By Yasha Levine and Mark Ames
![eXiled eXclusive! Read The Orignal Letter Charles Koch Sent To Friedrich von Hayek Telling Him To Sign Up For Social Security](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/charles-koch-to-hayek-get-on-social-security-letter-e1317339271291-200x200.jpg)
Here is the private letter from Charles Koch to Nobel Prize economist Friedrich Hayek, godfather of today’s free-market movement. The letter was obtained by Yasha Levine from the Hayek Archives at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. It is part…
By Yasha Levine and Mark Ames
![Monster Koch Bust: Charles Koch Used Social Security to Lure Friedrich von Hayek to America](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/hayek-reagan-smile-200x200.jpg)
There’s right-wing hypocrisy, and then there’s this: Charles Koch, billionaire patron of free-market libertarianism, privately championed the benefits of Social Security to Friedrich Hayek, the leading laissez-faire economist of the twentieth century. Koch even sent Hayek a government pamphlet to help him take advantage of America’s federal retirement insurance and healthcare programs.
By Yasha Levine
![iSucker: Big Brother Internet Culture](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/img-47-200x200.jpg)
The other day The eXiled received an offer to sign up for a free security service called CloudFlare that’s supposed to provide security and reliability…
By A.P Warrington, Twice Removed
![Fuck Tibet!](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/cwl-y-otros-200x200.jpg)
Hey everybody, it’s Warrington here, back from the dead. Well, you know how it really is, I never did die — we never really die forever — I was just reborn into another form. It’s been two lives since I left my Warrington body. I grew up to be a Swiss teenage catamite pass-around for the early proceedings of the Mont Pelerin society, but one of those post-war economists gave me fatal strain of syphilis…
By Gary Brecher
![The War Nerd: China Joins the Yacht Club](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/PriceofWales-Flag2-200x200.png)
When we lived in Long Beach, my dad used to say the same thing every time we saw the sign to the yacht club: “You know what a boat is?” He’d ask the car that, then wait for somebody to…
By Yasha Levine
![Leaked Oil Documents Confirm: America Is Being Skullfucked By Oil Speculators...](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/gas_money-200x200.jpg)
Back in April I wrote a couple of articles about how rampant speculation by Koch Industries, Goldman Sachs and other big players in the energy markets has been driving up the price of oil. Immediately, a bunch of freemarket sockpuppets…
By Eileen Jones
![Drive: Fancy Euro Violence](https://exiledonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/drive-movie-1-2011-200x200.jpg)
Well, jeez, I don’t know. I didn’t like Drive, but maybe you will. It’s one of those movies that pushes everybody out into the open, as far as their own biases and personal film hang-ups and all. How you feel…