On COI #394, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman cover how Washington and Seoul’s massive war games are inflaming tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the Pentagon’s confirmation that Kiev is now using US precision guided bombs, Congress voting down a War Powers Resolution...
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Marco Rubio is a Liar
by Keith Knight | Oct 1, 2022 | Blog
Rubio believes terrorists hate us because of our freedom and because girls go to school. Two sources using Bin Laden’s own words will suffice for now, for more see "23 examples" by Keith Knight, Then the fighters realized that the gang in the White House could...
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...
COI #129: Biden Bombs Syria and Iraq
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 30, 2021 | Conflicts of Interest
On COI #129, Kyle discusses Biden's latest bombing of Shia militias in Iraq and Syria. Biden claimed Article 2 of the constitution gave him the authority to carrying out the "defensive" strikes. However, the US is illegally occupying Iraq and Syria and Biden failed to...
Federal Agents Occupy Portland guest Will Porter
by Kyle Anzalone | Jul 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Will Porter returns to FPF to discuss Trump's deployment of well-armed federal agents to Portland. The feds are carrying out mass abuses of protesters, including arresting people for an unnamed reason and throwing the detainees into unmarked minivans. Several...
News Roundup 6/10/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 10, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Chicago police beat the head of the Police Board with batons during a protest. [Link] Turkey’s president told Trump he is concerned the Kurds are behind BLM. [Link] Max Blumenthal explains how American police became Israelized and more dangerous. [Link] US...
US Marines Arrive on Yemen’s Island of Socotra to Back UAE: US installs Patriot missiles on UAE-occupied island
by Jason Ditz | Mar 9, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
It’s not clear what US intentions are, but a group of US Marines arrived at the Yemeni island of Socotra over the weekend, meeting with the occupying United Arab Emirates forces, and installing Patriot missile systems there.The US hasn’t announced why they are back on...
Trump Stumbling Into Neocon Trap In Iraq
by Ron Paul | Jan 3, 2020 | Blog, Foreign Policy
President Trump is swallowing the neocon line on the Iraqi protests at the US embassy in Baghdad, blaming the whole incident on Iran. Suddenly everyone who doesn't want the US military to continue to occupy Iraq - nearly 17 years after an invasion based on lies - is...
‘Come Be My Slave’
by Scott Horton | Aug 11, 2019 | Blog
Yossi Gurvitz: Israeli rabbi at military academy says Palestinians should be enslaved for their own good: Rabbi Eliezer Kashtiel, the head of Bnei David, a military religious college in the settlement of Eli in the occupied West Bank, was lecturing about “slavery and...
TV Hairdos Know Nothing About the Wars They Monger
by Scott Horton | Feb 7, 2019 | Blog
Look at this NBC kook, Kasie Hunt, treating Tulsi Gabbard like Jane Fonda on an anti-aircraft gun for meeting with Bashar al Assad, based on her complete misunderstanding that the U.S. army and marines are fighting against his government there. J'accuse! (Wait, can...
Progressive Democracy Is Great for the 1%
by Randall Holcombe | Sep 6, 2017 | Featured Articles, Politics
The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in 2011 protested government policies that favored the 1%, the elite, over the 99%, the masses. Their protests were justified. The Wall Street fat cats who owned mortgage-backed securities were bailed out, but homeowners who...
A Thank You from William Wallace Grigg
by William Wallace Grigg | Jun 25, 2017 | Blog
William Wallace Grigg, the eldest son of our late colleague Will, wrote a thank you to all of those who donated to help the Grigg family in their time of need. His note is reproduced below from Will's old blog, Pro Libertate. To continue to help the Grigg family,...
Today’s Civil Strife Is Rooted in Economic Frustration and Fallacy
by Dan Sanchez | Apr 28, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
Why is America today so politically charged and polarized, to the point that people are regularly clashing in the streets? As James Carville used to say, “It’s the economy, stupid.” Americans still haven’t got their economic mojo back since the financial/housing...
Rand Paul: ‘It would be a really rotten, no good, bad idea to have ground troops in Syria’
by Jack Hunter | Feb 9, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
In 2015, I asked, “Why is Rand Paul the only Republican who knows our foreign policy is crazy?” Among the crazy characteristics is the U.S.’s constant habit of intervening militarily in other nation’s civil wars. It was precisely this sort of suggestion during a...
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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...
Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults
The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...
Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance
A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...
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