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America Out Loud Network © – The National Security Hour features intelligence analysts and military experts presenting the tough conversations and hard-nosed reality checks that the American people need to hear in order to fully understand the true picture of the evolving status of U.S. national security.

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    How Washington is building ISIS in Syria and plans to use it against Iran in Iraq

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2026 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – There is a better alternative: stop outsourcing U.S. policy to proxy forces with extremist roots; stop laundering their reputations to fit Beltway talking points; stop treating local allies as disposable; and stop building Iran strategy on the most volatile accelerant in the region. If the last twenty years taught anything, it's that chaos is easy to unleash and...

    Human trafficking – 21st century slavery: Are we averting our eyes?

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2026 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – According to Andi Buerger J.D., survivor, founder, and Chairman of Voices Against Trafficking, “At a time when real-life heroes or role models can be scarce, ordinary people are making a difference in human rights, not for glory but for good.” Andi, a survivor, shares insights on how to recognize and help victims...

    Sanctions punish citizens more than Iran’s ruling elites

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2026 57:40 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – On Iran, Professor Dorsey noted that Trump's foreign-policy behavior has been – as it was in Venezuela – on-again (ready for war) and off -again (marking time until war). Professor Dorsey said this is a very dangerous way to treat the Iranian government. That government is fully aware of the force the US can bring to bear on the...

    Out of the WHO and on with the new

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2026 57:43


    The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – If we want a safer world, start with real health. Fund sanitation and nutrition. Strengthen oversight, so aid serves people, not contracts. Insist that pathogen sharing is transparent, time-limited, and tied to capacity building. Break the monopoly of secrecy around genetic data. Hold bureaucracies accountable. Return medicine to the bedside and away...

    Greenland: The Arctic gate that decides the missile age

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 24, 2026 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Because Greenland sits on the shortest strategic line between Eurasia and the United States—a corridor now exploited by Sino-Russian increased military coordination, including both undersea mapping operations to destroy vital underseas communications lines, mapping of underseas terrain for adversaries safe submarine navigation into the western...

    America is bleeding at the chokepoints

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2026 57:44 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – America bleeds power not through invasion, but through strategic incompetence. Control of global chokepoints still decides trade, war, and influence, yet Washington turns quiet leverage into public theater. As allies grow uneasy and rivals advance patiently, geography exposes a deeper rot: an empire that outsourced strength, mistreats partners, and mistakes noise for power...

    The Art of the Deal: A dangerous spinning wheel of global politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2026 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Does the United States need to take control of a country like Greenland to establish a “Golden Dome” to protect the United States? Are our longtime allies moving toward countries that pose a threat to us, such as Canada and Mexico, cozying up to China? How about Iran? How close are they to countries like Venezuela, Nicaragua, Bolivia, and...

    No good choices for an Iran regime change

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2026 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – There is no easy exit from this trap. Iran is not a single narrative. Kurds, Arabs, Turks, Persians, leftists, monarchists, moneyed factions, and armed units all push their own vision. Whoever holds the guns will have a seat at the table. There is no clear, uncontested leader to replace the clerical state. Someone waving an old royal flag will not unify...

    James Dorsey speaks about the future of Iran and US military intervention

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 20, 2026 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – For the United States, according to Professor Dorsey, a military intervention would be a mistake of large proportions. Indeed, it probably would unite the Iranian population against the United States. In terms of politics, culture, and reputation, the United States at the moment possesses almost nothing that Iranians are eager to have at home...

    Iran at the brink! The global shockwaves that could follow regime change

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2026 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – From Iran's long revolutionary history to the present-day uprising, to the global shockwaves that could follow regime change, this is not about what already happened—it's about what may happen next. For the United States, global allies, and strategic competitors alike, the stakes are enormous. China currently depends on Iran and Venezuela for...

    The war we can't win! LTC Daniel L. Davis

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 15, 2026 57:36 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – What we do now is drift from conflict to conflict, using the U.S. military as a global enforcement arm for political frustration. Venezuela today. Ukraine yesterday. Iran tomorrow. The logic is always the same: we can, therefore we should. A real national security strategy does three things. It keeps Americans safe, free, and prosperous. It avoids wars we...

    Venezuela capture was good, the aftertaste is heartburn

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2026 57:35 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – U.S. actions in Venezuela expose the recurring dangers of interventionism, from regime uncertainty to costly military escalation. The narrative questions war driven by oil, politics, and global norms, arguing that targeting leaders invites disaster. Drawing on intelligence experience, it warns that endless wars drain lives, liberty, and national strength while weakening democratic...

    From Venezuela to Serbia, shadows of betrayal: The treason of John Brennan

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2026 57:49 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – Brennan allegedly defrauded the US Government and its People by inducing Congress to spend more money to stop terrorism that it needed to—the result was due to Brennan's deliberate inability to keep the nation safe. High Stakes Treason reveals what appears to be a major act of treasonous financial fraud committed against the American people...

