Two on the escalation of Ukraine Russia conflict

Mark Sleboda https://youtu.be/hWsb25VYodI?si=ExamwcBq59PIDfp7 Stanislav Krapivnik https://www.youtube.com/live/q5l_vCHU4xI?si=75cX_7I_lDYia20a

Larry Johnson discusses Israel explosion, Iran and Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/live/kIlLKqPzY8Y?si=Y9nUXeTkeIkKDXBq

Scott Ritter on the current state of war from Iran to Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/live/Y0W2vpjIQoM?si=5Q41b-mvph9zb8yn

Photographs of mathematicians

https://old.maa.org/press/periodicals/convergence/whos-that-mathematician-paul-r-halmos-collection-introduction-page-1

Michael Hudson on US designs on Iran

one problem seems to be that Iran still has US trained economists https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/05/michael-hudson-us-designs-on-iran-and-the-trump-xi-summit.html ond problem seems to be that Iran (like many other countries) still has US trained economists. see also https://sociology.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/faculty/fourcade/AJSII.pdf

Book review by JohnLancaster on money laundering books

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n09/john-lanchester/squillions

Civilization at the Crossroads with Alastair Crooke (Full Interview)

https://youtu.be/MGnJEb4sXwM?si=gLcSq3FjfhMX3MPE

Colonel Larry Wilkerson discusses what empires do

MacArthur, there is no substitute for victory. Go to hell, Doug. That's not what empires do. Empires simply hold the world at bay and fulfill their monetary, economic, and other interests, mercenary interests, and that's all you can expect. And you fuel the complex that keeps those wars going on because that's what you want to do. You want to be constantly at war, but you don't want anyone to defeat you in the traditional sense So, it's not really a metric you can use to judge the empire by winning or losing wars. It's no longer consequential in the scheme of things for Rome. But the empire has not achieved any of its stated goals. Well, it has achieved a few. It has gotten a barrier of conflict. That's what I'm calling it now. A barrier of conflict. What's that? From the Arctic Ocean all the way a barrier of conflict. Not barrier to conflict of conflict. Conflict all the way from north of Manask in the Arctic Ocean where we're doing things the American people and our media aren't reporting don't know anything about. We're all the way through the Baltic where we're still agitating around all the way through Ukraine. all the way down to Georgia where we're still trying to overthrow that government. Other governments in the Caucasus are now being impacted by that too, down to Iran, the biggest and latest chapter in this axis of crisis and disturbance. And all this is designed to put a wall up against further Chinese and Russian now infiltration into Eastern Western Europe and ultimately across the Atlantic and into the North American continent. That's what it's all about. From https://www.youtube.com/live/Ai48FpArr8Q?si=eToagy_XiXWWJb_n

Nima with Colonel Anthony Aguilar discusses Lebanon and other things

https://www.youtube.com/live/4m5yv6gKM4Q?si=JB0-sluLQtU4JqMS

Modi going to visit UAE

https://youtu.be/WXEipD96V14?si=NVVpfj6L9sMtVBgn

India again in this Janta Ka Report and timesaxis

https://youtu.be/D-yXi1geTiI?si=XXF-ROT4QfDKa8y6 https://youtu.be/7ZMrwGTMdm8?si=FiaqXmjE8hTSfL6Z mlfd today from Bhadrakumar https://www.indianpunchline.com/indias-quasi-alliance-with-israel-and-uae-wont-have-happy-ending/

Scott Ritter discusses the current situation in Iran and also discusses India at the end

https://www.youtube.com/live/euTjsj7OonU?si=POqldmnh-fF0S4zu I am not optimistic about India because I don't think India there India hasn't made a strategic decision yet. Remember India was in 1:01:301 hour, 1 minute, 30 secondsIsrael making common cause with the Israelis right before this war started. 1:01:351 hour, 1 minute, 35 secondsum that doesn't sit well and India is problematic when it comes to China and Pakistan. I mean Pakistan 1:01:431 hour, 1 minute, 43 secondsI think Pakistan is one of the great superstars of this crisis. The the leadership that Pakistan has shown the maturity that Pakistan has shown the 1:01:511 hour, 1 minute, 51 secondsability of Pakistan to um work with the United States, with China, with Russia, with Iran um and others to to create the 1:01:581 hour, 1 minute, 58 secondspotential for a diplomatic solution. If ever there was, you know, an entity that deserved the Nobel Peace Prize, if if this if this 1:02:081 hour, 2 minutes, 8 secondscan if if if this conflict can be brought to an end, I think the Pakistani leadership deserves collectively the 1:02:151 hour, 2 minutes, 15 secondsNobel Peace Prize for the role they played in making peace possible. Um because it's amazing what they've done. 1:02:211 hour, 2 minutes, 21 secondsUh superb diplomacy. Um but you know, India is problematic. I mean, India is a problem child. It's big. It's powerful. 1:02:301 hour, 2 minutes, 30 secondsUm but they don't know where they want to be in the world and as long as India is indecisive like that. Now maybe this 1:02:371 hour, 2 minutes, 37 secondsmeeting will you know be the beginning of India's you know transition to being serious about bricks 1:02:451 hour, 2 minutes, 45 secondsbut right now India is not serious about bricks not serious at all. and he is more serious about uh you know G20 1:02:521 hour, 2 minutes, 52 secondsviability and uh you know hoping against hope to get an invitation into the the G7 um which will never 1:03:001 hour, 3 minuteshappen. Um you know India's also continues to lobby for relevance at the security council and they feel they need the United States uh support to uh to 1:03:091 hour, 3 minutes, 9 secondsget that. So India is is is putting far too much weight on a relationship with the United States that's no longer 1:03:161 hour, 3 minutes, 16 secondsglobally relevant. Um I mean the bottom line is India's future must be with repairing relations with China and um https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euTjsj7OonU

