One of the major consequences of the recent COVID-19 pandemic is the toll it has taken on the economy, specifically urban economies. Cities have seen particular devastation, as the pandemic exacerbates pre-existing issues and creates new ones. If cities do not take...
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$2.3 Trillion Spent in War on Afghanistan, New Report Tabulates
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 26, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Brown University’s Costs of War project released an updated report Wednesday on U.S. spending for the war in Afghanistan. The report found that since the 2001 invasion, Washington has sunk over $2.3 trillion into the war. The spending includes operations in both...
U.S. Deploys Marines to Haiti Under Guise of ‘Disaster Relief’
by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 25, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Despite Washington’s decision not to deploy Marines to Haiti after the July assassination of Haitian president Jovenelle Moise, the devastation of last Saturday’s 7.2 earthquake has provided U.S. leaders the cloak of humanitarian aid for doing just that. In an effort...
Our Fifty Year Inflationary Legacy
by Ron Paul | Aug 25, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles
This month marks fifty years since President Richard Nixon closed the “gold window” that had allowed foreign governments to exchange U.S. dollars for gold. Nixon’s action severed the last link between the dollar and gold, transforming the dollar into pure fiat...
Throttling the Truth: Why the Case of Julian Assange Is More Important Than Ever
by Laurie Calhoun | Aug 24, 2021 | Featured Articles
In a world with a functional Fourth Estate, the case of Julian Assange would be on the front page of major newspapers every day. Instead, it has been all but blacked out. Perhaps this makes sense, given that the raison d’être of Wikileaks, according to its founder,...
Your Right to Bodily Integrity
by John Whitehead | Aug 24, 2021 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
We’ve reached the point where state actors can penetrate rectums and vaginas, where judges can order forced catheterizations, and where police and medical personnel can perform scans, enemas and colonoscopies without the suspect’s consent. And these procedures aren’t...
Peter Bergen Is Mistaken About Bin Laden’s Strategy
by Scott Horton | Aug 23, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Famous journalist and terrorism expert Peter Bergen is making a big mistake. Give the man credit: he had the courage to travel to Tora Bora with Peter Arnett to interview bin Laden in person back in 1997. However, as seen in this clip from his appearance on C-SPAN 2’s...
Cop Shoots Mentally Handicapped Teenager Having Crisis After Grandmother Calls 911
by Matt Agorist | Aug 23, 2021 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
As TFTP reported earlier this year, body camera video showed officers with the Loveland Police Department attack 73-year-old Karen Garner as she walked home from Walmart. The officers neglected to provide aid, and they laughed and celebrated their brutality against an...