April 3rd, 2013 at 10:09PM
A libertarian foreign policy is based on peace

From Yahoo! News

Thanks to Ron Paul’s impact on our national, political conversation, it is now permissible for me to not want my brothers and sisters in the armed forces to have to die for a lie. It’s because of my experience in the military—not because I’m ignorant or naïve about what war entails—that I don’t want my brothers and sisters in the armed forces to have their minds destroyed by mental trauma, their hearts broken by grief, and their consciences ravaged by guilt in their participation in a moral injustice.

The principles of libertarianism to which I was introduced when figuring out my views on intellectual property made perfect sense when applied to our foreign policy and interactions with other nations. The libertarian foreign policy isn’t isolationism; it’s an understanding that if we are aggressive toward others, they’ll respond with aggression toward us.

Jayel Aheram with an article on libertarianism and a foreign policy that’s based on peace on Yahoo! News. 

Yahoo! News is one of he largest news outlets on the internet. If I’m not mistaken, they are actually the largest. Good to see them posting such good things and great to see Jayel get his work out there.

Good stuff, sir!
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March 15th, 2013 at 1:39PM
stay-human: nevver: The Patriot Act, The Encyclopedia of 9/11 And the government justifies this by linking drug sales to money that funnels back to terrorists. They establish this link because they are the one’s helping traffic cocaine from Mexico and South America and they are the one’s providing military protection to the Afghan’s who grow and distribute opiates. And that, folks, is how the two most dubious wars were married to become the largest waste of tax dollars in the history of humanity. 

stay-human:

nevver: The Patriot Act, The Encyclopedia of 9/11

And the government justifies this by linking drug sales to money that funnels back to terrorists. They establish this link because they are the one’s helping traffic cocaine from Mexico and South America and they are the one’s providing military protection to the Afghan’s who grow and distribute opiates. 

And that, folks, is how the two most dubious wars were married to become the largest waste of tax dollars in the history of humanity. 

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November 27th, 2012 at 3:13PM

thefreelioness:

The Power of Nightmares, Part I

“Adam Curtis’ enlightening and frightening 2004 doc series from the BBC.This one gets into radical Islam and the American neocons.  These are more reasons to look deeper into our leadership and our policies, as citizens of the world.”

I really wish I had the patience to watch this.  Has anyone else?

I started watching this last night and I watched part 2 during my lunch break, watching part 3 now. 

This might be the best real history of America and our modern foreign policy that I have ever seen. If you want to talk about politics and be taken seriously, you need to know the information that is contained in this documentary. 

All in all, it’s just shy of 3 hours long, divided into 3 parts. Watch all of it, don’t cheap out. 

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June 13th, 2012 at 11:54AM
How could any rational person expect their government to spend a full decade (and counting) invading, droning, cluster-bombing, occupying, detaining without charges, and indiscriminately shooting huge numbers of innocent children, women and men in multiple countries and not have its victims and their compatriots be increasingly eager to return the violence? —

Glenn Greenwald, What Might Cause Another 9/11?

When the federal judge who sentenced Shahzad asked with disgust how he could try to detonate bombs knowing that innocent children would die, he replied: “Well, the drone hits in Afghanistan and Iraq, they don’t see children, they don’t see anybody. They kill women, children, they kill everybody.” Those statements are consistent with a decade’s worth of emails and other private communications from Shahzad, as he railed with increasing fury against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, drone attacks in Pakistan, Israeli violence against Palestinians and Muslims generally, Guantanamo and torture, and asked: “Can you tell me a way to save the oppressed? And a way to fight back when rockets are fired at us and Muslim blood flows?”

Najibullah Zazi, one of the first Afghans ever to be accused of Terrorism on U.S. soil when he plotted to detonate bombs in the New York subway system, was radicalized by the U.S. occupation of his country (“This is the payback for the atrocities that you do,” he said). Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) expressly said that the Christmas Day bomb attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was in retaliation for the Obama cluster-bomb airstrike in Yemen that killed dozens of women and children along with U.S. support for the Yemeni dictator. The Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan was motivated by “the killing of Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan.”

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You need to read this.

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Great read on Blowback Foreign Policy from Glenn Greenwald

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