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So, Tell Me, ‘Do You Hate the State?’
by Peter R. Quinones | Jan 21, 2021 | Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones
This is a simple question. One you should ask yourself often (some of us ask and answer it everyday). Murray Rothbard’s short article quoted in the title is a masterpiece, but was written in 1977. The last remnants of the gold standard had just been done away with and...

In Defense of Statues and Other Texts—All of Them
by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
There has been a lot of discussion and some action on the question whether statues portraying or representing men currently regarded as scoundrels by self-styled “good people” should be permitted to stand. On its face, such a view would seem to imply that many of the...

Panic in the Imperial City
by Kenny MacDonald | Jan 21, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Despite all the lip service about democracy, justice, human rights, freedom, equality and so forth—the entire Washington establishment exists for the sole purpose of perpetuating the empire. How do I know? Because the media response to the January 6th attack at the...

It’s Time to March Home
by Jose Nino | Jan 20, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
One becomes a hardened cynic when following U.S. foreign policy. Such pessimism is justified: looking at nearly two decades' worth of nation building abroad and a seemingly shatterproof consensus on foreign policy interventionism in DC $6 trillion and roughly seven...

The Warfare State’s Agents of Death
by Ron Paul | Jan 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
With the mainstream media still obsessing about the January 6th “violent coup attempt” at the U.S. Capitol Building, the incoming Biden Administration looks to be chock full of actual purveyors of violent coups. Don’t look to the mainstream media to report on this,...

A Bigger Military Doesn’t Mean a Stronger Military
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 19, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In the debate over whether or not China will soon rise to challenge the United States as the world’s hegemon, it is often assumed that states with large aggregate economies are necessarily more militarily powerful ones. This stems from decades-old methods that remain...

Congress Prepares to Excommunicate Millions of Americans
by Jim Bovard | Jan 18, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
"Have you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” was the question used in congressional hearings in the 1950s in what was portrayed as a witch hunt against leftists that blighted American freedom of speech. A new witch hunt is sweeping Washington,...
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Why Statists Despise Trump
by Jacob Hornberger | Jan 18, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
In the words of Ronald Reagan, here we go again. The unbelievable hatred that Democrats, liberals, progressives, and the mainstream press have toward President Trump continues to consume them, with the latest manifestation being a second impeachment of President...

VIDEO: Cop Tortures Pregnant Mother With Taser
by Matt Agorist | Jan 17, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
For four months, Officer Leon Davis with the Springfield [Massachusetts] police department escaped accountability for a most disturbing act of using his taser on a pregnant woman—repeatedly—in a sickening attempt to inflict punishment. However, the actions by Davis...

Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
by Scott Horton | Jan 16, 2021 | Blog, Featured Articles, Scott Horton
I wrote another book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism .Advance Praise for Enough Already “If you only read one book this year on America’s unending ‘War on Terror,’ it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United...

Silver Lining to the Lockdowns?
by Doug French | Jan 16, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
Something good is coming out of the covid lockdowns. Economist David Rosenberg released a special report via the eponymous Rosenberg Research, concluding “the pre-COVID-19 ‘norm’ of a 7% personal savings rate will morph into a post-COVID-19 norm of 10%.” Rosenberg...

Trump Brings Troop Levels in Afghanistan to Lowest in 19 Years
by Barbara Boland | Jan 16, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. has reduced the number of U.S troops in Afghanistan to 2,500, the Pentagon announced Friday. President Donald Trump had promised in October to bring all remaining U.S. forces in Afghanistan back home by Christmas. “We should have the small remaining number of...

Congress Cares When It’s Their Windows Being Broken
by Jim Bovard | Jan 15, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
The political hysteria unleashed by last week’s clash at the Capitol between police and Trump protestors poses a growing danger to Americans’ constitutional rights. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer ludicrously compared the ruckus to Pearl Harbor—a “day of...

