US News MailChimp blocks anti-vax activists. [Link] San Francisco requires stores to accept cash. [Link] An ATF employee stole and sold thousands of guns that were meant to be destroyed. [Link] NASA says returning to the moon will cost $20 to $30 billion. [Link] The...
Foreign policy
The War Crimes That Don’t Get Punished
by Ron Paul | Jun 17, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) found himself in hot water recently over comments he made in defense of Navy SEAL Edward Gallagher, who faces war crimes charges over his alleged conduct while serving in combat overseas. Gallagher is charged with stabbing a 15 year old ISIS...
The Yemen Connection: An Appendage Of The Failed American Empire
by Phil Gibson | Jun 16, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Here we go again. The American Empire is lying straight to the face of Lady Liberty as it shamelessly slaps her around, coming up with excuse after excuse as to why America needs to invade country x, and starting illegal wars one after the other. If you've been around...
6/14/19 Ron Paul on the Prospects for Liberty Today
by Scott Horton | Jun 15, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ron Paul talks about his storied political career and the prospects for liberty under the Trump presidency. Paul is skeptical of Trump's trade strategies, but holds out hope that his good instincts on certain foreign policy issues will translate into an actual...
Blame Iran
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 14, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #362, I discuss how Iran is being blamed for the attack on two cargo ships in the Gulf of Oman. There are still many actors who may have had the incentive to attack the ships, and no one who is accusing Iran of carrying out the attack has presented any evidence...
The LP’s Latest Foreign Policy Blunder
by Robert Noval | Jun 12, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The Libertarian Party recently released a video on the situation in Venezuela. It is disturbingly mis-focused, embarrassingly ignorant and topped off with self-serving arrogance. While decrying the horrors of "socialism," it displays an apparent ignorance of the...
6/10/19 Doug Bandow on the Threats of War in Europe and Asia
by Scott Horton | Jun 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Doug Bandow about North Korea, China, Russia, and the rest of eastern Europe. Bandow holds out hope for the negotiations with North Korea, but fears the dangerous rhetoric coming from neoconservatives about America's relationship with China. They are...
News Roundup 6/3/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 3, 2019 | News Roundup
US News A new app allows users to record interactions with police by voice command. [Link] An Indiana judge orders a police force to repay $80,000 that was confiscated from a driver. The money was taken without charging the man with a crime. [Link] Andrew Bacevich...
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Sig P320/M17/18: MILSPEC is Overrated
A negligent discharge (ND) in a weapon is when the operator strokes the trigger that results in the firing of the weapon. In my time, the lion's share of these are NDs but actual mechanical (unintentional, accidental or "uncommanded") discharges were rare and then the...
Merrick Garland Should Start His Crusade Against White Supremacists By Re-Opening the 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing Case
Given the recent stories about Merrick Garland’s experience at the helm of the Oklahoma City bombing prosecution and his own comments about prosecuting white supremacists should he be made Attorney General, I have some questions about Garland’s handling of the OKC...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part II)
In Part I, I discussed and critiqued an overview of the new efforts to update the US nuclear arsenal. Here, we'll chat (again) about the Sentinel which is the improved replacement for the aging Minuteman III ICBM and it is already in trouble with the schedule sliding...
Company Men: Former Spies Spill The Tea
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElMSJDkqSYQ&t=3757s Danny Jones recently hosted former CIA officers John Kiriakou and Andrew Bustamente for a wide-ranging discussion that touched on torture, 9/11 & terrorism, domestic politics, foreign policy and what it’s...
Bang for Your Buck: Breaking the Bank to Upgrade the Nuclear Arsenal (Part I)
The United States is on track to spend the equivalent of more than two Manhattan projects per year in one of the most expensive nuclear arms races in history. The US has not done a recorded air breathing nuclear detonation since 1992 (the last US test, Julin-Divider,...
Israel’s Criminal Assault on Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza: ‘Israel killed my grandmother!’
Israel has twice assaulted the Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, leaving behind horrifying death and destruction, and no evidence of a Hamas headquarters.
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