity.