I published my take on Henry Kissinger, who died this week at age 100, in 2014, when presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton was courting his support. Read it here.
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E-book Giveaway: Act Now!
Enter the contest currently underway at Goodreads for a free copy of my new ebook, Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times–it’s a page turner!
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Israeli President’s Direct Call to Genocide – Annotated
Israeli President's Direct Call to Genocide Annotated. https://t.co/RDcNV7DEvk
— Scott Horton (@scotthortonshow) October 14, 2023
Revisiting The Bourne Legacy (Yet Again…): Lessons for Our World
I have now watched The Bourne Legacy at least six times. You should watch it, too. Here’s my essay on the relevance of the fictional world depicted to the one in which we live:
In conclusion: Abolish the Black Budget.
Who What Why Interview: Rethinking COVID-19 Narratives
In this 45-minute interview, Jeff Schechtman of Who What Why? and Laurie Calhoun discuss many aspects and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, including prospects for the future, drawing on observations and arguments made in Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times. A complete transcript of the interview is provided.
It’s Back! Rethinking COVID-19 Narratives: The Media, Fauci, and the Fear Factor
Who is More “Selfish”?
War is ultimately about collectivism. During crisis, individuality fades in favor of team effort. During violent conflict, particularly between governments, the world becomes, especially it seems for Americans, a giant, bloody football game: our team versus theirs, us versus them, good versus evil. Go, team, go. This, of course, leads to all sorts of fallacious thinking, such as “Death to them is not like death to us,” “We have to let them bomb us so they won’t know we’ve broken the codes,” “Using nuclear bombs on civilians saved lives,” “Everything changed on September 11th,” and “Don’t you understand that we are at war?” The last two are usually intended as a blanket permission slip for the state to break any law, tell any lie, and kill any person — so long as it’s to protect “us” from “them.”
– Scott Horton, Individualism vs. War
Capitalism has been called a system of greed — yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.
– Ayn Rand, “Global Balkanization,” from a lecture given at Boston’s Ford Hall Forum, Apr. 1977.
This idea that individuals can be and should be sacrificed for the “greater good” is the essence of the fascist/socialist/collectivist philosophy… For many intellectuals, the attractiveness of socialism is that it is “rational”; it is a “planned” economy, planned by people like them.
– Thomas J. DiLorenzo, Ph.D., The Problem with Socialism (2016, Regnery Publishing), pp. 68, 121.
TOP NEW RELEASE in Philosophy Criticism: Questioning the COVID Company Line!
Read Questioning the COVID Company Line: Critical Thinking in Hysterical Times to find out a bunch of stuff which you may not have known, including:
- “Listen to The Science!” embodies a logical fallacy.
- Vaccine technology depends upon the ability of the natural immune system to work. Professions of ignorance as to whether people who already recovered from the virus needed the shots revealed the true agenda of the spokespersons for companies which persuaded many governments to impose universal mandates.
- The WHO (World Health Organization) and CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) changed the definitions of the terms ‘pandemic’ and ‘vaccine’ (receipts provided). These new definitions were essential to the multiyear psyop perpetrated upon the people of the world in the name of public health by gaslighting government officials.
- The pharma-captured FDA (Food and Drug Administration) was instrumental in what became the opioid crisis and drug overdose epidemic. The very same agency played a decisive role in the implementation of draconian policies intended to maximize uptake of the COVID shots, even among cohorts not included in the trials used to secure Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), most notably: children, pregnant women, and persons who had already recovered from the virus.
- COVID shot mandates violated the requirement of informed consent needed for the ethical practice of medicine and, shockingly, the Nuremberg Conventions against nonconsensual human experimentation.
- The COVID shots and boosters were added to the Childhood Immunization schedule just in time to protect the manufacturers in perpetuity from lawsuits (thanks to the PREP act) once the EUA expired.
- Medical ethics was inverted throughout the COVID crisis, with public officials issuing broad prescriptions intended not to help patients but to maximize not only pharma profits but also data collection, seizing the opportunity to conduct massive trials of a new mRNA technology which never before made it past the animal trials to be tested on human beings.
- The same propaganda playbook used to galvanize and maintain support for the devastating Global War on Terror was deployed against the populace throughout the Coronapocalypse.
- and much, much more…
Will This Man Prevent World War Three?
In April, Tucker Carlson, the most popular show host in American news media, was unceremoniously fired from Fox News.
He has since taken to the platform “X,” formerly Twitter, to continue publishing his own program.
Last week, during the first Republican primary debates, Tucker posted an exclusive (softball) interview with former President Donald Trump.
The episode received 260 million “impressions” within the first day.
Although an “impression” on Twitter only counts as an appearance in someone’s feed, if only one-tenth of those impressions equated to one view, the viewership would still be 26 million people. In comparison, Tucker’s Fox News program, Tucker Carlson Tonight, averaged 3.25 million viewers in March 2023.
The exclusive interview with Trump was a master stroke by both figures. It allowed Donald Trump to get his message across in a long format without actually muddying himself on the debate stage. Meanwhile, Vivek Ramaswamy played, in effect, the role of Trump’s stand-in, but still won the debate in his own right.
Tucker walked away with incredible numbers, even if not as spectacular as the 230 million impressions would suggest.
Yesterday, RT reported that Tucker Carlson has “strongly” requested a meeting with Vladimir Putin, ostensibly to publish as an episode of his new program.
With all these developments, an attempt to decode the former Fox News host’s real role in the media landscape is akin to cracking a modern-day enigma.
Many laud Tucker as a rogue voice, fighting the establishment, using a microphone as a holy scepter.
It cannot be denied that on some critical issues like opposing escalation over Ukraine, Tucker Carlson’s voice is vitally important. But, Tucker Carlson has his own interests, and a background that does not suggest he is some populist hero, or an antiwar dove (of critical importance, he certainly is not on China).
That said, it would be immensely valuable for the West to see an intimate and honest one-on-one interview between Vladimir Putin and Western news media—one that was not intent on painting Putin as the new Hitler.
Maybe Tucker Carlson, though imperfect, is the figure best positioned to do it?
When America’s Commander-in-Chief, Joe Biden, still has not spoken with Putin since the February 2022 invasion, its puzzling that the job defaults to the United States’ most popular current events news host.
Exactly what does that mean—and what will come of it?
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