War and Foreign Policy

A special Graduate Seminar, recorded at Mises University 2013.

Interviewed by host Mike Stein of KWAM 990 AM, Mark Thornton talks about Edward Snowden, PRISM, unchecked government powers, and more.

Since the time of Lenin, the Soviet Union, vis-à-vis the other Great Powers, consistently pursued a policy of what they long termed “peaceful coexistence."

Liberal states tend to defeat and expand their territories or their range of hegemonic control at the expense of less-liberal ones.

Peace and not war is the father of all things. Peace builds; war destroys.

The American government has transformed itself from “humanitarians with a guillotine” to “humanitarians with weapons of mass murder and destruction.”

Disband a hundred thousand men! Do you know what you are saying?

You don't need to be a "conspiracy theorist" to see what's going on here. All you have to do is be willing to use your eyes.

No good has ever come from granting monopoly power to the state to use aggression against the people to arbitrarily mold human behavior.

Government use of force to mold social and economic behavior at home and abroad has justified individuals using force on their own terms.