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...
The War Party Circled Around Its Mythology
Since Tucker Carlson’s interview with friend of the Libertarian Institute Darryl Cooper, the War Party apparatchiks have been losing their minds. The spectacle of War Party consolers lashing out at Cooper highlights the intellectual depravity of regime-sanctioned essential thinkers and the diabolical core commitments of the state. The consolers will say and do anything to convince you of the legitimacy, the urgency, and the righteousness of sending your children to war. And the mythologies that Cooper dares interrogate are foundational to the structures of the existing world order that is...
Economic Nationalism and Corporatism Go Hand in Hand
Former President Donald Trump could return to power in 2025. We can expect a second Trump administration to give us more of the same: economic nationalism. This is concerning because economic nationalism degrades our economy, impoverishes our citizens, and promotes war. The United States Imperial Government (USIG) has the best propaganda in the world. That propaganda revolves around an imperial passion play in which the state is God, the corporation is Satan, and capitalism is the eternal scapegoat. President Joe Biden deployed this narrative brilliantly during his 2024 State of the Union...