The US has evacuated the smaller of its two bases in southern Syria. Together with Syrian rebels in its employ it has left the Zakaf outpost and actually dynamited it on the way out. It has also told two rebel outfits in the south, with whom it has previously cut...
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News Roundup 9/5/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 5, 2017 | Blog
A judge has sentenced a woman who is the victim of child sex trafficking to nearly six years in jail. The woman pressured her friend to join the child sex network she was involved in. She was 15, and under the control of an abusive pimp at the time she...
News Roundup 9/4/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 4, 2017 | Blog
The Department of Health and Human Services rolled back an Obama era directive that weakened work requirements for welfare recipients. [Link] Trump is sharply cutting the funding to promote Obamacare enrollment. [Link] A Utah nurse was placed under arrest for refusing...
News Roundup 9/1/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Sep 1, 2017 | Blog
The US is sending additional F-15s to the Baltic states. The planes will arrive in the region before Russia begins war games with Bulgaria. [Link] The Russian war games will involve just under 12,700 troops. [Link] The US ordered Russia to close one consulate and two...
News Roundup 8/31/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 31, 2017 | Blog
A Washington police officer has been placed on administrative leave after a video showed him pointing his gun at a person for no reason. [Link] A Michigan police officer fired his Taser at a 15-year-old riding an ATV. The 15-year-old was killed in the crash caused by...
News Roundup 8/29/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 29, 2017 | Blog
The Eighth Circut appeals court found that the First Amendment allows citizens to criticize police officers. [Link] Louise Mensch and Claude Taylor published a story after being given fake information. The fake information was given to Mensch as a hoax. The hoaxer...
News Roundup 8/28/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 28, 2017 | Blog
Trump is looking to roll back an Obama ban on selling surplus military equipment to police departments. [Link] Trump will pardon former Shariff Joe Arpaio. [Link] Sebastian Gorka has resigned his position in the Trump Administration. [Link] Trump threatens to withdraw...
News Roundup 8/25/17
by Kyle Anzalone | Aug 25, 2017 | Blog
Trump listened to the generals in his administration for his decision on Afghanistan War policy. [Link] A Washington DC judge upholds a warrant that will allow the Justice Department to look at user data of an anti-Trump website. [Link] The Senate...
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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.
Yes, Minister Forever and Forever
Occam's Razor often reveals the easiest answer to a wicked problem. Take a half hour to watch the video below from the every entertaining staff at T.Rex. Yes, T.Rex makes some of the best holsters on Earth for all your social work needs. In the end, the state is built...
[GUEST] IAN PROUD, Fmr. British Diplomat to Russia – Is the end of war near? New Episode of the Kyle Anzalone Show
Host Kyle Anzalone talks with former British diplomat Ian Proud.