By Jorge Besada
Mises.org

April 28, 2025

It is ideas that group men into fighting factions, that press the weapons into their hands, and that determine against whom and for whom the weapons shall be used. It is they alone, and not arms, that, in the last analysis, turn the scales.

Regardless of all the suffering men like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao caused, it is vitally important to understand that they were fellow humans, like any others, who absorbed a complex set of ideas that led them to act the way they did.

By John Leake
Courageous Discourse

April 25, 2025

NBC just reported that high level talks in London to end the war in Ukraine foundered when Zelensky proclaimed he would never agree to a deal in which the U.S. officially recognized the Crimea as Russian territory.

Zelenskyy has consistently rejected the suggestion that his country give up its claim to the Crimean Peninsula.

"There's nothing to talk about here," he said at a media conference Tuesday.

C'était un mercredi.

En ce temps-là, il n'y avait pas de chaîne d'information en continu, on ne se sentait pas obligé de s'infliger Rochebin, Praud, Pujadas, Duhamel etc. en prenant son café. On allumait la radio.

Le 21 avril 1967, les nouvelles avaient été mauvaises. Coup d'état militaire d'extrême droite en Grèce. Le 11 septembre 1973, Pinochet au Chili. Franco, increvable allait à pied à l'hôpital.