I Suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Part 2 by James Glaser November 1, 2007 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 The Tomah VA Medical Center sits on 173 acres in west central Wisconsin. The PTSD unit there was about 300 miles from my home, and it was a long trip driving down there thinking hard all ...
Gun Control Claims More Victims by Benedict D. LaRosa November 1, 2007 Last year, Virginia Tech University successfully lobbied the state legislature to prohibit concealed-permit holders from carrying a sidearm on campus. At the time, university spokesman Larry Hincker commented, I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty, and visitors feel safe ...
The Lies of the Drug War by Paul Armentano November 1, 2007 Lies, Damned Lies, and Drug War Statistics by Matthew B. Robinson and Renee G. Scherlen (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2007); 268 pages; $27.95. One war appears to be going well for the United States and its allies these days: the drug war. That was the lead in dozens of U.S. newspapers in response to a June 2007 ...
The War on Telephone Privacy by Jacob G. Hornberger October 31, 2007 A perfect example of the integrated threat that U.S. foreign policy and federal domestic regulations pose to the freedom, privacy, and well-being of the American people is the current telecommunications controversy. Soon after the 9/11 attacks, the feds approached various U.S. telephone companies and asked them to illegally share private information about their customers. The ...
Busy Bush Has Time to Run the World by Sheldon Richman October 29, 2007 President Bush has been a busy man. Even though the quagmire in Iraq threatens to worsen as Turkey prepares to invade the Kurdish north, Bush has time to undertake the arduous task of preventing World War III and begin the transition to democracy in Cuba. How does he do it?! The president is on ...
The FBI’s Right to Threaten Torture by James Bovard October 26, 2007 A federal appeals court has concluded that an FBI agent must go to trial on charges he coerced a false confession out of a prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks. But the FBI still insists that its agent did nothing wrong. And the feds swayed the court to suppress that portion of a recent decision ...
War, Foreign Policy, and Empire: The Changing Political Dynamic by Anthony Gregory October 26, 2007 On June 3, 2007, Anthony Gregory gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety. Anthony Gregory is a Policy Advisor for the Future of Freedom Foundation, a guest editor at Strike the Root, a blogger at Liberty and Power and the Stress Blog, and a ...
War as Government Program by Sheldon Richman October 19, 2007 On June 3, 2007, Sheldon Richman gave the following Speech at FFF’s conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
Blackwater and Bush’s War by Sheldon Richman October 15, 2007 If Iraq is really a sovereign country, which is the fiction maintained by the Bush administration, then why aren’t the Blackwater USA personnel who are accused of murdering 17 innocent Iraqis accountable to the criminal justice system in that country? Private contractors such as Blackwater have had immunity from criminal ...
Iran and Iraq: The Need for Pentagon Papers (video) by Daniel Ellsberg October 12, 2007 On June 2, 2007, Daniel Ellsberg gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
The Failed Legacy of Interventionism by Jacob G. Hornberger October 10, 2007 Last week, the New Hampshire Union Leader went on the attack against Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s foreign-policy views, making the standard pro-empire, pro-intervention arguments that unfortunately have come to characterize the modern-day conservative movement. (Paul’s response to the editorial is here.) Nastily referring to Paul as ...
A Foreign Policy of Peace and Freedom by Scott McPherson October 10, 2007 The Framers of the U.S. Constitution wisely advised a path of nonintervention in the affairs of other nations. As students of history, America’s first statesmen established peace and free trade as a wiser foreign policy course over militarism, alliance-making, and empire. John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, best summed up America’s ...