Published Tuesday, October 31, 2006 by Mihai Sarbu
Mihai Sarbus writes that in Romania — the home of Vlad Dracula — their hospitals are running out of blood. The number of people volunteering to donate blood has declined steadily in recent years. Health-care professionals fear that joining the European Union will bring crisis-level blood shortages. Why? European regulations forbid any kind of remuneration for this service. Socialism and blood donation are not a good mix.
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Shortages, Bloody Shortages (1.28 MB)
Published Monday, October 30, 2006 by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
There can be no compromise between the liberal idea and the imperial idea, writes Lew Rockwell, and no special considerations justify replacing the former with the latter. "The idea of liberalism starts with the freedom of the individual," Mises wrote. "It rejects all rule of some persons over others; it knows no master peoples and no subject peoples, just as within the nation itself it distinguishes between no masters and no serfs. For fully developed imperialism, the individual no longer has value. He is valuable to it only as a member of the whole, as a soldier of an army."
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How Empires Bamboozle the Bourgeoisie (7.49 MB)