The death count by the Philippine police in the name of President Rodrigo Duterte’s war on drugs makes the United States’ numbers seem like a grain of rice. Government officials claim that over 5,000 drug dealers, which they claim all fought police, have been killed,...
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6/28/19 Benjamin Ladraa on His Walk to Palestine
by Scott Horton | Jun 29, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Benjamin Ladraa tells his story of walking from Sweden to Palestine, a journey of over 3,000 miles, to raise awareness for the conditions of the Palestinian living under Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank. He describes children as young as 12 being arrested...
News Roundup 6/26/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 26, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Lockheed is failing to deliver usable parts for the F-35. [Link] Venezuela Venezuelan migrants are joining Marxists militants in Colombia. [Link] Asia Trump sent Kim Jong-un a positive letter. [Link] Myanmar cuts internet in the Rakhine state. [Link] Middle...
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...
5/24/19 Phyllis Bennis on the Great March of Return
by Scott Horton | May 24, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Phyllis Bennis about the Palestinians' Great March of Return, a protest against the unjust removal of Palestinians from their own land by the Israeli government. A huge problem, explains Bennis in a recent article, is the Israeli military's policy to...
5/10/19 Steven Woskow on the Battle over BDS
by Scott Horton | May 14, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Steven Woskow about recent anti-BDS legislation at both the state and federal level. The issue has been going back and forth in the courts because on the one hand, a boycott is just an expression of personal first amendment freedoms, but on the other,...
US-Led Bombing Campaign in Syria Killed 1,600 Civilians and Left Raqqa ‘Most Destroyed City in Modern Times’: Study
by Steven Woskow | Apr 28, 2019 | Blog
Julia Conley at Common Dreams reviews the results from a study conducted by Amnesty International and Airwars. The report—"Rhetoric vs. Reality: How the 'Most Precise Air Campaign in History' Left Raqqa the Most Destroyed City in Modern Times"—is detailed on...
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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Pearl Harbor: Not What You May Think it Was
I have always had my doubts but Jane Shaw brings the receipts. RedDR needed the war because his communist takeover of America was failing bigly and a war empowered government like nothing else. A decade ago I began to research the history of the Pearl Harbor attack....
Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 2
"It might be argued that only the 'rich' can afford to be capitalists, i.e., those who have a greater amount of money stock. This argument has superficial plausibility, since ... for any given individual and a given time-preference schedule, a greater money stock will...
Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 1
"[A]ny man can be a capitalist if only he wants to be. He can derive his funds solely from the fruits of previous capitalist investment or from past 'hoarded' cash balances or solely from his income as a laborer or a landowner. He can, of course, derive his funds from...
Billion Dollar Disasters Continue to Steam Ahead
Word. The Zumwalt-class destroyer will never be the battleship of the twenty-first century. It’s the U.S. Navy’s version of the Russian Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier. Yet another multi-billion dollar failure. Yet, the instant that the Zumwalt-class appears to...
Martial Law in South Korea & Ukraine’s No-Fly Zone: New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Are we witnessing the dawn of a new geopolitical crisis in Asia? As South Korea's President Yoon Suk-yeol declares martial law over perceived threats from the North, the region teeters on the edge of upheaval. This episode of the Kyle Angelo show dives into the...
Crash Chronicles: Fat Amy Continues the Cringe
One billion dollars for twisted metal for ten F35 crashes, soon you're talking real money. The incident rate with respect the US Air Force (USAF) has continued to decline since the 1950s as safety practices have increased and technology has matured. During the 1950s,...
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