Vital Dissent with Patrick MacFarlane

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 The Monkey's Paw SparkNotes The Monkey's Paw wiki B...

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 Samuel Urban on Biting the Bullet 5 Til' Midnight...

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 the Information State by Brandan P. Buck Brown Sc...

Living through a custody battle can be one of the most terrifying, stressful, and challenging times in a person's life. That was true even before disputes over the COVID-19 vaccines started to work their way through the family courts. In this week's episode of Vital Dissent, I share with the audience what I learned by litigating these vaccine cases through trial (this episode is not legal advice—p...

Transcript with Sources and link to the video version: http://www.vitaldissent.com/oppenheimer Christopher Nolan's new film #oppenheimer appears to humanize J. Robert Oppenheimer as an eclectic genius who was haunted by the profound consequences of the weapon he created. However, another story lurks beneath #Oppenheimer. A secret story. One that saw Manhattan Project scientists conducting clandest...

Patrick is joined by Ted Snider to talk about the latest in US/China relations. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: China Caught Spying on the US – Again by Ted Snider While the West Seeks Victory in Ukraine, the Global South Seeks Peace by Ted Snider Ted Snider at Antiwar Ted Snider at The Libertar...

Patrick is joined by Scott Spaulding to talk about war in media. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Scott Spaulding twitter Why I Am Antiwar twitter Why I Am Antiwar podcast

Patrick is joined by Kelley Vlahos, Senior Advisor to the Quincy Institute and Editorial Director for Quincy's online magazine Responsible Statecraft. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Kelley Vlahos on twitter Kelley Vlahos at Responsible Statecraft

Patrick is joined by Clay Huston to talk about his story of leaving the military as a conscientious objector and transitioning to antiwar activism. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Clay Huston on Twitter Clay's website Clay on the Why I Am Antiwar podcast Clay on the How I Embraced the Suck Podca...

Patrick is joined by Ted Carpenter to discuss the history and future of US and China policy regarding Taiwan. Vital Dissent websit LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Ted Carpenter at The Libertarian Institute Ted Carpenter at Antiwar.com

Patrick is joined by Joseph Solis-Mullen to discuss the state of US-China relations regarding Taiwan. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Joseph Solis-Mullen at The Libertarian Institute Joseph Solis-Mullen on Twitter

Patrick ponders the question of whether a film can truly capture the antiwar ethos. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Is There Such A Thing as an Antiwar Film? By Agniezska Soltysik Monnet Is there any such thing as an 'anti-war film'? By Tom Brook Disquiet on the Western Front by Alan S. Rome Sco...

Patrick is joined by Kyle Matovcik to discuss his recent Article about Steve Bannon and his ties to Miles Guo, a dissident Chinese billionaire. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Bannon, Guo, Yan: Where a Populist Right Idol Gets His Funding by Kyle Matovcik How Steve Bannon and a Chinese Billionai...

Patrick exposes what Tim Pool and the mainstream narrative makers get wrong about China. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: What Tim Pool Should Know About Our Cold War With China by Patrick MacFarlane and Will Porter Thucydides's Trap UW podcast with Lyle Goldstein The Danger of 'Great Power Compe...

Patrick joins Truth Over Comfort to discuss the rise of China and the move from a unipolar to multipolar world. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Episode Show Notes Truth Over Comfort twitter Truth Over Comfort youtube Truth Over Comfort website  

Patrick discusses the US policy toward Taiwan in relation to China. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD1 Show Notes: http://www.taiwandocuments.org/communique01.htm http://www.taiwandocuments.org/communique02.htm http://www.taiwandocuments.org/communique03.htm http://www.taiwandocuments.org/assurances.htm https:/...

Patrick welcomes Connor Freeman and Kyle Anzalone to discuss the state of the Ukraine War as it reaches the one year mark. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Connor Freeman on Twitter Kyle Anzalone on Twitter

Patrick joins Kyle Matovcik to discuss China, balloons, the recent antiwar rally and more. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Kyle Matovcik on Twitter Kyle Matovcik Linktree NIH Drug Overdose Death Rates DEA - Fentanyl Flow to the US An Overblown Balloon Headline Inflates False Narrative on China b...

Patrick is joined by Liam McCollum to discuss the state of US-China tensions. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Liam's testimony against Ukraine war support in a Montana legislative committee. Liam McCollum linktree Amid Concerns Over a Balloon, US Cancels High-Level Meeting with China by Kyle Anz...

Patrick joins Keith Knight to discuss Michael Malice's The White Pill. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: The White Pill by Michael Malice Michael Malice on Twitter Keith Knight on Twitter

Patrick explores old family Cold War Civil Defense pamphlets, and talks about the growing new arms race that is ramping up between the US and its allies, Russia, and China. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: By the numbers: Keeping track of the single largest arms transfer in US history by Connor E...

Patrick is joined by Richard Cox of Deep State Consciousness to discuss Kosovo, it's separation from Yugoslavia following the Kosovo War, the role of the west in escalating the conflict, the rising tensions between the country and Serbia, and the connection to the ongoing war in Ukraine Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with...

Patrick joins Ace and Dean of The End Times Continue podcast to discuss the Christmas truce of 1914 and Patrick's documentary Why Can't Johnny Kill. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: TETC episode Ace on twitter Dean on twitter Why Can't Johnny Kill

Patrick shares his opinion on the state of the liberty movement and it's relation to the greater antiwar movement. Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: A Necessary Alliance Between the Dissident Left and Libertarians by Keith Knigh https://caitlinjohnstone.com/ https://libertarianinstitute.org/donate...

Patrick is joined by Dave DeCamp, News Editor at Antiwar.com, to discuss the latest in US relations with Taiwan regarding the growing tension with China, as well as the similarities of that situation with US policy regarding the conflict in Ukraine.   Vital Dissent website LibertyWeekly.club Join my membership and newsletter site! Vital Dissent Merch 10% off with code VD10 Show Notes: Dave DeCamp...