The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed (video) by Ivan Eland September 28, 2007 On June 2, 2007, Ivan Eland gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
Iraqi Persons: Children of a Lesser God? by J.D. Chapman September 21, 2007 The taking of one human life We all agree to be high crime That usually demands a just punishment It is a sin That God abhors and will also judge But several hundred thousand lives Of mainly bystanders To massive military exercise By the world’s mightiest armies For goals that could never be justified Defies the bravest explanation
The Importance of the Marketplace of Ideas — in Both War and Peace by Richard M. Ebeling September 21, 2007 On June 2, 2007, Richard M. Ebeling gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
Do Americans Owe Service to the Nation? by Sheldon Richman September 17, 2007 Why does the idea of “national service” never cease to attract American intellectuals? Every few years some prominent “thinker” proposes that young Americans “serve their country” in either a civilian or military capacity. Such service is always promised to have a profound effect on both the nation and the ...
Pro-Democracy Killing in Iraq by Jacob G. Hornberger September 14, 2007 During the recent Republican presidential debate, former Governor Mike Huckabee took Congressman Ron Paul to task for calling for a withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. Huckabee suggested that it was irrelevant whether the United States should have invaded Iraq. The point, he stated, was that because the invasion ...
Whatever Happened to Uncle Sam Wants You? by Michael Nolan September 14, 2007 If the war in Iraq is worth fighting, then why doesn't George Bush, commander-in-chief of an army stretched so thin by the Iraq catastrophe that Colin Powell has labeled it broken, just look the people in the eye and say Uncle Sam Wants You? Think about it: Those who support global, perpetual war from Dick Cheney to Joe Lieberman ...
Ike Was Right and We Are Becoming What We Despise (video) by Robert Scheer September 14, 2007 On June 1, 2007, Robert Scheer gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
Conservative Hypocrisy by Sheldon Richman September 12, 2007 President Bush opposes efforts in Congress and the states to expand the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) to include more children from middle-class families who don’t qualify for Medicaid. He says he’s against those efforts because “when you expand eligibility ... you’re really beginning to open up an avenue for people to switch ...
How We’re Restoring the Republic with Truth and Fearlessness by Karen Kwiatkowski September 7, 2007 On June 1, 2007, Karen Kwiatkowski gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
Big Government at Home and Abroad, Part 1 by Jacob G. Hornberger September 1, 2007 Part 1 | Part 2 Practically everywhere we look there is a crisis. Public schooling: crisis. The drug war: crisis. Social Security: crisis. Medicare and Medicaid: crisis. Immigration: crisis. Iraq: crisis. Terrorism: crisis. Federal spending: crisis. The dollar: crisis. So many crises! Yet there is a common denominator to all these crises. Focusing on that common denominator provides the key ...
Bush’s Tyranny Thwarted — For Now by Sheldon Richman September 1, 2007 The news media seemed too preoccupied with Paris Hilton’s detention to notice, but a U.S. appeals court in June struck a major blow for liberty. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Bush administration may not declare a U.S. resident — whether a citizen or not — an ...
Bushs AmeriCorps Fraud by James Bovard September 1, 2007 Politicians have long used moral doggerel to make citizens docile. Though President Bush is often verbally inept, he has hit the same chords his predecessors played to sway Americans to glorify government workers as moral icons worthy of gratitude and respect. Two months after the 9/11 attacks, Bush announced that he was expanding AmeriCorps and that all of us can ...