Cop Kills Unarmed Pastor as Family Watches in Horror
by Matt Agorist | Jan 15, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Patrick Warren Sr. was a loving father, husband, and pastor in his community whose life was taken from him on Sunday after his family called police for help. The family asked for a mental health expert, but according to their attorney, one was not available, so a...
News Roundup
News Roundup 1/22/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 22, 2021
US News Three National Guardsmen were killed in a helicopter crash in NY. [Link] About 20% of those charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot are former members of the military. [Link] House Democrats urge Biden to repeal the AUMFs. [Link] Biden’s Press...
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Jeff Deist of the Mises Institute Interviews Me About Enough Already
by Scott Horton | Jan 23, 2021
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6njJwSd4jF8FqS8AfQmPOK
Cop Kills Boy
by Scott Horton | Jan 22, 2021
And gets a nice $70,000 bonus.
Kevin Gosztola: No Pardons For Edward Snowden Or Julian Assange
by Steven Woskow | Jan 20, 2021
"NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, who was the first to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act under Trump, and former CIA officer John Kiriakou pursued pardons. They were effectively denied as well. On January 17, the New York Times reported that an associate of Trump...
Cop Kills Cop
by Scott Horton | Jan 19, 2021
And gets away with it of course because not even government employees have any rights that another government employee is bound to respect. And you wonder why BLM and the Boogaloo boys raise their fists together half the time: the government is evil.
Name Dropped
by Scott Horton | Jan 19, 2021
Some wonderful ridiculous woman made this hilarious song about us all partying at Tom Woods' house: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNk-XJvgtC4
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1/22/21 David Swanson on Joe Biden’s Dangerous Cabinet Appointments
by Scott Horton | Jan 23, 2021
David Swanson discusses the foreign policy of the incoming Biden administration. On the positive side, he thinks there's a good likelihood of ending U.S. support for the war in Yemen, lifting some of America's oppressive economic sanctions and better relations with...
1/15/21 Andrew Quilty on the CIA’s Afghan Death Squads
by Scott Horton | Jan 17, 2021
Scott interviews journalist Andrew Quilty about his recent piece for the Intercept, which details the horrific violence being carried out in Afghanistan by U.S.-backed militia groups. In several recent attacks, these "death squads" have raided religious boarding...
1/7/21 Kelley Vlahos on America’s Endless War Against Iraq
by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2021
Scott talks to Kelley Vlahos about America's 30-year nonstop bombing campaign of Iraq, and the prospects for ending it. The destruction of Iraq, says Vlahos, has followed a familiar trend: American politicians sell the public on the need to get involved in some...
1/7/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israeli Settlements and Netanyahu’s Political Future
by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2021
Kalmen Barkin discusses the deplorable situation of Palestinians in Israel today, a people whose lands and rights are being slowly taken away from them by the Israeli government, while the delusive promise of a two-state solution vanishes along with them. Barkin...
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Episode 525: Reflections on the ‘Storming of the Capitol’ w/ Aaron from ‘Timeline Earth’
by Peter R. Quinones | Jan 18, 2021
74 Minutes Not Safe For Work Aaron is one of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Pete invited Aaron back on the show to talk about the "storming of the capitol." They then the get into the response from the government and the corporate press, as well as the...
Episode 524: Marxism Part 1 – Dialectical Materialism, and the Thought of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin)
by Peter R. Quinones | Jan 14, 2021
100 Minutes PG-13 Bird is one-fourth of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Bird joins Pete to go over the foundation of Marxism, dialectical materialism. They then launch into a look at Lenin's main work, "State and Revolution." Episode 521: Myth and the 'Terror...
Episode 523: The Prison Nightmare and Bureaucracy w/ Former Correction’s Officer J Flintlock
by Peter R. Quinones | Jan 13, 2021
44 Minutes Not Safe for Work J Flintlock is the host of the Flintlock Faction Podcast. He served in the military and is a former prison guard J joins Pete to give him an inside look into the bureaucracy that is the US prison system and to give insight into just who is...
Episode 522: The Vets Are Joining the Fight w/ Luke and Typo from ‘Biting the Bullet’
by Peter R. Quinones | Jan 11, 2021
73 Minutes Not Safe for Work Luke and Typo are the hosts of the "Biting the Bullet" podcast and two Marine Corps vets. Pete asked them to come on the show to talk about a change in messaging and why they are joining the Libertarian Party to back the Mises Caucus....
Conflicts of Interest
COI #58 – Maj. Danny Sjursen on Ethiopia, Mali, and the Chances Biden Starts a War
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 15, 2021
On COI#58, Maj. Danny Sjursen, USA (ret.) joins Kyle Anzalone to break down Ethiopia, Mali, and Biden's foreign policy team. Danny gives a brief history of Ethiopia and explains how the country's conflicts with its neighbors. Danny explains how the Ethiopian Prime...