Alastair Crooke update on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/live/IUeHkLFFpEI?si=FAISdYQNKu_VUQRL

An interesting discussion with Robert Barnes and Krapivnik

Trump is America's new Golden Calf https://youtu.be/eD3U_MtTkk4?si=SmzLqDwIxvBIt0lV

MoA:War On Iran: – Saudis Blame Israel – Neocon Grandee Concedes Defeat

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/05/war-on-iran-saudis-blame-israel-neocon-grandee-concedes-defeat.html

Professor Marsndindescribes the latest naval encounter near Oersian gulf

early in the video https://www.youtube.com/live/RDvZv4mZTlg?si=LWYOE3K1wcQSJNGX

Laith Marouf discusses Lebanon and the fraud between UAE and Saudi Arabia

From 24 minutes onwards, Laith Marouf describes the origin of UAE, Qatar and how the ruling families are branches of the Saudi Royal family which is leading to the current fauds https://www.youtube.com/live/gGc-ym4-gpQ?si=6Xh8hW8rUhv_lOKE A quick search does not agree with Marouf's assertion. From Quora: Key points and clarifications “Blood relation” in Gulf monarchies usually means close patrilineal descent or first/second-degree kinship. The major ruling houses (Al Saud, Al Thani, Al Nahyan, Al Khalifa, Al Maktoum) each descend from different tribal lineages; they are distinct dynasties rather than offshoots of a single immediate family. Intermarriage: political marriages between ruling families and elite clans are common. These create marital ties (in‑laws, cousins by marriage) but do not imply close direct blood descent between the sovereigns unless specifically documented. For example, members of UAE ruling families sometimes intermarry with other Gulf royals, producing bilateral kin connections at the extended-family level. Distant tribal ancestry: many Gulf dynasties share broad Arabian tribal origins going back centuries. Those shared roots explain cultural and historical affinity but do not constitute close genealogical kinship among current rulers. Practical implication: there is no simple close-blood relationship (father/son, brothers, first cousins) tying the current heads of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi (UAE) and Bahrain together. They lead separate dynasties with occasional marital ties and distant tribal commonality. From https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-blood-relation-between-the-leaders-of-Qatar-Saudi-Arabia-Abu-Dhabi-U-A-E-and-Bahrain

Roy Unz on Trump’s state of mind

https://www.unz.com/runz/has-president-donald-trump-lost-his-mind/

Progress in SMO with Stanislav Krapivnik

https://youtu.be/o1mHo6f1a-k?si=3tuNJJkNns8FL578

Iran update from Danny Haiphong

https://www.youtube.com/live/A4r0aOVtmvY?si=z4JmnDT8-FiJ10cR

Two Russian commenters with US experience discuss current wars

https://youtu.be/4RVRTaPZSfg?si=WdHvoNLwo6zNqMyv

From C.Wright Mills

The Power Elite (1956) describes the relationships among the political, military, and economic elites, noting that they share a common world view; that power rests in the centralization of authority within the elites of American society.[61][page needed] The centralization of authority is made up of the following components: a "military metaphysic", in other words a military definition of reality; "class identity", recognizing themselves as separate from and superior to the rest of society; "interchangeability" (they move within and between the three institutional structures and hold interlocking positions of power therein); cooperation/socialization, in other words, socialization of prospective new members is done based on how well they "clone" themselves socially after already established elites. Mills's view on the power elite is that they represent their own interest, which include maintaining a "permanent war economy" to control the ebbs and flow of American Capitalism and the masking of "a manipulative social and political order through the mass media."[59][page needed] Additionally, this work can be described as "an exploration of rational-legal bureaucratic authority and its effects on the wielders and subjects of this power."[48] President Dwight D. Eisenhower referenced Mills and this book in his farewell address of 1961. He warned about the dangers of a "military-industrial complex" as he had slowed the push for increased military defense in his time as president for two terms. This idea of a "military-industrial complex" is a reference to Mills' writing in The Power Elite, showing what influence this book had on certain powerful figures.[62] From the Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Wright_Mills Another by Frank Elwell https://web.archive.org/web/20220519122501/http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/felwell/www/Theorists/Mills/SocMills.htm

Are the elites the same everywhere? From a post in Dialogue works.

Lawrence Wilkerson after about 28 minutes: six years ago I guess now, maybe a little longer, a report well done participating in by some Iranians in Iran at the University of Iran. Um, and the report showed how much money oil sales generated for Iran on a fiscal year basis in US dollars. And then it showed how much the IRGC took out of that fabulous amount of money. They were taking about one quarter of the Iranian budget, most of it generated from oil sales,oil and gas. And the implication was strong when you just did simple things like analyze the number of people in the RGC leadership and the amount of money being and essentially taken away from the Iranian government which could have been used for social programs for food you know any any number of things that would have benefited the Iranian people was going to the RGC and then when you read further in the analysis it wasn't going to the rank and file of the RGC. was going to the leadership. So that is a problem within the chemistry if you will I suspect of Iran. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5Ij0cWArw0&t=3292s

Patrick Henningsen with Danny Haiphong

https://www.youtube.com/live/jlIJefVCjAI?si=LQcuhuDDcG6cIPwJ They're using the US military as a kind of ad hoc kind of you know 18:1218 minutes, 12 secondsmodular mercenary force that's really kind of been commandeered by a foreign government if you think 18:2018 minutes, 20 secondsabout it. Um we're talking about the state of Israel.