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Israel Is Sending Robots With Machine Guns to the Gaza Border
by Scott Horton | Oct 5, 2022 | Blog
Oh, now it's a "border," huh? The “world’s largest open-air prison” gets a new set of guards.
Tensions Boil Over as IDF Strikes Gaza & Rockets Land in Southern Israel
by Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter | Apr 20, 2022 | News Roundup
Clashes have erupted between Palestinian militants in Gaza and the Israel Defense Forces, with the two trading fire on Thursday as tensions reached levels not seen since a major outbreak of violence last year.
News Roundup 12/29/21
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 29, 2021 | News Roundup
US News Biden says he will implement a ban on unvaccinated Americans from accessing domestic air travel if medical experts approve the plan. [Link] The LAPD releases the footage of the killing of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana-Peralta. Orellana-Peralta was killed when...
The Truth About Israel & Palestine, 1896-Present. Sheldon Richman & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Jul 14, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/HV9nN-nN4AA ... interventionism is not only immoral and aggressive; it doesn’t work. We must regain liberty at home, end all interventions in other countries, and return to the historic, forgotten “foreign policy” of serving as an example and a...
More Interviews of Me
by Scott Horton | May 20, 2021 | Blog
Take Human Action Bash 2021 - LP Mises Caucus event Scott Horton on the LP, Gaza and Vaccine Passports - Lions of Liberty - starts about 20 minutes in The Continuing Israel/Palestine Conflict w/ Scott Horton - Pete Quinones Afghanistan: graveyard of empires, pundits...
News Roundup 5/12/21
by Kyle Anzalone | May 12, 2021 | News Roundup
Afghanistan Pakistan rules out allowing the US to reposition forces from Afghanistan in Pakistan. [Link] CENTCOM reports that withdrawal from Afghanistan is 6-12% complete. [Link] Israel Israel vows escalation in Gaza. So far 35 people in Gaza and five in Israel have...
Lockheed Could Be the Big Winner in the Israel-UAE Agreement
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 21, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss how Lockheed could cash in on the recent deal between Israel and the UAE. Trump administration officials have suggested that after the two countries normalize relations, the US could allow the UAE to buy F-35 fighter jets. While...
Palestinians Cancel Soccer Final After Israel Denies Gaza Team Travel
by Scott Horton | Sep 26, 2019 | Blog
Reuters: The Palestinian national soccer club championship was called off on Wednesday after Israel denied travel permits to Gaza players who had hoped to face off with their opponents in the occupied West Bank. Israel refused to let players from Gaza’s Khadamat Rafah...
Correction: Islamic State Population Size
by Scott Horton | Aug 17, 2019 | Blog
Thanks to John in the Reddit room for the heads up. I said on Tom Woods' show that the Islamic State, which controlled eastern Syria and western Iraq from June 2014-December 2017, was the size and population of Great Britain, but that's wrong. It was the size of the...
68% Percent of Americans Would Reject Trump’s Mideast ‘Deal of the Century’
by Scott Horton | Jul 30, 2019 | Blog
Grant F. Smith: To gauge U.S. public opinion about the “Peace to Prosperity” plan, IRmep put a national sample of American adults in the shoes of Palestinian refugees, notably the 750,000 forcibly expelled during Israel’s creation and their descendants living in Gaza,...
War Crimes or Propaganda?
by HypocriteTwins | Jul 6, 2019 | Blog
Some say Israel brutally massacres Palestinians in Gaza using chemical weapons and indiscriminately targeting civilians. Others argue that Palestinian terrorist organizations are purposefully using civilians as human shields, in a practice that abuses their civilian...
Why’d the US Gaza Coup War Fail?
by HypocriteTwins | Jun 15, 2019 | Blog
Hamas is a thorn in the side of Israel. To get rid of their control over the Gaza Strip, America sponsored a coup, arming a different Palestinian faction. But Hamas is still in control of the Gaza Strip. How did the plan go awry? Get the truth in our brand new...
Human Rights Group B’Tselem Creates Interactive Map of 52 Year Israeli Settlement Growth
by Steven Woskow | Jun 5, 2019 | Blog
"This visualization of the occupation shows how a combination of measures – annexation; establishment of settlements; declaration of 'state land,' firing zones, nature reserves and national parks; construction of the Separation Barrier; division of the West Bank into...
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My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
War and Delusion: A Critical Examination
In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...
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