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N ew Zealand, as you will all know by now, has been set by our government with at "target" to be Net Zero of greenhouse gas emissi...

"T o listen to protectionists, one would think tariffs are something of a miracle drug. Anything and everything can be solved by tarif...

Cartoon by Etta Hulme "T he [destructive aftermaths of the] Soviet Union, Maoist China, Kim's North Korea, Pol Pot's Cambodia,...

Everywhere real socialism has arrived it has failed. Eastern Europe, Soviet Union, Cambodia, North Korea, Venezuela ... the roll-call is lon...

Cuba, after sixty years of socialism ... [Hat tips Stephen Hicks + Don Broughton . Title by Stephen Hicks ]

"Sometimes the hop from bleeding heart to mailed fist is only one page wide."           ~ Bryan Caplan, from a short post on An...

  Come on, you’ve all heard it said since old Busywhiskers died: “Sure, Fidel Castro was a dictator, but he also gave Cuba literacy, low in...

  Fidel Castro, as you certainly know by now, is dead. And, says Chris Campbell in this guest post, there are some things that really must ...

  A minor dictator and tyrant for six decades has died. Opined Garray Kasparov , who lived under several, there is no need to mourn: Fide...

Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath ransacks the newspapers for stories and headlines on issues affecting our freedom . This week:   C...

Doug Bandow is right .  The embargo on Cuba has been disastrous, and its review is long overdue. US sanctions on trade with Cuba have done e...

  DOWN TO THE DOCTOR’S – A weekly commentary on some of this week’s news items by Libertarianz leader Dr Richard McGrath . . . Waira...

Free trade?  Free trade doesn't come with tariffs , employment restrictions and other protectionist restraints on trade.  It doesn'...

Some food for thought here for fans of communist dictators -- and for opponents and supporters of free trade:    In 1958, Cuba was almost...

Fidel Castro has stood down, but Cuban jails are still full of his opponents , the seventy-three thousand people he killed without either ...

Here's a postcard I picked up in Highgate in the early nineties, and with it goes a story. As you might have heard, one of my great ple...

The current quarter is a good one for dictator deaths. The lads at Pacific Empire celebrate the high "dictatorial death toll," a...

Pinochet has died. Don't mourn him, because he was just another murderous dictator, but (as I suggested the other day ) just ask yours...

Former dictator General Augusto Pinochet just refuses to go away. His heart attack has him back in the news , but still there is no-one who ...

Based on current reports, the coup in Fiji is a a disaster for Fijians. So too are the sanctions imposed on Fijians by the Clark Governmen...