    Global superpowers' strategic use of allies, partners, and proxies

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 9, 2026 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – The United States, China, Russia, and Iran don't operate alone. They rely on alliances, partners, and proxies—working together economically and militarily to project power, deter rivals, and advance strategic interests across the globe. From the Middle East and Eastern Europe to the Indo-Pacific and the Western Hemisphere, Fred Galvin explains how...

    Venezuela, Greenland, and Trump's ‘new world disorder’

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 8, 2026 57:52 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – The raid that removed Nicolás Maduro was tactically brilliant. Anyone saying otherwise is lying—or coping. But the real story isn't the raid itself. It's what it normalized. For the first time in decades, the United States wielded hard power unapologetically in the Western Hemisphere. Not in Europe. Not in the Middle East. At home...

    The Maduro capture and connection to US election fraud

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 6, 2026 57:50 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Maduro's lieutenants are reported to be in charge of producing the vote-counting machines that have been used for fixing U.S. elections, and that operation would never be conducted without the full knowledge of Venezuela's President. How credible a witness Maduro would be against the legion of Democrats and NGOs who ran the...

    How Venezuela became Beijing's beachhead in America

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2026 57:45 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Once the wealthiest nation in Latin America, Venezuela has been reduced to authoritarian rule, economic ruin, and criminal governance under Nicolás Maduro. And into that collapse stepped China—buying oil, gold, rare-earth minerals, and political loyalty in exchange for billions in loans that turned a sovereign nation into a CCP client state...

    “Clowngress” gone rogue

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2026 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Congress devolves into spectacle as war talk over Venezuela advances without debate or accountability. Leaders dodge responsibility, outsource courage to social media, and risk dragging the military into partisan conflict. Meanwhile, young Americans fall behind economically and lose faith in institutions. Ignore them, and political extremes rush in to fill the vacuum...

    Still conducting lousy foreign policy, not building prosperity, and killing crime

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 30, 2025 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – A sweeping critique of American leadership argues that decades of misguided foreign interventions, from World War I to today, weaken national prosperity and security. The piece challenges interventionist instincts, questions elite priorities, and warns that endless wars and unchecked immigration erode the interests of ordinary Americans...

    Ethiopia, the land of the Bible, brutally targeting, and killing Christians

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 25, 2025 57:43 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Ethiopia, one of the world's oldest Christian nations, faces escalating violence targeting believers and sacred institutions. As instability spreads across the Horn of Africa, concerns grow over terrorism, foreign influence, and human rights abuses. Congressional action highlights why Ethiopia's crisis matters to global security, faith communities, and U.S. strategic interests today...

    Another week of waiting for justice in America

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 23, 2025 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – U.S. sabers are still rattling, three more U.S. military personnel are dead, and the politicians of the Democratic Party, their RINO allies, and the traitorous federal bureaucracy are still walking free, with no apparent concerns that their well-known crimes will be punished with the severity and perhaps the finality they merit...

    Laws without consequences: How enforcement died, and deterrence came back

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 19, 2025 57:55 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – What happens to a nation when it has laws… But no one enforces them? Borders collapse. Cartels expand. Embargoes are ignored. And America's enemies stop fearing consequences. This week on The National Security Hour, host Fred Galvin delivers a hard, unfiltered comparison America cannot afford to ignore...

    Swastikas & prayer breakfasts: The Great Ukraine swindle

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 18, 2025 57:55 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – On the ground, he says, Russia is advancing, Ukraine is bleeding out, and the country is being depopulated. By some estimates, he hears from his network that thousands of Ukrainian men are being lost every week. We haven't “saved” Ukraine – we've helped grind it into a rump state. And now, in Trump's second term, we're finally talking about...

    The rise of attacks on believers and why now?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2025 57:51 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – If we want a future with free worship and free speech, we must defend the habits that sustain them. Teach children the facts and the faith that formed them. Insist that public institutions protect conscience and rights. Stand up when neighbors are ridiculed or arrested for praying. Speak plainly about what is true and what is false...

    Corruption at home worsens as Congress funds foreign nations

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 16, 2025 57:59 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – The paper calls for enhanced security in the Western Hemisphere to build economic cooperation, create stronger democracies, and remove foreign influences. This plan amounts to a reinvigoration of the early 19th Century's Monroe Doctrine, which has been dead for at least half a century. Originally designed to prevent European efforts to...

    America's quiet coup: Elites reshaping power

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 15, 2025 57:25 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – I challenge fear driven narratives surrounding comets, aliens, viruses, climate change, and terrorism, arguing they distract the public from global power agendas. It questions media credibility, government motives, economic manipulation, depopulation claims, and the push toward digital currency while urging skepticism of official stories and constant manufactured crisis cycles...

