Ron Paul’s De-Stimulus Plan by Tim Kelly November 4, 2011 Congressman Ron Paul has put forth an economic plan that calls for serious cuts in the size, budget, and power of the federal government. He has also proposed policies that would end the Fed-driven inflation responsible for the global economic meltdown. This is truly a de-stimulus plan. Paul’s plan would immediately cut $1 trillion from the federal budget by closing down five cabinet departments, slashing regulations, and withdrawing troops from overseas. During a Paul presidency, the U.S. government would cease being the world’s policeman, and the empire would be liquidated in the interests of the both the economy and the Constitution. Such a radical and necessary shift in foreign policy would be difficult for those Americans dependent on the war economy and accustomed to seeing their government as a colossus bestriding the world. But now is the time for Americans to face reality and admit that our country’s exalted global position has been a corrupting experience, and it is simply no ...
The Military-Industrial Complex: The Enemy from Within by John W. Whitehead October 11, 2011 Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes ... known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.... No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare. — James Madison If there is any absolute maxim by which the federal government seems to operate, it is that the American taxpayer always gets ripped off, and Americans would do well to keep that in mind as Congress and the White House debate whether or not to raise the debt ceiling from its current high of $14.3 trillion. For one thing, the grandstanding by both parties over health-care costs and Social Security is nothing more than a convenient distraction from the glaring economic truth that at the end of the day, it’s not the sick, the elderly, ...
The Road to the Permanent Warfare State, Part 6 by Gregory Bresiger October 22, 2011 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 |Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 |Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 |Part 12 |Part 13 If there is a single factor which more than other explains the predicament in which we now find ourselves, it is our readiness to use the specter of Soviet Communism as a cloak for the failure of our own leadership. — Sen. J.W. Fulbright How could American intervention in Korea have happened? In 1950 Korea was not a legal ally of the United States, which the year before had entered into an alliance with Western Europe called NATO. (It wasn’t until 1953 that Korea and the United States signed an alliance.) By its own admission, the United States had no strategic interest in the Korean peninsula. Before the war, it hardly had any troops there. And they ...
Obama’s Iran Policy Commits Him to War by Sheldon Richman March 16, 2012 Despite the alleged difference between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran, both embrace a position that logically commits them to war. If war is to be avoided, as Obama says he wishes, he will have to abandon his current stance. The difference between Obama and Netanyahu is more apparent than real. Both ...
It’s Again Time to Dismantle the Cold War Military Machine by Jacob G. Hornberger May 7, 2012 In 1989, when the Soviet Union dismantled, the American people had a grand opportunity, one in which they could have dismantled the massive national-security state apparatus that had come into existence at the end of World War II for the purpose of confronting America’s wartime ally and partner, the Soviet Union. Instead, the U.S. national-security state sought out ways ...
More Foreign Aid to Egypt’s Dictatorship by Jacob G. Hornberger September 4, 2012 When the next U.S. debt ceiling comes around, one thing is for sure: the mainstream press will be shouting and crying about how important it is to lift the ceiling once again, thereby permitting the federal government to pile even more debt onto the backs of the American people. Unfortunately, in the period of time leading up to the debt ...
Noninterventionism: Cornerstone of a Free Society by Anthony Gregory December 21, 2011 A free society is impossible under an empire. Even the most just war you can imagine is a disaster for liberty and prosperity, as Ludwig von Mises pointed out. An unjust war amounts to murder, mayhem, and mass destruction. And a perpetual state of war guarantees that liberty will never be achieved. James Madison said it very well: Of all ...
Do Republicans Oppose the Redistribution of Wealth? by Laurence M. Vance June 5, 2012 The Law of the Sea Treaty, formally known as the Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (and informally known as LOST), was adopted in 1982 to establish a comprehensive set of rules governing the oceans and replace two previous UN conventions on the Law of the Sea. It came into force in November 1994, a ...
The Natural Right to Be Free by Laurence M. Vance March 1, 2012 It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case for Personal Freedom by Andrew P. Napolitano (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2011); 240 pages. Three recent books on libertarianism — Jeffrey A. Miron’s Libertarianism, from A to Z (Basic Books, 2010); Jacob H. Huebert’s Libertarianism Today (Praeger, 2010); and Tom G. Palmer’s Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, ...
The Road to the Permanent Warfare State, Part 12 by Gregory Bresiger April 26, 2012 Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 |Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 |Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 |Part 12 |Part 13 There has never been a just one, never an honorable one ...
Labor Outsourcing Is Not the Problem by Sheldon Richman August 10, 2012 President Obama thinks he can score points on Mitt Romney by pointing out that companies acquired by Bain Capital outsourced jobs to other countries. The implication is that there is something unpatriotic in contracting for foreign labor. That is a strange position in this era of globalization, which Obama claims to favor. Romney, a self-described champion of free enterprise, defended ...
Obama’s Logic of War by Sheldon Richman June 29, 2012 Despite the alleged difference between Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran, both embrace a position that logically commits them to war. If war is to be avoided, as Obama says he wishes, he will have to abandon his current stance. The difference between Obama and Netanyahu is more apparent than real. Both say Iran’s possession of ...
