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Honest Voices In The Intellectual Ecosystem

by John Weeks | Aug 26, 2024 | Blog

https://scotthorton.org/interviews/8-14-24-matthew-hoh-on-obamas-folly-in-afghanistan-and-recourses-for-managing-and-dealing-with-ptsd/ Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton recently interviewed former USMC Captain / former State Department official Matthew Hoh. Famously, Hoh resigned from a State Department post in Afghanistan in 2009 and valiantly attempted to convince President Barack Obama’s administration to not go forward with a planned military surge in Afghanistan. He tried to convince them to get the hell out of there instead. That’s 12 years before we finally got the hell out...

High on State Power: The Tragic Death of Matthew Perry and the Evil of the War on Drugs

by John Weeks | Aug 19, 2024 | Blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brAsC_MEAxY&list=PLKjJE86mQRtsUs-GDEnmtxSyJmf1ueF_5&index=1&t=1s On Oct. 28, 2023, beloved actor Matthew Perry was found dead in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home. Cause of death was ruled “acute effects of ketamine” and subsequent drowning. It was a tragic end, made more poignant by the fact that Perry had survived addictions to alcohol and opioids. He had written a book about it, and he was inspiring others to get help. Last week, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that five people had been charged in connection with...

A State Made Hell

by John Weeks | Aug 19, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The limited television series thriller (and Zionist propaganda) The Patient evokes the hell that was the Nazi killing center Auschwitz with a direct reference to Victor Frankl’s memoir, Man’s Search for Meaning: “I shall never forget how I was roused one night by the groans of a fellow prisoner, who threw himself about in his sleep, obviously having a horrible nightmare. Since I had always been especially sorry for people who suffered from fearful dreams or deliria, I wanted to wake the poor man. Suddenly I drew back the hand which was ready to shake him, frightened at the thing I was about...

Company Men: Former Spies Spill The Tea

by John Weeks | Aug 15, 2024 | Blog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMSJDkqSYQ&t=3757s Danny Jones recently hosted former CIA officers John Kiriakou and Andrew Bustamente for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on torture, 9/11 & terrorism, domestic politics, foreign policy and what it’s like to work within the world’s premiere intelligence agency. It’s worth a listen. And don’t be intimidated by its 3-hour running time. There are plenty of laughs and it’s a great way to avoid listening to your spouse while you cook dinner or walk the dog. Here are some fun takeaways: 1: Kiriakou and Bustamente are both charming,...

Israel’s Imperial Techno-Optimism

by John Weeks | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

On Saturday, a rocket struck a soccer field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. At least twelve people were killed, mostly teenagers and children. Israel blamed the Lebanese paramilitary group Hezbollah for the attack. Hezbollah denied the charge and claimed Israel’s vaunted Iron Dome technology malfunctioned and hit the soccer field. On Tuesday, Israel hit the southern suburbs of Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, with an air strike. The bombing killed civilians and possibly a Hezbollah commander. However, the Golan Heights bombing, which Israel might frame as the “inciting incident” for an...

You Don’t Want to Get Out of Line…

by John Weeks | Jul 25, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics

The fallout from the failed assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania continues. Speculation abounds that it was an “inside job,” the head of the Secret Service became “embattled” and resigned, and the assassin’s bullet that just missed the mark killed Joe Biden’s reelection campaign. Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday. Reaction to the assassination attempt has also revealed just how deeply, how fanatically, and how pathologically the Establishment and its minions harbor contempt and hatred for anyone who deviates from their...

Trump’s Attempted Assassination and the Betrayal of the Heroic Ethos

by John Weeks | Jul 15, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics

On Saturday, former president Donald Trump came within less of an inch of being assassinated by a rooftop sniper during an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A Secret Service counter sniper “neutralized the shooter,” but not before Trump and at least two rally attendees were injured. One rally attendee was killed. The fallout has (and will continue to be) historical. There are a lot of questions being asked right now. Important questions. Disturbing questions. But the botched attempt on Trump’s life has already highlighted something that everyone, especially young men, should know: the...

The Means of Our Future Horror

by John Weeks | Jul 11, 2024 | Featured Articles

Presidential campaign season is in full heat. Given the vast power of the state, the warring identity lines within our society, and the people’s susceptibility to all manner of propagandistic discourse, it’s looking a lot like midnight in America. Americans consume their propaganda the way Walter Benjamin observed people consume art: “Reception in a state of distraction, which is increasing noticeably in all fields of art and is symptomatic of profound changes in apperception, finds in the film its true means of exercise.” It is therefore not surprising that film (and television) deploys...

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