US bringing China and India together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU9o7DDeQz8

Danny Haiphong with Brian Berletic on American strengths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2eRlNidHn4

Alastair Crooke with Danny Haiphong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjHFG-U1xP0 with Dima at Dialogue Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjHFG-U1xP0

Alastair Crooke with India & Global Left

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8tYM9GjQ4k

Technofeudalism

Feudal talk is a distraction from decay https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/technofeudalism-versus-total-capitalism/

Alastair Crooke assessment of the current situation and Europe

with Dima https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETbGCNerYhk Another https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BnBdQElX0k An older one about Turkey and Azerbaijan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN69SHuHjAI&t=89s

Jarmal Thomas with Brian Berletic and Mark Sleboda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHyThdysPeM&t=1982s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWViBhGeAt8&t=330s

Two views after the summit

from Brian Berletic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj_0xDktIEE from Gilbert Doctorow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyzGNH5vO0g

C.R. subbaraman Hits in Telugu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw0qtyr1tsY

Glenn Diesen with Michael von der Schulenburg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjkVbKWrqh4

On Steven Rose, scientist

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/steven-rose-science-socialism-obituary/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMN-XFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF0ODY3Qk1JTmdPbkNoNkJSAR67QR4C1kq85yUq8PUB_0dGulefXL3CTCrQ5ryncofQcf0Vts0_QiRYR2vmTw_aem_0ZnbsYddPqQJXJF8dRTZ1g

S.Varalakshmi-Dueta from KrishnaPrema 1962

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1uEy6Yg6Po https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7Y7ZcVjIoo

S,Vralashmi ‘swagathalu’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA37rfo9JrA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=740Yr80BluY

Other analyses of Alaska meeting from Mark Sleboda and Dimitri Lascaris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q7d8KJDRNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBibrfqG8GM

Alaska preview from Gilbert Doctorow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4N1OZup2nc

Alastair Ctookeat Counter Currents on trump-Putin summit etc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSd9AMzN8dg&t=3767s

Rian erletic on the coming meeting in Alaska

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gp0wfO-r2Bo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fwXBgu6Z5I

Michael Hudson on how the world can free itself from financial colonialism

https://www.unz.com/mhudson/how-the-world-can-free-itself-from-us-financial-colonialism/ on Europe's surrender https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/08/michael-hudson-europes-surrender.html

A long interview with Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhFS-dpOjjI&t=27s

Russian economy

i find it diddicultto understand. John Helmer suggests that Putin reined in some of the oligarchs.https://johnhelmer.net/the-hidden-hand-of-russian-oligarch-capital-is-a-british-lawyers-claw/#more-92230 And one from Gilbert Doctorow https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/08/05/jeffrey-sachs-is-back-to-selling-snake-oil/

An essay on Mike Davis by Nelson Lichtenstein

https://jacobin.com/2025/07/mike-davis-marxism-capitalism-dystopia?fbclid=IwY2xjawL-cQxleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFyeDg3M1R1aFZtR09Yaks0AR7V1OyJ6osLn_F7mI8CyOwdntp_qanGNvQota1OVEYgGAVIFW9sh-wfL9S2EQ_aem_hvDfV17hB7WOmjE-aqgsIA

Finishing off Ukraine from Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uL8E2HCja58

Jack Morava RIP

He passed away on August First.I met Jack and Lili in TIFR in 1972 while he was on his way back to USA after visiting Steklov institute. He gave a course on Morava K-Theory in Bombay attended by me and M.S. Raghunathan and later visited ISI, Kolkata. I visited Jack and Lili in Kolkata and later a few times in Baltimore and Chalottville some times with my family. Lili worked in Indiana while I visited the university during 1979-80. At that time I did not know driving and Lili regularly took us shopping and Jack used to visit her there. Both have been very dear friends for a long time. I have been regularly in touch with him by gmail and I will miss him. A memory of Jack Morava: He was visiting ISI Kolkata. I think he met an agricultural scientist from ISI in Moscow and I think that is how he ended up visiting ISI. We had a wonderful time for a week or so and the agricultural scientist arranged a musical concert in house. The lady who sang was not a professional singer I think but she was transformed when she started singing. When the time came to leave, Jack and Lili came to Howrah station to see me off. Jack was an affectionate chap and I was afraid he would hug me at the station. At the last moment I stood a yard away from him and stretched my hand to say good bye. But it did not help. He gave big hug anyway. I got into the train and reached my berth and met a fellow traveller introduced myself. He said he was a Mukherjee, a high class brahmin.The warmth of Jack and Lili was washed away by Shri Mukherjee. in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Morava https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morava_K-theory

