TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
TRAVELING THE WORLD, WRITING WHAT THE PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW.
The “Article of the Week” section is an ongoing compilation of each week’s most popular article gauged by a variety of factors, primarily page views. This is a great section to start off one’s proverbial dive down the rabbit hole of The Last American Vagabond.
It’s only about a month and a half into 2016, yet financial markets all over the world have been a volatile rollercoaster ride to say the least, strongly reminiscent of the times preceding the 2008 financial collapse if not worse. In fact, global markets lost an estimated $3.17 trillion in just the first two weeks Read More…
As of February 3rd, 2016, 20,000 libertarians have officially signed the Statement of Intent to move to New Hampshire as part of a social movement called the Free State Project (FSP), designed around the tactic of a mass political migration. The goal was for 20,000 libertarians to move to a single, low-population state in order Read More…
The illegal occupation of Afghanistan has fallen off the media’s main stage in recent years, yet it remains one of the longest and debatably one of the most botched military operations in US history. Aside from the continued US presence, there remains an unaccountable and unjustifiable amount military contractors of which the Pentagon cannot explain. Those contractors now Read More…
“Neurons that fire together, wire together,” Dr. Max Cynader puts it, and it’s difficult to come across a more pertinent adage in today’s era. Discussion of neurons firing and wiring draws implications so vast that it impacts everything from positive and negative emotional spectrums, to the difference between being handicapped, and a genius–or life and Read More…
“Wealth is moving rapidly to concentrate at the tippy, tippy top of the pyramid,” said Gawain Kripke, the director of policy and research at Oxfam America. The world’s 62 richest billionaires have as much wealth as the bottom half of the world’s population, according to a new report from Oxfam International. Wealth inequality has been an Read More…
Beginning January 1st, new gun-safety legislation goes into effect which will allow authorities to seize a person’s weapon for 21 days if a judge determines that there is a potential for violence. The bill is presented as a means of having an emergency “gun violence restraining order” to impose on a loved one should they Read More…