"When you're the most powerful entity in the world, as the US government certainly is—the only government to have dropped nuclear bombs on civilian populations ('good' bombs, because dropped by the US)—you get to manufacture your own parallel universe with its unique rules of evidence and standards of proof. What's more, as the mightiest rule-maker, you can coerce other earthlings into 'sharing' your alternate reality. Or else."
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"Beware The Atavistic Dynamics Undergirding Two American Wars," The Ludwig von Mises Centre For Property and Freedom, June 21, 2017.
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