New York Times: "In the 24 hours through 12 a.m. on Friday, 562 people — or one almost every two-and-a-half minutes — died from the virus in New York State, bringing the total death toll to nearly 3,000, double what it was only three days before. In the same period,...
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The Great Gareth Porter on the Woodrow Wilson Flu Epidemic of 1918
by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog
He's not just the father of American Fascism, German Nazism, Soviet Communism, Chinese Communism, World War II, the American empire and the Bush family fortune. Wilson was also responsible for the great "Spanish" flu epidemic of 1918 and 1919. I sure hope there's such...
Dangerous Times
by Sheldon Richman | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog, Libertarianism
We live in dangerous times -- and not just medically and economically. Government executives all over the world -- with a few honorable exceptions -- are exercising autocratic power, that is, power without legislative or constitutional authority, in the name of...
Coronavirus Being Used to Scare You Away From Using Cash
by Nick Hankoff | Apr 3, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
Cash has been the target of the banking and financial elites for years. Now, the coronavirus pandemic is being used to frighten the masses into accepting a cashless society. That would mean the death of what’s left of our free society. CBS News, CNN, and other...
WSJ: Italy’s Coronavirus Death Toll Is Far Higher Than Reported
by Scott Horton | Apr 3, 2020 | Blog
MILAN—In the town of Coccaglio, an hour’s drive east of here, the local nursing home lost over a third of its residents in March. None of the 24 people who died there were tested for the new coronavirus. Nor were the 38 people who died in another nursing home in the...
News Roundup 4/3/20
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 3, 2020 | News Roundup
US News Over 6.6 Americans filed for unemployment this week. That is nearly double last week’s record-setting number. New York City police are arresting people for failing to social distance. Once arrested, they are put in a holding cell with dozens of other people....
War Under the Cover of Coronavirus
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 3, 2020 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #474, I discuss the US moving towards war with Iran under the cover of Coronavirus. Trump took to Twitter to threaten Iran if an attack is carried out against American forces in Iraq. Trump's Tweet creates a situation that means any attack in Iraq - with Iran's...
New York Hospitals Getting Hit Hard as Hell Right Now
by Scott Horton | Apr 2, 2020 | Blog
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Dear Senator Sessions,
I'm writing to tell you some things that you know, but I fear are never quite discussed in precisely the relevant terms in Washington DC. To put it very simply there is a massive regional civil war in the Middle East right now. Forget blame and all, but just here are...
Slow-Going in Mosul
Patrick Cockburn writes that the combined forces invading Mosul are bogged down, and that due to large numbers of civilians trapped there the U.S. air power cannot just flatten the place as they did in Ramadi. Perhaps there will still be enough ISIS left in Mosul and...
NYPD: World Police
I guess I knew they had an office in Israel, but here the New York Police Department has offices, and works cases all over the world.
News Roundup 11/13/16
Obama gives up on attempting to pass that Tras-Pacific Partnership. [Link] A look into Trump's Transition team. Mike Pence will head the team that includes Trump's children. [Link] Hillary Clinton blames FBI Director Comey in part for her election loss to Trump....
Israeli Foreign Ministry Not At All Worried About Trump
Peace deal? Yeah right. no problem, they say.
Richman at the Amherst Political Union 11/15/16
I'll discuss the presidential election and the future of liberty at the Amherst Political Union, Amherst College in Massachusetts, on Tuesday night. The lecture will take place in Chapin Hall at 8 p.m. and is open to the public.
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