On FPF #352, I discuss the military power of the Libyan Field Marshal Haftar. Haftar came to power in the vacuum left by Obama's war in Libya and now controls most of Libya. The strongman has acquired a fleet of fighter jets and 10,000s of troops. He has also built up...
Yeah, well we already knew there's no threat from Iran against the USA. But here Trump's man at the Pentagon says, "I think our steps were very prudent and we've put on hold the potential for attacks on Americans and that is what is extremely important. I'd say we're...
Two days after a drone attack on a Saudi oil pumping station the coalition carried out 11 attacks on the capital of Sanaa in all, out of a total of 19 across rebel-held territory on Thursday. The American people are as guilty of war crimes as the Saudis for aiding and...
On FPF #350, I argue that the armed US government agents are often the bad guys with guns on American streets and overseas. A recent editorial in the NYT explains how cops in Baltimore became the bad guys. I explain how US troops end up becoming the bad guys with guns...
You see, there is no way for the Israelis to justify stealing property from Palestinian human beings with natural rights without being forced to retreat to mysticism and pretended super-natural rights that supersede them. But even if that wasn't absolutely ridiculous,...
"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever. ... The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest." Thomas Jefferson said this about slavery. He could have just as easily been talking...
She asks presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpdYbJFh5Jo (This site is completely non-partisan and does not endorse any candidate. But we hate war [and corporatism too].)
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...
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