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8/02/18 Peter Van Buren on Modern McCarthyism

by Scott Horton | Aug 6, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show

Peter van Buren is interviewed on his new article for the American Conservative "Donald Trump is Not the 'Manchurian Candidate'" and the modern McCarthyism of the neoconservative and establishment attacks on the Trump Administration. Peter Van Buren worked for 24...

Report: Trump Administration Ramps up Enforcement of Federal Gun Laws

by Michael Maharrey | Aug 1, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics

Conventional wisdom holds that Republicans reliably protect the Second Amendment. In fact, one of the reasons conservatives said it was imperative to elect Donald Trump was that he would defend our right to keep and bear arms. A Hillary White House would shred the...

FPF #225 – Trump Hysteria, Hysterical Trump guest Will Porter

by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 27, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest

Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss Donald Trump and foreign policy. Inflicted with Trump derangement syndrome, the mainstream media is writing headings suggesting the soccer ball Putin gave Trump had a device inside of it. The dishonesty of the headlines...

Fake Ads, Fake TV, Fake News

by Craig Cantoni | Jul 22, 2018 | Featured Articles

Vance Packard published his Hidden Persuaders in 1957. I read the book a couple of decades later and now like to think—or lie to myself—that, as a result, I became less susceptible to advertising, especially to so-called lifestyle advertising or status-symbol...

TGIF: Trump and Putin – How about Getting Rid of Your Nukes?

by Sheldon Richman | Jul 20, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF

The United States and Russia remained at odds, continuing military exercises along the borders of NATO, undermining the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF), upgrading their nuclear arsenals, and eschewing arms control negotiations. --"It's Two Minutes to...

TGIF: The Trump-Kushner Delusion on Palestine

by Sheldon Richman | Jul 6, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF

Here's a shocker: Donald Trump and his Palestine-Israel fixers think they can buy a peaceful and permanent settlement of the 70-year conflict by getting Arab governments to pressure the Palestinians into forgetting the "politicians' talking points" -- you know,...

An Elite Coalition Emerges Against a Trump-Kim Agreement

by Gareth Porter | Jun 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

An implicit coalition of corporate media, Democratic partisans and others loyal to the national security state are actively hostile to any agreement that would endanger the continuation of the 70-year-old Cold War between the United States and North Korea. The...

TGIF: What Does Trump Have Against Children?

by Sheldon Richman | Jun 22, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF

I hate the children being taken away. --Donald Trump Finally, a tweet we can believe. Trump does seem to hate those immigrant children; he must because they're part of the "infestation" he's so alarmed about. But now he's relented. Or has he? A cursory reading of...

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Pegasus Down: The Refueler Follies March On

The KC46A is the replacement for the renowned KC135 refueling bird which had the last production aircraft rolled out in 1965. The KC46A is plagued with problems to include the bone-headed notion to put the refueling crew in the cockpit instead of the rear of the...

Blaming Freedom

Freedom is nearly always blamed for the bad consequences of unfreedom, that is, of government intervention. Take immigration. We hear these days that migrant gangs are killing, terrorizing, and stealing from Americans. Some immigrants without government papers have...

Insurrection of the Mind.

Star Trek Insurrection is not one of the better films in the series, but it seeks to address issues of humanity that sometimes only science fiction can. Immortality, the value of life and human relationships with technology. It is fitting that the film starts with the...

They Know the Truth

Cut from the book. After catching Woodward faking that Lavrov quote, I had to cut all the citations from that book out of mine. But I'll leave this here at least because it's funny: Insider journalist Bob Woodward wrote in 2024 that the administration recognized...

Bob Woodward Badly Misquotes Russian FM Lavrov

I emailed Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward: Dear Bob, It appears that you have misquoted FM Lavrov on page 88 of your new book. Lavrov’s full quote was: “Those who mechanically repeat the points made in Bucharest and insist that ‘third countries’ have no right to...

NZ Ocean Floor Survey Naval Vessel Runs Aground Off Samoa

That New Zealand naval ship that ran aground, foundered, caught fire and capsized with the DEI Captain commanding was an ocean survey and mapping ship. HMNZS Manawanui was a dive and hydrographic vessel of the Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN). It was one of five vessels...