2020 Pete Buttigieg announces he is running for president. Currently, he is mayor of South Bend, Indiana. [Link] Tulsi Gabbard warns that Trump, Israel and Saudi Arabia are pushing the US into an unwise war with Iran. [Link] Assange Trevor Timm breaks down the...
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The Deadly and Destructive Futility of the Drug War
by Jacob Hornberger | Apr 10, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Ever since President Richard Nixon declared war on drugs in the 1970s, advocates of this government program, both conservative and liberal, have argued that the only reason why the U.S. government has failed to win the drug war is that government officials have failed...
Ron and Dan: Guaido Not Arrested in Venezuela – Rubio and Bolton Outraged!
by Scott Horton | Mar 5, 2019 | Blog
The heroic Ron Paul and the great Dan McAdams' Liberty Report for today: (Stay tuned through to the end when they announce a new upcoming conference on the drug wars.) "US-named Venezuela president Juan Guaido defied the Venezuelan government and returned to the...
FPF #315 – The Trial of El Chapo guest Brian Saady
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 25, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #315, Brian Saady returns to the show to discuss the trial of El Chapo. Brian explains who El Chapo is and how he rose to power and gives important details from the trial. He argues that the arrest of El Chapo does nothing to with the drug war. Brian and Kyle...
News Roundup
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 5, 2019 | News Roundup
US News At least 49 people were killed with tasers in the US in 2018. [Link] 1,600 inmates at a federal prison in New York went days without power. [Link] Family Tree DNA gives the FBI access to their database. [Link] Storing nuclear waste is costing taxpayers...
Hurtling Toward Bankruptcy
by Jacob Hornberger | Feb 3, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
The federal government owes people almost $22 trillion. That means that American taxpayers owe people almost $22 trillion. That’s because the federal government has no money of its own. The money it gets comes entirely from American taxpayers. That’s what the IRS is...
War on Drugs, Steel Man
by Brandon Smith | Jan 22, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
The “Steel Man” tactic is the opposite of the “Straw Man” tactic in an argument. The latter is a tactic in which one misrepresents an opponents argument and then attacks that misrepresentation. An example of this in regard to the War on Drugs, following the theme of...
Stan Lee versus the censors
by Norman Singleton | Jan 14, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Stan “The Man” Lee passed away on November 12 of last year at the age of 94. Lee was for years the main writer of Marvel comics, and he created, or helped create, many of the most iconic characters in comics, including Spiderman, the Hulk, Iron Man, X-Men, Thor, and...
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The Kyle Anzalone Show with Daniel McAdams: Axios Says US–Iran Deal Reached as U.S. and IRAN Trade Missile Fire
Congress is hollowing out, and the consequences show up first in foreign policy. Dan McAdams returns to talk with us about what Thomas Massie’s primary loss signals for antiwar oversight, why the Ron Paul era of forcing floor debates through appropriations fights is...
To Baptize the State w/John Weeks
John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
Trump Continues to Test Limits of Iran Ceasefire, How Will Tehran Respond?
A ceasefire is supposed to lower the temperature, not provide new vocabulary for the same war. We unpack reports that the U.S. bombed targets in Iran after a ceasefire and why calling it “self-defense” can still function as a direct escalation. I walk through what...
The Kyle Anzalone Show Trump Has Allowed Netanyahu to Control Negotiations, and it’s hurting Americans
Memorial Day brings out a lot of scripted lines, but we want to talk about the part that gets avoided: what American wars actually cost, who pays, and how often the public is left holding the bill while elites chase ideology, influence, and profit. We start by looking...
Obsession (2025) a review of sorts, or maybe just my thoughts…
It was refreshing to walk into a full cinema for a film that was not attached to a video game or some 20th century property suffering through needless cannibalism. Alas, Blumhouse has managed to produce another hit with a small budget, slim cast of relative unknowns...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Has Lost in Iran, What Will He Do Next?
Trump says he wants “few people killed,” then talks like bombing Iran is a weekly calendar event. That contradiction is where we start, because the public narrative around the Iran war keeps snapping from all-out threats to last-minute “negotiations” as deadlines...
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