President Biden is tub-thumping for Congress to create new federal handouts to make college free for the vast majority of students. But as Ryan McMaken and other commentators on mises.org have pointed out, college is vastly overpriced and overrated nowadays. My view...
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10/28/21 End of the Empire – Julian Assange, Havana Syndrome and the legendary Will Grigg – Episode 5
by Scott Horton | Nov 2, 2021 | End of the Empire
Scott and Pete are back for episode 5 of End of the Empire. The two discuss the legacy of the great Will Grigg. Just about all of Will’s work can be found at the Libertarian Institute website and is absolutely worth checking out. Scott and Pete also have a lengthy...
COI #182: Biden Targets the Truth with Assange Prosecution
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 31, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #182, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the recent updates in Assange’s extradition case. Biden, like Trump, is prosecuting Assange for publishing evidence of American war crimes. The US/UK governments are criminalizing journalism and dealing a fatal blow to the First...
9/27/21 Kevin Gosztola on the CIA’s War on Assange, Wikileaks and Journalism Itself
by Scott Horton | Sep 29, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola is back on the show to discuss a recent Yahoo! News article about Assange that went viral. Gosztola thinks the piece contains some good reporting but leans too much on a flawed Russiagate framing. Scott and Gosztola discuss the semantic war our...
Evacuation Eyewitness: What I Saw in Kabul
by John Vaughn | Sep 22, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
I watched a woman come through the North Gate of the Hamid Karzai International Airport holding a limp baby. It was tiny, pale, and naked against the hot, dry noon sun. I couldn’t tell for certain if it was alive or dead at that arms-length distance, but whether or...
The Antiwar Comic: Enter the Journo!
by Tony DiGerolamo | Sep 4, 2021 | Blog
You're favorite hero is back! For more comics, visit The Webcomic Factory.
RIP: Mark Perry, An Extraordinary Journalist In Extraordinary Times
by Kelley Vlahos | Aug 9, 2021 | Featured Articles
Our colleague and friend Mark Perry passed away today after a battle with lung cancer, his son Cal Perry announced on Twitter earlier this morning. It is devastating news to so many because Perry had been a staple in Washington foreign policy/military journalism and...
COI #134: Biden’s War on Journalists
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 12, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #134, Kyle and Will give updates on the political situation in Haiti, where President Jovenel Moise was assassinated by a group of gunmen last week. The assassin team involved more than two dozen Colombians and two Haitian-Americans, and were reportedly...
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Trump Bombs Iran: Bovard’s First Penalty Flags
If only the Japanese had issued a "time for peace" statement after bombing Pearl Harbor like Trump did tonight. Shakespeare wrote: "Cry havoc and loose the dogs of war." Trump had his 4 minute victory lap statement tonight. Will he still be strutting on Independence...
UTOPYC: A Realistic Libertarian Utopia
What if there were a country with no state, no taxes, no politicians, and no public institutions? That’s the premise of Utopyc, a novel that answers the need—long identified by Rothbard—for a libertarian narrative capable of moving, convincing, and inspiring. The...
Celebrate Juneteenth the Right Way
Today is Juneteenth. I celebrate the lethal electrocution of two communist spies on this day in 1953; Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, an American couple, were executed for their espionage service to Stalin and the USSR They became good communists on that...
The “Least Performing” Circus Continues at the US Navy (and Elsewhere)
***Have been out of pocket for conference attendance*** The US Navy and the Pentagon continue the grand sclerotic and arthritic three ring circus of staggering inabilities to deliver any exquisite platforms on time, on budget and within scope. The sterling track...
Be Careful What You Ask for
You wanted America First. You got it. Did you think it wouldn't be conceived in national collectivist terms? The clue's in the name. It's America First, not Americans First.
Phony Noninterventionists
Call me naive, but I increasingly suspect that much of today's "left" is not antiwar on principle. Rather, it's anti-American war because, in its view, America (not just the government) is rotten to the core: bourgeois, racist, patriarchal, heteronormative, blah,...
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