Tag: non-interventionism
David Beito | Tuesday June 28, 2011 at 8:33 AM PDT | 6 Comments
If want to add your name to this distinguished list, which includes many people well known to libertarians (see below for the names), you have until Wednesday (5:00 PM Pacific, 8:00 PM Eastern). Just send an email to Kevin Zeese at KBZeese@gmail.com and provide a brief descriptor of what you would like next to...
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Tags: Afghanistan, Constitution, Defense, Imperialism, interventionism, Iran, Iraq, Liberty, Libya, Middle East, militarism, Military, non-interventionism, Obama, Peace, Presidential Power, Terrorism, undelared wars, War, War in Afghanistan, war in Iraq
David Beito | Monday May 16, 2011 at 12:22 PM PDT | 7 Comments
Kevin Zeese, a leading proponent of the conservative/liberal/libertarian antiwar coalition, is soliciting signers for this excellent letter. If you want to add your name, as I did, send an email to Zeese at kbzeese@gmail.com. Dear President Obama: The wars in which the United States is currently engaged—in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Libya—are undermining U.S....
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Tags: Afghanistan, anti-imperialism, antiwar coalition, Dick Cheney, George Washington, Imperial Presidency, Imperialism, Iran, Iraq, justice, Liberty, Libya, Middle East, militarism, Military, non-interventionism, Pakistan, Peace, War, war on terror
Ralph Raico | Wednesday March 30, 2011 at 10:04 AM PDT | 0 Comments
The following is the Foreword to the Independent Institute’s new printing of The Civilian and the Military: A History of the American Antimilitarist Tradition, by Arthur A. Ekirch, Jr. See also Anthony Gregory’s review on The Beacon. In 1783 a treaty ending hostilities between Great Britain and its rebellious colonies along the eastern seaboard...
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Tags: Afghanistan, Alfred Thayer Mahan, American History, antimilitarism, Arthur Ekirch, Benjamin Tucker, Charles Beard, Charles Lindbergh, Charles Sumner, Civil Society, Civil War, Cold War, Constitution, Corruption, Creel Committee on Public Information, Daniel Webster, Defense, E. L. Godkin, Elihu Root, Espionage and Sedition Acts, Felix Frankfurter, Franklin Roosevelt, Frederic Bastiat, Gerald Ford, Gore Vidal, Grand Army of the Republic, Henry David Thoreau, Herbert Spencer, Hugo Black, Imperialism, Iraq, isolationism, Japanese incarceration, Jefferson, Jeffersonian, Joseph Schumpeter, Justice Potter Stewart, Levellers, liberalism, Madison, Military, Murray Rothbard, Nationalization, non-interventionism, Norman Thomas, Pakistan, Pearl Harbor, Personal Liberty, Peter Kropotkin, Philippines, Politics, Randolph Bourne, Robert R. McCormick, Sinclair Lewis, Socialism, Somalia, Soviet Union, The Conquest of the United States by Spain, Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Disney, Walter Karp, War, War Hawks, Wendell Willkie, William Douglas, William Graham Sumner, Woodrow Wilson, WWI, WWII, Yemen, Yugoslavia
David Beito | Wednesday January 13, 2010 at 12:37 PM PDT | 1 Comment
This audio of an entire America First Committee rally from June 1941 is a real treat. The sound quality is crisp and clear: The all-star line-up includes John T. Flynn (about 4:30 minutes into the audio), probably the most important activist in the “Old Right” during the 1940s and the 1950s. Speaking after Flynn...
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Tags: America First Committee, American History, Americanism, anti-war, antiwar, Audio, Belgium, Books, CBS, Civil Liberties, Civil Society, Constitution, Corporatism, Corruption, crisis mongering, England, Europe, Fascism, FDR, fear-mongering, foreign wars, France, Franklin Roosevelt, Germany, gold standard, Government subsidies, Great Depression, Hitler, Imperialism, interventionism, isolationism, John Cudahy, John T. Flynn, Liberty, Media, Mercantilism, Military, Morality, Mussolini, Mutual Broadcasting, Nationalization, Nazism, NBC, Neutrality Act, New Deal, non-interventionism, Norway, Old Right, Peace, peace mongerer, Personal Liberty, Politics, Presidential Power, Propaganda, radio, Right Turn: John T. Flynn and the Transformation of American Liberalism, Russia, Socialism, Stalin, The State, Unemployment, War, war machine, war mongerer, war profiteers, WOR, World War II
David Beito | Tuesday March 3, 2009 at 11:06 AM PDT | 3 Comments
When I was seven years old or so growing up in the small town of Albert Lea, Minnesota, Paul Harvey was one of the first voices I heard in the morning. His memorable over-the-top delivery kept me entertained as I gulped down my mother’s signature “mush” (which, contrary to the name, was a tasty...
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Tags: American History, Budget and Tax Policy, Constitution, Entertainment, FDR, isolationism, non-interventionism, Old Right, Peace, Personal Liberty, Presidential Power, radio, War
