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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 ...

Why Enemies of Liberty Love Lincoln (video)

by Thomas J. DiLorenzo October 5, 2007

On June 2, 2007, Thomas J. DiLorenzo gave the following Speech at FFF's conference Restoring the Republic: Foreign Policy and Civil Liberties. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.

Are Presidents Entitled to Kill Foreigners?

by James Bovard October 5, 2007

What is the common term for ordering soldiers to kill vast numbers of innocent people? A war crime. But not when it is done on the command of the U.S. president. Killing innocent foreigners seems to be a perk of the modern presidency — akin to the band’s playing “Hail to the Chief” when ...

Ahmadinejad

by Sheldon Richman October 3, 2007

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran is no one to admire, but when was the last time President Bush stood before a critical college audience and fielded tough questions? Bush appears only before handpicked friendly crowds. Even news conferences are barely adversarial because the media has the curious rule that ...

Randy Barnett’s Wrong-Headed Defense of the Iraq War

by Jacob G. Hornberger October 1, 2007

In an op-ed in the July 17, 2007, issue of the Wall Street Journal, Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett stated that President Bush’s war on Iraq could be defended on libertarian principles. He argued that the president’s attack on Iraq fell under the libertarian principle of self-defense. He also suggested that the reason that the occupation of Iraq has ...

A Bogus Libertarian Defense of War

by Sheldon Richman October 1, 2007

Many conservatives dubiously insist that a robustly interventionist foreign policy can coexist with a free-market domestic policy. That’s why they have no compunction about supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan while claiming to support limited and unintrusive government at home. On the face of it, these seem highly incompatible. War requires the accumulation and exercise of awesome powers. ...

Will a Drug Warrior Be Hanged?

by James Bovard October 1, 2007

Thailand’s billionaire prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, was deposed in a coup last year by the country’s military. Somchai Hom-la-or, chairman of the National Human Rights Commission, recently declared that “Thaksin and his government committed crimes against humanity.” Thai lawyers and human-rights activists are suggesting that he be indicted and tried by the International ...

The Wrong Conversation About Iraq

by Frank Nicosia October 1, 2007

Democrats and Republicans, pundits, retired military, the media, and other critics of the Iraq war are having the wrong conversation about how to leave Iraq. They and others, including most of the Democratic candidates for president, focus on the Bush administration’s lack of “success.” We should withdraw or “redeploy” our ...

I Suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Part 1

by James Glaser October 1, 2007

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 No veteran wants Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In fact most will fight it for years, and when things really get out of hand, they have to go through the embarrassment of asking the Veterans Administration for ...

What’s More American Than an American Flag Made in China?

by Lois Kaneshiki October 1, 2007

In case you haven’t heard, many states are passing laws that make it illegal to sell American flags that were not made in the United States. I can hear the sound of labor unions cheering the deed as I write this. However, if America wishes to remain the great nation she is, she should celebrate American flags made in ...