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Scott interviews journalist Ramzy Baroud about what’s happening in Gaza, how the so-called “ceasefire” has impacted how many Palestinians Israel kills every day, the broader moves towards ethnic cleansing and more.  

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Ramzy Baroud is a US-Arab journalist and is the editor-in-chief of the Palestine Chronicle. He is the author of My Father Was A Freedom Fighter: The Untold Story of Gaza and The Last Earth: A Palestinian Story, These Chains Will Be Broken: Pal...

I discuss the current state of the economy, how Trump is attempting to recover a nation of vitality, and we watch the 1992 presidential debate.

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Following reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is seeking to restart Israel’s aggressive war against Iran, the Iranian Foreign Minister said the Islamic Republic is prepared for conflict. 

“America and Israel have tested their attack on Iran, and this attack and strategy faced extreme failure. If they repeat it, they will face the same results,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday. “We are ready for any choice. We don’t desire a war but we are ready for it.”

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Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least ten people, including children. One Israeli strike hit a school. 

Journalist Osama Abu Rabee reported on Thursday that the Abu Hussein School in northern Gaza was hit with an Israeli strike, killing one person. The school was being used as a shelter for displaced Palestinians. 

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A president is kidnapped, the government remains, and we’re told it isn’t regime change. We pull back the curtain on what our guest calls “regime changeover,” a strategy that uses spectacle and lawfare to force leverage without admitting occupation. From sanctions that harden national unity to a reworked indictment against Nicolás Maduro that quietly retreats from early cartel claims, we dissect how narratives are built, sold, and then reshaped when facts don’t fit the script.

We get specific about why Venezuela resists the usual playbook. The Bolivarian civil-military structure blunts elite-driven coups, and...

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A pre-dawn post, a capital in darkness, and a president in cuffs aboard a U.S. ship—what started as a “one-night raid” is already morphing into something far bigger. We unpack how the strike on Venezuela unfolded, why the official story leaves key gaps, and what it means when the White House says, without hesitation, that we’ll “run the country” until a “judicious transition.” If that sounds like regime change and occupation, it’s because that’s exactly how it’s being sold.

We walk through the mechanics of the operation—air defenses knocked out, a citywide...

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In an interview, a senior Israeli security analyst said that Iran is attempting to avoid war and conflict with the US and Israel. 

“Stability serves [Iran] well, because even when there is no immediate existential threat, instability makes the regime feel challenged,” Danny Citrinowicz, a fellow in the Iran Program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and a former head of the Iran desk in the IDF Intelligence Directorate, told yNet

He continued, “The first objective is to restore order, and to do that, it...

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North Korea claimed it conducted a successful test of a hypersonic missile. 

“A sub-unit under a major firing strike group of the Korean People’s Army conducted a missile launching drill on January 4,” a statement in North Korean state media said. “The drill was conducted as part of the operational evaluation of the sustainability, effectiveness, and operation of the DPRK’s war deterrent while evaluating the readiness of the hypersonic weapon system, verifying and confirming its capability for fulfilling mission and developing the missile soldiers’ firing capability.”

COI #863, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news in Venezuela, Ukraine, and Israel.



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Scott interviews Jason Jones from the Vulnerable People Project about why American Christians are wrong to see the Israeli government as an ally.  

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Jason Jones is a film producer, author, activist, popular podcast host, and dedicated human rights worker. And he is the founder and president of The Vulnerable People Project. Subscribe to his Substack.

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On Jan 3, 2026 the US sent forces into Venezuela to arrest Maduro and in the process sent a message to the world-global power dynamics have changed.

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Headlines shout certainty, but the fine print tells a different story. We dig into three flashpoints—Gaza, Venezuela, and Ukraine—where big claims mask unresolved terms, blurred red lines, and mounting risks that rarely make the chyron.

First, Gaza. The soundbite that Hamas “agreed to disarm” collapses a phased, conditional process into a false binary. Negotiators accepted a ceasefire and hostage exchange while leaving timelines, enforcement, and political conditions open. We unpack what mediators said at the time, why U.S. officials flagged unanswered questions, and how that gap has been spun to score points rather t...

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Scott interviews Larry Johnson about Ukraine’s alleged assassination attempt against Putin, why European leaders seem so set on continuing the war in Ukraine, Trump’s naval buildup near Venezuela, the risk of a terror attack in the US and more.

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Larry C. Johnson is a former CIA officer and intelligence analyst, and a former planner and advisor at the US State Department’s Office of Counte...

On COI #862, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news from around the empire.



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Scott interviews Trita Parsi about Netanyahu’s renewed effort to get Trump to bomb Iran on Israel’s behalf.

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Trita Parsi is the Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and the author of Losing an Enemy: Obama, Iran and the Triumph of Diplomacy. Parsi is the recipient of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order. Follow him on Twitter @tparsi

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“We are ruled by psychopaths.”

CJ did not coin that phrase, but he repeats it often, and he means it both literally & emphatically. This may sound crazy to many, but that perception is often based on a very mistaken understanding of what the term ‘psychopath’ really means.

