Announcing the publication of the Libertarian Institute’s 17th book, the long-promised, Creative Chaos: Inside the CIA’s Covert War to Topple the Syrian Government, by the great William Van Wagenen.
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John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
A ceasefire is supposed to lower the temperature, not provide new vocabulary for the same war. We unpack reports that the U.S. bombed targets in Iran after a ceasefire and why calling it “self-defense” can still function as a direct escalation. I walk through what...
Memorial Day brings out a lot of scripted lines, but we want to talk about the part that gets avoided: what American wars actually cost, who pays, and how often the public is left holding the bill while elites chase ideology, influence, and profit. We start by looking...
