The Israeli Knesset voted in favor of a series of bills that will shut down the UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA). One piece of legislation will name UNRWA as a terrorist entity. On Tuesday, the Israeli legislature passed three bills targeting UNRWA. The...
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Biden’s Blather and American Democracy Gone Awry
by Jim Bovard | Jul 23, 2024 | Featured Articles, Politics
Since late 2020, President Joe Biden has invoked “the will of the people” dozens of times to sanctify his power, including arbitrary decrees that were illegal or unconstitutional. Biden’s invocations did not prevent his re-election campaign from being terminated...
Trump’s Attempted Assassination Exposes Establishment Deceitfulness
by Connor O'Keeffe | Jul 23, 2024 | Featured Articles
On Saturday evening, former president and 2024 frontrunner Donald Trump survived an attempted assassination at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The attack was utterly shocking, not only because a would-be assassin was able to get so close to Trump with a...
Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink
by Bill Buppert | Jul 23, 2024 | Blog
The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...
7/18/24 Matt Taibbi on the RNC, the Trump Assassination Attempt and Biden’s Likely Replacements
by Scott Horton | Jul 22, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Matt Taibbi returns to the show in an interview recorded while he was at the Republican National Convention. He and Scott talk about the Trump assassination attempt, likely replacements for Joe Biden (the interview was recorded before Biden...
A Temporary Calm in the South China Sea
by Joseph Solis-Mullen | Jul 22, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
After a particularly fraught period, complete with water cannons, near collisions, and an actual melee where a Filippino sailor apparently lost a thumb, things in the South China Sea look set to settle down following Manila and Beijing’s reaching of a "provisional...
Tariffs Are Bipartisan Enemies of Freedom
by Jim Bovard | Jul 17, 2024 | Economics, Featured Articles
President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump both portray tariffs as magic wands to create national prosperity. Trump is calling for a 10% across-the-board tariff on imports, while Biden is imposing selective tariffs that he portrays as miracle cures for any...
The U.S. Continues to Undermine Its Own Interests in Iran
by Ted Snider | Jul 17, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
The American-led isolation of Iran is springing leaks all over. It seems that wherever Iran knocks, everyone answers. Except the United States. Instead, the U.S. continues to close the door, following a long pattern with Iran of undermining its own interests. In 2016,...
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Just Write Something Nice!
“Why don’t you write something nice? That will make people smile, and be happy?” I am certain that many writers past and present who occupy the field I am in, are asked this question. Why write about the misery of the world? Why look into the injustices? And peer...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest COL. LAWRENCE WILKERSON: After 23 Years, Is the Iraq War Finally Over?
The Iraq War has been a “still going” story for so long that it barely feels real when someone says it might finally be ending. We sit down with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson to talk through what the last American forces leaving Iraq could actually mean, not just for...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Prepares for a MORE War With Iran
“Only because I wanted to go further.” That single line from Donald Trump’s Time magazine interview changes how you should read the entire Iran war timeline. I’m solo today, digging into the most relevant sections of the interview and separating performative victory...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest LARRY JOHNSON: Trump’s Iran War Threat Reaches the Brink
A lot of foreign policy talk collapses into slogans until you ask one simple question: if things are going fine, why are oil prices still telling a different story? We bring Larry Johnson back to sort through the gap between public claims and what the Strait of...
The Mog Abides
Operation Gothic Serpent 3 October 1993 Shughart: “Gordy’s gone man. I’ll be outside.” There is no doubt Mogidishu, Somalia was a bad conflict (American has not been involved in a good one since 1871) but the valor and sprezzatura of Gordon and Shughart is off the...
The Kyle Anzalone Show: Showdown at the UN as the US and Iran Escalate Tensions
Trump takes the UN stage and talks about Iran the way politicians talk when they want options to expand a war without owning the cost. I walk through what he said, why it lands as bluster instead of strategy, and how that kind of rhetoric can still be dangerous when...











