A Better Direction Entails Fundamental Change
A national-security state needs official enemies to justify its existence, power, influence, and ever-increasing budgets. That’s how the United States got the Cold War after winning World War II. A new official enemy was needed to justify the conversion of the federal government to a national-security state. That official enemy became “godless communism,” the Soviet Union (i.e., Russia), Red China, North Korea, North Vietnam, and the rest of the communist world.
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Michael Boldin covers the latest threats, sanctions and lies when it comes to Venezuela, China, Yemen along with Obama's drone wars. Plus a reminder from George Washington on foreign policy. 
I recently appeared on the Death to Tyrants podcast to talk about the astronomical price of America’s undeclared wars. We not only discussed the price tag of America’s military interventions since 2001, we also talked about the human cost and the loss of liberty inherent in perpetual warfare. From there, the conversation moved toward the […] 
George Washington warned us about turning a blind eye to violations of the constitution, no matter how small 
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