Foreign Policy & War

The Madoff Scandal Exposes Government Failure

by Sheldon Richman March 1, 2009

A rule we can rely on to be unfailingly applied is this: No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains. This of course is evidence of a rigged game. The government can’t possibly monitor and regulate absolutely every transaction that ...

President Obama, What about Tomorrow?

by Sheldon Richman February 20, 2009

The Obama administration’s $275 billion bailout for mortgage lenders and troubled borrowers once again shows that “tomorrow-be-damned” thinking still rules the White House. President Obama has clearly dumped the Clinton administration’s theme song, “Don’t Stop Thinking about Tomorrow.” (Not that Clinton or his successor took the lyric to heart.) Under the plan, the federal government will ...

Real Change on Cuba

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1, 2009

A good place for Barack Obama to begin his program of change would be U.S. policy on Cuba. The change would move America toward three important principles on which our country was founded: economic liberty, civil liberty, and a limited-government republic. Economic liberty First, the Obama administration should lift the U.S. government’s 40-year-old embargo against Cuba. Not only has the embargo ...

Regime Change: Promise and Peril, Part 3

by Stephen Kinzer February 1, 2009

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This article is a transcript of Stephen Kinzer’s speech given on June 6, 2008, at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties.” I talked about unintended consequences. In the period immediately following the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh (see Freedom Daily, ...

The Financial Crisis: 9/11 Redux

by Michael Tennant February 1, 2009

Perhaps the one bit of shiny interior in the black cloud of the financial crisis is that most mainstream conservatives, heretofore bootlicking worshippers of George W. Bush and the Republican Party, have come to realize that there’s literally not a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties when it comes to their willingness to bail out their Wall ...

Christianity and War (video)

by Laurence M. Vance January 9, 2009

On June 8, 2008, Laurence Vance gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

The Economics of War (video)

by David R. Henderson January 2, 2009

On June 8, 2008, David Henderson gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety. David R. Henderson is an associate professor of economics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California and a Research Fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 1982 ...

Regime Change: Promise and Peril, Part 2

by Stephen Kinzer January 1, 2009

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 This article is a transcript of Stephen Kinzer’s speech given on June 6, 2008, at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s conference “Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties.” Let’s look at the case of Cuba. It’s another case of American intervention gone terribly wrong. When the United States ...

America’s Anti-Militarist Heritage

by George Leef January 1, 2009

Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism by Bill Kauffman (Metropolitan Books, 2008); 284 pages, $25. Americans don’t have much historical memory anymore. That isn’t just because of the dumbing down of the educational system and the fact that most young people read very ...

Economic Liberty Lecture Series: James Bovard (video)

by James Bovard December 19, 2008

On November 13, 2008 at The Future of Freedom Foundation’s “Economic Liberty Lecture Series,” James Bovard gave a speech entitled “Bailout Bosh and Other Economic Frauds of Our Times.”

A Collapsing Empire — Opportunities for Restoring the Republic (video)

by Karen Kwiatkowski December 17, 2008

On June 8, 2008, Karen Kwiatkoski gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

War Is Peace and Other Things the Government Wants You to Believe

by Sheldon Richman December 12, 2008

On June 8, 2008, Sheldon Richman gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic 2008: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.