Judge grants government proceeds from Edward Snowden’s book Snowden, who leaked details of surveillance programs, is charged with espionage but has remained exiled in Russia since 2013. A federal judge ruled that the government is entitled to any money he makes from...
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What Trump Should Be Impeached For
by Steven Woskow | Nov 13, 2019 | Blog
From CNN This footage showing the unloading of a variety of US-made arms -- which was filmed illicitly at the offloading site, then obtained and verified by CNN -- is itself contentious. Multiple witnesses told CNN that Yemeni authorities, backed by the Saudi-led...
Washed-Up Russiagate Hack Isikoff Smashed Even By the Post Over His Latest Melted Scoop
by Scott Horton | Jul 10, 2019 | Blog
Not that the liberals have learned a damn thing after getting burned for the last three years, but, via Bernard, even the Washington Post wasn't going for Michael "Wrote a Book Based on the Steele Dossier" Isikoff's latest claim, that the supposed connection between...
‘Great American Fraud’ David Petraeus Passed Over for APNSA Not For Losing Two Wars, Leaking to Hooker, But For Opposing Torture
by Scott Horton | Jun 24, 2019 | Blog
What a world.
Swedish Court Rules Not to Extradite Assange for Rape Probe
by Scott Horton | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog
AP: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be extradited to Sweden for a revived rape investigation, but should still be questioned in the case while he is imprisoned in Britain, a Swedish court ruled Monday. The ruling by the Uppsala District Court doesn’t mean...
18 ways Julian Assange changed the world (by Lee Camp)
by Steven Woskow | Jun 3, 2019 | Blog
Comedian Lee Camp reminds us that for all the evil Wikileaks exposed the only one in jail is the person that exposed it - Julian Assange. Nearly every government on our third rock from the sun despises the man for bringing transparency to the process of ruling the...
Six Years Later, Intercept Starts Reporting Snowden Docs Again
by Scott Horton | Jun 2, 2019 | Blog
I never understood why Greenwald chose to let the leak happen this way, dragged out over so long that it never had any real affect. But anyway, here now finally is some more shit about Israel using the NSA to kill people.

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. ...
Mueller Report And Russia
by Zack Sorenson | Apr 18, 2019 | Blog
Just listening now to AG Barr. He says Wikileaks got the DNC hacks from Russia via I guess Guccifer 2.0 (btw, Guccifer the first is Romanian, so it's pronounced like "Goochee" like the handbag - "Goocheefer" - funny hacker's name). That's not the Podesta emails, I...
Tulsi Gabbard: Great on Assange and Wikileaks
by Scott Horton | Apr 12, 2019 | Blog
Assange Arrest: The message is clear. To journalists and all Americans, if you try to take away our power, you will pay a high price. pic.twitter.com/tEgVt6t6Tm— Tulsi Gabbard (@TulsiGabbard) April 12, 2019

Assange Arrested
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 12, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #335, I discuss the arrest of Julian Assange. Assange was arrested by the UK after Ecuador's president rescinded his asylum. Assange now faces the potential of being extradited to the US; an indictment against Julian Assange charges him with crimes related to...
Chelsea Manning is Being Held in Solitary Confinement
by Scott Horton | Mar 25, 2019 | Blog
On a contempt of court charge for refusing to testify to the federal grand jury currently permanently threatening American press freedom in their attempt to railroad Julien Assange and Wikileaks.
Robert Mueller Still Shooting Blanks
by Scott Horton | Jan 25, 2019 | Blog
The Roger Stone indictment: all obstruction, no Russia. The facts, as the indictment presents them, are that Stone emailed with Randy Credico about Assange and Wikileaks, but then denied it, and tried to intimidate Credico to corroborate his claim that Credico was his...
FPF #280 – MbS Tied to Khashoggi Murder
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 5, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #280, I discuss recent CIA leaks that tie Saudi Crown Prince MbS to the Khashoggi murder. The leaks say the CIA assesses with medium to high confidence MbS targeted Khashoggi and probably ordered his death. Another report shows MbS contacted a member of the...
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Democratic Socialist Turns Libertarian! #PorcFest2023
https://youtu.be/G2eSuiXNaaQ Once you accept the principle of government, namely that there must be a judicial monopoly and the power to tax, once you accept this principle incorrectly as a just principle, then any idea or any notion of restraining or limiting...
What War Hawks Would Sound Like If They Weren’t Psychopaths
Modern warfare almost always leads to killing lots of innocents; if governments were held to the same standards as individuals, these killings would be manslaughter, if not murder. This doesn’t mean that war is never justified. But the reasonable hawkish mood is...
The Free Market Serves the Masses, Governments Commit Genocide
Amazon is simply the best store that ever existed, by far, with incredible selection and unearthly convenience. The price: cheap. Facebook, Twitter, and other social media let us socialize with our friends, comfortably meet new people, and explore even the most...
Democracy is Mob Rule by the Ignorant, Embrace Free Markets
https://youtu.be/kQToT7640h4 A democratic vote is like the captain of a ship having to consult every passenger about the best course to chart through an approaching storm. – The School of Life, Philosophy in 40 Ideas (2020), p. 13 Watch on Odysee
The Truth About Discrimination – Walter E. Williams
If people are free to discriminate in favor of, or against, a university or wine, what argument can be made against their having that same right with respect to choosing based on the race or sex characteristics of their mates, employees, tenants, or club members? If...
Black Youth Unemployment Before Democrats Started “Helping”
Although most people are familiar with more recent statistics on black youth unemployment, not many are aware of the black/white statistics for earlier periods. Table 3.2 (below) shows that in 1948, the two were roughly equal. For that year, blacks aged sixteen to...