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The beautiful first editon of the new Laissez Faire! magazine/catalog is now out! Articles about ISIL's global freedom work, book reviews, and a catalog of dozens of outstanding libertarian books and videos - many of them brand-new titles. Free downloadable pdf copy available here. If you prefer a print copy, call toll-free 1-866-686-7210
 
A new, improved Laissez Faire Books website has just gone live. Over 150 book and video titles are up, with more being steadily added (we have almost 600 total titles). Visit us at www.lfb.org.
 
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Welcome to the home page of the International Society for Individual Liberty (ISIL). We are a network of individuals and associations in over 90 countries dedicated to building a free and peaceful world through the ideals of free markets, social tolerance and individual responsibility.
     Our philosophy of liberty, which is catching on world wide, is called Libertarianism.

Announcing the New
 
  ISIL Winter Retreat and Conference
 
January 8-10, 2010
Phoenix, Arizona

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Want to escape icy cold winter and also enjoy great libertarian speakers and meeting old and new friends? Start your New Year with fresh inspiration? Come to warm, sunny Phoenix, Arizona USA for the first annual libertarian Winter Retreat and Conference, hosted by ISIL and Laissez Faire Books. We have arranged a great conference with a variety of packages - conference program, lunches, dinners, evening reception, closing banquet, and 4 nights shared or single room. We are currently offering an Early Bird special until November 15th. For more information, including speakers, prices, and registration options just click on the line below.

For more information, click here, or call us toll-free at the number below.


Help Build the Student Movement!

You can help ISIL build a larger, more effective campus liberty movement by sponsoring student scholarships to this conference. And get a tax deduction, too!
One reason to hold this early January conference is that university students are still on winter break. No one else holds student seminars at this time of year. We can bring in promising student activists, give them information and inspiration, and send them back to school for the spring semester fired up to promote liberty!

To make a scholarship contribution or to sign up for the January Retreat, click here or call (toll free) at:

866 686-7210
8:30AM - 10:00PM US Mountain Time
1530 - 0500 GMT


 
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Laissez Faire Books is now a part of ISIL.

With over 430 titles available, Laissez Faire Books is once again the world's premiere source for libertarian and freedom oriented books. You can order directly from our on-line store, or call us toll free at 866 686-7210.

A Blog: Also please check out our Laissez Faire Books blog for commentary and news on the latest offerings.



LIBERTY ENGLISH CAMPS

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For years, ISIL has supported the Liberty English Camps in Lithuania and other East European and African countries. These youth camps improve the English skills of high-school and university students, using libertarian materials. Many students have themselves become camp teachers and organizers, and have become active libertarians in their home countries.

With the 2009 camp season underway and growing, the scholarship fund needs replenishing. Help create tomorrow's libertarian leaders who may change the course of their nations! Details on the camps are at www.languageofliberty.org and at www.lessonsofliberty.org.

Tax-deductible contributions may be made via ISIL. Click here or contact ISIL president Jim Elwood at 1-866-686-7210 (9-9 PDT).



Philosophy of Liberty

Our celebrated introduction to the
"PHILOSOPHY OF LIBERTY"

     If you're new to libertarianism, our flash animation of "The Philosophy of Liberty" is a delightful introduction to the ideas of liberty. Currently translated into 20 different languages, it is the single most visited resource on this website.
To view, click here, select your preferred language, and enjoy.



TO SAVE AMERICA
ANNOUNCING THE LIBERTY ALLIANCE

America is in crisis. Runaway spending, skyrocketing debt - with huge tax increases coming, a growing Big Brother police state, crippling bureaucratic controls over nearly every aspect of our business and personal lives, and unwarranted, bloody overseas wars - all having resulted from decades of malignant government growth - have brought hardship and danger to the lives of ordinary Americans.

But, crisis means opportunity as well as danger. There are signs of an awakening - from the surge in popularity of Ron Paul to the spontaneous nationwide "tea parties". But much of the rising anger is unfocused - or worse - misdirected, by people who are uninformed about the benefits and morality of individual liberty.

ISIL members and friends are creating a new Liberty Alliance to rejuvenate the liberty movement in America by building new student and community groups. Our planned activities include libertarian social networking, creating many new student groups, regional educational conferences, national social-action projects like Census Resistance 2010, and more.

We need your help to develop and use the most modern tools to reach the American people and inform them just why we are in this mess - and how practical, humane, libertarian ideas can solve our most vexing problems.

