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Drug Prohibition: Common Sense Versus Moral Puritanism

by Johnny Dissidence 07.18.2011
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There’s recently been a lot of buzz on IMF and in the blogosphere about drug criminalisation, or the War on Drugs. There seems to be some confused argumentation coming from the anti-side. “Banning them will discourage our folk from using them!” Or “That legalising them brings usage under the control of the nanny state!“- while [...]

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WW2: Why We Didn’t Really Win

by Johnny Dissidence 04.15.2011
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We’re commonly fed the line that on the eve of September 2nd, 1945, that the Allies, the Western powers, had achieved a hard fought and hard-earned victory against the vicious and merciless Axis powers. The Germans had been bowed by the mighty clubs of the heroic American army and the, shall we say…unrelenting…Soviet forces, and [...]

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