The Road to the Permanent Warfare State, Part 1 by Gregory Bresiger May 24, 2011 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 |Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 |Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 |Part 12 |Part 13 In modern political society it is probably a fact that national leadership can heighten foreign crises to the point where war becomes almost inevitable and public approval, at least for a time, automatic. — Arthur A. Ekirch Jr. Ideas, Ideals, and American Diplomacy War is Peace. — George Orwell, 1984 The U.S. government today is a contradiction. It presides over a nation supposedly at peace. Yet it is always preparing for war. It is a perpetual warfare state — a government under which liberty and property are less and less secure. It is one in which the average citizen must pay higher and higher taxes for the skyrocketing costs of a leviathan state that spends $671 billion a year on “defense” so that it can police ...
Wartime Confessions of a Talk-Radio Heretic by Charles Goyette June 4, 2003 This speech was given before the Phoenix Economics Group in Phoenix, Arizona on March 19, 2003. I left my radio studio this evening to be here just as President Bush’s ultimatum to Saddam Hussein expired. The bombing of Iraq, which has been going on more or less continuously since 1991, at this hour assumes a new intensity, joined by helicopter gunship attacks, and a ground invasion. A headline in the foreign press—I have after all become accustomed to getting my news from foreign press—screams, “Expecting Iraqi Mothers Rush to Give Birth Before War! Baghdad: The sound of screaming filled the maternity ward at the Elwiyah Hospital on Tuesday, as women rushed to give birth ahead of an impending U.S. invasion. Many pregnant women demanded to have Cesareans rather ...
Wartime Confessions of a Talk-Radio Heretic by Jacob G. Hornberger March 31, 2010 This speech was given before the Phoenix Economics Group in Phoenix, Arizona on March 19, 2003. I left my radio studio this evening to be here just as President Bush’s ultimatum to Saddam Hussein expired. The bombing of Iraq, which has been going on more or less continuously since 1991, at this hour assumes a new intensity, joined by helicopter gunship attacks, and a ground invasion. A headline in the foreign press—I have after all become accustomed to getting my news from foreign press—screams, “Expecting Iraqi Mothers Rush to Give Birth Before War! Baghdad: The sound of screaming filled the maternity ward at the Elwiyah Hospital on Tuesday, as women rushed to give birth ahead of an impending U.S. invasion. Many pregnant women demanded to have Cesareans rather ...
Wartime Confessions of a Talk-Radio Heretic by Jacob G. Hornberger March 31, 2010 This speech was given before the Phoenix Economics Group in Phoenix, Arizona on March 19, 2003. I left my radio studio this evening to be here just as President Bush’s ultimatum to Saddam Hussein expired. The ...
Wartime Confessions of a Talk-Radio Heretic by Future of Freedom Foundation March 31, 2010 This speech was given before the Phoenix Economics Group in Phoenix, Arizona on March 19, 2003. I left my radio studio this evening to be here just as President Bush’s ultimatum to Saddam Hussein expired. The ...
Serving the Empire, Killing for Lies by Sheldon Richman June 3, 2010 We made it through another Memorial Day. Thankfully, most people think of it as just the start of summer. They don’t seem to use it as America’s political leaders have long wanted: as a day of reverence for America’s world domination. In his radio address this past Saturday President Obama urged all Americans to “serve” the members of the armed ...
Serving the Empire, Killing for Lies by Future of Freedom Foundation July 5, 2010 We made it through another Memorial Day. Thankfully, most people think of it as just the start of summer. They don’t seem to use it as America’s political leaders have long wanted: as a day of reverence for America’s world domination. In his radio address this past Saturday President Obama urged all Americans to “serve” the ...
Serving the Empire, Killing for Lies by Future of Freedom Foundation July 5, 2010 We made it through another Memorial Day. Thankfully, most people think of it as just the start of summer. They don’t seem to use it as America’s political leaders have long wanted: as a day of reverence for America’s world domination. In his radio address this past Saturday President Obama urged all Americans to “serve” the ...
Serving the Empire, Killing for Lies by Future of Freedom Foundation July 5, 2010 We made it through another Memorial Day. Thankfully, most people think of it as just the start of summer. They dont seem to use it as Americas political leaders have long wanted: as a day of reverence for Americas world domination. In his radio address this past Saturday President Obama urged all Americans to serve the ...
What About the Unprovoked U.S. Aggression Against Iraq? by Jacob G. Hornberger January 23, 2023 Referring to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, an editorial in Saturday’s Washington Post exclaims that Ukraine’s “struggle is also a crucible for Europe and an assault against the most basic precept on which the Western system rests: the impermissibility of unprovoked wars of aggression.” In a follow-up editorial today, the Post calls for an ...
Rebuilding America: Foreign Policy by Future of Freedom Foundation April 2, 2010 Ever since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the demise of the Soviet empire, it has been an article of faith among many Americans that an extensive overseas military empire and a massive domestic military-industrial complex are vitally important and greatly beneficial to our country. ...
What’s Wrong with Admiring Hitler? by Jacob G. Hornberger October 24, 2024 Reminder: Our online Zoom conference on open borders continues on Monday, October 28, with Benjamin Powell, director of the Free Market Institute at Texas Tech University and professor of economics at Texas Tech University's Rawls College of Business. 7 p.m.-8 p.m. Eastern Time. Register here. Reminder: I’ll be speaking at the JFK Lancer conference and also at the ...
