Tel Aviv will reposition its military assets from southern Israel to the northern border Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that the intense phase of the Israeli operations in Gaza will end “very soon.” However, he said that Tel Aviv was not moving off...
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War Deprives Palestinian Children of Food, Water, Education
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 24, 2024 | News
Aid agencies say the Israeli “pause” has not created improvement for shipments of humanitarian aid A UN official recently described the Israeli onslaught in Gaza as a “war on children” as Palestinian youth go without food, education, and many other foundational needs....
New Legal Powers for Settlers Facilitate West Bank Annexation
by Connor Freeman | Jun 23, 2024 | News
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) quietly issued an order which transfers substantial legal powers over the occupied West Bank to Settlements Administration bureaucrats working under Israel’s extremist minister Bezalel Smotrich, The Guardian reports. This paves the way...
IDF: Netanyahu’s Goal of Eliminating Hamas Is Unachievable
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 20, 2024 | News
The US intelligence community assesses that Israel cannot defeat the militant Palestinian organization The spokesman for the Israeli military explained that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s goal of eradicating Hamas is not achievable. The statement comes amid a...
Israel Touts Record Weapons Exports in 2023
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 20, 2024 | News
Amid the onslaught in Gaza, Tel Aviv exported $13 billion in arms The Israeli Defense Ministry announced that, for the third straight year, Tel Aviv had set a new record for weapon exports. Israel sold $13 billion in arms last year, with India the largest importer. In...
Israel Says No Ceasefire Deal, Military Ops Will Continue
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 19, 2024 | News
An Israeli official explained that Tel Aviv will not accept any of Hamas’s proposed changes to a deal proposed by Washington Tel Aviv has no intention of reaching a peace deal with Hamas and the onslaught in Gaza will continue in “full force” after the destruction of...
‘Nothing Has Changed’ Since Israel Announced Limited Humanitarian Pause
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 18, 2024 | News
The Israel Defense Forces said it would halt operations near one road in Gaza during daylight hours. The head of the UN aid agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) said there has been no change on the ground since Israel’s military claimed it would open a humanitarian aid...
US Sanctions Israel Group Attacking Aid Shipments
by Kyle Anzalone | Jun 17, 2024 | News
Tzav 9 has targeted humanitarian aid trucks traveling through the West Bank to Gaza The US blacklisted an Israeli organization for interfering with aid shipments headed to Gaza. The group, Tzav 9, demands that no aid enter the Strip until all Israeli hostages are...
Blog
F35 Follies: Fat Amy Fails Again and Again
The F35 is in trouble in Europe. NATO observed the U.S. cut off its vital military aid deliveries to Ukraine, and choke Kyiv's access to American-derived intelligence in a bid to bend Ukraine to its will, namely to sit down at the negotiating table for ceasefire...
New Chasing Ghosts Podcast Episode is Live Monday 5 May 2025.
Ep 063 "Spanner in the Works: Sabotage and War" Military sabotage is a deliberate action aimed at weakening a government effort, or organization through subversion, obstruction, demoralization, destabilization, division, disruption, or destruction. It can take place...
Italian Navy Wins the Gold for Patrol Vessels
ITS Giovanni Delle Bande Nere arrived in Faslane and came alongside at Garelochhead yesterday. Italian shipbuilding bookends just how ghastly and horrendous US Navy procurement is. In roughly the same time it took the US to fight over and fail to build the...
Working Class w/Batya Ungar-Sargon
Batya and I discuss the point off view of working class people. Alp
A Review of Sinners (2025)
This review contains spoilers for Ryan Coogler's Sinners (2025). It is reprinted from Libertarian Institute editor Hunter DeRensis' Letterboxd. I never expected that I would be quoting Zora Neale Hurston in back-to-back film reviews, but her insights are too valuable...
New Episode of The Kyle Anzalone Show — James W. Carden : Europeanization Then Normalization
Former State Department official James Carden explains how Trump should approach Russia and end the war in Ukraine.