I hate to gloat but, screw it. I’m gloating. With every FOMC meeting this year, Jerome Powell has become more and more hawkish, but the denial of this still dominates the headlines. He raised the Fed Funds Rate to 4.5% last week, a level unthinkable to nearly...
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Noam Chomsky: Support Antiwar.com
by Scott Horton | Oct 4, 2022 | Blog
Dear Antiwar.com Reader, Given the state of world affairs today, I am sure you are as concerned as I am about the prospects for peace in our time. With Russia escalating its invasion of Ukraine to dangerous heights, the US undermining the prospects for diplomatic...
“I Don’t Make the Law, I Just Enforce It” – Debunked
by Lawrence Reed | Sep 18, 2022 | Featured Articles
[Image of the police killing of Tony Timpa] Nine months after the Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann died at the end of a noose in Israel, a controversial but thoughtful commentary about his trial appeared in The New Yorker. The public reaction stunned its author, the...
Presidential Record Racketeering
by Jim Bovard | Aug 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
Former President Donald Trump is supposedly one of the biggest scoundrels in American history for allegedly retaining documents from his presidency at his Mar-a-Lago home. Trump denies wrongdoing but the Justice Department is targeting him for violating the Espionage...
This Week At The Libertarian Institute
by Will Porter | Jul 30, 2022 | News Roundup, Weekly Update
The Empire never sleeps – but neither do we. Missed a story? We’ve got you covered. Check out this week in review at the Libertarian Institute.
Decentralization Means Different Strokes for Different Folks
by Ryan McMaken | Jul 5, 2022 | Featured Articles
Most commentary on the Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization—which overturns Roe v. Wade—has focused on the decision's effect on the legality of abortion in various states. That's an important issue. It may be, however, that...
The People Crafting U.S. Policy Aren’t in America
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 30, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
In a piece of news that shocked the mainstream media, but which shocked no one familiar with the academic industry writ large, retired U.S. Army general John Allen was forced to resign as president of the Brookings Institution after it was revealed the FBI was...
The Justice Department Pressured USA Today to Stop Publishing Me
by Jim Bovard | Jun 28, 2022 | Featured Articles
In 2015, Justice Department press chief Brian Fallon bitterly complained to USA Today editors about my articles walloping Attorney General Eric Holder, including"Eric Holder's Lawless Legacy," [Feb. 3, 2015] and "Eric Holder's Police Shooting Record? Dismal," [Aug....
4/22/22 Mitchell Plitnick on Israel, Iran and a Cold War in the Middle East
by Scott Horton | Apr 29, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott interviews Mitchel Plitnick about Israeli politics and the Iran Nuclear Deal. Plitnick begins by filling us in on the political situation in Israel, where a new coalition government is working to agree upon a budget by the Fall of 2023. If...
Tim Pool, Cold War Hawk Ep. 201
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jan 30, 2022 | Foreign Policy, Liberty Weekly Podcast
https://youtu.be/ZWQEtSGFLNM During the recent tensions involving Ukraine, Russia, and NATO, Tim Pool's commentary was indistinguishable from Antony Blinken's. What is behind the spate of "independent journalists" that are good on many issues, but sell the new cold...
Episode 670: Pete and Bird From Timeline Earth Read Ted Kaczynski’s – The System’s Neatest Trick
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 12, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
96 Minutes PG-13 Bird is one of the hosts of the Timeline Earth Podcast Bird joins Pete for a reading, and commentary, on Ted Kaczynski's 2005 essay, The System's Neatest Trick." Today's Sponsor HC Hemp Spot - Promo Code "pete" for 15% Off...
Episode 660: Is Social Media A ‘Necessary Evil’ And Some Rittenhouse Commentary w/ Steppy From ‘Not a Podcast’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Nov 21, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
64 Minutes Some Strong Language Steppy is one of the hosts of "Not a Podcast" and a Twitter legend Steppy joined Pete for a livestream to do a little commentary on the Rittenhouse trial but also to talk about the good and bad of social media in general. Considering...
10/26/21 Cheryl Rofer on the Shoddy Science behind Havana Syndrome
by Scott Horton | Oct 31, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott is joined by writer and chemist Cheryl Rofer. Rofer penned an article back in May that debunked the increasingly popular theory that numerous American intelligence and diplomatic personnel were in fact the victims of a targeted microwave weapon. Rofer points out...
Essential Marxist Reading for Liberals and Conservatives
by Craig Cantoni | Sep 21, 2021 | Featured Articles
Fredrik deBoer is the author of The Cult of Smart, a book that unwittingly explains the sharp left turn of the Democrat Party and a growing number of young Americans. It also shows why the widening chasm between the far left and liberals and conservatives will never...
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Christopher Hitchens Lied About the Cause of Terrorism
"The suicide murder community is almost perfectly faith based." - Christopher Hitchens On Real Time With Bill Maher, Hitchens claims that because an Islamist in the 1800's used the Koran to justify atrocities, it means that today the issue with Al-Qaeda is due to the...
War is a Euphemism for Mass Murder
To kill one man is to be guilty of a capital crime, to kill ten men is to increase the guilt tenfold, to kill a hundred men is to increase it a hundredfold. This the rulers of the earth all recognize, and yet when it comes to the greatest crime — waging war on another...
Empower the Working Class: Abolish Occupational Licensing
It's time to consistently apply the "my body my choice" principle. If consenting adults want to engage in economic activity, no third party should forcibly stop them. Democrats always say "voting once every two years between two politicians is how you express...
Death By Climate: Down 97% in Last 100 Years
Our schools provide many hours of lessons on climate change, but I wonder how many teachers, let alone pupils, are aware that climate-related deaths have decreased by as much as 97 per cent over the past 100 years, as the OFDA / CRED data show. - Why don’t we ever...
Black Youth Unemployment: Before and After Progressives Started “Helping”
A constant trend is progressivism is to use the state to coercively control others under the guise of "helping" them, make things worse, then ignore the problems you caused and never apologize. Sallie Mae loans didn't make college affordable. The Federal Reserve...
What Kind of Liberal?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I am a Locke-Smith liberal.
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