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	<title>Roman Skaskiw</title>
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		<title>The Burden of the Soldier</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, a little-discussed headline read &#8220;Muted Ceremony Marks End Of Iraq War.&#8221;[1] Of course, neither the war in Iraq nor the occupation are really ending. Thousands of private security contractors remain in the country (as do the fifteen thousand employees of the Baghdad embassy).[2] The end of conventional military operations reflects the changing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stanford Daily Cartoons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Long, long ago when I was an undergrad, I drew cartoons for the Stanford Daily. I came across them recently and decided to scan them. Here are the few published one and the many unpublished ones, in additional to a few notes and the first piece of fan mail I ever received.]]></description>
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		<title>* The End of the Mega States? * with Roman Skaskiw and Andy Duncan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In our latest edition of Radio Free Market World Report, I talk to Roman Skaskiw about the global secession movement and particularly how this applies to the United States and the European Union. We examine why the world&#8217;s wealthiest countries, on a per capita basis, tend to be the smallest states, and why the major [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the United States Too Big to Succeed?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Although European libertarians continue to produce great works of theory and activism, the United States has been, and seems to remain, the epicenter of the libertarian movement. There are no prominent protests in Europe calling for less governmental help as there are in the United States. Murray Rothbard&#8217;s essay &#8220;Left and Right: The Prospects for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://romanskaskiw.com/blog/archives/760</link>
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		<title>The Violence and Justice Monopoly</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This essay was heavily influenced by one of my intellectual heroes, Hans Hermann Hoppe: Almost all of us hold two beliefs which contradict a third near-universal belief. The first is that a state, however else defined, is a geographic monopoly of security and justice. One cannot appeal a ruling beyond the state, and whatever private [...]]]></description>
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