When Alysa Liu glided across the ice in Milan to claim gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics, the celebration was immediate and well deserved. She is a remarkable athlete. What followed just as quickly, however, was a familiar rhetorical maneuver: the deployment of her...
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) found that Israel killed the majority of murdered journalists in 2025. “Israel was responsible for two-thirds of all journalist and media worker killings in 2025, driving the total number killed worldwide last year to a...
The US and South Korea announced they will hold the annual Freedom Shield war games in March. Freedom Shield is a large-scale military drill held in South Korea each Spring. The war games will run for 10 days in mid-March, with 18,000 troops participating. Army Col....
No urinals on the USS Ford. This is a feature and not a bug. The main issue is breakdowns with the ship’s Vacuum Collection, Holding and Transfer (VCHT) system, which controls its toilets and sewage collection. The system is split across ten independent zones and...
On January 22, 2026—367 days after Donald Trump’s second inauguration and 352 days after his announcement of a plan for America to “Raze and Rebuild Gaza” and the day he launched his “Board of Peace” to “oversee” Gaza—Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner took the stage at...
There is always an urgency to put an end to war. But there is a growing urgency to bring an end to the war in Ukraine. That urgency was expressed in Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s claim that the Trump administration had set a June deadline for negotiating an...
PROF. Mohammad Marandi joins Kyle live from Moscow. His Internet connection is a little sketchy but the audio is fine. Be sure to comment to help us with the YT algorithm. What if the real battlefield isn’t a border but a bottleneck? We sit down with Professor...
American stealth fighter jets are deploying to an airbase in southern Israel. The US is engaged in a massive military buildup in the Middle East, and President Donald Trump is threatening to attack Iran. The Times of Israel reports that the F-22s were moved from the...
John joins me to read and comment on the book Rules for Radicals. In this episode we read The Prologue in preparation for diving into Alinsky’s work.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the leaders of dozens of European nations to discuss future Western support for Kiev. The meeting of the ‘coalition of the willing’ took place on Tuesday. The coalition is a group of Western nations providing support to...
