Libertarian Institute news editor Kyle Anzalone joins the Judge to discuss America’s complicity in Israeli war crimes in Gaza, where more than 24,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 7, according to local health officials.
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Even American Neo-Nazis Have Abandoned Ukraine
Editor’s Note: The activities of Christopher Pohlhaus were previously reported on by the Libertarian Institute’s Kyle Anzalone.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, neo-Nazis in the U.S. expressed widespread support for their Ukrainian counterparts.
One of the more prominent U.S. neo-Nazis, Blood Tribe leader Christopher Pohlhaus, went as far as planning a compound in Maine to train American extremists to fight for Ukraine against Russia.
Pohlhaus and his colleagues also made headlines last September for their endorsement of Joe Biden for the 2024 presidential election.
“I think Biden’s better than Trump because he sends rockets to Ukraine,” the Nazi said last September. “Heil Ukraine! Heil Azov!”
But now, as it becomes increasingly clear that hundreds of thousands of white Ukrainian males have been sent to the slaughter for the benefit of Western war hawks, Pohlhaus and his friends are less zealous in their support for Biden’s proxy war.
“I will still continue to support the struggle of the people there,” Pohlhaus reportedly said on Telegram last November.
“I’m not going to allow our guys, my guys’ efforts and blood to go towards [the war].”
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Pohlhaus has also halted his plans to build a training compound.
“In October, Pohlhaus sold off the land, went quiet and appears, at least for the time being, to have abandoned his plans in Maine,” the SPLC reported last week.
Rather than focus on helping his “Aryan brothers” in Ukraine, Pohlhaus signaled Tuesday on Twitter that the Blood Tribe will be active domestically this year as election season hits full swing.
Heads up, dorks.
Before you pearl clutch and act shocked that Blood Tribe is marching on your "Election Year" know that we have no intentions to ever stop marching, and we don't care about your elections.
But you knew that already, don't be theatrical…
— The Hammer (@hammer_pohlhaus) January 16, 2024
The Guardian reported Thursday that Pohlhaus’s sentiment is shared by the wider neo-Nazi movement, which is now more focused on Israel and more local issues.
“Within the wider web of neo-Nazi militancy, Ukraine chatter has all but evaporated with the conflict in Gaza and domestic issues outshining what was once a well-followed world event,” The Guardian reported.
“In September, a prominent far-right publication, linked to the disbanded American neo-Nazi terror group Atomwaffen Division, boldly declared that the war not only ‘doesn’t matter anymore to us,’ but it would ‘like to refocus’ on American issues,” The Guardian added.
This article was originally featured at Headline USA and is republished with permission.
A Right to Defense?
Ignoring for the moment whether a state as such can have any rights at all (it can’t), we can ask: does a state have the right to “defend” itself against the people it subjugates?
Discussing Gaza on Kibbe on Liberty
Matt Kibbe and I discussed the Gaza emergency on his podcast. Watch here.
Conversation on Israeli Genocide
I discussed Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip with Saifedean Ammous. Listen here.
Kyle Anzalone on Judging Freedom 1/4/2024
The great Judge Andrew Napolitano invited me onto his show, Judging Freedom, to discuss the ruthless Israeli war on the people of Gaza and Biden’s faltering proxy war in Ukraine.
The Libertarian Institute Round Table with Dave Smith ft. Scott, Kyle, and Connor
The Libertarian Institute just had a huge appearance on the great anarcho-capitalist comedian Dave Smith’s podcast, the massively successful Part of the Problem! The Institute’s Director Scott Horton, News Editor Kyle Anzalone, and myself, Assistant Editor Connor Freeman, held a discussion with Smith covering Joe Biden’s ultra hawkish foreign policy, Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, efforts to keep Donald Trump off the ballot, the utter disappointment of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Yemen, Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s support for Hamas, and much more.
Kyle and I promoted our foreign policy news podcast Conflicts of Interest, we put out four new episodes every week. Scott also plugged all of our great new books released last year including Senior Fellow Jim Bovard’s Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty, Senior Fellow Laurie Calhoun’s Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times, Managing Editor Keith Knight’s Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism, Joseph Solis-Mullen’s The Fake China Threat and It’s Very Real Danger, and Senior Fellow Tom Wood’s Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania.
Check it out!
P.S. Thanks for everything, especially helping us achieve our goal with the end-of-the-year fundraiser. It means a lot, we will make you proud and continue our mission of spreading the message of peace, liberty, sound money, and freedom. From myself and the rest of the crew, Happy New Year.
Bovard’s Zestiest Zingers of 2023
2023 was another godsend for cynics. Here’s a round-up of my zestiest lines from my articles in the past year. Some lines were tweaked for this collection. Hearty thanks to Hunter DeRensis and editors at other outlets who ran those articles up the flagpole.
“Telling the truth is the only war crime now recognized by the U.S. government.”
“The new, improved definition of ‘dictatorship’ refers only to rulers who promise to do bad things to good people.”
“Shrouding the federal iron fist in a velvet glove betrays the Bill of Rights.”
“Would-be tyrants can always find lofty pretexts to shackle their victims.”
Democracy
“To save democracy, Team Biden treats cynicism like a weapon of mass destruction.”
“Surrounding Capitol Hill with high fences and barbed wire keeps peasants away from the ‘Temple of Democracy’ when sacred rites are occurring.”
