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FPI / March 10, 2019 By John J. Metzler UNITED NATIONS — The devastating double veto cast by both Russia and China to derail a U.S Security Council draft resolution providing humanitarian aid for impoverished Venezuelans reflected the latest round in a widening standoff between the socialist Caracas regime and the democratic opposition. And while […]

FPI / March 10, 2019 Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, in congressional testimony, said he was given two thumb drives by Fusion GPS containing opposition research on candidate Donald Trump which Ohr delivered to the DOJ, one before and one after the 2016 presidential election. Along with his role in delivering the thumb drives, […]

FPI / March 10, 2019 Instead of building President Donald Trump’s border barrier, researchers at a Purdue University-led national consortium of engineers and scientists have proposed a 1,945-mile “green wall” along the U.S. southern border. What the consortium says would be the largest infrastructure project in world history would consist of a string of energy […]

FPI / March 10, 2019 Some 5,000 war criminals are among the migrants who have been allowed to enter Germany since 2014, a report said. The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees tipped the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel off to around 5,000 migrants they believed had been involved in war crimes or other crimes against humanity, […]

FPI / March 10, 2019 Pakistan’s government announced that, as part of its crackdown on Islamist militants, it has detained more than 100 people and taken control of 182 religious schools. The government of Prime Minister Imran Khan has been under international pressure to subdue militants amid increased tensions with neighboring India, sparked in large […]

FPI  / March 10, 2019 The liberal government of President Moon Jae-In has moved to nationalize all kindergartens in South Korea. The move is seen by critics as another step in the Moon administration’s effort to control the education of children from kindergarten on up. Jeongyojo, the Korean Teachers & Educational Workers’ Union, “already has […]

FPI  / March 8, 2019 Then-Associate Deputy General Bruce Ohr maintained contact with anti-Trump dossier author Christopher Steele after Steele was fired by the FBI, documents obtained by a government watchdog group show. The records “show that Ohr served as a go-between for Steele by passing along information to ‘his colleagues’ on matters relating to […]

Analysis by FPI / March 8, 2019 Why the sudden interest by the corporate media in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the pedophile and major Democratic Party donor? “The very news outlets that spiked any news about this case for the past 13 years are suddenly hot on the trail of Jeffrey Epstein. Why the […]

FPI / March 8, 2019 Chinese supreme leader Xi Jinping and the Communist Party are stepping up demands for political loyalty from China’s 1.3 billion people. “Be on high alert to all kinds of erroneous thoughts, vague understandings, and bad phenomena in ideological areas,” the party warned earlier this year. “Keep your eyes open, see […]

Analysis by FPI / March 8, 2019 Two recent experiments in socialism have seen New York City, led by Mayor Bill de Blasio, a favorite of “progressives,” deposited $1.6 billion of taxpayers’ money “down a rathole,” reports say. The mayor recently abandoned his “Renewal” initiative aimed at improving the city’s struggling schools – after spending […]

FPI / March 8, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump on March 6 said he would be “very, very disappointed” if reports that North Korea is rebuilding the Sohae Satellite Launching Station are true. Two U.S. think tanks reported earlier this week that North Korea has rebuilt parts of the Sohae (Dongchang-ri) missile engine testing site. […]

FPI / March 7, 2019 As Democrats move on a resolution “opposing hate” which doesn’t mention Rep. Ilhan Omar by name for comments widely termed anti-Semitic, former Sen. Joe Lieberman warned Democrats that if they don’t root out bigotry in the party it could “take hold.” Omar, Minnesota Democrat, said at a recent town hall […]

FPI / March 7, 2019 Vice President Mike Pence on March 6 announced the U.S. would revoke the visas of 77 individuals tied to Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro and also called out Cuba for propping up Maduro’s brutal socialist regime. “We will continue to hold the Maduro regime accountable until ‘libertad’ is restored in Venezuela,” […]

FPI / March 7, 2019 Eight reporters and editors at the taxpayer-funded U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM) have been fired for a report critical of leftist billionaire George Soros, a government watchdog group reported. The head of the USAGM, Obama-appointee John F. Lansing, also ordered a review of all of the media outlet’s content to address […]

FPI / March 7, 2019 A recent study reported in the peer-reviewed Organization Studies found that just 36 percent of geoscientists and engineers believe that humans are creating a climate change crisis. A majority of the 1,077 respondents in the survey believe that nature is the primary cause of recent global warming and/or that future […]