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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Is Trump The Best Israeli President Ever?

by | Jun 9, 2026 |

Trump says he wants a deal with Iran. Netanyahu hints the real goal is regime change anyway. That contradiction is where diplomacy goes to die, and it is also where Americans get dragged into a war they did not vote for. We roll solo and ask the blunt question a lot of people are thinking but few say out loud: is Trump still representing the United States, or is he effectively acting as Israel’s president on the Iran war?

We unpack Netanyahu’s media strategy and why he may be one of the most effective political operators in modern U.S. history, able to keep influence across parties and across administrations. From there, we get specific about the Iran nuclear program: what “enrichment” actually means, why civilian nuclear energy and medical isotopes matter, and how redefining enrichment as a weapons program guarantees a stalled negotiation. We also compare the coherence of Iranian messaging with the whiplash of American statements on ceasefires, blockades, and end goals.

Then we zoom out to the battlefield map and the economy. The Strait of Hormuz, tanker attacks, and regional retaliation all raise the risk of a wider Middle East escalation and higher oil prices that hit U.S. households fast. We close with the House War Powers resolution, why Washington calls it “symbolic,” and why that should worry anyone who still believes Congress is supposed to decide when America goes to war. If you want more clear-eyed analysis of U.S. foreign policy, subscribe, share the show, and leave a review with your take on where this is headed.

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You don’t need the sun glasses…

You don’t need the sun glasses…

by | Jun 9, 2026 |

It turns out wearing the glasses made no difference.

In the John Carpenter film, They Live, our hero John Nada is one in many workers stumbling from hunger to poverty and piece work in an economy that is only built to exploit them. It’s a film both critical of Reagan economics and power itself, in all it’s guises. Nada comes across a box of sunglasses and once he wears them, he is able to see the subliminal messages hidden beneath advertising, on the television and to see the true ghoulish face of some people who it turns out, are alien invaders. The overlords who have made a deal with the humans in government and with wealth to steer society in a symbiosis of control that satisfies the elites and alien rulers.

Nada, played by Roddy Piper spends much of the film trying to convince others, including his new friend played by Keith David, to wear the glasses. This gives us shoot outs, examples of the alien technology and a supreme street fight between Piper and David. The duo join a resistance and try to take down the alien signal so that normal humans can see the world for how it really is. A world free the deceptions. Our heroes are blue collar, the common person, those who endure the struggle and suffer beneath power no matter how hard they work.

The humans who comply with the alien are yuppies, corporate types and government goons. Those who would and tend to serve any master so long as it profits them. The film is about class struggle, from a somewhat Left-wing perspective, when those from such an ideology concerned themselves with the worker and the oppressed, before it’s academic and elitist obsession with identity took hold. We may not have the sun glasses in the film but we have technology that gives us instant access to the realities of the world.

Ignorance is a choice. We can search out whatever information we desire, even if algorithmic forces tend to hide certain things on specific platforms. Anyone curious, with a degree of honest intrigue can investigate, or, one can simply stumble across footage and testimonies of those on the ground across the world, Despite this, ideological bias and other forms of bigotry or conformist inclinations steer the minds of some away from nuance and critical thinking and instead rewards emotion and simplified narratives. The murder of a child, or gang rape of a girl can be contextualised, or hidden according to an ideological and narrative need. In some cases, to speak up on behalf of the victim can draw punishment from authority, and many in the public seem fine with this.

It’s with the mass murder of children and families, the corruption of elites don’t go unnoticed, instead are twisted into arrogant dismissal, to censorship enforcement that a decade ago would have seemed conspiratorial to even conjure up. We now live in the post whistle blower-age. There is no need for the Snowden leaks, Wikileaks, Vault 7, or the countless papers or exposes which have revealed the sinister machinations of government. Now, they mostly tell us, techno-fascism is on the rise with corporations like Palantir, to the numerous private equity firms and AI obsessed companies which both boast and lie with no consequence. So long as investors are happy, and in many cases this includes numerous common people who want money, a return on their investment. They simply do not care.

Government often are the best customers, who need the technologies and infrastructure to kill with and for the surveillance of the populations. Consumer facing models are not as profitable, difficult to satisfy fickle markets and competitions, instead governments need data to be sifted through, contained and controlled while the lives of every person is to be monitored. Call it security, safety, for the naive, in truth it is both profitable and authoritarian. In the past a police state such as that of East Germany was expensive and complex, now, it can be privatised and assisted with tech companies whose investors are happy, as well as the government and corporate customers.

