Interventionism Makes Americans Less Safe by Jacob G. Hornberger January 15, 2020 There is something important to note about U.S. interventionism in faraway lands: None of the people that the U.S. government is killing, maiming, or destroying is invading and trying to conquer the United States. Neither are the governments of the nations in which the victims are citizens. No one is invading and trying to conquer the United States. There is something else important to note about U.S. interventionism in faraway lands: It makes Americans less safe. Let us count the ways. 1. American tourists and business people traveling abroad are now subject to angry and vengeful retaliation for the death and destruction that the U.S. government is wreaking in those faraway lands. Yes, I am fully aware that American tourists and business people are not responsible for the death and destruction that is being inflicted by the Pentagon and the CIA in places like Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, and other countries. But the problem is that many victims of the ...
Deadly Distractions by John W. Whitehead January 23, 2020 And so it continues. This impeachment fiasco is merely the latest in a never-ending series of distractions, distortions, and political theater aimed at diverting the public’s attention from the sinister advances of the American Police State. Don’t allow yourselves to be distracted, diverted or mesmerized by the cheap theater tricks. This impeachment spectacle is Shakespearean in its scope: full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. Nothing is the key word here. Despite the wall-to-wall media coverage, nothing will change. Mark my words: the government will remain as corrupt and self-serving as ever, dominated by two political factions that pretend to be at odds with each other all the while moving in lockstep to maintain the status quo. So President Trump’s legal team can grandstand all they want about the impeachment trial being “an affront to the Constitution” and “a dangerous perversion of the Constitution,” but that’s just smoke and mirrors. You know what is really “an affront to the Constitution”? The U.S. government. We’ve been losing our freedoms ...
Defending the Foundations of Freedom for 30 Years by Richard M. Ebeling January 1, 2020 This January 2020 marks the 30th anniversary of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s monthly publication, Future of Freedom, which at its beginning was called Freedom Daily. Three decades means a total of 360 issues, containing even more hundreds of articles. Virtually every important policy issue, foreign and domestic, was written about as those months and years went by. The world in the 1990s Looking back, it might have seemed strange to some that a new organization dedicated to individual liberty and free markets was being established at that time. After all, in 1990, communism seemed to be crumbling all around the world. The Eastern European captive nations forced into the political and military orbit of the Soviet Union at the end of the Second World War were regaining their national independence and introducing democratic governments. They all were declaring their intention of reintroducing rights to private property in the means of production and dismantling their socialist central-planning systems and replacing them ...
A Life of the Lie on Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger February 12, 2020 A contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, Timothy Egan, reflects one of the major problems we libertarians face in America: a life of the lie, a life that embraces a false reality. This life of self-deception is not intentional. It is entirely unwitting. Nonetheless, it is a root cause of much of the dysfunctional nature of American ...
A Case for Not Giving Up on the American Dream by John W. Whitehead February 14, 2020 “We must, indeed, all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”—Benjamin Franklin Listen: we don’t have to agree about everything. We don’t even have to agree about most things. We don’t have to love each other. We don’t even have to like each other. And we certainly don’t need to think alike or dress alike or worship alike or vote ...
The Long Shadow of World War I and America’s War on Dissent, Part 2 by Danny Sjursen January 1, 2020 Part 1 Upon U.S. entry into the war, in 1917 the Wilson administration proposed and a compliant Congress almost immediately passed the Espionage Act, a direct attack on American press freedom. The law criminalized newspaper journalists who dared to oppose the war, question the official narrative, or encourage dissent. Massive fines and stiff prison sentences were dealt out with ...
Drug War Obtuseness by Jacob G. Hornberger February 19, 2020 Sometimes I wonder how super-smart people can be so obtuse when it comes to the drug war. A recent example of this phenomenon is Ioan Grillo, a contributing editor for the New York Times. Grillo is the author of two books on the drug war: El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency, which was translated into five languages and was ...
Bionic Mosquito Is Back on Immigration by Jacob G. Hornberger March 11, 2020 The Bionic Mosquito, a libertarian who favors America’s system of immigration controls, is back on the subject of immigration. In a new article, he refers to an article of his back in 2015 entitled “Compared to What?” in which he references a point that I have often made about America’s system of immigration controls. As I have long pointed ...
Tradition and Why the Russians are Who They Are by Richard M. Ebeling March 13, 2020 It is often said to be misplaced and inappropriate to use stereotypes when talking about people or entire nations. To do so is unfair to the wide diversity that exists among the individual citizens of any country over time or during any particular period of time. And this is no doubt true, but, nonetheless, there are such things as ...
Those Dastardly Russians! by Jacob G. Hornberger April 9, 2020 Those dastardly Russians! They are at it again! What are they up to now? They are shipping medical supplies to the United States to help America deal with the Coronavirus crisis! What could be worse than that? Imagine: Trying to befriend us again. Who do they think they are? Those Russkies ...
Is It Time for a New Direction? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 10, 2020 If Americans are not doing some serious soul-searching in the midst of this crisis, they need to start. Where America goes from here is not some sort of esoteric debate. What we do at this point has life or death consequences. Get it wrong, and suffer more death, suffering, and impoverishment. Get it right, and America moves ...
Republicans Are Now Good For Exactly …….. Nothing! by David Stockman April 13, 2020 Nancy Pelosi, Chuckles Schumer and the rest of the Dem wrecking crew surely have the Trumpified GOP by the short hairs. The latter are clueless about the real imperative, which is to halt the senseless shutdown of the US economy ASAP. So like deer caught in the headlights of public fear, outrage and hurt by the Covid Quarantines, they have ...
