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
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Cyrus Janssen
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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
Monday, June 16, 2025
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
Astaire Crooke with Danny Haiphong about Russian reaction to Ukraine strikes(first hour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DHeXoSZ18&t=3651s
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
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
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/
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