She had just turned fifteen. She was a good girl, though some of her friends had a wilder side. They did like to party. She was excited to attend a music festival, a large one geared to people under eighteen. While she was there the police were conducting an operation...
Torture
10/8/21 John Kiriakou on the Torture of Abu Zubaydah
by Scott Horton | Oct 9, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews former CIA Officer John Kiriakou about a recent article he wrote. Kiriakou was personally involved in the 2002 capture of Abu Zubaydah in Pakistan. At the time, the CIA believed Zubaydah to be Al Qaeda’s third highest-ranking member. In truth, he was...
That Time I Swiped the U.S. Tariff Code
by Jim Bovard | Oct 8, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
"Nothing so diminishes democracy as secrecy,” as Attorney General Ramsey Clark warned in 1967. As a journalist, I have battled federal agencies for decades to try to discover the sordid details of how Americans’ rights and liberties are being shafted. Most government...
The Best Speech I Never Gave
by Jim Bovard | Oct 4, 2021 | Featured Articles
Prices convey information, even the price of zero. There is often more latent intelligence signaled by prices than by the claimed good intentions of political zealots—even those on the side of peace and liberty. On the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, I tromped...
A Fitting Flourish on a 20 Year Killing Spree
by Laurie Calhoun | Sep 13, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On August 29, 2021, the U.S. military killed a group of people in Kabul, Afghanistan, using a Hellfire missile launched from an MQ-9 Reaper drone. The Pentagon claimed that “the procedures were correctly followed, and it was a righteous strike.” In a surprising...
9/6/21 Clive Stafford Smith on Ahmed Rabbani and the Other Innocent Men Being Held at Guantanamo Bay
by Scott Horton | Sep 9, 2021 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott interviews Clive Stafford Smith about a recent article written by his client Ahmed Rabbani. Rabbani has been in custody for 19 years without a single charge being brought against him. In 2002 he found himself in the hands of the CIA who allegedly believed he was...
U.S. Deploys Marines to Haiti Under Guise of ‘Disaster Relief’
by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 25, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite Washington’s decision not to deploy Marines to Haiti after the July assassination of Haitian president Jovenelle Moise, the devastation of last Saturday’s 7.2 earthquake has provided U.S. leaders the cloak of humanitarian aid for doing just that. In an effort...
America’s COVID Kulaks
by Jim Bovard | Aug 6, 2021 | Featured Articles, Politics
"Shut up and submit” is now the favorite COVID cure of some of America’s leading progressives. Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winner and New York Times columnist, revealed on Tuesday that since freedom is a mirage, people have no good reason not to comply with endless...
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War is the Health of the Stock Exchange
Some genius will be able to determine what percentage of Israeli "aid" packages essentially never leave the DC/VA corridor. That handout of taxpayer funds to Israel coupled with Israel’s, and global, demand increasing for weapons in a period of instability, has been...
Decent Fight Scene Outrages the Memers
The cancel culture mob is upset over a piece of media, this time it’s because a girl character in a television show based on a video game did something that they were OUTRAGED about. A fictional character was able to defeat a man in an unarmed struggle. Her being...
The Greatest Threat to Free Speech
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Royal Navy Carrier Deployment: Failure is in the Cards
HMS Prince of Wales will lead Carrier Strike Group 25 on a deployment to the Pacific. The Prince of Wales has suffered many propulsion issues (it’s a non-nuclear carrier) and engineering casualties. Non-nuclear carrier operations in war in the 21st century rely on...
“The Bisexuals of Politics”
In a recent debate on the Joe Rogan Experience, between Douglas Murray and Dave Smith, Murray accused libertarians as being the “bisexuals of politics.” An interesting claim, one that assumes politics is in itself is a binary. Or that those in the ‘liberty’ spectrum,...
Trump’s Tariffs w/Thomas Eddelem
Thomas Eddelem joined me to break down Trump’s tariff plan, and how it may affect you. Alp
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