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FPI / January 30, 2019 Geostrategy-Direct Once again, South Korea and Japan are behaving like they are enemies, not members of a critical tripartite strategic alliance with the United States that is critical for their survival as autonomous nation states. Defense officials of the two nations have condemned each other for alleged provocative military maneuvers […]

FPI  / January 28, 2019 Ranchers who live along the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona have invited House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the border to see for herself what they describe as a border that is far from secure. The ranchers even offered to “send a plane” for Pelosi, Breitbart News reported on Jan. 27. Filmmaker […]

FPI / January 28, 2019 Veteran Washington Times political correspondent used a Facebook post to offer his take on the latest drama in Swampville: The conventional world gasped. DJT had just said he might resort to his constitutionally-mandated, presidential emergency powers to bypass a dysfunctional Congress. President Donald Trump said he may invoke those powers […]

FPI / January 28, 2019 From July to November of 2016, reporters and commentators from the major media, like then-Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone, were eager to discover any tidbits WikiLeaks was looking to reveal, “even while knowing they came compliments of the Kremlin,” a report, citing a review of election media coverage, noted. Media […]

Commentary by FPI / January 28, 2019 On Jan. 12, Julian Castro, former Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) secretary and San Antonio mayor, announced his candidacy for president in 2020. In a bit of foreshadowing last year, Castro had tweeted: “The Hispanic vote in Texas will continue to increase. By 2024 Democrats can […]

FPI  / January 27, 2019 Given that then-President Barack Obama was in 2016 able to ship a planeload of cash to the Iranian regime, it shouldn’t be difficult for President Donald Trump to “legally” find the funds for a border wall, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said. “Listen, if President Obama can send $1.8 […]

FPI / January 27, 2019 A construction worker in New York City called in to Rush Limbaugh’s radio show on Jan. 22 to vent on lawmakers and the major media trotting out daily shows of sympathy for government workers who they portrayed as struggling mightily to get by due to the partial shutdown. “I’m a […]

FPI / January 27, 2019 It is evident from the indictment of Roger Stone that special counsel Robert Mueller likely knew from the start of his Russia investigation that there was no “collusion” and that President Donald Trump was not a Russian agent, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew McCarthy said. “I read that indictment and […]

FPI / January 27, 2019 Columnist and former Nixon speechwriter Ben Stein is not on board the AOC train. Stein told Fox Business last week that newly-minted lawmaker and leftist media celebrity Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s rhetoric is not only misguided, but dangerous. “We have a society in which there are an awful lot of people […]

FPI / January 27, 2019 Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is calling on all nations to follow the United States’ lead in recognizing opposition leader Juan Guaido as the interim president of Venezuela. “Now it is time for every other nation to pick a side. No more delays, no more games. Either you stand with […]

FPI / January 25, 2019 President Donald Trump could cite his authority under the National Emergencies Act to declare a state of emergency at the U.S.’s southern border and free up $7 billion in federal funds for a border wall, a report said. Under the emergency declaration, Trump would order the Pentagon to immediately begin […]

FPI / January 25, 2019 As he prepares for a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, U.S. President Donald Trump is hitting back at critics who claim there has been little progress made from the first summit’s stated goal of the North’s denuclearization. “The Fake News Media loves saying ‘so little happened at […]

FPI / January 25, 2019 By John J. Metzler BUENOS AIRES — Two of Latin America’s political heavyweights have put the squeeze on Venezuela’s increasingly authoritarian regime. In a meeting between Argentine President Mauricio Macri and his new Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsanaro, the leaders of the region’s two largest economies have stepped up pressures on […]

FPI / January 25, 2019 About 1,500 private jets will have flown a lot a very wealthy and influential people to Davos, Switzerland this week to engage in discussions at the World Economic Forum such as “Safeguarding Our Planet”. “We have had bookings from as far as our operations in Hong Kong, India and the […]

FPI / January 24, 2019 By Donald Kirk The revelation of another “undeclared” North Korean missile base should send shock waves through all those concerned about the safety and security of the region, notably South Korea. Actually, however, it’s hard to find ordinary people too worried about the latest report by esteemed experts at the […]