Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), one of the few members of Congress in recent history to understand the nature of US foreign policy, has a new book, The Foreign Policy of Freedom.
I haven’t read it yet, but knowing Ron, it promises to be a great read.
Check out Ron’s latest piece on US foreign policy on today’s Antiwar.com, and also check out the introduction to the book by Lew Rockwell.
What Happened to the Old Republic?: It Was Wounded in This War and Will Be Finished Off in the Next
Antiwar.com editorial director Justin Raimondo discusses the role of the Israel lobby in pushing for the war in Iraq and the next one in Iran, Pelosi’s green light to Dick Cheney and the loss of domestic liberty that always accompanies foreign empire.
MP3 here. (34:41)
Justin Raimondo is the editorial director of Antiwar.com. He is the author of An Enemy of the State: The Life of Murray N. Rothbard (Prometheus Books, 2000). He is also the author of Reclaiming the American Right: The Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement (with an Introduction by Patrick J. Buchanan), (Center for Libertarian Studies, 1993), and Into the Bosnian Quagmire: The Case Against U.S. Intervention in the Balkans (1996).
He is a contributing editor for The American Conservative, a Senior Fellow at the Randolph Bourne Institute, and an Adjunct Scholar with the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and writes frequently for Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture.
There is Nothing More Dangerous: The Power the Military is Claiming Over the American People
Future of Freedom Foundation president Jacob Hornberger decries America’s descent into totalitarianism, what the KSM “confession” reveals about Bush’s bogus Star-Chamber tribunals for “enemy combatants” at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and what it portends for the rest of us.
MP3 here. (35:15)
Jacob G. Hornberger is founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation. He was born and raised in Laredo, Texas, and received his B.A. in economics from Virginia Military Institute and his law degree from the University of Texas. He was a trial attorney for twelve years in Texas. He also was an adjunct professor at the University of Dallas, where he taught law and economics. In 1987, Mr. Hornberger left the practice of law to become director of programs at The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, publisher of The Freeman.
Freedom Daily. Fluent in Spanish and conversant in Italian, he has delivered speeches and engaged in debates and discussions about free-market principles with groups all over the United States, as well as Canada, England, Europe, and Latin America, including Brazil, Cuba, Bolivia, Mexico, Costa Rica, and Argentina.
He has also advanced freedom and free markets on talk-radio stations all across the country as well as on FOX New’s Neil Cavuto and Greta van Susteren shows. His editorials have appeared in the Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, La Prensa San Diego, El Nuevo Miami Herald, and many others, both in the United States and in Latin America. He is a co-editor or contributor to the eight books that have been published by the Foundation.
“It is not civilizations that promote clashes. They occur when old-fashioned leaders look for old-fashioned ways to solve problems by rousing their people to armed confrontation.” –Kenichi Ohmae, The End Of The Nation State, (New York: The Free Press 1995), p. 11.
Why of course the people don’t want war. … That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. —Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler’s heir-apparent
There is more propaganda in a democracy than in a dictatorship. … The United States is unusual among the industrial democracies in the rigidity of the system of ideological control -‘indoctrination,’ we might say – exercised through the mass media. –Seminal linguist Noam Chomsky
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This is the program the War Party has planned for you, your children and your grandchildren.
Are you with the program?
Tell Speaker Pelosi to push to cut off funds for the war.
On the anniversary of the start of the US war against Iraq, a broad-based coalition will rally outside Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home office at 450 Golden Gate Avenue (between Polk and Larkin) in San Francisco, 12 noon, Monday, March 19.
Join us in front of Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district office to urge her and her fellow Representatives to deny any White House war funding request and to support HR 508, The Bring Our Troops Home and Sovereignty of Iraq Restoration Act.
Speakers include:
Justin Raimondo (Antiwar.com)
Rabbi Michael Lerner (Tikkun Community)
Matt Gonzales (former President, San Francisco Board of Supervisors)
Howard Wallace (San Francisco Labor Council)
John Caldera (Veterans Affairs Commission)
For more information, visit www.StopFundingtheWar.com, or contact jessica@stopfundingthewar.com .
Attorney General Gonzales is dead meat. His exit is only a question of time. (I been wrong before, but….)
I think the Senate Dems will not confirm some obvious hatchet man as the replacement for Gonzales.  Bush has “benefitted†from two Attorney Generals who were profoundly dishonest and demagogic. No matter what the Bush administration did, they could be counted on to rubberstamp it as legal – or “close enough for government work†legal.
If the next Attorney General is halfway honest and opens the files of what has been done since 2001, even damn moderates will be shocked.   There are bombshells waiting to detonate on the torture scandal, on Iraq, and on other dishonest and illegal gross abuses.
This year could be more entertaining politically than I expected.
Comments/corrections welcome at my blog here.
