On COI #231 Patrick MacFarlane - host of Liberty Weekly - joins Kyle Anzalone to discuss the American police state. Pat breaks down two recent night raids that resulted in young men being killed. The police woke the men in the middle of the night, saw guns, and...
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Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
7/17/20 Wayne McElrath on the Dangerous Militarization of the Police
by Scott Horton | Jul 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Wayne McElrath about the proliferation of military equipment in America's police forces, and its harmful effect on police practices. McElrath describes the process by which local police departments are given "outdated" equipment from the military,...
CNN: After Weeks of Protests, Meaningful Police Reform Appears Unlikely
by Scott Horton | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog
"...But it all may have been for nothing." Instead of trying to entirely abolish racial prejudice from society and demanding every leftist reform under the sun, maybe the Black Lives Matter movement could focus on accountability for killer cops, ending qualified...
Want to end the protests and riots? End the War on Drugs
by Koen Swinkels | May 31, 2020 | Blog
The War on Drugs is the immediate cause of, and pretext for, the system of oppression, and police violence and militarization. Ending the War on Drugs is also a project that can unite rather than divide, something that people from different races and different...
The Militarization of Police Does Not Reduce Crime
by Tom Jacobs | Aug 21, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
The militarization of America's police has been hotly debated in recent years. Critics argue that effectively turning cops into soldiers risks alienating them from the communities they supposedly serve. New research provides evidence supporting such warnings. It finds...
Episode 131: Eric Mulder – A Civil Libertarian Runs for Sheriff
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jul 22, 2018 | Blog, Free Man Beyond the Wall
30 Minutes Mance had a short conversation with the Chair of the Libertarian Party of Arapahoe County Colorado Eric Mulder. Eric is running for county sheriff and describes himself as a Civil Libertarian. He is campaigning on a platform of decriminalization and...
Episode 115: The End of Policing with Dr. Alex Vitale
by Peter R. Quiñones | Jun 2, 2018 | Blog, Free Man Beyond the Wall
Mance welcomes Brooklyn College professor Alex Vitale to the show to talk about his book "The End of Policing." Dr. Vitale talks about how violence by police has been amped up in the last 40 years and talks about the history of policing in this society. The End of...
The US and Russia Must Stop the Race to Nuclear War
by Mikhail Gorbachev | Mar 13, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
When I became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985, I felt during my very first meetings with people that what worried them the most was the problem of war and peace. Do everything in order to prevent war, they said. By that time, the superpowers had accumulated...
A local cop wants to fight a man who banned police from his gym
by James Holbrooks | Aug 10, 2017 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Atlanta — A story about an Atlanta gym owner, Jim Chambers, who refuses to serve police officers and members of the military is having a ripple effect in the community. Now, local media is reporting that a cop...
Thug Nation: Comfortably Numb in the Police State
by Bill Buppert | Apr 13, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Publisher’s Note: It’s not a hundred days into the new circus in the Offal Office and the true colors are showing, as Trump gets comfortable with the Deep State and its bloodthirsty tendencies. National socialist healthcare remains firmly in place destroying whatever...
Connecticut Could Become the First State to Give Cops Killer Drones
by James Holbrooks | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Connecticut — It was only a matter of time. On Thursday, the Associated Press reported that lawmakers in Connecticut are currently considering allowing police to use weaponized drones. “Connecticut lawmakers are...
Code Blue: Setting the Conditions for Insurgency
by Bill Buppert | Mar 27, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
Publisher’s Note from Bill Buppert: There is no possible way to fix what the USSA has slouched into. Trump will not save it. The deep state is married to tyranny, absent the ability to regulate horizontally and vertically every taxable entity it tracks and the ability...
02/21/04 – Bob Barr – The Scott Horton Show
by Scott Horton | Feb 21, 2004 | The Scott Horton Show
Philip Dru interviews Bob Barr, a former federal prosecutor and Congressman from Georgia about threats to liberty and privacy that are the result of the Patriot Act, CAPPS II, TIA, and the militarization of American society....
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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