On COI #102, Kyle discusses the rampant police abuse by American and Israeli security forces. In the US, a police officer dislocated an elderly woman's arm, then was recording laughing about it. Another officer shot a man ten times after he mistook a phone for a gun,...
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Unprecedented: Maryland Repeals Blue Privilege
by Matt Agorist | Apr 13, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
For decades, Maryland and dozens of other states across the union have upheld a special set of rights for cops which citizens do not get to enjoy. It was called the police bill of rights and it shielded cops from accountability by blocking civilian inquiries into...
Self Defense, Martial Arts, and the Individual
by Kym Robinson | Mar 19, 2021 | Featured Articles
Self defense is the instinct of all living things. The need to live and survive when attacked. It is only through the insulation of civilised comfort that we tend to ignore the reality of life and neglect the need for self defense. Forgetting that people and beasts do...
Reflections on ‘The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich’
by Kym Robinson | Mar 9, 2021 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles
“Those who do not remember the past are condemned to relive it.”- Santayana There are some books you read which leave lasting scars on the mind. For me, that was The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer. Having first read it as a child when war was...
How Malcolm X Predicted Our Modern Police State
by Matt Agorist | Feb 23, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“They think they are living in a police state, and they become hostile toward the policemen. They think that the policeman is there to be against them rather than to protect them. And these thoughts, these frustrations, these apparitions, automatically are sufficient...
News Roundup 2/17/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 17, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Hedge fund Alden Global Capital will buy Tribune Publishing - publisher of the Chicago Tribune and other papers - for $630 million. Alden Global Capital already owns Digital First Media. DFM includes papers like The Denver Post and Boston Herald. [Link] The...
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...
If You Care About Ashli Babbitt, You Should Care About George Floyd
by Matt Agorist | Jan 12, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As she breached multiple doors in the U.S. Capitol, while accompanied by dozens of other rioters, Ashli Babbitt’s last moments alive were spent attempting to break into a heavily barricaded area, climbing through a window before being shot in the chest by a police...
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A War of Unyielding Horror
That's what the Washington Post calls Israel's slaughter of innocents in Gaza.
Failure Follies: The US Navy Continues the Race to the Bottom
The collapse of western martial civilization is sticking to its schedule. The Wasp class LHD, USS Boxer, has suffered yet another engineering casualty. On this, the Navy delivers with a spectacularly consistent track record of failure with the Little Crappy Ships, the...
More on Immigration and Public Property
Inspired by scholar Simon Guenzl, it occurred to me that regarding "state-claimed" so-called public property, people have been wronged not primarily as taxpayers but as potential homesteaders. (See Guenzl's "Public Property and the Libertarian Immigration...
The F35: The Gift That Keeps on Giving
“Soon after publication ‘Superiority’ was inserted into the Engineering curriculum of MIT, to warn the graduates that the Better is often the enemy of the Good, and the Best can be the enemy of both, as it is always too late.” - Arthur C. Clarke Superiority by Arthur...
Thomas Szasz: Champion of Freedom
Today is the 104th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Szasz (1920-2012), the great if unappreciated libertarian and defender of individual autonomy and dignity. A psychiatrist by profession, for over 50 years, Szasz was the foremost critic of the social-control system...
Iran Attack Liveblog (PHOTOS/VIDEOS)
My live coverage of Iran's missile and drone attack on Israel Saturday night, as it happened. Obviously much of this information has either been confirmed, disproven or become obsolete by now, but the thread is full of interesting details that didn't make it into my...