A court orders Yahoo to pay $50 million and provide free credit monitoring services for 200 million people for two years. Yahoo was found responsible for a massive security breach where personal information was stolen. [Link] CNN, MSNBC, and the Daily Beast featured a...
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FPF #262 – Great Powers
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 24, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #262, I discuss the US relationship with Russia and China. In a move supported by NSA John Bolton, Trump suggested the US will withdraw from the INF Treaty. The President also called for an increase in the US nuclear arsenal. Secretary of State Pompeo is...
News Roundup 10/23/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 23, 2018 | News Roundup
Trump suggests the US may withdraw from the INF Treaty with Russia. [Link] National Security Adviser John Bolton calls for the US to withdraw from the INF Treaty. [Link] Trump threatens to increase the size of the US nuclear weapons arsenal until other nations come to...
News Roundup 10/22/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Oct 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
Several independent media outlets banned from social networks were blacklisted by Prop or Not. [Link] Tulsi Gabbard is considering a 2020 presidential campaign. [Link] Max Blumenthal reports on Nikki Haley's last speech before announcing her resignation. [Link] Jeff...
10/19/18 Sheldon Richman on Saudi Arabia and the Disappearance of Khashoggi
by Scott Horton | Oct 21, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Sheldon Richman talks about his latest TGIF article, "The Insidious Wiles of Foreign Influence: Trump, Bin Salman, and Netanyahu". Scott and Sheldon bemoan the fact that the killing of Khashoggi has received far more outrage from journalists, politicians, and the...
10/19/18 Justin Elliott on Sheldon Adelson
by Scott Horton | Oct 21, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Journalist Justin Elliott comes on the show to talk about casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, who has become one of President Trump's biggest donors. Although Trump derided him early in his campaign, the two have formed a close partnership with Adelson providing tens of...
Trump, the Fed, and a Trillion Dollar Game of Hot Potato
by Alan Mosley | Oct 19, 2018 | Economics, Featured Articles
This Tuesday, President Donald Trump further fanned the flames of his already contentious relationship with the Federal Reserve, referring to the central bank as his “biggest threat.” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell, a Trump appointee, caught the ire of the president. Of...
10/17/18 Ted Snider on Israel’s New Foreign Policy
by Scott Horton | Oct 18, 2018 | The Scott Horton Show
Ted Snider explains the "Periphery Doctrine", a foreign policy strategy by which a nation, in this case Israel, can either ally itself with its immediate neighbors against its more distant ones, or "leapfrog" its neighbors to be friends with those on the periphery...
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The Memory Hole
Censorship has been in the news a lot lately. You have probably heard it mentioned in relation to Donald Trump. Twitter, Facebook, and many other online platforms permanently suspended his accounts last week. That's pretty wild, but there is a lot more worth talking...
Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism
I wrote another book, Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism .Advance Praise for Enough Already “If you only read one book this year on America’s unending ‘War on Terror,’ it should be this persuasive and devastatingly damning account of how the United...
Cop Beats Up Tiny 11-Year-Old Girl, Judge is Guilty Accessory
Zachary Christensen is far less than a man. But Judge Curtis Gurley is less than a damned dog. His name is shit forever. His family's honor destroyed permanently. All of human history will remember his disgrace. May he bang his knee on something really really hard and...
Cops Kill Boy
Autistic boy having a temper tantrum. His security force suffocates him to death. No harm. No foul. Government employees can murder whoever they want. That's the law.
Cops Kill Woman
"a deputy-involved shooting occurred": 91yo Blind and Deaf Woman Calls 911 to Report Intruder, Cops Show Up, Shoot Her 9 Times, Killing Her
A Defense of the Peaceful Transfer of War-Making Power
Prussian general and military theorist Carl von Clausevitz famously said that "war is a continuation of politics by other means." I think we can reverse this: politics is war by other means. The ultimate aim of politics (in the narrow sense of the word; there's a more...
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