Others are dependent on government whether trough employment, contracts or welfare that they are incapable of articulating dissent, and if they do, it’s to vote for the other side of the equation through the limited heights of party politics. Is it that most do not care, or are simply apathetic. Or, the many who do care are scattered and their concerns and dissatisfaction is lost beneath the winds of rhetoric and digital deceptions.

Perhaps instead we are in a post-truth age. Despite the courage and frequency of leaks and whistle blowers, there is an increase in the debasement of truth and an ever reliance on gate keeping. The modern fixation with podcasts and social media has steered people to rely and trust those who, in some instances never proclaimed reliable expertise, though because of their digital status and downloads, popularity ensured authority. Having on guests who are close to power and who dabble in wild and outlandish conspiracy, blends the basis for fact and fiction. Instead it becomes a listening environment that resides in the realm of infotainment, but in the age of short term memories, most of it is forgotten and disregarded by the time the next thing arises. This allows for political and corporate power to invest in these platforms and massage messaging and manipulate opinions through limited hangouts, where some dark truths are revealed in order to curtail further investigations. Or, to provide a human face, a likeable entity which seems disarming and relatable.

Once a host is familiar and trusted, they tend to become the guide as to where trust may be laid. And as social media and short form content has had it’s part in the erosion of critical thinking this has led to an adherence to such authorities. The naive belief that a person can claim to have been cancelled, while they are on the biggest media platform on the world advertising their Netflix special, or that a podcast host can be a challenge to power and authority while platforming in the positive representatives of the CIA or running presidential candidates, while never really challenging them with questions that may expose their corruptions and deceptions. Podcasts have become the Late Night without the randomness that it once had.

A lot of Westerners live in a household that is at best one part blue collar, and one part white collar. With many members of the family working corporate or government jobs, while aspiring for what was once considered a yuppy lifestyle. The belief that a house should be an investment, that all can be put on credit and living beyond ones means is an addiction that is so widespread it is now normal. It also serves power, and as those in the film They Live desired, it ensures servitude and concentrates wealth. With every bubble and currency that can be debased endlessly because borrowing will never end, the wealthiest often are bailed out, inflation ensures that holding debt is not a fear and the worker and shrinking private sector (not dependent on government contracts), can be taxed until they no longer exist. Eventually only government, private equity and mega corporations will remain.

This will provide a satisfying homogenised economy and society for some. It was after all the desire of the aliens and their human goons. It ensures the State has more power and control over most things, and billionaires grow their wealth. It destroys independent lifestyles and anything that is non-conformist. We can see and know this is happening, and yet, even though we have better vision than any films sun glasses may grant us, it seems that most now want this? Or, are so apathetic and debt laden or defeated that they accept it. Which is fine for individuals in the now to do, but disregards the world children and the yet to be born will inherit.

Such a system is based on development and waste. Even the non-market forced ‘green’ sectors and smart technologies have consequential outcomes. From the pollution of horse manure in the cities to the choking smoke of coal, petrol-chemicals and microplastics apocalypse and what the new technologies bring to the now and beyond. The hedonistic treadmill is running faster and it appears that many are never satisfied, and want more. More what?

The awareness of enshitification, shrinkflation and destruction of food to fast fashion and the cannibalisation of all culture is more than post-modernist ideologies. It’s finance and debt economy that has left classical economics in the last century which now suits endless government growth and corporations that can make money without actually turning profits or delivering services and products that anyone wants or needs. To put debt into investments, whatever that happen to be, crypto, NFT’s, art, Pokemon, real estate, wherever the human fancy decides. Bubbles to swell wealth, to then be invested elsewhere, and on and on. Is it sustainable?

The question is, how many parking lots can be made, and high rise apartments, data centres and rare earth ripped from the ground until all are satisfied? The wealthy now, live at the expense of not just many of us, especially those in the developing world, but those to be born in the future. And, those who are inside the hierarchies of government the power and allure of politics provides them with a lifestyle that transcends those they are elected, anointed or ordained over to rule and command. We don’t need a secret alien conspiracy to conjure up this reality, they are simply a metaphor for very human people who do not care about consequences or the rest, and if they do, they see themselves as human gods with an omnipotence to oversee the rest of us with both benevolence and disdain. Whatever the case, they always profit. Always want more, and the government never stops growing, neither will the debt or the wealth of some.

Perhaps the fictions of the past all gave us fragments of a reality, censorship, surveillance, spectacle, wars, debt, prohibition, degraded food, automation, killer robots and so on. But, you wanted this? Many seem to be working towards this outcome. To trust power, to adore authority, to embrace corporate monopolies and the great monopoly of the state, is a choice. Put the sun glasses away, they are not needed. Piper and David got the signal down, but people kept on with the status quo. In the end, most really don’t care. Tomorrow, that’s someone else problem. The yuppies and aliens won?

