Adam Wunische discusses the fact that Afghans overwhelmingly want U.S. troops out of their country—and they are also optimistic about the chances for a peaceful resolution to the resultant power vacuum. Scott has always said there's a strong chance that the civil...
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Operation Fast and Furious: The Forgotten History of the ATF’s Notorious Gunwalking Scandal
The ATF isn’t all bad. In fact, they had a policy of letting illegal gun purchases go between 2006 and 2011. It ended up getting U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry killed on December 14, 2010, and let Mexican criminals get enough guns that they were found at over...
Schizophrenia! US Now Says Yemen NOT Iran Proxy War
In a sudden “about face,” the Trump Administration now claims that Iran is NOT behind the Houthis in Yemen. Has Washington suddenly decided to recognize reality? Not likely. More likely is that the US is trying to help the Saudis out of a lost war. Meanwhile, hundreds...
The 2020 NDAA: A Rubber Stamp for War
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act is a monster that could only have been birthed by a conference committee deep in the DC swamp. The 2020 version of the annual Department of Defense funding bill provides $738 billion to the Pentagon, a $30 billion increase...
News Roundup 12/13/19
US News Fifteen Department of Veterans Affairs employees and vendors of the VA are charged with defrauding the department out of millions of dollars. [Link] The 2020 NDAA includes sanctions against Syria, Iran, and Russia for war crimes in Syria. The sanctions will...
The Afghanistan Papers Reveal the Government Knew the War Was a Lost Cause
On FPF #429, I discuss the Afghanistan Papers. The large cache of documents were released by the Washington Post via FOIA. The papers show the successive White House administrations and Pentagon generals knew the Afghan War was unwinnable but continued to send...
What the Afghanistan Papers Really Reveal
The recent revelations in the “Afghanistan Papers” is nothing unknown for those who cared to take notice. It is a revelation in the sense that it took the mainstream media so long to report on the real war in Afghanistan. It was a revelation homogenised and packaged...
I Think I Finally “Get” The Economy
So more big Fed cash floods into the market? Back during QE2 you had partisan hack Krugman rationalizing it all (though QE had little to do with his Keynesian philosophy). Guys like Bob Murphy were saying, "Yep, this is it, get ready for the inflation." And then it...
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