"The Devil's Chessboard" by David Talbot is a gripping exposé that delves into the dark underbelly of American power during the Cold War. This meticulously researched book focuses on the career of Allen Dulles, the longest-serving director of the CIA, and his profound influence on U.S. foreign policy. Talbot paints a chilling portrait of Dulles as a master manipulator, who orchestrated coups, assassinations, and covert operations, often putting the world on the brink of disaster. From the overth...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Pentagon on Friday stood by its decision to conduct a clandestine disinformation campaign in the Philippines in 2020 that aimed to sow doubt about China's COVID-19 vaccine during the height of the global pandemic -- a campaign that was first revealed in a bombshell report by Reuters. The U.S. military launched the disinformation campaign following a decision by then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper to loosen restrictions on such operations, and used phony online accounts posing as Filipinos in a...
Jun 19, 2024•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Chaps and Kate are joined by their good buddy White Sox Dave who recently traveled to Europe and went on a WW2 battle site tour. The squad also talks about a new device that will detect TBI in less than 15 minutes post blast. You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30
Jun 12, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Transcript available on Metacast A US Army veteran turned foreign volunteer fighter has lost his bid to avoid extradition from Ukraine on murder and robbery charges. Craig Austin Lang, 34, will appear in a Florida court on Monday in connection with a 2018 double homicide and armed robbery. Mr Lang is said to have killed Serafin and Deana Lorenzo, and stolen from them to fund a new escapade in Venezuela. Earlier this year, a federal jury found his alleged accomplice guilty on all of the charges Mr Lang now faces. Mr Lang's extra...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 8 min•Transcript available on Metacast This Memorial Day hit the squad differently. After being so involved in a public way, sometimes taking a small step back and bring about some real introspection You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30
May 31, 2024•44 min•Transcript available on Metacast Three weeks after U.S. troops were told they could face disciplinary action if their official .mil email addresses were found among those hacked from the adultery website Ashley Madison, the services appear ready to drop the affair. So far there are no reports of soldiers, sailors, Marines or airmen even being reprimanded for signing up to the cheating site using an official Pentagon account. An Army spokesman said signing up for a website was not a crime, and the worst offense anyone might be g...
May 22, 2024•55 min•Transcript available on Metacast A fight over whether women should be required to register for a potential draft has been revived in Congress. Last year, Congress appeared on the precipice of making women register with what's formally called the Selective Service System, but the idea was dropped from the defense policy bill signed into law after closed-door House-Senate negotiations despite having bipartisan support. Now, the proposal is back in the version of the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, making its way thro...
May 15, 2024•1 hr 15 min•Transcript available on Metacast An American soldier is being held by Russian authorities on charges of criminal misconduct, Army officials confirmed Monday. The Associated Press cited U.S. officials who said the soldier, Staff Sgt. Gordon Black, 34, was stationed in South Korea and was in the process of returning home to Fort Cavazos in Texas. Instead, officials said Black, who is married, traveled to Russia to see a longtime girlfriend and was accused of theft. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss personne...
May 08, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast The Marine Corps is creating a billet aimed at keeping dual-military families -- marriages where both spouses are service members -- together during moves to new duty stations. The billet, which is called the dual-military coordinator, will act as a liaison between couples and their career monitors in an attempt to alleviate stress associated with orders assignments, which can result in families being separated from each other for extended periods of time. Such separations are a quality-of-life ...
May 01, 2024•47 min•Transcript available on Metacast A former Army officer has relinquished his captain’s bars to enlist in the Marine Corps. “I was kind of at a point in my life in the Army where I didn’t feel really fulfilled,” Nicholas Brooklier said in a Marine Corps news story. “So, it was either get out and go to the civilian world, and to be honest, I did not want to do that. I felt like my time in the service wasn’t over. I just felt like I needed a change in my environment.” Now, Brooklier is scheduled to graduate from Marine Corps Recrui...
