Ted Carpenter talks about the Russian bounties story, including all the ways it has been misreported by the media. Carpenter reminds us that the original intelligence that was leaked to the press was based on very flimsy anonymous sources, and may have been obtained...
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7/17/20 Doug Bandow on America’s Crumbling Empire
by Scott Horton | Jul 20, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Doug Bandow discusses America's failing world empire and the "threats" posed by rival powers like Russia and China. These countries, of course, don't pose a plausible threat to the safety and security of citizens in the United States, but they do pose a very real...
Rep Thomas Massie On GOP Amendment To End War In Afghanistan
by Steven Woskow | Jul 17, 2020 | Blog
"A defense bill amendment to repeal authority for military force that has been in place since right after 9-11, effectively expediting plans for a full withdrawal and ending America's longest war." Massie states the biggest obstacle may be that Democrat House Leader...
News Roundup 7/17/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 17, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Missouri adopts a new anti-BDS law. [Link] A video surfaced of a NY police officer beating a homeless man for no reason. [Link] A Michigan judge sentenced a 15-year-old girl to juvenile detention for failing to complete online schoolwork during Covid-19....
The Government of Louisville, Kentucky is at War Against Its Population
by Scott Horton | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog
Here their paramilitary SWAT team accosts a house painter, his girlfriend and her 10-year-old daughter because they are so crazy and stupid they raided the same house twice, the second time weeks after successfully arresting the guy they were looking for, who was...
A Halo for the Civil War is Hogwash
by Jim Bovard | Jul 16, 2020 | Featured Articles
“If the people who started wars didn’t make them sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight?” said Rhett Butler, the savvy anti-hero in Gone with the Wind. Politicians, activist historians, and social justice warriors have awarded the American Civil War an ex post...
How Fed Policy Could Cause More Riots
by Ron Paul | Jul 16, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and San Francisco Fed President Mary Daly both recently denied that the Federal Reserve’s policies create economic inequality. Unfortunately for Powell, Daly, and other Fed promoters, a cursory look at the Fed’s operations shows...
NYT Still Joking Around About Dead Americans in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Jul 15, 2020 | Blog
Do they have editors at this paper anymore, or it's all just pre-packaged in Langley? In an article about three marines who should have never been in Afghanistan in the first place getting killed there in a suicide truck bombing last year, they 1 try to push their...
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This Is Your Security Force
From the Free Thought Project: WATCH: School Cops Handcuff Mentally Disabled 8yo Boy, Bring Him to Adult Prison for Misbehaving WATCH: Incompetent Cop Tasers Fellow Officer Causing Him to Shoot Unarmed Man Residents Outraged After Cops Open Fire on 5 Children, Ages...
Who’s Sick of the ‘Zombie Reply?’
On the day Hugh Hefner died I posted a picture on Twitter with a quote in which he puts forth the idea that we own our minds and bodies, and for church or state to attempt to limit that, is inappropriate. A random Tweeter deduced from the comment that if “his own mind...
Matt Taibbi and the New Russiagate Whistleblower
Taibbi's new piece is called: "Our Man in Cambridge." It's about Stephen Halper's assistant, Steven P. Schrage, who has now written this new piece, "The Spies Who Hijacked America." Update: Steven Schrage's interview with Maria Bartiromo:...
The Police Lie All The Time. Can Anything Stop Them?
Mark Joseph Stern at Slate. The bureaucratic state passes laws that make it easy for cops to stop anyone at anytime for minor offences. The system incentives cops to lie and protects them from scrutiny. It is so bad that DA offices are keeping secret databases of...
Neighbor Colludes With Cops To Kill Man
Ryan Whitacker was shot and killed by Phoenix police on May 22, 2020 after a neighbor called in a noise complaint. The neighbor didn't just call the cops and complain about the noise, he told the 911 dispatcher "It could be physical". Eric July writes: "A neighbor...
The State Is All About Double Standards
There are some subjects that must be discussed multiple times until people fully grasp them. The subject of the “double standard” when it comes to State actors and their actions is one that I think about every day. On the right of the meme is a list of actions that...
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