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The Ongoing War on the American People

by John W. Whitehead August 24, 2018

“A government which will turn its tanks upon its people, for any reason, is a government with a taste of blood and a thirst for power and must either be smartly rebuked, or blindly obeyed in deadly fear.”—John Salter Police in a small Georgia town tasered a 5-foot-2, 87-year-old woman who was using a kitchen knife to cut ...

Libertarian Lessons: Conscription

by Scott McPherson August 23, 2018

Authoritarians love conscription because it turns human beings into resources, for the factory or the battlefield. The idea receives support from across the political spectrum, either (a) to fight wars abroad, or (b) for the development of a “youth corps” providing “free” services at home. Neither excuse justifies enslaving young people to serve the interests of the political class. At ...

Economic Armaments and China’s Global Ambitions

by Richard M. Ebeling August 23, 2018

The world continues to move in potentially dangerous directions. A leading component of this threat is the use of economic armaments by governments to gain political and market advantages in their foreign relations with other countries. Among the leading participants in the use of such economic armaments is the government of China. First, what are “economic armaments”? In the 1930s, ...

The Libertarian Angle: Abolish Social Security

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 22, 2018

Social Security is theft. There is no trust fund. You have no rights to the money funding it. It is simply a transfer mechanism to get money from the young to the old. FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast.

Jacob Hornberger – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 21, 2018

This speech was part of a program entitled “Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy” that was presented in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 2018 and co-sponsored with The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

Focus on Freedom: Education

by Catherine Bleish August 20, 2018

Catherine Bleish gives her personal and unique view of the principles of the free society.

Families First, Taxpayers Last

by Laurence M. Vance August 17, 2018

Milton Friedman may have put families first, but he put taxpayers last. Friedman (1912–2006) was one of the most influential free-market economists of the twentieth century. After receiving his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University, he worked for the federal government and then taught economics at the University of Chicago for thirty years. In 1976, he received the Nobel Prize ...

The JFK Assassination, Episode 8

by Jacob G. Hornberger August 17, 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.

The Evolution of a Police State Lockdown

by John W. Whitehead August 16, 2018

“It takes a remarkable force to keep nearly a million people quietly indoors for an entire day, home from work and school, from neighborhood errands and out-of-town travel. It takes a remarkable force to keep businesses closed and cars off the road, to keep playgrounds empty and porches unused across a densely populated place 125 square miles in size. ...

The Walter Lippmann Colloquium and the Meaning of Liberalism

by Richard M. Ebeling August 15, 2018

The world has always been an uncertain place, and this is no less true today. After the collapse of communism in the 1990s, there was confidence that democracy had won and the market economy had shown its superiority to government planning. This is no longer the case, with the rise of populism, a rebirth of nationalism, and a reawakened ...

The Libertarian Angle: Insider Trading

by Future of Freedom Foundation August 14, 2018

Insider trading is a felony. Should it be? Is insider trading wrong at all? FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss. Go to the podcast https://libertarianangle.libsyn.com/.

Daniel McAdams – Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

by Daniel McAdams August 13, 2018

This speech was part of a program entitled “Non-Interventionism: America’s Founding Foreign Policy” that was presented in Charleston, South Carolina on April 29, 2018 and co-sponsored with The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity. Daniel McAdams is the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute.