Foreign Policy & War

The Libertarian Angle: World War I (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 30, 2019

America should never have gotten involved in World War I, and powers assumed by the government during that war haunt us to this day. FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Time to End All Foreign Aid

by Laurence M. Vance April 29, 2019

Late last month, Donald Trump announced his intention to cut off U.S. foreign aid to three countries in Central America’s Northern Triangle: Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador. He accused the governments of those countries of not only failing to stop the flow of migrants to the United States, but of purposely sending migrant caravans to the U.S. border. “We ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Evil of Sanctions and Embargoes (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 23, 2019

Sanctions and embargoes do more to hurt the citizens in a country than the government that these policies are trying to punish. Should a libertarian support such policies? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard M. Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: U.S. Interventionism in Venezuela

by Future of Freedom Foundation January 30, 2019

Should the U.S. government help overthrow the Maduro regime? Does the U.S. government have any role to play at all in Venezuelan politics? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Citadel professor Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: Trump’s “Withdrawal” from Syria (video)

by Future of Freedom Foundation January 3, 2019

President Donald Trump has called for the withdrawal of the U.S. military from Syria. While libertarians should laud such a move, what is really going on here? Can we really expect the U.S. military to completely withdraw from an area of the Middle East that it has been trying to influence for so long? ...

Selling Murder as The Greater Good

by Gary D. Barnett December 4, 2018

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. - Aldous Huxley War is the scourge of mankind, the death of sanity, and oftentimes exists when armies of consenting soldiers band together in a military formed and controlled by those among us bent on ...

Religious Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy

by Laurence M. Vance October 30, 2018

A Gallup poll taken last year found that 87 percent of Americans believed in God, 51 percent considered religion to be very important in their life, 54 percent were members of a church or synagogue, 35 percent had attended a church or synagogue in the previous seven days, and 64 percent claimed to be a Christian of some ...

Libertarian Lessons: Foreign Policy

by Scott McPherson October 11, 2018

In a libertarian society the role of government is restricted to the protection of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Its only legitimate actions are those guaranteeing the rights of individuals against any who would violate them. What, then, is the proper role of the U.S. government in foreign affairs? To protect the rights of Americans here at ...

The Libertarian Angle: Interventionism and National Security Statism

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 18, 2018

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling are pleased to have as a guest Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter to discuss foreign policy. Go to the podcast.

Freedom Frauds: Are We All Terrorists 17 Years After 9/11?

by James Bovard September 11, 2018

Something wicked this way comes? The War on Terrorism has has turned our country into a surveillance society where everyone is a terrorist. Jim Bovard launches his new video podcast series with this inaugural episode. Go to the audio podcast. View other episodes of Freedom Frauds.

Full Program – Non-interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 3, 2018

This program, entitled “Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy,”was presented in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 2018 and co-sponsored with The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.  

U.S. Policy toward Cuba Attacked America’s Freedom and Values

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2018

The decades-long U.S. interventionist policy against Cuba failed to achieve its goal of removing Fidel Castro from power and replacing him with a pro-U.S. regime, similar to the pro-U.S. Batista regime that the Cuban revolution ousted from power in 1959. More important, interventionism against Cuba ended up attacking the freedom and values of the American people. During the Cold War, ...