Wednesday, April 15, 2026

NamitArora on Indian caste system

https://youtu.be/pvYqORZaxe4

The status of the US blockade of the Straits of Torbuz from Janta Ka Reprter

https://youtu.be/z16NNth4A4Y see also https://youtu.be/XazEaPWjuvM

Tuesday, April 14, 2026

Alastair Crooke at Judging Freedom

situation fluid but this is the general trend in the sites that i follw https://www.youtube.com/live/LJaEyk9eeV8?si=YbV-Zbifq2EQnsEz https://youtu.be/WJ5W8or1C1U?si=O2_jRjM-qtD74CiX

Sunday, April 12, 2026

The American game according to Richard Medhurst

This may explain why Modi chose US-Israel side https://youtu.be/0nt1CgQsgpI discussion at MoA in the comments https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/04/war-on-iran-loser-tries-setting-terms-the-strange-idea-of-blockading-blockaders.html

Saturday, April 11, 2026

US-Iran negotiations in the hands of two billionaire politicians

says Bhadrakumar https://www.indianpunchline.com/us-iran-negotiations-are-safe-in-the-hands-of-two-billionaire-politicians/ Russia too seems to have used a billionaire in some of gheir negotiating teams

Thursday, April 09, 2026

Tucker Carlson with Alastair Crooke

Crppke comes after the first hour https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5aKtwQByXw

So so ceasefire, Professor Maranda with Glenn Diesen

https://youtu.be/4JLpmWX_Eu8

Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Tuesday, April 07, 2026

Colonel Macgregor with ‘Times Now’

https://youtu.be/x8dY_6anDYY

Scott Ritter on saving the colonel and future possibilities

future possibilities after 27 minutes seems plausible. https://www.youtube.com/live/WLZquiY3rug?si=hM9lhs_vZrhdOJc9

Monday, April 06, 2026

Not a day without some dangerous nonsense

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/05/trump-iran-threats-politician-reactions

Saturday, April 04, 2026

Yves Smith daily report on Iran war

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/04/iran-war-disaster-in-iran-as-multiple-aircraft-downed-pilot-missing-iran-pounds-israel-hard-after-trump-asks-for-48-hour-ceasefire-concerns-in-military-and-congress-over-purge-of-war-cautious-offi.html

