Israel requests security council (UNSC) meeting

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-security-council-aims-meet-sunday-iran-attack-after-israel-request-diplomat-2024-04-14/

Bibi-Modi ‘bromance’

https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/labor-and-the-bibi-modi-bromance/

Russia-China alliance

Brian Berletic on profits over purpose

Karl Sanchez on NATO

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/gt-presents-two-views-on-nato “The problem I see stems from the attitude in South Asia from both India and Pakistan despite their belonging to SCO. Why that is stems from their fence-sitting diplomatically and failure to be 100% Anti-Colonial, facts Russia and China are aware of. As Mr. Pang described, NATO’s expansion is a semi-warlike effort since it aims at total global control as the header picture suggests.”

Some exercises to help with sleep

May help. inused to these until ten years ago. May be it is time again. https://www.self.com/gallery/bedtime-stretches-better-sleep

Scott Ritter at Judging freedom

Simplicius on Janet Yellen’s recent trip to China

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/yellen-dispatched-to-beg-china-for

Karl Sanchez discusses Alastair Crooke and Jacques Baud

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/crooke-the-art-of-war-different-thinking https://karlof1.substack.com/p/another-crooke-monday-revulsion-escalates

T.M.Krishna controversy makes it RT

https://www.rt.com/india/595480-high-priests-of-music-india-tm-krishna-brahmins/

Alastair Crooke: Western Thinking About War.

see also https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/analysis/the-art-of-war--different-thinking-systems

Apparently Russia names the divers involved in Nord Stream attack

https://www.southfront.press/breaking-moscow-named-ukrainian-divers-who-attacked-nord-stream/

Transcript of ‘ The Duran: US Economic Decline and Rise of Greater Eurasia – Michael Hudson, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen’

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/the-duran-us-economic-decline-and-rise-of-greater-eurasia-michael-hudson-alexander-mercouris-glenn-diesen.html

Isaac Simpson in Dark Futura

There are lots of references to things i fo not know but there are also passages like this "In both capitalism and democracy, the only way to get things done is via implementation of propaganda campaigns by non-public individuals. In order to be successful, these campaigns must: Unite demographic subgroups around a single initiative using entities that those subgroups trust. Benefit the shared interests of the entities in question. Use or create a “moment in culture.” A brief explanation of these phrases. First, all societal projects are propaganda initiatives. There is simply no other way to realistically get things done in bottom-up structures like democracy and consumer capitalism. You have to move the masses, and the only way to move the masses is through propaganda. Second, every propaganda initiative must seek to unite different subgroups around a single cause; and the best way to do that is to appeal to “leaders” (more often celebrities, brands, universities, media companies, scientists, etc.) of those subgroups. Third, in order to fully participate, these “leaders” must have skin in the game—you can’t merely appeal to these entities rationally or emotionally (e.g. “a poster”), they must have a shared economic interest in the propaganda initiative (“an economy”). One of these interested parties must be the media itself. And finally, fourth, the only way to successfully deliver the message of the propaganda initiative is by either hijacking an existing “cultural moment” (e.g. the Super Bowl) or by creating one yourself. This is how you further ensure media complicity." stemming from the work of Edward Bernays. https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/cthulhu-gazes-right

Killing food aid workers

Andre Martysnov interview of Jacques Baud a month ago

Brian Berletic on US-ISIS connections

Garland Nixon with Laith Marough

discussion about Middle East including Turkish lical elections.Seems optimistic

When rent seeking stops, from The Duran with Michael Hudson

transcript here https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/the-duran-us-economic-decline-and-rise-of-greater-eurasia-michael-hudson-alexander-mercouris-glenn-diesen.html

Another impressive article from Simplicius, partly available for non-subscribers

https://open.substack.com/pub/simplicius76/p/future-of-the-smo-russian-army-think?r=2j96aq&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&comments=true

Bhadrakumar’s latest

https://www.rt.com/india/595083-crocus-hall-attack-ukraines-survival/

One more from Jacques Baud, via The Duran. Nearly three hours.

