From this cool article about interrogation techniques and false confessions: In just three one-hour sessions, Shaw was able to convince 21 of her 30 college-age subjects that they’d committed a crime when they were around 12 years old — assaulted another child with a...
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A ‘Sound Money Caucus’ Has Launched On Capitol Hill
by Jp Cortez | Aug 15, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
As the political and central banking establishment in Washington continues to bail out the economy and markets by creating trillions of unbacked pieces of paper and electronic digits, a handful of congressmen hope to shine a new spotlight on the devastating effects of...
Kevin Clinesmith Guilty in Russiagate Plot
by Scott Horton | Aug 14, 2020 | Blog
He's the guy who -- ahem -- erased the detail that Carter Page was a loyal American patriot and CIA asset from the FBI's FISA warrant applications. No word yet if he's being compelled to testify against his superiors.
News Roundup 8/14/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 14, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The US bars charter flights to Cuba. The US is attempting to increase economic pressure on Cuba. [Link] The US will require dozens of Confucius Institute branches in the US to register as foreign agents. [Link] The US deploys three B-2 Spirit bombers to Diago...
Did Trump Make Peace Between Israel and the UAE?
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 14, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #532, I discuss Trump's announcement that the US mediated an agreement that will lead to Israel and the UAE normalizing relations. Details on the agreement remain unknown, but both sides are claiming this somehow allows for or prevents the annexation of the...
Crony Capitalist Execs Cheer Selection of Kamala Harris as Dem VP
by Jake Johnson | Aug 14, 2020 | Featured Articles, Politics
With the prospect of longtime bank critic and progressive Sen. Elizabeth Warren being chosen as Joe Biden's running mate now officially dead, Wall Street executives are openly applauding the presumptive Democratic nominee's selection of California Sen. Kamala Harris...
8/10/20 Dan McKnight on Liz Cheney’s Toxic Association With the Republican Party
by Scott Horton | Aug 13, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Dan McKnight discusses recent efforts by his organization, BringOurTroopsHome.US, to get Republicans in congress to distance themselves from Liz Cheney. Cheney wields enormous influence in congress, both because of her last name and because she supports the reelection...
News Roundup 8/13/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 13, 2020 | News Roundup
Europe The State Department IG finds that the US Ambassador to the UK, Woody Johnson, is inappropriate and ineffective. The report says he made inappropriate sexual statements and threatened to fire staff who gave him the bad news. The staff then felt they could not...
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You Got My Vote, Mr. President
Why “The Star Spangled Banner” Should Be Replaced By Mastodon’s “Crusher Destroyer” As Our National Anthem by John Danek
Independence Day
John Quincy Adams Independence Day July 4, 1821 America’s glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has...
You May Have a Divine Right, But So Do We All, So Fuck You
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of...
Year Zero: Liberty at Home or Life Abroad
In Episode 52, with the annual celebrations of Independence Day, Tommy looks at the American Revolution. When constricting the Declaration of Independence Thomas Jefferson set an extremely high bar for the state to live up to. 13 years later yet another bar was set...
UAE Quitting Yemen War?
There was this report of limited withdrawals the other day, but now the WSJ is saying they're quitting the war against the Houthis entirely, and now are going to focus on fighting their al Qaeda and ISIS allies. Who knows? Cross-posted at Antiwar.com.
The Great Jim Bovard: This July 4th, Cuss a Politician
Only this guy could get such great stuff in USA Today. The Washington Post condemned Trump’s “gaudy display of military hardware that is more in keeping with a banana republic than the world’s oldest democracy.” Regrettably, the Post’s indignation over a few tanks...
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