Mustafa Akyol talks about his latest New York Times op-ed, which describes a backlash among the people of the Muslim world to some of the political extremism that has recently become common in the Middle East. Scott and Akyol rehash the history of radical Islamist...
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Scott Horton on Trump’s Assassination of Soleimani
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 4, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
Scott Horton returns to Foreign Policy Focus to cover the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Quds Force. Scott discusses the importance of Soleimani and why his killing could spark more conflict in the Middle East. He then debunks the...
US Attacks Baghdad Airport, Killing Top Iranian General
by Jason Ditz | Jan 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On the outskirts of the Baghdad International Airport, a US drone attacked a delegation including the top figure in Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), killing him as well as several others, including Iran’s Quds Forces commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The White...
1/2/20 Peter Van Buren on the Americans Dying for the Government’s Lies
by Scott Horton | Jan 2, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Peter Van Buren talks about the unlearned lessons from America's last several decades of foreign policy failures. Although a presidential administration will occasionally make a blunder that results in something like ISIS or the empowerment of Iran, for the most part,...
Should Racists Get Health Care?
by Ron Paul | Jan 2, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Political correctness recently took a dangerous turn in the United Kingdom when the North Bristol National Health Service Trust announced that hospital patients who use offensive, racist, or sexist language will cease receiving medical care as soon as it is safe to...
Big Spender Trump Is Drowning in His Swamp
by Jacob Hornberger | Jan 2, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
First it was the generals who took control over U.S. foreign policy, preventing President Trump from bringing the troops home from the Middle East and Afghanistan, as he said he was going to do. And now, it’s the federal bureaucracy that has absorbed Trump. According...
This President Was Impeached for Being Insufficiently Pro-War
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Buried in the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment report, is some insight into how the foreign policy establishment is attempting to re-create a new Cold War with the Russian Federation. Much of the report is devoted to one of the primary charges against the...
The IRS or The Libertarian Institute?
by Scott Horton | Jan 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Scott Horton
Friends, We should be so lucky to somehow know that the government has only wasted all the money they've stolen from us over the years, rather than doing something horrible to someone with it. America's completely insane and criminal income taxation system has one...
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Taking Steps Towards a City Without Local Police
Recently, Minneapolis City Council President Lisa Bender was interviewed regarding the Council's latest political move towards abolition of the local police department. The interview left me underwhelmed. She gave no indication that she was familiar with the technical...
Only Cops Should Have Guns
How could anyone still believe that after all this? asks J. D. Tuccille.
Get Rid of the Cops? Hooray!
NYT: Not so fast: Advocates for police reform are making the case that the phrase “defund the police” doesn’t mean what many people think it means. “Be not afraid,” Christy E. Lopez, a Georgetown University law professor, wrote in The Washington Post. “‘Defunding the...
‘Holy Shit, You Can Really Do That?’
I exclaim in Cairo slum dialect Arabic to Steve... https://twitter.com/davidminpdx/status/1269729473491988480
Minneapolis City Council Will Vote To Abolish The Police Department
In spite of the Mayor's opposition, the Minneapolis City Counsel will vote to disband the Minneapolis Police Department and develop a new community based model for the city. The Minneapolis Appeal is reporting that it will be a veto-proof majority. From The Appeal: On...
The Counter Revolution
Police and fireman are a powerful force in city politics. They show up and vote. Union members are active in door-to-door politics. The politicians need them to raise revenue and protect them from the wrath of the masses. Now they are threatening their paychecks....
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