Whatever empires do abroad eventually comes home. Yet another unintended consequences come home in a tidal wave. This is personal; I was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury in 2019. I spent nearly a quarter century in the US military. I know there's a connection....
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The U.S. Continues to Undermine Its Own Interests in Iran
by Ted Snider | Jul 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The American-led isolation of Iran is springing leaks all over. It seems that wherever Iran knocks, everyone answers. Except the United States. Instead, the U.S. continues to close the door, following a long pattern with Iran of undermining its own interests. In 2016,...
7/11/24 Laurie Calhoun on Anthony Blinken and All the Terrible People Running American Foreign Policy
by Scott Horton | Jul 15, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Libertarian Institute Senior Fellow Laurie Calhoun to talk about Anthony Blinken. Using the recent transfer of F-16s to Ukraine as a jumping-off point, the two discuss Blinken’s terrible tenure as Secretary of State and reflect...
Trump’s Attempted Assassination and the Betrayal of the Heroic Ethos
by John Weeks | Jul 15, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
On Saturday, former president Donald Trump came within less of an inch of being assassinated by a rooftop sniper during an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A Secret Service counter sniper “neutralized the shooter,” but not before Trump and at least two rally...
Parody of a Statesman: Antony Blinken, Secretary of War
by Laurie Calhoun | Jul 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For Halloween last year, the United States’ highest ranked diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, dressed his son and daughter up as Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian flag, respectively. At a White House event on that day, Blinken’s...
The Cato Institute’s Disgraceful Embrace of NATO
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
On July 9, 2024, the Cato Institute is holding a conference entitled “NATO at 75, Rebalancing the Transatlantic Alliance.” That title should come as a surprise to committed libertarians. When the modern libertarian movement emerged after World War II, one prominent...
Julian Assange and the Criminalization of Journalism
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog
Julian Assange was persecuted for over a decade for heroically exposing the criminal organization in Washington, DC. His crime was doing journalism.
Assange Released from Prison After Agreeing To Plead Guilty to Espionage Act Violation
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 25, 2024 | News
The plea bargain allows the Wikileaks founder to return to Australia after a court date in the Mariana Islands WikiLeaks reports that its founder, Julian Assange, was released from UK prison on bail and is in the process of returning to Australia. Court documents...
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Two Years: Gaza Leveled and America on the Table
Today is the second year anniversary of the 7 October 2023 attack from Gaza into Israel and the response that will forever stain the reputation of Israel and any nations planet-wide that support the reaction. In the aftermath, I did an extensive series on a...
New York Times Deceptions about the Two-State Solution and Rise of Hamas
The New York Times’ reporting serves to manufacture consent for the US government’s support for Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.
Contours of The Global Imperial Architecture
Antiwar.com recently published an article jointly written by Institute Director Scott Horton and this author (Weeks). The piece, “Strategic Treason: The Empire Fetes Man Who Killed US Troops,” discussed Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s trip to New York City, which...
The Most Important Chapter of Hayek’s Most Important Book
Economist Friedrich Hayek's most popular book, The Road to Serfdom, contains a particularly important chapter titled "The End of Truth." That chapter, with a new foreward by economist Daniel D. Klein of George Mason University, is now available to read with updated...
Standards!
Secretary of War Hegseth recently brought the perfumed princes to the Pentagram to give a short speech on standards. I am glad for the name change since the DoD has never troubled themselves with defending the nation. Someone: "How come there aren't any fat Marines?"...
Short Story – Context
He clenched his fist around the USB, impatience gripping him as he waited. He had just finished pacing only to sit down, unaware of his rocking back and forth. Once he saw her, he was back to his feet. He wanted to push it into her hand and disappear. Instead, she...











