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A report on how the greed of a privileged few, subsidized by public funding, creates substantial profits for themselves from mass human suffering.This was a speech given by General Butler during a nationwide tour in the early 1930's, but it applies even more today! Listen as he frankly discusses, from his experience as a career military officer, how business interests commercially benefit from warfare. He then suggests several practical solutions for reducing the pillage.

In the eyes of many, the US exerts the strongest destabilizing influence on world events, and thus presents the greatest threat to world peace. World power #1 hasn’t acquired this top position by chance. Since 1945, no other nation has bombed as many other countries or toppled as many governments as the US. It maintains the most military bases, exports the most weapons, and has the highest defense budget in the world. USA: The Ruthless Empire explains the background factors, motives, and resources of this world power.

It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism. After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system–a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological framework.

This groundbreaking work deconstructs the age-old legends surrounding the 'Holy Land' of Israel—and the prejudices that continue to suffocate it. What is a homeland, and when does it become a national territory? Why have so many people been willing to die for them throughout the twentieth...

I recently wrote a series of five short-read books on the subject of freedom in the United States – its history, its nature, its requirements, its challenges, and its opponents. In my social media space, I posted about parts of it – and a post drew a response that sent me back to my keyboard. The response came from Trenton Bennett, an old friend and colleague whose intelligence, insights, and values I’ve come to trust over the years. In a single post, he made an argument that extended my own, adding elements that I’d neglected. The more I thought about the points he was making, the ...

They long to end democracy. There are three organizations in the United State that have all, in recent years, signaled and even said outright that Democracy's day is done in the United States - and each is poised to replace it. These groups include the Grand Old Party - US Republicans, who have declared for almost two decades now their desire to install a "permanent majority"; the Christian Nationalists, Evangelicals who have believed since the mid-Seventies that the United States should be a theocracy, not a democracy, with their own people in charge; and the oligarchy, a network of ultra-...

Much of the discussion of freedom in the previous two volumes in this series focused on the human past and was, to some degree, abstract – though modern events did make appearances. In this volume, the focus is primarily on the present – this third decade of the 21st century, when anti-democratic forces are rising not only in the Unites States but around the free world. Specific events and situations will be more frequently referenced this time around, but won’t be dwelt upon: this series is ultimately about ideas, and to the extent that real-world issues are discussed, it will be in ...

The concept of freedom, applied not just to individuals but to a society as a whole, is essentially a model for that society – not just a feature of the community, not just one of many dynamics, but the very foundation of that society. Put another way, if a society is truly free, then everything about it derives from the shared freedom of its members. Every feature of that society is premised on freedom, based on the idea that everyone within it has the autonomy to live the life they choose, limited only by their agreement not to intrude upon the freedom of others, nor to compromise ...

What does the future of freedom look like, in the Western world and beyond? What is the human potential, in the long run, where freedom is concerned? And what are the ultimate limitations of freedom, where human society is concerned? What can we never get back? What are we unlikely to change? What must we learn to live with? Speculative these questions truly are, so no definitive answers follow – the pages that follow will host nothing more than conjecture. But it’s useful conjecture, if it spurs thought about what we have today and the possibilities that we might actually pursue, ...

Freedom means different things to different people. The truth of this can be established in a five-minute Google search: those who champion freedom almost never do so in the ideal or the abstract, but within whatever domain works for them in particular. Here are some examples of those very subjective freedoms: The freedom to take up knitting The freedom to learn a foreign language The freedom to go to church The freedom to speak one’s opinion publicly The freedom to participate in the political process The freedom to not go to church The freedom to love and marry whomever they please The ...

Freedom is different things to different people. To some, it’s the freedom to go wherever you want on your bicycle. To others, it’s the freedom to vote for a new mayor. To others, it’s the freedom to speak your mind in public, even if what you say is unflattering to the mayor. Some treasure their freedom to go to church. Or to have a job. Or to have food and shelter. For some, freedom means refusing service to those who look or behave differently. To deny their wives and daughters the liberties their peers and sons enjoy. For some, it’s the freedom to shun the immigrant. The freedom...

It’s hilarious these days to watch misguided, insecure fanboys and transparent political panderers break out in rants and whines that Nu Trek – Discovery, Picard, Strange New Worlds – is ‘woke’. Anyone who knows Trek, old or nu, can only laugh; Trek has, of course, been utterly woke since 1966. Woke. Shining a light on racism. War. Sexual discrimination. Authoritarianism. Confronting torture; imperialism; addiction; the treatment of veterans. Commenting on environmentalism; medical ethics; capitalism; homelessness; moral relativism. Put another way, if it makes an anti-woke fanboy...

Freedom is a word with too many meetings, justifying too many wrongs. This collection of essays surveys various aspects of freedom, from its ancient origins to the misuse and abuse of the concept, from the challenges it presents to the possibilities it holds. Humankind does not yet live free; but we could.

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times. This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author...

This classic, definitive account of totalitarianism traces the emergence of modern racism as an "ideological weapon for imperialism", beginning with the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe in the 19th century and continuing through the New Imperialism period from 1884 to World War I.

Marco Rubio's parents came to the United States in 1956. The country they found was truly a land of opportunity, where hardworking people with grade school educations could afford a home, a car, and college for their kids. A country where maids and bartenders could raise doctors, lawyers, small-business owners, and maybe even a US senator. That was the American Dream - our country's central promise to its people.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Rachel Maddow traces the fight to preserve American democracy back to World War II, when a handful of committed public servants and brave private citizens thwarted far-right plotters trying to steer our nation toward an alliance with the Nazis. “A ripping...

Brought to you by Penguin. Is this how democracy dies? The Coming Storm is Gabriel Gatehouse’s brilliant exploration of how conspiracy theories are tearing America apart. It’s a story that takes you down a rabbit hole - one that both the US as a nation and he as a journalist fell through -...

Read by the author. A compelling account of one man’s journey across hundreds of miles of Virginia wilderness and a moving testament to the optimistic spirit of America, Walk Ride Paddle provides an unseen glimpse into a life outside. In 2019, Tim Kaine—Virginia senator and former Democratic...

With essays and manifestos by American Compass founder Oren Cass, New America cofounder Michael Lind, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, former US trade representative Robert Lighthizer, National Affairs founding editor Yuval Levin, American Affairs founding editor Julius Krein, among others, The New Conservatives revitalizes the American conservative tradition, breaking from the GOP's free-market fundamentalism to promote the productive markets, supportive communities, and responsive politics that are the foundations of the nation's liberty and prosperity.