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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How Economic Regulation Hurts the Poor – Walter E. Williams
In the name of protecting public health, California requires that an individual who seeks to perform any kind of hairstyling service must complete nine months (1,600 hours) of classes at a state-approved cosmetology school, at a tuition cost of at least $5,000, before...
My Body My Choice: Abolish Occupational Licensing
The most immediate effect of licensing is to restrict the number of practitioners because of the higher entry costs involved in meeting the qualifications of the activity. Some licenses, as in the cases of cosmeticians and barbers, require many months of schooling....
Progressives Are Domestic Imperialists
Progressives will fight tooth and nail to make sure every citizen gets a 1 in 100,000,000 vote between two politicians every four years since it allows the political system to reflect the wishes of the population at large. However, when those very same voters try to...
Leaked Pentagon Documents: A Thread
What follows are highlights from the trove of leaked US government documents that appeared on the internet sometime last month, including a handful of the documents themselves, reporting on the material, my own observations, as well as official statements and...
Interview Show 20th Anniversary
I started on the radio in late 1998, but today is the 20th anniversary of the interview show. First of 5,894 so far was the great Alan Bock on Iraq, three days after the marines pulled down Saddam's statue in Baghdad. The full archive is here.
The Robber Barons: Historical Fact vs. Progressive Mythology
The standard theory of monopoly within the mainstream of the economics profession is that monopolies increase prices and reduce production levels compared to competitive industries. So I gathered historical economic data on prices and production for seventeen of the...
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