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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Confirmed: Elliott Abrams’s Defense of Mass Murder Was Based on Lies
In The Nation, Eric Alterman reminds us of Elliot Abrams's lying on behalf of Salvadoran death squads in the Reagan years. This was 20 years before the W. Bush administration's "El Salvador Option" in Iraq, using the Badr Corps to hunt and kill Sunnis, which...
Reddit Is Cancer
I know there's nowhere else to go, but reasonable people just need to quit Reddit. Recently they have comprehensively banned and quarantined (funny wording) all talk of the coronavirus that does not refer to either 1) government press releases or 2) mainstream media...
Speech; Feb. 29; LP of King County, WA
February 29, 2020 Issaquah Eagles Club 175 Front St N, Issaquah, Washington. More info here.
Cops Kill Man
And get away with it, of course.
Danny Sjursen on the Bro History Podcast
"Tragedy in East Baghdad" Check it out here.
Trump’s Deal Of The Century Does Not Create A Palestinian State
From Haaretz: Fact check, Trump did not actually offer the Palestinians a state The "Deal Of the Century" is nothing more than a declaration of surrender. Surrender what little sovereignty you have and any agency to act on your own behalf. Allow us to herd you into...
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