Download Episode. Kevin Gosztola returns to the show. But this time, it isn’t to provide yet another update on Julian Assange’s long struggle for freedom but to react to, explain and celebrate the plea deal that got him there. Gosztola and Scott review the...
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Efficiency at What Cost? Smart Cities and the Surveillance Creep
by Zach Varnell | Jun 27, 2024 | Featured Articles
In cities and towns across the nation, our communities are being transformed by the implementation of so-called “smart” technologies said to create more efficient, safe, and sustainable environments. These smart cities use a range of devices such as cameras, sensors,...
Assange Finally Free After Judge Accepts Plea Agreement
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 26, 2024 | News
After a day of travel across Eurasia, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrived in the US territory of the Northern Mariana Islands for a court date. Assange was forced to plead guilty to secure his freedom after over 10 years of confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and the UK’s Belmarsh prison.
FBI Requests 20-Year Wait Before Producing OKC Records
by Ken Silva | Jun 26, 2024 | Featured Articles, OKC
It’s been about nine years since Utah attorney Jesse Trentadue filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records about a CIA asset and FBI informant who helped fund the Oklahoma City bombing, as well as for records about a neo-Nazi bank-robbery gang also involved...
Julian Assange and the Criminalization of Journalism
by Jeremy R. Hammond | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog
Julian Assange was persecuted for over a decade for heroically exposing the criminal organization in Washington, DC. His crime was doing journalism.
Assange Released from Prison After Agreeing To Plead Guilty to Espionage Act Violation
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 25, 2024 | News
The plea bargain allows the Wikileaks founder to return to Australia after a court date in the Mariana Islands WikiLeaks reports that its founder, Julian Assange, was released from UK prison on bail and is in the process of returning to Australia. Court documents...
Exposing Elite Cynicism With Satirical Truth
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jun 25, 2024 | Book Reviews, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Christopher J. Coyne and Abigail R. Hall’s How to Run Wars: a Confidential Playbook for the National Security Elite is a sharp, sardonic critique of America's perpetual engagement in wars abroad and the erosion of civil liberties at home. The book, newly published by...
About Bloody Time They Let Him Go…BUT…
by Kym Robinson | Jun 25, 2024 | Blog
“About Bloody Time,” the common Aussie utters to the news that Assange is now free. They are letting Assange go free, to return to Australia. The condition was that he had to reach a plea deal. Admit he was guilty. A compromise that removes a man from his legal limbo,...
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The Other Side of the Slap
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...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Meeting in Situation Room to Decide on Iran Deal
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,”...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Daniel McAdams: Axios Says US–Iran Deal Reached as U.S. and IRAN Trade Missile Fire
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...
To Baptize the State w/John Weeks
John and I skip reading Rules for Radicals this week and discuss ideas that have been bogging us down for the last few months.
Trump Continues to Test Limits of Iran Ceasefire, How Will Tehran Respond?
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...
The Kyle Anzalone Show Trump Has Allowed Netanyahu to Control Negotiations, and it’s hurting Americans
Memorial Day brings out a lot of scripted lines, but we want to talk about the part that gets avoided: what American wars actually cost, who pays, and how often the public is left holding the bill while elites chase ideology, influence, and profit. We start by looking...











