My dear old friend Jeff Riggenbach died today. Jeff was a brilliant writer who penned two pieces on Randolph Bourne, the namesake of Antiwar.com’s parent foundation, The Randolph Bourne Institute. The Brilliance of Randolph Bourne Randolph Bourne Biography As a...
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1/22/21 Matt Agorist on the Growth of the American Police State
by Scott Horton | Jan 24, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Matt Agorist about police violence in America. Agorist is adamant that although police brutality is disproportionately a problem in black communities, this is an issue that affects us all, and Americans should be unified in opposition to growing police...
1/22/21 David Swanson on Joe Biden’s Dangerous Cabinet Appointments
by Scott Horton | Jan 23, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
David Swanson discusses the foreign policy of the incoming Biden administration. On the positive side, he thinks there's a good likelihood of ending U.S. support for the war in Yemen, lifting some of America's oppressive economic sanctions and better relations with...
Episode 525: Reflections on the ‘Storming of the Capitol’ w/ Aaron from ‘Timeline Earth’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jan 18, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
74 Minutes Not Safe For Work Aaron is one of the hosts of the Timeline Earth podcast. Pete invited Aaron back on the show to talk about the "storming of the capitol." They then the get into the response from the government and the corporate press, as well as the...
1/15/21 Andrew Quilty on the CIA’s Afghan Death Squads
by Scott Horton | Jan 17, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews journalist Andrew Quilty about his recent piece for the Intercept, which details the horrific violence being carried out in Afghanistan by U.S.-backed militia groups. In several recent attacks, these "death squads" have raided religious boarding...
Don’t Start A Domestic Terror War, Impeach Trump For War Crimes In Yemen
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 13, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
Connor Freeman, writer at The Libertarian Institute, returns to the show to discuss the Trump administration's decision to name the Houthi a terrorist organization. The Houthi govern most of Yemen's population. The designation will make it extremely difficult to bring...
Episode 522: The Vets Are Joining the Fight w/ Luke and Typo from ‘Biting the Bullet’
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jan 11, 2021 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
73 Minutes Not Safe for Work Luke and Typo are the hosts of the "Biting the Bullet" podcast and two Marine Corps vets. Pete asked them to come on the show to talk about a change in messaging and why they are joining the Libertarian Party to back the Mises Caucus....
Today’s Riot
by Scott Horton | Jan 6, 2021 | Blog
I'm swamped editing the book, but just a couple quick things about today's riot at the capitol: Biden did not steal 5 states. Trump lost. That's the deal. Trump's refusal to concede and long delay before telling people to go home today is a goddam disgrace. Still, the...
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Another Aspect of the Eternal Intelligence Failure in the West
Had a brain zephyr. I know this because I am on the spectrum. The intelligence community (IC) hires high IQ but neuro-divergent individuals who have difficulty with tone and context and that colors reporting, assessments and final analyses. Couple that with...
What Is Easy and What Is Not Easy
It is easy to oppose Israel's massacre in the Gaza Strip. Just watch a few horrifying videos. What is not easy is understanding the price system, its prerequisites -- private property and free exchange -- and its benefits for mankind, including civil peace.
Firing Blanks: The Pentagon as a Fiscal Disaster Factory
I have mentioned previously that the introduction of all the latest and greatest western weapons in the inventory given to the Ukraine would have some very deleterious effects in the future. One was permitting possible future antagonists to observe and and take...
Can’t We All Get Along?
Pre-Zionism and pre-Israel, Arab-Muslims, Arab-Christians, and Arab-Jews (yes!) got along in many places as neighbors and friends. Compare that to Europe. Arab and Jewish nationalism messed it up. See Avi Shlaims's Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew.
Lying Politicians Gonna Lyingly Politick
House Speaker Mike Johnson speaking on Holocaust Remembrance Day: We remember what happened then [in Nazi Germany], and today, we are witnessing American universities quickly become hostile places for Jewish students and faculty. The very campuses which were once the...
The Purpose of the Antisemitism Awareness Act
The point of the House-passed (and misnamed) Antisemitism Awareness Act is not to empower the Education Department to sue and defund colleges under civil rights law. It is to make lawsuits unnecessary by chilling expression.
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