They can torture and murder whoever they want and no one can do a thing about it.
RT
George W. Bush Must Be Secretly In the Employ of Donald Trump
by Scott Horton | Oct 17, 2019 | Blog
What else could explain the man who ruined everything denouncing Trump for "isolationism" this way? It's obviously a Roger Stoneian dirty trick to try to make us love the Donald.
New Roundup 10/17/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 17, 2019 | News Roundup
US News A $52 million trolley built in St. Louis will need a $200,000 bailout to remain open through the end of the year. The Trolley opened in November of 2018. It will need an additional $500,000 bailout to make it through 2020. [Link] Trump nominates John Sullivan...
The Problem of Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Plan
by Germinal Van | Oct 16, 2019 | Featured Articles
Elizabeth Warren is among the strongest contenders and Democratic hopefuls for the presidential election of 2020. During the fourth Democratic debate, on October 15th, 2019, the economic policy of Elizabeth Warren, also known as the “Wealth Tax Plan,” was given close...
Russia Takes Over for US as Buffer Between Turkey, Syria
by Jason Ditz | Oct 16, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The US forces in northern Syria long served as a de facto buffer force, positioned in between Turkey and both the Syrian government and Syrian Kurds. With US forces withdrawing, Russia is taking over that role, moving into that space the US formerly filled. For...
US Weapons Plague the World
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 16, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #407, I discuss the impact of US weapons is having around the world. In FY2019 the US sold over $54 billion in weapons. Some of those weapons aided the slaughter of Yemen. In a recent article, Stu Smallwood highlights how US F-35 sales to South Korea are...
10/14/19 Ramzy Baroud on Israel’s Torture and Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
by Scott Horton | Oct 16, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Ramzy Baroud joins the show for an update on Israel and Palestine. He wants to dispel some common misconceptions about Israel, starting with the fact that the country didn't even exist before 1948, while Palestine has a history that goes back thousands of years....
Empire of Islands: Geopolitics of the Philippines
by Sal Mayweather | Oct 16, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Empire refers to a grouping of territories under one common authority. Although nowadays it’s more applicable than ever, the term has peculiarly disappeared from the political lexicon. The term connotes romantic images of Rome and Britain at their heights. As the...
Blog
Pentagon gives fake police agency $1.2 million in military equipment for free
Those who take issue with the Pentagon’s 1033 program — the avenue through which excess military hardware is distributed to police forces all across the United States — now have another reason to object. A recent sting operation conducted by the Government...
Trump wants to install military-industrial complex lobbyist as Army chief at the Pentagon
This article originally appeared at Anti-Media. Last Wednesday, it was reported that Donald Trump was moving to nominate Raytheon lobbyist Mark Esper for secretary of the Army. Raytheon is one of the “big five” defense contractors, and the president’s decision...
The Creature Of Philadelphia Is A Failure: Reject The “Republic”
Philadelphia gave us an oligarch devised Constitution. Benjamin Franklin told an inquirer that the framers had given us, "a republic, if you can keep it." May we never have had it. The idea of the res publica: "the public thing", creates two categories of things we...
The Inherent Exploitativeness of Polyamorous Threesomes
Because God loves to fuck with me, yesterday Snapchat pushed a two-year-old Refinery29 essay into my feed that threw me into a very late-to-the-party rage, which I tweeted rabidly. Its subject matter was polyamory -- namely, one couple's selfish quest to find a...
News Roundup 7/26/17
Trump tweets on the ending of arms and assistance to Syrian rebels. Trump said the program was dangerous and wasteful. [Link] A Florida police officer was fired for having several complaints against him and tampering with evidence. The officer was rehired by the same...
News Roundup 7/25/17
Trump has announced Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the new Press Secretary and Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. [Link] The US just commissioned its largest warship ever. The US now has 11 aircraft carriers in its fleet. [Link] Someone has posted signs...
Shop Our Books
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.









