https://youtu.be/wNLqZZApV0A For impressive evidence of Western participation in the early phase of Soviet economic growth, see Antony C. Sutton's Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development, 19171930 (Stanford, Calif., 1968), which argues that "Soviet...
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‘What Is a Woman?’ – Six Things Conservatives Need to Know
by Keith Knight | Jun 5, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/GKZvdtiitLg “Biological sex [is] binary. It’s been binary for like a hundred million years, longer than that. Temperament is not binary, temperament or personality… people who talk about the diversity in gender are actually talking about diversity in...
TGIF: Pursue Your Happiness and Forget the Rest
by Sheldon Richman | Dec 31, 2021 | Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
How about we do something novel in the new year? Let's stop worrying about the stuff most politicians, pundits, and activists want us to worry about and instead think about ourselves, our families, our friends, and whatever communities we choose to be part of. Let's...
The Human Under the Numbers
by Kym Robinson | Dec 30, 2021 | Featured Articles
The story of Anne Frank is tragic. If not for the words that she wrote in her diary, she would be a digit of history. Her diary is relatable, and the thoughts that collected inside her being during a horrible time in history gives the reader an idea of who she was....
Salafis Throwing Bombs: How American and British Planners Partnered With Al-Qaeda Affiliated Groups At the Start of the Syrian Civil War
by William Van Wagenen | Dec 28, 2021 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Introduction In the mainstream view, al-Qaeda did not play a role in the Syria conflict until Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi dispatched his deputy, Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, to Syria in August 2011 to establish a wing of the group there, called...
Is Virtue Signaling Vicious?
by Laurie Calhoun | Dec 27, 2021 | Featured Articles
Virtue signaling—the practice of highlighting what one takes to be one’s own moral superiority, often by loudly denouncing the character and comportment, including the speech, of other people—has become a dominant mode of rhetoric throughout social media and network...
Under Surveillance w/Brian LaFleur
by Tommy Salmons | Aug 16, 2021 | Year Zero
Brian is a good friend of mine I’d wanted to have on the show for quite a while. He and I have always had a way of interacting with each other about topics most ideologically opposed people can’t discuss. Last year he found himself under surveillance and we decided to...
MUST KNOW LOGICAL FALLACIES. Sal the Agorist, Pete Quinones, & Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Mar 1, 2021 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/Z4IC8Xu1328 Arguing for a government monopoly on security is akin to arguing that the New York Times should be the only newspaper, by law. - Michael Malice Sal the Agorist: https://www.saltheagorist.com/ Pete Quinones:...
10 Must Know Logical Fallacies. James Corbett and Keith Knight
by Keith Knight | Dec 7, 2020 | Don't Tread on Anyone
https://youtu.be/Xv70jBOmSkE ... if a man cannot affirm a proposition without employing its negation, he is not only caught in an inextricable self-contradiction; he is conceding to the negation the status of an axiom.... A self-evident axiom ... will be a proposition...
Florida ER Doctor Loses Custody of Daughter Due to Coronavirus
by Scott Horton | Apr 11, 2020 | Blog
What the hell is this, England? “I was just shocked that the judge would take this stance without talking to medical experts and knowing the facts and take it so lightly, take my child from me and not think of the effect on her, her mental and psychological...
NZ Shooter’s War on the Grey Zone guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 22, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss the New Zealand shooter's motive. The shooter wanted a war on the 'Grey Zone' in an attempt to try to drive cultures further apart. He was willing to commit disgusting acts of violence to achieve those ends. Will compares the...
You Know Who I Don’t Like? John Bolton.
by Scott Horton | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog
He is a bad person. Former SK unification minister Chong Se-hyun suggests that summit was derailed by last minute attendance of Bolton, who added demands for NK to also report chemical/biological weapons, in response to which NKs increased their demand for sanctions...
Foreign Policy Focus #144 – The War on Us
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 19, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #144, I discuss the war's cost on Americans. 1,000s of Americans have been killed overseas. Many veterans suffer from lasting physical, psychological, and moral injuries from the war. The war has cost every American freedom. The cultural decay created by the...
The Simple Solution To Political Violence
by Zack Sorenson | Aug 12, 2017 | Blog
What do you do when someone at a political rally punches you in the face? You turn the other cheek. People who get into street fights already brag about taking hits. Of course they also love giving them. How about being proud of taking hits while exercising the...
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Military Conscription is Slavery: Woodrow Wilson Edition
By the guidelines set down by the Selective Service Act, all males aged 21 to 30 were required to register to potentially be selected for military service. At the request of the War Department, Congress amended the law in August 1918 to expand the age range to include...
The Capitalist Competition Myth
Capitalism involves far more cooperation than competition—think of the number of mutually beneficial transactions you’ve had today compared to the number of competitions you’ve been in today - Chris Freiman, author of Why It's OK to Ignore Politics Democratic...
Blame Mexico? Blame Neocons! Blame Big Pharma! Blame the USA!
ABC News: If fentanyl is so deadly, why do drug dealers use it to lace illicit drugs? I have an alternative explanation. America has been fighting endless wars almost the entire century. Many have come home from these never-ending wars with injuries and pains. Doctors...
My Testimony Before the Maine State Senate
In support of Ld 1054, Defend the Guard legislation: Thank you all so much for the opportunity to testify before your committee today. Today is the 20th anniversary of the beginning of Iraq War II. The consensus now is that we should not have done it. Iraq was not...
These Iraq War Supporters Are Still in Congress
On March 19, 2003 the United States began its military invasion of Iraq. The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq passed Congress in October 2002, with 296 congressmen and 77 senators voting in favor of giving President George W. Bush carte blanche...
Laci Green is Wrong: Democratic Competition vs. Free Market Competition
In environments where there's a lot of competition, people tend to lie out their ass and you can apply this to any competitive situation. Take capitalism. As industrialization took full effect, the Federal Government had to interfere because there was so much false...
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