On COI #127, Connor Freeman – writer at the Libertarian Institute – returns to the show to discuss recent events in Afghanistan. The Taliban have recently captured dozens of districts and a border crossing with Tajikistan. The Afghan Army is struggling to provide...
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6/24/21 Ben Suitt on the Alarming Suicide Rate Among Post-9/11 War Vets
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Ben Suitt about his work about veteran suicides for Brown University's Cost of War Project. Suitt conservatively estimates that about 30,000 veterans of America's terror wars have taken their own lives, a truly astonishing number. This side of modern...
6/24/21 Ted Carpenter on the Bloody Legacy of America’s Drug War
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Carpenter discusses the harmful effects of drug prohibition in America, both at home and abroad. First of all, he points out, prohibition simply doesn't work. We learned this during alcohol prohibition, when consumption remained high but prices and violence...
6/23/21 Doug Bandow on America’s Dangerous Alliance with Ukraine
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Doug Bandow about the U.S. relationship to Ukraine, perhaps the perfect case study in America's foreign policy arrogance. Ukraine, of course, has very little direct strategic relevance to daily life in America—and yet the U.S. government considers...
6/22/21 William Hartung on the Pork Barrel Politics Behind America’s H-Bomb Policy
by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to William Hartung about America's nuclear policy and the shocking profit motives that end up determining it. Hartung draws particular attention to land-based ICBMs, which, he explains, aren't nearly as effective, since they're fixed in one place, and for...
6/22/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s New Coalition Government
by Scott Horton | Jun 23, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Kalmen Barkin is back for an update on Israeli politics. Naftali Bennett has just taken over as Israel's prime minister, following Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to successfully form a coalition government. Bennett, explains Barkin, is quite far on the right, yet he and...
Episode 594: Moving Forward In A Post-Libertarian World w/ Adam Patrick
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jun 22, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
97 Minutes PG-13 Adam Patrick is the host of the Yer Talkin Over Me Podcast. Adam invited Pete back on his show to continue their conversation from a couple weeks ago and to ask questions specific to Pete's conversation with Matt Erickson and to start the conversation...
Intro to Rothbard
by Scott Horton | Jun 21, 2021 | Blog
I don't know. Maybe you're new at this libertarianism stuff and need to read Anatomy of the State; War, Peace and the State; Our Anti-Imperialist Heritage; Left and Right: The Prospects for Liberty; and The Case Against the Fed by Murray N. Rothbard
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Jill Biden: Stop it now! Joe Biden: She did not mean ‘stop’ it.
I told her to be quiet.
War is the Health, Wealth and Death of the State
“War is the health of the state.The American intellectuals, in their preoccupation with reality, seem to have forgotten that the real enemy is War rather than imperial Germany. There is work to be done to prevent this war of ours from passing into popular mythology as...
The Logic of Eradicating Hamas
Is genocide logically required by Israel's stated objective of eradicating Hamas? It looks that way. Israel demonstrably believes that to wipe out Hamas, it must use overwhelming and indiscriminate force in the Gaza Strip, killing tens of thousands, wounding and...
Yes, UN Security Council Resolution 242 Is Legally Binding on Israel
Contrary to the claim made by ‘Destiny’ in a recent debate with Norman Finkelstein, UN Resolution 242 is legally binding on Israel.
The Israel Lobby Ain’t Shy
They are lots of things, but not that. Members of Congress’ far-left “Squad” who have championed Palestinians in the Middle East conflict are in danger of losing their seats in Democratic primaries. The efforts to remove Reps. Cori Bush of Missouri and Jamaal Bowman...
And Another Thing
One reason I object to Israel's behavior is that it brings anti-Semitic creeps out of the woodwork. Thanks a lot, Israel.
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