I get that Corbett is one of the OG alternative media types, with a lot of good things to say, and that since he's in Japan he can have a bit of detachment.
But it's really disingenuous for libertardians to live in a place like Japan, where libertarianism and anarchy is a luxury belief, and advocate it for everyone else outside of a place like Japan.
Corbett is a plant and always has been. I think he may actually be too low- consciousness to realize it himself.
For many years, I was as unquestioning as any other fan of his. Then I started getting the idea that his operation had been penetrated and was being steered in certain ways. Almost all "alternative researchers" are compromised in such a way and, after all, why wouldn't they be?
Then I happened to catch him calling in to Alan Watt on the radio very deep in Watt's back catalog, maybe 2007 or 2008. If anyone has ever heard a phony prescripted question asked at a press conference, this was worse.
Not that it was arranged with Watt, but more along the lines of, "I want everyone to hear that I'm a legitimate researcher by establishing in the record that I'm asking an organic question from my deep knowledge as a legitimate researcher, as previously stated." It's as easy as distinguishing movie dialog from overheard conversation at the next table in a restaurant.
His whole shtick is to establish himself as the cutting edge of careful research. The trick is that he is simply a stenographer and compiler. He doesn't reveal anything that has not already been revealed elsewhere.
A handful of times he has, however, revealed some important information I found to be key, but it was inadvertent. I could see where he failed to carry it forward into its logical implications or to resolve the issues it raised. Other stories for other days.