Ramarao Kanneganti on the tendency of systems to preserve themselves

Ramarao Kanneganti Facebook post in Telugu. https://www.facebook.com/ramarao The translation from the comments: Any system, whether social, political, or economic, has a tendency to preserve itself. If it does not, it disappears. Over time, systems evolve rules that stabilize and protect them, sometimes deliberately, often gradually. These rules come from many places. History, culture, religion, habit, and circumstance. Some reflect real constraints. Traffic must be regulated. Contracts must be enforceable. Others arise in particular contexts and then persist long after those contexts have changed. But once rules are in place, they acquire authority. They stop appearing as choices and begin to feel like facts about the world. As Thomas Hobbes argued in Leviathan, the alternative to a system of rules is not freedom but disorder. Life becomes “nasty, brutish, and short”. Without a shared framework, social life becomes unstable. So we accept rules, even imperfect ones, because they allow coordination. You can see this in ordinary life. In the United States, the tax system is complex and often opaque, yet widely followed because it sustains the functioning of the state. In India, the government can be frustrating, but it enables coordination across a large and diverse society. In both cases, the system persists not because it is elegant, but because it works well enough. So far, this is about order. But rules also shape outcomes. Over time, they distribute advantage. Some groups benefit more than others. This is not always planned with major foresight. It often emerges gradually. But once patterns of advantage appear, those who benefit tend to reinforce them. Rules harden and begin to feel natural. Anatole France captured this clearly: the law, in its equality, forbids both rich and poor from sleeping under bridges. The rule is the same. The effect is not. There is formal equality, but not practical equality. At this point, we need a deeper explanation for why such arrangements endure. This is where Antonio Gramsci is useful. His idea of hegemony suggests that systems do not survive only because they are enforced. They survive because they are accepted. Over time, people come to see the system not as one arrangement among many, but as the natural order of things. What began as a set of rules becomes 'common sense'. This helps explain why inequity can persist for long periods. People do not simply endure it. They interpret it in ways that make it acceptable or at least understandable. Systems provide explanations, and those explanations matter. For example, why do people accept inequality? In the United States, for example, large differences in income and wealth are often explained through ideas of merit and effort. These explanations are not entirely false, but they do not capture the full picture either. Yet they persist because they provide a coherent way to understand outcomes within the system. All of this together made the system hegemonic. It did not rely only on enforcement. It was reproduced through everyday practice and shared understanding. This does not make it just. It explains why it endured. So systems persist through a combination of structure, culture, and belief. However, this persistence has limits. To understand those limits, Jean-Jacques Rousseau is helpful. In The Social Contract, he argues that a system is legitimate only if it reflects a shared will. Authority is not justified merely by maintaining order. It must be seen as representing a collective interest. Inequity, by itself, does not immediately invalidate a system. It can grow for a long time while the system continues to function. People adapt, justify, or work around it. But as inequity grows, its effects become more visible. The gap between the formal rules and their actual consequences becomes harder to ignore. Explanations that once seemed plausible begin to feel strained. At the same time, opportunities for movement within the system may narrow. When these conditions combine, people begin to question whether the system still reflects a shared interest. Laws and institutions may continue to operate, but they are no longer experienced as belonging to everyone. They appear to serve particular groups. In these changes, education plays a major role. Literature too. Revolutions usually are the result. This is how the social contract weakens. Not suddenly, but through a gradual loss of belief. To be clear, Inequity alone does not automatically lead to breakdown. Some unequal systems persist because they maintain legitimacy, adapt to pressure, or prevent coordination among those who are disadvantaged. Inequity becomes destabilizing when it is widely visible, when it cannot be convincingly justified, and when people feel that effort within the system does not lead to meaningful change. Under those conditions, acceptance gives way to skepticism, and skepticism to resistance. So: Systems create rules to stabilize themselves. Rules shape outcomes and distribute advantage. Over time, systems become embedded in culture and accepted as natural. Stability depends on material conditions, shared belief, and the ability to adapt. When inequity grows and legitimacy weakens, that stability becomes fragile. Where does this leave us in terms of political ideas? Liberalism focuses on fairness at the level of individuals. John Rawls’s veil of ignorance asks us to design a world without knowing where we will end up in it. Conservatism focuses on stability. Change should be gradual and tested. Stability itself is a hard-won achievement. Both are trying to manage the same tension. Fairness and stability. There is another perspective as well: The tension between openness and protection. Openness to markets, migration, and change on one side, and a desire to preserve stability, identity, and continuity on the other. But beneath both lies the deeper issue we have been tracing. A system can function with a considerable degree of imperfection. It can tolerate complexity, inefficiency, and some level of unfairness. What it cannot sustain indefinitely is a broad loss of belief in its legitimacy. Reducing inequity, then, is not only a moral concern. It is also a structural one. It helps maintain the sense that the system reflects a shared interest and that participation within it remains meaningful. Without that, institutions may continue to operate and rules may still be followed. But the underlying contract weakens, and the system gradually loses its coherence. What we are witnessing in the US, and broadly around the world is this phenomenon of loss of legitimacy. Conspiracy theories spread through social media accelerate the trend. The fundamental challenge is inequity and inequality

A different discussion from Graeber institute: Starvation ahead

https://www.youtube.com/live/8s0ss4nCR7g?si=A2ZFkRLDmHsN3OOY another https://youtu.be/F5ySyr-hQ3U?si=TGkhUGy34tRUxd-O

Friday, April 03, 2026

From Robert Kagan, husband of Victoria Newland

America is now a rogue superpower'https://archive.md/aZrz9 commentary by Simplicius https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sanctity-lost-even-neocon-pantheon