Join CJ on a deep dive into the true nature of psychopaths, how to spot them, how they operate, & why it’s a very reasonable hypothesis to suspect that psychopaths are very disproportionately represented among corporate oligarchs, politicians, & government officials.

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Scott interviews USS Liberty survivor, author and spokesperson Phil Tourney. They talk about what really happened the day of the attack, the infuriating lengths the US government went to ensure nobody would find out about it and the continued effort by figures and groups in the conservative movement to shut down discussion about this heinous chapter of US-Israeli relations.

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On COI #861, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news from Venezuela, Ukraine, and the Middle East.

The weekend should have been quiet. Instead, a Hanukkah celebration on a Sydney beach turned into a massacre, a Muslim bystander tackled a shooter, and within hours the tragedy was weaponized. We dig into what happened, why the early “false flag” whispers took hold, and how Benjamin Netanyahu used the moment to argue that supporting a Palestinian state is the same as fueling antisemitism. That framing doesn’t just poison debate—it endangers Jewish communities by collapsing criticism of state policy into bigotry against a people.

We also trace another deadly thread: three Americans killed near Pal...

On COI #860, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the news from the past week.

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Scott interviews economist Bob Murphy about how the Federal Reserve enables the government to pursue its wars of choice. They also talk about the soundness of Modern Monetary Theory, the prospect of a war with Venezuela, the affordability crisis and more.

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A near miss by millimeters, a sniper who waited, and a teenager’s digital footprint that should have set off alarms—our conversation with investigative reporter Ken Silva digs into the attempted assassinations against Donald Trump, the shooting of Charlie Kirk, and the enduring mystery of the January 6 pipe bombs. We trace what the investigations missed, where the public record contradicts official lines, and how secrecy fuels the very conspiracies authorities claim to fight.

We start with Butler: the rooftop angle outside a tight 150‑yard perimeter, the lack of snipers on a usable roof, and a timeli...

What happens when conscience collides with command? We dig into the duty to refuse illegal orders, why “just following orders” isn’t a shield under U.S. military law, and how real-world pressures push service members toward compliance even when red flags are waving. Drawing on the Nuremberg legacy and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, we lay out the reasonable person standard, the gray zones operators face, and the information gaps created by tempo, classification, and deference to the chain of command.

The debate isn’t abstract. We tackle drone strikes and maritime interdictions that occ...

(This is a Christmas-season reissue of a vintage DHP episode made all the way back in 2015.)

In the cold, damp, muddy ditches of the Western Front in December, 1914, the rank-and-file of the Allied and German armies spontaneously set aside their hatreds to take a break from mass-murdering each other, much to the dismay of their so-called ‘leaders.’

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Mark Thornton of the Mises Institute joins the show to talk about the state of the economy, the boom bust cycle and why anybody—left, right, and center—who cares about the wellbeing of the working class needs to oppose the existence of the Federal Reserve.

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Mark Thornton is a senior fellow at the Mises Institute. His most recent book is The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last C...

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On COI #859, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news on US foreign policy.



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Scott interviews Brandt Burleson about how he stumbled into his former job at an Israeli consulate, what they had him doing, why they were interested in him and what he thinks of all that now.

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Brandt Burleson holds a MA in International Affairs from American University. He w...



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Scott interviews William Van Wagenen about some of the horrific crimes taking place in Syria now that Bin Ladenite Islamists have taken over the country. They explore some of these stories and discuss the level of attention these are getting in the Western press and the broader geopolitical context behind this consequential regime change.

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A kitchen joke about tomato sauce quickly gives way to the hard edge of politics as we unpack a growing fracture on the right. Trump’s volleys at Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie aren’t just personality drama; they point to a deeper shift toward a larger security‑state posture and a party that now tolerates the same speech controls it once condemned. We break down NSM‑7 and what “disrupt” really signals when it’s assigned to the FBI, CIA, DHS, and even the IRS: pre‑crime logic entering mainstream governance.

The tension doesn’t end there. Israe...

On COI #858, Kyle Anzalone breaks down the latest news on Ukraine, Gaza, and Venezuela.

I offer my scorched earth solutions to fighting Antifa and communism in the US..

America is in a Civil War with a major political party and its blacked-shirted paramilitary arm going from cold to hot war.

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Scott interviews Sangar Paykhar, host of The Afghan Eye Podcast, about where things stand in the country today. They touch on the formation and eventual triumph of the Taliban, their escalating tensions with Pakistan, the status of ISIS-K and more.

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Sangar Paykhar is the host of AFGHANEYE. Subscribe to the show on YouTube and follow him on X @paykhar

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Scott interviews Brad Pearce about the actual reasons the Trump administration is moving towards an utterly stupid war with Venezuela. Then, Pearce explains what’s really going on in Sudan.

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Brad Pearce is a writer focused on international relations and politics. He writes at The Wayward Rabbler. Follow him on Twitter @WaywardRabbler

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Scott brings Dave DeCamp back on the show to talk about the legality of the Venezuelan boat strikes, America’s aggressive air campaign in Somalia and Trump buddying up with the Al Qaeda faction that now runs Syria.

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Dave DeCamp is the news editor of Antiwar.com and the host of Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp. Follow him on Twitter @decampdave

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