Daily Articles

The Libertarian Angle: The Role of Government in a Free Society

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 29, 2014

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: a recent debate with Dinesh D'Souza. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

TGIF: The “Boomerang Effect”: How Foreign Policy Changes Domestic Policy

by Sheldon Richman September 26, 2014

The late Chalmers Johnson, the great analyst of the American empire, warned that if Americans didn’t give up the empire, they would come to live under it. We’ve had many reasons to take his warning seriously; indeed, several important thinkers have furnished sound theoretical and empirical evidence for the proposition. Now come two scholars who advance our understanding of how ...

Dogs and Diners

by Laurence M. Vance September 26, 2014

Americans are dog lovers. In fact, many people love their dogs so much that they take them wherever they can. Some people would even take their dogs out to eat with them if they could. If they live in California — now they can. Gov. Jerry Brown has signed into law legislation that revises the California Health and Safety Code relating ...

Will American Ground Troops Be Sent to Fight ISIS?

by Sheldon Richman September 25, 2014

With the United States dropping bombs on yet another Muslim country, we might benefit from a close look at President Obama’s anti–Islamic State strategy. Obama and his spokespeople are always quick to make two points: first, that no American ground forces will be sent into combat against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and second, that the United ...

Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence, Part 5 (video)

by Douglas Horne September 24, 2014

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 In this 5-part video, Douglas P. Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board and who is the author of the five-volume book Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. ...

Democracy Is Not the Same as Freedom

by Richard M. Ebeling September 23, 2014

A fundamental fallacy of our time is that democracy is the open-sesame to peace, freedom, and prosperity. The political events surrounding what was called the ill-fated “Arab Spring” a couple of years ago was a based on the idea that “democracy” would solve all the problems of any society. But democracy in itself does not define or guarantee a ...

Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence, Part 4 (video)

by Douglas Horne September 23, 2014

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 In this 5-part video, Douglas P. Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board and who is the author of the five-volume book Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s ...

The Libertarian Angle: Immigration Socialism

by Future of Freedom Foundation September 22, 2014

FFF president Jacob Hornberger and FFF vice president Sheldon Richman discuss the hot topics of the day. This week: immigration. The Libertarian Angle airs weekly. Go to the podcast.

Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence, Part 3 (video)

by Douglas Horne September 22, 2014

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 In this 5-part video, Douglas P. Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board and who is the author of the five-volume book Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s ...

TGIF: The Antimilitarist Libertarian Heritage

by Sheldon Richman September 19, 2014

With the United States on the verge of another war in the Middle East — or is it merely the continuation of a decades-long war? — we libertarians need to reacquaint ourselves with our intellectual heritage of peace, antimilitarism, and anti-imperialism. This rich heritage is too often overlooked and frequently not appreciated at all. That is tragic. Libertarianism, to ...

Altered History: The FFF Video Project on the Autopsy of John F. Kennedy

by Jacob G. Hornberger September 19, 2014

This week The Future of Freedom Foundation launches a video presentation entitled “Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence,” by Douglas P. Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) in the 1990s and later authored a five-volume book on the assassination of John F. Kennedy entitled

Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence, Part 2 (Video)

by Douglas Horne September 19, 2014

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3  | Part 4 | Part 5 In this 5-part video, Douglas P. Horne, who served on the staff of the Assassination Records Review Board and who is the author of the five-volume book Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s ...