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10/14/22 Ben Mckelvey on Australia’s Crimes and Struggles in Afghanistan

by Scott Horton | Oct 19, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott interviews author and freelance journalist Ben Mckelvey about a book he recently published which explores the controversies and challenges of Australian special operations in Afghanistan. Scott and Mckelvey dig into the war crime allegations...

The Meaning of Inalienable

by Jeffrey Wernick | Oct 18, 2022 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism

This article was originally published on June 17, 2021. Biden expressed the uniqueness of America, the idea of America: “You heard me say this before, again and again. I’m going to keep saying it. What’s that idea. We don’t derive our rights from the government. We...

Why I Ended Liberty Weekly and Started Vital Dissent

by Patrick Macfarlane | Oct 17, 2022 | Blog

Since episode 234 was the last episode of Liberty Weekly. I thought it'd be fitting to sit down and work through exactly what that means. When I started the project in June 2016, I had no idea how long it would last or what it would turn into. The best thing about the...

10/16/22 Katie Halper on how Speaking the Truth Got Her Fired

by Scott Horton | Oct 17, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott interviews journalist and political commentator Katie Halper who just got fired from The Hill for calling Israel an apartheid state. Halper walks Scott through the timeline of events that resulted in her termination as well as what she was...

10/14/22 Ted Galen Carpenter on the Danger of America’s Involvement in Ukraine

by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott interviews author and Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter about the dangerous situation in Ukraine. Carpenter has been paying close attention to the social psychology behind America’s response to Russia’s invasion. He talks with...

10/7/22 Boltzmann Booty on the CIA Asset who Funded the OKC Bombing

by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott interviews Boltzmann Booty, a writer who recently wrote an article about possible CIA ties to the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. It’s well known that Timothy McVeigh and accomplice Terry Nichols used money stolen from a man named Roger Moore...

10/10/22 Medea Benjamin on the Need for Peace in Ukraine

by Scott Horton | Oct 14, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott interviews co-founder of CODEPINK Medea Benjamin about the antiwar movement and the risks brought about by the war in Ukraine. They start out with a discussion of how the antiwar movement has evolved since the George W. Bush years before...

10/7/22 William Astore: There’s Something Rotten in the US Military

by Scott Horton | Oct 11, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show

Download Episode. Scott talks with William Astore about an article he penned recently in TomDispatch about the inner rot plaguing today’s U.S. military. Astore, who served as a lieutenant colonel in the Air Force, has observed an existential flaw that threatens the...

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Anti-War Blog – Osama Bin Laden won

Bin Laden Won He won and the US warmasters are celebrating. Imagine rejoicing after a government falls to the descendants of Al-Qaeda. We don’t have to because the Washington gang are doing just that. The Islamo-Fascist Jihadis who terrorised the minds of the West for...

We Can’t Consume Our Way to Prosperity

Once upon a time, John Stuart Mill could write these words truthfully ("Of the Influence of Consumption on Production," 1844): It is no longer supposed that you benefit the producer by taking his money, provided you give it to him again in exchange for his goods. He...

Pearl Harbor: Not What You May Think it Was

I have always had my doubts but Jane Shaw brings the receipts. RedDR needed the war because his communist takeover of America was failing bigly and a war empowered government like nothing else. A decade ago I began to research the history of the Pearl Harbor attack....

Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 2

"It might be argued that only the 'rich' can afford to be capitalists, i.e., those who have a greater amount of money stock. This argument has superficial plausibility, since ... for any given individual and a given time-preference schedule, a greater money stock will...

Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 1

"[A]ny man can be a capitalist if only he wants to be. He can derive his funds solely from the fruits of previous capitalist investment or from past 'hoarded' cash balances or solely from his income as a laborer or a landowner. He can, of course, derive his funds from...

Billion Dollar Disasters Continue to Steam Ahead

Word. The Zumwalt-class destroyer will never be the battleship of the twenty-first century. It’s the U.S. Navy’s version of the Russian Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier. Yet another multi-billion dollar failure. Yet, the instant that the Zumwalt-class appears to...