Karbala, Mohyal Brahmins*, and the Spirit Driving Iran’s Defiance

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10234041695812852&set=a.10202364730428515 see also Rahul Singh Gautam's comment: In contrast to its organic emergence in Arabia, Islam’s arrival in Persia in the 7th century CE was a cataclysmic event. The Arab conquests (633–651 CE) toppled the Sassanid Empire, one of the ancient world’s great powers, and introduced Islam to a civilization with millennia of philosophical, literary, and religious tradition. Unlike Arabia, where Islam built upon existing cultural frameworks, in Persia, it dismantled them. Zoroastrianism, the dominant religion of pre-Islamic Iran, had shaped Persian ethics through its triad of “good thoughts, good words, good deeds”. Its dualistic cosmology, emphasizing the struggle between good (Ahura Mazda) and evil (Ahriman), provided a moral and metaphysical foundation for Persian society. The Achaemenid (550–330 BCE) and Sassanid (224–651 CE) empires, renowned for their administrative genius, architectural splendor, and religious tolerance, represented a civilizational high point. Yet, under Islamic rule, these legacies were marginalized, labeled as jahiliyyah, the age of ignorance, a term that dismissed pre-Islamic Persian achievements as barbaric. Iran’s disillusionment is rooted in a collective memory of what might have been. Unlike the Arab world, which sees Islam as the culmination of its historical trajectory, Iran has never stopped imagining an alternative path. The revival of Zoroastrianism, though practiced by fewer than 25,000 Iranians, symbolizes this longing for a pre-Islamic identity as a rejection of Islamic hegemony. No comparable civilizational rupture exists in the Arab world. Even Arab secularism operates within an Islamic cultural grammar. From Ba’athism to post–Arab Spring political experiments, Islam remains the unquestioned civilizational backdrop. For Arabs, Islam is not experienced as an imposition but as an origin story. For Iranians, it remains a foreign layer, internalized, institutionalized, yet never fully reconciled with a deeper sense of self. This is why Islam functions differently in Iran than anywhere else in the Muslim world. In Arab societies, Islam anchors identity. In Iran, it constrains it. What the Arab world regards as continuity, Iran experiences as displacement. And until that civilizational tension is resolved, Islam in Iran will remain not a source of belonging, but a reminder of what was lost

Thursday, April 02, 2026

Craig Murray visits Venezuela

" The claims that Rodríguez wants this, still more that she engineered this, are nuts." https://orinocotribune.com/the-weight-on-delcy-rodriguez/ "I have now spent a total of six weeks in the country over two trips, talking to students, diplomats, union leaders, commune activists and people inside the government – and a great many barmen. What I have seen and heard convinces me of one thing above all: Delcy Rodríguez is not a traitor. She is a socialist doing the only thing possible to her in this impossible situation — buying time for the Bolivarian Revolution to survive."

Larry Johnson and colonel Macgregor on Iran

long interview with both by Mario Nawfal https://www.youtube.com/live/oNr0zoT_vDM?si=3nZvYfjil07-ITFg

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Yves Smith daily round up on Iran

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/iran-war-trump-threatens-destruction-of-iran-electric-generation-and-oil-wells-even-as-wsj-reports-temporary-taco-on-trying-to-force-open-strait-of-hormuz.html

Larry Johnson discusses Boots on the Ground scenario

https://www.youtube.com/live/BSezLaNm8xY?si=gAEYlVBtYW8C-jm8

Monday, March 30, 2026

Larry Johnson update on Trump and Middle East

https://sonar21.com/a-baron-of-lies-turns-the-world-upside-down-and-loses/

Sunday, March 29, 2026

Daily report from Yves Smith on Iran war

long war ahead https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/iran-war-more-signs-of-a-long-conflict-and-resulting-severe-economic-damage.html

Update from Alastair Crooke

https://www.unz.com/acrooke/irans-audacious-strategic-moves-declared-missile-dominance-over-the-occupied-territories-a-warning-of-nuclear-deterrence/ https://www.youtube.com/live/VzfqtjAIkJA?si=wFDqehMENTaZmQOa

Saturday, March 28, 2026

Daily summary of Iran war from Yves Smith

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/iran-war-more-escalation-us-strikes-iran-steel-plants-israel-sends-third-missile-at-iran-nuclear-plant-yemen-joins-war.html

