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The Meaning of the COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates in 2023

by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 17, 2023 | Featured Articles

On September 18, 2022, President Joe Biden told a CBS news reporter in a “Sixty Minutes” interview that “The pandemic is over.” Two months later, on November 16, 2022, at a G20 meeting in Bali, Biden signed, on behalf of the United States, a declaration which states (in Article 19) that “the pandemic is not over.” Among the provisions of the lengthy G20 agreement is a green light for the possibility of a legally binding global (supranational) vaccination passport scheme, ostensibly to facilitate international travel: “We support the work of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB) that...

Happy New Year! (The Government Did Not Save Your Life)

by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

More than 100,000 persons died of narcotics overdoses last year in the United States, in many cases because the street drugs they used were laced with extremely potent fentanyl. If you were among the survivors of a dose of unknown provenance, the reason you are alive is that you were lucky. If the government had not made it illegal to purchase and sell drugs, then people would not have to resort to shady dealers in dark alleys and literally gamble their lives away when they ingested such substances. Not all of the victims of fentanyl overdose have been drug addicts, but some of them were,...

The Pentagon Is Neither Woke Nor Based

by Laurie Calhoun | Nov 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The U.S. military has in recent times been making a big show of its “wokeness,” not only by changing the names of institutions to comply with the demands of race activists who wish to expunge from history all traces of the Confederacy, but also in its affirmation and encouragement of persons who lead alternative lifestyles. For nearly twenty years, beginning in 1993, the military maintained a “don’t ask, don’t tell,” policy on homosexuality. Since 2011, however, openly gay persons have been permitted to serve in the armed forces. Given this context, some were surprised to learn that the...

To Save the Republic, Abolish the Black Budget

by Laurie Calhoun | Oct 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

I have been puzzling over the ever-augmenting Black Budget since about the time the U.S. government began openly assassinating suspects, including U.S. citizens, without indictment, much less conviction in a court of law, for capital crimes. Tim Weiner’s groundbreaking work Blank Check: The Pentagon’s Black Budget (1990) explains how the means to commit crimes under cover of state secrets privilege all began with the Manhattan Project. Like so many other aspects of the sprawling defense and security apparatus which continues to expand like an amoeba, engulfing nearly every aspect of American...

“Losing Sway!” An American goes to Iran.

by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 1, 2022 | Blog

Well, not exactly, but... Laurie Calhoun was interviewed by Amir Jafari on Press TV's We The People program, "Losing Sway" (on Iranian television). Topics: effects of and connections between U.S. foreign and domestic policy; changes in the global image and influence of the United States. Episode was recorded on August 13, 2022, and broadcast on September 1, 2022. Contribution is interwoven throughout the 25 minute program.

A COVID Coda

by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 30, 2022 | Featured Articles

Anthony Fauci has announced that he will step down from his position as director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and, more importantly for free people, his role as the de facto public health czar of the United States. He has indicated that he is not retiring but moving on to the next chapter of his career, which I surmise will involve serving as Global Health Guru to the World Health Organization (WHO) or perhaps even the World Economic Forum (WEF). Since the spring of 2020, through a nonstop mainstream media campaign, Fauci succeeded in persuading U.S....

Attention Fellow Philosophers: The Protestant Libertarian Podcast

by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 17, 2022 | Blog, Foreign Policy

On a recent episode of The Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo and Laurie Calhoun discuss the MIC, its cultish features, the war on terror, Ukraine, war propaganda, and what to do about all of it. This relatively new podcast also has episodes on Ludwig Wittgenstein and Thomas Kuhn!

KPFA Saturday Evening News–How Violence Breeds Violence

by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 10, 2022 | Blog

Short contribution of Laurie Calhoun to the KPFA Saturday Evening News on August 6, 2022, with David Rosenberg about drone assassination and the logic of “violence breeds violence”. This three-minute exchange spans 5:10-8:15. Many other foreign policy topics are also covered in the thirty-minute news report.