John Dangelo joins Foreign Policy Focus to discuss the dangerous EARN IT Act. While the bill claims to protect children, in reality, it will allow for mass regulation of communication on the internet. It will roll back the key Section 230 rule that allows for websites...
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CDC, Epidemics And “Panic”
by Zack Sorenson | Feb 17, 2020 | Blog
Could world health authorities be concealing information from the public at all right now? Who knows, could be. If they are doing this, is the need to "prevent panic" itself preventing people from having the information they need to take proactive protective measures?...
Limiting Presidential War Making guest Mike Maharrey
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 5, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
Michael Maharry returns to the show to discuss Afghanistan and his new book, Constitution Owner's Manual. Mike and Kyle describe how Trump has ramped up the war in Afghanistan. Mike answers questions about how the Constitution can be used to limit the president's...
Ending Wars with ‘Defend the Guard’ guest Mike Maharrey
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 18, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
Mike Maharrey returns to FPF to discuss the Defend the Guard Act. Defend the Guard is a bill introduced at the state level that prevents the federal government from using National Guard troops in undeclared forever wars. The movement is growing as more states will...
Department of Propaganda guest Mike Maharrey
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 17, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
Mike Maharrey returns to FPF to discuss further fallout from his appearance on RT. Polygraph.Info, the "fact-checking" wing of Voice of America, ran an article "debunking" Mike's analysis on SWIFT. Mike correctly argues that the US exercises control over SWIFT to wage...
US Economic War Exposed by Russian Puppets guests Mike Maharrey and Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 4, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #371, Mike Maharrey and Will Porter return to the show for a discussion on US economic warfare. Mike recently appeared on RT to discuss how the US uses SWIFT to enforce sanctions. Will and Mike highlight the importance of SWIFT in the Americans Empire. The...
FPF #308 – Fighting the Empire from Within guest Mike Maharrey
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 8, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #308, Mike Maharrey returns to the show to talk about fighting the empire from within. Mike explains how his work at the Tenth Amendment Center has worked to fight access military weapons from going to local police forces. Mike discusses why passing Defend the...
FPF #284 – Meng Wanzhou’s Arrest
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 14, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #284, I discuss the arrest of Meng Wanzhou in Canada. Meng is the exec of Chinese communications giant Huawei. The arrest came as Trump was meeting with Chinese President Xi. Trump and Xi agreed to a tariff truce. However, this arrest could harm that progress. ...
6/27/18 Michael Maharrey on City of Lexington Secret Surveillance Lawsuit
by Scott Horton | Jun 29, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Michael Maharrey, National Communications Coordinator for the Tenth Amendment Center, is interviewed on his lawsuit with the City of Lexington, Kentucky, which refused to detail in an open records request the manner and methods of their secret surveillance at skate...
Foreign Policy Focus #140 – Fighting the War State with Mike Maharrey
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 10, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On Foreign Policy Focus #140, Mike Maharry joins the show to discuss how to fight the war state with the 10th Amendment. Mike discuss an effort to prevent future torture, limiting the federal governments use of the National Guard, stopping the arming of American...
Trump’s Problem: His Business Experience
by Craig Cantoni | Jul 13, 2017 | Blog
Over a career of consulting with family businesses, including very large ones, I came to know many CEOs who rose to the top of the business the way that Donald Trump did: by being the son of the founder and thus the heir-apparent. (All of them were men.) It’s more...
5/22/17 Ray McGovern talks USS Liberty and Middle East Foreign Policy
by Scott Horton | May 22, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Co-Founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and former CIA Analyst Ray McGovern is on the show to discuss his new article Not Remembering the USS Liberty and the new book by Philip Nelson, “Remembering the Liberty”. Scott and Ray discuss the audio of...
Win the Debate, Don’t Shut It Down
by Chris Ernesto | May 1, 2017 | Featured Articles, Justice
UC Berkeley’s successful attempt to shut down an appearance by Ann Coulter last week was just the latest example of college campuses - and liberals as a whole - attempting to stifle free speech by acting as society’s morality police. As an antiwar activist, I am...
3/29/17 Paul Kawika Martin on the UN conference to ban nuclear weapons
by Scott Horton | Mar 29, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Paul Kawika Martin, the Political and Communications Director for Peace-Action.org, discusses why the US and the world's other nuclear powers are not participating in a UN conference aimed at eliminating nuclear weapons; and the very real danger and disastrous...
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Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
Crime and Poverty
“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as the rich, and perhaps more so. To argue otherwise is to libel multitudes of people who keep to decency under severe difficulties,...
Don’t Be Silent
We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purposes. That admonition brings two things to mind. First, it fails its own test. If good people avoid a topic because even...
Can There Be Only One Race?
I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were in black and white!) In the commercial a man (Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz) faces a challenge from the devil, who has a...