“State of the Union speeches resemble old-time medicine side shows, with presidents huffing and puffing to restore faith in government.”
“Watching Biden’s State of the Union speech was like being cornered by a drunken lout who endlessly yanks on your sleeve and babbles about all the favors he’s going to do for you.”
“The January 6 prosecutions are part of a growing FBI onslaught against dissent.”
World Economic Forum
“If you expect billionaires and political weasels to save the Earth, you’ll love the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland.”
“You can judge an audience by how much bullshit they accept from the podium.”
“According to the World Economic Forum, individual freedom is a luxury that governments can no longer afford.”
Uncle Joe
“The Biden administration is expanding the federal Enemies List faster than any time since the Nixon era.”
“Biden has gotten lost on stage so many times that WAZE should create a special app for Joe to navigate his next steps.”
“Hatred is simply another issue conscripted for a Biden ‘get out the vote’ drive.”
“Following the latest Biden scandal is like watching a sporting championship with a fuzzy video feed and a 30-day tape delay.”
“Hunter Biden’s laptop disclosed more damning information than any bimbo boinked by Trump.”
The Durn Media
“Washington Post readers are the cream of the intellectual crop, at least according to Washington Post readers.”
“The media don’t need to cover up Biden’s abuses forever—only until November 5, 2024.”
“Groveling to officialdom is the job description for Washington journalists.”
“The Biden administration supports ‘independent media’ by covertly putting foreign journalists on the U.S. government payroll.”
“In lieu of hard facts, journalists are hellbent on uplift.”
Lies, Damn Lies, and Public Service
“In Washington, conning the American people is always considered a victimless crime.”
“Lies are political weapons of mass destruction, obliterating all limits on government power.”
“’Truth will out’ is Washington’s favorite fairy tale.”
“In Washington, truth is reckoned as the greatest enemy of democracy. Hard facts are deadly threats to a president’s prerogative to define reality and impose ‘the will of the people.'”
Secrecy and Censorship
“Once the government starts censoring, it is never enough.”
“The rule of law now means little more than the enforcement of the secret memos of the commander-in-chief.”
“Nullifying freedom of speech turns citizens into political pawns who can be sacrificed as their rulers please.”
“The battle over federal censorship will determine whether Americans have more than a passing whiff of political freedom.”
“Washingtonians presume that secrecy does no harm as long as federal dirt never leaks out.”
“’Government = truth’ is the premise for the Biden censorship regime.”
“Democrats champion a National Lampoon definition of censorship: Unless there is a photo of an FBI agent pointing a gun at a Twitter employee, the feds did nothing wrong.”
“Federal agencies claim to be innocent bystanders—as if tens of millions of tweets and other social-media posts mysteriously vanished into Area 51.”
“Inside the Beltway, classified information is viewed as a holy relic that cannot be exposed without damning the nation.”
“Pervasive secrecy defines down democracy: People merely select their Supreme Deceivers.”
“Hysteria over disinformation presumes that nobody ever lied before the invention of the Internet. “
“How many years will it take until we learn all the ways the FBI tampered with the 2020 election?”
History and Foreign Policy
“Do Wokesters want to condemn and expunge all of American history prior to the unveiling of the LGBT Rainbow flag?”
“Are we defaulting to the ‘cannon fodder version of democracy’? Do Americans have the right to know if the Biden administration is dragging them into World War III?”
“After 9/11, the harder my articles hit, the less newshole I got.”
“The U.S. government perennially claims to be an innocent bystander after its covert interventions unleash havoc abroad.”
“After 9/11, anyone who denied “they hate us for our freedoms” automatically became an enemy of freedom.”
“When President Bush promised to ‘rid the world of evil’ a few days after the 9/11 attacks, I knew America was screwed.”
“Henry Kissinger was the most esteemed war criminal in American history.”
“The biggest disaster of the Korean war was that foreign-policy ‘experts’ succeeded in redefining the Korean quagmire as an American victory.”
“What could be worse than systematically torturing detainees around the world? Using tortured confessions in federal court.”
“Slavery did help sparkour revolution, but it was ‘slavery by Parliament’—a common derisive phrase in colonial America.”
“The Iraq War codified presidents’ prerogative to inflict no-fault carnage on the world. Pundits and laptop bombardiers who clamored for war rose to greater fame regardless of the fiascos that followed military intervention. ‘Extremism’ was redefined to include anyone who opposed launching catastrophic wars based on secret and usually false evidence.”
“If politicians drag this nation into a major war, keeping your mouth shut won’t protect you against incoming missiles.”
“How could Washington’s ‘best and brightest’ be so clueless for so long?”
Miscellaneous
“Twenty years after 9/11, TSA has no right to continue treating American travelers like convicts waiting to enter a prison shower.”
“Giving people mortgages they can’t afford is the easiest way to ruin their lives.”
“Mandy Cohen, Biden’s new C.D.C. chief, is a telegenic authoritarian straight from liberal central casting.”
“Congress’s debt-ceiling deal should have been named ‘The No Biden Boondoggle Left Behind Act.'”
“Government spending equals power for politicians. Asking politicians to reduce spending is like asking a king to abdicate his throne.”
“In Washington, the appearance of benevolence is always worth more than the reality.”
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