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Vital Dissent seeks to oppose calamitous escalation in US foreign policy by exposing establishment narratives with well-researched documentary content and insightful guest interviews. Topics include: an antiwar foreign policy, historical revisionism, technocracy, eugenics, government & private corruption, & the use & development of propaganda. Host Patrick MacFarlane is the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute. He is a practicing attorney. His work has appeared on Antiwar.com ...
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Intellectual Insurgency ft. Adam Fitzgerald Ep. 278
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Adam Fitzgerald is a geopolitical researcher, writer, and a leading expert regarding the events of 9/11, as well as the host of The Darkened Hour podcast. Vital Dissent website Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.vitaldissent.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show notes: Adam Fitzgerald on X be sure to subscribe…
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Butchering Our Sacred Cows ft. Richard Cox Ep. 277
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In the conspiracy community, it's often taken for granted that Wall Street secretly funded Nazi Germany and the Bolshevik Revolution. These assertions are taken as truth based on the work of a professor named Antony Sutton. But who was Sutton and what does it mean if he was wrong? Moreover, what place should conspiracy have in our worldview based o…
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Israel's AI Kill List ft. Kelley Vlahos Ep. 276
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Patrick is joined by Kelley Vlahos, Senior Advisor at the Quincy Institute and Editorial Director at Responsible Statecraft, to discuss Israel’s use of Palantir’s AI program Lavender to target supposed Hamas militants. Vital Dissent website Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.vitaldissent.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with…
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These Two Moments Changed the World Ep. 275
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The latest on the upcoming sequel to The Truth About Oppenheimer, and more. Vital Dissent website Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.vitaldissent.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 The Libertarian Institute’s Summer FUNdraiser is in full swing! The support of every single one of you is what motivates the team to…
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Israel's Secret War Against the International Criminal Court Ep. 274
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Patrick dives into the fight between Israel/US and the UN International Criminal Court over the ongoing conflicts between the Israeli state and Palestinians. Vital Dissent website Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.vitaldissent.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 The Libertarian Institute’s Summer FUNdraiser is i…
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Did Assange's Plea Just Doom Journalism? Ep. 273
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Patrick breaks down what the Julian Assange plea deal means for the future of journalism. Vital Dissent website Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.vitaldissent.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: JULIAN ASSANGE IS FINALLY FREE Justin Raimondo RIP I learned something today…
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Patrick breaks down his latest article on the Haitian cannibalism hysteria. Vital Dissent website Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.vitaldissent.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Culture Warriors Spread Disinfo on ‘Haitian Cannibals By Patrick MacFarlane Original "Haitian Cannibalism" Report from D…
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The Anti-Woke to Zionist Pipeline Ep. 271
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Patrick discusses his latest article at the Libertarian Institute about the links between anti-wokism and zionism in the modern online conservative movement. Vital Dissent website Join my email list and become a premium member: http://www.libertyweekly.club Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: The Anti-Woke to Zionist Pipeline | T…
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Assange Fights for Freedom ft. Misty Winston Ep. 270
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Misty Winston joins Patrick to talk about the latest in WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s fight for freedom. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Misty Winston on XBy Patrick MacFarlane; Vital Dissent
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How Libertarians Should View Foreign Policy Ep. 269
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How should libertarians go about discussing real world foreign policy issues while keeping true to libertarian values? Patrick shares his views while looking back on the work of Antiwar.com founder Justin Raimondo. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD1 Show Notes: L…
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Hoppe Kicks Walter Block Out of Libertarianism Ep. 268
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Patrick covers Hans-Hermann Hoppe’s article kicking Walter Block out of Libertarianism for his views on Israel, the latest on the South African ICJ case against Israel for its alleged genocide in Gaza, and the ICJ judgement in Ukraine’s ICJ case against alleged Russian sponsored terrorism. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership…
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Exposed: IDF Ordered to "Kill Anything that Moves" on October 7 Ep. 267
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Patrick discusses the reporting accusing the IDF of mass civilian casualties from its “Hannibal Directive” kidnapping protocol in its response to the October 7th Hamas attack. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: A Hannibal Directive by Any Other Name…
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Is Israel Committing Genocide? Ep. 266
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Patrick shares his thoughts on the current genocide case against Israel brought by the South African delegation at the UN’s International Court of Justice. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: How the Court Works | INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE What …
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Matt Petti on Western media manipulation in the Israel-Hamas conflict
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According to journalist Matthew Petti's number crunching, 31% of English-speaking media have been using the phrase "Hamas-led Health Ministry" since Oct. 17. Before that day, only 7% were using such a phrase. What happened? Petti points to the Oct. 17 explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, the perpetrator of which has not been independently con…
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Giorgio Cafiero: Expect 'horrific blowback' to US policy on US-Gaza
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Experts are now speculating that America's reputation in the world, particularly in the Middle East, is taking a hit worse than when it invaded and occupied Iraq in 2003. Giorgio Cafiero, head of Gulf State Analytics and a keen observer of politics in the region, tells the podcast this week that President Biden is becoming more hated than George W.…
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There was never a 'pivot' away from the Middle East. There should have been.
