Topic: War and Peace

US Militarism Abroad is Hypocritical and Counterproductive

– July 26, 2021

“Much like big government activism fails here at home, overconfidence in military intervention has only promised failure abroad. A pivot towards a more humble foreign policy based on cooperation as well as shared leadership, much like it would for domestic policy, will yield a much safer world for freedom and democracy.” ~ Ethan Yang

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Free Market Liberalism and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

– June 8, 2021

“The recent 11 days of warfare between Israel and Hamas in Gaza has once more raised the issue of one-state or two-state ‘solutions’ to the over seven decade Israel-Palestinian conflict. In the long run, neither is a viable option outside of a politics of individual liberty and an economics of free markets.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

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Jacques Novicow, Sociologist of Peace and Freedom

– June 5, 2021

“All that Jacques Novicow saw as the experienced and potential benefits from the peaceful and productive associations among human beings, however, was dependent on the end to a spirit of both international war and domestic plunder in the form of misguided government interventions; the worst of such domestic forms of plunder and societal disintegration, he said, would be if socialism were to triumph anywhere in the world.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

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Taiwan: The New Geopolitical and Economic Flash Point

– April 21, 2021

“The stakes could not be higher, as one false move could spark a devastating armed conflict between global superpowers. Failure to act sufficiently will jeopardize the future of freedom and prosperity not just in Asia but around the world.” ~ Ethan Yang

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No More Wartime Presidents

– January 29, 2021

“Americans need a peacetime president, one who will promote public policies that respect individuals, their freely-made choices, and their property rights, allowing them to run their own lives in peace.” ~ David S. D’Amato

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How To Secede from the Biology Wars

– January 5, 2019

I don’t really care who started this war. It’s a war that no one can win.

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Vlad the Impaler

The Economics of Dracula

– October 31, 2018

Vlad the Impaler and his literary incarnation — Count Dracula — have real historical roots in a dark period of economic nationalism.

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The Dangers of Totalitarian Planning, Past and Present

– July 31, 2018

All forms of government intervention — taxation and regulation — within a market economy are forms of government planning.

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Remember What the Internet Is All About

– February 9, 2018

Some great minds are remembered mostly for one moment in time, a momentous action or revelatory piece of writing. Such is the case for John Perry Barlow, who died on February 7, 2018. Born in 1947, he was a remarkable visionary, a lyricist for the Grateful Dead who later became a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which defends your rights as a citizen of the digital age. He is the author of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace.

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Dear Mr. President, Part 2

– July 26, 2017

In 1969, as the war in Vietnam was raging, AIER Founder Edward C. Harwood and his brothers wrote an open letter to President Richard Nixon.

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An Open Letter to President Nixon

– July 24, 2017

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Rebuilding War-Torn Economies

– May 13, 2011

Research Reports Vol. LXXVIII, No. 9 | May 16, 2011 The U.S. military is developing a civilian-military collaboration for reconstruction and economic development of nations like Afghanistan. by Brigadier General Eric Peck, Kansas State National Guard, …

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