Conn Hallinan joins the show to explain the political situation in Turkey, where President Recep Erdogan has been consolidating power away from the parliament and into a strong executive. The problem, explains Hallinan, is that a groundswell of Kurdish voters has...
Foreign policy
4/26/19 Stephen Zunes on the Other Reason Biden Shouldn’t Be President
Stephen Zunes talks about democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden's shameful record on foreign policy—the real reason he shouldn't be president. In the senate, Biden was a champion of deposing Saddam Hussein all along, explains Zunes, and his claims of merely...
4/26/19 David Stockman on the Mood in ‘Never-Trumpville’
David Stockman offers his take on the end of the Russia investigation. He points out that the Mueller report categorically denies just about every allegation made by President Trump's opponents, including the surveillance of his campaign based on false information...
In A Rothbardian Society, The Legislators Are: Private Property Owners
I stupidly left out important verbiage from this article. I said that consumers are the legislators in a Rothbardian society (rights protection firms the executive, judgement firms the judicial). What I meant is that private property owners are the legislators. When...
Our Anti-Imperialist Heritage
Murray N. Rothbard on War These edited extracts, from an interview in the February 1973 issue of Reason magazine, first ran in the June 1999 issue of The Rothbard-Rockwell Report, published by the Center for Libertarian Studies. The introduction is taken from “Murray...
News Roundup 4/25/19
Wikileaks Daniel Ellsberg on the importance of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning. [Link] Caitlin Johnstone debunks the myth that Julian Assange is an agent of Russia. [Link] Ryan McManken explains why it doesn’t matter if Assange is a ‘journalist’ or not....
4/19/19 Matt Taibbi on This Generation’s ‘WMD’
Scott talks to Matt Taibbi about his new book, Hate Inc, written in the aftermath of the media malfeasence around Russiagate. But the media's problems go much deeper, explains Taibbi. Mainstream discussion used to take place in a tightly controlled middle ground...
Iran & Chelsea Manning’s Bail guest Will Porter
Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss his recent articles published at RT. The appointment of a new IRGC leader - who is considered a hardliner - is a sign that Iran is reacting to the US withdrawing waivers for oil sanctions. Will and Kyle give an analysis of the...
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