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News Roundup 3/27/19

by | Mar 27, 2019 |

US News Politicians from both sides of the aisle voice support for Israel at AIPAC. [Link] Senator Tom Udall will not seek reelection. [Link] Russiagate Ted Galen Carpenter: Russiagate is fake, the US anti-Russia foreign policy is real Jennifer Braceras: The Democrats...

FPF #264 – Yemen Numbers

by | Oct 29, 2018 |

On FPF #264, I discuss some new casualty numbers for the War on Yemen. The media has long cited a UN estimate that said 10,000 people have died. However, that estimate stopped counting deaths over a year ago. The 10,000 number has helped mask the...

News Roundup 10/24/18

by | Oct 24, 2018 |

A court orders Yahoo to pay $50 million and provide free credit monitoring services for 200 million people for two years. Yahoo was found responsible for a massive security breach where personal information was stolen. [Link] CNN, MSNBC, and the Daily Beast featured a...

News Roundup 10/16/18

by | Oct 16, 2018 |

Facebook bans false information about voting. [Link] The US budget deficit rose to $779 billion in fiscal year 2018. [Link] National Security Advisor John Bolton's Chief of Staff will leave the White House and head the Center for Security Policy. [Link] Ecuador...

New Roundup 10/11/18

by | Oct 11, 2018 |

Caitlin Johnstone explains why the glorification of Nikki Haley is unearned. [LInk] Russia is ready to extend the New START Treaty with the US. [Link] Erik Prince is meeting with influential Afghanis to push his plan to privatize the Afghan War. [Link] US...

News Roundup 10/4/18

by | Oct 4, 2018 |

Patrick Cockburn: With ISIS Defeated, Trump is now Targeting Iran The UN high court rules the US must lift some sanctions against Iran. In response, the US withdrew from a 1955 treaty with Iran. The US claims that leaving the treaty invalidates the court's ruling....

News Roundup 9/18/18

by | Sep 18, 2018 |

Google developed a prototype search engine for China. The prototype censored results and connected searches with phone numbers. [Link] A man remained free for 15 years and raped three women because the rape kits went untested. [Link] The US will reduce the maximum...

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Bertolt Brecht’s “A Worker Reads and Asks”

In 1935 while in exile Brecht wrote his poem challenging the aristocracy of history. The belief that events and the entire of human existence occurs because of a great man, the dear leader. In contemporary moments, politicians and influential people are looked at with...

You Don’t Hate Them Enough

24 years after their last September visit, al-Qaeda has flown into New York again. Now the US and General Petraeus welcome a long-time Al Qaeda leader, on whose head DOJ had a bounty of ten million dollars less than a year ago because he serves the US on the Devil’s...

Veterans Group FOIAs Tennessee Government

Last Monday, Chairman Dan McKnight of Bring Our Troops Home formally submitted a request in both physical and digital form for public records to the Tennessee General Assembly, the Office of the Governor, and the Tennesse Military Department regarding a recent...

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Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

Last Rights: The Death of American Liberty

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Americans today have “freedom” to be fleeced, groped, injected, harassed, surveilled, vilified, disarmed, beaten, detained, and maybe shot by federal agents. From hapless homeowners hit by SWAT raids to pandemic lockdowns pointlessly paralyzing lives, government...

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