Click HERE for more details on current and proposed Liberty Alliance projects. IMPORTANT! Please let us know which one(s) you are most interested in helping, as an activist and/or contributor. Thank you.


 

In Chains

ISIL Human Rights Alert is devoted to fighting abuses of human rights around the world. Please join us in supporting the causes of these individuals.

      Our current focus is on:

    • Paul Jacob (Oklahoma, USA),
    • Abdelkareem Nabil Soliman (Egypt), and
    • Dr. Atilla Yayla (Turkey).

For information on coming to the aid of these individuals   click here .


Green Plant

THE GLOBAL WARMING FILE
     Almost everyone agrees there is global warming – the question is how much – and how much of it can be attributed to human-generated CO2 – and how much of it to natural causes?
Click here for the latest updates on the subject.

    Bastiat

         Qui se serait douté que le sujet de la liberté soit aujourd'hui si peu discuté dans la langue qui fut celle de Bastiat et Tocqueville? Les francophones du monde entier condamnent un "ultralibéralisme" imaginaire qui menacerait leurs biens et leurs privilèges. C'est pour corriger cet état de fait navrant que nous proposons avec ce réseau international une bourse aux idées libérales, d'où la voix de la liberté retentira aussi loin et distinctement que jadis. "Liberty ideas" (idées de la liberté) a pour but . . .


    – TOWARDS LIBERTY –

    Jarret Wollstein

    Towards Liberty is a regular column by ISIL Director Jarret Wollstein. These reports will alert readers to new threats to our liberties and offer some solutions.
    Today's column:


     

    – "SEZ WHO?" –

    Sharon Presley "Sez Who?" is an occasional column by social psychologist and Laissez Faire Books co-founder Sharon Presley.
         Dr. Presley provides valuable insight into how to avoid being intimidated and bamboozled by pernicious authority.
         Her most recent column:


    An archive of past columns is available here.

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    CELEBRATING THE GENIUS
    OF AYN RAND

    Click here for a series of articles and commentaries on this remarkable woman who so strongly influenced the libertarian movement.


     
     

    – International Movement News –
    In this section we will keep you abreast of news in the rapidly growing world libertarian movement.
         To learn the latest news about the activities of the new Bulgarian Society for Individual Liberty and their publishing projects click here.


    – Profiles on Liberty –
    In "Profiles on Liberty" will be featuring profiles on many heroic individuals and their work as they strive to build free societies in some of the most unlikely spots around the world.
    Click here for a profile on James Shikwati of Kenya's Inter-regional Economic Network.


    Help "Jonathan Gullible" reach more young people around the world
         ISIL Director Ken Schoolland's fable The Adventures of Jonathan Gullible has been awarded the first Leonard E. Read award for excellence in economic education by the Foundation for Economic Education. It continues to be recognized worldwide as a powerful tool for introducing free-market ideas, having been translated into 32 languages – and the list grows. The latest version, just translated into Farsi and published in Iran, has received rave reviews in the Iranian media. A Chinese version has also been produced for distribution in China by ISIL Rep Dean Peng.
    Please help bring this wonderful book to even more young people around the world by donating to the Jonathan Gullible Fund.


    Support ISIL and
    Watch Liberty Grow
         Our work for the cause of individual freedom in over 90 countries is funded almost entirely through donations from individuals like you – so please join ISIL now – or consider a donation.   (payment options include: Visa, MasterCard, PayPal or E-Gold).

    ISIL has been a pioneer in the modern libertarian movement. Click here for more information.

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Today's Headlines

NEWS

In SEC filing, China reveals vast US holdings

Republicans may opt out of Obama "health care summit"

Iraq: Nine killed, six wounded

Afghanistan: Taliban members killed in NATO offensive

Feds respond to Firearms Freedom Act lawsuit


COMMENTARY

How many more are innocent?

The milk man cometh

The new wimpery: Begging to be taxed

Repeating Pentagon lies on Gitmo recidivism

Root says we need "more" government?


AUDIO & VIDEO

Dana Walsh on The Freedom Works, 02/09/10 [live radio or stream]

Free Talk Live, 02/08/10 [MP3]

Freedomain Radio #1578 [MP3]

Audi's "Green Car" Super Bowl Ad [Flash video]


Muhammad Sahimi on Antiwar Radio [Flash audio or MP3]


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