The Russian Art of War w/Col. Jacques Baud in Brussels

Jacques Baud on the origins of Ukraine dispute

Simplicius on the recent terror developments

Apotheosis of hybrid terror https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/west-desperately-deflects-as-ukraines

Dima on the ground situation in Ukraine

Alastair Crooke in Europe and Gaza

Larry Johnson on the treatment of the Crocus attackers

https://sonar21.com/russia-goes-medieval-on-alleged-takij-terrorists-with-more-circumstantial-evidence-pointing-to-ukraine-and-western-culpability/

On a award to T.M.Krishna

https://www.newslaundry.com/2024/03/23/shaking-up-the-establishment-the-collective-meltdown-over-music-academy-and-tm-krishna?fbclid=IwAR1s8eMXo4Z0o5QQWKTMjVqdSdAkZ8ojcsxjyYGYJIMx2jRsz4vIA3kIYoc

Judging freedom on bombing near Moscow

On escalation by France

Scott Ritter’s career and vision

Garland Nixon with Laith Marlouf on Gaza, Africa and misc. matters

Alastair Crooke latest

The Duran on the recent incursions by Ukraine

RIP Bernie Maskit

A very kind man who revived my research by introducing me to Perry Susskind’s thesis. I had a brief collaboration with him and a longer collaboration was lost in mail. I had many pleasant moments with him and Perry who visited me later in Melbourne. Mladen Bestvina tells me that I told him about combination theorems which led to his important work with Feighn on combination theorems for word hyperbolic groups. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Maskit

Attrition and escalation management in current wars from Scott Ritter

Laith Marlouf with Garland Nixon, with a reference to Napoleon at 35 minutes

Douglas Macgregor on Ukraine and Gaza

Latest from Alastair Crooke on Israel and Ukraine

Simplicius on the latest situation in Ukraine.

US seems to be backing off. Europe making more noises. https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-31124-patriots-blown-up-as

The Duran on Nuland resignation, from Russian hawks to China hawks

James Galbraith on Russian sanctions

Namit Arora web series of ten episodes on indians

including transcript and references here https://www.namitarora.com/IndiansWebSeries.html

Yves Smith om Israel

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/03/israel-quietly-fraying.html

Conspicuous consumption

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/mar/06/anant-ambani-wedding-wealth-mark-zuckerberg-bill-gates?

Scott Ritter with Garland Nixon covering current international topics

Policing in Rafah

Two interesting books on China by Nicolas Tackett

The first is aboutchanges in the elite composition from Tang to Soong dynasties during which some culling if the elites seems to have taken place. The first is titled 'The destruction if the medieval Chinese aristocracy' https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674492059 it is based on author's thesis a ailable here https://history.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/tackett_dissertation.pdf The second is titled 'The origins of the Chinese nation': "The present book is concerned with a form of Chinese nationalism that materialized at the court of northern song (960–1127) China. it seeks to describe this phenomenon and to explain its emer- gence, largely on the basis of the new inter-state dynamics of eleventh- century northeast asia. " https://www.amazon.com/Origins-Chinese-Nation-China-Forging/dp/131664748X

About American Jews

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/04/us-anti-semitism-jewish-american-safety/677469/ An interview with the author https://edition.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/03/04/anti-semitism-in-the-us-franklin-foer-jake-tapper-the-lead.cnn

Super-elite mostly about USA

Probably applies to Western Europe too. https://darkfutura.substack.com/p/americas-super-elite-disconnect

Experiences of some Israeli captives in Gaza

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/03/we-were-constantly-in-terror-israeli-hostage-tells-of-captivity-in-gaza

Simplicius on the situation in Gaza

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-342024-rifts-in-bibis-camp

Alastair Crooke on the overall situation in Gaza and Ukraine

Gilbert Doctorow on the German army plot

https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2024/03/02/german-officers-plot-taurus-missile-attack-on-the-crimea-bridge/

George Galloway wins

A new Indian film, Laapataa Ladies

https://www.wionews.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-laapataa-ladies-box-office-kiran-raos-film-gets-a-decent-start-695880

Mahmoud Od on shooting displaced collecting food

He has a longer video later.

