Scott interviews journalist Vincent Bevins about his latest book, The Jakarta Method, in which he lays out some of the history of the U.S. government’s support for violent right-wing coups all over the world. During the Cold War, America backed brutal extremists in...
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North Carolina Cops Fired Over Conversations About ‘Slaughtering’ Black People
by Scott Horton | Jun 25, 2020 | Blog
“We are just gonna go out and start slaughtering them f---ing ni----,” [Officer] Piner reportedly said. He also said a second civil war was needed to “wipe ’em off the f---ing map.” Jeez, I wonder why black people think the cops are out to get them.
“If Men Were Angels We Wouldn’t Need Government” – REBUTTED!
by Keith Knight | Jun 25, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/_IDU5FdZaas Do the shortcomings of mankind disappear when entering the voting booth, or once elected to government office? BitChute.com: https://www.bitchute.com/video/mpqP6tWTSF0Z/ LBRY:...
120: The Strategy of Silence
by Tommy Salmons | Jun 25, 2020 | Year Zero
Tommy discusses a few current events in order to show how the stories are framed to create a binary, and keep citizens at each other's throat. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/strangerencounterspodcast/Strategy_of_Silence.mp3
News Roundup 6/25/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 25, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Jamaal Bowman defeats high ranking House Democrat Elliot Engel. [Link] A black man in Michigan was wrongfully arrested after being identified by facial recognition. He was held for 30 hours before being released on bail. [Link] The FBI doubles down on...
Hightide for Foreign Policy Restrainers
by Kelley Vlahos | Jun 25, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Ten years ago, “restraint” was considered code for “isolationism” and its purveyors were treated with nominal attention and barely disguised condescension. Today, agitated national security elites who can no longer ignore the restrainers—and the positive attention...
A Rebuke of ‘Modern Monetary Theory’
by Robert Murphy | Jun 25, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
[Review of Stephanie Kelton, The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People's Economy (New York: PublicAffairs, 2020).] I’ve got good news and bad news. The good news is that Stephanie Kelton—economics professor at Stony Brook and advisor to the...
DoJ Issues Superceding Indictment Against Julian Assange
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2020 | Blog
The Hill's got a good write up on it. They're accusing him of conspiring with Lulzsec and Anonymous to liberate these and those materials on top of their bogus charges against him for the Manning case.
‘The Computer Got It Wrong’: How Facial Recognition Led To False Arrest Of Black Man
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2020 | Blog
Check out this story from NPR about the false imprisonment of a man based on facial recognition technology. What's interesting to me is the first part of the headline: Ain't nobody's fault! The box did it! This is a theme heavily explored by the great Neil Postman in...
6/19/20 Pete Quinones: The Monopoly on Violence
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Pete Quinones talks about his new project, The Monopoly on Violence, a documentary featuring interviews with many prominent figures in the libertarian and anarchist movements. The film explores the history of both statism and anarchism, explaining the nature of...





















