David Swanson reviews the book Obama's Unending Wars: Fronting the Foreign Policy of the Permanent Warfare State. "Kuzmarov places Obama in historical context and outlines his parallels with Woodrow Wilson, another extreme militarist generally understood as a peace...
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Military Industrial Complex Famous Quotes
Of course the most famous quote about the military-industrial complex comes from President Dwight Eisenhower’s farewell address, but there are many more famous quotes about it. James Madison wrote that “no nation can maintain its freedom in the midst of continuous...
TGIF: Trump Assumes Command of the American Church
As Donald Trump demonstrated in his first address to Congress, no matter how loathsome a ruler may be, he can bring an assembly of politicians to its feet and disarm some critics simply by invoking the quasi-secular faith -- Americanism -- and eulogizing the latest...
Tell the Next President: No More War!
Here at The Libertarian Institute our highest priority is fighting against the permanent war state, and we are determined to work with just about whoever we have to in order to make peace a reality. So it's very timely and lucky that here from the very beginning we...
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Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine
Over and over, U.S. government officials and their mainstream media allies called Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine an “unprovoked attack.” The slogan became so overused that people began to ask the obvious question: Why do they protest so much? In Provoked: How...
