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Welcome to "Trip the Beltway Fantastic," where we peel back the curtain on Washington’s hidden narratives and the underbelly of its political machinations. As a seasoned journalist with over two decades in the capital, I’ve witnessed the evolution of the imperial city from a unique vantage point. Having co-hosted series like Empire has No Clothes and Crashing the War Party, I’m no stranger to dissecting the hard truths and challenging the mainstream's company line on national security and foreign policy.
Unknown Host hosts Trip the Beltway Fantastic With Kelley Vlahos and Friends, a news show with 76 episodes published.
Within just a year we have gone from government censorship of so-called disinformation, brought on by reactionary responses to COVID and Russia-gate, to foreign students literally being abducted off the streets and throw
To say that the European debate over the war in Ukraine — at least in the elite halls of government, academia and the professional classes — is virtually non-existent, might be an understatement. For all of the grousing
We are into the second week of U.S. airstrikes against Houthi targets in Yemen. U.S. warplanes have targeted Houthi infrastructure, weapons depots and leadership in the capital city of Sana’a as well as other towns and v
“We Live in a Fascist Dictatorship” “Mad King Trump’s Tariff Disaster” “Trump’s neofascism is here now. Here are 10 things you can do to resist” “A Guide to Trump’s Fascist Presidency — From Ignoring Judge to Erasing His
At the end February, newly minted Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth fired his chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General CQ Brown, who was an appointee of President Biden and had been on the job 15 months. Hegseth sa
This past weekend at the Munich Security Conference it would be an understatement to say that sparks were flying, or even fireworks. More like bombs going off. It started last week with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeth s
One of the most extraordinary sidebar stories of the 2024 election has been the complete implosion of mainstream media. Of course mainstream news or more exactly, legacy media, was in its death throes long before Trump w
This week we’re talking about diplomacy — or the lack of it — in the now 31-month war in Ukraine. I have the honor to welcome Ian Proud who was a member of His Britannic Majesty's Diplomatic Service from 1999 to 2023 and
President Joe Biden was reportedly “visibly shaking” as he got off Air Force One two weeks ago and was unable to get into an SUV on his own. This was a report not by a MAGA-inspired X account but by the Daily Mail’s Emil
This week I’m happy to welcome back Stephen Semler who is co-founder of the Security Policy Reform Institute . He also writes the Polygraph newsletter on Substack. He just published a true deep dive on Responsible Statec
Last week there was a very brief moment in which it looked like the newly inaugurated President Trump was finally going to allow the declassification of all the files relating to the assassination of President John F. Ke
Today we commemorate the inauguration of the 47th president, Donald Trump, after the longest and most tumultuous year in recent memory in terms of politics and foreign policy. The results of the 2024 election in November
The Bay of Pigs is usually remembered as a botched landing and a political embarrassment, but the deeper story is about how covert operations get sold as “clean,” how propaganda gets built in real time, and how blowback
This week Secretary of State Pete Hegseth called every single admiral and general to Virginia where the Pentagon is located for a meeting. It turned out to be a pair of speeches from Hegseth and President Donald Trump ab
The Strait of Hormuz reopens, oil drops, and the headlines move on. We slow the tape and ask the uncomfortable question: if things can snap back this fast, why did we get pushed into the crisis in the first place? We’re
A deadline over the Strait of Hormuz, a presidential post warning a “civilization” could be erased, and growing chatter about “other tools” in the toolbox. That combination isn’t just headline noise. It’s a live test of
The Trump Administration reportedly has a plan to reconstruct Gaza into a Riviera on the Mediterranean. What does that mean? According to reports, President Trump, with the help of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and
Ukraine’s attacks on Russia bases and aircraft on June 1 has sent the media and Ukraine’s supporters in Congress and Europe into a flurry of triumphal metaphors and hyperbole , from “David and Goliath” to “daring”, “stun
The big Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, followed by the extraordinary convocation of European leaders, along with Ukrainian President Zelensky and Trump’s team on Monday at the White House, signaled that something is fina
Just before Memorial Day on Friday the Trump administration let go scores of staff from the National Security Council. The usual howling from the media and foreign policy establishmentarians ensued, but the Trump adminis
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