I recently had the pleasure of joining Peter R. Quinones once again on his podcast Free Man Beyond the Wall to discuss how I came to do independent journalism and how the US government is part of the problem and not the solution when it comes to the Israel-Palestine conflict, the economy, and the COVID-19 pandemic. On each topic, I provide insights to immunize against state propaganda intended to manufacture our consent for harmful policies and interventions into our lives that violate our essential liberties. Topics we cover include:
- How and why I got started doing independent journalism
- Why I shifted my focus from foreign policy to public vaccine policy
- The influence of Noam Chomsky on my work
- How I came to the realization that I am a libertarian and the process of de-indoctrination I went through
- Why the US’s relocation of its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem under the Trump administration violated international law
- Why the Trump administration’s obvious prejudice against Palestinians’ rights was in an important way beneficial for the Palestinians
- Why the main obstacle now for the Palestinians is their own leadership under the Palestinian Authority, which was established under the Oslo Accords to essentially serve as Israel’s collaborator in enforcing its occupation regime
- Why the Federal Reserve’s response to the economic consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown measures will only make matters worse in the long run
- How the masses are blindly walking into totalitarianism
- How lockdown measures were implemented without a thought for the harms they would obviously cause
- Why mass COVID-19 vaccination is a mass uncontrolled experiment, and how public vaccine policy institutionalizes the systematic violation of our right to informed consent
- What “effective” actually means—and doesn’t mean—in the context of the preliminary trial data used by Pfizer and Moderna to gain FDA emergency use authorization
- Why any claim that a vaccine is “safe” absent randomized, placebo-controlled trials comparing long-term health outcomes, including all-cause mortality, between vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals is scientifically meaningless
- How we simply do not have the data needed to be able to do a meaningful risk-benefit analysis with respect to COVID-19 vaccines
- How mass COVID-19 vaccination could end up prolonging the pandemic and worsening outcomes
- How public health officials refuse to take into consideration the opportunity costs of vaccination
- Why we must be skeptical of the reported number of COVID-19 deaths in the US exceeding half a million due to the policy directives by which deaths are being attributed to the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2 on the basis of a person dying after having received a positive PCR test
