More calls for gun control after Philadelphia standoff with police but this man was a convicted felon. What specific laws could have stopped him since he was apparently undeterred by laws we currently have - confiscation, ending all gun sales, tougher sentencing...
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An Endless War? Getting Out of Afghanistan
I was recently featured in this documentary "An Endless War? Getting Out of Afghanistan," by Bob Coen along with Matthew Hoh, Phyllis Bennis, Gen. Krulak and others. They're screening it for Congress next week: 5pm Thursday June 6 - Room 2044, Rayburn House Office...
Israeli Rabbis at IDF Prep School Praise Adolf Hitler
Yeah, and not for building the autobahn either. Brace for the most insane shit you've ever read in your life, and then click here. Update: ADL denounces.
The Spy Who Wasn’t
On a steamy Sunday last July, at about half-past noon, a caravan of unmarked SUVs exited the FBI’s Washington, D.C., field office, an eight-story concrete building that exudes all the charm of a supermax prison. The cars moved swiftly across the city; speed was...
FPF #300 – Moral Injury guest Peter Van Buren
On FPF #300, Peter Van Buren joins the show to talk his books. Peter discusses his book Hooper's War and moral injury. Peter explains how war can do more than injure someone physically, their understanding of right and wrong can be damaged as well. I ask Peter about...
Seattle’s Socialist City Council Member Thinks Housing Is a Human Right—Unless it Comes at the Expense of Music Venues
Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant favors raising more money for affordable housing, except when she doesn't. A few months ago, Sawant was fighting for the "Amazon tax," a literal tax on jobs that would have raised some $75 million annually to fund affordable...
Putin Congratulates Trump
This is the single best aspect of Hillary's loss. She was bound to a horrible Russia policy like JB Weld. One of the only things Trump was good and consistent on was his wish to cool off all this heat with Russia that's been building up since the Cheney years. The...
Al Nusra Is Stronger Than Ever
Three months after its “split” from al Qaeda, which in reality is simply a feint, Jabhat Fateh al Sham (JFS), formerly known as Jabhat al Nusra, may pose a more significant long-term threat to the West than the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). While the West...
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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty
Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...
The Fake China Threat and Its Very Real Danger
Today the front pages and bookstores are filled with tales of the so-called "China Threat." From spy balloons to Fentanyl pipelines, genocide to dreams of world domination: CHINA! But is it all true? Is any of it? Now, for the first time, the speciousness of these and...