Apr 24, 2024•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast Displaced Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza recounted being shot at by the Israeli army in a video verified by Al Jazeera on Sunday. At least 33,729 Palestinians have been killed and 76,371 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The death toll in Israel from Hamas’s October 7 attacks stands at 1,139, with dozens of people still held captive. Palestinian doctors said they have discovered another mass grave in the vicinity of Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, ...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 4 min•Transcript available on Metacast Tim Sheehy is a former Navy SEAL Officer who deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, South America, and the Pacific region, according to his campaign. Sheehy also says he was the first Midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy to participate in the Army’s Special Operations exchange program and the first to graduate from the Army’s Ranger School. After graduation, he was commissioned into the Navy and completed SEAL training. During his service, Sheehy received a bronze star for valor and a purple heart after...
Apr 10, 2024•39 min•Transcript available on Metacast The squad continues to talk about things that they had no idea about. This time, it's ole President Calvin Coolidge. Silent Cal was most known for his brevity. One particularly infamous incident recounts a White House dinner guest smugly informing Coolidge she’d made a bet that she could get more than two words out of him. His single retort? “You lose.” Even his parting gift to the word was verbally frugal: a last will and testament comprised of only 23 words. What Coolidge lacked in words, howe...
Apr 03, 2024•40 min•Transcript available on Metacast Bill Millin was the "Mad Piper" who played allied commandos ashore under heavy German fire at Sword Beach in Normandy on D-Day, on the extreme eastern flank of Operation Overlord. He was the only piper to lead allied troops into battle that day following a War Office ban which said pipers would attract sniper fire. But his commander, Brigadier Lord Lovat – Simon Fraser, hereditary chief of the Clan Fraser – was a law unto himself. "Ah, but that's the English War Office, Millin," Lovat told him. ...
Mar 27, 2024•52 min•Transcript available on Metacast Round 1: Sadaam wanted to take things back to WW1 style fighting but the U.S. did some E-3 Mafia style shit and wrecked his plans Round 2: A Japanese fella took “mission accomplishment and then troop welfare” to a whole new level. You wont believe how long this dude followed orders. Round 3: How we feelin about this? You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30...
Mar 20, 2024•56 min•Transcript available on Metacast Criminal gangs more powerful than Haiti's state security forces have attacked prisons and the airport serving the country's capital, forcing businesses and schools to close and driving an estimated 15,000 people from their homes in Port-au-Prince. On March 12, Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced that he would resign once a transitional presidential council was created, capitulating to international pressure as his country faced what some experts had already labeled a low-scale civil war. You ca...
Mar 13, 2024•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast ZBT Mar 4 ROUND 1: Chaos across social media after the office of Veterans Affairs issued a memo banning the famous Times Square kiss photo, a decision which has since been reversed ROUND 2: A retired Army Lt. Col & current contractor for the Air Force got himself into quite the pickle on a dating site and now he’s facing 10 years in the clink ROUND 3: Claim shark ad on Fox News You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amaz...
Mar 06, 2024•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast A U.S. service member has died after setting himself on fire Sunday outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., authorities confirmed Monday. A video posted online showed the man shouting "Free Palestine" as he burned during the incident, which lasted about a minute before law enforcement officers extinguished the flames at about 1pm. The man appeared to be in military uniform and identified himself as "an active duty member of the U.S. Air Force." Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek confir...
Feb 28, 2024•54 min•Transcript available on Metacast Once again, Putin is ordering his rivals killed. The attacks range from the exotic — poisoned by drinking polonium-laced tea or touching a deadly nerve agent — to the more mundane of getting shot at close range. Some take a fatal plunge from an open window. Over the years, Kremlin political critics, turncoat spies and investigative journalists have been killed or assaulted in a variety of ways. On Friday, Russian authorities said President Vladimir Putin’s key political challenger, Alexei Navaln...
Feb 21, 2024•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast For 18 months, a teenager allegedly operated a “swatting” service out of his father’s California home, where criminals could call in a hoax bomb threat or mass shooting almost as easily as ordering a burger on UberEats. Alan Winston Filion, 17, is suspected of targeting hundreds of high schools, mosques, historically Black churches, US senators and even the US Supreme Court with swatting attacks that placed thousands of people in the crosshairs of heavily armed police response teams. Prosecutors...