Alastair Crooke update at Dialogue Works

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYv-ZMKkGCo

Indian nationhood, vernacular imagination

https://scroll.in/article/1084837/literature-icons-history-how-indian-nationhood-was-built-through-local-languages?fbclid=IwY2xjawL2NLVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHv-9EJKzn78jEewIMizcDUVpS1kljeFk5q_DUuinhcnbqX-k60QUfbhzO5Om_aem_vEC8Mwvt7rY0y31WeEYINA

The money weapon

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/coffee-break-armed-madhouse-the-money-weapon.html

Jacques Baud on the Ukraine situation

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

Trump mystique

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4IwLYSmrI

Plagiarism

once I knew an indian mathematicians who plagiarised. in two of his books he copied verbatim once from a published book and the second time from a lecture notes without proper acknowledgements andmisleading references in the notes at the end. He was in a position of power and when the plagiarism came to be known among the scientific circles in india, the re@ctions were muted. He in fact a promotion but seems to have lost his administrative power in the institute where he worked. But many scientists who usually find that somebody like Trump plagiarised did not find fault with him and celebrated his birthdays. Once apparently one of his earlier teachers asked him why he did it and his response was that so and so was impossible to improve and he did not want to waste his time. This was reported to me and I do not really know whether it was true. I recently saw an interview with him and nearly thirty years after the incident, he mentions the books and said that he was asked to publish one of them in some series but it did not materializ. There did not seem to be any sense of guilt or responsibility. May be he really thought that it was a waste of time to try to improve on excellent expositions.

K.R.Parthsarathy interview

https://www.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwY2xjawLycKRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHrSc6LFVKVDA6b5sK9XicBYJoFUpqpugcZg4C8kwUvGNMR17NoIeq2AYmCo4_aem_z69IaIND3pe_fH3Kw29Xkw&v=C7T9REQAuvc&feature=youtu.be

Trump picks up where Biden let off

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

Gaza situation

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/british-premier-says-gaza-suffering-unspeakable-indefensible-as-uk-seeks-urgent-action-with-e3-partners/3641299 https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/french-president-macron-says-france-192602531.html From Haaretz https://archive.is/20250724085016/https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/2025-07-24/ty-article-opinion/.premium/the-disgrace-of-deliberate-starvation-israels-war-of-hunger-in-gaza/00000198-381d-d47b-adbe-fa3dfeb10000

Sleboda on the current battlefield situation around Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcijkvQ-6SU

China’s biopharmaceutical sector highlights innovation’s role in countering deglobalization

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202507/1339103.shtml

A bleak scenario

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/gaza-china-us-military-law-ccp-hudson-institute.html

Israel’s genocide is big business

via Naked Capitalism https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2025-07-21/israel-genocide-big-business/

Michael Hudson on today’s civilizational conflict

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/michael-hudson-todays-civilizational-conflict.html

Russian adcpvances in Ukraine and division of labour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3S-C7hZn2Y

Dismembering Syria

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

Nanoclay:the liquid turning desert in to farmland

https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/the-spray-that-turns-deserts-into-farmland.html

