This July 4, the fireworks won’t just be in celebration of Independence Day. There will undoubtedly be fireworks in cities throughout the Middle East, as the region, engulfed in violence, further explodes. The US military and US taxdollars are already deeply entangled...
Justin Raimondo: Against the War Machine
At Mises.org, Jeff Deist and Justin Raimondo discuss the early history of the modern libertarian movement, Justin's time working with Murray Rothbard on libertarian strategy, and the chances for developing a broad new anti-war coalition. Listen to the interview here,...
Rep. Walter Jones on Dick Cheney and the Consequences of Intervention
The following letter by GOP Congressman Walter Jones of North Carolina was written in support of an editorial published in the Greenwood Commonwealth.To the editor: I write in agreement with the following statement from the June 20 editorial in the Greenwood...
Losing a War the Right Way
I should not badmouth Stratfor. Granted, their star has dimmed a tad in the last few years, but they email me news articles every day or two gratis so who am I to quibble.I especially love the cozy, your one of us, insider tone of the articles. It may be ridiculous,...
Don’t Get Too Excited Over the Ex-Im Debate and the ‘Reform Conservative’ Crowd
Bipartisan criticism of the Export-Import Bank is all the rage these days, after new Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy spoke publicly about his intention to end its very existence. From the standpoint of a libertarian, the criticism and the shedding of light on such...
Long Burden of Iraq Mistake
This originally appeared as a response to a column published in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. It is reprinted with the author's permission.In response to the column by Rep. Greg Steube on June 26: The carnage, death and destruction brought about by the Iraq invasion...
GOP Congressmen Walter Jones and Thomas Massie on Opposing Warrantless NSA Spying
On this month's Washington Watch, GOP Congressmen Walter Jones (R-NC) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) discuss the need to defend American constitutional rights against government overreach – particularly relating to the warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens'...
Ron Paul on Street Demonstrations in Germany and the Mystery of Germany’s Gold
Antiwar and anti-Fed demonstrations in Germany have spread to a hundred cities and now to two more countries . NATO and its expansionism play a material role in the protest movement, but why should Germans and other Europeans be protesting the U.S. Federal Reserve?...
And the War Came: Ralph Raico on WWI
The immediate origins of the 1914 war lie in the twisted politics of the Kingdom of Serbia.[1] In June, 1903, Serbian army officers murdered their king and queen in the palace and threw their bodies out a window, at the same time massacring various royal relations,...
Charles Lewis on War’s First Casualty: The Truth
From this week's Bill Moyers' Journal: As the exploding crisis in Iraq spotlights once again the tragic record of American policy in the Middle East, Bill speaks with investigative journalist Charles Lewis, whose new book, 935 Lies: The Future of Truth and the Decline...

