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Familiar Bedfellows

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Hillary and Henry sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-I-N-G-E-R! It says a lot about former secretary of state and presumed presidential aspirant Hillary Clinton that she’s a member of the Henry Kissinger Fan Club. Progressives who despised George W. Bush might want to examine any warm, fuzzy feelings they harbor for Clinton. She has made no effort to hide her admiration for Kissinger and his geopolitical views. Now she lays it all out clearly in a Washington Post review of his latest book, World Order. Clinton acknowledges differences with Kissinger, but apparently these do not keep her from saying that “his analysis … largely fits with the broad strategy behind the Obama administration’s effort over the past six years to build a global architecture of security and cooperation for the 21st century.” Beware of politicians and courtiers who issue solemn declarations about building global architectures. To them the rest of us are mere “pieces upon a chess-board.” Security and ...

Max Boot’s Newest Plan for Iraq

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Max Boot, senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, is an interventionist. In fact, he’s your classic interventionist. He believes that the U.S. government should intervene in conflicts around the world, at least where “national security” is at stake. Boot has a plan for Iraq. The plan was set forth in Sunday’s Washington Post in an op-ed by Boot entitled in the print edition “A Better War Strategy.” Boot’s plan calls for more U.S. bombs to be dropped on Iraq, more U.S. troops to be sent to Iraq, no-fly zones, enlisting domestic support, and nation-building. What an ingenious plan! Why didn’t anyone think of that before now? But wait a minute! Somebody did think of that before now. Wasn’t that the interventionist plan for Iraq for 11 years, stretching back to the Persian Gulf War, when the U.S. government turned against its partner and ally Saddam Hussein? Bombs, no-fly zones, sanctions, enlisting domestic support, invasion, occupation, round-ups, torture (e.g. Abu Ghraib), indefinite ...

The U.S. Executions of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 To understand the full context of the U.S. executions of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi Jr. (see part 1), it is necessary to first do a broad survey of American history. We begin with the Constitution, the document that brought the federal government into existence. That document set forth the powers that the federal government would be permitted to exercise. If a power wasn’t enumerated, the federal government wasn’t authorized to exercise it. Why did the Framers deem it necessary to limit the powers of federal officials to those enumerated in the Constitution? It was because the American people didn’t trust governmental officials with unlimited power. They believed that the biggest threat to people’s freedom and well-being lay with their own government. If the Constitution had purported to bring into existence a federal government of unlimited powers, it would never have been ...

National Security, Patriotism, and Treason

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Ever since the post-World War II grafting of the national-security apparatus onto America's governmental structure, the assumption of the Pentagon, the CIA, and the NSA has been that Americans who oppose national-security state policies and practices are “subversives” or even traitors. We experienced this phenomenon throughout the Cold War. U.S. officials were spying on Americans who believed in communism or ...

Altered History: The FFF Video Project on the Autopsy of John F. Kennedy

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This week The Future of Freedom Foundation launches a video presentation entitled “Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence,” by Douglas P. Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) in the 1990s and later authored a five-volume book on the assassination of John F. Kennedy entitled

U.S. Officials Were Partners in Pinochet’s Kidnappings, Rapes, Torture, and Murders

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REMINDER: Our Upcoming One-Day Blockbuster Conference on October 18 at Columbia University in New York City. Don't be caught short. Sign up now because space is limited. Admission price: FREE. Today marks the 41st anniversary of the military coup in Chile, a coup in which Chilean military personnel under the command of Army General Augusto Pinochet brutally raped ...