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Freedom is the Best Insurance against Terrorism
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
Author: Sheldon Richman
City: Fairfax, State: VA, Country: United States
E-mail: info@fff.org

"Terrorism...is ghastly. That is not in question. The issue is whether the national government will use terrorism as a pretext for amassing power that is repugnant to the American tradition of individual liberty and limited state power." (12/96)

Reducing the Risk of Terrorism
Source: The Cato Handbook for Congress
City: Washington, State: DC, Country: United States

The U.S. government should "avoid entanglement in regional conflicts or civil wars that do not have a direct and substantial relevance to vital American security interests" and "focus the attention and resources of the intelligence agencies on terrorism and other serious national security threats instead of phony or exaggerated problems such as economic espionage."

The Disaster of International Foreign Aid Programs
Source: International Society for Individual Liberty
Author: Ken Schoolland
Country: United States
E-mail: isil@isil.org

ISIL pamphlet attempts to explain the drawbacks and failures of international aid programs. "First World" governments use them to prop up domestic prices, delaying the poor countries access to their markets and dumping "excessive" crops as aid. Foreign aid often harms food production in the receiving countries, and helps autocratic rulers to stay in power.

The Best Defense Is No Offense
Source: The Liberty Journal
Author: Ivan Eland
Country: United States

Criticizes the United States' active involvement in the Middle East.

Defense 2.0: America's Military Badly Needs an Upgrade
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Jason Morrow
Country: United States

Regardless of what your opinion is on how big or small the US military should be, you'll find that this policy analysis provides good background on the Clinton administration's incompetent and reckless failure to equip the current force properly. National Policy Analysis #251. (6/99)

Greater Intervention and Military Cutbacks are a Deadly Combination
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Jason Morrow
Country: United States

The mix of greater foreign intervention with lower defense budgets is not a recipe for security. NCPPR Policy Analysis #249.

Know Your Enemy: Fighting Future War, part one
Source: Promethea
Author: Phoenix
Country: United States

"An understanding of war and the pursuit of military studies is not encouraged for those outside of the centralized military establishment and its supporters within political, media, and academic institutions, for predictable reasons. War has become the business of the state ... and a business of some magnitude for select industries."

Foreign policy implications of a Free State
Source: Free State Project
Author: Jason Sorens
Country: United States

"If the Free State Project (FSP) succeeded and at least one state of the U.S. became an 'autonomous zone,' what would be the implications for American foreign policy and the world state system in general?" (04/04/02)

The new world order
Source: BBC
Author: Bridget Kendall
Country: United Kingdom

After the breakdown of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, a new world order has emerged. The article looks at its advantages and disadvantages compared to the the times of the Cold War. Old threats and problems are gone, new ones, perhaps harder to tackle, have replaced them... (08/15/01)

Eliminating Democide and War Through an Alliance of Democracies
Source: PowerKills
Author: R..J. Rummel
Country: United States

Bin Laden comes home to roost
Source: MSNBC
Author: Michael Moran
Country: United States

"At the CIA, it happens often enough to have a code name: Blowback. Simply defined, this is the term that describes an agent, an operative or an operation that has turned on its creators. Osama bin Laden is the personification of blowback. And the fact that he is viewed as a hero by millions in the Islamic world proves again the old adage: Reap what you sow." (08/24/98)

Radical Islam vs. Islam
Source: The Abolitionist Examiner
Author: David Forte
Country: United States

"Islamic radicals hijacked airplanes to attack and undermine the West. But their enmity is not just directed against us. They also mean to hijack Islam itself and to destroy 13 centuries of Islamic civilization. We are not in a war between two civilizations. We are fighting an enemy of two civilizations." (09/01)

U.S.-Russia summit priorities
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Ariel Cohen, Ph.D. and Baker Spring
Country: United States

Cohen and Spring outline the key agenda items for the upcoming US-Russia summit, including strategic framework, the nuclear arms agreement and trade. (5/14/02)

Slide show: Liberty in crisis
Source: IHS
Country: United States

IHS "Liberty in Crisis" workshop slide show gives prospective participants an inside peek at what they'll experience.

CIA's Freedom Fighter Manual
Source: Smog.net
Country: United States

"In the early 80's the CIA published a sabotage manual and distributed it throughout Nicaragua. The anti-Sandanista pamphlet is full of tips on bringing down the infrastructure of the country. 'The Freedom Fighter's Manual' is illustrated with childlike cartoons and brief captions."

Right on schedule
Source: Strike the Root
Author: John Bottoms
Country: United States

"Just as my faith in futurists was spiraling into crisis, along came 'The Fourth Turning' [in which] sociologists William Strauss and Neil Howe describe 70 to 80-year cycles in American public and cultural life...After pussyfooting around the issue for decades, it seems America's elites are finally starting to admit that our nation really is and ought to be an empire. " (04/06/02)

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