National Security State

Conference: “Stop the Wars on Drugs and Terrorism”

by Future of Freedom Foundation April 10, 2015

The Future of Freedom Foundation and Young Americans for Liberty present a one-day conference on the campus of The University of Texas at Austin at the LBJ Auditorium in the Lyndon B. Johnson Library on Saturday, April 11, 2015, that will address the war on drugs and the war on ...

Regime Change: The JFK Assassination

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 8, 2015

The following are excerpts from Jacob Hornberger’s newest book, Regime Change: The JFK Assassination, which has just been launched on Amazon.com ($4.99). Click here to purchase it. Introduction According to a Gallup poll conducted 50 years after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the vast majority of the American people disbelieve the conclusions reached by the Warren ...

Rule by Illusion

by David S. D'Amato April 1, 2015

National Security and Double Government by Michael J. Glennon (Oxford University Press 2014), 272 pages. Americans have been taken in by an illusion, complacently believing that they live in a constitutional republic in which the rule of law is paramount and public officials are answerable to the electorate. In reality, however, an ascendant technocratic class of experts governs ...

Global Thug State

by Matthew Harwood April 1, 2015

Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a Global Security State in a Single-Superpower World by Tom Engelhardt (Haymarket Books 2014), 200 pages. “A shadow government has conquered twenty-first-century Washington. We have the makings of a thug state of the first order.” No two sentences more clearly and disturbingly summarize what Tom Engelhardt’s Shadow Government: Surveillance, Secret Wars, and a ...

The Libertarian Angle: The War State

by Future of Freedom Foundation March 10, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger discusses the hot topics of the day. This week: our War State government with special guest Mike Swanson. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

The Libertarian Angle: Civil Liberties and the National Security State

by Future of Freedom Foundation February 23, 2015

Each week, FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: civil liberties and the national security state. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

Conservative Hypocrisy on Oliver Stone

by Jacob G. Hornberger February 11, 2015

One year ago, The Future of Freedom Foundation presented what we called “a conference within a conference” at the annual conference of the Students for Liberty, a student-run libertarian group that is, once again, holding their annual conference in Washington, D.C., this coming weekend — February 13-15, 2015. The theme of our mini-conference last year was “Civil Liberties and the ...

The U.S. Executions of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, Part 4

by Jacob G. Hornberger January 1, 2015

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 During the 1960s, the U.S. government became obsessed with a man named Salvador Allende, a physician who had entered politics in Chile and repeatedly ran for president. Since Allende’s political and economic philosophy was communism, U.S. officials were determined to ...

The U.S. Executions of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, Part 3

by Jacob G. Hornberger December 1, 2014

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 As soon as World War II ended, the U.S. government proceeded to convert the Soviet Union from a wartime partner and ally to a new official enemy of the United States, one that Americans were told posed a greater threat ...

The U.S. Executions of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi, Part 2

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 1, 2014

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 To understand the full context of the U.S. executions of Charles Horman and Frank Teruggi Jr. (see part 1), it is necessary to first do a broad survey of American history. We begin with the Constitution, the document that brought the ...

“Trust Us”

by John Glaser December 1, 2013

On June 7 Barack Obama made his first public statements about the NSA surveillance programs leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. After justifying the programs as subject to congressional and judicial oversight, he insisted he did not want “to suggest that, you know, you just say ‘trust me, we’re doing the right thing, we know who the bad guys ...

JFK’s War With the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated, Part 1

by Douglas Horne August 5, 2013

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 Introduction I served on the staff of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) from August of 1995 through September of 1998, during the final three years of ...