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So, Tell Me, ‘Do You Hate the State?’
by Peter R. Quinones | Jan 21, 2021 | Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
This is a simple question. One you should ask yourself often (some of us ask and answer it everyday). Murray Rothbard’s short article quoted in the title is a masterpiece, but was written in 1977. The last remnants of the gold standard had just been done away with and...

In Defense of Statues and Other Texts—All of Them
by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
There has been a lot of discussion and some action on the question whether statues portraying or representing men currently regarded as scoundrels by self-styled “good people” should be permitted to stand. On its face, such a view would seem to imply that many of the...

Panic in the Imperial City
by Kenny MacDonald | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Despite all the lip service about democracy, justice, human rights, freedom, equality and so forth—the entire Washington establishment exists for the sole purpose of perpetuating the empire. How do I know? Because the media response to the January 6th attack at the...

It’s Time to March Home
by Jose Nino | Jan 20, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
One becomes a hardened cynic when following U.S. foreign policy. Such pessimism is justified: looking at nearly two decades' worth of nation building abroad and a seemingly shatterproof consensus on foreign policy interventionism in DC $6 trillion and roughly seven...

The Warfare State’s Agents of Death
by Ron Paul | Jan 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
With the mainstream media still obsessing about the January 6th “violent coup attempt” at the U.S. Capitol Building, the incoming Biden Administration looks to be chock full of actual purveyors of violent coups. Don’t look to the mainstream media to report on this,...

A Bigger Military Doesn’t Mean a Stronger Military
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 19, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the debate over whether or not China will soon rise to challenge the United States as the world’s hegemon, it is often assumed that states with large aggregate economies are necessarily more militarily powerful ones. This stems from decades-old methods that remain...

Congress Prepares to Excommunicate Millions of Americans
by Jim Bovard | Jan 18, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
"Have you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” was the question used in congressional hearings in the 1950s in what was portrayed as a witch hunt against leftists that blighted American freedom of speech. A new witch hunt is sweeping Washington,...
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Why Statists Despise Trump
by Jacob Hornberger | Jan 18, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
In the words of Ronald Reagan, here we go again. The unbelievable hatred that Democrats, liberals, progressives, and the mainstream press have toward President Trump continues to consume them, with the latest manifestation being a second impeachment of President...

VIDEO: Cop Tortures Pregnant Mother With Taser
by Matt Agorist | Jan 17, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
For four months, Officer Leon Davis with the Springfield [Massachusetts] police department escaped accountability for a most disturbing act of using his taser on a pregnant woman—repeatedly—in a sickening attempt to inflict punishment. However, the actions by Davis...

Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
by Scott Horton | Jan 16, 2021 | Blog, Featured Articles, Scott Horton
I wrote another book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism .Advance Praise for Enough Already “If you only read one book this year on America’s unending ‘War on Terror,’ it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United...

Silver Lining to the Lockdowns?
by Doug French | Jan 16, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Something good is coming out of the covid lockdowns. Economist David Rosenberg released a special report via the eponymous Rosenberg Research, concluding “the pre-COVID-19 ‘norm’ of a 7% personal savings rate will morph into a post-COVID-19 norm of 10%.” Rosenberg...

Trump Brings Troop Levels in Afghanistan to Lowest in 19 Years
by Barbara Boland | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. has reduced the number of U.S troops in Afghanistan to 2,500, the Pentagon announced Friday. President Donald Trump had promised in October to bring all remaining U.S. forces in Afghanistan back home by Christmas. “We should have the small remaining number of...

Congress Cares When It’s Their Windows Being Broken
by Jim Bovard | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
The political hysteria unleashed by last week’s clash at the Capitol between police and Trump protestors poses a growing danger to Americans’ constitutional rights. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer ludicrously compared the ruckus to Pearl Harbor—a “day of...

