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The Solution to Trump’s Iran Mayhem

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Undoubtedly, President Trump is fantasizing about the possibility of being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for deciding at the last minute to not bomb Iran in retaliation for Iran’s shoot-down of a Pentagon drone. Apparently experiencing a crisis of conscience, Trump called off the strike when he learned that it would kill an estimated 150 people, which he decided would be disproportionate to the downing of an unmanned drone. Meanwhile, Trump is not only continuing his brutal system of sanctions on Iran but actually ratcheting them up even more. His goal? To kill more Iranians through economic deprivation, either through starvation, illness, or domestic plane crashes arising from an inability to secure needed parts for maintenance and repair. Should the Nobel Peace Prize be awarded to a man who resolves his own crises and then chooses to kill innocent people with sanctions rather than bombs as a way to achieve a political end? Even ...

Preaching to the Choir

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Ever since I founded FFF 29 years ago, there have been critics who say to me, “You just preach to the choir.” My response is always: “Yeah, isn’t that great?” Of course, I issue the response in jest, especially since FFF has long shared libertarianism with both libertarian and non-libertarian audiences, such as historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs), where FFF has been holding anti-drug war conferences for the past few years. Yet, when broken down and analyzed, it is easy to see that the “preaching to the choir” critique is actually silly and meaningless. After all, what is considered the “choir” within the libertarian movement? Does it consist of people who have been in the libertarian movement for many years but who are still striving to learn more about our philosophy? Does it include people who have just recently discovered libertarianism and who are trying to learn more about its principles? Does it encompass libertarians who have not yet ...

The Omnipresent Surveillance State

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“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 Tread cautiously: the fiction of George Orwell has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state. It’s been 70 years since Orwell—dying, beset by fever and bloody coughing fits, and driven to warn against the rise of a society in which rampant abuse of power and mass manipulation are the norm—depicted the ominous rise of ubiquitous technology, fascism and totalitarianism in 1984. Who could have predicted that 70 years after Orwell typed the final words to his dystopian novel, “He loved Big Brother,” we would fail to heed his warning and come to love Big Brother. “To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone— to a time when ...