Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigns. [Link] The State Department announces new sanctions will be imposed on Russia. The sanctions are to punish Russia over the alleged chemical weapons attack on the Skripals. [Link] The US threatens to sanction any port that allows...
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News Roundup 11/6/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 6, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump signs the Right to Try bill. [Link] Jason Ditz on Amazon moving into a closer relationship with the Pentagon. [Link] Gareth Porter explains how the New York Times misled readers on the importance of Russia linked Facebook accounts. [Link] Secretary of State...
News Roundup 11/5/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 5, 2018 | News Roundup
Twitter deletes 10,000 accounts that were accused of spreading misinformation about voting. [Link] The FDA approves a powerful new opioid pill. [Link] The Pentagon declined a request from the White House to have US troops provide law enforcement services on the...
FPF #266 – A Failing Foreign Policy
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 2, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #266, I discuss how the US wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Libya are failing. In Syria, NATO member state Turkey is attacking the US-backed Syrian Kurds. The Syrian Kurds have now abandoned their fight against ISIS. In Afghanistan, over half the people live in...
News Roundup 11/1/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 1, 2018 | News Roundup
The US intelligence budget increased 11.6% this year. [Link] The brother of the king of Saudi Arabia returns to Saudi Arabia. [Link] Turkey claims Jamal Khashoggi was stranged as soon as he entered the consulate. [Link] Republican Senators tell Trump to suspend...
10/31/18 Conn Hallinan on the Syrian Chessboard
by Scott Horton | Oct 31, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Conn Hallinan comes on to talk about the many players in Syria making the situation there almost incomprehensibly complicated. In fact Patrick Cockburn calls it "3-dimensional chess with no rules." Scott and Hallinan also discuss the world's various nuclear weapons...
News Roundup 10/31/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 31, 2018 | News Roundup
A new report calls for a massive buildup in America's Navy. [Link] A weapons maker will pay the US government $3.5 million after selling the military substandard parts. [Link] The Pentagon announces an additional 5,200 troops will be deployed to the southern border....
FPF #265 – Invaders at the Southern Border?
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 31, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #265, I discuss President Trump deploying troops to the southern border to assist in preventing migrants from entering the US. I explain why it is a mistake to treat the migrants as invaders. I update the Syrian War. The American mission in continues to kill...
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The Secret to Seeing Through “News” Propaganda!
https://youtu.be/dfw0wVP1m_E Excerpt from Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy by Michael Huemer, Ph.D. Credulity Humans are born credulous – we instinctively believe what people tell us, even with no corroboration. We are...
Putting Massive Unnecessary Obligations on Strangers Does Not Make You a Good Person
The true humanitarian rejoices when the people he helps feel ready to assert their independence and to strike out on their own; for isn’t this independence essential to being truly human? - Dr. Murray N. Rothbard, Left and Right, pp. 307–08 Government is the...
Walter Grinder, 1938-2022
I note with great sadness the passing of my friend and former colleague Walter Grinder on Dec. 4. He was 84. Walter may be the most important libertarian that most libertarians have never heard of. Although he made important contributions to the literature of liberty...
Kyle Kulinski Doesn’t Understand Slavery
UBI = Slavery. Social Security = Slavery. Universal Healthcare = Slavery. Wage Slavery = FREEDOM. - Kyle Kulinski (@seculartalk) If "wage slavery" is in fact slavery, Kulinski and the like must advocate abolishing College since it requires thousands of hours of work...
Hi, folks. Tom Woods here.
Listeners of “The Tom Woods” show know I celebrated my 2000th episode last year with a live event in Orlando, Florida. My special surprise guest was the one and only Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton. Scott entertained my audience with some original comedy,...
Patriots Cannot Be Nationalists
I think George Orwell has explained this very well: “By 'nationalism' I mean first of all the habit of assuming that human beings can be classified like insects and that whole blocks of millions and tens of millions of people can be confidently labeled 'good' or...
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