NY Post: A sheriff’s sergeant fired for hiding behind his car during the Parkland school massacre has gotten his job back — along with at least $125,000 in back pay, according to reports. Sgt. Brian Miller was one of four deputies terminated for “neglect of duty”...
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No Evidence That Domestic Violence Is Rising Due To COVID-19
by Wendy McElroy | May 12, 2020 | Featured Articles
A media blitz declares domestic violence (DV) is soaring during COVID-19 because stay-at-home orders have trapped women and children in close proximity to abusive men. Flawed evidence and assumptions underlie this claim but, with the panic of the crisis, it could be...
Ukrainian Police Official Requests List of Jews in Western City of Kolomyya
by Scott Horton | May 12, 2020 | Blog
Seems like just the other day I got in an argument with a guy about whether the U.S. had backed a Nazi street putsch in Kiev in February 2014. Sure looks like it to me. At least Andriy Parubiy isn't the speaker of the Parliament any more.
News Roundup 5/12/20
by Kyle Anzalone | May 12, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Meet the Press issued an apology to Attorney General Barr for deceptively editing an interview of him. [Link] The FDA reports that nearly 200 meat inspectors have tested positive for Covid. [Link] Mexico is requesting the US to turn over all information...
As Coronavirus Spreads In Meat Plants, Nearly 200 USDA Inspectors Test Positive
by Steven Woskow | May 11, 2020 | Blog
Meat inspectors travel to multiple plants to inspect but what if they are carriers of the virus? From Food Dive "A U.S. Agriculture Department spokesperson told Food Dive that 197 field employees in the Food Safety and Inspection Service are absent from work after...
Glynn County District Attorney Jackie Johnson is a Guilty Accessory to Murder
by Scott Horton | May 9, 2020 | Blog
The ex-cop whose son murdered that black jogger? The cops were ready to arrest them both for murder right there on the spot, but then the perp's "blue privilege" kicked in: The police at the scene went to her, saying they were ready to arrest both of them. These were...
News Roundup 5/6/20
by Kyle Anzalone | May 6, 2020 | News Roundup
US News A Dallas salon owner was sentenced to seven days in jail and a $7,000 fine for operating her salon during a lockdown. She was given the offer to apologize rather than go to jail but explained that she was staying open because her employees were going hungry....
Is Trump’s Afghan “Peace Agreement” Working?
by Kyle Anzalone | May 6, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #488, I discuss the US-Taliban "peace agreement." The agreement has brought a reduction in violence between the US and the Taliban. Overall the violence between the Taliban and US-supported Afghan government rages. In the first three months of the year, Taliban...
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Orwell Updated
Conformity is diversity. Exclusion is inclusion. Toleration is oppression.
Richard Cobden on the Link between Free Trade and Peace
I see in the Free-trade principle that which shall act on the moral world as the principle of gravitation in the universe,—drawing men together, thrusting aside the antagonism of race, and creed, and language, and uniting us in the bonds of eternal peace. I have...
RIP Shinzo Abe
Former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was assassinated yesterday, in a country with a long history of nonviolence post-World War II, which Abe himself attempted assiduously to reverse. Hegemonic Spread and Lethal Creep: The Case of Japan
Should the U.S. Be Sending Weapons to Ukraine? Scott Horton vs. Cathy Young at the Soho Forum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OH5grR7deQ
The Antiwar Comic: It Never Ends
And it only cost us millions of wasted tax dollars! More comics at the Webcomic Factory!
New Book, Hotter Than the Sun, Out Now!
Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons Scott Horton interviews Daniel Ellsberg, Seymour Hersh, Gar Alperovitz, Hans Kristensen, Joe Cirincione and more. This book contains interviews conducted over more than a decade with experts of all descriptions —...
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