    The war on the War Department: Analyzing the Nov 2025 National Security Strategy

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 13, 2025 57:56 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Major Fred Galvin exposes why the November 2025 National Security Strategy ignites a political firestorm. As America First defense reforms threaten globalist power, legacy contractors, media allies, and entrenched elites launch coordinated attacks on Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, aiming to stop a strategy that prioritizes sovereignty, strength, and decisive victory...

    How U.S. strategy helped unleash ISIS and chaos

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 11, 2025 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Washington's wars reshape the Middle East through calculated instability, empowering extremists while dismantling states once seen as threats. From Camp Bucca to Syria's battlefields, policies framed as liberation instead fuel chaos. As foreign actors profit and ideologues pull strings, Americans confront a strategy that endangers security while masking itself as global stewardship...

    Is the U.S. preparing for another war in Venezuela?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2025 57:47 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Rising media claims predict imminent U.S. conflict with Venezuela as foreign forces, weapons, and alliances reportedly flood the region. Billions keep American troops on standby while Cold War thinking endures. The piece questions interventionism, military readiness, propaganda, and the long-term costs of perpetual war at home and abroad today globally...

    Taiwan: America's critical national security link

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2025 57:51 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – Taiwan stands at the center of America's survival as a nation. I argue from experience that our security, economy, and strategic freedom now depend on a single island producing the chips that power modern defense and industry. Ignoring this reality risks surrendering sovereignty, stability, and moral clarity in an increasingly dangerous world...

    The information war against Secretary Pete Hegseth

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2025 57:56 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – While America faces record narcotics deaths, international criminal networks flooding our borders, Chinese-backed Venezuelan cartels trafficking fentanyl precursors into our hemisphere, and violent crime surging in blue cities — the left has chosen a new enemy: The United States of America's Secretary of War Pete Hegseth...

    How China & Russia stole the poles while America Slept

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2025 57:57 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – China and Russia quietly reshape the Arctic while the United States remains distracted. As melting ice opens new trade routes and military frontlines, power shifts north. Russia builds infrastructure and influence, China embeds itself strategically, and Washington falls behind. The future of global trade and security is being decided at the top of the world...

    Hippocratic Oath or Hypocritical Oath?

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 3, 2025 57:45 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Does the Hippocratic Oath still guide modern medicine, or has it been reduced to silence and compliance? Dr. Renata Moon joins The National Security Hour to discuss vaccine safety, professional censorship, and retaliation against physicians who speak out—raising urgent questions about ethics, transparency, and the true meaning of “first do no harm.”

    Trump urged to fix cabinet failures and end endless wars

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 2, 2025 57:50 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – President Trump faces growing criticism for cabinet underperformance, stalled law enforcement action, and broken promises on war. Calls intensify for reshaping leadership at the DOJ and FBI while concerns mount over ongoing foreign conflicts and deep state resistance. The America First movement demands accountability, constitutional restraint, and decisive action to restore...

    Information warfare at home: The media battlefield

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 28, 2025 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Major Fred Galvin exposes the most aggressive information-warfare campaign ever unleashed against a sitting American President — a coordinated domestic propaganda operation that America's foreign adversaries could only dream of. In recent weeks, left-wing members of Congress released a video urging U.S. service members to “disobey unlawful orders.”

    Venezuela's ‘dirty war’ on America

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2025 57:55 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Whether you believe every claim or not, one thing is undeniable: foreign powers are working overtime to undermine U.S. sovereignty. They're weaponizing our weaknesses—our open internet, our drug addiction, our political divisions—to erode America from the inside. As Pezzullo puts it: “This isn't about partisanship. It's about survival...

    Digital ID: A convenience or peril to personal freedom?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2025 57:44 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Digital identification comes in many forms, such as Health IDs, real IDs, or Digital Driver's Licenses. Many suggest it is more convenient to verify health or vaccination status, travel, or pay bills, goods, or services. However, critics warn that it is the functional platform for the installation of a Chinese-style “Social Credit System.”

    The real cost of America's loyalty to foreign nations

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 26, 2025 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – News for you, Mr. President, Americans do not heed a Chief Magistrate who stops other people's wars, but they desperately do need one who is focused solely on keeping Americans out of all wars unless we are attacked or invaded. Let all other countries tend to their own wars, never join them, and never support them, but always let those wars burn...

    The US Capitol of sleaze: Your modern Congress

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2025 57:51 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Underpaid, overworked staffers — the same ones being groomed with free foreign trips, “fellowships,” and quiet job offers. Congress doesn't write the bills. Congress doesn't read the bills. Yet Congress votes on the bills — often without the slightest idea whose fingerprints are on them. This is how you capture a superpower without firing a shot...

