Darrell Castle talks about Israel, Bibi Netanyahu and his project for Greater Israel. What is the concept of Greater Israel and how does it relate to the Israeli destruction of Gaza? Is this retaliation, self defense or is there more to it than that?

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GREATER ISRAEL AND THE PROSPECTS FOR PEACE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 22nd day of August in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about Israel, about Bibi Netanyahu and his project for a Greater Israel. Is he really working to expand Israel’s borders across the Middle East or is it simply self-defense. Is the Israeli destruction of Gaza retaliation and protection from terrorists or is there more to it than that.

There are many things I could be talking about right now such as the Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska followed by Trump’s “summoning” Zelensky to Washington, followed by Giorgia Meloni’s recognition of Europe being left out of the deal. She quickly called Europe’s leaders and suggested they accompany Zelensky to Washington to plead their case before the real leader of the world. Ms. Meloni appears to be the upcoming star in Europe but instead of those subjects I turn my attention back to the Middle East, which is the center of much of the world’s trouble right now.

I will confess that I never believed the rumors of the Project for Greater Israel and thought it was just that, rumors, until now. What changed my mind well, it was just paying attention and following the actions and words of the leader of Israel, Bibi Netanyahu who has now confirmed for us and the whole of the Middle East that he is, in fact, on course for a Greater Israel.

He did an interview with an Israeli television channel about a week ago and in that interview he stated unequivocally that he was committed to the concept of a Greater Israel and that he believes that his expansionist policies and dreams are a biblical project. In other words, to paraphrase Ghostbusters, he is on a mission from God. I must say that in response to his words and actions that he views the nature of God differently from my view. He said that the project is a generational thing passed on from leader to leader but in the past leaders have missed opportunities and made mistakes which he is endeavoring to correct.

He did not state specifically what countries or territories would be included in Greater Israel, but it is clear that it goes way beyond historical Palestine, Gaza and the West Bank. He has already destroyed many of the surrounding countries to the point that they hardly have governments anymore. Think of Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon, and also Yemen which has a government apparently run by terrorists.

Which country is left and which country is often referred to as the head of the snake. I guess that means that from Iran spews all the venom that is financing supplying and encouraging terrorism across the region. The snake’s head must be severed from its body and he has an ongoing project to do just that. Let me get into a little of what seems to be going on in Iran right now. This week Israel continued its war against Iran by conducting airstrikes across the country. Fires burned across Tehran and around the country including a gigantic explosion and fire at an oil storage depot.

Israel then, has reduced and is in the process of destroying not just Iran’s capacity to make war, but its capacity to live and feed its people. The conditions inside Iran right now appear to be terrible and not just from Israeli attacks but because Iran is suffering from an extreme drought and water crises. There has been a decline in rainfall, granted, but also decades of mismanagement of water resources and crumbling infrastructure from war and neglect. Sometimes the priorities of our leaders are not the same as ours and the priority for the last 46 years in Iran has been the development of nuclear weapons, and the funding of terrorist proxies across the region.

If you can’t make money out of thin air as we can in America, then it is difficult to pay for everything and choices have to be made. The decision to neglect water resources is bordering on catastrophic for the Iranians. Rationing power is one thing but for a nation of 90 million with a very large capital city it really would be catastrophic to ration water. Right now, about 2000 villages receive water only by tanker and the President, not the Ayatollah but the President, is warning of an “unimaginable situation.”

The crisis is apparently at a very critical level with millions at risk. Rainfall has declined about 46% this year but you may notice that I attribute most of the empty reservoirs and crumbling water infrastructure to war and most of all neglect and mismanagement while most reports attribute it to climate change. To me that makes no sense at all because it’s as if climate change only affects one country in the region while sparing the others. No, it’s the Ayatollah, nuclear ambitions, along with Israel that is keeping the Iranians thirsty.

Mr. Netanyahu is not without sympathy for the Iranians, however because immediately after the recent attacks he went on video and sent them a message. The Israeli attacks came right after the Iranian President, a mister Masoud Pezeshkian, made his unimaginable situation statement to the nation. I will paraphrase Mr. Netanyahu’s statement as best I can because although I watched the video I do not have a transcript.

He told them that this war isn’t necessary and more importantly their water crisis isn’t necessary and could be resolved very quickly. Israel would help them and could resolve the problem as soon as the “tyrants” are out of power. So, I suppose, that means changing your government to one favorable to Israel and we will help you. So, what kind of help could Israel provide to the head of the snake if the head were severed. He told them and the whole world during his speech.

“The thirst for water in Iran is only matched by the thirst for freedom.” He compared the Iranian regime’s treatment of its citizens to his struggle against it. “Your dictators impose tyranny and poverty upon you—just as they impose war on us.” He then gave them a clear incentive to change their government by whatever means necessary. “So here is the great news. The moment your country is free, Israel’s top water experts will flood into every Iranian city bringing cutting edge technology and know-how. We will help Iran recycle water; we’ll help Iran desalinate water.” So, a policy for the Iranian people wrapped in a humanitarian package.

Time and space require me to leave Iran for the remainder of this report so I can continue to make my case for Greater Israel. There are many examples other than Israeli experts pouring into every town and village in Iran. Once again, I ask in regard to Gaza is, it self-defense and retaliation or is there more to it and once again the Israeli leadership answers the question for us. A week ago, last Thursday Israeli Heritage Minister Amichay Eliyahu responding to a question from the press about the destruction of Gaza said.

 “The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out. Thank God we are wiping out this evil. We are pushing this population that has been educated on “Mein Kampf.” Gaza will be cleared for Jewish settlement and Jewish towns won’t be fenced inside cantons. All Gaza will be Jewish although Arabs loyal to Israel will be tolerated. We aren’t racists. We are fighting those who fight us.” He went on to say there is no hunger in Gaza but we don’t need to worry about hunger in the strip, let the world worry about it.

Many people think that mentioning the things that Israel appears to be doing is hurting Israel and its cause against its hostile enemies but to me it is their behavior that is hurting them in the press. Support for Israel, its standing in the world, and especially for Netanyahu are plummeting across the world as more and more information comes to light. If the Israeli government is committing atrocities on a mass scale in Gaza and you love Israel you should be alarmed and concerned about Israeli policies as I am. I am afraid that if Israel doesn’t reverse course soon the world will see it as a nation of barbarians.

If that were all it would be plenty but folks, as usual it gets worse. Recently one of those famous hot mic incidents occurred or at least the audio from the statement leaked to the press. The statement came from IDF Major General Aharon Haliva, the former head of Israeli military intelligence and a man seen by the press as a centrist and critic of the current Israeli government.

“For everything that happened on October 7, for every one person on October 7, 50 Palestinians must die. It doesn’t matter now if they are children. The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations.”

That statement says many things combined in a few brief words. Number one, it’s an admission that there are at least 50’000 dead in Gaza and many of them are children. The death reports are apparently not fake or exaggerated. The IDF is not in Gaza just to go after Hamas and those civilians are more than collateral damage. Netanyahu lies when he denies the death count and furthermore it makes no difference if the dead are children. The man who speaks for the IDF and the Israeli government wants blood and children and women or men are simply irrelevant. The intentional killing of innocents is not a crime or even a tragedy to him it is necessary and it must happen.

If the killing of 1200 civilians was an act of terrorism and it was, then what is the killing of 50,000. One must ask who is the greater terrorist. It might be possible to save Israel’s reputation who knows for sure, but to do so Israel must change course and right away. The United States, it seems to me has a moral obligation in this struggle as well. After all the United States supplies at least 69% of the Israeli weapons.

Finally, folks, does God through a command in the bible require the United States of America to send billions in money and weapons to Israel to be used to slaughter children in Gaza. Again, I’m no theologian but does the passage in the bible that warns believers to bless Israel refer to the Netanyahu government of today no matter what that government does or is it referring to the people of God in general. We have to decide that question and whether we care one way or the other. I suggest we do that right away.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about the face-to-face meeting being conducted today between President Trump and Russian Premier Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. He will discuss which player has the most at risk and the most to lose from this meeting. Results aren’t known yet, but its promise is something to discuss.

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THE PEACE PRESIDENT RETURNS—MAYBE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 15th day of August in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the face-to-face meeting being conducted today between President Trump and Russian Premier Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska. Which player has the most at risk and the most to lose from this meeting. We don’t know the results of the meeting yet but its promise is something to discuss.

Why have this meeting in Alaska and not in some European Capitol. Who knows for sure but a reasonable guess would be that Putin is under sanctions that make it very difficult for him to travel in Europe and after all, Russia and Alaska go way back. I won’t go back any further than the 1860’s when both nations were involved in very disastrous wars with very different results. The U.S. Civil War resulted in a Union victory but cost many lives and split the country for over 100 years.

Russia was involved in a war in Crimea against England and France which it lost and which also had catastrophic loss of life and completely depleted the Russian treasury. Czar Alexander ll was desperate for cash and in 1867 he negotiated a deal with the U.S. to sell the Americans Alaska for $7.1 million. That seems like a bargain for the U.S. and it was but remember that was about 165 years ago when $7.1 million was real money. This week, in contrast, the U.S. passed $37 trillion in debt and is now dangerously close to $1 trillion per year in interest payments.

What about today, why Alaska. For one thing Anchorage lies 4,350 miles from Moscow and 3,400 miles from Washington so it is a comparable trip for both. It was hastily arranged and we are told that the meeting last week between Mr. Putin and Trump’s negotiator, Steve Witkoff, brought a request from Mr. Putin for a face-to-face with President Trump which was quickly agreed to. Vice President Vance told us that Mr. Zelensky will not be in attendance because his presence would not be productive.

I don’t blame the U.S. side for that and I would not have invited him either. This is a war between the U.S. and Russia and everybody seems to know that except Mr. Zelensky. His country has provided the bodies for the proxy grist mill but it is a U.S. war. My hope and my prayer are that Trump will continue his quest for the Noble Peace Prize but in regard to Mr. Zelensky, after 45 years as a lawyer and after countless mediations I have learned that more is usually accomplished if the two competing sides are kept separate with the impartial mediator going back and forth.

