War on the horizon

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/iran-war-watch-us-moves-towards-attack-footing-despite-questionable-odds-of-success.html

End of an era?

https://www.youtube.com/live/l5QmkVVlhNk?si=4uay3yu6VHTI0I5m https://www.unz.com/acrooke/the-slow-epstein-earthquake/

Xi Jinping on the Chinese Financial System And Michael Hudson responses

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/dr-hudson-on-xi-jinping-thought-the

Some tales from my life

Old age blues: Joblessness still haunts me. About 40 years ago I was without job prospects in US with Possible visas to faraway countries blocked by TB rest. A friend got me a summer teaching job in his university four hours a day away from the family. I still get dreams about those days. P.S.I do not remember whether I formally resigned from ISI, Delhi Centre or what happened to my pension. I was told by the then director that I had up to give up my allotted flat before leaving. So, it is possible that I had a job but forgot about it. But job in Delhi without assured apartment would have been difficult. More details: Usefulness of economists: It was early 1988 I think. I had to spend a few months somewhere or other waiting for Australian visa and was in Stoney Brook for couple of months. This was when Bernie Maskit showed me Susskind’s thesis and also collaborated with me. I had to go to some office for authentication and while coming back, it started raining. I put my passport in A copy of New York Times which I used to read those days. I came back to my office and placed the newspaper on my table. After a few days, the newspapers accumulated and I threw them down the chute along with the passport. And panic ensued. Luckily the economist Veerappa Chetty ( of Chetty money fame and fathers of Raj Chetty) was also in Stoney Brook at that time. He could sound important and phoned the Indian Embassy in Washington and got me some temporary paper identification. During this time I also visited Mark Feighn in New York. Mark asked me whether I knew about Gromov convergence and started explaing to me and said that it is something that I should know. This resulted after a few years in a paler with Martin Brideson ‘On Hausdorff-Gromov convergence and a theorem of Paulin’. Meanwhile another ecomist Atul Sarma in Delhi arranged an authentic new passport. I still had a few more months to spend and ended up in Toledo teaching summer calculus courses thanks to Rao Nagisetty. Rao almost got me a job in Toledo but it seems that the president decided to hire a cook and I lost out. In spite of the tensions, it turned out to be a good period for learning some new mathematics, mainly Perry’s thesis and Gromov convergence.

John Helmer update on Iran, India…

https://www.youtube.com/live/N4DM3Nu3AhY?si=BdK9d3VTQBICiPMG

Glimpses of P.P.Divakaran, Indian scientist

https://bhavana.org.in/puthan-purayil-divakaran-1936-2025/

Discussion between Vijay Prashad and Michael Hudson

seems impoetant bu have not read it yet. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/michael-hudson-and-vijay-prashad-how-hyper-imperialism-shapes-global-conflict.html

Alastair Crooke update of US-Iran strife, Taco

https://www.youtube.com/live/l5QmkVVlhNk?si=2GKVMuNMPDftMABw

Larry Johnson on Iran war possibilities

https://sonar21.com/three-scenarios-for-a-us-attack-on-iran/ yves Smith comments https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/iran-war-watch.html

Alastair Croke on why Trump backed out on Greenland

seems to be bond market and stock market, check around nine minutes https://www.youtube.com/live/ciuAMiZJv1o?si=WayYCCTbkAHRE8ZO

Canada-US friction

From sources new to me https://youtu.be/LqDoTk1XfOA Another new source https://youtu.be/R4pBHP-8dVo

Discussion of Mark Carney talk at Davos

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/01/carney-declares-death-of-the-rules-based-order.html

Alaister Crooke update on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlBOPgzJAK0

Discussion between a Trump believer and a non-believer

Susan Kokinda looses her cool when Garland Nixon mentions that people are leaving MAGA. https://youtu.be/vm0pmZ6Xcrg?si=i82kWbRPpd6HaFB8