Tuesday, March 24, 2026

Alastair Crooke update

https://www.youtube.com/live/Cg_IFXiCNLM?si=fQpf-8rqXDpBDSrN https://www.youtube.com/live/hyDn1OPqvTk?si=KMaNuF-l92KYWDtO with Kevork Almassian of Syrianaanalysis

Saturday, March 21, 2026

Tucker Carlson with Professor Jiang Xueqin

https://youtu.be/2K2nQsTTjQE

Latest from Simplicius

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/whipsaw-effect-trump-again-signals/comments

Friday, March 20, 2026

Thursday, March 19, 2026

Ghlam Mohammad, composer

https://musicunrestricted.in/2025/06/14/ghulam-mohammad-a-great-composer/

Alastair Crooke update of the war on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/live/kFG3CFRyOeA?si=1OWk8QJJn1qZ6OMk

Wednesday, March 18, 2026

Yves Smith daily update on war on Iran

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/iran-war-joe-kent-resignation-bombshell-us-deploys-bunker-busters-near-strait-of-hormuz-iran-makes-retaliatory-strikes-on-israel-across-gulf-for-ali-larijani-assassination-real-world-oil-prices-d.html check also https://youtu.be/Q3Hy-qVJB6A

Tuesday, March 17, 2026

Why Israel and America were confident on the eve of attacking Iran

The story of General Ismail Qaani from Larry Johnson https://sonar21.com/trump-is-trapped-but-doesnt-know-it/

Alastair crook on Trump’ no plan strategy

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/03/16/is-having-no-war-plan-trumps-plan/ https://www.youtube.com/live/MvGS6u-WcvM?si=bEw9W-vURc_s6Chv

Monday, March 16, 2026

Yves Smith recent Iran war column today

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/iran-war-trump-administration-attempts-to-deny-long-conflict-risk-trump-threatens-nato-over-hormuz-scheme-kinetic-and-economic-situation-more-desperate-than-acknowledged.html

Sunday, March 15, 2026

Pepe Escobar on India’s betrayal of Russia and Iran

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/03/10/china-watching-the-missiles-flow/ https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/03/12/how-russia-and-india-approach-the-war-on-iran/

Saturday, March 14, 2026

Robert Barnes with Daniel Davis

terrific according to Yves Smith https://www.youtube.com/live/UkJgZNavZpM?si=5iM9cmwRFRbKWEN1

US makes India perform in a circus tent

https://www.indianpunchline.com/us-makes-india-perform-in-a-circus-tent/ Adani and Ambani controlling Modi?

Thursday, March 12, 2026

Scott Ritter with Glenn Diesen

Interesting interview. Scott Ritter too feels that both Iran and Israel will remain. In the case of Israel, he suggests that Putin feels that Israel is an extension of Russia because of its large Ukrainian and Russian population and will not let it go under.https://youtu.be/rQt351IzD54?si=fqclz8RbZwcuIYIb

Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Larry Wilkerson with Nima on Iran situation and general background

https://www.youtube.com/live/7yo7wGFQRYw?si=79H0-Lel2TaVINNq The Duran on Trump call to Putin https://youtu.be/btZmyrADxCk?si=C2P_2LH_WwpDI8kQ

Tuesday, March 10, 2026

A different prediction from Jiang Xueqin

https://youtu.be/Zy2T6Wr3TTM more details https://youtu.be/6rTlI_Qwd1I

Scott Ritter again, says Netanyahu’s house hit

https://www.youtube.com/live/FIWf3GiBGqc?si=NCy5g2jClATEmt7I

Monday, March 09, 2026

Scott Ritter on the current status of the war on Iran

https://youtu.be/L1qiy8a_B1o

Larry Johnson on Modi (and Indian) duplicity

https://sonar21.com/russia-serves-a-cold-dish-to-the-gcc-and-india/

Saturday, March 07, 2026

Michael Hudson on US vs International Law

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/03/michael-hudson-todays-global-choice-a-u-s-ruler-based-order-or-international-law.html

