A huge drawback to social media is this: I'm not sure I really want everybody's opinions on every last thing, and it's frankly demoralizing to realize just how far gone so many people are. For example, one of my own Twitter followers wrote this: "The idea of having to...
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1/18/24 Glenn Greenwald on the Legacy of the Edward Snowden Leaks
by Scott Horton | Jan 21, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Glenn Greenwald joins Scott to discuss the Edward Snowden leaks and the broader fight to protect civil liberties. They start with a discussion of Greenwald’s remarkable consistency amid the dramatic evolution of America’s political dynamics. They...
1/18/24 Max Blumenthal on the Lies Getting Gazans and Israeli Hostages Killed
by Scott Horton | Jan 20, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Max Blumenthal returns to the show to talk about some of his recent reporting about Gaza. They first discuss some New York Times reports about October 7th that are not only completely free of evidence but are even disputed by the victims being...
Israel Rounds Up Thousands of Palestinians Without Charge or Access to a Lawyer
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 18, 2024 | News
The Israeli Knesset has approved legislation that allows holding Palestinians deemed security prisoners for up to 180 days without access to a lawyer. Since October 7, Israel has placed thousands of Palestinians in administrative detention. On Monday, the Israeli...
Even American Neo-Nazis Have Abandoned Ukraine
by Ken Silva | Jan 17, 2024 | Blog, Foreign Policy
Editor's Note: The activities of Christopher Pohlhaus were previously reported on by the Libertarian Institute's Kyle Anzalone. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, neo-Nazis in the U.S. expressed widespread support for...
Israel Choking Gaza Aid Deliveries
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 8, 2024 | News
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) described the Israeli inspection protocols in Gaza as severely restrictive and that Tel Aviv should face consequences for preventing aid from the besieged enclave. Israel has restricted aid deliveries into Gaza to just a fraction of...
The Truth About Government Agencies w/ Jim Bovard
by Keith Knight | Jan 3, 2024 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/izgX-GhYh9s Federal law enforcement agencies arbitrarily confiscate more property from Americans each year than all the burglars steal nationwide. The IRS pilfered more cash from private bank accounts because of alleged paperwork errors than the total...
Domestic Imperialism: Nine Reasons I Left Progressivism
by Keith Knight | Dec 30, 2023 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/60KXH3k0cEo Governments provide many things, such as security, schools, intelligence gathering, and poverty assistance programs, but none of these are defining characteristics of governments. They can be provided by many nongovernment actors in...
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The Pause That Refreshes
I will be spending the holidays with my children and grandchildren at an undisclosed bunker location in the inland Rocky Mountain west and off the 'net until the new year when I will resume blogging at the Institute... Since I paused Chasing Ghosts and started...
Good Plan Means My Plan
"All this passionate praise of the supereminence of government action is but a poor disguise for the individual interventionist’s self-deification. The great god State is a great god only because it is expected to do exclusively what the individual advocate of...
Who Needs What?
"[I]t is evident ... that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the...
Whose Plan?
"The alternative is not plan or no plan. The question is whose planning? Should each member of society plan for himself, or should a benevolent government alone plan for them all? The issue is not automatism versus conscious action; it is autonomous action of each...
What Full Liberalism Is Not About
"Liberalism is a doctrine directed entirely towards the conduct of men in this world. In the last analysis, it has nothing else in view than the advancement of their outward, material welfare and does not concern itself directly with their inner, spiritual and...
Greeks Refuse to Purchase Fifty Million Dollar Floating Dumpsters From the US Navy
These floating dumpsters cost the American taxpayer 500-600 million per ship. The US Navy is trying to garage sell these malfunctioning ships to Greece and they are onto the scam. The Greek Defense Minister is smarter than the average bear. Glad to see that even...
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