What does the Trump era hold for the liberty movement? For those who are pursuing peace and prosperity over the war and poverty of the neocons and elites? Do we have anything to cheer? Future of Freedom Foundation's Jacob Hornberger joins today's Liberty Report with...
Month: November 2016
The War on the First Amendment Didn’t Start Last Week
by Peter van Buren | Nov 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
For those who woke a week ago to discover the First Amendment is under attack, I lost my job at the Obama/Clinton State Department in 2012 for writing We Meant Well, a book the government did not like, and needed the help of lawyer Jesselyn Radack and the ACLU to push...
When It Comes to Fake News, the US Government Is the Biggest Culprit
by John W. Whitehead | Nov 22, 2016 | Featured Articles
We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth.” —Former New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg Let’s talk about fake news stories, shall we? There’s the garden variety fake news...
Pelosi’s House Rival Denounced As Sexist For Opposing ‘The Most Accomplished Woman in Congress’
by Jonathan Turley | Nov 22, 2016 | Congress Alert
We have previously discussed how Democrats have rallied around their leaders despite the failure to secure the White House or the Senate. Democratic leaders engineered the primary selection of Hillary Clinton despite polls showing that voters did not want an...
Ron Paul Questions Whether Donald Trump Will Withstand Pressure in Favor of Foreign Intervention
by Adam Dick | Nov 22, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
Prominent libertarian communicator and three-time presidential candidate Ron Paul is questioning whether Donald Trump will be able to withstand the enormous pressure placed on US presidents to intervene overseas, including with military force. Alex Pfeiffer, drawing...
Re-Branding Libertarianism: The Silver Lining of the 2016 Election
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 21, 2016 | The Liberty Report
Is there a silver lining in the recent presidential election for those who value liberty, peace, and prosperity? The answer is a surprising "yes" - but only if we play our cards right. Mises Institute president Jeff Deist joins the Liberty Report to discuss the pros...
Mr. Trump: Here is a Worthy, Perhaps Final Opportunity to Put America First
by Michael Scheuer | Nov 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Although Obama’s effort to help Hillary Clinton’s campaign by taking Mosul on the eve of the election failed, there is a good chance that Mosul will fall to the heterogeneous coalition that is attacking it. Be that event in six weeks, six months, or a year, the United...
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Education System Broken: Let’s Try ‘Ed-Exit’
by Ron Paul | Nov 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan recently signed an executive order forbidding Maryland public schools from beginning classes before Labor Day. Governor Hogan’s executive order benefits businesses in Maryland’s coastal areas that lose school-aged summer employees and...
Help Wanted, Apply Now!
by Peter van Buren | Nov 21, 2016 | Featured Articles
You may have seen the stories last week — President-elect Donald Trump was shocked to learn he needs to hire over 4,000 political appointees by January 20, or that people in Washington may refuse to work in a Trump administration, or that Trump, as a newcomer to...
War Breaks Out Between Neo-Cons And Libertarians Over Trump’s Foreign Policy
by Tyler Durden | Nov 20, 2016 | Featured Articles
In late October, when it was still conventional wisdom that Hillary was "guaranteed" to win the presidency, the WaPo explained that among the neo-con, foreign policy "elites" of the Pentagon, a feeling of calm content had spread: after all, it was just a matter of...
Those Damn Emails
by Peter van Buren | Nov 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
In the end, the emails mattered. How much they mattered — how many votes went to Trump, how many would be-Clinton supporters stayed home, how many voted third party — we’ll never know.Clinton supporters were surprised the emails mattered at all, because they had been...
The Russians are Coming – By Sea!
by Eric Margolis | Nov 19, 2016 | Featured Articles
Russia’s dispatch of a ten-ship flotilla to the Syrian Coast has raised some outrage and sneers aplenty in the West. Particularly when one of its embarked MiG-29K fighters crashed on takeoff from Russia’s sole carrier, the obsolescent Admiral Kuznetsov which lacks...
Syrian Rebels Fret Over Trump’s Planned Syria Overhaul
by Jason Ditz | Nov 19, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
President-elect Donald Trump is planning a major overhaul to US policy in Syria, and that’s got the putative “moderate” rebels that have been getting US funds and weapons fretting, as the CIA program responsible for smuggling that gear in is set to be cancelled. The...
Donald and Vladimir
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 18, 2016 | Featured Articles
Are we seeing an opening to better US/Russia relations? One of president-elect Donald Trump's first moves after victory was a telephone conversation with Russian president Vladimir Putin. But turning away from the past several years of deteriorating relations will not...
Five Minutes Five Issues: Neocon Appointments, TPP, Russia Sanctions, Texas Marijuana, Presidential Powers
by Adam Dick | Nov 17, 2016 | Peace and Prosperity Blog
A new episode of Five Minutes Five Issues posted on Wednesday. You can listen to it, and read a transcript, below. You can also find previous episodes of the show at Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, and SoundCloud. Listen to the new episode here: Read a transcript of the...
Memo To Congress: Bring Back Earmarks!
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 17, 2016 | The Liberty Report
One of the essential battles in the effort to move toward a more peaceful and prosperous United States is the effort to restore the proper balance among the three branches of our government. The rapid concentration of power in the Executive Branch has led to more wars...
For A Libertarian Foreign Policy: Five Key Fixes
by Daniel McAdams | Nov 16, 2016 | The Liberty Report
We are often asked, when criticizing the foreign policy of the past several Administrations, "oh yeah, what would you do?" Well we decided to come up with five specific fixes to the prevailing foreign policy that we believe would make a huge difference and would move...
Trump and Putin Begin Work on US-Russia Reset
by Melkulangara Bhadrakumar | Nov 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
The Russian President Vladimir Putin made the long-expected phone call to the US president-elect Donald Trump on Monday. It stands to reason that the presidential spokesman in the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, one of Putin’s closest aides, travelled to New York last week...
The Best Iran Deal Is Unilateral Hands-Off Iran
by Michael S. Rozeff | Nov 16, 2016 | Featured Articles
Trump wants to renegotiate the Iran nuclear deal and/or “dismantle” it. Why? What good does this do Americans? Why not continue to follow the path of peaceful trade and cultural exchange? Why not continue to build mutual respect and understanding with this historic...
The Bolton Threat to Trump’s Middle East Policy
by Gareth Porter | Nov 15, 2016 | Featured Articles
Post-election comments on Middle East policy last week by President-elect Donald Trump and one his campaign advisers have provoked speculation about whether Trump will upend two main foreign policy lines of the Obama administration in the Middle East.But the more...
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