Over the last few days, the United States and Iran came dangerously close to going to war. Thankfully, both sides backed down. The event which precipitated this latest crisis was the decision by the Trump Administration to unilaterally and illegally assassinate...
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Close Enough For Government Work
by Scott Horton | Jan 10, 2020 | Blog
Iran admits they accidentally shot down the airliner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKnpuBecwpU
Conservatives Are Increasingly Wrong about Free Markets
by William Anderson | Jan 10, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
Capitalism creates poverty. Capitalism has stolen our future. Capitalism ravages the planet. Capitalism oppresses us. Capitalism needs to be controlled by government or it will throw most of us into poverty and misery and enrich only the well-placed few. These are not...
Where were all the Constitution’s defenders when the feds raised the smoking age?
by Rob Natelson | Jan 10, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
On December 20, President Trump signed legislation purporting to impose a single national age of 21 for selling tobacco products. Obviously, the measure reduces the freedom of millions of Americans who are legally adults in almost every other respect—including...
Come Home, America: Stop Policing the Globe and Put an End to Wars-Without-End
by John Whitehead | Jan 10, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
“Let us resolve that never again will we send the precious young blood of this country to die trying to prop up a corrupt military dictatorship abroad. This is also the time to turn away from excessive preoccupation overseas to the rebuilding of our own nation....
News Roundup 1/10/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 10, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Atlanta disbands its police department’s drug unit. The police will try to focus on solving violent crimes. [Link] The House passes a War Powers Resolution aimed at preventing Trump from starting a war with Iran. The resolution is concurrent and cannot be...
Is Trump Deescalating the War with Iran?
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 10, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #441, I cover the assassination of Soleimani and the subsequent Iranian missile attack. The Iranian missile attack did not kill anyone, and that appears to have been the Iranian intention. The symbolic response to Trump's act of war, allowed Trump to back away...
Two Sets of 100 yr Periods in American History — Each Guided by Completely Opposite Ideas
by Chris Rossini | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism
The great Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises wrote: "History is a struggle between two principles, the peaceful principle, which advances the development of trade, and the militarist-imperialist principle, which interprets human society not as a friendly division of...
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Nominally Free
In this Washington Post piece about their Orwellian task master Jeff Bezos and Amazon's growing dominance over whathaveyou, the reporter refers offhand to America as a "nominally free" society. Sounds right.
Ban on Assault Weapon Sales Dies in Virginia Senate Committee
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Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War
https://worththeprice.org/ Features our friends Stephen Zunes, Matthew Hoh, Lawrence Wilkerson, Mark Weisbrot, https://youtu.be/vhcuei8_UJM
Poison Idea – Religion and Politics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obz1m15W99U
USA: Israel’s Big Stupid Donkey
“If it is possible to recruit the most powerful country in the world onto our side, why should we fight alone?” PM Netanyahu asked. “If I can harness a world power against Iran — which aims to annihilate us — why not?”
Cops Kill Lady
“Window Into Hell”: Mother of Five Dies After Four Days in Solitary Confinement She was not charged with any crime. Just murdered. But don't worry about the state of the country needing your attention or anything. This particular individual in jail is of no direct...
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