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Disappearing People

Disappearing People

by | May 20, 2025 |

One of the ways that brutal right-wing Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet would terrorize the Chilean people into patriotic submission to his authority was by disappearing people. This was different from simply torturing and executing them. He and his goons certainly did that too. But disappearing people was different. With executions and bodies, families at least had certainty with respect to what had happened to their loved one. With disappearances, they never could be certain that their...

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The Magical Mystery Tour That Wasn’t

The Magical Mystery Tour That Wasn’t

by | May 19, 2025 |

It has been an interesting few days with the United States renaming the Gulf of Mexico and Persian Gulf while also doubling down on spying directed against Greenland in expectations that it will be acquired as a US territory sometime soon. Meanwhile, some of us who have been watching developments in what has been described as Donald Trump’s “peace initiative” trip to the Middle East, which might also have included a stop in Istanbul to sit in with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, are now...

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Cutting Military Spending Would Make for a Big and Beautiful Bill

Cutting Military Spending Would Make for a Big and Beautiful Bill

by | May 19, 2025 |

Last week, Moody’s Ratings lowered the United States credit rating. Fitch Ratings and S&P Global Ratings had already lowered the US rating. This new downgrade was driven by Congress’s failure to make any efforts to reduce the almost 37 trillion dollars national debt. When Moody’s made its announcement, the House Budget Committee was scrambling to get the votes to pass legislation extending the 2017 tax cuts. President Trump has dubbed this the “big beautiful bill.” The bill also has new...

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There Is Only One Way to Eradicate Mexico’s Drug Cartels

There Is Only One Way to Eradicate Mexico’s Drug Cartels

by | May 17, 2025 |

There is only one way to eradicate Mexico’s drug cartels and the massive violence that has come with them. That one way is drug legalization — that is, the end of the drug war by legalizing the possession, ingestion, and distribution of all drugs. There is no other way to eradicate Mexico’s drug cartels. Longtime readers of The Future of Freedom Foundation know that I have emphasized this point for a few decades. But it just bears repeating periodically, given that so many people, including,...

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‘For Posterity’s Sake’: Why the Biden-Hur Tapes is a Virtual Racketeering Indictment

‘For Posterity’s Sake’: Why the Biden-Hur Tapes is a Virtual Racketeering Indictment

by | May 17, 2025 |

“For posterity’s sake.” Those words from President Joe Biden sum up the crushing impact of the leaked audiotapes from the interview between then-President Joe Biden and Special Counsel Robert Hur. Not only did they remove any serious doubt over Biden committing the federal crimes charged against President Donald Trump, but they also constituted what is akin to a political racketeering indictment against much of the Washington establishment. The interview from Oct. 8-9, 2023, has long been...

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How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy for a Century

How War Propaganda Has Fueled American Foreign Policy for a Century

by | May 16, 2025 |

The New York Times this week reports that the Trump administration has canceled many grants that were to fund “research” on “misinformation.” This is being presented by the media as a dastardly deed that will supposedly allow the spread of misleading or false information through various media channels. Of course, if there were any genuine interest in studying the most egregious efforts to spread misinformation, media outlets like the Times would...

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State Department must declassify Rümeysa Öztürk deportation rationale

State Department must declassify Rümeysa Öztürk deportation rationale

by | May 16, 2025 |

A federal judge recently ordered the release of Tufts graduate student Rümeysa Öztürk from custody with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In his ruling, U.S. District Judge William Sessions III said that Öztürk’s only apparent offense was co-authoring an op-ed critical of Israel. This is good news for free speech and due process, but the Department of Homeland Security has said it will continue its efforts to deport Öztürk. It is incumbent upon the administration to...

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What if Freedom Is Suspended?

What if Freedom Is Suspended?

by | May 15, 2025 |

What if the writ of habeas corpus has been guaranteed to the British since 1215 and to Americans since 1789? What if this encompasses the right of every person who is confined by the government against his or her will to compel the jailer to justify the confinement before a neutral judge? What if this right is personal and individual and applies to all persons at all times? What if the right can be exercised by anyone who is arrested, whether it be for spitting on the sidewalk or murder? What...

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Can Trump Slip the Grip of the Neocons?

