Covid The CDC tells Americans to take an mRNA vaccination over Johnson & Johnson. [Link] The US sends over 200,000 vaccines to Jamaica. [Link] US News Boston police used over $600,000 seized during drug arrests to buy surveillance equipment secretly. [Link] In...
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An Oppressive Cycle: How Police Militarization and Police Violence Reinforce Each Other
by Michael Maharrey | Dec 8, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The militarization of state and local police through federal government programs changed the character of policing in the United States. It has turned “protect and serve” into “command and control.” Instead of serving the community as “peace officers,” many state and...
The Gaslighting Government
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 6, 2021 | Featured Articles
The film Gaslight (1944), directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer, relays the story of a con artist, Sergis Bauer, who under the assumed name of Gregory Anton seduces and marries a young woman, Paula Alquist. The smitten bride has no...
12/2/21 Ford Fischer on the New Details Surrounding Johnny Hurley’s Tragic Death
by Scott Horton | Dec 5, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott is joined by journalist and primary source documentarian Ford Fischer to discuss the recently released footage of Johnny Hurley’s death at the hands of an Arvada police officer. Fischer made a short documentary about the tragedy shortly after it occurred this...
Australia’s History of Benevolent Fascism
by Kym Robinson | Dec 1, 2021 | Featured Articles
You can read Part I of this essay, published in September 2021, here. Australia has had a history of complicated relationships between the governments that ruled over its vast sunburned lands and the individual citizens subject to such rule. The states and territories...
All Points Bulletin: Timothy McVeigh and the Brown Pickup Truck
by Richard Booth | Nov 29, 2021 | Featured, Featured Articles, OKC
Timothy McVeigh fled the scene of the Oklahoma City bombing driving a battered old yellow Mercury Marquis that was missing a license plate. He was spotted fleeing the scene, with a passenger sitting next to him in the Marquis, by witness Gary Lewis. FBI agent John...
‘State Secrets’ Hide Government Perfidy
by Jim Bovard | Nov 29, 2021 | Featured Articles
Will federal law enforcement agencies ever be forced to disclose their abuses of American citizens? The Supreme Court could answer that question in its decision on a potentially landmark case it heard last week regarding surveillance of Muslim communities in...
The Government Is Coming for Your 401K
by Mike Fedele | Nov 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
Quiet conversations are occurring in the halls of Congress, think tanks, NGOs, and academia on how to continue the enrichment of the public sector elites and their various complexes (military, education, financial, healthcare, and “non-profits”). The “wise men” know...
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6 Hours of Scott Horton: On with Smith, Murphy, Woods & Russell
Scott's been making the libertarian podcast rounds with our friends Dave Smith – the very failed comedian – the great economist and successful comedian (on Twitter) Bob Murphy, historian and email marketing master Tom Woods, and Clint Russell of the Liberty Lockdown...
Restricting Production
"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...
Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving
Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...
“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital
"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
US Forces Booted Out of Niger
2024 is the end of the ten year lease after expending $110 million to build and $30 million a year to maintain the base. The French forces were booted in October 2023. American troops are leaving now and the German troops will leave in September. The military regimes...
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