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• A Second Look at the Slave-Trade Bicentennial
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, June 28, 2007
  Honoring Great Britain's withdrawal from the international slave trade has been an ongoing public event this year. The recurring message has been that the withdrawal — a watershed event in the elimination of slavery in the West — was largely the result of the actions of a single British politician, William Wilberforce. Wilberforce, imbued with strong Christian convictions, began his antislave-trade crusade with a 1789 speech in Parliament; he continued his quest for 18 years before Great Britain bowed out of the trade. Wilberforce's story was the subject of the movie Amazing Grace earlier this year. Curiously, a number of significant, concurrent American subplots have gone unnoted in this Wilberforce-centered tribute. More . . .
  
  

  A NEW article by T. Norman Van Cott

  
  

• Bills Battle over Fairness Doctrine
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  “Amid a new push by Democrats in Congress to regulate talk radio — a medium dominated by conservatives — a Republican House member has introduced a measure aimed at undercutting those plans.” (CNSNews.com, Thursday)
  
  So much for free speech.
  
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  “Fairness Doctrine, R.I.P.” by Jorge Amador
• The Goal Is Freedom: Illiberal Means, Illiberal Ends
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, June 8, 2007
  The years 1914-1918 must have been lonely for Randolph Bourne. Bourne was a popular writer in Progressive circles, prolifically turning out articles for The New Republic and Seven Arts magazines. But soon the former, along with other publications, lost interest in his writing and the latter ceased operations, leaving Bourne out in the cold. What happened? Bourne bucked his fellow intellectuals, including his mentor John Dewey, and opposed U.S. entry into World War I. More . . .
  

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

  
  

• China Outlines Environmental Goals
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Tuesday, June 5, 2007
  “China released its first-ever national climate change policy Monday, rejecting mandatory caps on emissions of greenhouse gases as unfair and a threat to the development that has contributed to the countryrsquo;s meteoric economic growth.” (Washington Post, Tuesday)

  We should know what we are getting into, and what the facts are, before we let governments “do something.”

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  “Global Warming and the Layman” by Sheldon Richman

• Putin Warns U.S. of Possible Retaliation
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, June 4, 2007
  “Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Moscow is preparing to take retaliatory measures if the US builds missile defence systems in Europe.” (BBC News, Monday)

  Lingering tensions between the U.S. and Russia have their origin in FDRrsquo;s follies.

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  “Dancing with the Devil: Roosevelt, Stalin, and the Lasting Legacy of the Yalta Conference” by Richard M. Ebeling

• Jeffersonianism Interred
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, March 30, 2007
  For historian Arthur A. Ekirch Jr., the decline of American liberalism tracked the rise of nationalism and the corporate state, the intimate alliance between business and government. He equates liberalism — libertarianism — with economic freedom and property rights for the common citizen, not just for an aristocracy. From the relative, though imperfect, laissez-faire periods of the Jefferson and Jackson presidencies, the United States moved almost unswervingly to become what Albert Jay Nock would call a “Merchant-state” in which the central government heavily intervened on behalf of particular business interests, hampering the independence and progress of upstart competitors as well as workers. For most people, this is what the word “capitalism” would come to denote. More . . .

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

  
  

• American Car Proves Elusive
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Thursday, March 22, 2007
  “Joe Luehrmann likes American cars, has owned a string of them and is considering buying another. But he faces a problem in trying to figure out what's American anymore. …The world is no longer as simple as us vs. them, Detroit against the Asians and Europeans. …It's a global industry now, in which all manufacturers are touching their automaking toes on the shores of just about every industrialized nation.” (USA Today, Thursday)
  
  Made everywhere.
  
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  “Human Betterment Through Globalization” by Vernon L. Smith
• New York to Change Strategy on Homeless
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  FEE.org Web Bot | Monday, March 19, 2007
  “With the number of homeless families at a record high halfway into Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s five-year plan to reduce the homeless population by two-thirds, city officials are acknowledging missteps in their approach and are looking to revamp a controversial rent subsidy program geared toward poor families.” (New York Times, Monday)
  
  Officials never wonder how they make housing artificially expensive.
  
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  “Roofs or Ceilings?” by Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler
• Free or Watched?
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  Sheldon Richman | Friday, March 16, 2007
  Unless we wake up, the future is unfolding in Hazleton, Pa. It isn't pretty. Hazleton is home to one of the first local crackdowns on “illegal aliens” — whom I prefer to think of as migrants without government papers. Last summer, under the leadership of Mayor Lou Barletta, the Illegal Immigration Relief Act essentially made it a crime to hire or rent an apartment to anyone who is in the country without the government's permission. Under the law defiant landlords can be fined and employers can be denied or lose their business permits. (Permits are not such an innocuous intervention after all, are they?) A related ordinance requires tenants to register with the city. This is where the anti-immigrant attitude leads. It's a matter of logic. Immigration control and freedom cannot coexist. Free or watched? Which shall it be? More . . .
  

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman

  
  
  

• The Goal Is Freedom: Free or Watched?
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  Sheldon Richman |
  Unless we wake up, the future is unfolding in Hazleton, Pa. It isn't pretty. Hazleton is home to one of the first local crackdowns on “illegal aliens” — whom I prefer to think of as migrants without government papers. Last summer, under the leadership of Mayor Lou Barletta, the Illegal Immigration Relief Act essentially made it a crime to hire or rent an apartment to anyone who is in the country without the government's permission. Under the law defiant landlords can be fined and employers can be denied or lose their business permits. (Permits are not such an innocuous intervention after all, are they?) A related ordinance requires tenants to register with the city. This is where the anti-immigrant attitude leads. It's a matter of logic. Immigration control and freedom cannot coexist. Free or watched? Which shall it be? More . . .
  

  A NEW article by Sheldon Richman