Can Trump Slip the Grip of the Neocons?

by | May 15, 2025 |

During the 1988 campaign, George W. Bush came to the Courthouse in Maryville, TN to speak at a rally for his Dad. As we were leaving, I told my friend and later Chief of Staff, Bob Griffitts, “Bob, he is better than his Dad.” When he ran for President in 2000, then Governor Bush went all over the Country saying we needed a more humble foreign policy, and according to Foreign Policy Magazine, he "famously campaigned against nation building." The Independent Institute reported that in a 2000...

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A Peculiar Measure of the Prevalence of ‘Antisemitism’

A Peculiar Measure of the Prevalence of ‘Antisemitism’

by | May 14, 2025 |

On Wednesday, the United States House of Representatives approved yet again legislation (this time H. Res. 352) to counter “antisemitism” — something the US government has been redefining for its purposes as going beyond being related to race, ethnicity, or religion so that it also includes criticizing the government of Israel. In its concluding section the resolution states, in addition to a couple other demands, that the House “calls on elected officials, faith leaders, and civil society...

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Trump Praises ‘Young, Attractive’ President Sharaa, Founder Of Al Qaeda In Syria, Before Qatar Visit

Trump Praises ‘Young, Attractive’ President Sharaa, Founder Of Al Qaeda In Syria, Before Qatar Visit

by | May 14, 2025 |

As a last major event while still on the ground in Saudi Arabia, and before embarking for Qatar, President Donald Trump met with Syria's President Ahmed al-Sharaa. This signifies a monumental, historic shift in the entire regional order. We are witnessing the final blood soaked after-effects of the culmination of what was laid out in Seymour Hersh's The Redirection, a policy which began all the way back in the Bush administration. Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Jolani,...

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Will Trump Invade or Bomb Mexico to Win the Drug War?

Will Trump Invade or Bomb Mexico to Win the Drug War?

by | May 14, 2025 |

Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iván Archivaldo Guzmán recently evaded capture by Mexican police by using escape tactics that he learned from his father Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. The Journal described Iván as “Mexico’s Most Wanted Drug Kingpin.” But wait a minute! I thought that when U.S. officials recently sentenced El Chapo himself to life in a U.S. prison, the war on drugs was supposed to have been won. Alas, apparently not. It turns out that El...

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Trump Advisor to Washington Post: ‘In MAGA, We Are Not Bibi Fans’

Trump Advisor to Washington Post: ‘In MAGA, We Are Not Bibi Fans’

by | May 13, 2025 |

Israel is in "total panic" that they're going to be the next US "ally" dropped by the Trump administration, according to the Washington Post. From The Washington Post, "Trump repeatedly bypasses Netanyahu, stoking dismay among Israelis": JERUSALEM — During his first major overseas trip this week, President Donald Trump is set to visit three countries in the Middle East — Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates — without stopping in Jerusalem. It's not the first time he has...

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The Illusion of American Generosity

The Illusion of American Generosity

by | May 13, 2025 |

Because of our strong Christian heritage, most Americans innately believe in being generous to their neighbors. Good neighborliness was central to our country’s founding ethos. Locally and nationally, there are a myriad of groups and organizations that provide support and assistance to people in need. This tradition is an important component of our culture. Consequently, much of our populace believes the United States government is a force for good around the world and an important contributor...

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Cutting Military Spending Would Make for a Big and Beautiful Bill

What Will Trump Find in the Middle East This Week?

by | May 12, 2025 |

President Trump’s return to the Middle East this week, the first since his first-term 2017 visit, will take place amidst great turmoil. It is a region that bears little resemblance to  the Middle East of 2017 and it appears, at least from media reporting this past week, that the Trump Administration has some understanding of this reality. Syria has been over-run and is now controlled by the same al-Qaeda that the US government supposedly spent 20 years fighting in the “war on terror.”...

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Turkey: A Rogue US Ally’s Territorial Conquests

Turkey: A Rogue US Ally’s Territorial Conquests

by | May 12, 2025 |

We often hear U.S. and NATO spokesmen claim that they believe in a rules-based international order. They don’t. The United States and its NATO allies have stressed repeatedly that Russia’s use of force to seize portions of Ukraine is reprehensible. They were emphatic on that point in 2014 when the Kremlin responded to the West’s role in overthrowing Ukraine’s democratically elected, pro-Russian president, Victor Yanukovych, by taking control of the Crimean Peninsula and then annexing it after...

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Peace & Prosperity Blog

Eradicating Health in Gaza

Eradicating Health in Gaza

by | Mar 18, 2024

In December I wrote about how “the biggest contributor to inflicting death in Gaza will likely be the Israel government causing the loss of necessities for health, including...

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