John Kiriakou fills in some of the details of the real story of Maria Butina, the alleged Russian spy who is said to have conspired with the 2016 Trump campaign. The problem with the official narrative, explains Kiriakou, is that Butina is not a spy at all and there's...
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Kurdish NGO Report Details Turkish Support For ISIS
There has long been talk of the role that Turkey had to play in the facilitation and even covert support for elements of Daesh (IS, ISIS, Islamic State). Many state actors have leveled accusations against Turkey, for which no-one seems to have - at least to public...
Regime Change Hypocrisy
On FPF #389, I talk about how calls to regime change other nations ignore the human rights abuses of the US empire. The US has waged several wars of aggression since the start of the century, leaving millions dead. The US ran a massive torture and drone program where...
Policing For Profit: How Civil Asset Forfeiture Has Perverted American Law Enforcement
Picture this: You’re driving home from the casino and you've absolutely cleaned up – to the tune of $50,000. You see a police car pull up behind you, but you can’t figure out why. Not only have you not broken any laws, you’re not even speeding. But the police officer...
7/12/19 Stu Smallwood on the Trump-Kim DMZ Meeting
Stu Smallwood discusses the latest meeting between President Trump and Kim Jong-un, which has resulted in the possibility that the United States may offer to temporarily reduce economic sanctions in exchange for the start of the denuclearization process on the part of...
News Roundup 6/25/19
Nicurguara The US sanctions four high ranking Nicaraguan officials. [Link] Human Rights Watch claims Nicaragua tortured protesters. [Link] Assange A Swedish prosecutor will not appeal a judge's decision not to issue extradition for Julian Assange. [Link] Turkey The...
‘Great American Fraud’ David Petraeus Passed Over for APNSA Not For Losing Two Wars, Leaking to Hooker, But For Opposing Torture
What a world.
Libertarians Forged an Alliance With Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Was It a Deal With the Devil?
On the morning of March 14, 2016, in a tiny office in Rio de Janeiro, a libertarian businessman named Winston Ling met with Jair Bolsonaro, a right-wing congressman running a longshot campaign to be president of Brazil. Some of Ling's closest associates had pleaded...
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