Alistair Crooke with Glenn Diesen on the attack on Iran

https://youtu.be/AknMi7th6Uo

Alastair Crooke on the attack on Iran at The Cradle

https://youtu.be/_LDUPhJ8isc

Scott Ritter update

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

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

Scott Ritter discusses both Iran and Ukraine

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

Iran Files 1, part of a series by Kautilya

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

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

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'.

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

‘The Duran’ assessment of the possible war in Iran

https://youtu.be/iFNa7AdXO7o seems realistic

About a recent John Helmer article

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

US Israel confrontation still pending from counter currents

https://youtu.be/KlvQs4X4AOc

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/

Xi Jinping on the Chinese Financial System And Michael Hudson responses

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

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.

John Helmer update on Iran, India…

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

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

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

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

Canada-US friction

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

Discussion of Mark Carney talk at Davos

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

Alaister Crooke update on Iran

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

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

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

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

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

Alastair Crooke on Iran riots

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

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

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

Patrick Henningsen with Larry Johnson

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

Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter and Garland Nixon discussing Venezuela moment

https://youtu.be/Q0wwY6chUO0?si=Lwx91nSy9MdmUdom

Alastair Crooke on coming events

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

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

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

Dialogue Works on the situation in Iran

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

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

About Russia- Israel dialogues

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/epstein-leviathan-jpmorgan-gas-deals-netanyahu-ehud-barak

Manoranjan Byapari

with Nasiruddin Shah https://youtu.be/-G-0RyVCeIE?si=1YJSMQJXFhBCDxmW biography https://youtu.be/CJ3yw9Mhq9c?si=Zgks4P1mYG_0TRiM

Vanessa Beeley discusses Israel-Russia relationship

https://beeley.substack.com/p/the-russia-israel-partnership-in and words of caution to those who think China and Russia may be saviours. A bit more about IsraelRussian cooperation and Epstein "Then, in September, the Russian military officially entered the Syrian civil war, launching airstrikes across Syria in support of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. With extraordinary leverage, Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly offered Netanyahu a deal: Give Gazprom a stake in Leviathan, and, in exchange, Russia would protect the gas fields from Hezbollah and Hamas. Now, the debate in Israel had a new dimension: accepting Gazprom would resolve the deadlock, guarantee the gas field’s security, and instantly turn Israel into an indispensable energy exporter—at the cost of alienating Israel’s allies in the U.S. and Europe." From https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/epstein-leviathan-jpmorgan-gas-deals-netanyahu-ehud-barak

Nuclear war seems seems inevitable says Larry Wilkerson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97BRSShACAA

Scott Ritter supports Putin

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

Two from Mark Sleboda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEXNDndLLMg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIxciG7tUCs

Becca Rothfeld reviews ‘The forbidden experiment’ by Roger Shattuck

https://archive.is/sjmdE

Trump differing from Netanyahu?

https://strategic-culture.su/news/2025/12/22/trump-morphs-from-asset-to-liability-for-israel/

A review of some of the independent podcasters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0bN683uaq4

Yungang grottoes from CGTN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrTIvk7b_hQ ...... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeFxiHr-5RU

Putin’s strange relationship with Israel from John Helmer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n9SqCczuxk Also interesting information about Syria and a bit about Venezuela cut off at an interesting stage.

Michael Hudson with Glenn Diesen

https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/michael-hudson-the-economic-unravelling Discussion at MoA https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/12/english-outsider-on-dirty-british-intel-and-other-stuff.html Similar discussion with Alastair Crooke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rcf1kn9QS1Q

Tucker Carlson at Judging Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sgUp-Q2kWg

Brian Berletic on CambodiaThailand conflict

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmOlsXEC6C8

Douglas Macgregor assessment of Trump and Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j5oUGAz1kk

Ukraine update from Maek Sleboda

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

Alastair Crooke overall assessment of the current conflicts from Europe to Venezuela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkJD1qHlHhw

A whistleblower talks about Venezuela

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYzvjRksz9Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Kiriakou

Mark Sleboda on Trump’s new policy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF9vk4aVT6M

Michael Pettis on inequality and trade inbalances

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/globalization-free-trade-tariffs-debt-keynes

Coverage of Putin’s visit to India from Karl Sanchez

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/fyi-putins-state-visit-to-india

Mark Sleboda on the current state in Ukraine and Venezuela

seems more realistic than many others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owdeHNJSfI0

calumny by Scott Ritter

https://scottritter.substack.com/p/calumny Yves Smith comments "Calumny Scott Ritter. Micael T: “A funny retort from Scott to Doctorow.” Moi: Even though Ritter can be hot-headed and hyperbolic, he regularly provides useful detail not presented elsewhere. By contrast, I found Doctorow useful only when providing recaps of discussions on the big name Russian political TV shows on his website, and never a single thing he said on YouTube."

Alastair Crooke in China

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

John Helmer on Putin’s coming visit to India

from 45 minutes onwards. Not a great interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIi2saIwftU

Incoherent,incompetent and dangerous Trump says Mark Sloboda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHpW4rA5Ft8

Alastair Crooke on the current situation in Israel

youtube titles are usually misleading https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkae4E-dNwM

Workings of the US state: The Duran with Robert Barnes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG4syPQB4Bc

Bait and switch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbpBg70LcS8

MoA on Trump peace plan for Ukraine

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2025/11/kellogg-fired-over-leaking-28-point-plan-which-is-designed-to-corner-putin.html

Alastair Crooke on the current Trump Peace Plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ueUYH_IHOE

John Helmer on the Ukraine surrender plan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJuRkNCAz1c

John Helmer updates on Ukraine, Delhi, Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00R49QiRYEQ&t=1161s

Glenn Diesen with Emmanuel Todd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW9K0x1NxEE

Simplicius on energy strikes on Russia by Ukraine

overblown https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sitrep-111625-overblown-energy-strikes

GlennDiesenwith Robert Skidlesky

on the end of globalization and the return of fascism and war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTE0nUhtj3c

The state of US politics seems opaque and dire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-JfgcMiZPE&t=42s

A theory about Epstein trap

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVJ4mxQU2qk

Democratic politics in America and UK with Robert Barnes in The Duran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MjEkOKoHcg Via https://sonar21.com/a-profound-analysis-of-trumps-failing-presidency-by-robert-barnes-stas-agrees-that-russian-manpower-issues-have-determined-the-russian-pace-of-advance/

John Helmer on the war games in Syria

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGCzc8JpFlg&t=1832s There is a discussion of recent Delhi explosions and its relationship to Putin's coming visit and also the regime change during Whitlam era in Austalia.

Simplicius describes the recent Whitehouse meeting of Trump and a At-Qaeda leader

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/al-qaeda-in-the-oval-office-a-new

Mark Sleboda explains why Lavrov was possibly absent from a crucial meeting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfakNLSK3uQ

Alastair Crooke again about extremism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcT8uhbhxII

Alastair Crooke with Glenn Dirsrn on the current global situation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtSyIXu9ZbU

Trump and his wars, Doug Macgregor

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

The hype around Mamdani’s win

reminds me of the hype around Obama 's first one. Moreover Obama offered to help https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-barack-obama-election.html

Can US reverse its manufacturing decline?

The role of immigrantion? https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/11/mission-impossible-why-the-us-cannot-reverse-its-manufacturing-decline.html