10/15/21 Barrett Brown Returns

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Scott Horton

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4.8 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Scott interviews journalist and investigator Barrett Brown. Since his last appearance on the show in 2011, Brown spent four years in prison and he is currently seeking asylum from the United States. He tells Scott the story of those tumultuous ten years. Brown also gives background and updates on his fellow journalists and activists working to expose the cyber-industrial complex. Finally, he gives advice for listeners who may be interested in getting involved in activism. Discussed on the show: The Internet’s Own Boy — Full Movie The Operators by Michael Hastings Brown’s pinned tweet “The Return of Anonymous” (The Atlantic) The Terror Factory by Trevor Aaronson Barrett Brown is the founder of Project PM. Follow him on Twitter @BarrettB. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton Show.
0:12.6	I'm the Director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:15.0	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.8	Author of the book, Pools Arran,
0:19.8	time to end the war in Afghanistan,
0:21.8	and the brand new enough already. Time to end the war in Afghanistan and the brand new enough already time to end the war on
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0:46.1	All right, you guys, introducing Barrett Brown
0:50.4	from Project PM, I guess I should say and also from twitter he's
0:54.2	bear it be and so two ours and two t'ss on bear it
0:58.7	and uh... we first made his acquaintance on this show back a decade ago when he was serving as a semi-official
1:06.7	spokesman for Anonymous in their heyday and partisan of WikiLeaks during the Manning leak and all of that great stuff.
1:16.0	And Manney's been a federal president back and was a Russia Gate Truth there there for a while
1:21.2	and has had all kinds of adventures we need to catch up on.
1:25.5	So welcome back to the show. How you doing there Barrett?
1:28.5	Fantastic, fantastic. Got a complicated 11 years but it's nice to be able to update you on that.
1:34.8	Yeah, well so you know I covered your story on the show from time to time while you were
1:41.1	in prison and made a habit of reading all your articles
1:44.6	that you wrote for was it D magazine and for the intercept and different things
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