On FPF #477, I discuss what impact Bernie Sanders dropping out of the race could have on US foreign policy. Bernie held a more non-interventionist view than Trump or Biden. However, Bernie was never willing to put the foreign policy first or challenge his opponents on...
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COVID-19 Patients and Their Families Are Being Put on Police-Enforced Lockdown
by Scott Horton | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
Reason magazine's Elizabeth Nolan Brown has a great run-down of all the power-mad police state freaks exploiting the Coronavirus crisis to expand their powers over Americans lives. As the old flyer a punk-rocker handed me on the drag across from UT Austin back in 1993...
Up to 150 Saudi Royals Infected With Coronavirus: Report
by Steven Woskow | Apr 9, 2020 | Blog
I don't have much sympathy for them given all the death and disease they have caused in Yemen. The infections are supposedly a key element in the Saudi decision to announce a ceasefire in Yemen, where Riyadh has been battling Iran-backed Houthi rebels on behalf of the...
Hospitals Say Feds Are Seizing Masks and Other Coronavirus Supplies
by Scott Horton | Apr 8, 2020 | Blog
L.A. Times: "Although President Trump has directed states and hospitals to secure what supplies they can, the federal government is quietly seizing orders, leaving medical providers across the country in the dark about where the material is going and how they can get...
Full Text of Peter Navarro’s Memos on Coronavirus
by Scott Horton | Apr 7, 2020 | Blog
They had all the prior knowledge and advice about how to handle it that they needed way back in January. And did nothing. And here Scott Sumner has a great summary of the government's failings in this crisis.
News Roundup 4/7/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 7, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The US daily output dropped 29% since the first week of March. [Link] The Secretary of the Navy gave a speech to the crew of the USS T Roosevelt slamming the recently fired captain of the ship. The secretary is receiving a lot of backlash and calls to resign....
How Z-pak Could Slay COVID-19
by David Gornoski | Apr 6, 2020 | Events, Featured Articles
Z-Pak, also known as azithromycin or Zithromax, could be a critical tool in preventing and treating COVID-19 coronavirus, according to Professor Michael P. Lisanti, MD-PhD and Chair of Translational Medicine at Salford University in the UK. I recently spoke with...
Netanyahu and Gantz Agree On West Bank Annexation Plan
by Steven Woskow | Apr 6, 2020 | Blog
From Haaretz Netanyahu and Gantz have agreed on a plan to annex the West Bank. All that's left is to negotiate the details and pass the plan in the Knesset. "Once approved by the cabinet, a proposal to apply Israeli sovereignty over parts of the West Bank would also...
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Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving
Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...
“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital
"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
US Forces Booted Out of Niger
2024 is the end of the ten year lease after expending $110 million to build and $30 million a year to maintain the base. The French forces were booted in October 2023. American troops are leaving now and the German troops will leave in September. The military regimes...
They Hate Our Freedom
They Hate Our Freedom Near the end of 2022,[1] the government finally released the notes from the 9/11 Commission’s interview of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from April 29, 2004. Would you believe it turns out the president admitted that his...
ICJ Declares Israel’s Occupation Illegal
The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel’s prolonged occupation of Palestinian territory violates international law.
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