    One of the most dangerous trends in modern American politics

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2025 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Retired generals… former intelligence officers… and sitting members of Congress using carefully coordinated omni-channel messaging to encourage doubt—hesitation—and even defiance among military service members toward the lawful orders of the Commander-in-Chief. This is not dissent. This is not debate. This is organized information warfare...

    Soybeans & surrender in Trump's China deal

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 20, 2025 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Trump's China deal looks like a win, but Beijing quietly tightens control over supply chains and rare earth minerals. Soybean buys and TikTok concessions mask deeper strategic gains for China, while America remains dependent on critical materials. With tariffs high and tensions rising, the U.S. fights to reclaim industrial strength before it's too late...

    Nigeria gripped by violence, brutality, and genocide targeting Christians

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 19, 2025 57:51 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – On November 4, 2025, the State Department officially updated its designation for Nigeria as a "Country of Particular Concern" for its alleged severe violations of religious freedom and persecution of Christians. Nina Shea told CNA that “the numbers killed and abducted are staggering and the documentation is now irrefutable.”

    Educators are titans of the political left's campaign to push the kids into socialism

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2025 57:45 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – Our school teachers can be found to have failed to train students in their use of commonsense – surely buttressed by the identical failures by so many of their parents -- and have made a travesty of teaching so many kids by using a farcical brand of American history in order to make them the easy prey for the Democratic Party's campaign to...

    Demystifying the Christian genocide in Nigeria

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2025 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – In this investigation, I uncover the forces driving the Christian genocide in Nigeria, exposing the sectarian violence hidden beneath official narratives. I examine the roles of ISIS-linked insurgents, Islamist militias, criminal networks, and foreign influence, including China's expanding reach. My reporting highlights the stakes for Nigeria's future and the urgent need for truth amid escalating...

    Narco-state partnerships: Venezuela's criminal pipeline into America

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 15, 2025 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – The Venezuelan narco-state's alliance with the Chinese Communist Party and its role in flooding America with violent criminals, cartel operatives, and lethal narcotics. Venezuela, under the Maduro regime, has evolved into a narco-state and sanctuary for cartel networks, including Cartel de los Soles and Tren de Aragua, long tied to Venezuelan security forces and...

    The bear didn't bite—at least not yet

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2025 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Despite sanctions from more than fifty nations, Russia's economy hasn't cracked. The Kremlin has avoided full mobilization and kept daily life surprisingly normal. That's restraint, whether the West wants to admit it or not. Moscow's internal hawks grow louder with every new Western weapons shipment. If that restraint collapses, no one should be shocked when...

    Conservative or Liberal values silenced? The Shock within their own parties

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2025 58:00 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Blanquita Cullum – Is there a voice for the “Missing Middle”? Is it disloyal to disagree with your “Party” of choice or those Media Broadcasters who are identified with an extreme version of that political party? Is it for clicks? Ratings? Views? Outspoken Globalists, Racists, Communists, Anti or Pro a political leader-- Is it finally time to speak out even if those spokespersons are...

    Delusion of power in an age of deceit

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 11, 2025 Transcription Available


    The National Security Hour with Col. Mike and Dr. Mike – U.S. foreign policy unravels as misguided diplomacy and corruption drive America toward endless wars and moral decay. With leaders obsessed with power and global influence, true national interests fade. From Venezuela to Nigeria, failed strategies and arrogance expose a government serving ideology and elites rather than protecting sovereignty, stability, or Christian values...

    Is the sultan of Sokoto behind Nigeria’s Christian crisis?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2025 58:00


    The National Security Hour with LTC Sargis Sangari – We expose the growing Christian genocide in Nigeria, linking Islamist movements, government corruption, and China's global ambitions. They question Sultan Muhammadu Sa'ad Abubakar's role, urge U.S. action, and call for immediate intervention to save displaced Christians while confronting those enabling the violence that threatens Nigeria and global stability...

    Soft power: How adversaries divide America

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 8, 2025 58:00


    The National Security Hour with Major Fred Galvin – Fred Galvin exposes how foreign and domestic actors wage a coordinated soft power war to divide Americans and weaken trust in institutions. From Beijing to Tehran to Moscow, adversaries use media, education, and digital propaganda to reshape beliefs, erode unity, and weaponize culture — all to undermine America from within...

    From MAGA to MegaWar

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2025


    The National Security Hour with Brandon Weichert – Donald Trump returns to power vowing peace but steers America toward new global conflict. Once the “America First” champion, he now empowers neocon hawks and fuels escalation in Ukraine. As missiles flow and diplomacy fades, insiders warn that Trump's shifting alliances risk turning his presidency from a promise of peace into a march toward war...

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