After the Consumer Price Index surged last year to its highest level since 1982, politicians are feeling pressure from constituents to do something about it. Last Monday, President Joe Biden announced $1 billion in grants, loans, and other assistance for small meat...
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Russia-U.S. Negotiations Continue on Shaky Grounds
by Dave DeCamp | Jan 13, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
No progress was made during a meeting between NATO and Russia in Brussels on Wednesday as the US and NATO are rejecting a key Russian demand to halt the military alliance’s eastward expansion. But according to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, both sides are...
The Sapper in the Sewer
by Kym Robinson | Jan 12, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“The enemy was nowhere, but everywhere.”- Dan Rather, CBS News Report, Saigon, 1968 As the world approaches a period of unmanned systems, automation, and perhaps in many fields human obsolescence, warfare marches into its own future of certain uncertainty. Despite the...
Two LA Cops Fired After Video Proves They Ignored Robbery to Play Pokémon Go
by Matt Agorist | Jan 12, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
Over the years, TFTP has reported on multiple instances of cops ignoring calls for various reasons. But LAPD officers Louis Lozano and Eric Mitchell become the first cops on which we’ve reported who ignored calls because they chose to play video games instead of...
A Porcupine Peace Plan: How An Independent New Hampshire Could Increase U.S. Security
by Dave Ridley | Jan 11, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
"To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting."– Sun Tzu On March 12, 2006 five U.S. soldiers violated, then murdered, 14-year-old Abeer Hamza in her home at...
How to Eliminate the Threat of Nuclear War: A Strategy of Non-Intervention
by Bas Spliet | Jan 10, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Around this time last year, nuclear weapons became illegal. Well, sort of. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, an international agreement adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2017 after a majority of countries voted in its favor, entered...
January 6th: A Turgid Anniversary
by Jim Bovard | Jan 10, 2022 | Featured Articles
Last year’s Jan. 6 clash at the Capitol may be the most politically exploited ruckus in American history. Team Biden is doing a victory lap to mark the anniversary, but the feds continue covering up key information regarding that day’s events. Democrats are canonizing...
TGIF: National or Enlightenment Liberal Identity?
by Sheldon Richman | Jan 7, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
I find much to admire about Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-born Dutch-American scholar, author, and one-time politician who has drawn international attention to the violence against women and girls not only in Muslim-majority countries but also in the West at the hands...