Congress A Senate rule change backed by Republicans shortens debate time on lower level nominees from 30 hours to 2 hours. [Link] Senators Paul and Udall are working together to end the Afghan War. [Link] A bipartisan group of lawmakers signed a letter that supports...
Saudi Arabia
A Brief History of the Destruction of Yarmouk
by William Van Wagenen | Apr 3, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
How the CIA helped jihadist rebels invade and occupy the capital of the Palestinian diaspora Introduction The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Syria was thrust into international conscientiousness in March 2014 when the United Nations published the now iconic image...
News Roundup 4/1/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 1, 2019 | News Roundup
Russiagate The political center made the Russiagate conspiracy theory the acceptable narrative. [Link] Michael Treacy argues Hillary Clinton played an important role in promoting the Russiagate narrative. [Link] Criminal Justice The FCC has issued over $200 million in...
Secret Nuke Deal with Saudi?
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 1, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #330, I discuss Secretary of Energy Rick Perry signing at least six secret agreements with Saudi to allow American companies to sell the kingdom nuclear technology. Saudi Arabia has rejected buying a civilian nuclear program with safeguards to limit the ability...
News Roundup 3/29/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 29, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Danny Sjursen argues the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates need to take an antiwar position to beat Trump. [Link] Amber Athey lists some of the people most responsible for pushing the Russiagate conspiracy theory. [Link] The Supreme Court rules against...
News Roundup 3/18/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 18, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Police department regularly withholds body camera footage that shows police abuse. [Link] Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the US will deny entry to any ICC officials investigating US and Israeli war crimes. [Link] A Pentagon inspector general report finds...
News Roundup 3/9/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 8, 2019 | News Roundup
Kelley Vlahos breaks down how different political factions are reacting to the BDS Movement. [Link] The EUROCOM commander calls for more US troops and warships to be deployed to Europe. He also said the US is considering sending more weapons to Ukraine. [Link] The...
News Roundup 3/7/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 7, 2019 | News Roundup
US News FDA leader Scott Gottlieb resigns. [Link] Joe Lauria explains how the 1st Amendment protects Wikileaks. [Link] Milwaukee County sheriff's office will stop sharing information with ICE. [Link] Border Patrol reports a huge spike in apprehensions of migrants on...
Blog
Time to Separate Medicine and State
The "progressive" coverage of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder has an unspoken premise: namely, that we could have had a system in which medical care was instantly superabundant and free for everyone. There is no such system. We live in a world of...
No Need for DOGE
We don't need a Department (sic) of Government Efficiency. (It's a nongovernment thing.) We need a "Department" of What the Hell Should the Government Be Doing in the First Place? Efficiency implies that you know the objective of a course of action and want to avoid...
Anti-War Blog – Osama Bin Laden won
Bin Laden Won He won and the US warmasters are celebrating. Imagine rejoicing after a government falls to the descendants of Al-Qaeda. We don’t have to because the Washington gang are doing just that. The Islamo-Fascist Jihadis who terrorised the minds of the West for...
We Can’t Consume Our Way to Prosperity
Once upon a time, John Stuart Mill could write these words truthfully ("Of the Influence of Consumption on Production," 1844): It is no longer supposed that you benefit the producer by taking his money, provided you give it to him again in exchange for his goods. He...
Pearl Harbor: Not What You May Think it Was
I have always had my doubts but Jane Shaw brings the receipts. RedDR needed the war because his communist takeover of America was failing bigly and a war empowered government like nothing else. A decade ago I began to research the history of the Pearl Harbor attack....
Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 2
"It might be argued that only the 'rich' can afford to be capitalists, i.e., those who have a greater amount of money stock. This argument has superficial plausibility, since ... for any given individual and a given time-preference schedule, a greater money stock will...
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