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The Libertarian Institute Round Table with Dave Smith ft. Scott, Kyle, and Connor

by Connor Freeman | Jan 2, 2024 | Blog

The Libertarian Institute just had a huge appearance on the great anarcho-capitalist comedian Dave Smith's podcast, the massively successful Part of the Problem! The Institute's Director Scott Horton, News Editor Kyle Anzalone, and myself, Assistant Editor Connor...

Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism

by Keith Knight | Dec 30, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/60KXH3k0cEo Governments provide many things, such as security, schools, intelligence gathering, and poverty assistance programs, but none of these are defining characteristics of governments. They can be provided by many nongovernment actors in...

War is Theft Funded Mass Murder Based on Lies w/ Angela McArdle

by Keith Knight | Dec 27, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/WVbPvUGlI_k 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...

An Interview With Rashid Khalidi, Columbia University’s Historian of the Middle East

by Michael Holmes | Nov 27, 2023 | Featured Articles

This interview took place on November 3, 2023. Rashid Khalidi is a Palestinian-American historian of the Middle East at Columbia University in New York City and worked as an advisor to Palestinian negotiators in the 1990s in Madrid and Washington. He has written many...

Give Peace a Chance

by Kym Robinson | Nov 6, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Armchair generals and warmongers often share a similar view when it comes to analyzing historical and contemporary events; if the military was not constrained, then victory would be assured. That is the language of mass murderers disguised beneath the need for...

The Monkey’s Paw and Imperial Hubris Ep. 263

by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 9, 2023 | Vital Dissent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NP5UPVm6Bo&feature=youtu.be Patrick reads the W. W. Jacobs short story ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ discusses the theme’s ongoing application to US foreign policy. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter...

War Guilt in the Middle East

by Murray N. Rothbard | Oct 9, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

This article was originally featured in Left and Right: A Journal of Libertarian Thought, Spring-Autumn 1967 and is republished with permission of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. The trouble with sectarians, whether they be libertarians, Marxists, or...

Africa is a Continent, Not a Chess Piece

by Brad Pearce | Sep 18, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

Now that we are in a second Cold War era, there is a full fledged “Tournament of Shadows” for what was once called “The Dark Continent.” This was brought to light by the recent coup in the West African country of Niger, which saw the Palace Guards overthrow the...

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The “Israel Has the Most Moral Army in the World” Trope

Delusional supporters of Israel’s genocide in Gaza claim the IDF is “the most moral army in the world”. Here’s the stark reality.

Wheels Within Wheels: Complexity is Real in War

“The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras...

F35 Fat Amy Follies: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Two Trillion Dollars... Pretty soon, we're talking real money. So we put this in perspective: Two trillion U.S. dollars in $100 notes would be 1,356 miles high. If they were one dollar bills, it would be 135,600 miles high (the moon is 238,900 miles from Earth)....

New Hampshire GOP Adds ‘Defend the Guard’ to Party Platform

With a resounding "Aye," Defend the Guard was made an official part of the New Hampshire Republican Party platform. On Saturday, April 13, the New Hampshire GOP held a meeting to vote on platform amendments. Among the list of proposals was the following text: "Demand...

USC Bows Down to Pro-Israel Terrorists, Cancels Muslim-American’s Valedictorian Speech

No one hates Americans' sacred right of free speech more than Israel's American fifth column. No one is a bigger group of cowards than the USC Trojans. Always have been a bunch of sniveling little weaklings.