Scott Ritter musings before July 4

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

Brian Berletic on future conflicts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsFqWbDRzY Scott Ritteron the future of Israel andIran conflict https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp1Y7qTmmpI

Odds and ends about Israel

like twenty percent of israelis speak Russian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9_OD2NcFAQ

A Genomic Portrait Of India: Tracing Deep Ancestry, Health, And Disease Risk Using DNA

https://sciencechronicle.in/2025/06/28/a-genomic-portrait-of-india-tracing-deep-ancestry-health-and-disease-risk-using-dna/?fbclid=IwY2xjawLNQ9ZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETEwd1Zrb09POTFMbmNKTTk2AR46TSwnDjj9Angs2bb_iXzTJDaduRc_Afp3FWR0YRMN2PRuJrLjcPd6Ps2wQg_aem_WLHcrTr0CrAkv9dqZpisqw

Israel will be in Iran for years to come, Mossad head David Barnea says

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-859010#google_vignette somewhat related https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/us-used-up-15-20-percent-global-thaad-arsenal-11-days

Larry Johnson wonders why Iran agreed to ceasefire

I don’t know why Iran agreed to the ceasefire, but it did. Iranian leaders, in my opinion, are frighteningly naive. Some apparently believe that they can achieve a legitimate negotiated deal with Donald Trump. from https://sonar21.com/the-war-on-iran-is-not-over/

A fairly thorough discussion by Alastair Crooke on Israel- Iran conflict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51vdLreNqWc

On X, via Naked Capitalism links

Post See new posts Conversation Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. It's the single best explanation I've ever heard on the future of #Iran 👇 As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions. Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation. So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East. Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse. A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more.

Trump lures Iran into ‘Peace’ trap again says Brian Berletic

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

Some sort of ceasefire

ome sort of ceasefire between Israel and Iran but Gaza trauma goes on. Iran seems to have survived a partly fake strike by US, and more successful strikes by Israel. Iran did not go the way of Syria despite not accepting Russian help, which they may accept now. It seems to me that Netanyahu came out weaker than before but did damage to Iran the extent of which is not clear yet. Here is onenof the assessments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bedODnwY4EE

On the Trumpattac

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RM5bChTGPA&t=29s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWmzSdrffPI

Brian Berletic has been consistent in his appraisal of Trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAsh881PnRQ one from somebody who visited Iran https://sonar21.com/trump-has-decided-to-attack-iran-this-will-have-consequences-for-the-whole-world/

A day before Trump announces strikes on Iran, Larry Johnson with Alastair Crooke

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d7W7xvg9gTs&t=2941s&pp=ygUPQWxhc3RhaXIgQ3Jvb2tl

Chris Hedges report with Colonel Lawrence Wilkinson

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xH51O9gPxZ8

Two on Trump

Gilber Doctorow on what Russia thinks of Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jl2vwsQ1_k ALASTAIR rooke on the unravelling of Trump project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jl2vwsQ1_k

Laith Marouf on Iran’s Escalatory Path and Its Expectations of a Long War

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/laith-marouf-on-irans-escalatory-path-and-its-expectations-of-a-long-war.html

Mark Swoboda on the Israel -Iran war

seems realistic.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7r5FZhJOGA

And Alastair Croke on Israel-Iran war

https://www.youtube.com/live/Bsm7aMDKLBE?si=yLENlJ6tHb6jilcj

John Helmer and Brian Berletic on the war between Israel and Iran

John Helmer is a bit pessistic from the point of view of Iran and Russia https://johnhelmer.net/how-to-say-in-russian-happy-birthday-donald-happy-us-army-and-flag-day/#more-91878 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmWkSj_650c the title is a bit misleading.

