Episode Notes I discuss the complex adaptive system that is war that Clausewitz categorically identified as "friction" in the nineteenth century. We'll examine what chaos and complexity has to do with conflict, why it is inevitable and why wars are won by the least...
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Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Episode 642: Does Liberalism Work? w/ Charles aka ‘Charlemagne’
80 Minutes PG-13 Charles, aka Charlemagne, is the proprietor of the NeoReactor Substack, and hosts of the YouTube channels "Charlemagne" and "Academic Agent" Charles joins Pete to talk about an article he recently wrote entitled "Libertarian Diagnostic Failure," in...
Chaotic Law of the Jungle – Statism v. Libertarianism
https://youtu.be/obPbgtdqTDI Businesses are always eager for consumers to buy their product or service. On the free market, the consumer is king or queen and the “providers” are always trying to make profits and gain customers by serving them well. But when government...
The Coming Coronavirus Critical-Care Emergency
A New Yorker reporter has been talking to authors of studies about numbers of ICU beds available around the U.S. There will almost certainly be chaos and triage in hospitals around the country.
Marxist FMLN Rebels Breed Chaos, Despair
This is Your Security Force
Oh yeah. You love them so much don't you? Your heroes. The boys in blue. The thin blue line protecting civilization from the chaos of freedom. Aren't you proud? Aren't you grateful? You better sing it loud at the next ballgame, or else, boy.
Your Window Tint is Too Dark
So government employee Daniel Wilkey is going to either anally rape you or forcibly convert you to protestant Christianity. Thin blue line baby. Without them there would be chaos.
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Israel Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War
From the Foreword by Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “[T]he debate over whether oil was a principal reason for the 2003 invasion has waxed and waned, with one camp arguing that it absolutely was, while the other argues the precise opposite.” “Mr. Vogler, himself a former...
Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...
Diary of a Psychosis: How Public Health Disgraced Itself During COVID Mania
FOREWORD BY JAY BHATTACHARYA, MD, PHD Diary of a Psychosis is different from all other books on Covid: it traces the development of the government response as it happened, bit by bit, and subjects it to relentless scrutiny: did any of it do any good? It thereby...