Sunday, June 29, 2025

A Genomic Portrait Of India: Tracing Deep Ancestry, Health, And Disease Risk Using DNA

https://sciencechronicle.in/2025/06/28/a-genomic-portrait-of-india-tracing-deep-ancestry-health-and-disease-risk-using-dna/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLNQ9ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETEwd1Zrb09POTFMbmNKTTk2AR46TSwnDjj9Angs2bb_iXzTJDaduRc_Afp3FWR0YRMN2PRuJrLjcPd6Ps2wQg_aem_WLHcrTr0CrAkv9dqZpisqw

Thursday, June 26, 2025

Israel will be in Iran for years to come, Mossad head David Barnea says

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-859010#google_vignette somewhat related https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-used-up-15-20-percent-global-thaad-arsenal-11-days

Larry Johnson wonders why Iran agreed to ceasefire

I don’t know why Iran agreed to the ceasefire, but it did. Iranian leaders, in my opinion, are frighteningly naive. Some apparently believe that they can achieve a legitimate negotiated deal with Donald Trump. from https://sonar21.com/the-war-on-iran-is-not-over/

Wednesday, June 25, 2025

A fairly thorough discussion by Alastair Crooke on Israel- Iran conflict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51vdLreNqWc

On X, via Naked Capitalism links

Post See new posts Conversation Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. It's the single best explanation I've ever heard on the future of #Iran 👇 As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions. Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation. So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East. Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse. A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more.

Trump lures Iran into ‘Peace’ trap again says Brian Berletic

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

Some sort of ceasefire

ome sort of ceasefire between Israel and Iran but Gaza trauma goes on. Iran seems to have survived a partly fake strike by US, and more successful strikes by Israel. Iran did not go the way of Syria despite not accepting Russian help, which they may accept now. It seems to me that Netanyahu came out weaker than before but did damage to Iran the extent of which is not clear yet. Here is onenof the assessments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bedODnwY4EE

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

On the Trumpattac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RM5bChTGPA&t=29s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmzSdrffPI

Monday, June 23, 2025

Brian Berletic has been consistent in his appraisal of Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAsh881PnRQ one from somebody who visited Iran https://sonar21.com/trump-has-decided-to-attack-iran-this-will-have-consequences-for-the-whole-world/

Sunday, June 22, 2025

A day before Trump announces strikes on Iran, Larry Johnson with Alastair Crooke

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d7W7xvg9gTs&t=2941s&pp=ygUPQWxhc3RhaXIgQ3Jvb2tl

Saturday, June 21, 2025

Thursday, June 19, 2025

Two on Trump

Gilber Doctorow on what Russia thinks of Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jl2vwsQ1_k ALASTAIR rooke on the unravelling of Trump project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jl2vwsQ1_k

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Laith Marouf on Iran’s Escalatory Path and Its Expectations of a Long War

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/laith-marouf-on-irans-escalatory-path-and-its-expectations-of-a-long-war.html

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

Mark Swoboda on the Israel -Iran war

seems realistic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7r5FZhJOGA

Monday, June 16, 2025

And Alastair Croke on Israel-Iran war

https://www.youtube.com/live/Bsm7aMDKLBE?si=yLENlJ6tHb6jilcj

John Helmer and Brian Berletic on the war between Israel and Iran

John Helmer is a bit pessistic from the point of view of Iran and Russia https://johnhelmer.net/how-to-say-in-russian-happy-birthday-donald-happy-us-army-and-flag-day/#more-91878 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmWkSj_650c the title is a bit misleading.

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Vietnam is a partner country in Brics

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/vietnam-admitted-brics-partner-country-brazil-says-2025-06-13/

Leave it to Bibi

last year article from Brian Berletic https://orinocotribune.com/2009-us-policy-paper-planned-current-israeli-iranian-tensions/

Larry Wilkerson and Chas Freeman on the Israeli attack on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L-A8bx8-X0&t=705s

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Alastair Crooke on the latest Ukraine attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9vJC5wY7rM

Saturday, June 07, 2025

Alastair Crooke on US-China economic contest

https://www.unz.com/acrooke/one-quiet-early-morning-in-beijing-the-dollars-crown-slipped/

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff on Trump’s plan to preserve US hegemony

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/michael-hudson-trumps-contradiction-riddled-strategy-to-preserve-us-hegemony.html

Scott Ritter talks about Russia House of CIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p_faUdJT3w

Friday, June 06, 2025

Yves Smith discussion of the Ukraine attack on Russian airfields

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/john-helmer-putin-hits-pause-button-on-oreshnik-level-retaliation-for-ukraine-strike-on-russian-nuclear-deterrence-assets.html

Thursday, June 05, 2025

Larry Johnson on Trump -Putin conversation and others

it seems Trump can no longer pretend ignorance of actuall happenings in the Ukraine theatre https://sonar21.com/what-did-lavrov-and-putin-tell-rubio-and-trump/ From John Helmer https://johnhelmer.net/what-is-putin-to-do-now/ May be a fewweeks for Trump to keep his end of the bargain.

From the substack of Emmanuel Todd on the decline of America

https://emmanueltodd.substack.com/p/from-russia-with-love

Phil Giraldi wonders whether Bibi will listen to Trump

https://www.youtube.com/live/lx1XJGwrQ8k?si=1VU-LoFMiUpOGt-F

Wednesday, June 04, 2025

A review of Emmanuel Todd’s recent book

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/11/how-the-west-was-lost/ via https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/06/the-defeat-of-the-west-and-its-dislocation.html#comments

Tuesday, June 03, 2025

Alastair Crooke on the latest attacks on Russia

As expected the West resorting to terrorism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whSuPnGWOSg check also the reports by Larry Johnsom and Jeffrey Sachs at the same site.

Sunday, June 01, 2025

New acronym for Trump

He seems to resent it and will probably do more silly stuff https://time.com/7289404/trump-taco-acronyms-meaning-dei-doge-maha-fafo-tds/