Cop Kills Unarmed Pastor as Family Watches in Horror
by Matt Agorist | Jan 15, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Patrick Warren Sr. was a loving father, husband, and pastor in his community whose life was taken from him on Sunday after his family called police for help. The family asked for a mental health expert, but according to their attorney, one was not available, so a...
News Roundup
News Roundup 1/21/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 21, 2021
US News Trump pardoned or granted clemency to several non-violent drug offenders before leaving office. [Link] Twitter banned the account of the Chinese Embassy in the US. [Link] Biden officially invited Taiwan’s ambassador to the US to his inauguration. A Taiwanese...
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Kevin Gosztola: No Pardons For Edward Snowden Or Julian Assange
by Steven Woskow | Jan 20, 2021
"NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, who was the first to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act under Trump, and former CIA officer John Kiriakou pursued pardons. They were effectively denied as well. On January 17, the New York Times reported that an associate of Trump...
Cop Kills Cop
by Scott Horton | Jan 19, 2021
And gets away with it of course because not even government employees have any rights that another government employee is bound to respect. And you wonder why BLM and the Boogaloo boys raise their fists together half the time: the government is evil.
Name Dropped
by Scott Horton | Jan 19, 2021
Some wonderful ridiculous woman made this hilarious song about us all partying at Tom Woods' house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNk-XJvgtC4
Libya, North Africa Emerge As Cocaine Transit Hubs
by Steven Woskow | Jan 18, 2021
You can't stop markets - where their is a buyer their will be a seller. The interventionists (mainly Samantha Power) in the Obama administration (the same ones that now populate the Biden Administration) used the cover of "Responsibility to Protect" to remove the...
The Memory Hole
by Ryan Burgett | Jan 18, 2021
Censorship has been in the news a lot lately. You have probably heard it mentioned in relation to Donald Trump. Twitter, Facebook, and many other online platforms permanently suspended his accounts last week. That's pretty wild, but there is a lot more worth talking...
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1/15/21 Andrew Quilty on the CIA’s Afghan Death Squads
by Scott Horton | Jan 17, 2021
Scott interviews journalist Andrew Quilty about his recent piece for the Intercept, which details the horrific violence being carried out in Afghanistan by U.S.-backed militia groups. In several recent attacks, these "death squads" have raided religious boarding...
1/7/21 Kelley Vlahos on America’s Endless War Against Iraq
by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2021
Scott talks to Kelley Vlahos about America's 30-year nonstop bombing campaign of Iraq, and the prospects for ending it. The destruction of Iraq, says Vlahos, has followed a familiar trend: American politicians sell the public on the need to get involved in some...
1/7/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israeli Settlements and Netanyahu’s Political Future
by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2021
Kalmen Barkin discusses the deplorable situation of Palestinians in Israel today, a people whose lands and rights are being slowly taken away from them by the Israeli government, while the delusive promise of a two-state solution vanishes along with them. Barkin...
1/7/21 Bob Murphy on the Disastrous Consequences of the Government’s Covid Policies
by Scott Horton | Jan 9, 2021
Scott talks to Bob Murphy about the economic side of all the covid policies this past year. Most obvious are the huge spending bills, which dwarf even the stimulus measures taken after the 2008 recession. Murphy reminds us that this kind of rampant spending really...
Free Man Beyond the Wall
Episode 526: Attacking the ‘Cathedral’ from the Debate ‘Stage’ w/ Shane Hazel
by Peter R. Quinones | Jan 20, 2021
62 Minutes Not Safe For Work Shane Hazel is the host of The Radical Podcast, a Marine Corps vet, former candidate for US Senate and future candidate for Georgia Governor. Shane joins Pete to talk about his US Senate run for the state of Georgia and what it was like to...
Episode 525: Reflections on the ‘Storming of the Capitol’ w/ Aaron from ‘Timeline Earth’
by Peter R. Quinones | Jan 18, 2021
74 Minutes Not Safe For Work Aaron is one of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Pete invited Aaron back on the show to talk about the "storming of the capitol." They then the get into the response from the government and the corporate press, as well as the...
Episode 524: Marxism Part 1 – Dialectical Materialism, and the Thought of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
by Peter R. Quinones | Jan 14, 2021
100 Minutes PG-13 Bird is one-fourth of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Bird joins Pete to go over the foundation of Marxism, dialectical materialism. They then launch into a look at Lenin's main work, "State and Revolution." Episode 521: Myth and the 'Terror...
Episode 523: The Prison Nightmare and Bureaucracy w/ Former Correction’s Officer J Flintlock
by Peter R. Quinones | Jan 13, 2021
44 Minutes Not Safe for Work J Flintlock is the host of the Flintlock Faction Podcast. He served in the military and is a former prison guard J joins Pete to give him an inside look into the bureaucracy that is the US prison system and to give insight into just who is...
Conflicts of Interest
COI#60 – Trump Set An Iran Trap For Biden, Blinken Signals He Will Fall Into It