Vietnam is a partner country in Brics

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/vietnam-admitted-brics-partner-country-brazil-says-2025-06-13/

Leave it to Bibi

last year article from Brian Berletic https://orinocotribune.com/2009-us-policy-paper-planned-current-israeli-iranian-tensions/

Larry Wilkerson and Chas Freeman on the Israeli attack on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L-A8bx8-X0&t=705s

Astaire Crooke with Danny Haiphong about Russian reaction to Ukraine strikes(first hour)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8DHeXoSZ18&t=3651s

Alastair Crooke on the latest Ukraine attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9vJC5wY7rM

Alastair Crooke on US-China economic contest

https://www.unz.com/acrooke/one-quiet-early-morning-in-beijing-the-dollars-crown-slipped/

Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff on Trump’s plan to preserve US hegemony

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/michael-hudson-trumps-contradiction-riddled-strategy-to-preserve-us-hegemony.html

Scott Ritter talks about Russia House of CIA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5p_faUdJT3w

Yves Smith discussion of the Ukraine attack on Russian airfields

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/06/john-helmer-putin-hits-pause-button-on-oreshnik-level-retaliation-for-ukraine-strike-on-russian-nuclear-deterrence-assets.html

Larry Johnson on Trump -Putin conversation and others

it seems Trump can no longer pretend ignorance of actuall happenings in the Ukraine theatre https://sonar21.com/what-did-lavrov-and-putin-tell-rubio-and-trump/ From John Helmer https://johnhelmer.net/what-is-putin-to-do-now/ May be a fewweeks for Trump to keep his end of the bargain.

From the substack of Emmanuel Todd on the decline of America

https://emmanueltodd.substack.com/p/from-russia-with-love

Phil Giraldi wonders whether Bibi will listen to Trump

https://www.youtube.com/live/lx1XJGwrQ8k?si=1VU-LoFMiUpOGt-F

A review of Emmanuel Todd’s recent book

https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2024/11/how-the-west-was-lost/ via https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/06/the-defeat-of-the-west-and-its-dislocation.html#comments

Alastair Crooke on the latest attacks on Russia

As expected the West resorting to terrorism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whSuPnGWOSg check also the reports by Larry Johnsom and Jeffrey Sachs at the same site.

New acronym for Trump

He seems to resent it and will probably do more silly stuff https://time.com/7289404/trump-taco-acronyms-meaning-dei-doge-maha-fafo-tds/

Emmanuel Todd

For future browsing https://emmanueltodd.substack.com/p/frequence-populaire-4-apocalypse

Jeffrey Sachs on Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkq8rP6Qlcw

Chas Freeman on Gaza and Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCmwHJBb87I

Alastair Crooke on the mood in Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeeE1qavSg0 see also Karloff's elaboration https://karlof1.substack.com/p/critical-crooke-chat-with-napolitano

Michael Hudson on Trumo’s economic strategy

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/05/michael-hudson-the-secret-deal-that-started-a-global-economic-war.html

Chas Freeman on how China and Russia operate in some foreign countries

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

Alastair Crooke on Israel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bn_7xwZc3Y There is news some limited food supply https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/19/israel-to-allow-limited-food-into-gaza-amid-intensified-military-offensive

About India -Pakistan air battle

https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/the-deepseek-moment-for-modern-air

Trump lurching in the right direction, sometimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYtGB1FIoLM

Chas Freeman on China

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiMU8-0Id1I&t=185s

‘I wish I could to resign from the human race.’

says Yves Smith https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/05/trump-doubles-down-on-gaza-cruelty-with-threat-to-cut-un-world-food-programme-funding-if-the-un-rejects-us-scheme.html

Kohli retires from test cricket

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/virat-kohli-has-been-indian-cricket-s-most-influential-figure-1485596

Red flag over Reichstag

https://substack.com/home/post/p-162574274

Jeffrey Sacks at judging Freedom

with some information about covid and also Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEoIYJaB38I

Trump’s hundred days

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/100-days-of-change-the-united-states

The Duran on the Trump mineral deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aFSMw_MieU&t=961s

Aurelien wonders about the state of the world

https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/the-end

John Helmer latest

https://johnhelmer.net/what-deal-will-president-putin-make-with-the-man-who-rules-the-world-but-not-the-battlefield/

Alastair Crooke on Kellog plan follow ups

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/04/28/kellogg-framework-disaster-for-trump/

On Paigham attack

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/pahalgam-terror-attack-pakistan-denies-any-role-we-have-nothing-to-do-with-it-11745398989014.html

Aurelian tries to explain war

https://aurelien2022.substack.com/p/what-is-this-war-of-which-you-speak "So in this essay I will try to do two things. One is to explain in simple terms the words and concepts involved in this “debate,” and to set out what people would actually mean, if they were only capable of using them correctly. The other is to ask what all this talk of “war with Iran” and “war with China” actually signifies, and whether those who talk airily of such things have any idea what they are talking about. (Short answer, no.)"

