Weapons A Google-funded company is helping the Pentagon develop AI for drones. [Link] The US State Department approves over a billion dollars in weapon sales to Canada, Japan, and South Korea. [Link] Nuclear weapons are becoming less predictable and more dangerous....
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News Roundup 5/17/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 17, 2019 | News Roundup
Trump signs an executive order that gives the White House the power to bar US telecom companies from doing business with foreign companies. Trump targeted the Chinese company Huawei. [Link] Daniel Lazare breaks down the real consequences of the fake Russiagate...
5/10/19 Chris Woods on the Civilian Casualties in Raqqa from US-led Airstrikes
by Scott Horton | May 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Airwars' Chris Woods joins the show to discuss the recent findings that coalition airstrikes recently killed over a thousand civilians in Raqqa. The UN also estimates that although most residents were able to escape the city, 70% lost all their property in the...
News Roundup 5/9/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 10, 2019 | News Roundup
A Florida city is attempting to seize the home of an elderly man who let his grass get too long while he was caring for his dying mother. [Link] The US lifts sanctions on a Venezuelan general who defected. [Link] A deputy of Juan Guaido was arrested by the Venezuelan...
News Roundup 5/8/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 8, 2019 | News Roundup
US News Scott Ritter breaks down some lies told by Joe Biden told about Iraqi WMDs. [Link] Trump is asking for another $4.5 billion to enforce immigration law. [Link] Trump signs an executive order to fill 300,000 government cybersecurity jobs. [Link] The Pentagon...
American Interventionists Hurt the Cause of Freedom in Venezuela
by Ryan McMaken | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
The United States has a long, violent history of intervention in Latin America, although few Americans know about it. Were one to ask the average American, for example, about the US occupation of the Dominican Republic — which lasted for eight years from 1916 to 1924...
War With Iran or Venezuela?
by Scott Horton | May 7, 2019 | Blog
I think neither. Not that there isn't a danger, but there are not enough bad things lining up to make either likely. Mostly because the ayatollah is too smart to take Bolton's bait. The Israeli propaganda about the threat of an Iranian attack is obvious bullshit....
Empire Failures guest Marko Marjanovic
by Kyle Anzalone | May 6, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
Marko Marjanovic returns to FPF to talk about Venezuela and Syria. Kyle and Marko discuss how US regime change efforts in Venezuela have failed to topple Maduro. The US actions have hurt the Venezuelan people and increased Maduro's popularity. In Syria, Assad is...
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CFR President Richard Haass Admits the UniParty is Real
It used to be—think about it, until recently it didn’t really matter all that much who won an election at the presidential level. Don’t get me wrong, obviously there were differences between the parties. But if I can use a sports metaphor, the differences between...
Getting Money Out of Politics: Abolish the IRS
[I]f you don't get money out of politics, then yes in the long term it's hopeless. But we must, we must get money out of politics. - Cenk Uygur, creator of The Young Turks Progressive Cenk Uygur said these words without realizing the fact that the primary source of...
Roland Fryer’s Shocking Conclusion
https://youtu.be/2nLWCLsmpJ4 On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which...
The US Government Has Been Lying About How to Lose Weight for Decades
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI Fat Fiction Movie Website Research by Ann F. La Berge: How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America Turns out a low-carb diet does far more to help people lose weight than a low-fat diet.
The “Rich Get Richer” Myth
Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade. Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the...
The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
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