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Pompeo’s Golan Heights Nonsense

by Scott Horton | May 16, 2019 | Blog

Daniel Larison on Mike Pompeo and David Friedman's WSJ piece justifying "recognizing" Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights.

The Legal Battles of Assange & Manning

by Kyle Anzalone | May 13, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #348, I update the persecution of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning. The UK sentenced Assange to a 50-week sentence for violating bail. The US is seeking his extradition on charges related to the Manning Leaks. Now Sweden is also seeking his extradition. ...

French activists stop Saudi arms shipment bound for Yemen

by Steven Woskow | May 11, 2019 | Blog

The Bahri-Yanbu, a Saudi Arabian cargo ship was scheduled to pick up a load of weapons bound for Yemen at a northern French port. The ship departed France without the weapons a day after a rights group tried to block the cargo on humanitarian grounds. French rights...

How Pro-Israel advocacy groups write public policy word for word

by Steven Woskow | May 4, 2019 | Blog

Copy, Paste Legislate a collaboration between USA Today, The Arizona Republic and The Center for Public Integrity The front lines in a bitter debate between Israel’s defenders and critics lie in an unexpected place: state capitals across America. Palestinian...

Israel’s UN Ambassador Waves a Bible at the Security Council

by Scott Horton | May 3, 2019 | Blog

You see, there is no way for the Israelis to justify stealing property from Palestinian human beings with natural rights without being forced to retreat to mysticism and pretended super-natural rights that supersede them. But even if that wasn't absolutely ridiculous,...

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Movement

by Norman Singleton | May 2, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics

Since today is Holocaust Remembrance Day, it is fitting to reflect on the legacy of Sophie Scholl, leader of the White Rose movement. The White Rose movement was a group of German students who distributed pamphlets calling for active, albeit peaceful, resistance to...

Marine Held for NK Embassy Break-In

by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 26, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #341, I discuss a former Marine being held on an extradition request from Spain for stealing electronics from the North Korean embassy in Madrid. The break-in occurred in the days leading up to Trump's second summit with Kim Jong-un. While few details of the...

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The US Paper War Tiger is Way Behind

The Ukraine and Russian forces have been building drones for less than three thousand dollars and the "Affordable Mass" efforts in the US had an original floor price of three hundred thousand dollars because that is the way the American "defense" acquisition system...

Caution: Hard Times Ahead

Comfort is a thief. Life is hard. Do more and suck less. Class dismissed.

Yet Another US Navy Surface Ship Fiasco

As I have mentioned, the US Navy can't catch a break from the cavalcade of calamities that is Navy shipbuilding for two generations. First they removed the 155mm gun when it was disclosed it was 800 thousand dollars a round Advanced Gun System (AGS) then it took five...

We: Records 1-5

Reading We, a Russian dystopian novel.

The US Navy Does the Right Thing: At Last

This is the first US Navy decision I can get behind in years. The US Navy just cancelled its Constellation class frigate program because it is absolutely incapable of building hulls and ships that work. They have not launched a successful surface ship since 1991 with...

If Wishes Were Buses

Like a major air disaster that leaves blackened wreckage scattered far and wide, Zohran Mamdani’s New York collision with reality hurtles ahead. The mayor-elect has once again put on display a key reason that catastrophe is inevitable. It is worse than just...