I attended a focus group to give feedback about a series of commercials that will air nationally. I think I experienced “snowflakes” in the flesh for the first time. They were offended by something in every one of those commercials. Saying, “The female manager in the...
Americans
The Dirty Espionage Business
by Steven Woskow | Aug 9, 2019 | Blog
N.Y. Times: U.S. Sanctions Turn Iran's Oil Industry Into Spy vs Spy. Most Americans have a Hollywood version of the espionage business. A high-tech game of cyber-espionage and secret well-planned operations but in reality it is an age old game using alcohol, sex,...
68% Percent of Americans Would Reject Trump’s Mideast ‘Deal of the Century’
by Scott Horton | Jul 30, 2019 | Blog
Grant F. Smith: To gauge U.S. public opinion about the “Peace to Prosperity” plan, IRmep put a national sample of American adults in the shoes of Palestinian refugees, notably the 750,000 forcibly expelled during Israel’s creation and their descendants living in Gaza,...
Patrick Cockburn on Why Sanctions On Syria and Iran Will Fail (again)
by Steven Woskow | Jul 6, 2019 | Blog
Patrick Cockburn has seen this all before. The sanctions our government imposes on countries cost Americans nothing. No American lives are lost, no hardship for Americans, no cost to the American people. So you get no push-back from the American media or the...
Are We Governed By Imbeciles?
by Steven Woskow | Jun 10, 2019 | Blog
Don Bodreaux says yes. If there was any doubt before now, there can be no doubt going forward: we Americans are today governed by imbeciles. Really. Literally. No hyperbole here.
The Free Thought Project
by Scott Horton | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog
Every single day over there are stories of cops raping, torturing and murdering Americans with impunity. Every day. It seems like maybe something's wrong.
Libya’s Strongman
by Kyle Anzalone | May 22, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
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...
Acting SecDef Shanahan: All Clear
by Scott Horton | May 21, 2019 | Blog
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...
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Aesthetics and Frequencies w/Mano Elia
Mano is back to discuss the image of God in the world.
The Welfare-State Paradox
"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...
The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse
Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...
The Steady Rise in Living Standards
"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...
Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe
The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...
The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
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