Download Episode. Scott talks with Ryan McMaken about free markets and free trade. They begin with a discussion about the role of the Mises Institute in the push for sound money. Scott then asks McMaken about the nuances of debating capitalism vs. socialism while...
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Former NATO Commander Disguises War Propaganda as Novel
by Patrick Macfarlane | Apr 26, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On March 9, 2021, the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Admiral James Stavridis, co-authored a fiction novel with Elliott Ackerman, another former U.S. military officer. The book, entitled 2034: A Novel of the Next World War, imagines a kinetic war between the...
Russia Strikes Supply Lines in Ukraine as White House Rejects Kremlin Demand to End Weapons Shipments
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 25, 2022 | News Roundup
Russia has targeted a number of sites in Ukraine that have been used for Western weapons deliveries, local officials said, as the Biden administration rejected demands from Moscow to stop arming Ukraine. A Ukrainian railway official reported that five stations were...
Biden Approves $713 Million in Weapons For Ukraine, Hopes War Will Leave Russia Weakened
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 25, 2022 | News Roundup
On Sunday, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin became the highest-ranking US officials to visit Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24. During meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the officials promised more...
When the Bubble Pops, Will You Be Ready?
by David Brady | Apr 25, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
The Government’s COVID-19 response was met with the obvious effects like the lockdowns that decimated the lives of millions to little to no effect on mitigating the spread, mask mandates, or even vaccination mandates. But underlying all of the obvious issues was that...
Russia Says Its Embassy in Washington Is ‘Under Blockade’
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 24, 2022 | News Roundup
Moscow claims Washington is making normal business at its American diplomatic offices impossible. Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov says frozen bank accounts and threats restrict engagement between the world’s nuclear superpowers.
4/22/22 Kevin Gosztola on the Next Steps in the Assange Extradition
by Scott Horton | Apr 24, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Keven Gosztola returns to the show to give an update on Wikileaks founder Julian Assange’s legal situation. The British magistrate's court recently ordered Assange to be extradited to the United States. Gosztola walks us through how we arrived at...
For 12 Years and Tens of Thousands of Dollars, Is Schooling Worth It?
by George Leef | Apr 23, 2022 | Featured Articles
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan (Princeton University Press, 2018, 395 pages). Almost every book on education policy (and I have read a great many of them) springs from the set of assumptions that...
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The US Doesn’t Have a Monopoly on Contemporary Military Incompetence
The six-thousand-ton INS Arihant sank in 2017 and remained out of service at the docks while the water was pumped out, and the pipes replaced. The entire process took ten months. Imagine not only not having the sea sense to seal your boat before diving but having no...
Israeli War Crimes Documented by the Israeli Defense Forces
There’s no sense denying Israel’s indiscriminate attacks and wanton destruction when its war crimes are documented by its own armed forces.
Government Subsidy of K-PhD: The Suicide Pact of Western Civilization
The German Empire arranged passage for Lenin Vladimir Ilyich Lenin in 1917, joined by 29 other Russian exiles, a Pole and a Swiss, to Russia to try to seize power from the government. They traveled on an armored train through Germany then took a ship to Sweden where...
Money to Burn: Pentagon Blues
I often quip to the TSA slack-jawed shamblers at the airport when I fly that I am happy the TSA exists because think of how much more homelessness there would in the USA if the unemployable weren't in shitty government jobs hassling peaceful travelers. The DoD has...
Little Crappy Ships Continue to Waste Money, Again
The next to last floating dumpster of the Little Crappy Ship (LCS), USS Beloit, was launched, yet another future fish apartment complex; the USS Cleveland, the final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025 (don't hold your...
Submarine Blues: Over-budget and Not Underwater
I often bag on the US Navy surface fleet as a sad shadow of the fleet that used to be. The nuclear submarine fleet is joining that maritime house of woe. U.S. Navy Captain Jerry Hendrix, who in a recent assessment observed: “In fact, production of new submarines...
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