Everyone--religious believers, agnostics and atheists alike--should rejoice at the Supreme Court's decision striking down New York State's attempt to limit attendance in houses of worship.
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It’s A Cancer’: Pompeo Says U.S. Will Brand BDS Antisemetic; Crack Down On It
by Steven Woskow | Nov 19, 2020 | Blog
The United States government will formally designate the anti-Israel boycott movement “anti-Semitic” and immediately start cracking down on groups affiliated with it, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Thursday during a visit to Israel, calling BDS a...
Trump V. Biden: Does It Matter Who Wins the Election?
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 2, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On Election Day Eve, Kyle previews the election and explains why the outlook for a Trump or Biden presidency is bleak. If Biden wins, he will likely continue most of Trump's awful foreign policy decisions and unroll any of his good ones. If Trump gets a second term,...
New Associate Justice Barrett: Cops Can Rape Whoever They Want
by Scott Horton | Oct 17, 2020 | Blog
Salon: Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett has been accused of "unconscionable cruelty" by a watchdog group over her role in an appellate court decision overturning a district court which found a Wisconsin county liable for millions in damages to a woman who...
USA, 2020: Helpless, Bound, Suffocating Black Woman to Cop: ‘I Beg You Master,’ ‘Don’t Let Me Die’
by Scott Horton | Oct 2, 2020 | Blog
Okay, well it was 2019. I sure don't mean to shame the victim for that. It's easy to say you would rather die than submit to some pig in such an undignified manner, but she very well could have died, and surely has other people that she's responsible for. 100% of the...
Judge Megan Shanahan Suffers From Severe Mental Illness and Must Be Removed From the Court
by Scott Horton | Sep 17, 2020 | Blog
Have you ever heard of such madness in your life?: Judge Upholds Pseudonymity of Cincinnati Police Officer Who Is Suing His Critics for Libel I wrote about the case (in which news outlets, the defendants, and I are opposing pseudonymity) a few weeks ago here....
Lazy Hawks Blame Russia for Everything
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 30, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #525, I discuss Trump's decision to withdraw 12,000 troops from Germany. Washington hawks dusted off the worn-out Russiagate narrative to try to drum up fear that Trump was sacrificing the country's security to his master Putin. Trump's move is minor as the US...
87 people Arrested At Breonna Taylor Protest
by Steven Woskow | Jul 16, 2020 | Blog
From CBS News "In total, 87 people were arrested," LMPD said in their statement. "Due to their refusal to leave the property and their attempts to influence the decision of the Attorney General with their actions, each person was charged with Intimidating a...
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KC-46A Pegasus Refueler Failure Continues
One of the components of American strategic projection has been the world's most prodigious and sophisticated aerial refueling fleet. There are currently approx 400+ KC-135s capable of refueling two receiver aircraft at the same time in the current USAF fleet. The...
No Longer Born to Kill – Anti-War Blog
Recently Amazon removed the “Born to Kill,” from Jokers helmet for the film Full Metal Jacket. The words sit alongside the peace emblem on his steel helmet and makes for an iconic film poster. So it once did. The words perhaps too violent for modern audiences...
Fiji Follies Mimic First World Navigation Problems
There are now eight (there were nine before this disaster) total patrol vessels in the navy of Fiji; this is simply negligence and lack of proper training much like the US Navy collisions in 2017. It is extraordinarily expensive to reconstitute a vessel that has...
Up in Smoke: The Other Space Race Continues
A comprehensive ban on all nuclear testing occurred in the 1990s. The Soviet Union's last nuclear test took place on 24 October 1990; the United Kingdom's on 26 November 1991 and the United States' on 23 September 1992. Advances in the ICBM arena have continued apace...
Robert Fisk – The Road to Palestine – Anti-War Blog
In Part Two of his Three part series, From Beirut to Bosnia, Robert Fisk gives detail to the tragedy of Palestine. As it was then when the series was made, 1993, the people of Palestine had already suffered tremendously. A lost people, those blamed for the crimes of...
New Book Is A Must Read For Iraq War 2 Enthusiasts
Iraq War 2 is ancient history, like Athens’ defeat at Aegospotami or the NATO-Russia Founding Act. But for some of us, it seems like only yesterday we were being lied into one of the greatest geopolitical disasters of the Western imperial order. There’s a new book...