The Kyle Anzalone Show with Jim Webb: Trump to Netanyahu: ‘You’re F**king Crazy’

by | Jun 8, 2026 |

Trump didn’t just get “frustrated” with Netanyahu. He confirmed he told him, “Are you effing crazy,” and that single moment raises a bigger question: if the White House is truly fed up, why does the region still look like it’s sliding toward wider war?

Jim Webb joins me to break down what matters beneath the gossip-cycle headlines. We talk about Israel’s expanding operations in Lebanon, Iran’s promise to respond harder than tit-for-tat, and the messy reality behind CENTCOM messaging and casualty reporting after attacks tied to Kuwait and Bahrain. If you’ve been wondering whether a ceasefire exists when missiles and drones still fly, we define the terms in plain English and map out where escalation pressures are coming from.

We also go where Washington loves to hedge: Israel’s nuclear “non-position” and the legal and political incentives that keep it that way, even though everyone on Capitol Hill knows the score. From there, we connect foreign policy directly to your wallet, from fuel shocks and the Strait of Hormuz risk to what prolonged conflict could mean for inflation and household budgets.

Finally, we dig into domestic politics, including the Thomas Massie primary and what massive outside spending signals to every other member of Congress. If you care about US military aid, the Israel lobby, ending the Iran war, and how this all hits the midterms, this is the connective tissue. Subscribe, share this with a friend, and leave a rating and review, what do you think is the one move that would actually change US policy?

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The Other Side of the Slap

by | Jun 5, 2026 |

I spent a lot of time dealing with the victim of violence. That betrayal only a lover can express, the sinister switch from affection or at least the performance required to invent love, to twist into a tantrum of rage. The bruising and cuts, a secondary blistering to a pain that seldom heals. Perhaps can not heal.

“I would die for you, I would kill for you,” such men squirm, maybe they believe it. At least when they are forged inside of their own egotistical certainty. Yet, despite such promises, they don’t protect their lover-victim from themselves. The imbalance is perhaps a calculation of ownership, ‘she’ in this case is a possession, to be owned and kept. No self ownership or agency for herself, just a being to be protected, a prisoner to such affections.

The idea of self owner ship has in itself been eroded by ideological coercion, before that it was defined by a religious one. And in this case it’s enslaved romantically.

When I coached and helped those who had experienced such intimate violence, near all ladies, find their voice from beneath the dried tears, hidden bruises. Help them, as one put it when she saw me bashing the heavy bag, “I wanna be able to do that,” it was with consideration to such betrayal and distrust. If the man who claimed to love, who said. “I do,” and even shared children with could beat, bludgeon and in some cases rape with hateful spite, then how could one trust anyone else?

To sleep with the enemy, or torturer. To share a life and house with an abuser. Was in the past common. It’s less accepted now. It was in the era before women’s liberation and liberal values, it’s an obligation in some cultures for the feminine to yield. In many parts of the world, rape, violence are masculine rights. Whether through culture, religion or even mutations of both are empowered by the writ of law.

Yes, women can and do abuse men. Domestic violence occurs against men. Males have been killed and beaten, or maimed by their female partners. John Wayne Bobbit, was after all for a time a household name. I am well aware of this. That does not relate to the particular interactions that I am about to share.

As an inflection of hearing and doing my best to help some ladies over come their betrayals and experiences, I had a conversation with two men who had been the attackers. I came across each for books that I was writing.

James, seemed likeable enough, a little flabby with a salt and pepper beard and the body shape of a man who liked to lift heavy weights but never said no to a late night snack. Or beer. It was the beer, and other forms of alcohol that he claimed to be his demon. The excuse needed to rationalise a temper and inconsistent arrogance.

“I had a problem, I’m better now,” he mentioned about his drinking.

He never served time for what he did to his wife, now ex. It did make it hard for him to see his two kids. He told me that one of them was present for one of the beatings.

“I can admit now that it was wrong, that’s easy for me to do so. Around the time that it all happened, I would never even think about it. I had so much anger and then I felt ashamed, or I would need to get drunk and feel sorry for myself.”

His wife had a broken nose and black eye after one of the attacks. He said that he only hit her on three occasions, at least that he recalls.

“I was only charged for the time she went to hospital. In some ways, she enabled me. I mean, not to blame her. It was all my fault, I mean she let me do it again and again.”

“What was she meant to do? Fight back?” I asked him coldly.