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 20, 2021
On COI #60, Connor Freeman joins Kyle Anzalone to talk about the Iran trap Trump has set for Biden. In his final days in office Trump, through his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, has announced several new sanctions on Iran and accused Iran of being a safe-haven for...
COI #59 – Save the Whales and Yemen!
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 18, 2021
On COI #59, Kyle Anzalone discusses several recent news stories. A new study finds US sonar tests are killing whales in the Pacific. The sonar is for detecting submarines but it likely causing marine life to become beached and die. Several Senators in Guam are trying...
COI #58 – Maj. Danny Sjursen on Ethiopia, Mali, and the Chances Biden Starts a War
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 15, 2021
On COI#58, Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) joins Kyle Anzalone to break down Ethiopia, Mali, and Biden's foreign policy team. Danny gives a brief history of Ethiopia and explains how the country's conflicts with its neighbors. Danny explains how the Ethiopian Prime...
Don’t Start A Domestic Terror War, Impeach Trump For War Crimes In Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 13, 2021
Connor Freeman, writer at The Libertarian Institute, returns to the show to discuss the Trump administration's decision to name the Houthi a terrorist organization. The Houthi govern most of Yemen's population. The designation will make it extremely difficult to bring...
Don't Tread on Anyone
Profit Seekers v. SJWs – The Ideological Failure of Progressivism
by Keith Knight | Jan 21, 2021
https://youtu.be/2kabaMyRmkE egalitarians, however intelligent as individuals, deny the very basis of human intelligence and of human reason: the identification of the ontological structure of reality, of the laws of human nature, and the universe. In so doing, the...
The Economics of Ignorant Voters. Bryan Caplan and Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jan 20, 2021
https://youtu.be/Bf984AcAmDQ It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, aft er all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a “dismal science.” But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic...
An Agorist Primer – Book Summary & Analysis. Sal the Agorist & Keith Knight.
by Keith Knight | Jan 19, 2021
https://youtu.be/6A-h6dyoxRU ...freedom from violence is essential to the development of man’s reason and personality. Murray N. Rothbard Education: Free and Compulsory, p. 10 https://www.saltheagorist.com/ ****Buy a 3D Printer here****:...
The Moral and Economic Case Against the Minimum Wage #FightAgainst15
by Keith Knight | Jan 18, 2021
https://youtu.be/I5CJv00aojU Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers... a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker’s employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone...
Liberty Weekly Podcast
Bastard Jurisprudence: The English Common Law Perverted
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jan 16, 2021
There are a few rights of passage in law school. Many of them occur in constitutional law. For instance, constitutional law is where most students will learn for the first time that judicial review, the power to declare laws unconstitutional, was not a power granted...
Is Secession *Really* the Libertarian Answer? Ep. 148
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jan 16, 2021
https://youtu.be/nFQuYaFW1aM Some libertarian anarchists view even the act of secession as a political act which creates a new, albeit smaller, state. We examine the libertarian principles at play behind secession and examine the libertarian arguments against...
Abominable SCOTUS Decisions Ep. 147 ft. Dean-O-Files
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jan 10, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJpiZ1ByEmA&t=3759s Dean is a second year law student at Zoom University, School of Law. He has just finished his Constitutional Law class. He shares his experience in law school. We discuss the SCOTUS cases that your Constitutional...
2021 and the Black Future Ep. 146
by Patrick Macfarlane | Dec 31, 2020
https://youtu.be/ZfBebGgBGUQ Jose Galison invited me on his show, No Way Jose! for a recap of this incredibly crazy year. We covered a host of topics and realized that we didn't get to half the stuff we wanted to talk about. I guarantee you we covered a bunch of stuff...
Year Zero
Red, White, and Clear; An Interview With Me
by Tommy Salmons | Jan 18, 2021
Last Friday Mike Korbel asked me to be a guest on his podcast, The Invictus Mind. I’ve known Mike a few years and happily agreed to appear. We have a laid back informal chat about the growing technocratic state and how people may find avenues to free themselves from...
Insurrection And The Constitution w/Michael Harris
by Tommy Salmons | Jan 13, 2021
Michael Harris joins Tommy to discuss the raid on the Capitol, what lead to the tensions that exploded that day, and what are the constitutional repercussions that we may see come down the pike....
The War On Farmers, Civil War, and The Drug War In Colombia w/Joshua Collins
by Tommy Salmons | Jan 6, 2021
Joshua Collins, a freelance journalist and photographer, joins Tommy to discuss how corporatism, civil war, and American intervention has decimated the lives of the citizens of Colombia. Joshua’s articles: https://www.murosinvisibles.com...
Leave Me Alone, A Conservative Perspective w/Keith Orsag
by Tommy Salmons | Dec 22, 2020
Tommy is joined by Navy Veteran and entrepreneur Keith Orsag. In this episode they discuss COVID, lockdowns, the election, secession, and Agorism. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/strangerencounterspodcast/leave_me_alone.mp3