Ukraine and Gaza are two blights on Trump’s Nobel Peace Prize resume at this point but this is a chance to resolve one of them, and it is right in his hands today. The Europeans have basically already rejected the deal even though they don’t know what it is yet. If he makes a deal with Putin and the Europeans reject it if I were him I would just say O.K. since you prefer war to peace you pay for it because there will be no more American weapons and no more American money poured down this rat hole. Polls show that 70% of Ukrainians want to end the war right now. Zelensky may want to fight to the last Ukrainian and last U.S. dollar but his people don’t.

 Let’s take a quick look at Trump’s peace resume thus far. I argue that in many ways he is the most anti-war President in recent history. In his first term he brokered the Abraham Accords that normalized relations between Israel and four Arab nations, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco. The agreement ended hostility that had existed since Israel’s founding in 1948. This was the first real peace deal since President Carter’s deal between Egypt and Israel. Full relations with those four countries brought much prosperity with trade deals, embassies, air service, etc.

He met with the Little Rocket Man on his home soil of Korea, Kim-Jong-Un, and thereby lowered tensions on the Korean Peninsula and sent a message that diplomacy was at least possible if people could talk.  Just this week Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a formal peace agreement at the White House ending a bloody war that had cost thousands of lives. Trump brought the two Presidents together and brokered a deal thought to be impossible because the conflict had lasted decades.

A catastrophic war between Pakistan and India was well underway with both sides suffering casualties when Trump intervened with diplomacy. The agreement called for the end of military hostilities, communication channels reopened to coordinate security for both sides. Since both countries are nuclear armed the potential for disaster was obvious. Last month Cambodia and Thailand reached a Trump negotiated ceasefire in their cross-border war that killed many and left hundreds of thousands without shelter.

In June of this year Rwanda, where the genocide that cost perhaps a million lives occurred and the Democratic Republic of the Congo were engaged in a war that had gone hot and warm but never cold for decades. Trump negotiated a deal wherein both sides agreed to respect borders, end aggression against the other and perform joint security coordination. Those things that I have mentioned make up a pretty good resume for peace. Unfortunately, under most presidents, the CIA wants the wars hotter to feed the always hungry appetites of the defense contractors, but apparently not so much now.

Gaza is a problem and that’s for sure, but Israel is the one that has to be dealt with in solving that problem and dealing with Netanyahu is not so simple. Whatever hold he has over American leadership seems rather shameful to me and if I were an American leader and I didn’t carry any dirt I think I would be embarrassed at having to cow tow to our ally in such a fashion, but how can we know for sure. Israel is a problem but not the problem for today. Right now, Russia and Ukraine are before us to be considered. So, Mr. Putin, we are told, requested this face-to-face so he could let Trump know what his concerns are and thereby just maybe those concerns would be addressed.

If we think of this meeting as a poker game with Trump, Putin, and Zelensky as the players which player has the most at risk and which has the most skin in the game. I think Putin has the most at risk and the most to lose because even though Russia seems to be gaining momentum in the war Putin’s goals have not been met. Like the U.S. in Vietnam, even though your army is not defeated on the battlefield, by not winning you lose. Putin’s people are getting restless and wondering if any of the sacrifice is worth it if victory is not possible. In addition, the Russian economy is suffering under U.S. sanctions so a successful meeting is vital to Russia.

Mr. Zelensky also has a lot at risk but not as much as Putin. Ukraine has no pretensions about being a great country and its losses have been horrible. Zelensky may run around Europe begging for money but the truth is his army is almost out of manpower. Old men and boys now man the ranks and his lines are crumbling before the Russian attacks. Zelensky wants a simple ceasefire especially aerial ceasefire to stop the Russian drone attacks. Russia has been attacking Kiev with drones but in response to the Ukrainian attack against the Russian nuclear bomber bases.

Trump has only his own reputation as a peacemaker along with U.S. prestige at risk along with a few hundred billion of debt of course. Therefore, my conclusion is that this meeting is more important to Putin than anyone else. He can keep fighting and maybe eventually prevail but at what cost. Does he want Russia out of the sanctions and into the normal family of nations. Time will tell if Trump has those chips on the table.

Russia has apparently signaled the U.S. that it would like to end the war if it could keep Crimea and the eastern provinces that it currently occupies. Mr. Putin is at least willing and able to talk to President Trump, something he was unable to accomplish with President Biden or Victoria Nuland, Biden’s coup instigator.

The President’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt; “The president is agreeing to this meeting, at the request of President Putin, and the goal of this meeting is to walk away with a better understanding of how we can end this war…sitting face-to-face rather than speaking over the telephone will give this president the best indication of how to end this war and where this is headed.”

Meanwhile, Zelensky has a different view.

“Any decisions made against us; any decisions made without Ukraine—they are simultaneously decisions against peace. These are dead decisions; they will never work. And what we all need is a real, living peace, one that people will respect.”

 To me that would be a very insulting and infuriating statement and as President of the United States I would not put up with it but we will see how Mr. Trump views it. The Europeans seem to have Ukraine’s back on the issue and their statement is that any peace has to include Ukraine. The Europeans, however, are irrelevant and don’t even have a seat at this table.

Well, then what would the best way out of this debacle look like. From my limited perspective Trump would say to them, this is the deal, there is no other deal. If you don’t accept this deal and live with it then you are on your own so goodbye and good luck. 

The deal that I have agreed to with Mr. Putin is that Crimea remains Russian where it has belonged for hundreds of years. Russia keeps the Russian speaking Eastern provinces that it occupies as a buffer against Ukraine and NATO. We mutually pledge ourselves to maintain security and respect for each other’s territory. The sanctions imposed on Russia because of Russia’s initial invasion are hereby lifted and full economic cooperation between the United States and Russia are now in force. Furthermore, we acknowledge that the Nord Stream pipeline will be back in place with shared costs of rebuilding and repair. Europe will have plenty of cheap natural gas again and will therefore not have to buy it from the U.S. and transport it across the ocean. Everyone stops fighting immediately and with peace will come much prosperity and safety for the people of all three nations.

Finally, folks, that is what I think should and could happen, but there are many things such as rebuilding that time will not permit me to cover in this report.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle recounts the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, around the 80th anniversary of the events and where it leaves us in the world today.

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COLONEL PAUL TIBBETS AND THE ATOMIC AGE

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 8th day of August in the year of our Lord 2025. Two days ago, on August 6th we remembered the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. Tomorrow the 9th of August is the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan. I will talk about those events and about where they leave us in the world today.

During World War ll the United States was in a technological race with Germany to develop a war winning atomic weapon. The U.S. had some of the smartest people on earth working on the weapon which came to be called “The Manhattan Project.” Einstein gave his theoretical advice and Oppenheimer ran the effort to build a potentially world destroying weapon. No one knew for sure what this weapon would do when it was unleashed. The only thing certain was that its explosive power would be like nothing seen before on earth.

I am certainly no scientist and I am not scientifically educated but as I understand it the microscopic particle that makes up matter, called the atom contains enormous energy and if it could be split that energy would be unleashed by way of explosive power. Some scientists were afraid that the explosion would not be able to be contained and would continue until it destroyed the entire universe but they went ahead with it despite the unknown.

The allies throughout the war fought a clandestine effort to prevent German scientists from finishing their work first. Many people gave their lives in that effort but eventually German industry was destroyed and only Japan was left. The decision to use the weapon against Japan was President Truman’s alone. I understand from much reading on the subject that he was in Europe to conclude the German surrender when he received word that the weapon known as “Little Boy” was ready. His response was “use it.”

Winston Churchill once famously said, “I think history will be kind to me because I intend to write it.” The point is that history is written by the winners not the losers. I have read many histories of the end of the war and the decision to use the bomb and my conclusion is that the historical perspective depends on your world view today. I read something this week which asserted that Japan was begging to surrender but Truman wanted to use the bomb so he ignored them. The supposed reason was to send a message to the Soviet Union that the same thing could happen to them.

The Soviet angle as a secondary reason makes sense but I see no evidence of Japan begging to surrender. In fact, after the surrender when MacArthur was proconsul in Japan surviving Japanese troops tried to lead a rebellion against the surrender. The real question for debate is, was the dropping of the atomic bomb justified or was it the most heinous crime against humanity in history. Everyone has his opinion, but from the perspective of the Marines and soldiers on the beaches and in the jungles of Asia I doubt that they wanted to invade the Japanese home islands. Perhaps if some of those who condemn the decision had been at Tarawa, Saipan, Iwo Jima, or Okinawa they would see it differently.

In any event on August 6th, 1945, a B-29 Super fortress flown by Colonel Paul W. Tibbets Jr and with a crew of 12 more men lifted off the runway on the island of Tinian and headed for Japan and a mission that would forever alter our world. I saw an interview with Colonel Tibbets just before he died and the interviewer gave him a chance to express his sorrow at what he did but he said no I have no regrets. “I viewed my mission as one to save lives. I didn’t bomb Pearl Harbor. I didn’t start the war. But I was going to finish it.”

Colonel Tibbets continued to maintain the same message discipline until the end. He retired form the U.S. Air Force as a brigadier general in 1966 never once expressing any remorse. He anticipated protests after his death in 2007 so he requested that no headstone be placed over his grave. Instead of a burial with highest honor in Arlington, his ashes were scattered over the English Channel by his French born widow, Andrea.

Most of the crew of the Enola Gay, the B-29 named after colonel Tibbets’ mother kept a low profile for the rest of their lives. The bombardier who released the bomb, Major Thomas Ferebee, who had seen much aerial combat throughout the war said like Colonel Tibbets, that he thought the bombing saved more lives than it took. The Navigator who guided the bomber to its release point, Captain Theodore Van Kirk, in a final interview in 2005 said, “War is war. And in war, you do what you have to do to win. It was a different time and a different place.” Captain Van Kirk died in 2014, the last surviving member of the crew.

One man, co-pilot Captain Robert Lewis, had a different perspective on the event. In his logbook written during the return flight to Tinian he wrote, “My God, what have we done.” Captain Lewis had problems with the event but some of his crew disputed the theories about his logbook and they reported that he expressed no such regrets. He expressed his emotional struggles in much writing throughout his life until he died in 1983. The photographs of the blast which became world-famous were taken by tail gunner Sergeant Bob Caron who was the only crewmember to see the blast. He lived a quiet and peaceful life after the war, and eventually wrote his memoirs called, “Fire of a Thousand Suns.”

