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...
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...
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...
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...
The Roads Are Getting Worse, and We Know Who to Blame
Approximately eighty million Americans were expected to hop in their motor vehicles and hit our nation’s roads for Thanksgiving last week. Despite the immediate “lived experience” of abysmal transportation infrastructure, most people will not level criticism at the state as such. You can thank the government-supremacist, anti-capitalist, state-run compulsory schooling system. Murray Rothbard said: “…since the State began to control education, its evident tendency has been more and more to act in such a manner as to promote repression and hindrance of education, rather than the true...
All Of Your War Propaganda Describes Israel
On October 30, former President Bill Clinton gave a campaign speech for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in Muskegon Heights, Michigan. Speaking at the Christ Temple Apostolic Faith Church, Clinton attempted to persuade American Muslims in that crucial swing state to vote for Harris despite her support for the Joe Biden administration’s disastrous Middle East policy. It did not go well. For one thing, Harris went on to lose Michigan (and the election) in stunning fashion. There was also immediate backlash. As the Huffington Post put it, “Bill Clinton Justifies The Mass Killings...
Speech Isn’t Just a Human Right, It’s What Makes Us Human
The United States Imperial Government (USIG) has been especially hell bent on curtailing if not forbidding Americans’ right to free speech. This is an outrage. Free speech is much more than our inalienable right, one the Founding Fathers were willing to violently fight for. It is part of humankind’s ancient defense against tyranny. Libertarian Institute co-founder and executive editor Sheldon Richman historicized the abominable attack on free speech: “…in this century, many welfare-state liberals, Democrats for the most part, gave up on free speech. Their former heroes, such as Supreme Court...
Is Our Own Government Trying to Eliminate Appalachia?
On Thursday, September 26 at 11:10 p.m., category 4 Hurricane Helene made landfall at Keaton Beach, Florida, unleashing deadly flooding throughout Florida’s Gulf Coast, Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky. People are trapped in remote areas with no electricity, no food, no water, no medicine, and no functioning communication technology. Yet the federal government’s response has been worse than its infamously appalling performance during the 2004 Katrina disaster and so diabolically bizarre that we must ask: is the government intentionally attempting to murder thousands...