Feb 14, 2024•2 hr 26 min•Transcript available on Metacast n Army lieutenant colonel who trained future officers will receive a reprimand but serve no jail time for spying on a changing room with a hidden camera at a store that caters to teenagers and young adults. Army Lt. Col. Jacob J. Sweatland served as chair of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, CA when he was arrested for hiding a camera in a dressing room in a PacSun clothing store that was discovered by a teenage girl. Mili...
Feb 07, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Round 1: A Navy captain’s yelling and public “humiliation” of her officers and crew was so severe and frequent — once for the mistake of pointing out dolphins swimming nearby from the ship’s bridge — that sailors were afraid to bring bad news to her attention. That “fear culture” aboard the USS Lake Erie, a scathing Navy investigation found, could have created “a higher risk of having a safety or operational mishap” and an “unsafe command environment where sailors do not … exercise sound judgmen...
Jan 31, 2024•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast WashingtonCNN — On at least three occasions over the last two months, former President Donald Trump has claimed that the leaders of unnamed South American countries are deliberately emptying their “insane asylums” and “mental institutions” to send the patients to the United States as migrants. In each version of the dramatic story, Trump has claimed he recently read about a doctor at a South American mental institution who said he used to be busy but now has no work to do because all of his pati...
Jan 24, 2024•48 min•Transcript available on Metacast Check out Barstool Sports for more: http://www.barstoolsports.com #marines #olympics #military #bobsled #womenmarines #iraq #rileyTejcek Follow Zero Blog Thirty here: Facebook: https://facebook.com/zeroblog30/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/zeroblog30 Instagram: http://instagram.com/zeroblog30 You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30...
Jan 17, 2024•50 min•Transcript available on Metacast Shields challenged Lincoln to a duel. Lincoln responded with a final call for peace, writing that he would admit to being the author of the original newspaper letter and would apologize if Shields would retract his earlier letters and rewrite them in a more polite manner. If this request was not met, he would fight the duel. As the person being challenged, Lincoln got to set the rules. Among other things, there was to be a line between the two of them, and crossing over this line would result in...
Jan 10, 2024•53 min•Transcript available on Metacast Round 1: The Houthis are causing problems on the high seas and now some of them are deadso. We’ll give you some updates about modern pirating. Round 2: It is with heavy heart that we announce that 231 vet bros and sisters are back at it again but this time with a declaration of independence of sorts. Round 3: We have royals stepping down. Its not a big deal or nothin. I just like royals and this one is an interesting lady. Celebrate the progress you’ve already made. Visit BetterHelp dot com slas...
Jan 03, 2024•49 min•Transcript available on Metacast Round 1: Old men and old lady yell at clouds because Generation Z is at it again. Round 2: The ick is a big problem according to the NY Post so we are bringing in 23-year-old Kate to talk about what does and what does not cause the ick. Round 3: A new type of hazardous duty pay is in the works You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/ZeroBlog30...
Dec 20, 2023•58 min•Transcript available on Metacast BTS Joins the Military SEOUL/TOKYO – The remaining four members of K-pop supergroup BTS will begin their 18-month military service in South Korea this week, joining three others already serving, with fans pledging to wait until 2025 for them to perform as a group again. A group of fans braved rainy weather on Monday to bid a temporary farewell to the seven-member band's leader, RM, and vocalist V in front of their boot camp in the central city of Nonsan. "I think I'll be fine except for one thin...
Dec 13, 2023•59 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’ve got a deep dive into the wild story of the world’s creepiest military recruiter, his memoir detailing his own crimes, and the family who got left hanging by NCIS & his unit. Plus super quick news roundup from explosions to a badass sniper making history. HOUSE IN ARLINGTON VA EXPLODING Yesterday afternoon Arlington County Police Department went to a call for possible gunshots where it turned out the fella in the home had discharged a flare gun 30 to 40 times… The suspect then barricaded th...
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr•Transcript available on Metacast Round 1: A Marine Corps grad and fancy Columbia grad school boy set miltwitter ablaze this week with talk about the officer and enlisted divide. We’ll see if it’s real or really a bunch of bullshit. Round 2: Young Thug is currently going through a RICO trial. The opening statement of his defense attorney would make all E-4s and below impressed by the spin zone he delivers. Because of that, we’ll go through some of the best military excuses we’ve come across. You can find every episode of this sh...
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