I could go on and give you the reactions and personal stories of every man on that crew but time and space restrain me. The men all maintained personal pride and professionalism for their military duty, and they did not glorify the destruction itself. The men, as life went on for them, watched as the world was forever changed by what they did. Their single bombing mission became the centerpiece of global geopolitics and in many ways it still is. I will argue that even when it isn’t the centerpiece today, it should be.

To give credence to the Japan will not surrender theory, the Japanese leadership had been repeatedly warned that a new terrible weapon would be unleashed on them if they did not surrender but they refused. When Hiroshima was gone from the earth requests for surrender were again made and again they refused. August 9th, 1945, brought another B-29 on another mission this time headed for the city of Nagasaki and carrying a bomb known as “Fat Man.” After that attack about a week went by when the Japanese general staff were in constant discussion but on August 15th the emperor announced to his military leaders and to the nation via radio message that he had agreed to the allied terms of surrender.

That message brought much weeping from the Japanese people because surrender was not a concept they understood. The thing that made island combat so difficult against the Japanese was their determination to fight to the last man. Often in an island battle 10’s of thousands would die and only a tiny handful would ultimately surrender. The potential loss of life in an invasion of the home islands was therefore obvious. The surrender papers were finally signed on the deck of the battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay on September 2, 1945. The war was over, but I suppose I should reserve that story for another anniversary on another day.

Where does the atomic age find us today 80 years later. If the theory about President Truman using the bomb to send a message to the Soviet Union is true it obviously didn’t work because it took the Soviets only about 3 years to develop their own weapon. So far. Fat Man was the last atomic bomb used in anger against an enemy but the danger, the horrible possibilities are always there. During the Korean War, General MacArthur wanted President Truman to authorize atomic weapons when China entered the war on behalf of Norh Korea but cooler heads prevailed.

In 1962 U.S. intelligence discovered that Russia had placed and was continuing to place offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. soil. Perhaps you are old enough as I am to have lived through the Cuban Missile Crisis, but it was a time of great danger and fear here in America. When I delivered my newspapers each day I could see the blankets hung over windows to prevent injuries from flying glass. People expected a nuclear attack to come at any moment but once again cooler heads prevailed. President Kennedy agreed to remove some missiles from Turkey at least those Khruschev could see from his summer villa on the Black Sea. Premier Khruschev agreed to remove the missiles from Cuba and the world was spared a nuclear holocaust.

Would that happen today or asked differently, do both sides still have cooler heads which hopefully would prevail. I’m not certain of the answer because the rhetoric coming from discussions or non-discussion with Russia are very disturbing. Disarmament treaties have been abandoned and Russia is surrounded by nuclear weapons. My fear is that at some point sooner rather than later, Putin will say no more. In response to a Russian warning Trump publicly ordered two nuclear attack submarines “to the appropriate places.” Something that would never have happened during the dark days of the cold war.

I could go on all day with a discussion about the coming catastrophic war but in the interest of brevity I will say that when events move inevitably forward day by day so that a nuclear armed nation feeling that its back is to the wall, makes a final decision that leads to catastrophe, then it’s too late. Cooler heads must prevail before that happens, but where are they today. President Trump has had some spectacular success with trade negotiations lately, but negotiation is the wrong word for him because he doesn’t negotiate, he dictates terms. Long-term allies seem to accept him as in charge and they have repeatedly given in to his demands.

I’m not sure that Russia can be treated like that without consequence. The Russians are supposed to make peace but how, and what does that even mean. Make peace by surrendering or what. Who knows I guess. Well. in a recent interview with the Atlantic, a publication long at odds with the President, and one he accused of printing damaging lies about him he explained his position on world affairs. “I run the country and the world. “That sounds like a clear definite statement of American hegemony over the world to me.

Finally, folks, when you are a nuclear armed superpower having cordial relations with other nuclear armed superpowers seems like a very good idea to me.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about Gaza and what is going on in that narrow strip of land in which so many have died and are dying. Who or what is responsible for all that death and destruction? Is it really happening, is it faked, just propaganda? This report is the result of his search for evidence that may reveal the truth.

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CAN STARVATION BE FAKED

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 1st day of August in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about Gaza and what is going on in that narrow strip of land in which so many have died and are dying. Who or what is responsible for all that death and destruction. Is it really happening, is it faked, just propaganda. This Report is the result of my search for evidence that may reveal the truth.

The President of the United States said recently that he did not agree with Bibi Netanyahu who stated that there is no starvation in Gaza. He said that everybody needs to step up including the Israelis to make sure food gets to the area. “We can save a lot of people, I mean some of those kids. That’s real starvation; I see it and you can’t fake that. So, we are going to get even more involved.” What exactly that statement means is unclear but the President seems to be shifting his views or perhaps he is evolving as more comes to light.

The President then, has accepted as fact that children are starving in Gaza so who is responsible and what can be done about it. The Israeli population does not deny it nor do they regard it as a curse according to recent polls. Most Israeli citizens believe that the Israeli actions in Gaza are in response to the attacks of October 7, 2023, in which some 1200 Israeli civilians were killed and some 250 hostages were taken and about 50 of which are still unaccounted for.

A letter recently went out from over 1000 Rabbis in which they abhorred the violence committed by Hamas but they seemed to admit that the Israeli response to paraphrase the letter, is well, overkill. “The killing of huge numbers of Palestinians in Gaza, including those seeking food has been widely reported across respectable media and cannot reasonably be denied. The severe limitation placed on humanitarian relief in Gaza, and the policy of withholding of food, water, and medical supplies from a needy civilian population contradict essential values of Judaism as we understand it.”

I interpret that letter as an admission by the Rabbis that the things mentioned are happening. Not everyone agrees though, and as I said Mr. Netanyahu denies that any starvation is happening. The President has seen the videos of starving children and has undoubtedly been briefed by his various intelligence agencies and has become convinced that it is happening. The picture, now viral or iconic around the world, of the woman holding her baby with a diaper made from a plastic bag she found is the convincing one.

It has not convinced everyone though because that picture has been analyzed by many and found lacking. Some see adults in the background and say they seem healthy and well fed. The Israelis say the baby is not starving but has some sort of genetic disorder so the picture is staged for sympathy. I’ve looked at that picture many times and I don’t know about the genetic disorder, perhaps that is so, but that baby is starving to death. Whatever other conditions he has does not change the fact that the baby is starving.

The Rabbis’ letter seems to admit that these conditions are being intentionally caused by the Israeli government and its supporters. Death and destruction are the inevitable consequences of war as we are well aware, but this seems to have reached an unusual level of inhumanity. Once again, we are told nothing is happening here folks, you are not seeing this. Bombing, strafing and shelling are the definition of war but how about the intentional starvation of mass numbers of people.

 To defeat Hamas is it necessary to destroy an entire people group. To do that people have to come to grips with the word genocide. That word is thrown around rather casually today, but I think most Jewish people understand it. They might remember it from stories of their ancestors as the Holocaust.

The holocaust lives in their collective memories but they don’t seem to equate what is being done to these Palestinians with what was done to their people 80 to 90 years ago. What Hitler and his Nazi Party did to Jews and many other groups was accepted by the German people at the time but today anyone who condones such things is looked at as pure evil. The Germans did conduct mass starvation in order to eliminate people groups from certain lands they wanted for German settlers. Slavs, Eastern European Jews, along with other indigenous people were systematically starved and the survivors were shipped out so Germans could have their land.

Does that sound familiar because it is exactly what Israel is accused of today. In order to allow one’s mind to accept such cruelty the people being eliminated must be reduced to inhuman status, subhuman as Hitler called them, or for the Palestinians, human vermin. How can any person who professes to know God make such judgments, I cannot understand, but their hearts must be made of stone. The Old Testament passages of the bible are sometimes used to justify it. I’m no theologian, as I keep saying, but I just don’t get it.

I read many American commentators daily who take the position that these things first of all are exaggerated and second they are caused by Hamas to bring international condemnation down on Israel. Commentators are people with a national audience who make millions by commenting on the news as I am doing right now for free. Some people take vast leaps to favor Israel and always give the Israeli leadership the benefit of the doubt while others are the opposite blaming them for literally everything.

Listen to Chris Hedges of the Hedges Report, “Israelis have blinded themselves morally and intellectually. They view genocide through the lens of a bankrupt media and political class that tells them what they want to hear and shows them what they want to see. They believe that the extermination of a people, including children condemned as human contaminants, makes the world, especially their world, a happier and safer place…. They are the heirs of Pol Pot, the killers that carried out the genocides in East Timor, Rwanda, and Bosnia and, yes, the Nazis. Israel, like all genocidal states—no population since World War ll has been dispossessed and starved with such speed and ruthlessness—has a final solution that would have earned the stamp of approval from Adolph Eichmann.”

I know that truth is very important and in this digital age it is a rare and precious commodity. Lying is a tactic used when the truth does not support your cause.  Is the Israeli government responsible for the famine in Gaza or is Hamas responsible for the famine in Gaza. I admit that it is really hard to get a firm grasp on the truth because the urge is to see events for what your world view wants them to be.

Is your world view that Israelis and by extension all Jews worldwide are monsters who are systematically starving to death 2.1 million people so they can have their little pile of rubble. Does your world view allow you to explain away as self defense among many explanations whatever action the Israeli government takes. It is very difficult to know the truth for certain about anything. That is why a jury is required to find a criminally accused defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Is there reasonable doubt in this case where Israel is accused of perhaps the most horrible crime that one could imagine.

The accusations against Israel are causing persecution and attacks against Jews around the world even here in the United States. Pro-Palestinian people read stories of what is always described as genocide and take revenge on Jews here in America who obviously had nothing to do with it. Those attacks fuel even more hatred by supporters of Israel which then fuels more Pro-Palestinian hatred. That is the never-ending cycle of war and it is why wars have been raging in that part of the world for thousands of years. Hatred is passed on from generation to generation and all efforts to resolve the conflict just seem to make it worse.

What does all this have to do with the United States. Why couldn’t the U.S. just wash its collective hands ala Pontious Pilate and walk away. The U.S.  could not walk away from this struggle with clean hands no matter how many times it washed them. There are things that could be done to help and the U.S. has always been good at helping. Right now, it is busy helping its special ally conduct its foreign policy. I said it’s virtually impossible to be sure of any facts about Gaza but here is a fact that is incontrovertible.

