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Look here: Our little old Institute has been doing great things.

First of all a very generous donor has pledged to match donations of $100 or more for the next $15,000. An amazing opportunity for you to double the impact of your gift. For $100 you also get to pick one of our books, mine are signed and personalized, and a lifetime subscription to Listen & Think Audio. Don’t miss out, you can see all reward options and donate here.

The legendary Sheldon Richman, firebrand Pete Quinones, the brilliant Kyle Anzalone and our great group of writers and podcasters make up this Institute and I’m proud to be associated with them.

The audiobook of my latest book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism is almost done. It should be ready within a week or two at the latest. Sorry about the delay. I’ve been busy traveling around the country giving speeches to Libertarian Party state conventions, the Young Americans for Liberty, Porcfest, the Montana, Texas and Maine state legislatures and 10 more I’ve forgotten… Oh yeah, I debated Bill Kristol in New York on October 4th. They say I won it. The latest was a standup bit at Tom Woods’s 2,000th episode celebration in Orlando last Saturday. That was fun. The video should be posted soon.

Our great podcaster Keith Knight has completed the text of his new book, The Voluntaryist’s Handbook, which should be ready to publish in just a few weeks. It’s an excellent collection of essays by all of your favorite libertarian anarchist types. You’ll love it.

The great Brad Hoff, a former marine who lived in Syria, just finished his excellent book Syria Crucified, about the plight of Christians during the late war in Syria for another publisher, is writing another book about the war there that the Institute will publish, probably early in the new year. Brad was great on the war the entire time, and his co-author is a serious academic and scholar too.

Then we’ve got Richard Booth, who I would say is the best journalist working the Oklahoma Bombing case. We host his — the world’s greatest — full documents archive at libertarianinstitute.org/okc. He is a great journalist whose book will almost certainly be the definitive take on the story for years to come.

And not only that, but we’ve actually got one more William Norman Grigg book we’re putting out this year. Thomas R. Eddlem is editing it now. It’s called The Stolen Life of Christopher Tapp, all about this innocent kid who the cops framed for the murder of a girl who Will wrote about and fought for for years. He was vindicated on it just before Will died in 2017. We are proud to continue to honor his legacy. He was the very best of us all. Will’s family of course will receive 100% of the proceeds from the new book, the same as with No Quarter: The Ravings of William Norman Grigg before.

All of our great podcasters are doing better and better all the time too. That’s me, Pete Quinones, Kyle Anzalone, Keith Knight, Patrick Macfarlane and Tommy Salmons. Sign up for the whole line up here.

Of course keep an eye on all of our great writers, like Laurie Calhoun, Connor Freeman, Kym Robinson and the great Jim Bovard at the Institute too.

If this is your kind of libertarianism, support our efforts at libertarianinstitute.org/donate

And thank you all very much.

Scott Horton
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Inflation Can Become A Political Bitch

“But inflation becomes a political bitch. People – those who work for a living – hate it when they lose purchasing power, and they hate it when their raise gets eaten up by inflation, and they hate it when their dividends and interest income get eaten up by inflation. Putin understands this. Among US policy makers, this understanding has not yet fully sunk in, though they’re signs that it is slowly spreading.”

 

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Realignments In The Middle East And Africa Featuring Isa Blumi

Great interview of Isa Blumi by Joanne Leon. Isa reviews in detail the realignment of power with the change from Trump to Biden, the fight for natural resources, trade routes and influence in the Middle East and Africa.

Guest: Dr. Isa Blumi. This is a wide-ranging discussion about the political realignments in the Gulf states, new partnerships in the Middle East and Africa, Qatar’s involvement in the withdrawal from Afghanistan, developments in Yemen, quiet military repurposing of strategic island of Socotra, the long and complicated exploitation of East Africa, the Red Sea region and Horn of Africa, the mass of military bases in Djbouti, the Turkey-Russia relationship and more.

For those listening to the audio version of this podcast, we have added many maps and other visual enhancements to the video version that you might find helpful during some of this discussion so if you are interested you can find those versions on Youtube and Rokfin right now and other video platforms in the not too distant future.

Dr. Isa Blumi is an historian, an author and Professor of Global History, Islamic World, Ottoman Empire, Yemen, Albania. His most recent Destroying Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us about the World tells the story of the wars in Yemen but also “ultimately tells an even larger story of today’s political economy of global capitalism, development, and the war on terror as disparate actors intersect in Arabia.”  He also authored the book Ottoman Refugees, 1878-1939: Migration in a Post-Imperial World

FOLLOW Isa Blumi @IsaBlumi and find his work at Google Scholar and his latest book at UCPress.edu.

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RIP Colin Powell

Should Generals be Diplomats?

“Retired General Colin Powell was appointed US Secretary of State under President George W. Bush, and you may recall his colorful powerpoint presentation before the UN General Assembly in the run-up to the 2003 war on Iraq—yellow cake, aluminium tubes, mobile chemical laboratories (think: Breaking Bad). Powell did not convince very many of his colleagues at the UN that Iraq needed to be invaded in order to thwart Saddam Hussein’s allegedly imminent transfer of WMD (weapons of mass destruction) to Al Qaeda, but the US government went to war anyway. Why? Because the Bush administration wanted to, and UK Prime Minister Tony “Poodle” Blair had pledged that he was “absolutely” with Bush, “no matter what”. (See the Chilcot Report and its implications.) Even more important than having a tiny “coalition of the willing” was the congressional conferral on Bush of the 2002 AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force), giving him the liberty to wage war on Iraq as he saw fit and at a time of his choosing. The rest is history.”

full article from We Kill Because We Can: From Soldiering to Assassination in the Drone Age blog

RIP Abdulrahman al-Awlaki

RIP Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, a sixteen-year-old U.S. citizen killed in Yemen on this day in 2011 by a missile launched from a U.S. drone. “We murdered some folks.”

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