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1/7/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israeli Settlements and Netanyahu’s Political Future

by Scott Horton | Jan 11, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Kalmen Barkin discusses the deplorable situation of Palestinians in Israel today, a people whose lands and rights are being slowly taken away from them by the Israeli government, while the delusive promise of a two-state solution vanishes along with them. Barkin...

1/7/21 Bob Murphy on the Disastrous Consequences of the Government’s Covid Policies

by Scott Horton | Jan 9, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Bob Murphy about the economic side of all the covid policies this past year. Most obvious are the huge spending bills, which dwarf even the stimulus measures taken after the 2008 recession. Murphy reminds us that this kind of rampant spending really...

Consent is Morality. Sean Leal & Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Jan 8, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/qVgi52Og4KM Each individual should have the freest possible scope for the development of his faculties and his personality. In order to have this scope, he must have freedom from violence against himself. Violence can only repress and destroy human...

The Case for Anarcho-Capitalism. David Friedman and Keith Knight.

by Keith Knight | Jan 6, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/Ro9s2mI1VNM ... a land without a settled government, whether criminally anarchic or anarcho-capitalist, is almost impossible for an external power to occupy and govern. For there is no political infrastructure, no settled government to whom the...

1/4/21 Kevin Gosztola on the Rejection of Julian Assange’s Extradition

by Scott Horton | Jan 4, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott interviews Kevin Gosztola about the breaking news that a British judge has denied the request to extradite Julian Assange from England to the United States. The prosecutors will appeal, says Gosztola, but this ruling opens the possibility that Assange could be...

The Philosophical Problem Every Government Faces. Michael Huemer and Keith Knight

by Keith Knight | Jan 4, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/driOX4uD7G4 “Why should 535 people in Washington be entitled to issue commands to 300 million others? And why should the others obey? These questions, as I argue in the following pages, have no satisfactory answers.” Michael Huemer The Problem of...

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There Are No Good Arguments for Government, Give It Up

by Keith Knight | Jan 2, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/OQnr9m28m4c Each individual should have the freest possible scope for the development of his faculties and his personality. In order to have this scope, he must have freedom from violence against himself. Violence can only repress and destroy human...

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Pager-palooza: The Remote Detonation Arms Race Begins

If Israel had this mass remote detonation capability a year ago, why level Gaza when surgical strikes would have sent a more clear message and not set the entire global Islamic world against them (even worse and more vociferously than before)? Inquiring minds want to...

Encourage Work and Abolish Welfare: AZ Sheriff Testifies to Congress

https://www.youtube.com/live/sEjWcefdE0g?si=KFL1XUQdwsRVe5Yg Sheriff Hathaway of Arizona explains the situation at America's border. As libertarians, we should be encouraging people to engage in mutually beneficial voluntary exchanges regardless of arbitrary...

Hollywood Isn’t Real: Precise Space Targeting is Fiction

A billion here and several billion there, pretty soon some technology works. Not. Please dismiss the idea of the all-seeing eye-in-the-sky providing real time weapons launch control. And even if they could provide the data, what system would coordinate and synchronize...

Anti-War Blog – The Powerful and the Powerless

There is an indecency in forcing someones home open, to be pillaged, then celebrating in such behaviour by showing of what was found. Personal items. Men, relishing in the intimate secrets of a woman. Lingerie and other personal apparel to be strewn and displayed for...

Storm Clouds Gathering: Is This It?

Secret Service Director Ron Rowe [9/16/24]: "There could be another geopolitical event that could put the United States into a kinetic conflict or some other... some other issue that may result in additional responsibilities and protectees of the United States Secret...

Fraud on Fraud: Compounding The LCS Follies

It only took the DoJ eight years to levy a fine for ripping off tax dollars. Imagine if journalists on the Pentagon beat actually went after the fraud and inefficiencies of the military industrial complex with investigative lenses and FOIA festivals that could shed...