Conflicts of Interest: Global Finance, Geopolitics, and Putin Invasion of Ukraine

March 25, 2022

On COI #252, Joanne Leon, host of Around the Empire, joins Kyle Anzalone to discuss the war in Ukraine and the global financial implications. Subscribe on YouTube and audio-only.

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Tulsi Gabbard Takes On a War-Hungry Sean Hannity

March 25, 2022

Tulsi Gabbard takes on pro-war Sean Hannity. Hannity: “If Vladimir Putin uses a nuke, the radiation fallout will impact NATO countries, that triggers Article 5, do you believe in Article 5 of the NATO agreement? … Putin doesn’t want to negotiate, clearly doesn’t want to negotiate, there have been many attempts at negotiation. … If […]

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War Is Still Hell

March 25, 2022

Around 2000 years ago Seneca the Younger said: “We are mad not only individually but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders, but what of war and the much vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?” In 1880, General William Tecumseh Sherman said: “There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all […]

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$1.1 Billion and Counting for US Navy’s Obstinance in Shutting Down Dangerous, Leaking Red Hill Jet Fuel Tanks in Honolulu

March 24, 2022

Total Congressional funding for all aspects of the Navy’s Red Hill water contamination debacle is now over $1.1 billion according to Hawai’i Congressional representative Ed Case and billions more are needed to complete cleanup, defueling and closing of the massive leaking Red Hill jet fuel storage facility. In a news release on March 9, 2022, […]

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WWIII? NATO To Take a MORE Aggressive Stance After ‘Emergency’ Brussels Summit

March 24, 2022

President Biden has attended an emergency NATO meeting in Brussels where the member countries have pledged to get more aggressive toward Russia rather than look for means of de-escalation. More troops, more weapons, more interference. All this for a Non-NATO country. Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.

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Conflicts of Interest: Rand Paul Breaks with Trump, GOP on Iran Nuclear Deal

March 24, 2022

On COI #251, Kyle Anzalone and Connor Freeman break down the latest Iran deal news, Senator Rand Paul’s support for the JCPOA, the ongoing genocide in Yemen, and the war industry’s profiteering. Connor covers London settling decades old debts with Tehran, a new IAEA report on Iran’s uranium hexafluoride processing, the Ayatollah’s support for the […]

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Film Critics Turn Away From Hard Truths Reflected in The Bombardment

March 24, 2022

Another head hangs lowly Child is slowly taken And the violence, caused such silence Who are we mistaken? ~ The Cranberries, "Zombie" The referential title-drop in the 2021 Netflix political-comedy, Don’t Look Up, becomes a slogan and cosmic act of disobedience the government is able to convince their electorate base to follow: do not look […]

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Will Humans Be the Next ‘Freedom Fries’?

March 23, 2022

U.S. pundits and strategic experts seem blissfully unaware of how close we all are to being fried in a nuclear strike by Russia. (Fair Labeling: if you are simply looking for yet another reason to demonize Putin, rather than to understand where he is coming from, save time and read no further.) Here’s the thing: […]

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US Policy in Ukraine Dumb and Dumber

March 23, 2022

Just yesterday the U.S. reiterated its stance it is not seeking to promote a negotiated truce between Ukraine and Russia that could end their month long war. It also re-stated that the best help in can provide is to flood more weaponry into the war zone. That is even dumber than the dumb US policy […]

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Four Hawai’i State Legislators Declare ‘Over-Militarization’ To Be a Threat to the Security of Hawai’i and the International Community

March 23, 2022

In a remarkable twist, four members of the Legislature of the State of Hawai’i are finally challenging the U.S. military in Hawai’i. No doubt using the US Navy’s massive jet fuel leak at Red Hill that contaminated the drinking water for over 100,000 residents of O’ahu as an inflection point of deteriorating military and Hawai’i […]

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