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Worth the Price? Joe Biden and the Launch of the Iraq War

by Scott Horton | Feb 17, 2020 | Blog

https://worththeprice.org/ Features our friends Stephen Zunes, Matthew Hoh, Lawrence Wilkerson, Mark Weisbrot, https://youtu.be/vhcuei8_UJM

News Roundup 2/14/20

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 14, 2020 | News Roundup

US News Space Force General Jay Raymond is currently the only soldier in the new branch. Over the next year, 6,000 members of the Air Force will transfer to the Space Force. In 2021, 100 members of the Army will transfer. The Space Force currently has 16,000 people...

Foreign Aid Just Empowers Corrupt Regimes. End It.

by José Niño | Feb 13, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy

The Senate’s vote to acquit Donald Trump on both articles of impeachment this month brought a much-needed end to the tiring impeachment saga America has been subject to in the last few months. The impeachment controversy arose when President Donald Trump initially...

Support Grows for West Virginia Bill to Block Unconstitutional National Guard Deployments

by Michael Maharrey | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Justice

CHARLESTON, W. Va. (Feb. 10, 2020) – There was political drama in West Virginia last week as the sponsor of a bill that would prohibit unconstitutional foreign combat deployments of the state’s national guard troops narrowly failed in a parliamentary move to get it...

2/7/20 Danny Sjursen on Middle East Politics and the Missing Antiwar Left

by Scott Horton | Feb 11, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show

Scott talks to Danny Sjursen about the many catastrophic failures of American foreign policy, and most recently the proposed plan to carve out an autonomous Sunni region in western Iraq, which the U.S. could use to help control the Middle East and prevent Iranian...

Democrats Ignore Trump’s Real Violations

by Ron Paul | Feb 11, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics

This week the latest Democratic Party attempt to remove President Trump from office – impeachment over Trump allegedly holding up an arms deal to Ukraine – flopped. Just like “Russiagate” and the Mueller investigation, and a number of other attempts to overturn the...

News Roundup 2/11/20

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 11, 2020 | News Roundup

US News A Louisiana prosecutor issued fake subpoenas to force people to testify in trials. The prosecutor is now being sued but claims he has immunity. [Link] From May to September of 2019 The US conducted 93 war games with 29 countries. Russia was the focus of many...

Is ISIS Exploiting Trump’s Iran Policy?

by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 10, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest

On FPF #453, I discuss Trump's firing of impeachment witnesses, insider attacks in Afghanistan, and Iraq. Trump fired EU Ambassador Sondland and NSC Ukraine expert Vinland. Both men testified in the House impeachment hearing providing Democrats with great soundbites...

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A Morality of Anger and Guilt

Splendid Memorial Day speech by Matthew Hoh: The idea of my talk was originally going to be that of the unending costs of war, and I found that to be very daunting for a number of reasons. One, I just didn't know where to begin, what to talk about, what facet of the...

No Worse Woke Censors Than Zionists

"DEI Barbie" Briahna Joy Gray fired for rolling her eyes over Israeli Hasbara on her own show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDYYe-4ZojI

David Boaz (1953-2024)

With great sadness I note the passing of David Boaz today, June 7, 2024, at age 70. He had been ill for some time. He was a good man and a giant of the libertarian movement. Very much because of David's influence and example, libertarian organizations not only...

Provoked Book Update

As many of you know, I'm working on a book called Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine. You may also know that it's way overlong and way overdue. Well, the news is that I got it up to 1,400 pages, and more than...

Wonderful Israeli Best Friends and Most Moral Army in World History™ Torture, Murder Palestinians with Electro-shock, Sodomy

New York Times: Eight former detainees, all of whom the military has confirmed were held at the site and who spoke on the record, variously said they had been punched, kicked and beaten with batons, rifle butts and a hand-held metal detector while in custody. One said...

Nothing New in Military Technology Disasters

Readers think I am highly critical of Western military foibles and bad decisions (I am) but history is replete with mismanagement and poor planning planet-wide in military technology. Like the Indian nuclear submarine disaster from leaving a hatch open on the INS...