“I don’t know, not let me come back to her. Not accept my apology. It was when she kicked me out and stopped me from seeing our kids, that’s when I got sober.”

“The violence and abuse was all a self-help exercise for your benefit?”

He chuckled with unease, “no, I mean, you know, I saw who I was really after.”

“Because you faced a consequence for your actions?”

“I guess.”

“And when your eldest daughter saw you hit her, what do you think that did to her?”

He fidgeted, “It happened fast, I didn’t know she was there. Listen, I would never hit my kids. I could never hurt them.”

“But, you could your wife?”

“I’m not that person now.”

I was meant to be interviewing James for my book, Degenerate, he was in the BDSM realm. The violence for him after his ex was now seemingly consensual. He liked it rough, at least to be the one doing the violence, not to receive it. I doubt his pug-like jaw could take a shot. It did not take much for him to open up about his past, his own trauma as he saw it.

“I have so much guilt for what I did.”

“You should.”

He nodded, a cigarette in his fingers, as he stared at the road while we leaned against his car.

“I am not like that now.”

The rest of the conversation ran into subject matter for the book. A conversation that I did not include in the book, and it would be inappropriate to pollute this writing with any of it. For him, perhaps in some way, the sex and violence or at least how he expressed himself was entwined.

Gavin had been in an out of the remand centre for assault, domestic violence and drug related offences. On home detention when I spoke with him, his stories bubbled in and out of any believable truth. I found when someone wants you to like them, they will attempt to finish your sentences in agreement with you, or change what they have already said to align with your words. Gavin did this on a few occasions.

I was going to write a follow up book to, Degenerate, and call it, Dangerous. The premise being I would find and investigate and interview people who indulge in criminal behaviour or, have particular beliefs and world views which go against the societal grain. I had made some contacts and did begin with that expedition but, burn out and an inability to spend money and time on an enterprise that would go unread deterred me from pursuing it.

As for Gavin, he had tattoos crawling up his neck, and inked words on his knuckles and up his forearms. The usual poetic mastery such as “loyalty,” “honour”, “FAFO (Fuck Around, Find Out)” and “I love Mum.” Maybe not, that last one.

At times his eyes held a yellowed hue like egg yolk, his breath puffed with whatever vape he was sucking and with the marinated perfume only green teeth could produce.

“We were having a break, and she betrayed me, was hard to tolerate,” he sucked the kiwi-strawberry scented vape form his couch.

His on again, off again, girlfriend had been seeing him for about six years. He had been charged with assault against her, and she even had a restraining order against him but the romance or co-dependency ensured that she would come and visit him while he was on home detention.

“Was this the first time you assaulted her?”

“Nah, she made all that shit up. I was done because I wrote threatening things to her in text and left a voice message.”

“That’s why you were charged.”

“Yup.”

“And the more recent time?”

“We had a break, and I was seeing a younger bird. She was all messed up and needed to have a hit of the pipe before we fucked. That girl has a head full of mess. Was fun but she was attracted to this,” he pointed to his bikie aesthetic, the tattoos, jewellery, and lifestyle. Perhaps free ‘gear’ also. In her case it seemed to be nitrous oxide. Two bottles stood erect on a nearby bench top.

“And your ex was seeing someone else?”

“No, she was chatting to a bloke from another group.”

I have refrained from mentioning which bikie group he belonged to and the other man was involved with.

“She seems to have a type.”

“I know right,” he began to pack his pipe with the putrid leaf of weed.

“And it was because of this, you felt betrayed?”

“Yeah, she knows what my business is. You can’t fuck around with rivals like that.”

“She doesn’t mind that you were sleeping with another girl?”

“Nah, we were taking a break.”

“And when you found out about this other guy, that’s when you snapped?”

“Yeah, bro. She was pushing me and getting in my face. I just lost it and hit her a few times to calm her down. She left crying and threatening me.”

I really try not to insert myself into such conversations while attempting to be objective, so I let him continue. According to his house mate, a child hood friend of Gavin’s, he had also threatened to cut her head off with an axe as well as break her fingers so that she could not text anyone again. Another reason why writing a book like, Dangerous, was going to be so difficult for me, because retaining any objectivity would be too hard.

I wanted to rip his throat form his head. I am no white knight, just a man. Here, I am trying to pack aside that inclination and use my pen, or keyboard instead.

“Then we were over, I told my mates and they said I had done the right thing. No need to have a bitch like that.”

“Did you or do you still love her?”

“Yeah, I do. That’s why I am so angry.”

“If you loved her, then why can’t you let her go and not keep putting her and you through this cycle of violence and screaming?”

He sucked the pipe, plumes of smoke wafted about his face while he stared at me with glassy eyes, “because I love her.”