A bit about my research in mathematics

It seems natural in old age to reflect on one’s past and that has been the case with me recently, in particular with reference to mathematics. one used to study, pass examinations with the hope of getting a stable government job at some stage. That was the case with me and I was not particularly interested in any topic. Then suddenly at the age of 15 Professor V.Krishnamurthy in Loyola College, Madras started teaching a topics course once a week. he explained about rational numbers, real numbers, that there are many more real numbers than rational numbers using Cantor’s diagonal argument. I got hooked. It seemed to be subject one could understand which has ideas and not just calculations. From then on I wanted to study mathematics with the idea of ending up as a teacher somewhere and continue to learn and enjoy mathematics. But after a few years, just learning became more of the same and there were natural questions around what one was learning and some of them seemed worth pursuing. So learning slowly turned in to a mixture of learning and research. But I did not like teachers except one or two like Krishnamurthy and did not want to be guided in research. So I did not acquire expertise in any topic and what I leaned became a mixture actual knowledge together with some statements which I assumed without knowing proofs and kept thinking about them off and on trying to figure out how to prove such things. Meanwhile the subject kept changing and one had to learn new things alone though in an institutional setting. One such event was the arrival of William Thurston. One had to learn what he was doing or give up the subject. But I did not have the background to understand any of it. One way of entry seemed to be through old complex analysis and Mobius transformations leading to some hyperbolic geometry and limit sets and such. It is at this stage I got acquainted with Bernard Maskit. I was wondering about limit sets and he showed me the thesis of one of his students Perry Susskind. It was exactly what I was looking for and then I realised that they could be extended to all dimensions using Margolis Lemma. Perry kindly agreed to collaborate and it was exactly the kind of stuff I liked, learning combined with a bit of research. This knowledge of limit sets also led to some work with Peter Scott on the geometric finiteness of some Kleinian groups using famous work of Cannon and Thurston. This way, I slowly started understanding bits and pieces of Thurston’s work and at the same time writing papers and surviving in the profession. This acquaintance with Maskit, learning about Susdkind’s thesis etc seemed a crucial part of my continuing in the profession when survival seemed difficult after the arrival of Thurston. Another strand in my career was the theory of JSJ decompositions in which I entered accidentally. While passing through London in 1977, I found a copy of Hempel’s book on three manifolds. I found that there was no reference to me in the book though some work similar to mine made the references. I started looking at the problems at the end of the book and solved one of them on the train to Southampton. I was wondering whether it was publishable or not and later realised that it was a special case of a well known result of Johannson with a long proof and duly published it. I slowly acquired the reputation of having some expertise on JSJ without really reading any of the papers or knowing any thing. Then around 1996, Walter Neumann organised a conference and asked me to write a survey paper on JSJ for the conference. I foolishly agreed but found it impossible to read the relevant papers. After a month I told Walter that it is becoming more of research project and I would do it if he collaborated with me. Peter Scott said “An elementary proof of the existence of the JSJ decomposition was given by Neumann and Swarup in Their arguments greatly simplified the subject by concentrating only on embedded annuli and tori.” It immediately got in to text books. But since it is a joint paper and I had this unfortunate habit of not reading the parts written by collaborators, I am still struggling with the topic and again planning to write a proof of the deformation theorem for my own understanding.

Michael Hudson on the economics of the current conflicts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avSepk1qxw

A,Astaire Crooke on Trump blunders

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/07/15/us-hubris-driven-blunders-transform-the-entire-complexion-of-wider-war/

Concentration camp plan for Gaza by Yves Smith

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/stop-israels-dystopian-new-improved-concentration-camp-plan-before-its-too-late.html see also the discussionafter 51 minute mark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3TbO2gMKVs&t=2793s May be some severe financial crisis soon is the onlyxolution.

Focus on Turkiye- Azerbaijan activities against Iran

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/will-russia-greatly-accelerate-its-ukraine-tempo-to-facilitate-responding-to-turkiye-azerbaijan-threat-to-iran.html

Voice of Protest: A Study of Dalit Song in Telugu

The following article contains several references https://untouchablespring.blogspot.com/2011/05/voice-of-protest-study-of-dalit-song-in.html

Things moving fast around Middle East

Douglas Macgregor yesterday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL336a7RMeg

Now the war against Russia spreads to Azerbaijan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qpDjKuwsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TTf24Z2vOQ more https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/chaos-in-the-caucasus-turkiye-and-azerbaijan-make-their-us-israel-backed-move-against-russia-and-iran.html

A depressing scenario about Palestine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUPKVghUp54 "...US course is set, the Palestinian people are going to end up being a nomadic people much like ironically the Jews themselves once were. Not only will they not have a state, they will not have a homeland."

