Sheldon Richman talks about the latest with the migrant caravan and President Trump's reaction to it. He points out how odd it is for Trump supporters to justify all the bad things he does by saying "Obama did it too". Wouldn't that mean they should either love Obama...
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News Roundup 10/5/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 5, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump is expected to sign the FAA Reauthorization bill on Friday. [Link] In a letter to Senator Kaine, the Pentagon claims to have the authority to conduct near limitless military actions. [Link] The US pulls out of international agreements to avoid being subject to...
10/3/18 Daniel Lazare on America’s Drug War
by Scott Horton | Oct 3, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Daniel Lazare joins Scott to talk about his recent article in for the American Conservative Magazine about the war on drugs. He explains many of the practical reasons to end the war, demonstrated by America's own history. For instance, alcohol prohibition tended to...
New Jersey Moves Toward Marijuana Legalization
by Patrick McKnight | Sep 12, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
The state of New Jersey could soon become the tenth state to legalize marijuana for recreational use, further nullifying federal cannabis prohibition in effect. New Jersey cannabis reform advocates began 2018 with high hopes. Newly elected Governor Murphy pledged to...
Legalize Drugs — All Drugs
by Jacob Hornberger | Aug 30, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
In 1972, Newsweek published what must have been considered by many readers to be a shocking commentary on the drug war by libertarian Nobel Prize–winning economist Milton Friedman. Entitled “Prohibition and Drugs,” Friedman’s article called for the legalization of...
Brian Saady on the Drug War, Bad Forensic Evidence, and the “School to Prison Pipeline” Ep. 91
by Patrick Macfarlane | Aug 29, 2018 | Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Vital Dissent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUisEIAEuM Brian Saady is a freelance journalist and author of four books, including a three-book series, entitled “Rackets,” which discusses the legalization of drugs, gambling, and prostitution, respectively. His writing has appeared...
The Law of Unintended Consequences Strikes Again
by Jeffrey A. Singer | Aug 27, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
Late last week UPI news ran a report by E.J. Mundell with the headline, “Government efforts to curb opioid prescriptions might have backfired.” It cites two separate studies published online in JAMA Surgery on August 22 that examined two different restrictive opioid...
FPF #234 – Trump’s Afghan War guest Scott Horton
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 17, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
Scott Horton returns to FPF to discuss the first year of Trump's policy for the Afghan War. Scott explains how the drug war in Afghanistan has been a failure. He looks at the US goal of securing the capital Kabul and how the additional US troops have been unable to...
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Decoding Trump
We discuss Trump’s ideology (or lack thereof) and watch the 2nd presidential debate of 1992.
[GUEST] Matt Wolfson: Israeli Connection to Maduro Kidnapping/ Will Zionists Get Their War With Iran?
Missed signals are costly; misplaced confidence is worse. We open by unpacking the concrete indicators that war planners watch—carrier deployments, airspace changes, and last‑minute strike deliberations—and what they tell us about the real likelihood of a U.S. hit on...
Breathe the waves of peace
He stood composed, the wind pushed him. The trees waved and leaned above and around. Clouds considered rain, though retained a deep grey. Birds, breeze and his own breathing a convalescence of harmony. He was alone. Standing as if on a horse, the ancient position...
The Kyle Anzalone Show [GUEST] Nick Cleveland-Stout on Making Big Money on War: Polymarket and Think Tanks
What happens when war becomes a market and foreign policy turns into an odds board? We dive into the uneasy world of prediction platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi, where traders place bets on battlefield maps, covert raids, and even the exact words politicians will...
Maps Don’t Lie
The Greenland drama is amusing but reality about the players is rather sobering. A casual look at Russia's habitual military presence in the Arctic for generations dispels any illusion. Europe is presently making lots of noise in a scheduled exercise in Greenland to...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: From ICE To “I Seized Your Oil”
A young woman lies dead on a Minneapolis street, an ICE officer pulled the trigger, and the official story leans on power instead of necessity. We open with what the footage actually shows, why the shot trajectory matters, and how a federal investigation shifts...
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