Hooray! Announcing the publication of executive editor Sheldon Richman's new book, What Social Animals Owe to Each Other! These essays, written over the past 20 years, have a single underlying theme: namely, that we human beings, as social animals, need individual...
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America’s Hobbesian Tyranny
by Jim Bovard | Jul 25, 2020 | Featured Articles
Almost 400 years ago, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes wrote a book scoffing at tyrannophobia—the “fear of being strongly governed.” This was a peculiar term that Hobbes invented in Leviathan, since civilized nations had feared tyrants for almost 2000 years at that...
Mary Shaw is a Guilty Murderer
by Scott Horton | Jul 23, 2020 | Blog
That's the judge who signed Breonna Taylor's death warrant. Like the kids in the street chant: Say Her Name: Judge Mary Shaw, The Guilty Murderer. Now, of course, each and every single one of us knows for an absolute scientific fact that Mary Shaw will never ever be...

Obama’s Libya Fiasco Continues to Bleed
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 22, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #521, I update the ongoing conflict in Libya. In 2011, Obama aligned with NATO to help al-Qaeda linked militants overthrow the government of Gaddafi. After the long time dictator was murdered, the country predictably fell into chaos. Now, a multi-faction civil...
Colin Powell 17 Years After Lying Us Into War: ‘Boo Hoo. It’s Someone Else’s Fault’
by Scott Horton | Jul 20, 2020 | Blog
Will this most political general's self-promotional PR tour ever end? You are a guilty war criminal, Colin. It's not just your obituary. Your gravestone will say so too. And for all of the rest of human history you will be known as the useful tool who knew he was...
Re: What Happened After Breonna Taylor Was Shot
by Scott Horton | Jul 19, 2020 | Blog
Well Steve, Taylor might have made a compelling witness if she'd lived (or That's Why They Call It "Murder").
What Happened After Breonna Taylor Was Shot
by Steven Woskow | Jul 18, 2020 | Blog
No one came to her aid. From Courier Journal "For more than 20 minutes after Taylor was fatally shot at approximately 12:43 a.m. by Louisville officers, the 26-year-old emergency room technician lay where she fell in her hallway, receiving no medical attention,...
Russiagate Works: A Majority of Americans Believe Bountygate
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 10, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #516, I discuss how Russiagate conditioned people to buy the fake Bountygate story. Russiagate has pushed a false narrative about Russia for four years. Now many Americans, believing Putin is the ultimate enemy, are willing to believe any lie spun about Russia....
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“Riviera of the Middle East…”
There’s optimism among the small government conservatives, liberty nationalists and MAGA hardliners from the first weeks of Trumps second presidency. The exposure of USAID to the world, revealing waste, nefarious conduct and ideologically bias that only proves that...
Fixing Fight Club: A Missive to DOGE
President Trump, SECDEF, Mr. Musk and DOGE, I am the host of Chasing Ghosts: An Irregular Warfare Podcast and WarNotes: A Conflict Podcast. You are about to embark on a dark journey to discover the existential mismanagement and beggared martial imagination of the...
Abolish Antitrust!
"That there is inequality of ability or monetary income on the free market should surprise no one. As we have seen above, men are not 'equal' in their tastes, interests, abilities, or locations. Resources are not distributed “equally” over the earth.16 This inequality...
Police State in Mexico? Thank you Donald Trump!
Timeline / First Term… I will build the wall and Mexico will pay for it! How? I will slap huge tariffs on Mexico if they don’t stop the flow of people and drugs passing through their country and those big beautiful tariffs will cause Mexico to pay for the wall....
Like Farm to Table, Shipyard to Mothballs
USNS Cody USNS Cody (T-EPF-14), Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport, was christened on 25 February 2023 by ship's sponsor Averil D. Spencer, launched at Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama on 20 March 2023, and its delivery was accepted by the U.S. Navy on 11...
Trump’s Vision for Gaza: ‘We’ll Own It’ – New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
In this episode, we dive into Donald Trump’s latest remarks on the future of Gaza, his stance on Palestinian displacement, and his renewed "maximum pressure" strategy on Iran. Trump claims the U.S. will "cleanse Gaza" and might even "own it," while Hamas outright...
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