Israeli foreign policy is American foreign policy since the U.S. is always there to conduct policy by force for Israel. This could not happen without American assistance and American support. Israel conducts its attacks in Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Iran with the full support of the American taxpayers. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, an organization I often rely on for who is funding what says that the United States supplies 69% of Israel’s weapons and virtually all the fighter jets Israel uses to conduct its attacks. Germany supplies 30% and I trust you can see the irony in that.

In conclusion, folks, I was ready to admit that I could not form an opinion that did not have doubts in it and then I saw Tucker Carlson’s interview of Tony Aguilar. That man can be trusted and believed so listen to a little of his story. He went to West Point and retired after 25 years as a combat infantry officer. He was trained in special forces and deployed 12 times to war zones and literally spent years in combat and was decorated many times and also wounded in combat. In other words, he has seen the worst and knows what it looks like. His wife, also a retired officer, and he together have 45 years of experience.

He retired with the last day of service March 1, 2025. In May he was contacted and asked to go to Gaza to lead and report on the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid program which took over when the U.N. could not deliver the aid. He was so shaken by what he described as a post-apocalyptic world in Gaza that he and his wife decided that he would go public. Just some of the things he reported seeing were enough for me. There are only four aid stations for millions and all four are in active IDF combat zones which is a war crime in the Internationally recognized rules for armed conflict. Machine Guns and tanks firing into civilian crowds but mostly it was the starvation. He described the aid stations as death traps.

Lt, Col. Aguilar reminded us that the motto of U.S. Special Forces is “To Free the Oppressed” a motto he lived by for 25 years. His conclusion is that the U.S. taxpayers are funding killing and starving to death 10’s of thousands in Gaza. He said it is worse than any of the combat zones he spent his life in. Finally, he pointed out that there aren’t many things more Christian than feeding people.

Finally, folks, the Pale Horse is among us.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for Listening.

Darrell Castle talks about what the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, called a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House to subvert the will of the American people.

Transcription / Notes

THE VERY DEFINITION OF A COUP

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 25th day of July in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about what the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, called a treasonous conspiracy by officials at the highest levels of the Obama White House to subvert the will of the American people.

 Before I begin I want to take a moment and recognize that this month is the 15th anniversary of the Castle Report. Yes, folks I have been doing this for 15 years. It was conceived in a hotel in the state of Idaho back in 2010 after a discussion with some friends in the Constitution Party about how we needed people to speak on the issues. I said I will do it but only if no one tries to control what I say or what I talk about and to this point no one has. I will admit that sometimes I wonder if anyone cares about the issues enough to control what I say.

Yes, Tulsi made some explosive accusations and she has released the documents to prove them. I’m starting to think that perhaps it was not a good idea for Hillary Clinton to refer to Tulsi as a Russian agent during the 2016 primary campaign. Perhaps it was not even a good idea to have her placed on the terrorist watch list so she would be unnecessarily searched in every airport she traveled through. Maybe you should not have had Tulsi followed by dog teams and maybe you should not have taken her electronic gadgets including her U.S. Army issued laptop and phone as she traveled through airports.

Yes, what goes around comes around and now the way Tulsi has been treated by Democrats, especially since she used to be one, is and has been shameful but am I saying she released the documents for revenge. No, I’m not saying that because the documents speak for themselves and Tulsi has demonstrated the honor expected of a 20-year army officer to this point. Revenge can be sweet though, and as they say it is a dish best served cold.

How explosive are Tulsi’s allegations let’s take a look. By the way I assume that everyone is aware of what I’m talking about in regard to the completely false Russia gate accusations against Trump so my intent is to look at the possible ramifications. The word treason is often used because it is a capital offense with no statute of limitations and so the charges can be brought no matter how long ago the alleged offense occurred. Think about it like this folks; the senior official in charge of all American Intelligence operations is now stating unequivocally that former President Obama and the subordinates of his team intentionally sabotaged the peaceful transfer of power in 2016.

 She tells us, in effect, that they violated their oaths, betrayed their sworn duty to the American people, and attempted a coup against the legitimate government of the United States. In other words, they set out to weaken and then overthrow the government of the United States. They did all this, allegedly, not on behalf of some foreign power, but on behalf of their own power. They had power and they wanted to keep it because I suppose they had the power addiction really bad and they just couldn’t be bothered about the rules of the game. So, do those charges constitute treason. The United States Constitution Article 3 Section 3 defines treason.

“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.”

So, again do the allegations constitute treason. I suppose one could try to allege that the acts constituted war against the United States, but it seems to me that the document, the Constitution, the rule of law, means that the war must be conducted on behalf of a foreign power. Not treason then, at least in my view, so what crimes did these people commit, allegedly. I won’t try to list all the possibilities but the DOJ lawyers could look at each one and fit that into the crimes listed in the U.S. Code.

We are very fortunate to have an apparently honest and obviously courageous woman like Tulsi Gabbard sorting through this mess. The powers that be, the deep state, and all those power seekers in the Democrat Party must be terrified and determined to get some scandal on Tulsi to remove her as a threat. General Michael Flynn, who was Trump’s National Security Advisor in the first Trump Administration until he was driven from office by the crimes of the people accused by the documents Tulsi has released put it like this: “This is why Gabbard was attacked so relentlessly over the past few weeks and months. They knew if there were anyone with guts to investigate the attempted coup, it would be her.”

It appears to me that the evidence released by Tulsi is overwhelming so the question is always what if anything will be done with it. Will any of the accused, if they are found guilty, be sentenced. Time will tell but the words so often used in the lawfare waged against Trump come to mind, no one is above the law. Is that phrase, no one is above the law, really true. Well, it’s supposed to be true going all the way back to the Magna Charta in 1215 the king was from then on to be subject to the law as was every Englishman. I suspect, however, that it is no longer true. I believe that is because Washington is so irredeemably corrupt that they always find a way with the help of their friends in the media to worm through the cracks in perception.

Quote from Tulsi, “The implications of this are frankly nothing short of historic. It’s worse than politicization of intelligence. These were manufactured intelligence documents that sought to achieve President Obama and his team’s objective, which was to undermine President Trump’s presidency and subvert the will of the American people.” Did the media assist in the criminal acts of the accused and if so how. Quote from Paul Craig Roberts about the media efforts against Trump.

“Gabbard said that Americans working in the intelligence agencies who were disgusted by Obama’s attempted frame up of Trump—an act of treason which carries the death penalty—are now coming forward as whistle blowers. Will America’s First Black President be the first president to be convicted of a capital crime? Or will the corrupt American Establishment succeed in protecting their puppet?

The whore media is not happy about this development as the presstitutes did all they could to make the fake story stick. Americans should understand that their media was an important participant in the plot against the people’s will. Now the whores have moved on to using Epstein against Trump.”

A lot of different approaches were tried in the effort by a former administration to discredit a future administration including the creation of a set of complete lies concocted by a British ex spy known as the Steele dossier. That document told us that not only was Donald Trump aided by the very evil Vladimir Putin when he won the 2016 election but while Trump was in Moscow he was cavorting with prostitutes. Well, it turns out, and the documents clearly show that the Steele Dossier was a complete fantasy and a hoax paid for by Hilliary Clinton’s campaign and personally ordered to be used by President Obama.

The” coup” organized and conducted by the Obama Administration was a kind of soft coup using lies, and fabricated documents, organized lawfare, all published and authenticated by the willing American media. I call it a soft coup because it used the things I just mentioned instead of violence. No tanks rolled through the streets of Washington except symbolically. The purpose through the deliberate actions of people in the Obama Administration, was to undermine the Trump Administration and hinder the peaceful transfer of power and thus as Obama would have put it fundamentally change America from a Constitutional Republic into his creation and his fiefdom.

Until Tulsi Gabbard came along my thoughts were that any possibility of holding people to account for this coup was close to zero. Will any of the accused in this coup be charged. Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, John Brennan, James Clapper, James Comey, Peter Strzok and his lover Lisa Page, Sally yates, Samantha Power, Victoria Nuland of Ukrainian Coup fame. Yes that Victoria Nuland I guess she became kind of an expert on Coups but she was in the meeting called by Obama to discuss strategy.

So, this was the first strategy and the first direct attack on trump and the will of the American people. Next came two efforts to impeach him and a series of never ending lawfare attacks which resulted in a conviction in New York by a prosecutor now accused of serious crimes herself. If that were all it would be plenty but add to it two assassination attempts one of which wounded him. Yes, folks these people were and are serious in their efforts to turn “our democracy” as they would put it into a third world banana republic.

The abrogation of the constitution to use extrajudicial methods to destroy the incoming president. It is the very definition of a coup. We don’t have coups here in America do we. No, we respect our democracy and the rule of law unless of course this group of Democrat politicians and their bureaucrats were different from anything in America before them.

Finally, folks, is this the worst political scandal in American history, maybe. Governments throughout the centuries have been all about scandals, pogroms, wars, persecutions, and criminality, as well as sexual debauchery, depravity, and other forms of predatory behavior. Just business as usual in Washington or was the scandal the worst ever. Perhaps the DOJ can dissect Tulsi’s documents and tell us, or perhaps the intent is merely to embarrass the opposition. Time will tell.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle continues his discussion of Jeffrey Epstein and the list of his customers which doesn’t exist along with the subjects of his blackmail which as we know does not exist either.

DOES THE EPSTEIN LIST REALLY MATTER

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. There are many things of vital importance today such as war in the Middle East and war in Ukraine but I have decided to continue my discussion of Jeffrey Epstein and the list of his customers which doesn’t exist along with the subjects of his blackmail which as we all know does not exist either.

Just to refresh your collective memories a little bit last week the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Jeffrey Epstein did not maintain a client list of prominent people who were being blackmailed by Jeffrey Epstein acting as the agent for the Israeli Intelligence Service, Mossad. There are many reasons why the list is so important and why it threatens what’s left of government credibility.

