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Free FFF Ebook This Weekend!

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FREE ebook download! Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18. Please share this announcement with others. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the CIA , I am pleased to announce that my ebook The CIA, Terrorism, and the Cold War: The Evil of the National Security State will be free for anyone to download on Amazon.com for two days this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18. The CIA, of course, is one of the three principal components of the national-security establishment, the other two being the Pentagon and its vast military establishment and the NSA. Since its inception in the latter half of the 1940s, the national-security establishment has grown into the most powerful branch of the federal government, one to which the other three branches inevitably defer. The conversion of the federal government to a national-security state, a structural change that was done without a constitutional amendment, was the biggest mistake the American people have ever ...

Republic, Not Empire

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The following is a modified version of the speech I delivered at the Ron Paul Institute’s “Peace and Prosperity” conference in Virginia on September 10, 2016. On the Fourth of July in 1821, John Quincy Adams delivered one of the most remarkable speeches in American history. The speech is entitled, “In Search of Monsters to Destroy.” In his speech, Adams described America’s founding principles on foreign policy. He pointed out that there are lots of bad, monstrous things that go on in the world — dictatorships, tyranny, famines, starvation, wars, discord, corruption, and the like. America, however, does not go abroad in search of such monsters and attempt to save people from them. Instead, Adams said, Americans would strive to build a model society of freedom, peace, prosperity, and harmony here at home for the world to emulate and also to serve as a sanctuary for people who flee such monsters. Adams was building on the ideas and the philosophy ...

Obama’s Condor

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For the life of me, I don’t see any difference in principal between Operation Condor, the international assassination program being run out of Chile in the 1970s under Gen. Augusto Pinochet, and the international assassination program being run by President Obama, the Pentagon, and the CIA. Indeed, it seems rather bizarre to me that Argentine and Chilean officials are currently being indicted and convicted for assassination they carried out under Operation Condor while President Obama and his national security establishment are receiving accolades and praises by the U.S. mainstream press for their assassinations. It’s true that under Operation Condor, they were assassinating suspected communists while Obama’s team is assassinating suspected terrorists. But isn’t that a distinction without a difference? The fact is that both assassination operations have been based on assassinating people who have never been convicted in a court of law of the offense for which they are being killed. President Obama’s team has bent over backwards to show how ...

U.S. Hypocrisy on Due Process with Duterte

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The U.S. government is upset over Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s efforts to win the war on drugs. U.S. officials are criticizing Duterte for killing suspected drug-law violators without providing them due process of law. Ever since he was elected president of the country, Duterte has unleashed a state-sponsored reign of terror that includes extra-judicial executions of people suspected of ...

The U.S. National-Security State’s Murder of Victor Jara

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Prescript: (1) George Leef has a great article on gun control and the Second Amendment, which cites my recent blog post How They Could Confiscate Your AR-15. His article, which is entitled “Law Professor Demands Repeal of ‘Outdated’ Second Amendment, Makes Very Weak Case,” is really worth reading. (2) At LewRockwell.com, in an interesting blog post entitled “Hollywoodism,” ...

No Limited Government Under a National Security State

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Conservatives have long professed to be advocates of “limited government.” They often employ the phrase in their favorite mantra, “free enterprise, private property, and limited government.” As I pointed out in my blog post yesterday, “Conservatives and the Free Market,” conservatives also profess to be advocates of free enterprise but then endorse practically every statist program that comes down ...