“She isn’t your possession.”

“I know what’s best for her.”

“Hitting and threatening her, is best for her?”

“I didn’t want to do that. I just lost control.”

“Are you in control now?”

He nodded.

“And if she walked through the door, and told you what she had been doing and who she had been speaking with and it was not something you wanted to hear?”

“I’d be fucking pissed.”

“And what would you do?”

He rocked back and forth in his seat, “I don’t know.”

“Would you remain in control of yourself?”

He could not answer. I knew the answer. His ex knew the answer. Maybe, beneath the ink veneer, the lies he told himself and the stench of weed, he also knew the answer.

The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Meeting in Situation Room to Decide on Iran Deal

by | Jun 3, 2026 | ,

A deal with Iran sounds simple until you read the fine print. We dig into the reports of a memorandum of understanding that would reopen the Strait of Hormuz and lift parts of the pressure campaign, then ask the uncomfortable question: is this “freedom of navigation,” or is it a new normal where Iran and Oman set the rules and the fees at the world’s most important oil chokepoint?

From there, we get specific about the nuclear issue that could make or break everything. What does it actually mean to “destroy” enriched uranium, and what options exist that are technically real, verifiable, and compatible with the Non-Proliferation Treaty? We talk through downblending, fuel grade caps, IAEA oversight, and why political slogans can’t replace inspection regimes. We also push back on the postwar victory narrative and the attempt to relitigate the JCPOA instead of facing what changed on the ground.

Then we move to the part many leaders try to bracket off, but can’t: Lebanon and Gaza. If a ceasefire is supposed to apply to Lebanon, does that require Israel to stop bombing and withdraw from the south? And when an Israeli soldier describes Gaza with no meaningful civilian rules of engagement, alongside UN reporting on detainee abuse, what does that demand from U.S. policy and public honesty?

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The Kyle Anzalone Show with Daniel McAdams: Axios Says US–Iran Deal Reached as U.S. and IRAN Trade Missile Fire

by | Jun 2, 2026 |

Congress is hollowing out, and the consequences show up first in foreign policy. Dan McAdams returns to talk with us about what Thomas Massie’s primary loss signals for antiwar oversight, why the Ron Paul era of forcing floor debates through appropriations fights is largely gone, and how that vacuum makes it easier for Washington to slide into the next conflict without friction.

We dig into Iran and the so-called ceasefire: the strikes, the responses, and the familiar pattern of narrative manipulation where the U.S. can provoke, then rebrand escalation as “defense.” We also unpack the latest claims of a draft Trump Iran deal, why leak-driven reporting deserves extra skepticism, and how media pipelines can function like message distribution for competing interests rather than real journalism.

From there we move to Israel and Gaza, including Netanyahu’s comments that point toward annexation, the U.S. role in funding and arming the campaign, and the way Lebanon and Hezbollah complicate any regional settlement. We also discuss harrowing firsthand accounts of Gaza’s blockade and a political paradox: anti-intervention voices are breaking through culturally, but votes and power haven’t caught up yet. Finally, we zoom out to Latin America, from Javier Milei and BRICS anxiety to U.S. drug war strikes in Guatemala and the danger of normalizing kill-first policy without due process.

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Trump Continues to Test Limits of Iran Ceasefire, How Will Tehran Respond?

by | Jun 1, 2026 |

A ceasefire is supposed to lower the temperature, not provide new vocabulary for the same war. We unpack reports that the U.S. bombed targets in Iran after a ceasefire and why calling it “self-defense” can still function as a direct escalation. I walk through what those strikes signal, how each side tries to define the rules midstream, and why Iran may tolerate only so many “limited” hits before choosing a bigger response.

From there, we get specific about the hard constraints behind the headlines: weapons stockpiles, interceptor burn rates, and how long it can take to replace key munitions. That context changes everything about threats, deterrence, and the realism of returning to a high-intensity U.S. Iran war. We also break down Marco Rubio’s public talking points on Iran’s nuclear program, what U.S. intelligence and international monitoring have said, and the reported outlines of a possible memorandum of understanding that touches sanctions relief, frozen assets, and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump’s White House remarks add another layer, including talk about Hormuz control and a shocking shot at Oman, one of the most important mediators in U.S. Iran diplomacy. We connect that to the bigger regional picture, including Israel, Lebanon, and the Washington voices pushing to keep the fight going. Finally, we pivot to Jill Biden saying she feared Joe Biden was “having a stroke” during the 2024 debate and what that raises about cognitive decline, transparency, and the massive war powers concentrated in the presidency.

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