New Zealand The New Zealand shooter had ties to the Ukrainian Neo-Nazi Azov Brigade. [Link] New Zealand makes possession of the mosque shooter’s manifesto illegal. [Link] Haiti The Intercept explains why heavily armed American mercenaries were arrested outside the...
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Insubordinate Gen. Votel Denounces Afghan Withdrawal Plans
by Scott Horton | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: U.S. General: Current Conditions 'Don't Merit' Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan U.S. Army General Joseph Votel, head of the U.S. Central Command, has said that the current political situation in Afghanistan and the status of...
Peace Talks
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 1, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #317, I discuss Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un and US talks with the Taliban. The meeting with Kim ended early and without a peace agreement. Trump said the talks were positive. In Qatar, US officials are meeting with Taliban leadership. The talks will be...
5 More Years in Afghanistan
by Scott Horton | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog
Dang. Thomas Gibbons-Neff says the Khalilzad deal will be to keep troops in Afghanistan for 5 more years, under the "Biden plan" for limited "counter-terrorism" and training missions while calling a truce with the Taliban and integrating them into the Kabul...
Taliban Attack Kills All 32 Afghan Troops at Border Post
by Jason Ditz | Feb 18, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
A remote Afghan border post was overrun on Friday in the Spin Boldak District of Kandahar Province, with officials confirming that the Taliban killed all 32 border troops within. Reports say that a single Taliban infiltrator climbed into the base’s guard tower,...
Trump Is Right, It’s Time to End the Afghan War
by Robert Gaines and Scott Horton | Feb 4, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Read the original at Breitbart.com. President Trump’s decision to withdraw 7,000 troops from Afghanistan, possibly leading to a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from that country in the near term, is correct. The Taliban insurgency there has already replaced the...
Taliban Talks
by Scott Horton | Jan 28, 2019 | Blog
I'm just speculating and things, but Trump must be as insistent as hell to get Khalilzad and the State Department to push this hard. It's really something.
Foreign Troops to Quit Afghanistan in 18 Months Under Draft Deal: Taliban Sources
by Scott Horton | Jan 26, 2019 | Blog
Reuters #keepyourbubbletopupmrpresident
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No Need for DOGE
We don't need a Department (sic) of Government Efficiency. (It's a nongovernment thing.) We need a "Department" of What the Hell Should the Government Be Doing in the First Place? Efficiency implies that you know the objective of a course of action and want to avoid...
Anti-War Blog – Osama Bin Laden won
Bin Laden Won He won and the US warmasters are celebrating. Imagine rejoicing after a government falls to the descendants of Al-Qaeda. We don’t have to because the Washington gang are doing just that. The Islamo-Fascist Jihadis who terrorised the minds of the West for...
We Can’t Consume Our Way to Prosperity
Once upon a time, John Stuart Mill could write these words truthfully ("Of the Influence of Consumption on Production," 1844): It is no longer supposed that you benefit the producer by taking his money, provided you give it to him again in exchange for his goods. He...
Pearl Harbor: Not What You May Think it Was
I have always had my doubts but Jane Shaw brings the receipts. RedDR needed the war because his communist takeover of America was failing bigly and a war empowered government like nothing else. A decade ago I began to research the history of the Pearl Harbor attack....
Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 2
"It might be argued that only the 'rich' can afford to be capitalists, i.e., those who have a greater amount of money stock. This argument has superficial plausibility, since ... for any given individual and a given time-preference schedule, a greater money stock will...
Anyone Can Be a Capitalist, part 1
"[A]ny man can be a capitalist if only he wants to be. He can derive his funds solely from the fruits of previous capitalist investment or from past 'hoarded' cash balances or solely from his income as a laborer or a landowner. He can, of course, derive his funds from...
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