Dan McKnight discusses the progress of the "Defend the Guard" movement, a set of bills that would mandate that a state's national guard troops not be deployed overseas without an official declaration of war from congress. The legislation has sponsors in 31 states so...
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Congress Seeks to Block American Re-Entry to the Iran Deal
by Dave DeCamp | Mar 10, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
A group of 140 bipartisan members of the House is urging President Biden to seek a more “comprehensive” agreement with Iran, which means the group of lawmakers opposes a revival of the original 2015 nuclear deal, known as the JCPOA. In a letter sent to Secretary of...
How Wind Power Froze Texas
by Robert Murphy | Mar 10, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
In the wake of February’s tragic power outages in Texas, during which 4.5 million households suffered service interruptions, partisans on both sides have been quick to interpret the events as confirmation of their preferred energy policies. With news images of...
SWAT Destroys Innocent Woman’s Home, Sends Her the Bill
by Matt Agorist | Mar 9, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
In July of last year, Vicki Baker, 75, was excited to move on to the next chapter of her life in Montana by selling her home she owned for 12 years in McKinney, Texas. That sale would never take place on schedule, however, because the day before she was supposed to...
The Old Patriot Act Didn’t Work, and Neither Will the New One
by Jim Bovard | Mar 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
President Biden, congressional Democrats, and much of the media are clamoring for a new law against domestic terrorism. Before enacting a new law, Americans should recognize how “terrorism” has spurred deluges of political and prosecutorial malarkey for almost 20...
3/5/21 Hans Kristensen on America’s Nuclear Saber-Rattling in Eastern Europe
by Scott Horton | Mar 7, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Hans Kristensen about nuclear proliferation. Ever since the U.S. government backed the coup in Ukraine in 2014, he says, we've been flying bombers near Russia and the Baltic states in what are ostensibly "training exercises," but which in reality are...
3/5/21 Max Blumenthal: UK Foreign Office Colluded with International Media to ‘Weaken Russia’
by Scott Horton | Mar 7, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Max Blumenthal begins by discussing the immense power imbalance between Israel and Palestine, which has led to enormously one-sided violence by the Israelis. The Palestinians, to be sure, have fought back, but Blumenthal says there's a crucial difference between...
From the Director: Re: Fund Drive, Progress Report
by Scott Horton | Mar 5, 2021 | Featured Articles, Scott Horton
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...
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Breonna Taylor Grand Jurors: Police Actions Were ‘Negligent’ And ‘Criminal’
Two grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case said the actions of Louisville, Kentucky, police officers the day of the botched raid at her apartment were "negligent" and "criminal." "They couldn't even provide a risk assessment," one of the anonymous grand jurors,...
Joe Rogan Interviews Glenn Greenwald
Veddy interesting. Update: okay, mildly interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rcLsoIKgA&t=455s
Don’t Make a Wrong Turn in Philly
The cops there are rabid animals. https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1321274917023674368
Why We Need a Fully Free Marketplace of Ideas
No true seeker of truth can oppose the fully free marketplace of ideas. For details of the hardheaded practical case, you can do no better than to consult chapter 2 of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. If you can't spare the time to read this short chapter and book,...
Techno-Agorist: Local Politics Is Still Politics
My name is Ryan and I am an agorist. Today we are talking about the different yet equally-destructive levels of government There is a pervading idea among many people that somehow local government is less bad, less corrupt, or easier to control than higher levels of...
YouTube Censoring Veterans’ Antiwar Video
WEST CHESTER, PA. — Silicon Valley’s selective censorship of news stories isn’t limited to just the U.S. presidential election, a right of center veterans group said Monday. YouTube and Google platforms are violating the free speech rights of an Afghanistan and Iraq...
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