The Cost of War Project has calculated that the US military has produced a total of 1.2 billion metric tons of greenhouse gasses since the beginning of the global war on terror in 2001. Of that, 400 million metric tons are directly due to war related fuel...
2017
This Week in Congress
The House is in session Tuesday through Thursday. Among the legislation the House will consider is H.R. 1500. This bill officially changes the name of the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. It also lays out the...
Angie Dodge’s Real Killer Found
Our friend and colleague, the late-great Will Grigg, had long championed the falsely convicted Chris Tapp in the case of the murder of Angie Dodge in 1996. Tapp was finally released in 2017 with the help of the victim's mother Carol. This case was featured on 48 Hours...
Deep State? Why, That’s Just Crazy
Just a little old aside in a profile of John Bolton: Mattis declined to comment for the record, but a former senior national-security official told me, without confirming any incidents, that a strategy had evolved. “The President thinks out loud,” he said. “Do you...
US-Led Bombing Campaign in Syria Killed 1,600 Civilians and Left Raqqa ‘Most Destroyed City in Modern Times’: Study
Julia Conley at Common Dreams reviews the results from a study conducted by Amnesty International and Airwars. The report—"Rhetoric vs. Reality: How the 'Most Precise Air Campaign in History' Left Raqqa the Most Destroyed City in Modern Times"—is detailed on...
Wrongful Use or Threat of Capital Prosecutions: Official misconduct by police and/or prosecutors is the leading cause
Official misconduct by police and prosecutors and perjured testimony (not errors) are the number one contributing factor to wrongful homicide convictions according to data from the The Death Penalty Information Center. The report summarizes data from the National...
Julian Assange ‘Arrested’ by UK, Extradition to US Imminent
Update: U.S. indictment here. BREAK: Full @Ruptly video of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s arrest by British police this morning pic.twitter.com/tdBw1Kbpxn — Barnaby Nerberka (@barnabynerberka) April 11, 2019 Just confirmed: #Assange has been arrested not just for...
FPF #298 – FBI Investigates Trump, Finds Nothing
On FPF #298, I discuss a recently reported FBI investigation of Trump in 2017. The investigation looked into possible Russian influence over Trump. The investigators found no evidence. However, Russiagate conspiracy theorists add the investigation as further proof...
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