First of all, it’s extremely frightening to think that we have a government that is completely untrustworthy in all respects. I’m not talking about Democrats and Republicans I’m talking about the U.S. Government in general. Who would want to pay taxes voluntarily or serve in the military of a government like that. To further complicate things throughout history when people have lost faith in their government’s credibility revolution has been the result. Two prominent examples would be the French Revolution of 1789 and the Russian/Communist Revolution of 1917. In both cases the government which came forward to save the country from chaos and mass murder was far worse and killed far more people than its predecessor.

Here in 2025 America, we have a government which came in with such promise for most of us and certainly for the President’s followers who were known as MAGA. Together, America was going to be great again. MAGA had certain goals which carried the campaign to victory. There would be an end to illegal immigration and there would be deportation of illegal criminals. So far so good although Democrats in congress fight each and every deportation even when the one being deported is a known criminal. Now we hear rumors that Trump might be considering some form of amnesty but his base rebelled when that test rumor was circulated.

The answer to the rebellion was simple. Amnesty was proposed piecemeal and in a disguised fashion. The folks in big agriculture, the restaurant business and chicken slaughterhouses need their cheap labor so maybe the President would consider an exemption for workers in those industries.

 The heart of MAGA was of course the hope of peace. This president was going to bring peace and withdraw America from forever wars. Trump said in his campaign that he could end the war in Ukraine with a few phone calls but now six months after inauguration the war rages on and it has become his war.

Just this week he decided to bully Vladimir Putin by giving him 50 days to comply with Trump’s demands or he would “ruin Russia financially.” Zelensky said that it is too long and just wastes time and lives. I guess he just wants to get on with killing. He is shipping “billions of dollars” of new weapons to Ukraine including long range missiles designed to reach deep into Russia, but now he says they won’t be used to hit Moscow. I hope that someone reminded the President that Russia has about 6000 nuclear warheads with systems to deliver them which cannot be defeated conventionally. He would also be wise to remember that Genghis Khan, Nepoleon Bonaparte, and Adolph Hitler were all unsuccessful in their efforts to intimidate and then conquer Russia.

The point is that with a couple of notable exceptions the peace president is no more. The notable exceptions were Marco Rubio’s successful negotiations to bring peace to the Pakistan-India War and a war in Africa which had been on again off again for decades. War is the bottom line for all people who labor for the government no matter which party they inhabit. They will disagree on a few things like abortion and mutilation of children so that we sheep will think we actually have a choice but once in office we find they are rather squishy about even those things.

The one thing they all agree on is war all over the planet especially war on behalf of Israel. Trump appeared to be a threat to that world order and they were scared of him for that reason. When they call him fascist and say he is the same as Hitler they really mean the opposite and the fear is that he is not those things. Once in office it took only 6 months for the powers that be to show him who really runs the world. So, the lesson and its aftermath is that MAGA is over and greatness will just have to wait. The war in Ukraine is worse than ever and now we are no longer afraid to attack nuclear armed Russia. How long before Putin grows weary of it and decides to stop sitting by while his country is attacked. I hope his patience continues because when patience runs out World War lll won’t be far behind.

Wars on behalf of Israel simply cannot be stopped even though my opinion is that they are illegal. The Symington Amendment, which in 1976 amended the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 forbids aid to nations which enrich uranium to weapons grade outside of International Atomic Energy Agency Controls. The way around that has always been to refuse to acknowledge Israel has such weapons. Wars on behalf of Israel could be stopped by telling Mr. Netanyahu that there would be no more, not one more bullet and not one more dollar. Here’s something you might not know, folks. The U.S. Corps of Engineers is in Israel right now repairing damage and rebuilding infrastructure. I imagine they could be useful in East Tennessee, and North Carolina repairing hurricane damage but we have our priorities.

Speaking of disasters think about this for a moment. The recent horrible disaster in Texas with so many dead and so many of them children. Can you imagine the horror and sadness of not even being able to recover your 7-year-old daughter’s body. Well, multiply that death toll by 5000 times and you may get a little picture of what mothers in Gaza have gone through, allegedly. Is it all true, I don’t know but I’ve seen enough, read enough, and heard the testimonies of people actually there to convince me that it is. Testimonies such as the Palestinian woman who is also a physician. She is continuing to treat victims in the rubble despite all 9, yes 9, of her own children having been killed.

Is Israel as a nation of Jewish people capable of such things. I wish I could say no but I think back to 1967 when the USS Liberty sailing 13 miles off the Egyptian coast with the U.S. flag clearly flying was attacked by Israeli fighter jets and strafed and bombed repeatedly. The Israelis even strafed men in lifeboats eventually killing 34 American sailors. One brave sailor managed to get an antenna aloft and a rescue distress was sent. The message was intercepted by the Israelis and they called off the attack thus allowing the little ship to survive. Why would they do that, who knows. A reasonable guess would be to draw the U.S. into their war against the combined Arab armies which they were engaged in. The point is that they have proven they are indeed capable of mass murder.

That takes us back to Jeffrey Epstein and whether he was an Israeli, Mossad agent. Tucker Carlson thinks he was and that has brought a lot of criticism down on his head. Tucker was a speaker at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point event the other day and he made that allegation publicly. I listened to his speech, not live but later and he was quite adamant that Epstein was an Israeli agent. Epstein’s close associate and even closer lover, Ghislane Maxwell comes from a historic Israeli spy family. Her father, Robert Maxwell was a very high-ranking Israeli spy with medals to prove it and even a memorial in Israel in his honor.

Was this woman who was definitely Robert Maxwell’s daughter, and definitely Jeffrey Epstein’s procurer of children and young women the only one who was guilty of anything besides Epstein himself. That doesn’t sound very believable to me. Maxwell’s family hasn’t given up hope of getting her out of prison and to that end they have filed a habeas corpus motion alleging that she did not get a fair trial, but as of last Wednesday it was denied. I can believe her trial wasn’t fair as she was obviously supposed to take the fall for the guilty but she still pimped out children to the rich and famous. So, maybe fair but maybe selective prosecution. Who were the rich and famous and were any of their sex with children episodes filmed. It’s hard to believe they were not and therefore it is easy to believe they were blackmailed.

This entire episode reminds me of the moral rot that has infected our leaders and thereby our entire society. It has left us susceptible to blackmail whether that happened or not. We are told by the DOJ that there is no blackmail and no list so are we to believe the unbelievable. When the story about Tucker’s speech accusing Israel broke it was quickly responded to by a former Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett.

“As a former Israeli Prime Minister, with the Mossad having reported directly to me, I say to you with 100% certainty; The accusation that Jeffrey Epstein somehow worked for Israel or the Mossad running a blackmail ring is categorically and totally false.”

How much credence should we give to Mr. Bennett’s strong denial. My answer is none, zero because anyone or any organization that would send spies around the world to buy and kidnap children then pimp them out to the officials of a foreign government should not be considered as potentially truthful. Could all this potential or possible blackmail be the reason for so many wars. Could it be why U.S. forces are in Israel right now. Could it be why there are about 40,000 U.S. troops in the Middle East. Could it be why B-2 bombers were recently employed against Iran. Yes, all those things are possible and the whole thing is in doubt without the list and without the radical transparency we were promised.

In conclusion, a society that has completely lost any hope of trust in leadership is doomed. Jeffrey Epstein and his list are important for that reason alone. Truth is superior to lies, and having leaders repeatedly lie to our faces is exhausting and threatening to the very fabric of society. For those reasons and others, the list is a hill worth dying on. Did Epstein work for Israel in blackmailing U.S. leaders. I don’t know so that’s why we need a real investigation with full disclosure.

Finally, folks, While we are expending blood and treasure in other people’s wars we should keep something in mind. If we continue at the current rate of deficit spending until the year 2033 or just 8 more years the debt will exceed 50 trillion dollars and it will require more that 40% of revenue for the interest. My point is that we can’t afford these wars fought for the benefit of other nations.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about the case of Jeffrey Epstein and the memo recently released by the Trump Administration which asserted that Epstein killed himself, had no client list, and no blackmail.

Transcription / Notes

JEFFREY EPSTEIN, PAM BONDI AND THE MORAL ROT OF AMERICA

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 11th day of July in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the case of Jeffrey Epstein and the memo recently released by the Trump Administration which asserted that Epstein killed himself and that he had no client list, and no blackmail. Was that memo truthful or just a pack of lies.

It’s pretty clear that the evidence supports the pack of lies position, but we the public are supposed to believe those lies or at least pretend that we do. So, there were no pedophiles who happened to also be rich, famous, and powerful. There were no blackmail examples for us to consider and we have a bogus video not even on the correct floor where his body was found to tell us there was no murder. Yes, the saga of JFK and the Warren Commission Report continues and we the people are expected to look the other way for political reasons or to prevent the embarrassment of the country. I suppose it would be embarrassing if information were to be released showing that the CIA along with foreign intelligence agencies conspired to kill President Kennedy or that Jeffrey Epstein was a CIA asset.

The explanation for Epstein is so ridiculous that almost no one could believe it but they tell it with a straight face. I don’t know whether they think that due to decades of life in their schools we are too stupid to understand or whether we are so morally corrupt that we just don’t care. O.K. having laid the groundwork for my outrage let me get into why I’m outraged and why you should be as well.

First of all, I think Pam Bondi is a fine prosecutor and an excellent choice for attorney general. I was happy when Trump nominated her because I was aware of her record as the Florida Attorney General. Her intelligence and hard work were often disguised from adversaries by her physical beauty.  I don’t want to be forced to alter my opinion of her but I do have some questions that need answers.

Pam are you now and have you been lying to the American people about the Epstein matter or were you just confused. No, I don’t think you were confused because you are just too smart for that so the question becomes did you willfully and knowingly lie to us because if you did you should be bothered by the hypocrisy. Were you ordered to lie and invent that nonsense memo that went out because it was an obvious pack of lies.

If you were ordered to lie or just expected to lie out of loyalty I understand that. I don’t agree with you but I understand. Most of us at some point in our lives are faced with a decision about loyalty to the one who appointed us or to a higher one. If you lied out of loyalty as I said I understand but I am very disappointed because you lied to the most loyal supporters of the President’s agenda. There is no going back from this story and I am sorry for what it has done to you and to your career, nevertheless we the people deserve the truth although we no longer expect it.

