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4 weeks ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | John Weeks
American libertarians, regardless of their preferred faction, understand the state is a monster. We view the state the way Karl Marx viewed capitalism (demonic) or William Lloyd Garrison viewed slavery (cannibalistic). Sadly, American libertarians live under the most powerful state in recorded history. The social order is not aligned with our values, so we advocate where we can. Lower taxes over here, less war over there, a little more liberty around the way.
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1 month ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | John Weeks
Thousands of scholars have taken on the central geopolitical question: Is the United States of America an empire? It’s a fierce debate that has unfolded over decades, places the moral status of our society at stake, and has four prevalent positions:1. Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton says yes, it is an empire and that’s evil. 2. Neoconservative policy advisor William Kristol says no way, and the U.S. government is righteous and benevolent. 3.
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1 month ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | John Weeks
The central character Satan in John Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost has been interpreted as closely aligned with the complexities of the human faculty of reason. The link between Satan and rational cognition was demonstrated in Lucifer and Prometheus, by R.J. Zwi Werblowsky. Lucifer (Satan’s pre-rebellion “dead name”) carries the meanings of morning star, brightness, and light-bringing.
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2 months ago | 
imd.org | John Weeks |Francesca Mereu
a) A stock-picking strategy of looking for loss-making companies that are undervalued by the market. b) The tendency to empathize more with people who are suffering misfortune. c) The tendency to be affected more strongly by negative events than positive ones. Answer: (c). Negativity bias is a strong human tendency. Typically, it takes four positive experiences to equal the impact we feel from a single negative one.
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2 months ago | 
libertarianinstitute.org | John Weeks
The November 2023 issue of Texas Monthly contains an article that deploys the archetypes of our great anti-capitalist, government-supremacist, domestic imperialist passion play so deftly it could be a Hollywood movie: “Black-Owned Land Is Under Siege in the Brazos Valley.”A siege is an act of war. Who is waging war on black Texans and how are they doing it?
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | John Weeks
Washington DC is an imperial city. It masks as Athenian democracy housed within Roman republicanism and underpinned by Judeo-Christian values. But behind the mask is a cold monster: the “interagency.” And the monster is committed to global domination. The imperial agenda has met with great resistance, most stunningly in Ukraine, where Russia has been degrading Washington’s proxy forces with extreme lethality.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | John Weeks
The rise of the Luigi Mangione hero cult has sharpened the deep divisions within our society, fueled our political animosities, and crystallized the internal contradictions within our government supremacist, anti-capitalist, domestic imperialist cultural order. Mangione faces charges (including “first degree murder in furtherance of terrorism”) for the killing of Brian Thompson in Manhattan on December 4.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | John Weeks
Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton’s new book is shaking things up and making a stir all at once. Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine is a read it and weep. Or, for the War Party hacks, don’t read it; just weep. Provoked has been endorsed by former CIA officer and bestselling novelist Barry Eisler. You can read all about it in my latest Institute article. Eisler, buy his own account, has published a novel that is very Horton-adjacent.
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Dec 16, 2024 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | John Weeks
Since Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton published Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine in November, there has been a renewed intellectual struggle between antiwar Americans and the War Party. Horton has been making the rounds on both independent and power faction media to tell the American people the truth about Washington DC’s duplicity in Ukraine.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
libertarianinstitute.org | John Weeks
Approximately eighty million Americans were expected to hop in their motor vehicles and hit our nation’s roads for Thanksgiving last week. Despite the immediate “lived experience” of abysmal transportation infrastructure, most people will not level criticism at the state as such. You can thank the government-supremacist, anti-capitalist, state-run compulsory schooling system.