Talib has some interesting posts

here https://www.facebook.com/bookishvoyage

Two videos of S. Varalakshmi, one of my favourite singers

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

Egypt in negotiations with IMF

https://www.eurasiareview.com/28022024-will-egypt-sell-out-palestinians-for-10-billion-loan-package-oped/

Max Bluementhal on Aaron Bushmell self immolation

https://twitter.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1762196403969728851?s=20

Simplicius on Avdeevka and the current situation of SOM

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/avdeevka-denouement-russian-momentum

Necrocide in Gaza

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/bmj-decries-necrocide-in-gaza-as-un-describes-shocking-desperate-conditions-john-hopkins-estimates-escalation-would-produce-85000-more-deaths-in-6-months.html

Glenn Diesen about his new book

Patrick Lancaster on Donetsk situation

Jack Matlock on the current US policies

Jon Stewart on the price of freedom around 11:45

He also mentions Novalny who was discussed by Brian Berletic in the previous video.

Brian Berletic on Novalny

Children collect flour from the ground in Gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/2/20/children-collect-spilled-flour-from-the-ground-after-gaza-aid-chaos

Scott Ritter discusses Novalny in this episode

An interview about Leo Szilard

Fatal mistakes says Alastair Crooke

see also https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/02/19/resistance-has-plan-for-israel-but-on-other-side-fantastical-us-stratagems-ensure-cascading-failure/

Douglas Macgregor discusses Putin-Carlson interview

From Namit Arora, India through the eyes of visitors Alberuni (11th century) and Marco Polo

Seems similar to the current India

Two articles from Big Serge and John Helmer

https://bigserge.substack.com/p/the-age-of-zugzwang and https://johnhelmer.net/the-history-of-russian-sex/#more-89366

A wide ranging interview with Scott Ritter by Danny Haiphong

Mostly about Ukraine, Putin, Carlson interview. About 25 minutes about Gaza.

Recent episode from ‘Ask the Inspector’ series

Election politics from The Duran

Scott Ritter at JudgingFreedom

ends with a note of desperation about Palestinians.

Tucker Carlson first discussion after the Putin interview

More about Gaza from Ray McGovern

Latest from Alastair Crooke

Still a lot about Putin-Carlson interview from Scott Ritter Extra, Episode 134

Tucker Carlson gets another lesson

this time from Colonel Douglas Macgregor confirming some of the things that Putin said; first fifty minutes.

A discussion of the Putin-Carlson interview from The Duran

Slightly more negative discussions from Yves Smith nd Gilbert Doctorow https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/02/tucker-carlson-interview-of-vladimir-putin.html and https://gilbertdoctorow.com

Tucker Carlson interview of Putin

https://tuckercarlson.com/the-vladimir-putin-interview/

Jeffrey Sachs on US foreign policy

More about starving Palestians from Aaron Mate

Phil Giraldi on starving Palestians

‘Swarming of Biden’ by Alastair Crooke

https://www.unz.com/article/the-three-strands-to-the-swarming-of-biden/

Latest from Larry Johnson

Latest from Alastair Crooke

First uses of accordion in Indian film songs

https://amvaishnav.wordpress.com/2024/01/31/the-sculptors-of-film-songs-11-goody-seervai/

More talk of peace in Mideast

"It’s difficult not to be somewhat impressed by these developments. For all the corruption and evil of the US regime, we can almost give them credit for coming to reason—under great duress and social pressure, of course—and for once doing the just and honorable thing. What it further means is that the US realizes it has no choice remaining but to hardball an ‘end game’ against Israel, otherwise US risks being dragged into an Empire-ending war with Iran." From https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-2224-biden-launches-attacks

Update on US response to Jordan attack, suggests routine response

Scott Ritter with Garland Nixon discusses both Mideast and Ukraine

ICJ Rules Against Ukraine on Terrorism, MH17

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/02/01/icj-rules-against-ukraine-v-russia-on-terrorism-mh17/

Phil Giraldi at Judging Freedom

John Helmer on the progress of the Russian offensive

https://johnhelmer.net/breakthrough-on-all-fronts-ahead-of-schedule/#more-89289