Stephen Zunes talks about Joe Biden's shameful history helping to advocate for the invasion of Iraq in 2002 and 2003. These days he claims he was caught up in the aftermath of 9/11 and was simply mistaken about the intelligence, like everyone else who voted for the...
Politics
Greater Idaho Movement Is the Latest Indicator of a Shift toward Decentralization
by José Niño | Mar 11, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Recently disgruntled residents of rural counties in southwest Oregon have been organizing a petition to move Idaho’s border westward to form a “Greater Idaho” that could also potentially include parts of Northern California. This petition...
Year Zero 101: A Direct Republic with Donnie Gebert
by Tommy Salmons | Mar 10, 2020 | Blog, Year Zero
Donnie Gebert of the Direct Republic podcast and author of The Null Hypothesis of Politics joined Tommy for episode 101. Donnie's idea of a Direct Republic, decentralization down to the individual, was thought up within a mind trained and educated by the DOD to topple...
The Reality of the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus
by Zack Sorenson | Mar 8, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Exponential functions. Understand this, and you’ll grasp the reality of the Wuhan Novel Coronavirus from China. I know math sucks, but if you can get this, you’ll lift the fog on just how bad this is. With the Novel Coronavirus (called SARS-CoV-2), some speculate that...
Separation of Economy and State
by Keith Knight | Mar 8, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHQdldtKPRo&t=4s If a group of people do not coercively monopolize how a country thinks, won't people think bad thoughts thus do bad things? Shouldn't we have common sense thought control? If this "cure" seems worse than the...
2/28/20 Peter Van Buren on Russiagate II and the Coronavirus Panic
by Scott Horton | Feb 28, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Peter Van Buren about the resurgence of the narrative that Russia is interfering in American elections, this time in the form of apparent support both for Trump's reelection and for Bernie Sanders to get the Democratic nomination. Van Buren notes that...
It’s the Bureaucracy, Genius: How Bureaucracy Has Lowered Productivity and Income
by Craig Cantoni | Feb 26, 2020 | Featured Articles
The supposed brightest minds, educated in the supposed best universities, can’t figure out why American productivity has languished in this era of technological innovation, resulting in income growth being lower than it would otherwise be. Well, my mediocre mind came...
The WTO Is Both Irrelevant and Unnecessary
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 26, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is in a state of crisis. Despite grandiose dreams of a global trade organization that would enforce global bureaucrats' broad vision for multilateral trade agreements, the world looks more and more like it neither wants nor needs an...
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High on State Power: The Tragic Death of Matthew Perry and the Evil of the War on Drugs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brAsC_MEAxY&list=PLKjJE86mQRtsUs-GDEnmtxSyJmf1ueF_5&index=1&t=1s On Oct. 28, 2023, beloved actor Matthew Perry was found dead in the hot tub at his Los Angeles home. Cause of death was ruled “acute effects of ketamine” and...
Sig P320/M17/18: MILSPEC is Overrated
A negligent discharge (ND) in a weapon is when the operator strokes the trigger that results in the firing of the weapon. In my time, the lion's share of these are NDs but actual mechanical (unintentional, accidental or "uncommanded") discharges were rare and then the...
Merrick Garland Should Start His Crusade Against White Supremacists By Re-Opening the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing Case
Given the recent stories about Merrick Garland’s experience at the helm of the Oklahoma City bombing prosecution and his own comments about prosecuting white supremacists should he be made Attorney General, I have some questions about Garland’s handling of the OKC...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part II)
In Part I, I discussed and critiqued an overview of the new efforts to update the US nuclear arsenal. Here, we'll chat (again) about the Sentinel which is the improved replacement for the aging Minuteman III ICBM and it is already in trouble with the schedule sliding...
Company Men: Former Spies Spill The Tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMSJDkqSYQ&t=3757s Danny Jones recently hosted former CIA officers John Kiriakou and Andrew Bustamente for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on torture, 9/11 & terrorism, domestic politics, foreign policy and what it’s...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part I)
The United States is on track to spend the equivalent of more than two Manhattan projects per year in one of the most expensive nuclear arms races in history. The US has not done a recorded air breathing nuclear detonation since 1992 (the last US test, Julin-Divider,...
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