U.S. Push to Oust Venezuela’s Maduro Marks First Shot in Plan to Reshape Latin America "The Trump administration’s attempt to force out the president of Venezuela marked the opening of a new strategy to exert greater U.S. influence over Latin America, according to...
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Trump’s Venezuela Fiasco
by Ron Paul | Jan 29, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Last week President Trump announced that the United States would no longer recognize Nicholas Maduro as president of Venezuela and would recognize the head of its national assembly, Jose Guaido, as president instead. US thus openly backs regime change. But what has...

News Roundup 12/26/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 26, 2018 | News Roundup
The 800 page Farm Bill Trump recently signed is filled with trash. The bill includes a rule that prevents the House from voting on a bill to end the War in Yemen and several new farm subsidies. [Link] Trump Tweets Patrick Shanahan will be acting Defense Secretary...
FPF #263 – Nukes
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 26, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #263, I discuss the nuclear arms relationship between the US and Russia. NSA John Bolton appears determined to pull the US out of the INF Treaty. Bolton played a role in the withdraw from a nuclear treaty with Russia as a member of the Bush Administration. Vice...
News Roundup 9/26/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 26, 2018 | News Roundup
A Florida police officer has been exposed for planting drugs on innocent people. Several of the officer's victims are having the charges dropped. [Link] The FAA Reauthorization Bill give the government the power to spy on and shoot down privately owned drones. The...
Trump signs 'right-to-try' allowing gravely ill patients to bypass FDA for experimental medicines
by A. Trevor Thrall and Erik Goepner | May 31, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence had been major supporters of the "right-to-try" legislation, which would bypass drug regulators to give gravely ill patients access to experimental medicines. Proponents say this gives patients hope they would not...
News Roundup 4/24/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 24, 2018 | News Roundup
Lt General Keith Kellogg will serve as Mike Pence's National Security Adviser. [Link] Rand Paul announces his support for Mike Pompeo as Secretary of State. [Link] The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approves Pompeo's nomination. [Link] Over 80 Generals and high...
Seoul: North Korea Open to Denuclearization, Offers to Halt Missile Tests
by James Holbrooks | Mar 6, 2018 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Korean Peninsula — Extending the progress made at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, officials from South Korea said on Tuesday that the North is now open to the idea of abandoning its nuclear weapons program and...
Foreign Policy Focus #155 – Rand Paul is Right on War
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 14, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
Senator Paul takes advantage of the government budget process to call out American's 7 wars, the huge Defense budget, and the futility of American Interventionism. I discuss Mike Pence's statement on North Korea. I also update the Afghanistan War, the Riyadh...
News Roundup 2/13/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 13, 2018 | Blog
An Oklahoma judge gave a woman a lenient jail sentence because she sterilized herself. [Link] Trump introduces a $4.4 trillion budget. The budget includes a $1.4 trillion in infrastructure spending. [Link] Trump also plans to expand the US nuclear weapons arsenal....
Foreign Policy Focus #154 – Syrian Civil War: Iran V. Israel
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 12, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #154, I discuss the Olympics and Syria. The Koreans entered the games under a unified flag. Mike Pence and Kim Yo-jong have received a lot of attention for their appearance at the opening ceremony. John Bolton claims the sanctions against North Korea have...

The Koreas and the Mainstream Media
by Peter R. Quiñones | Feb 11, 2018 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Peter Quinones
As a voluntaryist/libertarian, I never thought I’d sit down at the keyboard to write about the Winter Olympics. Not the games, but about the politics that inevitably rears its ugly head whenever you get a group of people together to compete in activities that, in the...
Is the US Readying the "Father of All Bombs" for Use on North Korea?
by James Holbrooks | Feb 8, 2018 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. East Asia — With the mainstream media contemplating the significance of Kim Jong-un sending his sister to the Olympic Games in South Korea, as well as any messages found within the North’s military parade on...
Is the US Readying the "Father of All Bombs" for Use on North Korea?
by James Holbrooks | Feb 8, 2018 | Blog
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. East Asia — With the mainstream media contemplating the significance of Kim Jong-un sending his sister to the Olympic Games in South Korea, as well as any messages found within the North’s military parade on...
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Free Book: An Anarchist Critique of the COVID Mandates
I’ve had the opportunity to write a short book offering what is essentially an anarchist critique of COVID mandates. This includes the accusation that states did most of the killing rather than the virus. The 123-page book, Measuring the Mandates: Questioning the...
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...