“Everyone has a right to affordable health care!” “Everyone has a right to go to college!” “Everyone has a right to own a home, it’s the American Dream!” We’ve all heard these. Some of us have even believed them, but do you honestly believe the government can give...
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7/31/20 Branko Marcetic on Trump’s Dangerous Russia Hawkishness
Branko Marcetic discusses a recent move by the Trump administration that will grant unprecedented powers to the CIA to conduct cyber attacks against foreign countries. This highlights a persistent trend throughout Trump's precedency that has seen him become perhaps...
7/17/20 Giorgio Cafiero on Yemen’s Unprecedented COVID-19 Calamity
Scott talks to Giorgio Cafiero about the devastating catastrophe facing the people of Yemen in the form of the coronavirus pandemic. Cafiero describes the way that a virus—or indeed any natural disaster—has the potential to decimate a country like Yemen, where it's...
Colin Powell 17 Years After Lying Us Into War: ‘Boo Hoo. It’s Someone Else’s Fault’
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...
Keith Preston on: American Secession The Looming Threat Of National Breakup
From Keith Preston at Attack The System: A review of F.H Buckley's book American Secession (available on Amazon) Americans have never been more divided, and we’re ripe for a breakup. The bitter partisan animosities, the legislative gridlock, the growing acceptance of...
What Paul Krugman Gets Wrong About The $600 Unemployment Bonus
The federal government’s program of supplemental unemployment benefits of up to $600 per week, as provided for in the CARES Act, is set to expire at the end of July. Whether or not to extend this program is setting up to become a contentious political battle mere...
Russiagate Works: A Majority of Americans Believe Bountygate
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....
More On Michele Flournoy From Kelly B. Vlahos
Highly educated, elitist upbringing, high achiever, successful - 'She’s a technocrat—smart and efficient and highly bred for Washington’s finely tuned managerial class." "But elite is as elite does. She went from Beverly Hills High School to Harvard to Oxford, and...
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