“Nations don’t have rights. Only people have rights. That’s what the Declaration of Independence says.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/27/do-immigrants-have-the-right-to-pursue-happiness/
“The TSA is effective at violating our liberty, but it is ineffective at protecting our security.”
“Is it a sign of progress that the news media no longer automatically cheers heavy-handed crackdowns by federal agents?”
Read more: https://mises.org/wire/time-media-cheered-gestapo-immigration-tactics
“The policy offers, at most, the illusion of security, purchased at an exorbitant cost to America’s moral reputation.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/opinion/trump-travel-ban-terrorism.html
“Politicians should honestly confront the question: what are the reasons that lead millions of people to leave their homes? And fashion equally honest and humane solutions.”
Read more: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/06/22/end-the-wars-to-halt-the-refugee-crisis/
“Clinton supported a highly questionable election aimed at legitimating the post-coup government. Strong military ties between the U.S. and Honduras persist: several hundred U.S. troops are stationed at Soto Cano Air Base (formerly Palmerola) in the name of fighting the drug war and providing humanitarian aid.”
Read more: https://theconversation.com/how-us-policy-in-honduras-set-the-stage-for-todays-mass-migration-65935
“That a nation unable to pacify a single impoverished country like Afghanistan after 17 years of trying should contemplate attempting to control the infinite expanse of outer space will strike any sensible person as madness.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-bacevich-space-force-20180621-story.html
“While there has been mass outrage over Trump’s separation policy, there is virtually no outrage over the U.S. government’s policy of killing children as a way to achieve the political goal of regime change in foreign countries.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/06/26/why-no-outrage-over-u-s-killing-of-children/
“Emotion, not genuine geopolitical insight, drives popular support for inflated defense spending.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/the-military-industrial-complexs-assault-on-liberty/
“At the end of the Korean War, both North and South Korea were poverty-ridden hellholes. But they took different routes. And got very different results.”
Read more: https://bonnerandpartners.com/trumps-trade-deals-are-a-futile-conceit/