Scott Ritter musings before July 4

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

Brian Berletic on future conflicts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsFqWbDRzY Scott Ritteron the future of Israel andIran conflict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp1Y7qTmmpI

Odds and ends about Israel

like twenty percent of israelis speak Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9_OD2NcFAQ

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

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/

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

On the Trumpattac

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

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/

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

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

Chris Hedges report with Colonel Lawrence Wilkinson

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xH51O9gPxZ8

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

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

Mark Swoboda on the Israel -Iran war

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

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.

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

Astaire Crooke with Danny Haiphong about Russian reaction to Ukraine strikes(first hour)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DHeXoSZ18&t=3651s

Alastair Crooke on the latest Ukraine attack

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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/

Emmanuel Todd

For future browsing https://emmanueltodd.substack.com/p/frequence-populaire-4-apocalypse

Jeffrey Sachs on Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkq8rP6Qlcw

Chas Freeman on Gaza and Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCmwHJBb87I

Alastair Crooke on the mood in Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeeE1qavSg0 see also Karloff's elaboration https://karlof1.substack.com/p/critical-crooke-chat-with-napolitano

Michael Hudson on Trumo’s economic strategy

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/05/michael-hudson-the-secret-deal-that-started-a-global-economic-war.html

Chas Freeman on how China and Russia operate in some foreign countries

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

Alastair Crooke on Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bn_7xwZc3Y There is news some limited food supply https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/19/israel-to-allow-limited-food-into-gaza-amid-intensified-military-offensive

About India -Pakistan air battle

https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/the-deepseek-moment-for-modern-air

Trump lurching in the right direction, sometimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYtGB1FIoLM

Chas Freeman on China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiMU8-0Id1I&t=185s

‘I wish I could to resign from the human race.’

says Yves Smith https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/05/trump-doubles-down-on-gaza-cruelty-with-threat-to-cut-un-world-food-programme-funding-if-the-un-rejects-us-scheme.html

Kohli retires from test cricket

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/virat-kohli-has-been-indian-cricket-s-most-influential-figure-1485596

Red flag over Reichstag

https://substack.com/home/post/p-162574274

Jeffrey Sacks at judging Freedom

with some information about covid and also Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEoIYJaB38I

Trump’s hundred days

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/100-days-of-change-the-united-states

The Duran on the Trump mineral deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aFSMw_MieU&t=961s

Aurelien wonders about the state of the world

https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-end

John Helmer latest

https://johnhelmer.net/what-deal-will-president-putin-make-with-the-man-who-rules-the-world-but-not-the-battlefield/

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

Alastair Crooke latest with Judging Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOH26vNl0xM

Celebrities about Ghantasala, Telugu singer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stfgwDuNcNg Bharadwaja takes a comprehensive look at Ghantasala's takent and legacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMJkw1bZOKU

Two from Gilbert Doctorow

Trump pissed off with Putin https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/03/30/latest-twist-in-the-ceasefire-talks-trump-says-he-is-pissed-off-with-putin/ The growth of Russian economy https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/03/30/sometimes-mainstream-media-tell-the-truth/

Turkiye developments?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/increasing-alignment-between-the-us-and-turkiye-means-trouble.html

The difficulties in translating Marx

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/peter-e.-gordon/hair-splitting?utm_campaign=1034015_20250329%20ICYMI&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,M5UN,2DZSC3,1XS7D,1

Another way to end the Ukraine crisis

https://www.indianpunchline.com/a-third-way-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/

Chas Freeman on chalice world and changing alliances

https://www.youtube.com/live/hzgsUuMqXIM

Electronic Intifada on ‘anti-Hamas protests’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFHi4LWDbY

Bhadrakumar on possible Iran war

https://www.indianpunchline.com/talk-of-us-iran-war-is-all-a-load-of-baloney/

From Professor Marandi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-zHf2VDow

One big war seems near, latest from Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXXwCyt9dHk Karl Sanchez elaborates https://karlof1.substack.com/p/trumps-targets-gaza-and-iran

