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Israel’s Minions Smeared an American Hero

Israel’s Minions Smeared an American Hero

American libertarians, regardless of their preferred faction, understand the state is a monster. We view the state the way Karl Marx viewed capitalism (demonic) or William Lloyd Garrison viewed slavery (cannibalistic). Sadly, American libertarians live under the most powerful state in recorded history. The social order is not aligned with our values, so we advocate where we can. Lower taxes over here, less war over there, a little more liberty around the way. Earlier this month we almost got some good news. Lt. Col. Daniel Davis (U.S. Army-retired) was almost appointed as deputy director of...

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Overlord: Thomas Eddlem Unmasks The Empire

Thousands of scholars have taken on the central geopolitical question: Is the United States of America an empire? It’s a fierce debate that has unfolded over decades, places the moral status of our society at stake, and has four prevalent positions: 1.     Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton says yes, it is an empire and that’s evil. 2.     Neoconservative policy advisor William Kristol says no way, and the U.S. government is righteous and benevolent. 3.     Regime historian Niall Ferguson agrees with Scott that we’re dealing with an empire but agrees with Kristol that it’s all for...

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‘Satanic Reason’

‘Satanic Reason’

The central character Satan in John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost has been interpreted as closely aligned with the complexities of the human faculty of reason. The link between Satan and rational cognition was demonstrated in Lucifer and Prometheus, by R.J. Zwi Werblowsky. Lucifer (Satan’s pre-rebellion “dead name”) carries the meanings of morning star, brightness, and light-bringing. Prometheus was a demigod who stole fire from the gods, gave knowledge of its use to humans, and was then punished for it by Zeus. Thus, the two figures of Lucifer and Prometheus are conceptually linked...

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Is Racism Enabled by Capitalism, or the State?

Is Racism Enabled by Capitalism, or the State?

The November 2023 issue of Texas Monthly contains an article that deploys the archetypes of our great anti-capitalist, government-supremacist, domestic imperialist passion play so deftly it could be a Hollywood movie: “Black-Owned Land Is Under Siege in the Brazos Valley.” A siege is an act of war. Who is waging war on black Texans and how are they doing it? The article’s subtitle explains: “Acre by acre, families have lost long-held property near Bryan and College Station—much of it to the efforts of two men who weaponized arcane documents to acquire plots potentially worth millions.” The...

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The Houthis Are Challenging Washington’s Zones of Imperial Domination

The Houthis Are Challenging Washington’s Zones of Imperial Domination

Washington DC is an imperial city. It masks as Athenian democracy housed within Roman republicanism and underpinned by Judeo-Christian values. But behind the mask is a cold monster: the “interagency.” And the monster is committed to global domination. The imperial agenda has met with great resistance, most stunningly in Ukraine, where Russia has been degrading Washington’s proxy forces with extreme lethality. But the most poetic resistance has come from a group of Zaidi Shi’ites in Yemen, the Houthis. Formally known as “Ansarullah (a.k.a. Ansar Allah),” the Houthis control Yemen’s central...

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An Anti-Capitalist Human Sacrifice

An Anti-Capitalist Human Sacrifice

The rise of the Luigi Mangione hero cult has sharpened the deep divisions within our society, fueled our political animosities, and crystallized the internal contradictions within our government supremacist, anti-capitalist, domestic imperialist cultural order. Mangione faces charges (including “first degree murder in furtherance of terrorism”) for the killing of Brian Thompson in Manhattan on December 4. Thompson was the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, the largest healthcare insurance company in the United States. He began working at the company in 2004 and his “annual compensation package” was...

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Winter Reading

Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton’s new book is shaking things up and making a stir all at once. Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine is a read it and weep. Or, for the War Party hacks, don’t read it; just weep. Provoked has been endorsed by former CIA officer and bestselling novelist Barry Eisler. You can read all about it in my latest Institute article. Eisler, buy his own account, has published a novel that is very Horton-adjacent. The God’s Eye View is some kick-ass thriller fiction underpinned by Eisler’s real-world...

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Exposing Truth Through History and Fiction

Exposing Truth Through History and Fiction

Since Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton published Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine in November, there has been a renewed intellectual struggle between antiwar Americans and the War Party. Horton has been making the rounds on both independent and power faction media to tell the American people the truth about Washington DC’s duplicity in Ukraine. For his troubles, he has been repetitiously slandered and libeled by War Party apparatchiks. The British historian Niall Ferguson, for one high profile example, accused Horton of...

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