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NATO Is Much Worse than a Cold War Artifact

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Whatever else might be said about Donald Trump, the fact is that he has provided a valuable service in producing a national and international discussion of NATO, the old Cold War organization whose mission was to protect Western Europe from an attack from the Soviet Union, which had been America’s partner and ally during World War II. The obvious question arises: Given that NATO was a Cold War institution, why didn’t it go out of existence when the Cold War ended, as its counterpart, the Warsaw Pact, did? Indeed, let’s not forget that that’s precisely what U.S. officials assured Soviet officials would happen as the Cold War was ending. Shut down the Warsaw Pact and we’ll shut down NATO. But U.S. officials double-crossed the Russians. Even though the Warsaw Pact, which consisted of the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, dismantled, NATO didn’t. Yesterday, the New York Times said reminded readers that former Defense Secretary Robert Gates had expressed a concern ...

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

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The CIA, Terrorism, and the Cold War: The Evil of the National Security State by Jacob Hornberger Order Kindle ebook or Audiobook from Amazon The two most important words in the lives of the American people for the past 60 years have been “national security.” The term has transformed American society for the worse. It has warped the morals and values of the American people. It has stultified conscience. It has altered the constitutional order. It has produced a democratically elected government that wields totalitarian powers. In this book, Future of Freedom Foundation president Jacob Hornberger explores the ascendency of "national security" and its dangerous distortions of the American body politic. Order Kindle ebook or Audiobook  from Amazon Amazon 5-star review: Jacob G. Hornberger’s latest book is a comprehensive and authoritative indictment of the criminal national security state that has seized control of the American republic, destroying the rule of law and our most fundamental rights and liberties in this ...

Neocon Frenzy Over Trump

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Donald Trump is certainly no libertarian but it is absolutely fantastic the way he has thrown the neocon movement into sheer panic and desperation. The neocons, as most everyone knows by now, are known for the death and destruction that they want the U.S. government to continue wreaking on foreigners around the world, especially in the Middle East. Recall what happened after the U.S. national-security state lost its official Cold War enemy, the Soviet Union, in 1989. There was panic and desperation then too, primarily within the Pentagon and the CIA. People were talking about a “peace dividend,” one that would involve a significant reduction in military spending. That was not to be. Beginning with George W. Bush’s Persian Gulf intervention, the U.S. national security state embarked on a decades-long campaign of wreaking death and destruction in the Middle East with its Cold War military machine. And the neocons loved it and cheered it on. The more death, the more destruction, the more ...