Controversial interview by Scott Ritter

He seems to say that Palestine is a ghost that many outsiders are chasing. i do not remember any videos where he spoke to palestians. He also gives a scenario of the destruction of Iran. He is more circumspect in his interviews at Judging Freedom'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArEAlNeyq9U A very different view the next day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujKl3SJUkaM

Putin speech to Russian business leaders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm7_6LCkvQE http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76474

The drone dilemma by Simplicius

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/solving-the-drone-dilemma-can-russia

Steven Witkoff with Tucker Carlson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acvu2LBumGo Chapters: 0:00 What Witkoff Has Learned as Trump’s Global Negotiator 4:10 Negotiating With Israel, Hamas, and Qatar 12:50 Will We Achieve Peace Between Israel and Hamas? 19:09 Why Corporate Media Hates Witkoff 22:45 How the Loss of His Son Changed the Way Witkoff Negotiates Hostage Situations 29:55 Israel’s Goals 36:47 Trump’s Plan for Gaza 44:29 How Witkoff Negotiated the Ceasefire 50:52 Should We Be Concerned About Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey? 54:36 Negotiating With Russia and Ukraine 1:09:18 Putin Praying for Trump After He Was Shot 1:12:55 Will There Be Elections in Ukraine Again? 1:18:35 Donald Trump vs. Washington Warmongers 1:26:19 Trump’s Letter to Iran commentary by Larry Johnson https://sonar21.com

Turmoil in Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9ptqxUN0so

Weakly roundup from Judge Napolitano

Ray McGovernthinks that there may not be a war with Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3EFQ6xsuBM

China delays BYD factory in Mexico; afraid of leaks to USA

https://gizmodo.com/china-delays-byd-factory-in-mexico-over-concerns-tech-will-leak-to-american-rivals-2000578281

Others seem to be coming around to the views of Brian Berletic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe8h0NIx5aE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEjbxIpviY4

US plans to sanction Cuban medical missions

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/caribbean-countries-rise-up-against-us-plans-to-sanction-cuban-medical-missions-around-the-world.html

Finally Scott Ritter calls Trump an idiot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn3Bm1SgbmM&t=279s

A comprehensive look at Ukraine and Israel by Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu1l9Yk-yMg&t=2263s

William Browder RIP

He is one of the mathematicians whose papers i read wg hen i was a student. A video about his mathematical development https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2017/06/14/william-browder/

Tulsi Gabbard withdraws Daniel Davis name for a senior appointment

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/tulsi-gabbard-withdraws-daniel-daviss-appointment-for-senior-intelligence-role-over-israel-criticism/articleshow/118976531.cms

Scott Ritter still optimistic about Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-78DFyb8A&t=7870s

Trump vs Deep State

"In other words, it appears that Trump uses the Deep State when he sees fit, and opposes it when it crosses him." from https://scheerpost.com/2025/03/10/patrick-lawrence-the-epstein-follies/ by Patrick Lawrence.

Brian Berletic theory

seems correct to me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Z3SaZXj3M scott Ritter on Twitter(X): I’ve lost faith in the good faith of the Trump negotiating team. A 30-day ceasefire would be a boon to Ukraine. A chance to stabilize the frontlines. To strip all tactical and operational advantages Russia has accrued through the blood and sacrifice of their soldiers. And once Ukraine recovers, then to sit at a table where a rejuvenated Ukraine rejects Russia’s conditions for peace. Trump’s team has not negotiated in good faith. And the fact that this proposal is offered after Ukraine carries out a massive strike against Moscow? Russia will reject this ridiculous proposal. And hopefully escalate the violence to such a scale that the US will realize that there needs to be a realistic peace proposal agreed to in writing before any ceasefire takes hold. One that includes the withdrawal of all Ukrainian forces from Constitutional Russia. The Ukrainian troops can leave voluntarily. Or die. Trump isn’t serious about peace. And Ukraine will reap the whirlwind as a result.

