Whatever empires do abroad eventually comes home. Yet another unintended consequences come home in a tidal wave. This is personal; I was diagnosed with Traumatic Brain Injury in 2019. I spent nearly a quarter century in the US military. I know there's a connection....
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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,...
7/11/24 Laurie Calhoun on Anthony Blinken and All the Terrible People Running American Foreign Policy
by Scott Horton | Jul 15, 2024 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott is joined by Libertarian Institute Senior Fellow Laurie Calhoun to talk about Anthony Blinken. Using the recent transfer of F-16s to Ukraine as a jumping-off point, the two discuss Blinken’s terrible tenure as Secretary of State and reflect...
Trump’s Attempted Assassination and the Betrayal of the Heroic Ethos
by John Weeks | Jul 15, 2024 | Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
On Saturday, former president Donald Trump came within less of an inch of being assassinated by a rooftop sniper during an outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. A Secret Service counter sniper “neutralized the shooter,” but not before Trump and at least two rally...
Parody of a Statesman: Antony Blinken, Secretary of War
by Laurie Calhoun | Jul 8, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
For Halloween last year, the United States’ highest ranked diplomat, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, dressed his son and daughter up as Ukrainian President Volodomyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian flag, respectively. At a White House event on that day, Blinken’s...
The Cato Institute’s Disgraceful Embrace of NATO
by Ted Galen Carpenter | Jul 2, 2024 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
On July 9, 2024, the Cato Institute is holding a conference entitled “NATO at 75, Rebalancing the Transatlantic Alliance.” That title should come as a surprise to committed libertarians. When the modern libertarian movement emerged after World War II, one prominent...
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...
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Trump Considers Restarting War, Says Iran Ceasefire on Life Support
A president says he has “the best plan ever,” insists Iran is “defeated militarily,” and talks like one more strike package can end the problem. We slow that down and look at the actual mechanics of a modern Iran war: depleted standoff munitions, limited Patriot and...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski: A Ceasefire With Ships Getting Shot At Isn’t a Ceasefire, It’s a Pressure Campaign
A “ceasefire” that still includes ships getting shot at isn’t a ceasefire, it’s a pressure campaign with a short fuse. Kyle sits down with Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski to make sense of the newest swings in the Iran conflict, from limited strikes and fast...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Dan McKnight: America’s Dangerous Path
The story we’re being sold about the Iran war is simple: it’s limited, it’s working, and it’s almost over. The reality sounds a lot more dangerous when you slow down and ask the questions leaders keep skipping: What’s the strategy? What’s the end state? And why is the...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Nick Cleveland-Stout Exposes Israel’s MASSIVE Campaign to Influence American Christians & Lawmakers
Your phone buzzing with political ads the moment you step into a church parking lot sounds like satire, but the documents and contracts point to something very real. We sit down with Nick Cleveland-Stout of the Quincy Institute (and a writer at Drop Site News) to...
Larry Johnson: The Ceasefire Is Collapsing as Chaos Breaks Out in Strait of Hormuz
One bad assumption can start a bigger war, and nowhere is that clearer than the Strait of Hormuz. Kyle sits down with Larry Johnson to sort through the morning’s flood of claims and counterclaims: reported Iranian missile and drone attacks, damage to Gulf oil...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Richard Medhurst: Trump Turned the American Empire Into a Pirate State
A journalist can be jailed, raided, and investigated for more than a year without ever being charged and that’s not a glitch, it’s the point. I sit down with investigative journalist Richard Medhurst to talk about his legal situation spanning the UK and Austria, where...












