Daily Articles

Freedom Frauds: Hitchhiking to an Antiwar Awakening

by James Bovard November 15, 2018

My hitchhiking follies led to a bus station where I met a drunken Vietnam vet who helped me understand atrocities. Go to the audio podcast. View other episodes of Freedom Frauds.

Yet Another Government Weapon for Compliance and Control

by John W. Whitehead November 15, 2018

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana We never learn. In the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes. Even the most well-intentioned government law or program can be—and has been—perverted, corrupted and used to advance illegitimate purposes once profit and power are added to the equation. The war on ...

The Libertarian Angle: The Horrific Consequences of WWI

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 14, 2018

Should the United States have been involved in World War I? Did it make the world safe for democracy, or was it the recipe for a violence-filled 20th century? Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Privatizing Coercion

by Laurence M. Vance November 12, 2018

Every day, roughly 10,000 baby boomers do the same thing: they retire. And when they retire, the first thing they generally do is apply for Social Security. There are actually two parts to Social Security (OASDI). The Old-Age and Survivors Insurance (OASI) program provides monthly benefits to retired workers, families of retired workers, and survivors of deceased workers. The Disability Insurance ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 20

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 9, 2018

In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast.

A Badge of Shame: The Government’s War on America’s Military Veterans

by John W. Whitehead November 8, 2018

“For soldiers serving in Afghanistan and Iraq, coming home is more lethal than being in combat.” ― Brené Brown, research professor at the University of Houston Not all heroes wear the uniform of war. In the United States, however, we take particular pride in recognizing as heroes those who have served in the military. Yet while we honor our veterans with ...

Liberal Capitalism as the Ideology of Freedom and Moderation

by Richard M. Ebeling November 7, 2018

Nowadays, many along the political spectrum seem to agree that America increasingly has become a polarized society. Ideological and public policy discourse has been gravitating more toward the extremes: progressives and the Democratic Party with a more explicitly socialist rhetoric and proposed government agenda, and conservatives and Republicans who increasingly appear to be moving in the direction of populist, ...

Libertarian Angle: Election Day!

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 6, 2018

Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss why it doesn't make any difference, insofar as liberty is concerned, whether you vote Democrat or Republican.

James Comey and the Unending Bush Torture Scandal

by James Bovard November 6, 2018

The vast regime of torture created by the Bush administration after the 9/11 attacks continues to haunt America. The political class and most of the media have never dealt honestly with the profound constitutional corruption that such practices inflicted. Instead, torture enablers are permitted to pirouette as heroic figures on the flimsiest evidence. Former FBI chief James Comey is ...

Pure Evil

by Laurence M. Vance November 5, 2018

President Trump last month signed into law sweeping bipartisan legislation (H.R.6) aimed at combating the nation’s opioid epidemic. Opioids are narcotics used primarily for pain relief. But they are also used for their euphoric effects. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), “49,000 people died from opioid overdoses in 2017, according to provisional numbers.” The ...

Roundtable: Spelman College Drug War Conference

by Future of Freedom Foundation November 5, 2018

This conference was co-sponsored by students at Spelman College, Morehouse College in Atlanta, and the Spelhouse National Action Network and was held at Spelman College on September 20, 2018. This was the third Historically Black College and University (HBCU) at which we have held our drug-war conferences. The previous two were Morgan State University in ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 19

by Jacob G. Hornberger November 2, 2018

In this series of short videos, FFF president Jacob Hornberger summarizes and details the circumstantial evidence pointing toward the U.S. national-security state as the orchestrator of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Watch the entire series. Go to the podcast.