Foreign Policy & War

Maybe It’s Time to Privatize Foreign Policy

by Richard M. Ebeling July 26, 2016

Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, has caused uproar in American foreign policy circles by challenging existing forms of U.S. participation in a variety of military and political alliances in Europe and Asia, including NATO.  But in spite of impressions in the media, Trump is not an isolationist, but an extremely aggressive advocate of American interventionism. The self-proclaimed “master of the ...

Time for a Nexit

by Laurence M. Vance July 18, 2016

On June 23, a referendum arranged by Parliament was held in the United Kingdom. By a vote of 52 percent to 48 percent, British voters expressed their opinion that Great Britain should end its membership in the European Union. “Brexit” is a blend of “British exit” from the European Union (EU). This was not the first time British voters were ...

NATO’s Warsaw War Plans

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 8, 2016

Some 25 years since the end of the Warsaw Pact, NATO is meeting in Warsaw to make war plans against Russia. Is there a real reason to continue this Cold War? Special guest Jacob Hornberger, president of the Future of Freedom Foundation, joins the discussion.

The British Say “No” to EU Power and Plunder

by Richard M. Ebeling June 27, 2016

The political and financial establishments of Europe and the United States were taken by almost total surprise and sent into apparent shock when 52 percent of the voters in the United Kingdom chose for their country to leave the European Union (EU). But it is not the end of the world as we know it, and can be a ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Interventionism of the Two World Wars, Part 5

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 8, 2016

In this segment, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling continue their discussion about the horrible results stemming from the foreign policy interventions of World War I and World War II. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: The Interventionism of Two World Wars, Part 4

by Future of Freedom Foundation June 2, 2016

In this segment, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling continue their discussion about the horrible results stemming from the foreign policy interventions of World War I and World War II. Go to the podcast.

Memorializing the Horrors of War with 10 Must-See War Films

by John W. Whitehead May 31, 2016

“The horror... the horror...”—Apocalypse Now (1979) “You can’t show war as it really is on the screen, with all the blood and gore. Perhaps it would be better if you could fire real shots over the audience’s head every night, you know, and have actual casualties in the theater.”—Sam Fuller, film director and author Nearly 71 years ago, the United States ...

Anti-war Is Pro-American

by Mike Marion May 19, 2016

Thomas Jefferson declared the American way of interacting with the world to be "peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none." However, over the course of at least the past seven decades, the US government has turned this admonition on its head. Peace? The US government has waged wars of choice almost constantly since the ...

The Libertarian Angle – The Interventionism of the Two World Wars

by Future of Freedom Foundation May 10, 2016

In this segment, Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss the horrible results stemming from the foreign policy interventions of World War I and World War II. Go to the podcast.

The Empire versus Little America

by Bill Kauffman May 1, 2016

Former Arkansas Sen. William Fulbright said in 1967, “The price of empire is America’s soul, and that price is too high.” War, expansion, the maintenance of a large standing army: these corrupt a country, as poets from James Russell Lowell to Wendell Berry have tried to tell us. The Vietnam or Iraq War may level villages across the sea but ...

The CIA, Terrorism, and the Cold War: The Evil of the National Security State

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2016

The following is Chapter 1 of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s newest ebook, The CIA, Terrorism, and the Cold War: The Evil of the National Security State by Jacob Hornberger. Purchase the book for $1 here. The two most important words in the lives of the American people for the past 60 years have been “national security.” The ...

Welcome to Base Nation

by Matthew Harwood April 1, 2016

Base Nation: How U.S. Military Bases Abroad Harm America and the World (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2015), 432 pages. There is much in U.S. history that Americans should not be proud of. Chattel slavery. The genocide of indigenous populations. Jim Crow. The U.S. war on terror currently under way and still with no end in sight. But few ...