We don’t expect it because we accept the vile corruption at every stage of government as normal. We aren’t even bothered by it anymore because it’s just, well, normal. See Pam, that’s what makes the systemic corruption of today much worse than the systemic corruption of yesteryear. When JFK was assassinated we were naïve about corruption and we didn’t understand that the government of this country had changed drastically. When we discovered that we were supposed to believe that a lone nut killed the President we did believe it and when we learned that was a pack of lies something died inside us.

Pam, you and the administration you work for had a chance to change all that. I can remember the hopeful anticipation I had in the new cabinet because I knew those people had a reputation for honesty and integrity. I don’t blame you Pam and I don’t agree with those who say you should be fired. Why should you fire someone for carrying out your orders. What I’m saying is that something far more important than Jeffrey Epstein is at stake here and if you were ordered to lie then the honorable thing to do is resign. Let me give you an example of the deception and the nothing to see here folks attitude that have become so familiar to all of us.

The other day I heard a news conference with you and the President which primarily focused on the disaster in Texas. A reporter asked a question about Epstein and you started to answer, but the President spoke up and said let me answer. Then he chided the reporter and upbraided him for asking about Epstein and went on to portray the question as old news. People have been talking about that man for years and now we have this disaster so I can’t believe you asked that question. That’s a rough paraphrase of how the question was answered.

The President is a bright guy so I am certain he knows the question really wasn’t about Epstein and the issue is not Epstein at all. No, the question is about a list of former presidents possibly even including the present one.  I’ve seen no evidence of that but the lie leaves the question open. The question is about former Prime Ministers of Israel including the current one, it’s about why the Israeli Prime Minister has visited the White House 3 times since your inauguration with the 3rd one coinciding with the memo. It’s about CEOs of tech companies such as Bill Gates; it’s about lawyers so famous that they are iconic names such as Alan Dershowitz. It’s about the richest, most famous, and most powerful in the world who just might possibly be under the blackmail influence of foreign intelligence agencies.

We were promised “radical transparency” when the new administration chose its cabinet and the U.S. Senate confirmed those people. It turns out that the transparency is not radical at all just the same old pack of lies. The lies are apparently a message to the dark underbelly that runs this world. The message is don’t worry because we have your back and nothing bad is going to happen to you because we are in this power game together. That’s the reason I see for the memo, it’s just a message not to us but to the guilty. You went on camara in a kind of staged photo op at the White House and told us that you had the files and the list on your desk and you were reviewing them before release. Now we are expected to believe that there is no list because it doesn’t exist. There is no list, no files, he killed himself and there was no blackmail. Pam a blind man could see through that pack of lies in 30 seconds.

We are given plenty of transparency in matters that are trivial, but in the most important matters we are just fed a steady diet of lies. We as Americans have no right to know who is killing our leaders or who is stealing and selling the most valuable resource we have and that is our children. Pam, you are a prosecutor and a very good one as well as supposedly a Christian. Tell me, how can you be a part of protecting people who sell children to be raped by the most powerful. Yes I said raped because these poor children had no choice in the matter apparently.

You told us there were thousands of videos with explicit portrayals of interaction with the rich and powerful. One video was publicly marked “nude girls. “Now you want us to believe that it was all a mistake. The videos of children, we are told, was just child pornography that Epstein downloaded off the internet. That is a crime, but he was not charged with that crime as far as I know. What about all those videos of Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew with children. They all just disappeared so just move along folks nothing happening here.

Again, I want to emphasize that the crimes that Epstein was accused of as horrible as they were are not the most important thing. By the way, why was he in jail if he wasn’t guilty of anything. When he was accused, pled guilty, and served time briefly in Florida a few years ago why did the prosecutor say that he was ordered to back off because Epstein was a product of intelligence. The real issue is about the intelligence organization for which Epstein worked and how he acquired a billion dollars and what he used that money to do. Did he run a blackmail organization whereby the rich and powerful, especially those that could help Israel, were filmed having sex with children who had been bought and sold like commodities.

I have often wondered why Israel is so very important to the U.S. Do you ever wonder why Israel is constantly at war and constantly outnumbered but on the attack anyway. The U.S. military always sems to come to their aid. Don’t worry about a war with a population ten times your own because the United Sates has your back. Would it influence any of the pro-Israel war hawks in Congress, the Senate, the military and everywhere else if we knew for certain the Israeli intelligence was blackmailing our leaders. I’m not saying that is what is happening I’m just asking the question and demanding a real investigation.

Kash Patel and Dan Bongino at the FBI were our new more honest officials who pledged to us they were going to conduct real investigations to get the truth then they come out with such an unbelievable pack of lies that even they are ashamed of it. You can see it on their faces when they speak in public. So, Pam, these two men have been taken into the web of corruption that is now the U.S. government along with you. It even taints their investigation of their predecessor’s corrupt Russia Gate hoax.

In conclusion, every institution of government has been hollowed out by pervasive corruption. When the corruption that might possibly be changed is discovered its friends in Congress and the Senate which are also totally corrupt vehemently object to their special form of largesse for their donors being revealed. It’s all very sad for the country because we might not be able to recover from it and we might not be able to vote our way out of it.

Hemingway once famously said when his character was asked how his bankruptcy happened he said gradually at first, then all at once. That’s the way empires die too.

Finally, folks, Pam, I have one final question for you. Ghislane Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for child sex trafficking which as you know is a politically correct term for child sex slavery. What children were trafficked and who were they trafficked to Who bought those children Pam? Inquiring minds want to know, and I pray that those monsters do not escape justice.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle gives his best guess about some of the reasons for the attack on Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites.

Transcription / Notes

WHY DID THE U.S. ATTACK IRAN?

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 27th day of June in the year of our Lord 2025. Next Friday is the 4th of July so barring some catastrophe there will be no Castle Report next week. I hope you have that day off so you can celebrate Independence as Joan and I will. Today, I speak not of Independence but of war once again as I try to discern some of the reasons for the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites.

I will admit that the reasons for the actions of nations at this moment are normally nothing more than someone’s or a group of someone’s best guesses so I will make some guesses of my own today. The attack raised an important Constitutional issue because the Constitution gives only Congress the authority to declare war. That was just one example of the wisdom of the founders because the decision to go to war puts the entire nation’s survival at risk. Perhaps, in this modern era we are expected to think differently and see that this attack was not such a Constitutional question because the last time the U.S. followed the Constitution in going to war was December 1941.

Most politicians now on both sides of the aisle think and state publicly that the formal declaration of war is a relic of the past and just isn’t done anymore. So, we are constantly at war but nothing is ever declared and that is very convenient for those who love war. The two political parties have apparently reached a consensus to let the president handle the decision alone and afterward they can criticize or praise him at their leisure. It’s all just part of the theater of the absurd that we watch every day on our televisions or smart phones.

Technology and speed are completely different now than in the days of the founders or even 1941. In the early days a debate about going to war might take months and there was little or no chance your adversary could learn of it before you acted but now those decisions take microseconds. It seems that in government today there are simply no secrets despite any top-secret classification, except for the very important secrets like JFK, RFK, MLK, the Epstein files, and of course 9/11. Those are the things we normal Americans are not supposed to know.

For example, someone in the Pentagon or the defense intelligence agency leaked the top-secret bomb damage assessment or (BDA) of the attack which said it was unknown whether or not the nuclear enrichment capability of Iran survived the blast generated by 14 MOABs or mother of all bombs. A criminal investigation is underway to find the leaker. President Trump had previously told us that the nuclear sites had been “obliterated” by the bombing. When asked about it later he said that he got his BDA from Israeli Mossad agents who physically observed the sites. It turns out now that even the Iranians admit severe damage to the sites.

Wars tend to be worse than expected. The ones who enter them expect and hope that the duration will be short and victory will come decisively and quickly but then reality sets in. For example, one could say that the Ayatollahs have been at war with Israel and the U.S. for forty-six years or the entire time they have held power in the Islamic Republic of Iran. They constantly inflame their people and incite international fear by leading chants in the streets of Tehran of “death to America” and “death to Israel.” It’s not much of a stretch to believe that those two nations would see that as declaring open warfare and act accordingly. When someone screams for your death for 46 years perhaps you should consider paying attention because he might just be preparing the means to bring his ambitions into reality. That is one reason then for the attack i.e. to end the death to America threat.

The Iranian regime turns out to have been a farce all along. Much ado about nothing and what the North Vietnamese used to call America, just a paper tiger. It was the kind of country that reminds one of the movie sets you might see on a guided tour of the studio, all just fake. However, in the U.S. there seems to be a tendency to fear the worst in any situation and in the Middle East the worst seems to always have a way of happening. In other words, it’s a fine place to stay a long way from.

The reasons for the war are limited only by one’s imagination but one of the prime reasons, i.e. a justification for the attack, was an apparently false appraisal at the last minute by the international atomic energy agency (IAEA) which showed Iran could have a nuclear weapon within two weeks. It turns out that the report came not from boots on the ground but from an AI software on Palantir using a $50 million AI system to sift through all the data points available. That report gave Israel the cover that it needed for the attack and as it turns out the report was nothing more than inferred hostile intent, but it made Netanyahu’s decision to go to war justifiable.

Later, on June 17th after the attack by Israel started, the IAEA issued a statement through its head, a mister Grossi. “We did not have any evidence of a systemic effort by Iran to move to a nuclear weapon.” Iran foreign minister Esmaeil Baqaei on June 19,” This is too late, Mr. Grossi—you obscured this truth in your absolutely biased report that was instrumentalized by E3/U.S. to craft a resolution with baseless allegation of Iranian non-compliance; the same resolution was then utilized, as a final pretext, by a genocidal warmongering regime to wage a war of aggression on Iran and to launch an unlawful attack on our peaceful nuclear facilities.”

I’ve had a question since this started about the peaceful nuclear facilities and about the reports of no nuclear weapons and that question is if that is so why do you need to build your facility 80 to 100 meters underground and cover it with 25 meters of reinforced concrete. Peaceful level enrichment is fairly easy and fairly quick and very replaceable. However, I certainly understand Iranian anger at the false report and that is why the Iranian parliament reportedly has ceased cooperation with IAEA.

There is another reason for the attack, which like the others is probably false but maybe, just maybe there is truth in it. This reason comes to us from Gilbert Doctorow, world recognized Russia expert who has degrees from Harvard and Oxford on his resume. The report was mentioned by Paul Craig Roberts in a recent article and that is how I became aware of it and started researching Mr. Doctorow and his theories. He has a different theory from anything presented thus far.

