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

Colonel Macgregor at Neutrality Studies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18nE5j9F3tU

Laity Marouf on balkanisation in various parts of North Africa and neighbours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4-YGO6S3yA

CGTN documentary on Joseph Needham in six parts

https://www.jnfschk.org/cctv-coverage

Waiting for Godot

It seems to me that people are waiting for the unpredictable Trump to see what he will do and the globalists are trying to tie his hands and do as much damage as possible before he arrives and are prepared for even a limited nuclear war. So there is a bit of pause in Russian activity in Ukraine despite provocations. A discussion of this topic from Garland Nixon with Andre Martyanov and Scott Ritter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4P6cu2dAvuw

Book Review of ‘Eating and Being’ by Steven Shapin

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-melons-and-melancholy/

Scott Ritter’s assessment of Syria, Iran and others

Fairly strong assertions, may be plausible. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYxgjymiOD8 But Larry Johnson has a somewhat different assessment "Turning to the situation in Syria. With each passing day I’m more convinced that Putin had good intel on the Western plan to take out Assad and, based on intel provided in part from China, correctly assessed that in light of Assad’s refusal to listen to Russian and Iranian advice that Turkey and the West were going to create for themselves a shit sandwich. Neither was prepared to deal with the consequences of a rapid collapse of Syria. I believe that Putin correctly calculated that the West and Turkey were creating a level of chaos in Syria it could neither control nor contain. While Russia could have intervened militarily and defeated HTS and its Turkish/Western backers, Putin and his advisors believed this would ultimately turn out to be a nightmare for Turkey and the West, and Russia was happy to let them eat it." from https://sonar21.com/ukraine-and-syria-a-western-plan-goes-awry/ Anda different perspetive from Colonel Macgregor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItRBk6Q_RBc

Alastair Crooke on the Syrian situation

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

Assessments of Syria ollapse continue

This from Larry Johnson https://sonar21.com/ukraine-and-syria-a-western-plan-goes-awry/ a bitter one from Laith Marouf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oea9i3EB1-k

From John Helmer

https://johnhelmer.net/the-new-time-of-troubles-part-ii-putin-overruled-the-general-staff/#more-90814

Another theory about the Syrian surprise from Alex Krainer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pUV-Ijh8zc&t=4039s via https://sonar21.com/my-chat-with-alex-krainer-on-syria-ukraine-and-the-future-of-europe/ see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0FQeGjPSc0

Scott Ritter on the current situation in Syria and neighbourhood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vazdsqqybR0

The aftermath of Syrian collapse from Scott Ritter, somewhat trenchant support of Türkiye

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mIAJTVxtq A different take from Colonel Douglas Macgregor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEcoaMvlHcg Another https://sonar21.com/chinese-hack-means-beijing-reading-and-hearing-all-us-military-and-intelligence-classified-phone-communications/

Marat Khairullin sees it differently

https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/lessons-from-syria-assad-and-putin A discussion of the post https://karlof1.substack.com/p/marat-khairullens-counterpoint-essay/comments

Big changes in a week

it seems that Trump already won on two issues even before he came to power with the collapse in Syria. A sample https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96iFzYABE0w https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom

Chas Freeman on the current collapse in Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JA30KfpuXGM

Mike Benz on the origin and workings of the Security State

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2024/09/24/mike_benz_the_history_of_the_intelligence_state.html

Syria falls

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/12/syria-falls.html#more

Mark Sweboda is pessimistic about Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrqQE8kjcxo A different perspective from Alastair Crooke and Marat Khairullin https://www.eurasiareview.com/07122024-erdogans-idlib-shock-shadows-kursk-oped/

Colonel Douglas Macgregor on South Korea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Xuo4Jf_lw

The Duran on Erdogan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjlsrp9toPQ

Alastair Crooke on Syrian conflict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEvZlTYpsz4 see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_VoYUKELBY

Desperate escalations from Alastair Crooke at Duran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD9ZD0DLUHQ

Laith Marouf with Dimitri Lascaris on the situation in Lebanon and Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za_aJ8-3ySY

Simplicius on the empire

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-empire-strikes-back-launching https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-empire-strikes-back-launching another post on the same day https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelensky-finally-breaks-willing-to

Professor Marandi on Ceasfire Lebanon

Hezbollah did not accept or reject ceasefire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhW6IDmGf3I

The situation on the ground with Patrick Lancaster

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

Alastair crooke on Trump vs Deep State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_0KHWZyPao https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/11/22/the-counter-insurgency-is-on-against-trump-storm/

The next 60 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1o_TmfjcS0&t=157s from Intrnational Peace Coalition Conference

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff on the global economic systems

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

Colonel Macgregor on ICC arrest warrants ad the new missile in Ukraine

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

Scary discussion

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

Chas Freeman on Trump

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

Colonel Douglas Macgregor on the possibilities with Trump administration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_pH_SroB2c

Chas Freeman on Trump and Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTBRL337Nj4

Hype and hope but possibly more of the same

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJLTH3MZ7jc

Alex Krainer on Trump victory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRbvkF21vuo

