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A Lesson from Niger about America’s National-Security State

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The recent military coup in Niger serves as another reminder to the American people about the danger posed by the national-security state form of governmental structure that America adopted after World War II, ostensibly to prevent a communist takeover of America. Like the United States, Niger is a national-security state, meaning that its government includes a vast, all-powerful military-intelligence establishment.  Last month, Niger’s national-security branch went to war against the government’s executive branch, which was represented by the country’s democratically elected president Mohamed Bazoum.  Niger President Mohamed Bazoum. Licensed under Creative Commons. Not surprisingly, the executive branch proved to be no match for the overwhelming military power of the national-security branch. While so far permitted to live, Bazoum was violently ousted from power. The national-security branch is now in overt control of the government.  U.S. officials are up in arms over this development, ...

The Anti-Communist Crusade

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A central feature of the Cold War racket was the anti-communist crusade. At the behest of the U.S. national-security establishment, the entire nation became obsessed with the commies, both foreign and domestic. The Reds were coming to get us. They were everywhere. They were in Korea, Vietnam, Cuba, Russia, China, Guatemala, Chile, Indonesia, Brazil, and most everywhere else. They were in Congress, the military, the executive branch, the political system, the universities, and  Hollywood. In the 1950s, people were even being exhorted to look under their beds for communists.  In the foreign realm, the anti-communist crusade led the U.S. national-security establishment to sacrifice almost 100,000 U.S. soldiers in U.S. interventions in civil wars in Korea and Vietnam. More than 250,000 U.S. soldiers were wounded in those conflicts. Here at home, the FBI and the national-security establishment targeted suspected communists and did everything to destroy them. This included the U.S. Communist Party as well as leftist organizations, such ...

Why JFK Was Deemed a Threat to National Security

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Three days ago — June 10 — was the 60th anniversary of President Kennedy’s Peace Speech at American University. Reading or listening to the speech today, it is not difficult to see why the U.S. national-security establishment deemed Kennedy to be a grave threat to national security, just as it did with certain foreign leaders, such as Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh of Iran, Congo leader Patrice Lumumba, Guatemalan President Jacobo Arbenz and, later, President Salvador Allende of Chile.  For some 150 years, the federal government had been a limited-government republic. After World War II, however, the federal government was converted to a national-security state.  The difference was day and night. With a limited-government republic, there was openness and transparency in governmental operations. Moreover, there was only a relatively small, basic military force. No Pentagon, no vast military-industrial complex, no CIA, no NSA, and no empire of ...