US News Tennessee ends a program that encouraged inmates to get sterilized in exchange for shorter sentences. [Link] The Supreme Court refuses to hear the case of a veteran attempting to sue the government for medical malpractice. The Supreme Court says the Feres...
Turkey
News Roundup 5/21/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 21, 2019 | News Roundup
US News New Orleans courts are violating the constitution by holding bail hearing without the defense. [Link] A key House panel rejects the Trump Administration proposal to create the space force. [Link] An armed F-16 crashes into a California building. [Link] A...
Weapons
by Kyle Anzalone | May 20, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #351, I discuss weapon sales and their impact on geopolitics. Turkey said it will buy the S-400 and S-500 air defense systems from Russia. The US approved $1 billion in Raytheon made missiles to Canada, Japan, and South Korea. Google is funding a company that...
News Roundup 5/17/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 17, 2019 | News Roundup
Trump signs an executive order that gives the White House the power to bar US telecom companies from doing business with foreign companies. Trump targeted the Chinese company Huawei. [Link] Daniel Lazare breaks down the real consequences of the fake Russiagate...
Bodies and Blood in Libya
by Steven Woskow | May 8, 2019 | Blog
The US and it's allies unleashed this hell on the people of Libya. "Every night we are under air strikes,” says Ali breathlessly. He is a 22-year-old fighter from the coastal town of Zawiyah, and part of the loose military coalition from across western Libya that has...
Trump’s Power Grabs
by Kyle Anzalone | May 3, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #344, I discuss how Trump is expanding the President's powers. The US joined the Yemen War without Congressional approval under Obama. Trump's veto of the Yemen War Powers bill proves Congress has no ability to check the war powers of the president. The...
News Roundup 5/2/19
by Kyle Anzalone | May 2, 2019 | News Roundup
Immigration The Pentagon expects to send about 300 more troops to the border. [Link] Trump proposes having asylum seekers pay an application fee. [Link] US Foreign Policy Biden’s campaign says he opposes continuing US support for Saudi in the Yemeni War. Biden was...
40,000 Dead Thanks to US Sanctions on Venezuela – Study
by Will Porter | Apr 28, 2019 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
American economic sanctions may have killed up to 40,000 people in Venezuela between 2017 and 2018, according to a new study. The finding only underscores the lethal realities of “soft power,” all too often presented as a humane alternative to open armed conflict....
Blog
The Ford Follies: Yes, It Can Get Worse
Brent Eastwood does a splendid job elucidating so many of the problems of the fatally flawed Ford super-carrier. I suspect he had to say "promising" but there is nothing here for the 21st century; this is the chariot and crossbow of the next generation. This is the...
The Steady Rise in Living Standards
"The history of capitalism as it has operated in the last two hundred years in the realm of Western civilization is the record of a steady rise in the wage earners’ standard of living. The inherent mark of capitalism is that it is mass production for mass consumption...
Pentagon Acquisition: Rotten From Head to Toe
The pattern is a revolving door of deliberate insider trading and influence by hiring retiring flag officers with active Rolodexes to be exploited in bent bidding and shadowy acquisition practices in an already sclerotic and gummed-up acquisition system that can't...
The Business of America: War, War, War!
Sachs mentions Timber Sycamore which was a classified weapons supply and training program run by the CIA and supported by the United Kingdom and some Arab intelligence services, including Saudi intelligence. The aim of the program was to remove Syrian president Bashar...
Mises on Wages under Capitalism
"While daily experience taught impressively that under capitalism real wage rates and the wage earners’ standard of living were steadily rising, while it became from day to day more obvious that the traditional walls separating the various strata of the population...
Anti-War Blog – Do They Really Know It’s Christmas?
Every year as the end of December crawls near, the spirit of Christmas grips those sometimes Christians, even atheists join in and celebrate it as a cultural habit and the true believers further confirm their faith. The spirit of celebration is one of joy, community,...
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