On COI #192, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman discuss how Washington is provoking war on multiple fronts. Kyle reports that the NDAA is being held up in the Senate pending votes on myriad proposed amendments. Connor then covers NDAA amendments which seek to end U.S. involvement in the Yemen war as well as Congressional efforts to block another arms sale to the genocidal Saudi regime. Connor also details findings in a new investigative report that exposed which American military industrial complex firms have profited most from sales to Riyadh during the war on Yemen. Kyle updates tensions...
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“Coming to Palestine” Discussed on Podcast
I discussed my Libertarian Institute book Coming to Palestine on the podcast The Enragés (a project under the auspices of the Center for a Stateless Society).
COI #186: You Cannot Break the ‘Blue Wall of Silence’
On COI #186, Kyle Anzalone discusses a new report from USA Today on the culture in police departments against exposing police abuse. The report found that nearly all police departments have a culture that punishes whistleblowers and defends abusers. The article argues laws, unions, size of departments, diversity, and oversight had little impact on officers ability to abuse the public without repercussions. Kyle breaks down how the Israeli firm NSO Group’s Pegasus software was being used to surveil leaders of human rights groups who advocate for Palestinians. Israel attempted to label the...
COI #179: Max Boot’s Ethnically Planned State
On COI #179, Kyle Anzalone refutes Max Boot’s recent Washington Post op-ed arguing against boycotting Israel. In the article, Boot admits that the reason we must reject BDS is that the movement calls for a “right of return” for Palestinian refugees. He admits that Palestinians cannot live in their homeland because that would make Israel a majority Palestinian state. Boot concludes his article by cowardly suggesting that people who oppose Israel only do so because they harbor a hatred for Jews. Kyle breaks down Joe Biden’s gaffe at his town hall with Anderson Cooper. Biden said the US was...
COI #161: Biden’s Medical Martial Law
On COI #161, Kyle Anzalone and Will Porter reflect on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and the innumerable ways they changed America forever. Will and Kyle also recall their own experiences growing up under the burgeoning War on Terror and how the attacks affected and influenced their lives. The Biden administration continues to crank up its Covid regime, expanding federal vaccine mandates through indirect, piecemeal regulatory moves, as opposed to an outright executive order forcing all Americans to be vaccinated. The incremental approach is less likely to provoke opposition, and...
Can Bitcoin Be Palestine’s Currency Of Freedom?
“Independence is financial,” Abukhdeir told me. “If we don’t have financial freedom, nothing is going to change.” But how do Palestinians buy bitcoin? “We always find the holes,” Abuwedad said. More here
6/22/21 Kalmen Barkin on Israel’s New Coalition Government
Kalmen Barkin is back for an update on Israeli politics. Naftali Bennett has just taken over as Israel's prime minister, following Benjamin Netanyahu's failure to successfully form a coalition government. Bennett, explains Barkin, is quite far on the right, yet he and Netanyahu are bitter rivals—indeed, Barkin says, this whole election was less about specific policy issues than it was about mutual desire to oust Netanyahu. And so the new ruling coalition has elements from both the left and the right, and, for the first time, Arabs. Mainstream Israeli political parties have traditionally...
COI#125: Repealing the 2002 Iraq War Authority Won’t End the War on Terror
On COI #125, Kyle and Will explain recent efforts in Congress to repeal the 2002 Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), which gave legal authority for the US invasion of Iraq. Kyle argues that while the 2002 authorization has been invoked a few times since the invasion, it's really the 2001 AUMF that's allowed the War on Terror to continue. Far less attention has been paid to the broader 2001 authorities, however. Israel briefly renewed airstrikes on the Gaza Strip last week, after Palestinians sent incendiary balloons into Israeli cities. The exchange followed clashes that...
Richman Talks Israel-Palestine on Decentralized Revolution
I discussed Israel-Palestine with Aaron Harris on the Mises Caucus's Decentralized Revolution podcast. Watch and listen here.
House Members Demand Pentagon Give Israel an Extra Billion in Aid
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers sent a letter to the Pentagon on Wednesday urging Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin to give the Israelis more military aid after Israel’s Gaza bombing campaign. The effort was led by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), who was joined by 54 other members of the House. The letter comes as Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz is traveling to Washington, where he is expected to ask the U.S. for an additional $1 billion in “emergency” military aid, on top of the $3.8 billion Israel receives annually. The letter reads: “We write to express our strong support for...
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