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,...
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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...
TGIF: Thinking about Energy
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 20, 2021 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its sixth "assessment report" earlier this month. As usual it generated its share of alarmist headlines. The report is several thousand pages long, and I'm certainly not qualified to digest, much less...
Our Generals Are Complicit in Military Disaster
by Ryan McMaken | Aug 18, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In early July, Ron Paul penned a column titled “It’s Saigon In Afghanistan,” invoking the imagery of the fall of Saigon in 1975, when U.S. military helicopters scrambled to evacuate personnel from the roof of the U.S. embassy. But Paul suggested that maybe the...
SIGAR Report: A ‘Victorious’ Withdrawal From Afghanistan Was Impossible
by Dave DeCamp | Aug 18, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The U.S. government watchdog for Afghanistan released its final lessons learned report on Tuesday that said a “victorious U.S. withdrawal” was impossible due to unrealistic and shortsighted goals set by Washington. Since its inception in 2008, the Special Inspector...
Blame Bush and Obama for the Afghan Disaster
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Former President Trump, President Biden and their partisans are rushing to blame each other for the debacle unfolding now in Afghanistan. The “National Unity Government” and its military and police forces have completely evaporated in the face of the Taliban’s rapid...