On April 11, the ongoing saga of journalist and transparency activist Julian Assange took a dangerous turn. Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, revoked his asylum in that country’s London embassy. British police immediately arrested him — supposedly pursuant to his...
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														This Week in Congress Wrap-Up
by Norman Singleton | Apr 11, 2019 | Blog
Here is the roll-call vote on S.J.Res. 7, the resolution calling on the U.S. to end involvement in the Yemen Civil War. The vote was 247-176. Every Democrat plus 15 Republicans voted for the bill. Representative Justin Amash (MI-03) voted “present” because he objected...
News Roundup 4/11/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 11, 2019 | News Roundup
Assange Arrested London police have arrested Julian Assange. Ecuador withdrew his asylum. [Link] US News The Department of Defense has awarded $1 billion in contracts to two companies to build portions of the southern border wall. [Link] Attorney General Barr says he...
What a Hollow Pretext For a Putsch
by Scott Horton | Apr 10, 2019 | Blog
The FBI is trying to pretend they really believed Trump fired Comey on Russian orders rather than over Comey's J. Edgar Hoover-type extortion scheme he pulled on Trump with the fake foreign dossier and launching this whole fake investigation of him in the first place....
 
														Finding A Better Definition For The Political “Left” And “Right”
by Zack Sorenson | Apr 10, 2019 | Featured Articles, Op Eds
Lately I have been listening to and reading different takes on the question of how we define what we mean when we say "left-wing" or "right-wing". Tom Woods has concluded that while he once thought of these definitions as referring to a spectrum, he now believes that...
 
														Obamacare’s Unhappy Anniversary
by Ron Paul | Apr 10, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Last month marked nine years since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) became law. Obamacare’s proponents promised that the law would reduce costs, expand access, and allow us to keep our doctors if we liked our doctors. The...
News Roundup 4/10/19
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 10, 2019 | News Roundup
US News California prisoners are suing over mice and maggots being on dining tables. [Link] A North Carolina man was arrested for keeping his pet fish in filthy conditions. [Link] Rachel Maddow still can’t get Russiagate right. [Link] The US and Lithuania sign a...
 
														Trump Names the IRGC ‘Terrorists’
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 9, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #334, I discuss the Trump admin naming Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terror organization. I explain the false arguments used by the Trump admin to claim the IRGC supports terror groups. The move makes a conflict with Iran more likely. Links Eric...
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Breonna Taylor Grand Jurors: Police Actions Were ‘Negligent’ And ‘Criminal’
Two grand jurors in the Breonna Taylor case said the actions of Louisville, Kentucky, police officers the day of the botched raid at her apartment were "negligent" and "criminal." "They couldn't even provide a risk assessment," one of the anonymous grand jurors,...
Joe Rogan Interviews Glenn Greenwald
Veddy interesting. Update: okay, mildly interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0rcLsoIKgA&t=455s
Don’t Make a Wrong Turn in Philly
The cops there are rabid animals. https://twitter.com/chadloder/status/1321274917023674368
Why We Need a Fully Free Marketplace of Ideas
No true seeker of truth can oppose the fully free marketplace of ideas. For details of the hardheaded practical case, you can do no better than to consult chapter 2 of John Stuart Mill's On Liberty. If you can't spare the time to read this short chapter and book,...
Techno-Agorist: Local Politics Is Still Politics
My name is Ryan and I am an agorist. Today we are talking about the different yet equally-destructive levels of government There is a pervading idea among many people that somehow local government is less bad, less corrupt, or easier to control than higher levels of...
YouTube Censoring Veterans’ Antiwar Video
WEST CHESTER, PA. — Silicon Valley’s selective censorship of news stories isn’t limited to just the U.S. presidential election, a right of center veterans group said Monday. YouTube and Google platforms are violating the free speech rights of an Afghanistan and Iraq...
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