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FPI / February 21, 2020 By Paul Crespo Ostracized and considered illegitimate by the United States and most of Latin America and Europe, Venezuela’s Maduro regime has had one constant supporter — Russia. This support has included everything from symbolic visits by Russian bombers to reported security assistance via Russian state-connected mercenaries from the Wagner […]

FPI / February 21, 2020 Sen. Elizabeth Warren set herself apart from the field, saying the $93 trillion Green New Deal does not “go far enough” in addressing what she says is the biggest problem facing the world today, climate change. “What I want to see us do is get off an oil economy and […]

FPI / February 21, 2020 A Chinese businessman has floated a $100 billion loan offer to the tiny Pacific island nation of Solomon Islands, a report said. The offer has raised concern over China’s major power grab in the region, especially since the funds represent an amount of money that is nearly 70 times the […]

FPI / February 20, 2020 Post-Brexit Great Britain plans to close its borders to those who can’t speak English and to unskilled workers, reports say. The move is part of the administration of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s overhaul of immigration laws aimed at ending the era of cheap EU labor in the UK’s factories, warehouses, […]

FPI / February 20, 2020 Barack Obama’s claim that his Recovery Act “paved the way” for the current economic boom is just the “latest con job” from the former president, President Donald Trump said. In a Feb. 17 tweet, Trump noted: “Did you hear the latest con job? President Obama is now trying to take […]

FPI / February 20, 2020 U.S. President Donald Trump has proposed slashing the foreign aid budget by 21 percent in his 2021 budget proposal. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review into how the UK’s £14.6 billion ($18.7 billion) foreign aid budget is spent. A new report from the World Bank provides justification […]

FPI / February 20, 2020 Is no one really above the law, as Democrats so often contend? Or is there indeed a two-tier system of justice in the D.C. swamp? For your consideration: The Logan Act is a federal law that prohibits unauthorized negotiations with foreign governments that are having a dispute with the United […]

FPI / February 20, 2020 Leftist celebrity Chelsea Handler got a quick dose of reality after she attempted to paint President Donald Trump as a racist in relation to his recent slew of pardons. Among the 11 people pardoned are former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and financier Michael Milken – who are white. Responding to […]

FPI / February 20, 2020 As leftist policies in blue states increasingly creep from Democratic-controlled major cities to the suburban and rural areas they call home, large numbers of conservatives are joining secessionist movements, a report said. “You’ve got Oregonians seeking to cascade into Idaho, Virginians who identify as West Virginians, Illinoians fighting to escape […]

FPI / February 20, 2020 Roger Stone on Thursday was sentenced to more than three years in prison. U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the up to nine years originally sought by federal prosecutors was excessive. Still, the judge’s sentence was far more than the probation sought by Stone’s defense and, analysts say, […]

FPI / February 20, 2020 By Lee Cohen The Trump administration sees India as an important strategic ally in the region, particularly useful in pushing back against China’s Asian reach. While the past several years have yielded little significant progress in trade relations, the bilateral economic and defense relationships between the U.S. and India are […]

FPI / February 20, 2020 Analysis by Kelli Ballard, LibertyNation.com The tolerant left: They pride themselves on being the saner of the two sides of the aisle. Despite a complete acceptance for violent groups like Antifa, they like to think of themselves as the most compassionate, the most tolerant, the most grounded and concerned for […]

FPI / February 19, 2020 How dare he! (Insert finger wag). A report last week noted that the United States on President Donald Trump’s watch leads the world in reducing carbon emissions. In news that no doubt triggered climate change alarmists who so thoroughly revile the U.S. president, the International Energy Agency (IEA) announced: “The […]

FPI / February 19, 2020 Democrats and their leftist media allies had a “stop-the-presses” moment Tuesday when reports surfaced that Attorney General William Barr was fed up with President Donald Trump’s tweets and was ready to quit. For proper context media consumers had to consider the sources of the Barr rumors — The Washington Post […]

FPI / February 19, 2020 A Trotskyist was on the march at a Bernie Sanders rally in Seattle on Monday. In her address to supporters of Sanders, Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant called for a “powerful socialist movement to end all capitalist oppression and exploitation.” Sawant is a member of Socialist Alternative, a Trotskyist […]