John Leake

2 days ago | lewrockwell.com | John Leake

The second stanza of the Iliad lets the reader know that this is going to be a story about humans fighting each other. Surprisingly, the primary conflict isn’t the war between the Greeks and the Trojans, but between Agamemnon and Achilles. On top of this destructive conflict, the Greek army is further punished by the plague. Begin with the clash between Agamemnon—The Greek warlord, and the godlike Achilles. Which of the immortals set these twoAt each other’s throats? Apollo … offended by the warlord.

3 days ago | lewrockwell.com | John Leake

In recent years I have often wondered if the constant drama—often deliberately produced and amplified by corrupt and inept governments—is a means of distracting our attention from the fact that those who work in the financial industry have become astronomically wealthy since the Financial Crisis of 2009, while the middle and working classes have struggled to keep up with the rising cost of living.

4 days ago | sgtreport.com | John Leake

by John Leake, The Focal Points: Nuclear proliferation was President Kennedy’s “private nightmare.”When my brothers and I were in our teens, my parents found it impossible to let one of us have an expensive and dangerous toy without letting all of have the same. A bass-boat, a new Motocross bike, a fast car—if one of us got one, then by Jove it was only fair that all of us got one. The same was true of weapons, which were easy for teenagers to acquire in Texas in the 1980s.

5 days ago | lewrockwell.com | John Leake

Over the course of three hundred years, the vaccine enterprise developed into the SCIENTISTIC religion that it is today. By scientistic, I mean the shallow, unexamined faith that all things in the world—including human health and disease—can be measured and manipulated by scientists. The scientism of the vaccine enterprise has created a paradoxical state of affairs.

2 weeks ago | lewrockwell.com | John Leake

On a cruise in the Aegean—the first time in 20 years—I am reminded that contending with adversaries lies at the heart of the human condition. For millennia, the lands and islands that are now the territories of Turkey and Greece have been contested by a bewildering array of tribes with conflicting tribal and religious identities. Many of the places I have visited were the scenes of conflict between the Knights of Saint John and the Ottoman Turks.