Trump says Chief of Staff John Kelly will step down at the end of the year. [Link] Trump will nominate William Barr to Attorney General. [Link] Trump wants to increase the Pentagon budget to $750 billion. [Link] Trump nominates Gen Mark Milley to be the next Chairman...
Yemen
It’s Genocide
by Scott Horton | Dec 8, 2018 | Blog
He died. Though his father rushed walking barefoot! To rescue him! Yemeni father Abdu Shuay, walked 2 hours with his son Akil (5 months) in his embrace When they arrived in this local hospital in Yaslem Hajja( north Yemen), Akil died of malnutrition...
Will Paul Ryan and Co. Deny Another Vote on Yemen?
by Norman Singleton | Dec 7, 2018 | Blog
Remember when the House leadership squashed a vote on a resolution ending US involvement in Yemen by removing it’s privileged status? Well, the leaders of that resolution have reintroduced it as H.Con.Res.142 and I just heard from a friend on the Hill that the House...
News Roundup 12/7/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Dec 7, 2018 | News Roundup
At least 45 journalists have been killed for their work in 2018. [Link] Senators are looking to pass a law that punishes companies who support BDS. [Link] The Saudi Ambassador to the US, and the younger brother of MbS, KbS returns to the US. He fled after the...
News Roundup 11/30/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2018 | News Roundup
Three St. Louis police officers were indicted for beating an undercover cop. [Link] Trump and Putin will meet December 1st. [Link] Trump canceled his meeting with Putin. Trump said he was canceling the meeting over Russia’s refusal to release Ukrainian ships and...
FPF #278 – Progress
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 30, 2018 | Conflicts of Interest
On FPF # 278, I discuss a vote advancing to a debate on Senate Joint Resolution 54, a War Powers bill that will end the US support for Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen. The vote passed 63-37, all the nays were Republicans. Saudi Arabia's genocidal war against the people of...
News Roundup 11/29/18
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 29, 2018 | News Roundup
Julian Assange is living in isolation. [Link] US Air Force General Charles Brown says the US has stopped flying bombers over the Korean Peninsula. [Link] The Israeli military has shot over 6,000 Gazan protesters in the past eight months. [Link] Israel has destroyed 30...
News Roundup 11/28/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Nov 28, 2018 | News Roundup
The FBI has 5,000 active terror investigations. [Link] Russia releases video of Ukrainian sailors admitting they provoked the incident with Russia in the Strait of Kerch. [Link] Trump’s statement on the incident in the Strait of Kerch stops short of condemning Russia....
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Is the Medal of Honor Now Subject to Woke Revisionism?
Note: We just returned from a short vacation visiting new grandchildren hence the brief interregnum of posting. The Medal of Honor is the highest citation for combat action in the US military. It's premature to say exactly what direction this is going because the DoD...
6 Hours of Scott Horton: On with Smith, Murphy, Woods & Russell
Scott's been making the libertarian podcast rounds with our friends Dave Smith – the very failed comedian – the great economist and successful comedian (on Twitter) Bob Murphy, historian and email marketing master Tom Woods, and Clint Russell of the Liberty Lockdown...
Restricting Production
"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...
Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving
Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...
“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital
"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
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