Mr. Roberts reports Doctorow’s interpretation like this. He suggests that the purpose of Trump’s bombing of Iran’s uranium enrichment sites is to shut up Netanyahu and to preempt Netanyahu from attacking the Iranian nuclear facilities with nuclear weapons. As an alleged Iranian nuke was the official excuse of Netanyahu’s military aggression against Iran, Trump’s announcement of Washington’s destruction of the sites removed the justification for continuing Israeli aggression.

Mr. Doctorow went on to suggest that Trump immediately began hammering both sides for a ceasefire which was in Israel’s best interest because it was running out of anti-air munitions. Iran’s retaliatory strike against the U.S. base in Qatar, was part of the political theater intended to end the conflict. Mr. Doctorow, as Mr. Roberts put it, shows us a more intelligent Trump than he showed himself by only appearing to draw us into another endless Mideast war. Maybe he was right but time will tell.

I can think of another reason or perhaps it’s just a result of what happened and that is the demonstration to the world that Trump displayed. The secrecy maintained throughout, the deception of pretending to send the tankers and bombers west when they were going east, the incredibly awesome power of 7 B2 bombers flying from Missouri to Iran and back in 36 hours with 14 GBU-57 bombs on board, putting those bombs within one meter of the target from high above the earth, all without a single Iranian defensive aircraft taking off and not a shot fired against them, with not a single casualty except those inside the nuclear site holes.

That was indeed awesome and I can think of only one nation which could have pulled it off. In other words, suddenly Russia and China seem a little irrelevant and Russia’ s statements of support for Iran were just that, statements with nothing behind them. Trump made a demonstration for the world to see and I believe the world, despite the rhetoric, took notice. China is a little concerned right about now because it looks like Iran might be headed for regime change and that would be problematic for China since Iran is one of the crown jewels in the Chinese belt and road initiative to connect China with the world out of the reach of the U.S. Navy. This demonstration, then, told the Chinese the Navy might not reach you, but the Air Force will.

The vast amount of munitions expended in this brief war has to be replaced and just one small part of it is the Israeli aircraft primarily American. About 200 U.S. F-35 stealth jets were used to fly those early sorties designed to destroy the Iranian anti-air systems. They were airborne for hours and required much aerial refueling. Each F-35 costs $10,000 per hour for each hour of flight operations. This information is one tiny cost in the total package but it bodes extremely well for Lockheed (LMT) and its F-35 program also Boeing (BA) and its F-47 fighter on the way as well as Northrop Grumman (NOC) and its development of the coming large bomber the B-21. As I’ve often said, if you are a gambler bet on war and it’s really not much of a gamble.

In conclusion, folks, since December 7, 1941, we’ve had more than enough wars but not many victory parades or celebrations in the great capitals. Korea, Vietnam, Honduras, Nicaragua, Grenada, Kuwait, Kosovo, Iraq, Afghanistan, on and on so on and so forth. Trump had a chance to set a record for American presidents and time will tell if he did or not. He was the only U.S. president in the 21st century who had not started an expensive, pointless war. This one might turn out shorter, and cheaper than the others, we’ll see.

Finally, folks, Trump seemed genuinely upset, especially with Netanyahu for violating the cease fire he arranged. I see that as a good thing and I pray the ceasefire holds. We owe Trump a debt of gratitude for removing Netanyahu’s last excuse for war with Iran. Pray for peace folks whether you hate him or love him pray the ceasefire holds.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until July 11,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about the attack by the nation of Israel upon the nation of Iran and what involvement the U.S. will have in the war.

Transcription / Notes

IRAN CANNOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday the 20th day of June in the year of our Lord 2025. My beat is war today and there is obviously a big one to talk about and that is the attack by the nation of Israel upon the nation of Iran. Will the U.S. attack Iran’s nuclear sites on behalf of Israel. We hold our breath to learn what Netanyahu will have the U.S. do.

I have been a bit unsure about how to approach this Report since I’m pretty sure that virtually everyone knows about Israel’s attack by now. What most may not have considered is that in less than a week Israel, a nation of about 9 million people almost completely destroyed Iran’s ability to make war either offensively or defensively. Iran, a nation of about 90 million people or roughly 10 to 1 in population was believed to be at the end of a decades long pursuit of a nuclear weapon or that is at least what Israel keeps telling the world.

Donald Trump told Iran that he wanted to negotiate an end to its nuclear ambitions and he gave them 60 days to enter into a deal to end their nuclear program. He at first seemed willing to allow enough enrichment for peaceful nuclear power but later backed away and said no enrichment at all. Iran said well, then we can’t have a deal so at midnight of the 61st day Israel attacked and destroyed all the above ground nuclear facilities of Iran and assassinated many of Iran’s top military leadership along with its nuclear scientists.

Now, it’s pretty clear that when Trump invited them to negotiate what he really meant was accept my demands or suffer the consequences. So, what was Iranian leadership thinking by continuing nuclear enrichment and refusing to talk. I obviously don’t know the workings of the Mullah’s minds but I can use what I do know to make a reasonable guess. I think they did not recognize in time that the world has changed dramatically in a very short time. Since the October 7, 2023 attack by Hamas, Israel has essentially been at war dismantling the Iranian proxy, terrorist armies bit by bit. The terrorist proxies are the way Iran spread its control across the entire region.

The three Iranian proxy groups Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis have all been reduced to ineffectiveness by the Israel attacks. Hamas, what is left of it, is a pile of rubble. The Houthis are under constant air attack and Iran publicly abandoned them. Hezbollah had its leadership destroyed in a now famous exploding cell phone attack, and their sponsor in Syria has been overthrown. Israel attacked the Iranian anti-air defense system a few months ago and rendered it ineffective obviously. Apparently Israel’s intelligence arm, the Mossad had so completely infiltrated Iran they built an Israeli military base inside Iran.

Iran apparently didn’t recognize any of that and whether by inertia, or poor thinking just continued business as usual. With all their terrorist groups anemic or destroyed they literally have no friends left. Nations like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and the Emirates may pay lip service to Iran but secretly I suspect they are cheering the Israelis on. The other change that Iran didn’t see was that Russia, their once staunch ally has been strangely silent other than offering asylum to Iranian leadership. Russia is no longer a Middle East power and protector of Iran because it has all it can handle in Ukraine. Perhaps Russia is secretly happy about the war because it detracts the U.S. from Ukraine and most importantly it might raise the price of oil worldwide thus helping Russia’s one product economy.

China, Iran’s other powerful friend is presently trying to resolve a trade war with the U.S. and seems to have no desire to involve itself in a Mideast war although there are rumors of Chinese resupply of Iranian munitions. So, the Iranians, I presume, thought that they would do what they always have done and that is lie, bluster, and obfuscate knowing that one red line after another would be set and ignored. They apparently thought Trump was bluffing as Obama, and secretary of state Blinken had been for so long. If they could do that long enough they just might have their nuclear weapon.

All these things were miscalculations on the part of Iran but when Israel attacked, Trump still continued the invitation to negotiate which as I said is another way of saying it’s my way or the Israeli way. Unfortunately, he added a new wrinkle to his new demands and that is a term we haven’t heard since World War ll, unconditional surrender. In response to Trump’s new demand the Ayatollah said,: “Tehran isn’t threatened by absurd rhetoric.” Well, the rhetoric may be absurd but the bombs are not and any sensible person should be able to see that.

Is the Ayatollah a sensible person or is he completely insane. I don’t know the man but my answer is no he is not insane he is instead driven by an ideology that comes from a book written almost 1400 years ago. That book and its surrounding literature forms the basis of this man’s belief system and that belief system says seek death instead of life. Wash the cities of the world in blood so the 12th Imman, the Mahdi can return and make everything the way the book promised it would be.

The biggest mistake the West makes with the Ayatollah is that no one in Western leadership can understand that this man actually believes the words in that book and that will always drive his action. He doesn’t seem like he wants to die but he doesn’t hesitate to bring death to his own people and to many others. No, he is trying to live out the book as he perceives it and that means never ending war until it finally brings forth the Mahdi.

The Christian book, on the other hand, talks about a rising figure as well, but it refers to that figure as the antichrist, or the man of sin. It is amazing how similar these two figures, portrayed in two books, one over 2000 years old and one over 1300 years old, are to each other. Is the Islamic Mahdi, the Christian antichrist. I don’t know so I leave it to the theologians but I do say the portrayals are eerily similar. My point in all this theology to say that to understand the Ayatollah you must know at least something about his book because that book will predict how he will react to the demand of unconditional surrender.

What does this all taken together tell us about the question of will Donald Trump attack Iran with a bunker busting 30,000-pound bomb. I think he will do it because neither of them will back down and because Netanyahu wants him to. The only hope is that the Ayatollah is holed up in a bunker somewhere and has given control of the decisions to others who might want to spare the Iranian people more bloodshed. 

To start America’s part Trump told the 10 million residents of the Iranian capital city 6000 miles from Washington to evacuate immediately. What do those words mean that the U.S. through its chief executive, plans to do to the capital of this foreign country, I’m afraid we are about to find out. Keep in mind the rhetoric of America First, but Trump said that since he invented that rhetoric he gets to decide what it means. Maybe America First means always doing the will of Bibi Netanyahu and if so that makes the U.S. nothing but an Israeli vassal.

What it means right now is that the Chief Executive of the United States is about to plunge the 330 million residents of his country into another Mideast war. The country against which the U.S. will direct its overwhelming military power has literally zero chance to harm the U.S. either militarily or economically. He told the Iranians, a proud people whose long history he probably doesn’t know, that they must flee their capital immediately.

What are all these threats and all this bloodshed and all this bluster about. I guess its about Iran’s ability to make its own weapons of mass destruction right. Well, no, I’m afraid not folks, not it the Director of National Intelligence is to be believed. Tulsi Gabbard, the DNI, said that Iran has no nuclear weapons and is not developing them. In response Trump said “I don’t care what she thinks. “Tulsi seems to me to be a uniquely honest and intelligent woman and I say uniquely because she is in Washington D.C. where those traits are virtually non-existent.

