President Trump is swallowing the neocon line on the Iraqi protests at the US embassy in Baghdad, blaming the whole incident on Iran. Suddenly everyone who doesn't want the US military to continue to occupy Iraq - nearly 17 years after an invasion based on lies - is...
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The Heroic Chelsea Manning Rots in Prison
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 3, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #438, I talk about the torture of Chelsea Manning. Chelsea heroically leaked to Wikileaks the Afghan war logs, Iraq War documents, and State Department cables that revealed US war crimes. Chelsea was given 35 years for liberating the documents. She spent the...
US Attacks Baghdad Airport, Killing Top Iranian General
by Jason Ditz | Jan 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
On the outskirts of the Baghdad International Airport, a US drone attacked a delegation including the top figure in Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), killing him as well as several others, including Iran’s Quds Forces commander, Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The White...
Big Spender Trump Is Drowning in His Swamp
by Jacob Hornberger | Jan 2, 2020 | Economics, Featured Articles, Politics
First it was the generals who took control over U.S. foreign policy, preventing President Trump from bringing the troops home from the Middle East and Afghanistan, as he said he was going to do. And now, it’s the federal bureaucracy that has absorbed Trump. According...
Back to Iraq: US Prepares Mini-Surge Into Region
by Jason Ditz | Jan 2, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The US went into this past week with about 5,000 ground troops in Iraq, and with Pentagon officials suggesting that deployment is more or less permanent. It was meant to be one of those lazy, open-ended overseas deployments, nominally to bring stability. Then on...
News Roundup 1/2/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Jan 2, 2020 | News Roundup
US News The UN Specia Rapprator for torture says Chelsea Manning is being tortured. [Link] Missouri police extorted $2.6 million from motorists by threatening to take them to jail or signing papers that forfeit their assets. [Link] Alex Jones was ordered by a judge to...
This President Was Impeached for Being Insufficiently Pro-War
by Ryan McMaken | Jan 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Politics
Buried in the House Judiciary Committee's impeachment report, is some insight into how the foreign policy establishment is attempting to re-create a new Cold War with the Russian Federation. Much of the report is devoted to one of the primary charges against the...
The IRS or The Libertarian Institute?
by Scott Horton | Jan 1, 2020 | Featured Articles, Scott Horton
Friends, We should be so lucky to somehow know that the government has only wasted all the money they've stolen from us over the years, rather than doing something horrible to someone with it. America's completely insane and criminal income taxation system has one...
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“Losing Sway!” An American goes to Iran.
Well, not exactly, but... Laurie Calhoun was interviewed by Amir Jafari on Press TV's We The People program, "Losing Sway" (on Iranian television). Topics: effects of and connections between U.S. foreign and domestic policy; changes in the global image and influence...
The Antiwar Comic: The Narrative War
Captain Deflection is here to save the Regime in power! More comics at the Webcomic Factory.
Connor Freeman Interviewed on Cold War 2.0 by Reed Coverdale and David Spuria
Earlier this month, I did a series of interviews covering a wide range of foreign policy topics with the great Reed Coverdale and David Spuria. On the Naturalist Capitalist, Reed and I discuss the continuity between the Trump and Biden administrations, highlighting...
Scott Horton on CSPAN2 Book TV for Hotter Than the Sun 8/28-8/29
Scott Horton, our Director and host of the Scott Horton Show, will be on CSPAN2 Book TV discussing his new book Hotter Than The Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. This interview took place at FreedomFest last month and airs today (6:05pm EDT) and tomorrow (6:05am...
New Pentagon Office Has Orwellian Name
Washington's official propaganda outlet Voice of America reports on the new Orwellian named Pentagon agency tasked with reducing civilian deaths. The "Civilian Protection Center of Excellence" will receive a tiny fraction of the Pentagon's $800 billion budget. The...
Sen. Marsha Blackburn Travels to Taiwan, Third Congressional Visit this Month
Reuters reports Senator Marsha Blackburn arrived in Taiwan on Thursday. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi traveled to Taipei in August, setting off a massive escalation with China. Blackburn is the third Congressional delegation to visit Taiwan this month. Beijing views the...
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