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Freedom Exposé

The Boneyard of Your Money

The massive bloat of the federal defense budget—at the expense of education, infrastructure, medical care, the social safety net and so much more—has only one purpose: to enrich the “military-industrial complex.” “Keep the nation secure” is merely the marketing spin of the Pentagon and its corporate patrons.

Front Page

The War on Taxpayers

Investigation

Going After Whistleblowers

Humanitarian Aid

Going Where The Pain Is

Inside View

Scientology Tells Atlanta ‘Y’All Come’

Contents

Editorial

Wars and Whistleblowers

Team B and the War Party—made up of Democrats and Republicans—turbo-charged defense spending and it hasn’t stopped.

At a Glance

News Briefs

A new model tutoring center, the Applied Scholastics Community Learning Center, opened its doors in the city that is the spiritual home of the Scientology religion: Clearwater, Florida.

Cover Story

The War on Taxpayers

Inefficiency, antiquated weapons and a complicit Congress allow the military-industrial complex to fleece the American public.

Going Private

The national debt of the United States is more than $18 trillion and growing. Despite politicians’ claims, Social Security, the biggest entitlement program, hasn’t contributed a penny to that mind-numbing figure. In fact, economist Robert Higgs concluded that 91.2 percent of the national debt results from defense spending.

Media & Ethics

UFOs and Elvis and Nazis, oh my!

If you’re a conspiracy buff … if you have a tinfoil hat tucked away in your closet, … if you feel guilty by being titillated at the prospect of black helicopters whisking away loyal Americans to deposit them in United Nations concentration camps, … if you absolutely know for sure that the Apollo moon landings were hoaxes, … if you’re iron-clad certain that Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Michael Jackson and Princess Diana are partying at a Himalayan retreat where the hosts are the surviving aliens from the Roswell UFO crash, then you were chortling with maniacal glee on May 3, 2016.

Investigation

Going After Whistleblowers

Thomas Drake served in the Air Force for 10 years and had been a software systems specialist before he started performing contract work for the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency.

Investigation

When Mainstream Media Back the Wrong Side

The U.S. Government often persecutes whistleblowers who expose its wrongdoings. Such high-handedness is understandable, given that the revelations by whistleblowers can be embarrassing.

Profile

Joe Cirincione on the New Trillions of Dollars Arms Race

Because you read this magazine, you likely don’t need us to tell you that the United States spends a lot of money on defense, and that, as a nation, in total disregard of the famous military-industrial complex warning that President Eisenhower issued in the middle of the 20th century, we are set to spend $585 billion this year—less than the peak spending of $663.7 billion in FY 2010.

Into the Field

Going Where The Pain Is

Ayal Lindeman has lost count of all the times he has helped people in distress. As a trained emergency medical technician for nearly a quarter of a century, he assisted victims of a superstorm that clobbered 13 U.S. states from Maine to Florida in 1993

Rebuilding Nepal

Scientology Volunteer Ministers rescued the Himalayan nation from a devastating earthquake.

‘Extreme’ Adventures

Volunteer Ministers bring life-saving technology to remote regions of the Amazon

L. Ron Hubbard essay

Unite and Win

“The West was made by free men. It is being unmade by tyranny.” — L. Ron Hubbard

Basic Principle

Honest People Have Rights, Too

Freedom for Man does not mean freedom to injure Man. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to harm by lies.