Ted Snider discusses the many foreign policy betrayals that have already taken place under the Trump administration. One of Trump's first moves in office—and indeed one of his biggest campaign promises—was to withdraw from the JCPOA, an agreement that did little...
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News Roundup 8/26/20
US News Two people were killed in the third night of riots in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The riots started after police shot James Blake in the back seven times. Blake’s family announced he will survive but is paralyzed. [Link] Nearly five million Americans became gun owners...
Both Parties Pretend to Care About Ending Endless Wars
On FPF #537, I discuss both parties claiming they will end the endless wars, but neither is serious about actually doing it. Americans keep voting for the president who promises to be less interventionist. However, after taking office, Bush, Obama, and now Trump have...
Hillary Clinton Gave State Dept. Job to Ghislaine Maxwell’s Nephew
Alexander Djerassi gets to help decide America's Middle East policy. Not you. According to his online profile, Mr. Djerassi was chief of staff and special assistant in the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, covering U.S. relations with Arab...
How State Policy Reducies Access to Hospital Beds
We can all repeat the mantra without missing any beat: the lockdown was required to flatten the curve so that our hospital resources would not be overwhelmed during the pandemic. That argument is, by the way, quite correct. Anyone looking at the footage of the...
8/21/20 Gareth Porter on the Journalistic Malpractice of Charlie Savage and the New York Times
Scott and Gareth Porter discuss Charlie Savage's shameful reporting on the recent Russian bounties story. In this case Savage, whom Scott and Porter actually regard as one of the better journalists at the New York Times, published a story laying out the allegations...
8/21/20 Ammon Bundy on Supporting Black Lives Matter’s Effort to Defund the Police
Ammon Bundy discusses his reasons for endorsing the Black Lives Matter movement and their move to defund police departments across America. Bundy, of course, was involved in a standoff with the Bureau of Land Management over cattle grazing rights in 2014, a fiasco...
Jim Bovard in 1987: US Out of the Middle East
in USA Today: If sailing our fleet into the Persian Gulf was stupid, keeping them there is positively idiotic. Just because we are a superpower does not mean that we must perpetuate our mistakes. Jumping into the middle of the Iran-Iraqi war is just one more example...
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