India Foreign Exchange Controls Leads to Loss of Freedom
The central government intervention suspending each foreign currency exchange license in the country is an example leading to a loss of freedom for each NGO operating in the country.
War and Foreign Policy
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Impressed at Vicksburg
Mark Thornton discusses a lesser-known factor in the American Civil War: the Confederate “impressment” policy and its impact at Vicksburg.
The American-Israeli Nineteenth-Century Ways of War
This brief historical sketch brings us to how the American and Israeli militaries of today have adopted a nineteenth-century-style war of extermination against what they consider to be another “lesser race.”
Ludwig von Mises on Peace and Social Cooperation
The free market replaces the struggle for survival found in the animal world with social cooperation in which everybody benefits. Capitalism is a system of peace, not war.
Did the Fed Achieve Independence During the Korean War?
Rumor has it that the Federal Reserve was able to resist the president‘s demands to enable funding of the Korean War. However, a look at the record demonstrates conclusively that the Fed bowed to Harry Truman‘s wishes to do what it has done for a century: finance America‘s wars.
Why Ending the War in Ukraine Is So Difficult Now
Establishment figures erroneously claim Trump’s recent frustrations with Putin prove them right—that Putin can’t be reasoned with.
Did the Fed Achieve Independence During the Korean War?
Rumor has it that the Federal Reserve was able to resist the president‘s demands to enable funding of the Korean War. However, a look at the record demonstrates conclusively that the Fed bowed to Harry Truman‘s wishes to do what it has done for a century: finance America‘s wars.
Why Ending the War in Ukraine Is So Difficult Now
Members of the establishment are trying to seize on Trump’s recent frustrations with Putin to act like they’ve been right all along that the Russian president cannot be reasoned with. In truth, the difficult situation Trump finds himself in is almost entirely their fault.
JFK and the Burden of Proof
We know what happened on November 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, but there is a lot about that terrible day we don't know.
JFK and the Burden of Proof
We know what happened on November 22, 1963, at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, but there is a lot about that terrible day we don‘t know. But we also know that President Kennedy challenged the National Security State. Did it cost him his life?