Don’t Start A Domestic Terror War, Impeach Trump For War Crimes In Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 13, 2021
Connor Freeman, writer at The Libertarian Institute, returns to the show to discuss the Trump administration's decision to name the Houthi a terrorist organization. The Houthi govern most of Yemen's population. The designation will make it extremely difficult to bring...
Here Comes Domestic Terrorism Laws and Big Tech Censorship
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 11, 2021
On COI #56, Dave DeCamp, assistant news editor at antiwar.com, returns to the show. Dave and Kyle discuss the reaction to the violent protests at the capital. The establishment labeled the violent mob a coup attempt as a coup, insurrection, and domestic terrorism....
COI #55 – Is Trump Plotting a Coup in the US or Regime Change in Iran?
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 7, 2021
On COI #55, Connor Freeman returns to the show to talk about the unrest at the US Capitol and Biden's Iran policy. Yesterday, Trump supports pushed past police lines and broke into the Capital Building as Congress was voting to affirm the Electoral College vote. The...
Don't Tread on Anyone
MUST SEE: How the U.S. Government Funds Terrorism
by Keith Knight | Jan 22, 2021
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlQjJoW8QDE In very few cases have these anti-interventionists favored literal “isolation”: what they have generally favored is political nonintervention in the affairs of other countries, coupled with economic and cultural...
Profit Seekers v. SJWs – The Ideological Failure of Progressivism
by Keith Knight | Jan 21, 2021
https://youtu.be/2kabaMyRmkE egalitarians, however intelligent as individuals, deny the very basis of human intelligence and of human reason: the identification of the ontological structure of reality, of the laws of human nature, and the universe. In so doing, the...
The Economics of Ignorant Voters. Bryan Caplan and Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jan 20, 2021
https://youtu.be/Bf984AcAmDQ It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, aft er all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a “dismal science.” But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic...
An Agorist Primer – Book Summary & Analysis. Sal the Agorist & Keith Knight.
by Keith Knight | Jan 19, 2021
https://youtu.be/6A-h6dyoxRU ...freedom from violence is essential to the development of man’s reason and personality. Murray N. Rothbard Education: Free and Compulsory, p. 10 https://www.saltheagorist.com/ ****Buy a 3D Printer here****:...
Liberty Weekly Podcast
2021 and the Black Future Ep. 146
by Patrick Macfarlane | Dec 31, 2020
https://youtu.be/ZfBebGgBGUQ Jose Galison invited me on his show, No Way Jose! for a recap of this incredibly crazy year. We covered a host of topics and realized that we didn't get to half the stuff we wanted to talk about. I guarantee you we covered a bunch of stuff...
Scott Horton on Iran-Contra, Mujahideen, and “Dark Alliance” Ep. 144
by Patrick Macfarlane | Dec 15, 2020
https://youtu.be/q5rgHrbWa7U I invited Scott Horton on to the show to talk about two chapters of history where even the established history is too crazy to believe: the Iran-Contra Affair and the CIA's support for the Mujahideen in 1980s Afghanistan. We also discuss...
Teenager Escapes Communist Romania, Warns the US is NEXT ft. Carmen Alexe Ep. 143
by Patrick Macfarlane | Dec 10, 2020
https://youtu.be/QWqhVYPafhY One morning in the early 1980s an 18 year old Carmen Alexe packed her bags for a swim meet in neighboring Yugoslavia. She said goodbye to her parents and her sister. She was the only one who knew she could be saying goodbye for the last...
Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran Discusses the Psychology of War Ep. 142
by Patrick Macfarlane | Dec 5, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezfk_NuEcnc I had the honor of speaking with Scott Spaulding about his experience during his two tours each in Iraq and Afghanistan. Scott gives us insight into what combat veterans feel and experience in war. He also discusses the...
Year Zero
Leave Me Alone, A Conservative Perspective w/Keith Orsag
by Tommy Salmons | Dec 22, 2020
Tommy is joined by Navy Veteran and entrepreneur Keith Orsag. In this episode they discuss COVID, lockdowns, the election, secession, and Agorism. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/strangerencounterspodcast/leave_me_alone.mp3
Ken Paxton and TX v PA w/Michael Harris
by Tommy Salmons | Dec 16, 2020
Tommy asked Michael Harris to join him to discuss Ken Paxton’s legal problems, and why he may have filed TX v PA about the 2020 election. https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/strangerencounterspodcast/michael_harris_full.mp3
There’s No Compromise
by Tommy Salmons | Dec 3, 2020
Tommy looks at the current climate of discourse, and how the corporate left has successfully infiltrated the state. Expanding on a Substack he'd written earlier in the week he concludes Agorism is the only useful strategy to revitalize individuality and preserve...
Trump Invokes JFK Memoranda 57, and It Means Nothing
by Tommy Salmons | Nov 27, 2020
Tommy looks at how Trump continues to fool himself and his followers into believing he's making strides in defanging the deep state while accomplishing nothing. For four years Trump's foreign policy moves have been ineffective in neutering the empire, and despite his...