Daniel Larison on Mike Pompeo and David Friedman's WSJ piece justifying "recognizing" Israel's annexation of the Golan Heights.
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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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by Will Grigg | Apr 6, 2019 |
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Free Trade Facts Don’t Matter to Democrats or Republicans
Both parties tend to ignore facts about the benefits of free trade because both parties oppose free trade.
The Government Had to Bankrupt Spirit Airlines to Save It
The US government is very good at destroying things on the pretense that its actions are required to save the things destroyed.
Paul Krugman: The Dollar Can’t Collapse! Unless…
The scenarios under which Krugman says the dollar could collapse are not hypothetical. They are already here.
Taking It for Granted
"Capitalism, says Marx, unthinkingly repeating the fables of the eulogists of the Middle Ages, has an inevitable tendency to impoverish the workers more and more. The truth is that capitalism has poured a horn of plenty upon the masses of wage earners who frequently...
Taliban is Still on the Western Dole
However, the Taliban is the group handing out NGO licenses in Afghanistan. If a Taliban sympathizer asks for an NGO license, they get it. So, many of these groups send money directly to the Taliban or to support the families of suicide bombers. Legend also said...
The Miracle of Mass Production
"The fact that my fellow man wants to acquire shoes as I do, does not make it harder for me to get shoes, but easier." —Ludwig von Mises, Human Action
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