Jeffrey Sachs reviews the last 30 years of some conflicts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbFvPFgJW5c

Understanding Trump

“Kayfabe” It’s professional wrestler talk for the way they talk about each other and lead matches to a pre-determined outcome. It’s not exactly choreographed move by move, but they all know the library of available moves, how to drop the other guy on his head in a way that doesn’t break his neck, and so on. In many ways it’s more like ballroom dancing than an actual competition. They make each other look good right up to the end- and they both know what that’s going to be because they’ve been told by the promoters. Trump was part of the WWE, by the way. Watching some of the TV shows might help you understand Trump’s methods. https://sonar21.com/trumps-empty-threats-to-pressure-russia-falling-on-deaf-ears/

Putin's Roundtable Discussion with Employees and Wards of the Defenders of the Fatherland Foundation

long read https://karlof1.substack.com/p/putins-roundtable-discussion-with

A comment in Simplicius substack

Vladimir Putin: “Negotiating with Americans is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over the pieces, shits on the board and struts around like it won the game.” Not sure whether Putin said this. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-3725-eus-mega-billion-bid/comments

Russian peace plan

https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/russia-reparations-peace-details

Larry Wilkerson and Chas Freeman are sceptical of Trump

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

The Electronic Intifada on US-Hamas talks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaZlDVXZDEA From Steve Witkoff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFE92EG-xqA

Brian Berletic views are different from many other commenters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EufxrTk3yoQ

Ray McGovern on Russiagate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRNFAOr1scg one of the authors mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Gerth check also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq1uQ6QHO88

From Marat Khairullin about the Ukraine war front

https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/analysis-of-the-political-and-military

Jeffrey Sachs at ‘Judging Freedom’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n0iD_xRFjg

Oscar for ‘No Other Land’

https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/no-other-land-oscar-outrage-israel

Interesting article from Alistair Crooke

various doubrs in the comments. https://www.unz.com/acrooke/america-as-republic-not-as-empire-europes-sound-and-fury-after-jaw-dropping-pivots-in-u-s-policy/

Daniel Davis on Trump-Zelensky meeting

https://youtu.be/zlcc5tKpWQs?si=sbKyhGy3_iOZjhuo

Dimplomacy ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laUulwxQ8j8

Transactional president to the fore, Colonel Macgregor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svq55tP3MCM see also the post and comments https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/02/trump-will-end-his-option-of-walking-away-from-project-ukraine-with-his-minerals-deal.html

MoA on Trump’s plan for Ukraine

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/02/does-trump-really-have-a-plan-for-ukraine.html#more see also https://sonar21.com/trump-and-europe-fail-to-realize-that-russia-has-a-vote/ A discussion of MoA post https://karlof1.substack.com/p/the-ukraine-conflicts-legal-issues

Trump confusion; different views

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwsWAsArSqU&t=1248s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2zRRr0CkmU&t=2525s

Trump vs Deep State

https://scheerpost.com/2025/02/17/patrick-lawrence-trump-vs-the-deep-state/ "Let me put it this way: In the case of Trump vs. the deep state, there is promise in the undertaking, but I have my doubts. He does not seem to me to have the gravitas, the depth of intelligence and all-around seriousness, to get this very necessary task done well and effectively. Engaging the deep state is not the same as sitting opposite a rival property developer at a mahogany table in Manhattan. Trump does not seem sufficiently equipped to wage war against operatives whose perverse savvy in the methods of subterfuge is well-tested and well-proven."

Fog harvesting in the news again

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgw3l7p79po

Working groups

from Riyadh meeting https://sonar21.com/ukraines-zelensky-forgets-the-first-rule-of-crisis-management-if-youre-in-a-hole-stop-digging/

Brian Berletic skectical about Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9AwbTvJbz0

Ray McGovern with Garland Nixon discusses the history of relations with Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihjILCDQeM4

MoA on Trump’s punishment of Europe

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/02/where-trumps-punishment-of-europe-should-lead-to.html#more

Simplicius on what might happen in Europe

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-games-begin-us-and-russian-top/comments

Spring in the air in US-Russia ties, from Indian Punchline

https://www.indianpunchline.com/spring-is-in-the-air-in-us-russia-ties-as-trumps-revolution-gains-momentum/

