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How Wars Endanger American Freedom | John V. Denson

Lecture by John V. Denson discussing how America’s interventionist foreign policies dangerously expands central government power and usurps individual rights on the home front. Presented at the Brown Bag Seminar, sponsored by the Ludwig von Mises Institute; Recorded February 15, 1995. mises.org…

Complete video at: fora.tv Why is WikiLeaks releasing documents from the US government, when there is no shortage of corruption elsewhere in the world? Editor-in-chief Julian Assange regards it as an issue of trust, explaining that he considers it the website’s responsibility to publish any classified information likely to have a significant impact — regardless of diplomatic origins. For related videos, visit WikiLeaks: Security Threat or Media Savior? A FORA.tv Series: fora.tv —– Following the leak by whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks of almost 400000 secret US army field reports from the Iraq war between 2004 and 2009, tune in to hear Julian Assange at the Frontline Club in conversation with one of the most famous whistle blowers in history, Daniel Ellsberg, who was responsible for the leak of the Pentagon Papers in 1971. Julian Assange is an Australian journalist, programmer and Internet activist, best known for his involvement with Wikileaks, a whistleblower website. Daniel Ellsberg is a political commentator and activist. A former US military analyst employed by the RAND Corporation, Ellsberg sparked a national controversy in 1971 when he released the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times.
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Posted on February 6, 2012 by , 25 comments

Bob Bowman: Star Wars Secrets & Lies

This special video interview for Prison Planet.tv subscribers features a discussion with Robert M. Bowman, a former Director of Advanced Space Programs Development for the US Air Force in the Ford and Carter administrations, and a former United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel with 101 combat missions. He holds a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from the California Institute of Technology. Bowman is a prominent critic of the Strategic Defense Initiative, aka “Star Wars,” and has also been a vocal advocate for the 9/11 truth movement. Since the early 1980’s, Bowman has headed up an organization called The Patriots (www.thepatriots.us), which mainly consists of former top ranking military officers. The goal of the group is to make public servants follow the Constitution, honor the truth and serve the American people. Bowman has been targeted with death threats, government harassment and three tax audits in two years as a consequence of his bold truth-telling activism, which all started when he blew the whistle on the fact that Reagan’s Star Wars program was an offensive act of military conquest in space and a means of waging aggressive pre-emptive warfare, disguised as a defensive program. Bowman notes that his dissent was in fact encouraged by Reagan’s own Joint Chiefs of Staff, who privately thought that the whole idea was “military lunacy”. The initial intention was to use the space shuttle as a platform from which to test the star wars technology against …
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Posted on January 4, 2012 by , 25 comments