Conflicts of Interest

January 8, 2025

On COI #741, Kyle Anzalone discusses Biden’s final weapons shipment to Ukraine and whether Trump will attack Iran. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

Daniel Larison

January 7, 2025

Richard Nephew thinks that the case against attacking Iran isn’t as strong as it used to be: But today, the case against military action is not so neat. If anything, the case against attacking Iran’s nuclear facilities is stronger than it has ever been. It is because Iran’s nuclear program has advanced so far that […]

Kyle Anzalone

January 6, 2025

In this episode of the Kyle Anone Show, we unpack the narratives being crafted by officials in the waning days of the Biden administration. Jade Sullivan’s recent interview with Ian Bremmer reveals surprising developments in the Middle East that have shaped our understanding over the past year. We explore how Israel has reestablished dominance and […]

William Astore

January 6, 2025

Reprinted from Bracing Views with the author’s permission. If one side is armed with cap guns and the other with bazookas, would we call that a “war” between roughly equal powers? I thought of this as I turned to Antiwar.com to see that President Biden has approved yet another massive arms shipment to Israel, to […]

Eric Garris

January 6, 2025

I just found out that my old friend Bob Costello died in late November. Bob and I met in the late 1970s in the Libertarian Party.   We worked closely at the San Francisco Montgomery Street complex that included the LP, Libertarian Review, Cato Institute, and Students for a Libertarian Society. Bob and I became fast […]

Conflicts of Interest

January 6, 2025

On COI #740, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest news from Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

Brett Wilkins

January 5, 2025

A report published last Wednesday details how Israel forcibly expels Palestinians in the Gaza Strip in order to facilitate – and hide – genocidal attacks in evacuated areas, while forcing refugees into alleged humanitarian “safe zones” that are “intentionally designed to ensure the destruction of all life sheltering there.” The Palestinian human rights group Al-Haq […]

Brett Wilkins

January 5, 2025

At least seven far-right members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, are calling on the country’s defense minister to order the total destruction of northern Gaza’s food, water, and energy sources – most of which have already been obliterated by 15 months of relentless attacks – and the killing of any Palestinian who isn’t clearly surrendering […]

Greg Mitchell

January 4, 2025

Reprinted with permission from Greg Mitchell’s newsletter Between Rock and a Hard Place. Friday afternoon, President Biden posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal to my old friend Joe Galloway. No one could accuse veteran war reporter Galloway of being anti-military or unpatriotic (although some tried). He served four journalistic tours in Vietnam and was the […]

Conflicts of Interest

January 3, 2025

On COI #739, Kyle Anzalone discusses the latest on the terror attack in the US, the Israeli wars in Gaza and Iran, and the conflict in Ukraine. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.