US News A federal judge rules its legal for Americans to record police secretly. [Link] Curt Mills explains the war in the White House over Iran policy. [Link] Facebook sharply increased the amount of its content censored in Vietnam. The censorship was done in...
Libya
Libya’s Strongman
by Kyle Anzalone | May 22, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #352, I discuss the military power of the Libyan Field Marshal Haftar. Haftar came to power in the vacuum left by Obama's war in Libya and now controls most of Libya. The strongman has acquired a fleet of fighter jets and 10,000s of troops. He has also built up...
News Roundup 5/22/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 22, 2019 | News Roundup
Mexico The US sanctions several Mexicans alleged to be involved in drug trafficking. [Link] India/Pakistan Nine people were killed in a battle between Indian police and separatists in Kashmir. [Link] Thirteen people died in a Pakistani raid on an IS position. [Link]...
News Roundup 5/21/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 21, 2019 | News Roundup
US News New Orleans courts are violating the constitution by holding bail hearing without the defense. [Link] A key House panel rejects the Trump Administration proposal to create the space force. [Link] An armed F-16 crashes into a California building. [Link] A...
News Roundup 5/15/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 15, 2019 | News Roundup
US News In Baltimore, police are viewed as the bad guys with guns. [Link] The Pentagon released a report on the corruption of its contractors. [Link] US Trade with China In response to US tariffs, China increased tariffs from 5%-25% on $60 billion in US goods. Trump...
Bodies and Blood in Libya
by Steven Woskow | May 8, 2019 | Blog
The US and it's allies unleashed this hell on the people of Libya. "Every night we are under air strikes,” says Ali breathlessly. He is a 22-year-old fighter from the coastal town of Zawiyah, and part of the loose military coalition from across western Libya that has...
American Interventionists Hurt the Cause of Freedom in Venezuela
by Ryan McMaken | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
The United States has a long, violent history of intervention in Latin America, although few Americans know about it. Were one to ask the average American, for example, about the US occupation of the Dominican Republic — which lasted for eight years from 1916 to 1924...
News Roundup 5/3/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity explain why the extradition of Julian Assange is an attack on all of us. [Link] Some non-citizen military vets are being deported. [Link] F-35s are grounded 30% of the time because the planes are missing spare...
Blog
The Welfare-State Paradox
"Whether ... a system of social security is a good or a bad policy is essentially a political problem. One may try to justify it by declaring that the wage earners lack the insight and the moral strength to provide spontaneously for their own future. But then it is...
The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse
Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...
The Steady Rise in Living Standards
"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...
Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe
The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...
The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
Mises on Wages under Capitalism
"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...
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