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War, Civil Liberties, and Libertarianism

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For more than 12 years, since I was a high-school freshman, I have counted the champions of freedom as my greatest heroes. I have long admired those who, throughout history as well in the present, have spoken truth to power and stood up against tyranny, especially when it mattered most, and especially when it was most difficult. It was around the time of the Kosovo war, when I was about selective-service-registration age and my interest in foreign affairs began to grow, that I came to recognize the profound significance of war and the warfare state and also the hostility opponents of war often faced. Those who opposed Clintons NATO war were attacked, their motives questioned. I saw leftist critics of the war being called communists, accused of sympathizing with Milosevics communist background. I saw conservative critics criticized for not caring about human rights. As a libertarian opponent ...

Bush and Chavez: A Marriage Made in Hell

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If President Bush didn’t exist, Hugo Chavez would have to invent him. Chavez, of course, is the dictator-president of Venezuela who in recent months has taken steps to centralize control of the country’s economy. His accumulation of power is based on the need to resist U.S. hegemony. Some people think that his goading of Bush — for example, calling him a “devil” at the UN — shows he’s crazy, but that is plain wrong. We’ll never understand people if we attribute their actions to insanity. Chavez is crazy like a fox — he knows the formula for success: portray oneself as the valiant resister of U.S. power. George W. Bush seems willing to accommodate Chavez by continuing the American tradition of treating Latin America like a backyard. This is epitomized by the U.S. policy of pressuring Latin American countries ...

Speaker Spotlight: Ivan Eland and Tom DiLorenzo

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Another quick speaker spotlight for our big June 1-4 conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties in Reston, Virginia. Two of our Saturday speakers at the conference will be Ivan Eland and Tom DiLorenzo. Ivan is senior fellow and director of the Center on Peace and Liberty at the Independent Institute, which has taken a leading role in the area of economic liberties, foreign policy, and civil liberties. Not only is Ivan among the most insightful foreign-policy analysts in the country, he has a unique ability to synthesize libertarian principles in his analyses and make them easily readable to the general public. Thats why his articles have been widely published in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Post, Newsday, and Washington Times. Tom DiLorenzo is professor of economics at Loyola University, but hell be speaking about Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, a subject on which he has written two books and innumerable articles. A longtime ...