Patrick Osgood, Kurdistan Bureau Chief for IraqOilReport.com, discusses the referendum on Kurdish independence, battling ISIS in Mosul and beyond, the impact of low oil prices on Iraq's economy, and whether Iraq can become a cohesive functioning state without a...
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News Roundup 3/31/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 31, 2017 | Blog
Flynn offers to testify about the Trump campaign connections to Russia in exchange for immunity. [Link] Trump has given the military power to conduct offensive counterterrorism strikes against al-Shabaab in Somalia. Previously, the US was only about to conduct strikes...
News Roundup 3/30/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 30, 2017 | Blog
Seattle is suing the federal government for threatening to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities. [Link] A longtime State Department employee has been charged with lying to the FBI about gifts she received from China. [Link] States that have legalized medical...
US Commander: US Airstrike ‘Probably’ Behind Mosul Civilian Death Toll
by Jason Ditz | Mar 29, 2017 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Says Bombs Should Not Have Collapsed the Buildings On March 17, US airstrikes against the city of Mosul leveled multiple buildings, killing in excess of 200 people, by most estimates. The Pentagon had long been very evasive about the incident so far, confirming they’d...
News Roundup 3/28/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 28, 2017 | Blog
Jeff Sessions announced that he will look to strip funding from sanctuary cities. [Link] The US is boycotting nuclear disarmament talks taking place at the UN. [Link] US soldiers in Mosul have started to wear black uniforms to look more like Iraqi counterterrorism...
News Roundup 3/27/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 27, 2017 | Blog
Trump gave Merkel a $375 billion bill that he printed out himself. The bill was for defense services NATO provided to Germany. [Link] The US is investigating multiple airstrikes in Iraq and Syria. Those airstrikes killed a total of nearly 300 civilians. Of course, it...
News Roundup 3/26/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 26, 2017 | Blog
Trump issues the permit to build the Keystone XL Pipeline. [Link] FBI agents posed as documentary filmmakers during the Bundy Ranch Standoff to talk with protesters supporting the Bundy family. The FBI is now using those interviews in court to prove the guilt of...
News Roundup 3/24/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 24, 2017 | Blog
Trump's pick for Labor Secretary, Alexander Acosta, was a district attorney in Miami and gave a very lenient plea deal to Jeffery Epstein. Under the plea deal, Epstein was given 13 months in prison but was allowed to work from home during the day. Epstein was...
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: When Will Russia Win the War?
Ukraine’s air defenses are hitting a wall, and the numbers are terrifying. We walk through Zelensky’s warning that Patriot interceptors are running short, why ballistic missiles are a different problem than drones and cruise missiles, and what it means when Ukraine...
Rules for Radicals: The Way Ahead w/John Weeks
John and I finish reading Rules for Radicals.
South African Politics and Refugees w/Col Chris Wyatt
Col Chris Wyatt joined me to discuss South Africa and the refugees from South Africa entering the US. Col Chris Wyatt YouTube Tommysalmons.com YouTube @YearZeroPod
The Kyle Anzalone Show: As the American Empire Collapses, Can We Salvage a Republic?
The Fourth of July is supposed to feel like a reset, but it hits differently when people look around and see a country that can fund anything abroad while families cut back at home. We start with a viral political message about America’s contradictions, then challenge...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Scott Horton: How Evil Is the American Empire?
Putin says Russia is in a “challenging period,” but the more revealing question is what comes next when a war stops feeling like a crisis and starts running on autopilot. We unpack why Russia can look simultaneously steady and stuck: not prone to emotional swings, yet...
The Kyle Anzalone Show guest Jim Webb: Commies or Trump? Who Is a Threat to the American Dream
Calling everything “communism” might win a news cycle, but it doesn’t explain why so many Americans feel the ladder to a stable life is disappearing. Kyle sits down with Jim Webb to sort propaganda from incentives, starting with Trump’s warnings about socialist...
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