Weakly round up at Judge Napolitano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOBD3Go5X0A&t=1135s and https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-17/donald-trump-threatens-greenland-tariffs/106239964

Then Duran Venezuela update with Raymond Zucaro

https://youtu.be/V9CyCfvIWxA?si=wJILKSKIX5LqtpLt Also about Iran, similar story. https://youtu.be/d5AAZ4cYubs?si=fOVJTggl5sgvlF_m

In a similar vein from Simplicius

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/fantasy-loan-for-ukraine-gets-adjusted

The alternatives for Russia, Iran etc from Stanislav Krapivnik

https://youtu.be/HF8PXlVDQLE?si=t36JzUhFWuVA0V0Z

A shorter and more global version from Laith Marouf about Iran

Attack on free trade https://youtu.be/P3KhfjrnBh0?si=Qf48xw0rCpb8o_ML

More from Alastair Crooke on Iran

https://youtu.be/P1NTzriyBj0?si=gNMpxVoX5G9kzahv

Alastair Crooke on Iran riots

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvLGDgRcV2M

Susan Kokinda and Alex Krainer on the real purpose of Trump’s Venezuela operation

https://substack.com/home/post/p-183821952 https://youtu.be/OQ7UrtDjNao?si=ORB4XgDHhTsFxJee

Simplicius on Trump

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-us-empire-is-going-supernova

Guerrillas and gangsters on the Venezuelan border Trump has created a power vacuum

https://unherd.com/2026/01/guerrillas-and-gangsters-on-the-venezuelan-border/ UnHerd is a British news and opinion website founded in 2017 by conservative commentator Tim Montgomerie and hedge fund manager Paul Marshall.From Wikipedia The author's description of himself: https://www.ioangrillo.com/about/#:~:text=I'm%20a%20journalist%20and%20writer,on%20drugs%20and%20organized%20crime.

Terence Tao on hard problems in mathematics and physics…..

https://lexfridman.com/terence-tao-transcript/

Scott Ritter wants Putin of the dangers ahead

https://youtu.be/DuS17MeaWgE?si=oc2KCNho03u3JPHx

Patrick Henningsen with Larry Johnson

https://youtu.be/zqulqCOkffo?si=VrqojX9k2GbjXnLV

Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter and Garland Nixon discussing Venezuela moment

https://youtu.be/Q0wwY6chUO0?si=Lwx91nSy9MdmUdom

Alastair Crooke on coming events

https://www.youtube.com/live/mCIXAfin_H8?si=Kbpm0hHs1HL6fkx6

Discussion with a journalist from Venezuela

https://www.youtube.com/live/BPHeoMRsrUw?si=Sio6GZ736xrUeTRL

John Helmer on the war at sea with Jamarl Thomas.

https://youtu.be/5YQgRRRdgY0?si=apcS4LwhjLk5Vui9

Scott Ritter on Venezuela adventure

https://www.youtube.com/live/mu-qjI_pp7I?si=Jtccu0Mvh30O-vKn

Isa Blume om Iran’s internal problems

https://youtu.be/CqN-9rOf5Tk?si=Z9CTS88vzryXF_ME

Venezuela power play from Vijay Prashad

https://youtu.be/YMuW1wDfG2g?si=Game7XqWn5gjGiNP Mark Sloboda clarifies the point of technolgy vs bribes https://www.youtube.com/live/gBNZr_VKHNo?si=G0_Hzjg3UCXx8WnI

Mamdani’s first day in office

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/media-reduces-mamdani-to-hot-chocolate

Dialogue Works on the situation in Iran

https://www.youtube.com/live/ZTblriezXv0?si=uht6f9aPb-nK_2mK Dima is now in Iran.

Dimitri Lascaris and John Hemer discuss why Russia still discusses with Trump

https://youtu.be/nezrMIltqqQ?si=1dA19GuGS48e4uVJ

Ukraine update with Mark Sleboda

https://www.youtube.com/live/i-zguNOfU_s?si=98qCg9fS8hLEApNA