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A popular narrative after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack and ensuing retaliation by Israel has been that the U.S. had dropped the ball because it had 'pivoted away' from the Middle East over the last three administrations. That is simply not true. According to our guests this week, CATO researchers Jon Hoffman and Jordan Cohen, Washington has maintained a…
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Adam Weinstein and the US Troops in Harm's Way in the Middle East
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There are currently 2,500 American troops in Iraq and another 900 in Syria. Their bases have come under repeated fire in both countries since the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel. According to Pentagon officials, Iranian-backed militias are to blame, and they expect more as fighting ramps up in Gaza and the West Bank. Adam Weinstein, a senior fellow …
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"Israel's Jeffrey Epstein" ft. Brad Pearce Ep. 265
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Patrick is joined by Brad Pearce to discuss his recent article “If You Say Anything to Anyone, a Zaka Van Will Run You Over,” about Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, the founder of Zaka Search and Rescue, whose narrative was referred to by a source from his neighborhood and member of an anti-abuse group called “Committee for Preserving Our Camp’s Purity” as “the…
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Gaza War: US policy in the Middle East has failed
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In this special episode, Kelley and Dan update the headlines from the Gaza strip and talk about how U.S. policy in the region has become increasingly effective in terms of pushing for a two-state solution and helping to restrain the more extreme impulses of the Israeli government ahead of the Hamas attacks on Israel and retaliatory strikes in Gaza …
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How Palestine Became Israel Ep. 264
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Patrick delves into the creation of the state of Israel, breaking down the article ‘The Alienation of a Homeland’ by Stephen P. Halbrook, which was featured in the The Journal of Libertarian Studies in 1981. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: The Al…
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Mike Brenes on the broken defense industry: you can't get ammo from a stone
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It took the Ukraine war to show how broken the U.S. war machine really is. President Eisenhower warned about the military-industrial complex in 1961 and we know that it is ten times as worse as he even imagined. But after almost two years of war in Ukraine and tens of billions of American weapons transfers, we now know how limited -- if not dysfunc…
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The Monkey's Paw and Imperial Hubris Ep. 263
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Patrick reads the W. W. Jacobs short story ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ discusses the theme’s ongoing application to US foreign policy. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: A Short Analysis of W. W. Jacobs’s ‘The Monkey’s Paw’ The Monkey’s Paw by W. W. Jacobs T…
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Sumantra Maitra asks: Why can't we have a dormant NATO?
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The Ukraine War has exposed a lot when it comes to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization — otherwise known as NATO. Aside from the "renewed mission" and "unity" that has emerged to help Ukraine confront the Russian invasion, there are downsides. NATO has a limited capacity of weapons stores and manpower and the US is taking on a disproportionate s…
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The libertarian split over Ukraine and more, from friends Kyle Anzalone & Connor Freeman
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We welcomed back to the show this week the co-hosts of Conflicts of Interest podcast, Kyle Anzalone & Connor Freeman, who both write and edit and support the Libertarian Institute. We ask them about the rancorous split among libertarians over Ukraine, a fissure not seen in the Global War on Terror. We also talked about signs of fraying support for …
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Michael Swaine warns against 'radical deterrence' in US-China policy
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Ask anyone in Washington and they'll tell you, in varying levels of panic, that China is a threat to the United States. Some will say it's the greatest threat ever or, in military-speak, the "pacing threat." So who is right? And if China is a challenge or even a threat, to its neighbors if not America directly, then how does the Biden Administratio…
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Sina Toossi: Washington's backward, non-productive, failing Iran policy
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This week, President Joe Biden announced that he was unfreezing $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds as part of a broader deal that involves an important prisoner swap. The deal has drawn howling from the usual suspects, those who believe any diplomatic course with Iran spells weakness and blunder. Sina Toossi, an expert in U.S.-Iran relations and se…
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Matthew Hoh: Are we seeing a breach of the Ukraine War echo chamber?
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We are excited to sit down (metaphorically) with veteran, whistleblower, peace activist, and foreign policy dissident Matthew Hoh. He has spent the last few years helping to build the Eisenhower Media Network, which is designed to promote and give voice to veterans with a critical point of view of U.S. wars, foreign policy, and the military-industr…
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Shackelford & Sanderson: Watching our military assistance in Africa go up in smoke
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For the last two decades, the U.S. military has been heavily invested in Africa — in training, weapons sharing, and basing — per its "war on terrorism." Unfortunately, the places in Africa that have had the most U.S. investment in this regard are now among the most unstable on the planet. Somalia continues to be wracked by militia violence and a fr…
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Decoding East Asia ft. Samuel Urban Ep. 262
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Patrick is joined by Samuel Urban to discuss the differences between the western and eastern cultures and how that may play into the growing US/China tensions. Vital Dissent Labor Day sale Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Samuel Urban on Twitter/X…
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Lyle Goldstein: Not feeling great about being right on Ukraine
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Eighteen months into the war in Ukraine and the picture is grim. After so many US officials — including former military — pumped up the prospects of the Ukraine counteroffensive — it looks like the conflict is headed into a bloody stalemate if not a Russian rout. Lyle Goldstein, Director of the Asia Engagement program at Defense Priorities, has bee…
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Eldar Mamedov: Not the deal of the century, but Iran prisoner swap is big news
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Last week, the Biden administration announced a deal with the Iranian regime that would free five Iranian-American prisoners in Tehran in exchange for several Iranian prisoners here in the U.S. The deal would also free up $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds to be used solely for humanitarian purposes in Iran. Brussels-based foreign policy analyst El…
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The Rise of the Information State: Woodrow Wilson to the Twitter Files ft. Brandan Buck Ep. 261
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Patrick is joined by Brandan Buck to discuss the US government’s fight for the control of information throughout its history. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Brandan P. Buck on twitter BrandanPBuck.com Feeling Manipulated? How Uncle Sam Perfected…
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