Alastair Crooke on Ukraine and Iran

https://thealtworld.com/alastair_crooke/a-trump-deal-juggling-war-easy-war-and-negotiation "Aurelien observes: “So we are dealing with limited horizons; limited imagination and limited experience. But there’s one other determining factor: The U.S. system is recognised to be sprawling, conflictual – and, as a result, largely impervious to outside influence – and even to reality. Bureaucratic energy is devoted almost entirely to internal struggles, which are carried out by shifting coalitions in the administration; in Congress; in Punditland and in the media. But these struggles are, in general, about [domestic] power and influence – and not about the inherent merits of an issue, and [thus] require no actual expertise or knowledge”. “The system is large and complex enough that you can make a career as an ‘Iran expert’, say, inside and outside government, without ever having visited the country or speaking the language – by simply recycling standard wisdom in a way that will attract patronage. You will be fighting battles with other supposed ‘experts’, within a very confined intellectual perimeter, where only certain conclusions are acceptable”."

John Helmer and Ray McGovern with ‘Dialogue Works’, wide ranging discussion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgG4ZmTZQww

A Tik-Tok message about China and America

https://www.tiktok.com/@00panchopantera/video/7493046392588422431?q=Tarifs%20china%20revolution&t=1745442332850 via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1EtbtbK-Sw

Dani Rodrick and Tyler Cowen discuss tariffs

https://utk.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Embed.aspx?id=f1f58256-87ce-4613-a453-b2c0014f28e0 check also https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/04/my-debate-with-dani-rodrik-about-tariffs-and-free-trade.html#comments

Trump tariff plans

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/04/phase-1-impose-tariffs-phase-2-phase-3-profit.html#more Every single person who works for the White House on trade seems to have a different idea of how to (ab)use the tariffs. There seems to be no big common plan to which they are all aligned to. This won't work.

Gandhi on Palestine, 1938

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/18aZPdsuVi/

‘Dialogue Works’ update on Iran and other conflicts

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

Silvana Mangano in ‘Bitter Rice’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MglLWA9_y8k

Padmini -Ragini dances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXs5-fHUGr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkX9hcaeTFM

John Helmer on the Witkoff negotiations

https://johnhelmer.net/strike-for-strike-in-trumps-sanctions-war-how-australias-attack-on-rusals-alumina-in-queensland-has-triggered-russias-attack-on-rio-tintos-copper/#more-91388 with Ray McGovern at Dialogue Works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7enFebtNyOU

Two from Sachs, mentioning India

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxYng1ry4TU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEuS-q7xLbc

Alastair Crooke at ‘The Duran’ on the conflict with Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVg-9EKLuqY

Is Hindi dividing India?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/10/indias-language-war-why-is-hindi-causing-a-north-south-divide

Mark Sleboda on the current conflicts

discusses india not willing to break with west at 1:07 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKJe6l8v0IA

The Duran on Trump tariffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQg9Zq9TsvM

Simplicius on Trump

partly behind a paywall https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/maga-stroika-heralds-new-age "As an accelerationist of sorts, I do ultimately judge Trump’s actions as positive for the world’s development, no matter what they lead to, because a shake up of a terminally sclerotic system is better than wading on through a global malaise with no end."

A discussion of agreement-incapable USA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY0uJH-z2To

America’s LNG problem

https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/04/us-lng-crippled-as-australia-seizes-us1-5b-trade-overnight/ US LNG crippled as Australia seizes US$1.5b trade overnight

Scott Ritter update on Ukraine and Iran at Judging Freedom

He seems reasonable and les strident when he is with the judge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwOl0AYD94

Arvind Subramanian on Amir Khan

https://scroll.in/article/1080978/arvind-subramanian-from-amir-khan-to-bandish-bandits-a-50-year-musical-odyssey-in-raag-marwa