Wheeler’s quest

https://www.quantamagazine.org/john-wheeler-saw-the-tear-in-reality-20240925/

Scott Ritter is very enthusiastic about Trump and a deal with Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6NafJT_-ac

Aftermath of Vance speech by Alexander Mercouris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prY5UdJNPq8

The Duran discussion with Michael Hudson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFmh93MKvmM similar ideas from https://sociology.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/fourcade/AJSII.pdfby Marion Foucade

John Helmer about the negotiating teams of Russia and USA

https://johnhelmer.net/the-contradictions-and-certainties-in-the-trump-putin-negotiations-are-simple-enough-for-a-4-year-old-child-to-understand-and-say-aloud/#more-91091 Will they negotiate about rare minerals? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdsyNvFq_8&t=150s

Alastair Crooke and Professor Marandi, from February 7

https://x.com/AlastairCrooke/status/1887575200402731174 A discussion https://karlof1.substack.com/p/chat-between-crooke-and-lukyanov

Scott Ritter tries to decipher Trumo’s Gaza gambit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxHr5YVgOTI from 55 minutes onwards

Alex Krainer with Dimanof ‘Dialogue Works’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwFwdZeQ5B0

Simplicius, the thinker on Trump-Putin conversation(s)

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/double-decker-special-hysteria-ignites Larry Johnson is more optimistic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAaxn40zgTQ

The story of ‘Babul mora’

https://maddy06.blogspot.com/2010/12/story-of-babul-mora.html https://atulsongaday.me/2019/05/27/baabul-mora-naihar-chhuto-hi-jaaye/ https://www.parrikar.org/hindustani/bhairavi/

The Distortion Is Inherent in the Signal

cosma Shalizi's take off on a post of Thomas Farrell http://bactra.org/weblog/inherent-distortion.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawIVhQNleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHS6i37135pX1X5Ep5RC0rlle5a_qUPs7B7Xnq95I4zZhDZRQBCXvRjfxFA_aem_BNRcMIxt11y4_L1GlIb6Eg Conclusion: Social media is a machine for "creat[ing] publics with malformed collective understandings".

Radical Lunacy says Chas Freeman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwi2Ma-7Hyg

Indian Punchline on Trump’s Gaza plan

https://www.indianpunchline.com/netanyahu-entraps-trump-in-a-quagmire/

Trump plan forbearance and Netanyahu seems happy

https://www.rt.com/news/612188-trumps-gaza-plan-history-netanyahu/

Rubio suggests that US May be moving to a shores of influence model

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/02/rubio-its-not-normal-for-the-world-to-have-a-unipolar-power.html#more

John Helmer with Nima of ‘Dialogue Works’

https://johnhelmer.net/the-revolutionary-moment-for-russia-podcast-with-nima-alkhorshid/#more-91002

Exodus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjNTxhSxC2I

Larry Johnson with Alistair Crooke

https://sonar21.com/is-trump-positioning-for-a-no-deal-with-russia-or-not/

Patrick Lancaster reports from Kursk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HN6T32c7mQ

John Helmer on Putin Oligarchs vs Trump oligarchs

https://johnhelmer.net/the-oligarchs-picnic-whats-on-the-menu-when-trumps-oligarchs-negotiate-with-putins-oligarchs/#more-90972 "Between 1911 and 1915, during World War I, Robert Michels, an Italian sociologist, explained how commonplace this was. He not only described the inevitability that oligarchs would come to dominate the governments and opposition organisations on both sides of that war; this he called the “iron law of oligarchy”. He also reported that the war itself would accelerate the process by which this oligarch domination on both sides would dictate the outcome to suit the common interests of them both." see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy

What ceasefire?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9nvRRX9AsY A DIFFERENT VIEW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG1os_PXbCs

Presidents and emperors from Matt Hoh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43ZyYvRGUuU

Donald Trump wants us to listen to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqEsfQFaU5I

Mark Sleboda on Ukraine war

not over yet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIRj9AiN45U

Trump’s strategy

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/01/to-avoid-fighting-large-conflicts-trump-is-creating-smaller-ones.html#more

A bleak prognosis from Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GCPC6433K0 it seems to be all about what Trump is going to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ndAUs8_IcU