Tom Perez was elected to chair the Democratic Party. Perez served in the Obama Administration. [Link] A Philippines Senator who opposes the president's war on drugs has been arrested and accused of violating the drug laws. The Senator's arrest seems to be an...
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News Roundup 2/24/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 24, 2017 | Blog
Private prison companies donated over $100 million to Trump for his election and inauguration. These companies will now profit from Trump's immigration policy. [Link] Jeff Sessions removes an Obama directive that ordered the Department of Justice to move away from...
News Roundup 2/23/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 23, 2017 | Blog
The ATF ran an illegal cigarette smuggling operation to raise millions of dollars in funding for undercover operations. The ATF is now being sued by a group of tobacco growers. [Link] New Hampshire passes a Constitutional Carry law. This will allow citizens to...
News Roundup 2/22/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 22, 2017 | Blog
The Department of Homeland Security issued orders to immigration enforcement agents to work to deport illegal immigrants. The spokesperson for DHS said that those with criminal records will be prioritized. Those who were granted protected under Obama's DACA program...
News Roundup 2/21/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 21, 2017 | Blog
Trump picks H.R. McMaster to replace Flynn as National Security Advisor. [Link] Immigration enforcement agents are posing as local police officers to get information about people they suspect to be illegal immigrants. [Link] 74 bodies have washed ashore in Libya. It...
News Roundup 2/20/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 20, 2017 | Blog
Scott Pruitt has been confirmed to head the EPA. Pruitt is currently suing the EPA as Oklahoma's Attorney General. [Link] An Arizona sheriff overturns a rule put in place by his predecessor, Joe Arpaio, that allows immigrants to be detained for over the maximum...
2/8/17 Joe Lauria on the battle for Mosul against the Islamic State in Iraq
by Scott Horton | Feb 8, 2017 | The Scott Horton Show
Joe Lauria, an independent international affairs journalist, discusses the Iraqi army's long struggle to finally retake eastern Mosul from the Islamic State; the very difficult upcoming battle for the remainder of the city; the fate of Mosul's internally displaced...
News Roundup 2/6/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Feb 6, 2017 | Blog
The Trump Administration is walking back its plans to reopen CIA black sites. [Link] The US military underreports the number of airstrikes it conducts by the thousands. [Link] The US has agreed to a $8.5 billion deal with Lockheed Martian to buy 90 F-35As. The cost is...
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The Kyle Anzalone Show: Is Trump The Best Israeli President Ever?
Trump says he wants a deal with Iran. Netanyahu hints the real goal is regime change anyway. That contradiction is where diplomacy goes to die, and it is also where Americans get dragged into a war they did not vote for. We roll solo and ask the blunt question a lot...
You don’t need the sun glasses…
It turns out wearing the glasses made no difference. In the John Carpenter film, They Live, our hero John Nada is one in many workers stumbling from hunger to poverty and piece work in an economy that is only built to exploit them. It’s a film both critical of Reagan...
The Kyle Anzalone Show with Jim Webb: Trump to Netanyahu: ‘You’re F**king Crazy’
Trump didn’t just get “frustrated” with Netanyahu. He confirmed he told him, “Are you effing crazy,” and that single moment raises a bigger question: if the White House is truly fed up, why does the region still look like it’s sliding toward wider war? Jim Webb joins...
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...
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