Scott Horton Articles
From the Director: Re: Fund Drive, Progress Report
by Scott Horton | Mar 5, 2021
To: Institute supporters, readers and listeners From: the Director: Here's a bit of an Institute progress report. We're in the middle of our Fund drive, which is going great. We've already raised more than $40,000 out of the $50,000 we're pushing for, and a generous...
Still Think the War on Terror Works?
by Scott Horton | Mar 4, 2021
On Thursday, February 25, the Joe Biden administration bombed Iraqi Shi’ite militias in Syria, killing between 1–22 depending on who’s doing the reporting. Why did Biden order this strike? On February 15, there was a rocket attack in Erbil, the capital city of...
Help Support the Libertarian Institute!
by Scott Horton | Feb 16, 2021
This fund drive for the Institute is long overdue. You-all were so generous in the big book fund drive of Summer, 2019, that I couldn't bear to come back to you until the thing was finally done. And there was a severe delay caused by my over-doing it and having to...
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
by Scott Horton | Jan 16, 2021
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...
Matt Taibbi on the Origins of the Russiagate Hoax
by Scott Horton | Aug 19, 2020
A New Whistleblower Exposes the 'Cambridge Four' This interview was recorded August 13, 2020. The computer garbled the audio terribly, but at least the auto-transcriber was able to make sense of it. The following is edited for clarity and minor mess-ups. Scott Horton:...
The Breonna Taylor Tapes
by Scott Horton | Jul 9, 2020
If this one hadn't gone viral, the "law" would have buried innocent slain victim Breonna Taylor's heroic boyfriend Kenneth Walker under the prison for attempting to murder a cop. Now the tapes of his interrogation have been released. As NBC News explains: Walker was...
Coming Apart at the Seams
by Scott Horton | Jun 1, 2020
It doesn’t have to be this way America is burning. Quite literally. The most destructive riots in America in a very long time have hit more than two dozen cities, as opportunistic thieves and arsonists hijack massive peaceful protests and acts of peaceful civil...
America, We Have To End the Wars Now
by Scott Horton | Apr 2, 2020
The Coronavirus Crisis Makes It Clear Can anyone think what our society might have spent six and a half trillion dollars on instead of 20 years of war in the Middle East for nothing? How about the trillion dollars per year we keep spending on the military on top of...
The New Cold War With Russia Is All America’s Fault
by Scott Horton | Mar 4, 2020
The following is the text of a speech Scott gave to the King County, Washington Libertarian Party, February 29, 2020. According to Rep. Jason Crow, Russian President “Vladimir Putin wakes up every morning and goes to bed every night trying to figure out how to...
Iraq War IV?
by Scott Horton | Jan 6, 2020
The U.S.A. has been bombing Iraq for 29 years. And it looks like it’s not over yet: Iraq War I: January—February 1991 (aka The Gulf War, Operation Desert Storm, liberation of Kuwait) Iraq War I 1/2: February 1991—March 2003 (The rest of Bush I, Bill Clinton years,...
The IRS or The Libertarian Institute?
by Scott Horton | Jan 1, 2020
Friends, We should be so lucky to somehow know that the government has only wasted all the money they've stolen from us over the years, rather than doing something horrible to someone with it. America's completely insane and criminal income taxation system has one...
It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way
by Scott Horton | Dec 30, 2019
This is all wrong. The entire war on terrorism, and every bit of the suffering, spending and lost liberty that has come with it, has been an unnecessary evil. At the time of the September 11, 2001 attack which got this new era of war started, the enemy in Afghanistan...
Pensacola: Blowback Terrorism: The problem isn’t ‘radical Islam’
by Scott Horton | Dec 9, 2019
Florida Senator Rick Scott is lost in the dark. After Friday’s deadly Afghan war-style “green on blue” attack by a Saudi air force officer at the Pensacola Naval Air Station in Florida, the senator issued a statement calling the shooting an act of terrorism, and...
Looking Ahead to New Institute Published Books
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2019
Building on the great success of Fool's Errand, No Quarter, The Great Ron Paul and Coming to Palestine, the Libertarian Institute will be publishing at least three new books in the new year: I am hard at work on my new book Enough Already: Time to End the War on...
Death and Taxes? How About Life and Liberty? Join us as we build a better Institute.
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2019
On a shoestring budget since our founding in 2016, we have done our best to hold the line on libertarian principle while prioritizing the fight against the government’s worst depredations first. In 2017 we published our director Scott Horton’s acclaimed book Fool’s...
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4/14/21 Grant Smith on the Upcoming Israel Apartheid Conference
by Scott Horton | Apr 15, 2021
Scott talks to Grant Smith about the upcoming Israel Lobby Con, the annual conference hosting a range of expert speakers who offer opposing views to the mainstream zionist position that dominates American polite society. This year's conference consists of two...
4/13/21 Gareth Porter on Staying in Afghanistan, the Iran Deal and Getting Shut Out of Vietnam
by Scott Horton | Apr 14, 2021
Interview #5,500! Scott talks to Gareth Porter about a range of U.S. foreign policy issues, beginning with the Biden administration's announcement that it will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by September 11. To some extent, this is good news, but it obscures...
4/12/21 Ted Carpenter on Putin’s Ukraine Red Line
by Scott Horton | Apr 12, 2021
Scott interviews Ted Carpenter about America's dangerous Ukraine policy. Carpenter explains how ever since the Obama administration helped right-wing extremists in Western Ukraine overthrow the elected Russian-aligned government in 2014, the U.S. has been behaving as...
4/12/21 Jacob Sullum: Biden Loves Gun Control by Fiat
by Scott Horton | Apr 12, 2021
Jacob Sullum discusses the Biden administration's possible moves on gun control. Thanks to recent mass shootings, says Sullum, gun control is back in the public eye, resulting in some proposed new laws like background checks, increased "red flag" rules, an "assault...
4/9/21 Danny Sjursen on AFRICOM’s Latest Adventure in Mozambique
by Scott Horton | Apr 12, 2021
Danny Sjursen talks about the absurdity of the recent announcement that America is sending special forces troops to Mozambique, a country that he says has basically no strategic relevance to the United States whatsoever. Those who argue that this is only a dozen...
4/9/21 Hassan El-Tayyab on Yemen’s Dire Humanitarian Crisis
by Scott Horton | Apr 11, 2021
Scott interviews Hassan El-Tayyab from the Friends Committee on National Legislation about the effort to end the humanitarian crisis in Yemen. Although the Biden administration announced an end to support for "offensive operations" in Yemen, thanks to the Saudi...
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