Alastair Crooke on Kellog plan follow ups

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/28/kellogg-framework-disaster-for-trump/

On Paigham attack

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/pahalgam-terror-attack-pakistan-denies-any-role-we-have-nothing-to-do-with-it-11745398989014.html

Aurelian tries to explain war

https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/what-is-this-war-of-which-you-speak "So in this essay I will try to do two things. One is to explain in simple terms the words and concepts involved in this “debate,” and to set out what people would actually mean, if they were only capable of using them correctly. The other is to ask what all this talk of “war with Iran” and “war with China” actually signifies, and whether those who talk airily of such things have any idea what they are talking about. (Short answer, no.)"

Alastair Crooke on Ukraine and Iran

https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/a-trump-deal-juggling-war-easy-war-and-negotiation "Aurelien observes: “So we are dealing with limited horizons; limited imagination and limited experience. But there’s one other determining factor: The U.S. system is recognised to be sprawling, conflictual – and, as a result, largely impervious to outside influence – and even to reality. Bureaucratic energy is devoted almost entirely to internal struggles, which are carried out by shifting coalitions in the administration; in Congress; in Punditland and in the media. But these struggles are, in general, about [domestic] power and influence – and not about the inherent merits of an issue, and [thus] require no actual expertise or knowledge”. “The system is large and complex enough that you can make a career as an ‘Iran expert’, say, inside and outside government, without ever having visited the country or speaking the language – by simply recycling standard wisdom in a way that will attract patronage. You will be fighting battles with other supposed ‘experts’, within a very confined intellectual perimeter, where only certain conclusions are acceptable”."

John Helmer and Ray McGovern with ‘Dialogue Works’, wide ranging discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgG4ZmTZQww

A Tik-Tok message about China and America

https://www.tiktok.com/@00panchopantera/video/7493046392588422431?q=Tarifs%20china%20revolution&t=1745442332850 via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1EtbtbK-Sw

Dani Rodrick and Tyler Cowen discuss tariffs

https://utk.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=f1f58256-87ce-4613-a453-b2c0014f28e0 check also https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/04/my-debate-with-dani-rodrik-about-tariffs-and-free-trade.html#comments

Trump tariff plans

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/phase-1-impose-tariffs-phase-2-phase-3-profit.html#more Every single person who works for the White House on trade seems to have a different idea of how to (ab)use the tariffs. There seems to be no big common plan to which they are all aligned to. This won't work.

Gandhi on Palestine, 1938

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18aZPdsuVi/

‘Dialogue Works’ update on Iran and other conflicts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZBrlsNJM_k

Silvana Mangano in ‘Bitter Rice’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MglLWA9_y8k

Padmini -Ragini dances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXs5-fHUGr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkX9hcaeTFM

John Helmer on the Witkoff negotiations

https://johnhelmer.net/strike-for-strike-in-trumps-sanctions-war-how-australias-attack-on-rusals-alumina-in-queensland-has-triggered-russias-attack-on-rio-tintos-copper/#more-91388 with Ray McGovern at Dialogue Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7enFebtNyOU

Two from Sachs, mentioning India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxYng1ry4TU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEuS-q7xLbc

Alastair Crooke at ‘The Duran’ on the conflict with Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVg-9EKLuqY

Is Hindi dividing India?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/10/indias-language-war-why-is-hindi-causing-a-north-south-divide

Mark Sleboda on the current conflicts

discusses india not willing to break with west at 1:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKJe6l8v0IA

The Duran on Trump tariffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQg9Zq9TsvM

Simplicius on Trump

partly behind a paywall https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/maga-stroika-heralds-new-age "As an accelerationist of sorts, I do ultimately judge Trump’s actions as positive for the world’s development, no matter what they lead to, because a shake up of a terminally sclerotic system is better than wading on through a global malaise with no end."

A discussion of agreement-incapable USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY0uJH-z2To

America’s LNG problem

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/us-lng-crippled-as-australia-seizes-us1-5b-trade-overnight/ US LNG crippled as Australia seizes US$1.5b trade overnight

Scott Ritter update on Ukraine and Iran at Judging Freedom

He seems reasonable and les strident when he is with the judge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOl0AYD94

Arvind Subramanian on Amir Khan

https://scroll.in/article/1080978/arvind-subramanian-from-amir-khan-to-bandish-bandits-a-50-year-musical-odyssey-in-raag-marwa

Larry Johnson and Lawrence Wilkerson on the possibilities of nuclear war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7r_rn7Tj-k

Alexander Mercouris on Ukraine negotiations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDOCQGxRMuM

Different opinions on Trump tariffs

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trumps-liberation-day-another-pr/comments yves Smith https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/trump-deploys-his-tariff-wrecking-ball-how-much-will-the-us-suffer-along-with-most-of-the-rest-of-the-world.html

End of Globalization, from The Duran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLvY6xpKoIs

On the contradictions of Trump’s methods by Sam Gindin

https://nonsite.org/the-man-who-would-be-king-method-in-trumps-madness-contradictions-in-trumps-method/

Tracy-Widom distribution

seems applical in many situations https://www.quantamagazine.org/beyond-the-bell-curve-a-new-universal-law-20141015/

Shift from Smith to List by Alastair Crooke

https://www.unz.com/acrooke/transactional-weakness-tips-the-balance-of-power-hold-to-no-illusions-there-is-nothing-beyond-this-reality/

Bran Berletic on Trump

More of the same. He was one f the first who did not trust Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43C2N890n9k

Trump worse than Biden says Scott Ritter

scott Ritter seems somewhat balanced when he is with Judge Napolitano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj1OzDFeeA see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tNbzgirHmE

Karl Sanchez on the current situation around Ukraine

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/lavrov-crooke-trump-and-typepad-woes