In their effort to go after people for possessing and selling substances deemed illegal by the state, U.S. law enforcement personnel will lay waste to anyone in their path. As TFTP has reported time and again, even innocent children, including sleeping babies, are not...
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They Smile and Shrug Their Shoulders at the Murder of a Man
by Kym Robinson | Feb 1, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Recently, many of us digitally witnessed five armed police officers beat Tyre Nichols to death. Oftentimes it’s easy for us to be voyeurs to violence and then conjure up a context or make an excuse for what it is that we are seeing. It’s the privilege of distance and...
Does the Death of the Petrodollar Signal the End of the U.S. Empire?
by Ryan McMaken | Feb 1, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On January 17, the Saudi minister of finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, announced that the Saudi state is open to selling oil in currencies other than the dollar. “There are no issues with discussing how we settle our trade arrangements, whether it is in the U.S. dollar,...
GRAPHIC: Cops Beat Tyre Nichols to Death, Captured on Video
by The Free Thought Project | Jan 31, 2023 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
The U.S. city of Memphis, Tennessee released several videos on Friday showing the brutal beating of Tyre Nichols by police. Nichols, a 29-year-old black FedEx worker who had been stopped for reckless driving, succumbed to his wounds in the aftermath of the incident....
Elizabeth Warren is Wrong to Call Crypto ‘the Preferred Tool for Terrorists’
by Jennifer Schulp Jack Solowey and Nicholas Anthony | Jan 31, 2023 | Featured Articles
Last week, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against Anatoly Legkodymov for violating anti‐money laundering laws while operating Bitzlato, an off‐shore crypto exchange alleged to have processed over $700 million in illicit funds over several years....
Disinformation Pushers, Label Thyself
by Ron Paul | Jan 31, 2023 | Featured Articles
Thanks to the latest release of the “Twitter Files,” we now know without a doubt that the entire “Russia disinformation” racket was a massive disinformation campaign to undermine U.S. elections and perhaps even push “regime change” inside the United States after...
Ukraine Proves We Learned Nothing from the Vietnam War
by James W. Carden | Jan 30, 2023 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Today, January 27th, marks 50 years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords which effectively ended American participation in the Vietnam war. One of the consequences, according to Georgetown University international affairs scholar Charles Kupchan, was that an...
TGIF: Don’t Blame Wokeism on the Unfinished Liberal Revolution
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 27, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The National Conservatives are not only wrong about genuine liberalism -- that is, libertarianism -- they also apparently haven't bothered to read up on what they think they're attacking. Take Yoram Hazony, author of Conservatism: A Rediscovery, who recently appeared...