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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
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
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...
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
The Antiwar Comic: Low Information
by Tony DiGerolamo | Jun 5, 2021 | Blog
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Glenn Greenwald On The The Media’s Role In The Russian Bounty Story
by Steven Woskow | Apr 16, 2021 | Blog
Glenn Greenwald on the role the media played in propagating CIA disinformation to stop Trump from removing troops in Afghanistan. More here
Your Data For Sale – Who’s Buying?
by Steven Woskow | Dec 13, 2020 | Blog
There are 160 apps on my phone. What they’re actually doing, I don’t know. But I decided to find out. I have a feeling these apps are spying on me. Well, not listening in, but that they’re keeping track of where I am at all times. That my every move is shared on. When...
The Flow of Information
by Zooey Greif | Nov 20, 2019 | Blog
Obama’s Unending Wars
by Steven Woskow | Jul 17, 2019 | Blog
David Swanson reviews the book Obama's Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State. "Kuzmarov places Obama in historical context and outlines his parallels with Woodrow Wilson, another extreme militarist generally understood as a peace...
FPF #198 – The Phantom Enemy
by Kyle Anzalone | May 25, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #198, I discuss the 12 demands the US gave Iran in a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. Many of the demands are based on false information or where agreed to in the JCPOA. Other demands require Iran to completely dissolve Iranian sovereignty. I show how...
Live Stream of the Israel Lobby and American Policy Conference
by Scott Horton | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog
IRmep and WRMEA's annual #IsraelLobbyCon More information here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7miCSw78btI&feature=youtu.be
2/15/17 George Joseph on the cell phone spying tools being used by American police departments
by Scott Horton | Feb 15, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
George Joseph, an editorial fellow at CityLab, discusses the widespread use of powerful cell phone interception and extraction equipment by police departments, and their collection of phone location data and even the content of texts and calls with devices like...
10/14/16 Catherine Lutz on the costs of war
by Scott Horton | Oct 14, 2016 | The Scott Horton Show
Catherine Lutz, from the Cost of War Project at Brown University, talks to Scott about all of the balance of account information from the wars. The jaw dropping total figure of the war is revealed, as well as the human costs of the war, the unquantifiable costs on the...
01/22/05 – Sibel Edmonds – The Scott Horton Show
by Scott Horton | Jan 22, 2005 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks with Sibel Edmonds about her attempts to have the information she knows de-classified, and what you can do about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2h0863eLro
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The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
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