Well it seems like only yesterday, though it was half a lifetime ago. George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and their men and women, especially the neoconservatives, knowingly and deliberately lied this country into starting an aggressive war against Iraq—a war they pretended...
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Provoked: How America Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Mar 4, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Scott Horton
The following is adapted from a speech Scott gave to the Libertarian Party of Utah on February 26, 2022. Just to get this out of the way first real quick: Whenever someone dares to differ with the common government and TV narrative about Russia and their role in the...
How America Destroyed the Middle East
by Scott Horton | Jun 10, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Scott Horton
The following is the Introduction to the Libertarian Institute's Executive Director Scott Horton’s new book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism. The Middle East, North Africa and South-Central Asia are in chaos. Populations have been riven by sectarian...
From the Director: Re: Fund Drive, Progress Report
by Scott Horton | Mar 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Scott Horton
To: Institute supporters, readers and listeners From: the Director: Here's a bit of an Institute progress report. We're in the middle of our Fund drive, which is going great. We've already raised more than $40,000 out of the $50,000 we're pushing for, and a generous...
Still Think the War on Terror Works?
by Scott Horton | Mar 4, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Scott Horton
On Thursday, February 25, the Joe Biden administration bombed Iraqi Shi’ite militias in Syria, killing between 1–22 depending on who’s doing the reporting. Why did Biden order this strike? On February 15, there was a rocket attack in Erbil, the capital city of...
Help Support the Libertarian Institute!
by Scott Horton | Feb 16, 2021 | Featured Articles, Scott Horton
This fund drive for the Institute is long overdue. You-all were so generous in the big book fund drive of Summer, 2019, that I couldn't bear to come back to you until the thing was finally done. And there was a severe delay caused by my over-doing it and having to...
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...
Matt Taibbi on the Origins of the Russiagate Hoax
by Scott Horton | Aug 19, 2020 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics, Scott Horton, The Scott Horton Show
A New Whistleblower Exposes the 'Cambridge Four' This interview was recorded August 13, 2020. The computer garbled the audio terribly, but at least the auto-transcriber was able to make sense of it. The following is edited for clarity and minor mess-ups. Scott Horton:...