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Peace in Colombia and Afghanistan?
On FPF #388, I talk about the peace process in Colombia and Afghanistan. In Colomba, the new president Ivan Duque has opposed the peace agreement with the FARC. Now he plans to end funding for a program key to keeping the peace in Colombia. If the program end, the...
Episode 298: What the ‘National Conservatism’ Proponents Get Wrong w/ Allen Mendenhall
45 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Pete welcomes Allen Mendenhall to the show. Allen is Associate Dean and Executive Director of the Blackstone Center for Law and Liberty at Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. He is also a Mises Institute Fellow. Allen...
Ron and Dan: Can Trump Get Out of Afghanistan?
With a peace agreement between the US and the Taliban nearly completed, will President Trump be able to do what his two predecessors were unable to do – end the US military’s 18 year war on Afghanistan? Neocons at home are screaming that we must stay, Trump has...
Gun Owners Of America Officially Supports Maj Toure For City Council
The NRA would never support Maj, but GOA has thrown it's support behind Maj. Great News! Maj Toure, the GOA-endorsed candidate for Philadelphia City Council, is officially on the ballot for the November, 2019, general election. Erich Pratt and Maj Toure Maj is the...
8/12/19 Nasser Arrabyee on Saudi War Crimes in Yemen
Nasser Arrabyee discusses the latest Saudi war crime against Yemeni civilians, the bombing of a family on the first day of Eid al-Adha. He also gives a summary of the last few months of the horrific war there, replete with complex political nuances that will not be...
The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment: Understanding the Court’s Landmark Decisions
The Second Amendment is one of most fundamental provisions of the Bill of Rights, and one of the most fiercely debated. Since it was first put to paper, legal scholars, gun owners and anti-gun activists have engaged in an endless discussion over the meaning and scope...
8/12/19 Jason Ditz with the Latest on Afghanistan
Jason Ditz discusses a recent Taliban suicide attack in Kabul and a report finding that about 40,000 soldiers on the books of the Afghan army don't really exist. These so-called "ghost soldiers" often abandon their posts, but army officials don't report it, since it's...
Year Zero: The Political Crusades
In Episode 60 Tommy looks at the evangelical left and the evangelical right fighting for dominance over the politics of the US. In his assessment he determines that though people are using the same words they're speaking different languages. He encourages all...
Wikipedia: Israeli Occupied Territory
See how a bunch of Israelis have succeeded in marginalizing MintPress News over some nonsense.
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