When it comes to the rapidly growing national surveillance state, federal agencies such as the NSA and FBI get most of the attention. But in fact, state and local law enforcement agencies, and increasingly private third-parties, make federal surveillance possible. A...
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Prisoners of Your Health: The Flemington and North Melbourne Public Housing Towers Blockade
by Kym Robinson | Jul 8, 2020 | Featured Articles
COVID-19 has claimed its share of victims, most of whom have not even contracted the virus. Instead, across the world it has been the reaction of governments often under the guise of benevolence and concern for health that has impacted and harmed more people. Whether...
Charlie Savage, NYT, CIA Climb Down From Russia Bounties Hoax
by Scott Horton | Jul 6, 2020 | Blog
The headline blares that it's a big "administration" conspiracy to play up doubts and play down proofs of the bounties plot, but the text itself reveals that it's the National Intelligence Council that did the new review and that even the CIA, the agency out in front...
U.S. Raises Stakes in South China Sea Naval Exercises
by Dave DeCamp | Jul 6, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. Navy conducted massive drills in the South China Sea on Saturday, with two aircraft carriers involved in the exercises. According to The Wall Street Journal, hundreds of jets, helicopters, and surveillance planes took off from the USS Nimitz and the USS...
News Roundup 6/26/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 26, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Three North Carolina cops were fired after accidentally recording themselves talking about killing black people. [Link] 1.5 million Americans filed for unemployment this week. Over 6 million have filed for unemployment since the start of June. [Link] The Air...
5 Things I Learned Debating the Harvard Prof Who Called for a ‘Presumptive Ban’ on Homeschooling
by Kerry McDonald | Jun 21, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice
It's not just about homeschooling. On Monday, I debated the Harvard professor who proposes a “presumptive ban” on homeschooling. Thousands of viewers tuned in to watch the live, online discussion hosted by the Cato Institute. With 1,000 submitted audience questions,...
6/19/20 Dave DeCamp on the Killing of David McAtee
by Scott Horton | Jun 19, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Dave DeCamp shares the tragic story of David McAtee, the owner of a barbecue restaurant in Louisville who was killed by National Guard troops during a recent night of protests. McAtee was cooking for a group of friends and customers several miles away from the nearest...
6/15/20 Ali Abunimah on the Threat to Israel Posed by Black Lives Matter
by Scott Horton | Jun 16, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Ali Abunimah discusses the odd relationship between U.S. policing and the Israeli government. He describes the way higher-ups at many American police departments are sent on all-expenses paid trips by the Israel lobby, where they learn counter-terrorism tactics from...
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David Boaz (1953-2024)
With great sadness I note the passing of David Boaz today, June 7, 2024, at age 70. He had been ill for some time. He was a good man and a giant of the libertarian movement. Very much because of David's influence and example, libertarian organizations not only...
Provoked Book Update
As many of you know, I'm working on a book called Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. You may also know that it's way overlong and way overdue. Well, the news is that I got it up to 1,400 pages, and more than...
Wonderful Israeli Best Friends and Most Moral Army in World History™ Torture, Murder Palestinians with Electro-shock, Sodomy
New York Times: Eight former detainees, all of whom the military has confirmed were held at the site and who spoke on the record, variously said they had been punched, kicked and beaten with batons, rifle butts and a hand-held metal detector while in custody. One said...
Nothing New in Military Technology Disasters
Readers think I am highly critical of Western military foibles and bad decisions (I am) but history is replete with mismanagement and poor planning planet-wide in military technology. Like the Indian nuclear submarine disaster from leaving a hatch open on the INS...
What Inequality?
According to research conducted by Phil Gramm, the late Robert Ekelund, and John Early, documented in The Myth of American Inequality: How Government Biases Policy Debate and summarized in this video: The bottom 20 percent of households have an average annual income...
Immigration Talk
I talk about immigration with Michael Liebowitz on The Rational Egoist.
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