Download Episode. Scott interviews Iraqi journalist Dana Taib Menmy about an article he wrote on the possibility that cleric Muqtada al-Sadr may return to Iraqi politics after a nearly three-year withdrawal. Scott and Menmy discuss who Sadr is, why he left, why it...
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Iranian-Americans Weigh in On Tehran’s Attack on Israel
by Will Porter | Apr 13, 2024 | Blog
National Iranian American Council (NIAC) president Jamal Abdi has commented on Tehran's major drone and missile attack on Israel on Saturday night. NIAC has worked to improve US-Iran relations and spent years pushing for increased diplomacy. We are deeply concerned...
Aid Experts Warn Gaza Death Toll Could Exceed 100,000
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 9, 2024 | News
A group of aid experts said that more than 100,000 Palestinians could be killed by a combination of Israeli strikes, famine, and plague if the humanitarian conditions in Gaza are not significantly improved. In an interview with Haaretz, Francesco Checchi, professor of...
US Official Admits Ukraine Proxy War Failing to Weaken Russia
by Kyle Anzalone | Apr 4, 2024 | News
A top US official said that Russia has reconstituted nearly all of its military losses in Ukraine. A core objective for the White House’s $130 billion proxy war in Ukraine was to inflict “strategic defeat” on Russia and leave its forces crippled. Speaking at an event...
How Much Does the Government Hate You?
by Scott Horton | Mar 30, 2024 | Blog
Sometimes you might wonder: Jeez, I know my security force would just as soon murder me and my family as protect us from some danger they themselves created. But just how much do they really enjoy beating me down and stealing my money? Well: Biden’s $7.5 billion...
NATO Expansion Will Not Go Unpunished
by Bill Buppert | Mar 30, 2024 | Blog
The Russians have been invaded by the West four times [1812, 1914, 1918, 1941] in the last 212 years. Of course, technically, the precursor for 1918-20 was the German injection of the Bolshevik bacillus in the person of Vladimir Lenin into the Russian body politic in...
Kyle Anzalone on Judge Nap: Gaza UN Resolution, Moscow Attack
by Will Porter | Mar 28, 2024 | Blog
Watch Kyle's latest appearance on Judge Napolitano's show 'Judging Freedom,' where he discusses the latest UN Security Council resolution on the Gaza war and last week's deadly terrorist attack in Moscow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7KfY_-WD5c
News Roundup 3/27/24
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 27, 2024 | News Roundup
Ukraine Ukraine Demands More Weapons: ‘Give Us the Damn Patriots’ The Institute Russian FSB Chief Says US, UK, and Ukraine Could Have Been Involved in Moscow Terror Attack AWC China US, Japan to Strengthen Military Ties in Buildup Aimed at China AWC Israel Israel...
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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.