Guns for Hire by John W. Whitehead October 4, 2019 “Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes… known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of ...
Monsters and U.S. Foreign Policy by Laurence M. Vance October 1, 2019 It looks like the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity will be having some competition. The formation of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft was recently announced. The think tank gets its name from John Quincy Adams. According to the organization’s website, The Quincy Institute promotes ideas that move U.S. foreign policy away from endless war and toward vigorous diplomacy ...
Insane and Ill-Advised: Trump’s Future War with Iran, Part 2 by Danny Sjursen September 1, 2019 Part 1 | Part 2 Iran is an enigma to most American policymakers. Iranian foreign and defense policies, according to Kenneth Katzman, are “products of overlapping, and sometimes contradictory, motivations.” The key question is whether Iran is an expansionist, theocratic, Shia-chauvinist state, or a rational, defensive bulwark with only limited regional aspirations. While it is a bit of both, ...
Radio Hypocrisy by Laurence M. Vance August 21, 2019 During the Cold War, Radio Free Europe (RFE) broadcast news, information, and U.S. government propaganda to Soviet satellite countries and Radio Liberty (RL) did the same to the Soviet Union. But although the Cold War has been over for 30 years, RFE/RL is still operating. According to the RFE/RL website, RFE/RL journalists report the news in 22 ...
The Real Korean Question by Laurence M. Vance July 15, 2019 Last year in June, Donald Trump met with the leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un, in Singapore. Said Trump, We’re very proud of what took place today. I think our whole relationship with North Korea and the Korean Peninsula is going to be a very much different situation than it has been in the past. We ...
America’s Benevolent Bombing of Serbia by James Bovard July 1, 2019 Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton commenced bombing Serbia in the name of human rights, justice, and ethnic tolerance. Approximately 1,500 Serb civilians were killed by NATO bombing in one of the biggest sham morality plays of the modern era. As British professor Philip Hammond recently noted, the 78-day bombing campaign “was not a purely military operation: NATO also ...
The Russians Are Coming! by Christine Smith June 11, 2019 The Russians are coming! Sure they are, and the sky is falling too. Based on rhetoric, you'd think the United States government was now stealthily undermined by Russians. With never-ending allegations of Russian interference/collusion and even the absurd implication that the duly elected president might be a Russian agent, along with all the other continual anti-Russia references these days, the Red ...
America’s Legacy of Regime Change by Stephen Kinzer June 1, 2019 Covert Regime Change: America’s Secret Cold War by Lindsey A. O’Rourke (Cornell University Press, 2018); 330 pages. For most of history, seizing another country or territory was a straightforward proposition. You assembled an army and ordered it to invade. Combat determined the victor. The toll in death and suffering was usually horrific, but it was all ...
The Libertarian Angle: World War I (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation April 30, 2019 America should never have gotten involved in World War I, and powers assumed by the government during that war haunt us to this day. FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.
Time to End All Foreign Aid by Laurence M. Vance April 29, 2019 Late last month, Donald Trump announced his intention to cut off U.S. foreign aid to three countries in Central America’s Northern Triangle: Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. He accused the governments of those countries of not only failing to stop the flow of migrants to the United States, but of purposely sending migrant caravans to the U.S. border. “We ...
The Libertarian Angle: The Evil of Sanctions and Embargoes (video) by Future of Freedom Foundation April 23, 2019 Sanctions and embargoes do more to hurt the citizens in a country than the government that these policies are trying to punish. Should a libertarian support such policies? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.
The Libertarian Angle: U.S. Interventionism in Venezuela by Future of Freedom Foundation January 30, 2019 Should the U.S. government help overthrow the Maduro regime? Does the U.S. government have any role to play at all in Venezuelan politics? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.