On FPF #283, I discuss the crisis in Yemen. Senator Chris Murphy recently wrote the US is assisting in the creation of hell on Earth in Yemen. The Senate is set to debate a bill that could invoke Congress' Constitutional War Making Powers to end the US support for the...
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FPF #278 – Progress
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF # 278, I discuss a vote advancing to a debate on Senate Joint Resolution 54, a War Powers bill that will end the US support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. The vote passed 63-37, all the nays were Republicans. Saudi Arabia's genocidal war against the people of...
This Week in Congress
by Norman Singleton | Nov 14, 2018 | Featured Articles, Politics
The parties will also begin appointing committee and subcommittee chairs. I’ll have a full analysis of the House and Senate leadership committee chairs when they are finalized. The Senate will be considering the Coast Guard Reauthorization bill as well as nominations....
News Roundup 11/7/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 7, 2018 | News Roundup
The Republicans retain control of the Senate. The Democrats win control of the House. Michigan voters legalize pot. Two additional states legalize medical marijuana. [Link] General Dunford says US troops will not come into contact with the migrant caravan. [Link] The...
News Roundup 10/12/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 12, 2018 | News Roundup
The Senate approved 15 federal judges in a package deal without debate. An agreement to approve the judges was bipartisan so Senators could go to their home states to campaign. [Link] Facebook unpublished the pages of several independent media sites without...
TGIF: Anarchism and Kavanaugh
by Sheldon Richman | Oct 5, 2018 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
Regarding Brett Kavanaugh, I’ve been wondering how I can blame the state for what we've endured these past weeks. I can safely say that without the state, we would have been spared the Kavanaugh episode. Natural-law, pro-market anarchists are not utopians. To...
News Roundup 9/5/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 5, 2018 | News Roundup
Arizona's governor selects former Senator Jon Kyl to fill John McCain's Senate seat. [Link] Aaron Mate argues Russiagate myths with James Risen. [Link] The US warns Israel not to attack Iranian targets in Iraq. [Link] US sanctions against Iran are starting to reduce...
8/31/18 Jon Queally on American Apathy for the War in Yemen
by Scott Horton | Sep 3, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Jon Queally talks about the war in Yemen and the seemingly futile efforts from a few to stop it. Scott and Queally discuss how perpetual war numbs the public to each new conflict, preventing most from feeling outraged—or in many cases even knowing—about a situation...
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Restricting Production
"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...
Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving
Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...
“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital
"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
US Forces Booted Out of Niger
2024 is the end of the ten year lease after expending $110 million to build and $30 million a year to maintain the base. The French forces were booted in October 2023. American troops are leaving now and the German troops will leave in September. The military regimes...
They Hate Our Freedom
They Hate Our Freedom Near the end of 2022,[1] the government finally released the notes from the 9/11 Commission’s interview of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from April 29, 2004. Would you believe it turns out the president admitted that his...
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