Tulsi, ever the one with class, refused to throw the President under the bus but I bet their next meeting was strained. I wonder why the U.S. has seventeen different intelligence agencies tasked with gathering information for the president all headed by Tulsi Gabbard if the President’s foreign policy knowledge makes them all unnecessary.  I also wonder if anyone knows that wars in this region of the world were ongoing more than a thousand years before Jesus was born on this earth.

Old friend Bill Bonner points out to us that in the book of Joshua 10:40, 11:15 that Joshua taking his directions from God Himself left no survivor, but he utterly destroyed all who breathed, just as the Lord, the God of Israel had commanded. Bill points out that the land must have looked a lot like modern-day Gaza.

Tehran is apparently next in the sequence of events that as I have pointed out is several thousand years old. We hear quite often a justification for Israel’s actions as Israel has a right to defend itself. Iran also has the right to defend itself but what it lacks is the means to do so. Yes, Iran appears defenseless, prostrate before its conquerors, its destroyed armed forces no match for the combined fire power of the United States and Israel.

Some of you may be old enough as I am to remember the Shah, Reza Pahlavi who ruled Iran from 1954 to 1979 until he was overthrown by the Islamic revolution. The Ayatollahs have therefore been in power for 46 years. The Shah and his son went into exile in 1979 and he died in 1980 but his son by the same name still lives and wants desperately to return to Iran once the Ayatollah is removed. This is no endorsement of the Shah or his monarchy but if he could keep the U.S. out of it so much the better. The son says he wants traditional democracy this time instead of monarchy.

Will cooler heads prevail. No, I don’t think so folks because voices in opposition like Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon are dismissed in insulting ways but listen to War Hawk, Lindsey Graham who insists that there should be American boots on the ground in Iran. “We live in a world where you’ve got to confront problems. I can’t guarantee your freedom and your safety unless you’re willing to fight for it. If we don’t fight for our freedom we will lose it.”

How our freedom depends on American troops in Iran the senator doesn’t explain but I do know that he has no plans to be one of them.

Finally, folks, put me down as vehemently opposed to American attacks on Iran and America fighting Israel’s wars. This country has already destroyed five countries for Israel and Iran, the head of the snake as the neocons call it is next. Here in America the Big Beautiful Bill proposes to remove 40% of the fee’s doctors receive through Medicare. Infrastructure is collapsing while airliners fall from the sky but we have a trillion plus “defense” budget and money to drop 30,000-pound bombs on countries that have not harmed us and are not a threat to us. $37 trillion of debt is a far worse threat.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.

Darrell Castle talks about the riots in Los Angeles currently ongoing as well as attempts to put them down with National Guard troops and even U.S. Marines. The question, what does that portend for America and our future?

Transcription / Notes

ANARCHY AND TRUE CHAOS

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. This is Friday, the 13th day of June in the year of our Lord 2025. I will be talking about the riots in LA currently ongoing as well as attempts to put them down with National Guard troops and even US Marines and what that portends for America and our future.

I am recording this Castle Report as the chaos and anarchy rages on in the once great and beautiful city of Los Angeles California. Those words, chaos and anarchy, were the words chosen by Senator John Fetterman (D-PA). “I unapologetically stand for free speech, peaceful demonstrations, and immigration—but this is not that. This is anarchy and true chaos. My party loses the moral high ground when we refuse to condemn setting cars on fire, destroying buildings, and assaulting law enforcement.”

Senator Fetterman’s party, the Democrat Party, at least the California branch of it, is apparently convinced that they are gaining a political advantage from the pain they have inflicted on their city and state. Governor Gavin Newsom is treating the event as a campaign launch for the 2028 Democrat nomination for the office of President. He makes tearful speeches and he blusters like a tough guy saying go ahead and arrest me and get it over with. I guess he thinks we are all on pins and needles awaiting his martyrdom.

The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, is at least presently in the state, unlike when she allowed two of the most beautiful cities in America Pacific Palisades and Malibu to burn to the ground just a few weeks ago. She and Governor Newsom turned in mutually disgraceful performances by allowing the city to burn and now, well they seem to have some weird affinity for fire. Newsom and Bass together have only one answer to the problems of Los Angeles and that is Trump did it. They have no answers, no policy solutions, just Trump must be responsible.

The recent presidential election and even current polling data seem lost on them. Never mind the reverse morality of letting your city be overrun by people crossing the border illegally. They don’t see the effect that thousands of people flying Mexican flags while burning cars, attacking police, looting etc. has on the rest of the country. The optics are very bad but they just don’t get it. They say the protests are peaceful and just over exuberance, while in the background fires are burning. It’s like that scene from the movie Police Story where Leslie Neilson’s character says nothing to see here folks please move along while the background has a view of Warsaw after the German invasion.

Bass and Newsom are representative of many politicians who focus on power plays of jurisdictional dispute and efforts to appeal to emotions for people who don’t want to go back to where they came from while Mr. and Ms. Average American are focused on the need for law and order. It’s pretty easy for a person living in my city of Memphis to see those videos and conclude, thank God I don’t live in LA where the politicians don’t seem to care anything about the people who elect them except as political talking points and numbers.

For a few days after the presidential election, it appeared that Newsom was pretending to move closer to the center because he noticed the results of pretending to be on the extreme left. Perhaps he noticed that illegal immigration was the number one issue to normal Americans so these riots were a perfect chance for him to appear sane. Just say a few words that might lead someone to think you care about law and order. Just give the appearance that you care about the lives and property of the people of California, but no, you just can’t seem to read the handwriting clearly on the wall.

Instead of law and order you say this; “He’s exacerbated the conditions. He’s lit the proverbial match. He’s putting fuel on this fire. Donald Trump needs to pull back. He needs to stand down. Donald Trump is inflaming these conditions. This is Donald Trump’s problem right now, and if he can’t solve it we will.” This man, Newsom, is pitifully out of touch with the reality of the situation. His regrets are not of the people whose property is being destroyed and certainly not for ICE agents and other law enforcement who are targeted for doing their jobs. People across the country could see the slick politician for what he really is.

If you want to talk about a bad look just look at the videos of people burning cars, throwing rocks, and now looting wrecked businesses all while waving Mexican flags. As the Babylon Bee paraphrasing George Bush put it, they do the rioting Americans just won’t do. These people obviously had difficult or unhappy circumstances in their own country and so they came here without the legal necessity of applying for entry. They riot and write death to America on the buildings they burn so one has to ask, why are you here. If you hate America, why are you here and why do you resist going back to the place that you obviously prefer. Why do you resist with violence the efforts of law enforcement to give you an all expenses paid trip back to where you came from.

Normal people must wonder, how could you choose foreign rioters over your own people. Isn’t your first obligation to your own. Your own would be your family first that is your wife or husband and your children who should come first, then those around you similarly situated. If someone kicked in your door and invaded your home would you mind. If someone kicked in your door, set fire to your car and home, would you mind. If someone burned your business and destroyed your financial way of life would you mind. If someone raped your wife or children would you mind.

Saying all that leaves me with a question and that is how you could choose people who do that over us normal people. I just don’t get it folks because many people repeatedly vote for politicians who pledge to do just that and I mean by that choose the perpetrators of violence and chaos over normal people. This situation is going down a very scary path and we might never be able to recover as people. The scary path is that Steve Bannon just might be right and we are at war. We are obviously constantly at war abroad as in Ukraine and the never-ending struggle for dominance in the Middle East but the war against Western Civilization is being fought in our streets right now.

War is a terrible thing and total war i.e. with fully committed resources is designed to kill and destroy and it doesn’t particularly care who gets killed. For example, the last total war was World War Two and in that struggle the allies sent 1000 bombers in a single raid over German cities with incendiaries and high explosives which killed hundreds of thousands. Were those civilians on the ground under the bombs innocent. That depends on how you look at it I guess because the people at home knew that if their own people were to be spared the war had to be won. They had an advantage over the normals of today and that was almost universal agreement on who should win. Now, after decades of propaganda in schools, under Marxist professors and with almost total media ownership by the left it is different.

Even with all that I still don’t get it. The people burning cars throwing rocks, destroying a once great city all while waving the flag of a foreign nation, I don’t get the attraction. My first reaction to anarchy and true chaos is apparently different from that of almost 50% of the population. My first thought is if they are illegal send them back and if they are criminals put them in prison then send them back unless you can work out a deal as was done with El Salvador to imprison them there.

This Castle Report, then, is not so much a report on what is happening but is instead my opinion of what that means. For example, this weekend the U.S. Army will celebrate 250 years of its existence. That is 250 years of sacrifice for our freedom and way of life in order to preserve it for future generations. I know what you must be thinking is that many of those wars were unnecessary but I’m not talking about the politicians I’m talking about the soldiers. They believed they were fighting for freedom and our way of life when they fought the enemies assigned to them by their civilian leadership.

This same weekend that we celebrate the army the revolutionary forces burning LA have announced a nationwide series of street protests which have a chance of morphing into LA in your neighborhood. Right now, in LA we have a kinetic battlefront in the ongoing war against the United States of America itself. This war is an effort designed to destroy this country so that it can fit nicely into the Great Reset of the World Economic Forum and the Agenda 2030 of the United Nations as well as whatever exists in the satanic minds of George Soros and Bill Gates.

This appears to me to be a well-organized resistance movement against the United States as a country. I’ve seen many videos of tactical gear of the kind the military uses being delivered to the rioters new and still in the original boxes. It has been planned alright and so the question is how we resist. I suggest it should not be by electing more Gavin Newsoms. His reaction is to file a lawsuit against President Trump. I have a copy of it on my desk but I decided not to spend my time on it today.

In conclusion folks, the effort to rip America apart from the inside out by tearing apart the very souls of our people must be resisted. I haven’t even mentioned the deployment of thousands of National Guard as well as 700 Marines from the 1st Division. The president said the Marines are there to protect federal property and I’m certain they can do that. I have some experience with the Marine Corps and I know that in my day we were offensive troops and you didn’t send us unless you wanted people to be dead. Deploying active-duty military inside the U.S. is problematic, granted, unless this really is looked at as war.

Finally, folks, do we have the right to have our own country. Do we have the right to exist as people who live in freedom and leave others alone. I submit that we do and I recommend that we get to work preserving that right now.

At least that’s the way I see it,

Until next time folks,

This is Darrell Castle,

Thanks for listening.