Alastair Crooke update on Iran

https://youtu.be/YL8rXeNkXsQ

Friday, March 06, 2026

Volatile present and uncertain fututure, from Mark Sloboda

https://www.youtube.com/live/fihG8wLY-E4?si=QueLaw6YdOdsxfxj

Tuesday, March 03, 2026

Colonel Macgregor with Glenn Diesen

a bit about India too https://youtu.be/yd_uJiRcl0Q

Scott Ritter explains how USrael came to bomb children in Iran

https://www.youtube.com/live/NG3AHag-I-w?si=uHl5zUdIxwleBa8C

Alistair Crooke with Glenn Diesen on the attack on Iran

https://youtu.be/AknMi7th6Uo

Monday, March 02, 2026

Sunday, March 01, 2026

Scott Ritter update

https://www.youtube.com/live/HDVrnJhsSlU?si=JA0vjUzDZo6HWJ68

Saturday, February 28, 2026

For updates see Moon of Alabama

it is early to guess who miscalculated. In a few days, there will be better idea of the disaster. Meanwhile one hopes that killings in Gaza and West Bank will be less. There are many participating in MoA giving links to the events as the war proceeds.

Breaking News: Israel launches attacks on Iran.

possibly some telief for Gaza now https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/israel-says-it-has-launched-attack-on-iran-20260228-p5o6b9.html TV reports say that US taking part in the attacks.

John Helmer on Modi’s trip to Israel

depressing https://youtu.be/nwWJBsk3n_k

Thursday, February 26, 2026

Scott Ritter discusses both Iran and Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/live/QzxLeLICcQs?si=P2ydKaKckgdCucEC with bit of historical background

Wednesday, February 25, 2026

Iran Files 1, part of a series by Kautilya

https://chandragupta.substack.com/p/the-iran-files-i-the-revolutionary

Monday, February 23, 2026

Monday forecast for war on Iran gone but

there are signs like this https://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/iran-protests-resurface-at-universities-as-war-risk-persists?ref=top-stories and of five Kurdish groups in Iran coordinating their activities. And the possibility of nukes... a y links in NC. so future seems uncertain. more from Scott Ritter https://www.youtube.com/live/XzvbRHd57EU?si=iWlprFmxY94nc9VB

George Galloway with Max Blumenthal

https://youtu.be/HNhR-H9RUow

Sunday, February 22, 2026

Scott Ritter on the war on Iran

via Naked Capitalism https://forumgeopolitica.com/article/war-iran Yves Smith comments 'Ritter is way better when he forces himself to put pen to paper than when he sounds off on YouTube'.

Friday, February 20, 2026

Scott Ritter on the two week delay in the possible attack on Iran

https://youtu.be/BCRE6IDTTLI from approximately 35 minutes afterwards. A different point of view https://www.youtube.com/live/3emHhJZjpe0?si=9FEOK0vJmq8NjuUu

Thursday, February 19, 2026

Wednesday, February 18, 2026

About a recent John Helmer article

https://julianmacfarlane.substack.com/p/dear-john

Saturday, February 14, 2026

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

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/

Monday, February 09, 2026

Xi Jinping on the Chinese Financial System And Michael Hudson responses

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

Sunday, February 08, 2026

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.

Wednesday, February 04, 2026

John Helmer update on Iran, India…

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

Tuesday, February 03, 2026

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

Friday, January 30, 2026

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

Tuesday, January 27, 2026

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

Sunday, January 25, 2026

Canada-US friction

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

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Discussion of Mark Carney talk at Davos

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

Tuesday, January 20, 2026

Alaister Crooke update on Iran

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

Sunday, January 18, 2026

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

Saturday, January 17, 2026

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

Friday, January 16, 2026

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

Thursday, January 15, 2026

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

Tuesday, January 13, 2026

Alastair Crooke on Iran riots

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

Monday, January 12, 2026

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

Sunday, January 11, 2026

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

Saturday, January 10, 2026

Patrick Henningsen with Larry Johnson

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

Wednesday, January 07, 2026

Tuesday, January 06, 2026

Alastair Crooke on coming events

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

Monday, January 05, 2026

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

Sunday, January 04, 2026

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

Saturday, January 03, 2026

Dialogue Works on the situation in Iran

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

Friday, January 02, 2026

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