From Spiked.

Los Angeles city officials apparently only want the homeless to receive aid on their terms.  And they want to be there to get the credit, instead of some private citizen who got fed up that these people were sleeping in the dirt.  NPR

Interview with Tom DiLorenzo.  Anonymity of association is a central pillar of liberty, and protects liberty far more effectively than any politician ever could.  This is why the Political Class hates it, and why they want the public to believe that only child predators and terrorists would ever desire it.

In the interview, Tom delves into the central banking implications for a cashless society.  A cashless society is far easier to engineer by that financial Leviathan called the Federal Reserve, meaning the economy becomes far easier to manipulate in the short run for the Political Class themselves.

Why oh why is this article up at LRC.  Trump doesn’t care a whit for liberty, and those that support him aren’t doing so because of the occasional Buchananite lines he throws out.

Didn’t have the guts to stand up to the Trump camp after his chief thug manhandled Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields.  Six resignations so far.

Labeled as “model rockets”.

Hyper-interventionist Hillary, who led the charge that destroyed Libya, has never had a problem working with the neoconservatives on foreign policy schemes.

From Politico.  The Pentagon spends $10 billion on something called “Building Partner Capacity”.  It’s a cheap euphemism for what amounts to doling out taxpayer billions to foreign governments in secret.

Relevant chunks: “In total, the DOD has spent at least $122 billion arming and training foreign partners in the past 15 years.

What do we have to show for it? That’s unclear. The Pentagon is the only government agency providing foreign assistance that is not required to submit an annual budget justification to Congress, so the public does not how much the DOD is spending in a given country and why. Without this baseline data, it’s difficult to evaluate whether these programs are succeeding, much less whether they are an efficient use of resources.”

The cluster bomb, that is.  From Common Dreams.  Relevant chunks: “Cluster bombs eject explosive bomblets (little bombs) designed to kill personnel and destroy vehicles over a wide area. Unexploded bomblets can continue killing or maiming civilians long after a conflict has ended, and are very costly to find and remove. In Vietnam, for example, approximately 300 people are still killed annually by unexploded ordnance.”

American-made cluster bombs are currently being used by Saudi Arabia in it’s war on Yemen, a war that has racked up over 3,000 civilian deaths so far.  The Saudi’s have spent more than $100 billion since 2010 on US weapons, according to congressional research.

A simple-minded abstinence-only drug education, backed up by a burgeoning military mind-set among police departments designed to turn up the heat on Prohibition, unleashed a black market crime wave that not only did nothing to halt drug use, but ushered drug users into far more dangerous drugs like crack cocaine and heroin.  See Jacob Sullum’s article at Reason.