Foreign Policy & War

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, ...

The Boomerang Effect

by Matthew Harwood September 1, 2018

Tyranny Comes Home: The Domestic Fate of U.S. Militarism by Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall (Stanford University Press, 2018); 264 pages. On the evening of July 7, 2016, Micah Xavier Johnson turned a protest against police brutality into a bloodbath. Angry at police killings of black men nationwide, the Army reservist and Afghan war ...

Speaker Panel – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 27, 2018

This panel was part of a program entitled “Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy” that was presented in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 2018 and co-sponsored with The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity. Speakers from left to right: - Richard M. Ebeling, BB&T Distinguished Professor of Ethics and Free Enterprise Leadership at The Citadel - ...

Jacob Hornberger – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 21, 2018

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

Daniel McAdams – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Daniel McAdams August 13, 2018

This speech was part of a program entitled “Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy” that was presented in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 2018 and co-sponsored with The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity. Daniel McAdams is the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute.

Richard M. Ebeling – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Richard M. Ebeling August 9, 2018

This speech was part of a program entitled "Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy" that was presented in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 2018. Our country is enmeshed in permanent, ongoing foreign wars and interventions. The results of foreign interventionism have been catastrophic, not only in terms of massive death and destruction abroad, but also ...

Hiroshima Revisited

by John W. Whitehead August 1, 2018

“The horror... the horror...”—Apocalypse Now (1979) Nearly 73 years ago, the United States unleashed atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 individuals, many of whom were civilians. Fast forward to the present day, and the U.S. military under President Trump’s leadership is dropping a bomb every 12 minutes. This follows on the ...

Ron Paul – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Ron Paul July 23, 2018

This speech was presented at a conference entitled "Non-interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy" in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29. 2018. The event was co-sponsored by The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity and The Future of Freedom Foundation. Our country is enmeshed in permanent, ongoing foreign wars and interventions. The results of foreign ...

Nonintervention: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2018

On the Fourth of July, 1821, John Quincy Adams delivered one of the most remarkable speeches in U.S. history. Having gone down in history with the title “In Search of Monsters of Destroy,” Adams’s speech summarized the founding foreign policy of the United States. Adams pointed out that there are lots of bad things that happen around the world. Brutal ...

The Deep Hurt

by Stephen Kinzer July 1, 2018

More than a century has passed since American hearts were first seized by the grand debate about overseas expansion. During that period, much of what anti-imperialists predicted has come to pass. The United States has become an actively interventionist power. It has projected military or covert power into dozens of countries on every continent except Antarctica. In many places, ...