Brics financial initiatives

https://x.com/RnaudBertrand/status/1850553829625897209 Translation of a post by Jacques Sapir https://natyliesbaldwin.com/2024/10/imf-sees-growth-shifting-from-g-7-to-brics/

Larry Johnson with Daniel Davis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGzWg65byDk

Alastair Crooke on the Israeli attack on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txkNk76E3SI

Laitth Marouf with Activist News Network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAZuLZrb4yk

More about Ramanujan from Quanta Magazine

About Rogers-Ramanujan identities https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/

Daniel Davis on Israel bombing of Iran yesterday and related topics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsVb_razZ3Y

Scott Ritter at ‘Dialogue Works’

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

On Yahya Sinwar’s death

https://youtu.be/eyVVDyBBIGA

John Helmer and Gilbert Doctorow discussion at ‘The Duran’

interesting and there seems to be a lot of agreement. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV0FhnePgYk

Alastair Crooke quoting Michael Hudson

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/10/14/israel-does-what-does-was-always-planned-this-way/ based on https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/04/michael-hudson-the-truth-about-the-destruction-of-the-palestinians.html and https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/richard-d-wolff-michael-hudson-middle-east-exploding-ukraine-crumbling-the-us-take-action.html

Interview with Gary Volger, former oil consultant to American army

https://sonar21.com/wage-wars-steal-oil-a-conversation-with-iraqs-oil-minister/

Scott Ritter again taking to a sceptic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUJfbx1Pe7g https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/08/scott-ritter-the-fall-of-israel/

Laugh Marouf on the current situation in Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4d8BhRqlD4

Doug Henwood interviews Rashid Khalidi on settler-colonial Israel

https://lbo-news.com/2024/10/08/rashid-khalidi-on-settler-colonial-israel-an-interview/

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff in an important discussion

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/10/richard-d-wolff-michael-hudson-middle-east-exploding-ukraine-crumbling-the-us-take-action.html

Alastair Crooke from ‘Going Underground’

https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/605250-iran-ballistic-missile-attack-alastair-crooke/

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the current economic situation

https://michael-hudson.com/2024/10/a-world-pushed-to-resist-u-s-policies-and-the-rise-of-global-alliances/ similar topics in 2007 https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2007/07/debtor-nation-html

Larry Johnson on the latest developments in Israel

but the bombings if civilians continue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5SMOlqmKI

A new Nusrat Fateh Ali khan from 1990

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJM8zW0VmoA

MoA on Iran strike on Israel

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2024/10/iran-attacked-israel-only-after-the-us-had-rejected-its-moderate-stance.html#more Simplicius has a different take: 'It is really a theatre of sorts'...https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/operation-true-promise-2-iran-strikes

Netanyahu gambles on slaughter, Alastair Crooke

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rCS97AOI2X0 a similar commentary from Larry Johnson https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aRvh4bvKj5U

Julian Assange interview of Nasrallah from 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M1fHfKenTM

Larry Johnson interviews Alastair Crooke

The military situation didcussed around 50 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3Vrf5c-umY check also https://sonar21.com/exploding-myths-of-middle-east-terrorism/

Daniel Davis Deep Dive on Nasrallah assassination and future

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahPwtuieOA4

A. M. Turing Award Oral History Interview with Raj Reddy by John Markoff (2018)

https://amturing.acm.org/pdf/ReddyTuringTranscript.pdf

Deep Dive on Lebanon with Larry Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zfYjGOeHOs

Karl Sanchez on Alexandr Zinoviev

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/resurrecting-zinovievs-westernism

A Pepe Escobar duet from Karl Sanchez

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/a-pepe-escobar-duet-two-complementary

Some history lessons from Scott Ritter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gw4zTevExUc

Alastair Crooke latest

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

Scott Ritter discusses Turkiye

from 27 minutes. But he does notndiscuss Turkiye allowing oil flow to Israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQkHYmddHbI

A pause in the escalation of Ukraine war

https://sonar21.com/following-putins-warning-that-any-attacks-in-russia-with-western-supplied-missiles-will-be-treated-as-an-act-of-war-nato-flips/

The role of songs in people’s movements by Vijay Prashad

https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/culture-resistance-telangana-palestine/

Zelensky's Last Hail Mary Gets Off to Rocky Start, Simplicius

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/zelenskys-last-hail-mary-gets-off

Book Review with links to discussions

https://inquisitivebiologist.com/2024/01/23/book-review-free-agents-how-evolution-gave-us-free-will/

The myth of US bankruptcy with Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5Ed7b1-LnY https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2024/09/the-myth-that-the-us-is-rapidly-approaching-bankruptcy.html

Alastair Crooke on Freedom of Speech

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnm9Vzrpkrg

Sanchez on truth wars

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/outlaw-us-empires-anti-truth-war

A new book about India by William Dalrymple

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/sep/07/the-golden-road-how-ancient-india-transformed-the-world-william-dalyrmple-review (different soellings of the author's name)

Everything You Want To Know about Inequality: The IFS Deaton Review

https://conversableeconomist.com/2024/09/04/everything-you-want-to-know-about-inequality-the-ifs-deaton-review/

The wisest indian

https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/the-wisest-indian-andre-beteille-a-scholar-with-a-difference/cid/2046388