Medical Marijuana: Big Pharma’s Campaign to Eliminate State-Sanctioned Cannabis Competitors?

May 20, 2013 in Preview, THE ECONOMY

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).

Obama DOJ formally accuses journalist in leak case of committing crimes

May 20, 2013 in POLITRICKS, Preview

Traces of Reality | 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…

Hollywood Studios Censor Pirate Bay Documentary

May 20, 2013 in HI-TECH TYRANNY, Preview

Torrent Freak | It is no secret that Hollywood is trying to take down as many pirated movies as they can, but their targeting of a Creative Commons Pirate Bay documentary is something new. Viacom, Paramount, Fox and Lionsgate have all asked Google to take down links pointing to the Pirate Bay documentary TPB-AFK.

The Department of Homeland Security Routinely Spies upon and Disrupts “Occupy” Protests

May 20, 2013 in POLICE STATE, Preview

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…

The IRS’s Job Is To Violate Our Liberties

May 20, 2013 in FEATURED STORIES, POLITRICKS, Preview

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.

Criminalizing Disobedience: Adam Kokesh, Anti-War Activist, is Arrested

May 20, 2013 in POLICE STATE, Preview

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.

TOR Radio: May 18, 2013 (Lucy Steigerwald and Marc Victor)

May 19, 2013 in FEATURED STORIES, Preview, TOR Blog, TOR Radio

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.

TOR on Local FOX News: “Checkpoint Inspection Controversy”

May 17, 2013 in FEATURED STORIES, Preview, Preview 2, TOR Blog, TOR TV

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.

Defiant Texan arrested for third time at Border Patrol checkpoint

May 16, 2013 in BORDERLAND BATTLEFIELD, FEATURED STORIES, Preview, Preview 3

Houston Chronicle | An American citizen was arrested apparently for the third time by U.S. Border Patrol agents at the highway checkpoint on Interstate 35, but this time the only thing he was smuggling was attitude. Cosme Cortez Jr., of Laredo, is in the custody of the federal government…

Prohibition Caused the Greatness of Gatsby

May 16, 2013 in Preview, Preview 2, THE ECONOMY

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…