Scott is joined by Adam Kokesh, who gives his perspective on how much blame cops and soldiers bear for the immorality of their actions. Scott describes the way we seem to cut soldiers some slack, largely because they tend to be younger when they join up, the...
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Conflicts of Interest #150: Scott Horton on the End of a Fool’s Errand
On COI #150 the great Scott Horton returns to the show to discuss the collapse of America’s sockpuppet government in Kabul. Scott explains how he seemed to be one of the only Afghan War analysts to correctly predict how quickly – and mostly bloodlessly – the Afghan...
Afghanistan Aftermath: No Firings? No Resignations?
Joe Biden, who says the buck regarding Afghanistan stops with him in the White House, claims that the Taliban's final takeover of the capital, Kabul, provoking mass panic reminiscent of Saigon, 1975, happened more quickly "than anticipated." If that's true--spoiler...
News Roundup 8/17/21
US News Ricky Kidd is suing the Kansas City, MO government and police after he was wrongly convicted of a double murder he didn't commit and spent 23 years in prison. [Link] Afghanistan Biden delivers a speech standing by his decision to exit Afghanistan. [Link] The...
Aldous Huxley’s Letter to George Orwell – 1949
https://youtu.be/jj8sBxdvgOY The history of government is the history of violence, of the strong plundering the weak. Wicked tyrants engage in orgies of violence... Murray N. Rothbard Economic Thought Before Adam Smith, p. 25 ... all tyranny is majority...
Blame Bush and Obama for the Afghan Disaster
Former President Trump, President Biden and their partisans are rushing to blame each other for the debacle unfolding now in Afghanistan. The “National Unity Government” and its military and police forces have completely evaporated in the face of the Taliban’s rapid...
Free At Last: Veteran Sentenced to Life In Prison for $30 Worth of Marijuana Released
Derek Harris is an honorably discharged veteran who put his life on the line for his country in Operation Desert Storm. His years of service to his country were but dust in the wind, however, to the state who threw him in a cage for the rest of his life for selling...
The Graveyard of Empires ft. Conflicts of Interest Ep. 179
https://youtu.be/A5kCC6xTIYU The hosts of Conflicts of Interest, Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter join me to discuss the unfolding events in Afghanistan. We discuss myriad topics, including what a Taliban government might look like, why Afghanistan fell so quickly, what...
Withdrawal Without Methadone
We all knew this was coming. Like a long, sad, anticipated death, the knowledge and anticipation don’t make the reality any easier.
Under Surveillance w/Brian LaFleur
Brian is a good friend of mine I’d wanted to have on the show for quite a while. He and I have always had a way of interacting with each other about topics most ideologically opposed people can’t discuss. Last year he found himself under surveillance and we decided to...
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