This week on Talk World Radio: Why won’t disproven Russiagate ever go away? Our guest Ray McGovern was an infantry/intelligence officer in the early Sixties, and became a CIA analyst. His duties eventually included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and...
Conflicts of Interest: New DOJ Rules Open Massive Loopholes for Spying on Journalists
On COI #138, Kyle breaks down several important news stories from around the world. The US Department of Justice announced new rules that prevent federal prosecutors from seeking the records of journalists that publish leaked information. However, Attorney General...
Ukrainian Conscripts Kill Kin To Preserve Monarchy in Europe
Interfax-Ukraine reported that the Danish ambassador to Ukraine paid a two-day visit to the front line of his host country’s war in the Donbass region. The press report phrased its account of the event like this: “On July 19-20, a delegation of the Kingdom...
Conflicts of Interest: Lazy Propaganda from the Corporate Press
On COI #137, Kyle and Will break down the new US Marine deployment to guard the American Embassy in Haiti, which comes amid instability after the assassination of the country's leader. While President Biden insists there will be no larger stabilization mission, that's...
US Ties to Suspected Haiti Assassins Follow Long History of Neocolonial Intervention
From The Grayzone: A growing number of suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse have US ties. At least one is a former DEA informant and several have received U.S. military training. Scholar Jemima Pierre of The Black Alliance for Peace...
Foreign Policy Is Not a Game
David Brooks tells a tale of sanitized U.S. foreign policy and likens our two major failed wars of the twenty-first century to a bad night of pitching:For most of the past century, human dignity had a friend – the United States of America. We are a deeply flawed and...
Battle of the Atlantic: Citing Nazi Germany as Model, US Military Chief Hails New NATO Command
General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was in Norfolk, Virginia on July 15 to mark the second NATO command in America achieving full operational capability. NATO’s Joint Force Command – Norfolk (JFC-Norfolk) joined NATO’s Allied...
A Thoroughly Misleading Article on Iran and the Nuclear Deal
A new article on Biden and Iran in The New York Times typifies the serious flaws in a lot of American reporting about Iran and related issues. David Sanger frames Biden’s approach to Iran as a “balancing act” between sometimes bombing Iranian-backed Iraqi militias and...
Conflicts of Interest: Hawks in Dove Feathers
On COI #135, Connor Freeman – writer at the Libertarian Institute – returns to the show to discuss how the popular ‘Breaking Points’ podcast sells war under the guise of populism and nonintervention. Connor reviews the career of host Saagar Enjeti, who spent time in...
The Insane Idea of Attacking Cuba
Francis Suarez, the mayor of Miami, just casually suggested military action against Cuba today:“Are you suggesting air strikes in Cuba?” MacCallum interrupted. “What I’m suggesting is that that option is one that has to be explored and cannot be just simply discarded...


