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JFK’s Remarkable Peace Speech that Sealed His Fate

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2023
What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves. If all the means of production were vested in a single hand, whether it be nominally that of “society” as a whole or that of a dictator, whoever exercises this control has complete power over us.
– Friedrich A. Hayek

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February 28, 2023

JFK’s Remarkable Peace Speech that Sealed His Fate
The deep animosity against Russia and China that the U.S. national-security establishment has inculcated in the American people brings to mind the remarkable speech that President Kennedy delivered on June 10, 1963, at American University that sealed his fate. Just imagine what would happen to any American who today dares to say good things about Russia and China. The Russia haters and the …
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