On FPF #360, I discuss some misleading and incorrect stories that appeared in the mainstream media. Recent articles about Venezuela featured headlines suggesting four million people fled Venezuela this year. The reality is a UN report said less than three and a half...
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Trump Renounces Iran Regime Change
by Scott Horton | May 27, 2019 | Blog
"I really believe that Iran would like to make a deal, and I think that's very smart of them, and I think that's a possibility to happen. It has a chance to be a great country with the same leadership. We aren't looking for regime change -- I just want to make that...
Ron and Dan: Venezuela Peace Talks Open In Norway; US Neocons Raging Mad!
by Scott Horton | May 19, 2019 | Blog
Reprinted from the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity. The last time negotiations were planned between Venezuelan government and opposition forces, opposition leader (and US puppet) Guaido launched his ill-fated coup and the talks were scuttled. Today a new...
5/17/19 José Niño Explains How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela
by Scott Horton | May 18, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
José Niño talks about his new book, How Socialism Destroyed Venezuela. He explains the debate between critics of socialism, who claim that the economic system is responsible for Venezuela's problems, and its defenders, who maintain that socialism was working well...
War with China, Iran or Venezuela?
by Kyle Anzalone | May 10, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF #347, I discuss the reckless actions the US is taking against China, Iran, and Venezuela. Trump new tariffs could restart the trade war with China. He is also increasing challenges to Chinese territorial claims in the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea....
CNN Falsely Claims Venezuela’s Guaido Was Elected President in January
by Jason Ditz | May 7, 2019 | Featured Articles, Politics
Continuing to try to advance the US narrative that Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido is the “duly elected” president, CNN went to the trouble on Sunday afternoon of inventing an entire election to base this around. In the CNN report, they declared “pressure is...
Stranger Encounters Ep 36: It’s Not About Socialism; It’s About Liberty
by Tommy Salmons | May 6, 2019 | Blog
Before you dig into this episode please take a minute to visit Antiwar.com and contribute to Justin Raimondo's medical expenses as he continues to fight stage four lung cancer. Justin has been an extremely important voice in the antiwar movement, and despite his...
Empire Failures guest Marko Marjanovic
by Kyle Anzalone | May 6, 2019 | Conflicts of Interest
Marko Marjanovic returns to FPF to talk about Venezuela and Syria. Kyle and Marko discuss how US regime change efforts in Venezuela have failed to topple Maduro. The US actions have hurt the Venezuelan people and increased Maduro's popularity. In Syria, Assad is...
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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,...
Winter Reading
Libertarian Institute Director Scott Horton’s new book is shaking things up and making a stir all at once. Provoked: How Washington Started The New Cold War With Russia And The Catastrophe In Ukraine is a read it and weep. Or, for the War Party hacks, don’t read it;...
A Warhead That Could: The Extinction Event for Exquisite Military Platforms
Chalk up another crafty Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA) to the Russian military. I am hoping the West has noticed the game changer that a conventional warhead on hyper-sonic IRBMs and ICBMs has changed the balance of power in near peer and peer combat for the...
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