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1/13/23 Andy Worthington: The US is Still Running an Illegal Prison at Guantanamo Bay

by Scott Horton | Jan 15, 2023 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Andy Worthington returns to talk about the 35 men who remain imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay as we pass the 21st anniversary of the prison. Of those 35 men, 20 have already been cleared for release, yet they remain in custody with no release date....

Biden’s Toxic January 6th Demonology

by Jim Bovard | Jan 12, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics

Last Friday, President Biden held a White House ceremony commemorating the second anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riot. Biden showered a dozen Presidential Service Medals dozen people connected to the 2020 election or the January 6 events. Biden talked of the...

David Stockman’s Explainer to the 2023 Economy

by David Stockman | Jan 12, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles

You can count on the knuckleheads at Bloomberg to start off the year with still another dead-wrong proposition. That is, more nonsense about the “strong” labor market—-one so strong that it is purportedly even defying the mighty Fed. The latest US employment report is...

Church Proves the Poor Will Benefit From Privatized Education

by Keith Knight | Jan 10, 2023 | Blog, Uncategorized

Depending on which source you look at, there are hundreds of thousands of churches in world. Almost all Churches contain the two things Democrats constantly tell us are impossible if education were voluntarily funded instead of funded coercively via taxation. ...

Netanyahu’s Return to Power: A Prelude to Anti-American Terrorism?

by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Jan 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Benjamin Netanyahu’s return to power in Israel has ushered in a government more dominated by religious and ultra-nationalist extremists than any ruling coalition in the country’s 74-year history. While that fact has been well-reported, most Americans are oblivious to...

Ep 007 “Review and Discussion: Wrong Turn by Gian Gentile”

by Bill Buppert | Jan 9, 2023 | Chasing Ghosts Podcast

Episode Notes A short but effective tome that is a sound introduction to why the western COIN complex is so wrong-headed and intellectually bankrupt. *** I was a guest with Prof CJ last month (December 2022). For this Dangerous History Podcast (DHP) episode, CJ was...

Happy New Year! (The Government Did Not Save Your Life)

by Laurie Calhoun | Jan 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

More than 100,000 persons died of narcotics overdoses last year in the United States, in many cases because the street drugs they used were laced with extremely potent fentanyl. If you were among the survivors of a dose of unknown provenance, the reason you are alive...

Jim Bovard’s Best Digs of 2022

by Jim Bovard | Jan 5, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics

This past year served up endless opportunities for hounding and pounding politicians and federal agencies. Here’s a round-up of the most liked or most hated lines from my 2022 articles. Hearty thanks to Hunter DeRensis and editors at other outlets who ran these...

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New Years Eve With Mike From Rosewater Meats

I grew up in and around paddocks full of livestock, the abattoirs where they were slaughtered and dressed to the butchers, super markets and catering companies where they would eventually end up on someones plate. A man covered in blood was a common fixture in my...

The message is clear, don’t be vulnerable.

Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul had a fight, as expected Joshua won. Andrew Tate made a comeback to the ring, he lost the decision. Both Paul and Tate are social media creatures. Tate, among other things, was a former prize fighter. Paul, after fame as a YouTuber took...

Back on The Rational Egoist

Michael Liebowitz invited me back to talk about whether we should have a government.

Happy 30th Birthday Antiwar.com !!!

It has been thirty years since the website Antiwar.com was launched. A defiant reaction to the Clinton administrations interventions in the Balkans during the 1990s. Founded by the late Justin Raimondo and Eric Garris, the site went on to become a platform of...

Did TSA Finally Grab the Wrong Groin?

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week over the abuse she suffered prior to a recent flight. Writing on X on Thursday, she called for abolishing TSA: Writing on X: I nearly missed my flight this...

Trump Debuts the Next US Navy Ship Disaster

POTUS revealed the latest US naval ship catastrophe, the Mango Emperor-class battleship. Apparently he and his staff did not get the memorandum from 8 December 1941. The US Navy has not built a successful hull since the Arleigh Burke (early 90s) and has had huge...