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- “end war”
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Category: The Costs of War, Mises Media, Summits and Seminars, Supporters Summits
Online Publish Date: March 1, 2004
Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: December 26, 1998
[speech delivered in February 1998, as the U.S. prepared to embark on another bombing campaign against Iraq.]Is the U.S. world empire decaying? At first glance, this may seem an odd time to be asking the question. The U.S. is prepared to embark on an openly political war with no basis in just war theory. It can only end in further massive suffering for the Iraqi people, and a further diminution...
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Online Publish Date: July 4, 2003
The Iraq war, which Bush declared over on May 1, never seems to end.
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Category: Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV, Mises Media, Audio Books, Murray N. Rothbard Audiobooks, Conceived in Liberty, 5 Volumes
Online Publish Date: May 19, 2010
Pages 279-284 in the text, as narrated by Floy Lilley. From Part 7 of Conceived in Liberty, Volume IV: "The Military History of the Revolution, 1778-1781."
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Online Publish Date: April 11, 2018
March Madness has finally ended, albeit in April. However, the federal prohibition against gambling on the basketball games continues.On March 11 — Selection Sunday — the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced which 68 teams qualified for the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament. Thirty-two teams get automatic spots to play because they are conference tournament...
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Category: The Costs of War, Mises Media, Summits and Seminars, Supporters Summits
Online Publish Date: March 1, 2004
Recorded at the Mises Institute, May 1994.
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Online Publish Date: March 25, 2019
By the end of March, Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping are scheduled to meet at a formal signing ceremony to ratify a historic trade agreement between the world’s two largest economies . It has been one long year since the United States fired the first salvos in the trade war, leading to months of tit-for-tat tariffs, endless deliberations, and investors riding their hopes up and down with...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: June 29, 2011
Mexico is rapidly withering. Its very life is being siphoned off by a hopeless war on illegal drugs. If ever there was an abject display of government pigheadedness and stupidity, it is this ridiculous insistence on banning the unbannable.In the past five years, Mexico tallied 34,600 homicides related to its government's war on illegal drugs. That's the official count. The unofficial count —...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: September 3, 2009
[Chapter 2 of End the Fed by Ron Paul (Grand Central Publishing, 2009), pp. 12–31. The publisher controls reprint permissions for this chapter, and has given permission to Mises.org to run this. Unlike most everything else on Mises.org that is published under Creative Commons, it cannot be reposted or republished, but blogs and sites are welcome to link here.] Most Americans haven't thought much...
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Category: The Free Market, Journals, Institute Publications
The Free Market 16, no. 11 (November 1998) Big media outlets are ignoring the quiet revolution that is taking place across America. Politicians don't talk too much about it for obvious reasons. This revolution is building incredible momentum. It now threatens the legitimacy of every level of government, the viability of government management of society, and the credibility of career politicians,...
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Category: Audio Mises Daily, Mises Media
Online Publish Date: August 5, 2014
The First World War began one hundred years ago, and it was a total disaster for Europe. The war destroyed not only the bodies and capital of millions of human beings, but it also destroyed the ideology and economy of the peaceful and prosperous century that had come before, writes Ryan McMaken. This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Allan Davis.
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Category: Mises Media, Audio Mises Daily
Online Publish Date: March 29, 2011
The illusion of wartime prosperity is rooted in how national income was calculated and in how the statistics were compiled, writes Art Carden.This audio Mises Daily is narrated by Keith Hocker.
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: March 29, 2011
[This article originally appeared in the June 2009 issue of the Freeman as "The Great Depression and World War II." An MP3 audio file of this article, narrated by Keith Hocker, is available for download.]
The current economic climate has a lot of people talking about the Great Depression. In particular, it has been said by people of divergent political views (George Will and Paul Krugman, for...
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Online Publish Date: February 20, 2018
Timothy Hsiao recently made the rather startling case that libertarians should support the War on Drugs by claiming that recreational drug use undermines a critical precondition for freedom, namely, the ability to think clearly and to choose wisely. Hsiao notes that:Accordingly, since the government has a responsibility to protect personal freedom, it must also protect and promote a culture that...
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Online Publish Date: September 1, 2021
Sunday’s news reports that the Biden Administration mistakenly killed nine members of one Afghan family, including six children, in “retaliation” for last week’s suicide attack which killed 13 US servicemembers, is a sad and sick epitaph on the 20 year Afghanistan war.
Promising to “get tough” on ISIS, which suddenly re-emerged to take responsibility for the suicide attack, the most expensive...
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Online Publish Date: May 2, 2017
One of the Gulf of Mexico’s most iconic fish has also become one of its most politicized, the red snapper. For years now the prized catch has been part of a heated battle between federal regulators, the commercial fishing industry, and charter and recreational fishermen. The result has been fishing seasons consistently shrinking, even as snapper populations grow. On Tuesday, the National Oceanic...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: May 14, 2009
[The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. By Andrew J. Bacevich. Metropolitan Books, 2008. 206 pages.]Andrew Bacevich has written a powerful but flawed criticism of American foreign policy. Both an academic historian and a professional soldier, he is exceptionally qualified to undertake such a critique.He begins his indictment from an indisputable fact. America has commitments all...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: October 7, 2004
Most of our present governmental institutions (and many private ones) are a creation of that era which lasted from the late 19th into the first quarter of the 20th centuries. Progressivism could not have made the strides it did, however, had it not been for the advent of what we would call modern journalism.From the "muckrakers" of the turn of the century (who really were nothing more than...
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Category: Mises Daily Articles
Online Publish Date: March 11, 2009
[Book Review: The Post-American World. By Fareed Zakaria. Norton, 2008. 292 pages.] Fareed Zakaria poses a fundamental question. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, America has dominated the world. How long can we remain in this position? Zakaria foresees an end to our dominance, as other powers, especially China and India, continue to grow economically. Fortunately, he holds, this portends...
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Category: The American Economy and the End of Laissez-Faire: 1870 to World War II, Mises Media, Lecture Series, Courses on History
Online Publish Date: January 15, 2010
How does government intervene in the economy? What are the consequences? What are the motivations behind passing these interventions? The lives of the people involved explain why they do these things. Rothbard delves into the religious views of the leaders in American history to understand motivations. Schools, drink, and Sabbath laws were the focus of Yankees in Northern states for ninety years....