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If You Don’t Have Choice, You Don’t Have Liberty

by Peter R. Quiñones | Jul 23, 2019 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Peter Quinones

If you are a libertarian who openly advocates for liberty, you’re almost certainly familiar with this scenario. You’re in a conversation with someone about a random political point, you advocate for expanded freedoms in relation to the subject, and get hit with, “But,...

6/7/19 William Astore on the Ten Tenets of Air Power

by Scott Horton | Jun 8, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews William Astore about his recent TomDispatch piece on American air power. Astore, a retired Air Force officer, explains what he was and was not taught about bombing as a strategy in war, most notably the fact that the perception of the U.S. military by...

10/5/18 Danny Sjursen on Blowback

by Scott Horton | Oct 8, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Major Danny Sjursen comes back on the show to talk about the blowback from America's many wars in the Middle East. He explains a process with which listeners of this show will no doubt be familiar, by which the U.S. sets itself up for future wars by arming and...

10/3/18 Dan Cohen on Syria, Blowback, and Al-Qaeda’s Rehabilitation

by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Filmmaker Dan Cohen comes back on the show to discuss his latest project, "The Syria Deception," a short documentary exposing the propaganda campaign in Hollywood and the media to rehabilitate Al-Qaeda in the eyes of the American public. Cohen and Scott discuss...

FPF #245 – 17 Years After 9/11

by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 11, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #245, I discuss 9/11 and the US War on Terror. I explain how the 9/11 terror attack was blowback for US attacks on the Middle East. I argue the US War on Terror has failed to make the world safer and more stable. Links NYT - Misleading Americans about...

6/20/18 David R. Henderson on the Effects of War

by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

David Henderson joins the show to talk about the consequences of war for the American economy and the world political order. Henderson explains that many of the intrusive powers the state has today are the result of major crises, during which the state seizes some new...

They Lied Us Into War, All of Them

by Scott Horton | Mar 22, 2018 | Blog

And I don’t just mean Iraq War II. A friend wanted a list, so I whipped one up real quick. Gulf of Tonkin 1967: McNamara knew it was a mistake before LBJ used it as an excuse to escalate. Daniel Ellsberg’s firsthand account from inside the Pentagon:...

News Roundup 2/20/18

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 20, 2018 | Blog

A Baltimore jury awards $37 million to the family of a woman murdered by Baltimore police. [Link] Baltimore ranked first in homicides per capita in 2017. [Link] South Korea's President says the Olympics have eased tensions with North Korea. [Link] At least 17 people...

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Celebrate Juneteenth the Right Way

Today is Juneteenth. I celebrate the lethal electrocution of two communist spies on this day in 1953; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple, were executed for their espionage service to Stalin and the USSR They became good communists on that...

The “Least Performing” Circus Continues at the US Navy (and Elsewhere)

***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance*** The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track...

Be Careful What You Ask for

You wanted America First. You got it. Did you think it wouldn't be conceived in national collectivist terms? The clue's in the name. It's America First, not Americans First.

Phony Noninterventionists

Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah,...