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Improving Security at DOE Weapons Labs
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Ronald D Utt
Country: United States

Ideas on what Congress must do in order to ensure security at the DOE. (9/7/99)

Defending missile defense
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Edwin Feulner
Country: United States

"Pretend you're a homeowner who's heard about a string of robberies in your neighborhood. You decide to install a home-security system. But before you can, a bunch of your neighbors pass a 'resolution' urging you to leave your doors and windows unlocked, on the theory that security devices actually boost crime. Would you listen?" (12/28/99)

Waiting for the barbarians
Source: Guardian
Author: Morris Berman
Country: United Kingdom

"A once-great empire, Rome fell into catastrophic cultural and economic decline. Morris Berman on chilling parallels with modern America." (10/06/01)

Americans Losing Control of U.S. Treasures to United Nations
Source: National Center for Public Policy Research
Author: Elizabeth McGeehan
Country: United States

Various monuments, historic places and nature preserves are increasingly being designated United Nations World Heritage Sites. Concern is growing that this is part of a trend toward less national sovereignty. National Policy Analysis # 253. (7/99)

The German syndrome
Source: The Libertarian Enterprise
Author: Patrick Martin
Country: United States

"They heard the stories and rumors, and the tales of horrible things going on. They had the information, but they didn't know! Why? Because if they did they would have had to make a choice. They would have had to stand up, to cease their support for the butchers running their country, and they would have had to work to bring down the animals responsible for the barbarity." (04/01/02)

Moving forward on missile defense
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Jack Spencer
Country: United States

Spencer contends that the recent Pentagon interception of a long-range ballistic missile warhead provides undeniable evidence that a defense against the present and growing threat of ballistic missiles is technologically possible. (07/20/01)

Missile defense programs lag behind the threat
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Baker Spring
Country: United States

"The expansion of the missile threat has outpaced the development and deployment of missile defense systems." (1/11/00)

Virtual wall
Source: Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Country: United States

Lest we forget. A complete pictorial recreatiopn of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Searchable database of names and personal information as well as information on the wall and the Vietnam War

Where your money really goes
Source: War Resisters League
Country: United States
E-mail: wrl@igc.org

This pie chart and explanation from the War Resisters League examines how much money the federal government actually spends on the military, as opposed to what it says it spends. WRL arrives at its figures by including spending on veterans' benefits and interest on the debt due to outlandish war spending.

Peace without defense?
Source: Physicians for Civil Defense
Country: United States
E-mail: pcd@free-market.net

Peace is not possible without an effective national defense, including a working defense against weapons of mass destruction, argues this "Civil Defense Perspectives" article. Non-proliferation treaties aren't worth the paper they're written on, contends the author.

Libertarian solutions: non-governmental foreign aid: Trickle Up's job-creation system
Source: LP News
Author: Bette Rose Smith
Country: United States

"The Trickle Up Program seeks out groups of people living in poverty-stricken areas of the world who want to start their own micro-enterprises." TUP's $100 grants have helped start more than 75,000 businesses and has created over 400,000 jobs. Smith compares this to the failures of government foreign aid. (08/99)

Federal homeland security
Source: Heritage Foundation
Author: Michael Scardaville and Jack Spencer
Country: United States

A nine month assessment of our homeland security policy. (6/25/02)

An honorable man
Source: Strike the Root
Author: E.J. Totty
Country: United States

"It would be a most grievous error for us to repeat past trespasses, and do so merely because some person in higher office proclaimed that an 'eye for an eye' has now become the order of the day."

Pearl Harbor was no surprise
Source: Strike the Root
Author: Paul Hull
Country: United States

"Franklin Roosevelt was a disciple of Hitler's propaganda methods. FDR, like Hitler, believed that a BIG lie was more believable than a little lie. So the myth of the 'surprise attack' on Pearl Harbor was created and persists to this day." (12/07/01)

What is 'homeland security?'
Source: LewRockwell.com
Author: Jeff Greenspan
Country: United States

The idea of an office or department of "homeland security" has been in the works for many years. Even some of those in the know are openly critical of many of the proposals for such an agency. (09/27/01)

We are poor empire builders
Source: anti-state.com
Author: Jules Varwig
Country: United States
E-mail: var4@midwest.net

"Thousands already dead. Thousands more calling for yet thousands more to die. Within our own borders, calls for national ID cards and thoughts openly expressed that perhaps we have too much Liberty for our own good. As always, there are those whose ulterior motives find expression when we are weakest." (09/13/01)

National service is no weapon against terrorism
Source: NCPA
Country: United States

There is a move afoot to expand the so-called "national service" program established by Bill Clinton from 50,000 members to 250,000 and involve them in fighting terrorism. But critics say AmeriCorps couldn't even pass a laugh test. (11/08/01)

A travesty of justice
Source: American Bar Association
Author: Maryam Elahi
Country: United States

"The president’s executive order establishing military tribunals to try those whom he deems to be 'terrorists' is not only in violation of international human rights law, but it also flies in the face of U.S. domestic law." (02/02)

Questions and answers about the draft
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Country: United States

"While there have been no formal, public proposals for a reinstatement of the draft, the national campaign against terrorism has turned America's thoughts toward issues of military preparedness." (11/01)

What happens in a draft
Source: Selective Service
Country: United States

Information from the horse's mouth on a how a draft would be implemented if conscription were reinstated.

Feeling a draft?
Source: Cato Institute
Author: Doug Bandow
Country: United States

"[W]e must recognize that the military is the means to an end. It's not an end in itself. Defending a free society, built on respect for individual liberty, is the reason that we have a military. That, ultimately, is the most important reason to reject conscription. It is simply incompatible with the government's duty to protect our liberty." (1999)

Major General Smedley Butler on interventionism
Source: Federation of American Scientists
Author: Smedley Butler
Country: United States

"War is just a racket. ... Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses." The words -- spoken in 1933 by the only man to win the Medal of Honor twice -- still have value.

Introduction to the failure of America’s foreign wars
Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
Author: Richard M. Ebeling
Country: United States
E-mail: info@fff.org

"Hundreds of thousands of Americans were sacrificed on the altar of two world wars.... The honest, hard-earned wealth of millions of Americans was taxed away and consumed in military combat, war preparedness, and foreign-aid giveaways to socialist and interventionist governments and to third-world despots willing to declare their loyalty to the West for the right price." (09/01)

Libertarianism, non-interventionism, and uou
Source: Heretical Ideas
Author: Alex Knapp
Country: United States

"However, libertarians should work to develop a foriegn policy that recognizes the need for intervention to prevent small crises from getting worse and threatening the United States or her allies, the need for some pre-emptive engagements to prevent attacks on the United States, and the encouragement of the liberalization or outright overthrow of despotic regimes."

Fight terror, not human rights
Source: Liberty For All
Country: United States

"Resolved, that the United States Congress should immediately put aside lesser business to give a full hearing to the particulars of the September 11th attacks, and to make such Declaration, such Rules, or to grant such Letters of Marque as are required to give legal foundation to the pursuit of the perpetrators..." (05/02)

The last word on heroism
Source: Guardian
Author: AC Grayling
Country: United States

"[H]eroism is first and foremost the property of peace-makers. It takes infinitely greater courage to salvage a people or an epoch from conflict than to start or continue it." (03/09/02)

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