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5/26/19 Ted Postol on the Proof that the Douma Attack was Staged

by Scott Horton | May 30, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show

Ted Postol talks about the recently leaked document from a team of engineers at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which shows that the narrative of the supposed chemical attack last year in Douma simply doesn't fit the science of how the...

News Roundup 5/29/19

by Kyle Anzalone | May 29, 2019 | News Roundup

US News A federal judge rules its legal for Americans to record police secretly. [Link] Curt Mills explains the war in the White House over Iran policy. [Link] Facebook sharply increased the amount of its content censored in Vietnam. The censorship was done in...

News Roundup 5/28/19

by Kyle Anzalone | May 28, 2019 | News Roundup

New York Times The New York Times attempted to lead its readers to believe Hezbollah is involved in drug trafficking in Venezuela. FAIR journalists debunk the claim. [Link] The New York Times falsely claims in several articles that the Iranians have and had a nuclear...

News Roundup 5/24/19

by Kyle Anzalone | May 24, 2019 | Uncategorized

US News The US indicts Julian Assange on 17 additional charges. The new charges include violating the Espionage Act and carry a 170-year sentence. [Link] Peter Van Buren explains why Justin Amash is wrong to advocate for impeaching Trump. [Link] A senior UN nuclear...

Tripwires for War with Iran guest Will Porter

by Kyle Anzalone | May 24, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest

Will Porter returns to FPF to break down events in the Middle East that could cause a larger conflict between the US and Iran. In Syria, the US is again claiming the Iran-backed Assad government is using chemical weapons against its own civilians. In Iraq, the US...

President Trump: Don’t Kid Yourself, You Do Have a Military-Industrial Complex

by Scott Horton | May 23, 2019 | Blog

Trump tells Fox News: Well, I'm the one that talks about these wars that are 19 years (long), and people are just there. And don't kid yourself, you do have a military industrial complex. They do like war. You know, In Syria with the caliphate, so I wipe out 100% of...

News Roundup 5/23/19

by Kyle Anzalone | May 23, 2019 | News Roundup

US News Tennessee ends a program that encouraged inmates to get sterilized in exchange for shorter sentences. [Link] The Supreme Court refuses to hear the case of a veteran attempting to sue the government for medical malpractice. The Supreme Court says the Feres...

USA Claims Syria Using Chlorine Gas

by Scott Horton | May 22, 2019 | Blog

And already attempting to build it up into a pretext for more strikes. Funny, since the most credible claims of Syrian use of poison gas were just finally completely debunked last week. How dare Assad attempt to finish the war against Obama and Brennan's al Qaeda...

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Empower the Workers: Decriminalize Economic Activity Between Consenting Adults

The most reliable and effective protection for most workers is provided by the existence of many employers. As we have seen, a person who has only one possible employer has little or no protection. The employers who protect a worker are those who would like to hire...

Chris Rock’s New Special Exposes His Political Ignorance

A common claim among Democrats is that, "It's not that people don't want to be educated, they just haven't been given the opportunity, thus government spending on education needs to increase." If there were ever a group of people capable of "educating" themselves it...

War and Delusion: A Critical Examination

In this episode of the Protestant Libertarian Podcast, Alex Bernardo sits down once again with Laurie Calhoun. Laurie is a philosopher, a cultural critic and an author. She is a senior fellow at the Libertarian Institute, where she regularly writes articles analyzing...

Crime and Poverty

“The theory that crime is caused by poverty is not supported by the known facts. The very poor, in fact, tend to be just as law-abiding as the rich, and perhaps more so. To argue otherwise is to libel multitudes of people who keep to decency under severe difficulties,...

Don’t Be Silent

We should reject the fashionable idea that one should never write or post anything that possibly could be used by bad people for bad purposes. That admonition brings two things to mind. First, it fails its own test. If good people avoid a topic because even...

Can There Be Only One Race?

I'm old enough to remember this 1960s Lay's Potato Chips commercial. (Hell, I'm almost old enough to remember when plays were in black and white!) In the commercial a man (Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion in The Wizard of Oz) faces a challenge from the devil, who has a...

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