Larry Johnson and Lawrence Wilkerson on the possibilities of nuclear war

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7r_rn7Tj-k

Alexander Mercouris on Ukraine negotiations

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

Different opinions on Trump tariffs

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trumps-liberation-day-another-pr/comments yves Smith https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/04/trump-deploys-his-tariff-wrecking-ball-how-much-will-the-us-suffer-along-with-most-of-the-rest-of-the-world.html

End of Globalization, from The Duran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLvY6xpKoIs

On the contradictions of Trump’s methods by Sam Gindin

https://nonsite.org/the-man-who-would-be-king-method-in-trumps-madness-contradictions-in-trumps-method/

Tracy-Widom distribution

seems applical in many situations https://www.quantamagazine.org/beyond-the-bell-curve-a-new-universal-law-20141015/

Shift from Smith to List by Alastair Crooke

https://www.unz.com/acrooke/transactional-weakness-tips-the-balance-of-power-hold-to-no-illusions-there-is-nothing-beyond-this-reality/

Bran Berletic on Trump

More of the same. He was one f the first who did not trust Trump. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43C2N890n9k

Trump worse than Biden says Scott Ritter

scott Ritter seems somewhat balanced when he is with Judge Napolitano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj1OzDFeeA see also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tNbzgirHmE

Karl Sanchez on the current situation around Ukraine

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/lavrov-crooke-trump-and-typepad-woes

Alastair Crooke latest with Judging Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOH26vNl0xM

Celebrities about Ghantasala, Telugu singer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stfgwDuNcNg Bharadwaja takes a comprehensive look at Ghantasala's takent and legacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMJkw1bZOKU

Two from Gilbert Doctorow

Trump pissed off with Putin https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/03/30/latest-twist-in-the-ceasefire-talks-trump-says-he-is-pissed-off-with-putin/ The growth of Russian economy https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/03/30/sometimes-mainstream-media-tell-the-truth/

Turkiye developments?

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/03/increasing-alignment-between-the-us-and-turkiye-means-trouble.html

The difficulties in translating Marx

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n06/peter-e.-gordon/hair-splitting?utm_campaign=1034015_20250329%20ICYMI&utm_medium=email&utm_source=LRB%20email&dm_i=7NIQ,M5UN,2DZSC3,1XS7D,1

Another way to end the Ukraine crisis

https://www.indianpunchline.com/a-third-way-to-end-the-war-in-ukraine/

Chas Freeman on chalice world and changing alliances

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

Electronic Intifada on ‘anti-Hamas protests’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXFHi4LWDbY

Bhadrakumar on possible Iran war

https://www.indianpunchline.com/talk-of-us-iran-war-is-all-a-load-of-baloney/

From Professor Marandi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ-zHf2VDow

One big war seems near, latest from Alastair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXXwCyt9dHk Karl Sanchez elaborates https://karlof1.substack.com/p/trumps-targets-gaza-and-iran

Controversial interview by Scott Ritter

He seems to say that Palestine is a ghost that many outsiders are chasing. i do not remember any videos where he spoke to palestians. He also gives a scenario of the destruction of Iran. He is more circumspect in his interviews at Judging Freedom'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArEAlNeyq9U A very different view the next day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujKl3SJUkaM

Putin speech to Russian business leaders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm7_6LCkvQE http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/76474

The drone dilemma by Simplicius

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/solving-the-drone-dilemma-can-russia

Steven Witkoff with Tucker Carlson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acvu2LBumGo Chapters: 0:00 What Witkoff Has Learned as Trump’s Global Negotiator 4:10 Negotiating With Israel, Hamas, and Qatar 12:50 Will We Achieve Peace Between Israel and Hamas? 19:09 Why Corporate Media Hates Witkoff 22:45 How the Loss of His Son Changed the Way Witkoff Negotiates Hostage Situations 29:55 Israel’s Goals 36:47 Trump’s Plan for Gaza 44:29 How Witkoff Negotiated the Ceasefire 50:52 Should We Be Concerned About Jordan, Egypt, and Turkey? 54:36 Negotiating With Russia and Ukraine 1:09:18 Putin Praying for Trump After He Was Shot 1:12:55 Will There Be Elections in Ukraine Again? 1:18:35 Donald Trump vs. Washington Warmongers 1:26:19 Trump’s Letter to Iran commentary by Larry Johnson https://sonar21.com