Understanding Iranian Victory by Joseph Busby

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/08/understanding-iranian-victory.html

Larry Johnson on What CIPS Actually Moves, and Why “2% of SWIFT” Misleads Washington

https://sonar21.com/the-25-trillion-misunderstanding-what-cips-actually-moves-and-why-2-of-swift-misleads-washington/

The persistence of caste

https://thewire.in/caste/the-persistence-of-caste-and-the-campaign-that-ignores-it

Larry Johnson Mecca agreement possibilities

https://sonar21.com/not-an-islamic-nato-the-mecca-agreement-is-building-the-post-american-security-architecture-and-iran-is-about-to-walk-in/

From Transition Protocol, nukes or terrorism

the options left for Trump https://youtu.be/-LaVbjEaA9g

Chas Freeman on Israeli-Turkish conflict

https://youtu.be/4bhyaZXOUOY

About Economic D-Day

https://www.youtube.com/live/Jbdi4upsQRQ?si=LzlxUCGnwfQeHWAg https://www.youtube.com/live/KSSFkIw-_Z0?si=74IwN3YrZLkX5OTJ

Scott Ritter on how Trump operates

https://youtu.be/ne1odqIa0QQ

Trump Tried to bribe IRGC leader?

https://youtu.be/1Vr7QVauo5A

Colonel Macgregor discusses te decline of American hegemony

https://www.youtube.com/live/HTDQft0gIYQ?si=hmdzuiy7Vlj3pT1v

Pepe Escobar on the new great game

https://geopoliticsprime.substack.com/p/the-new-great-game-revisited

Talk of nukes

https://www.youtube.com/live/wlciz81keJA?si=2lXHBUR3yurBYJDC

Beyond redemption

We’ll end with this confirmation that the US is, like genocidal Israel, beyond redemption: The NYT confirms the Pentagon tested an experimental PRISM missile packed with 180,000 tungsten pellets on an Iranian sports hall. Washington used a girls volleyball team as test subjects, massacring 21 civilians. From https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/08/iran-war-mixed-signals-on-us-resuming-kinetic-action-as-iran-moves-to-offensive-stance-flight-from-israel-accelerating.html

Alastair Crooke with Danny Haiphong on Iiran

rhe discussion gets metaphysical for a while https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZl6PBfKcRI

Alastair Crooke with Glenn Diesen

https://youtu.be/rbopXjaKbC8?si=9pZZDU0-KNqhFP-F

Echoes of Fall of Rome

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/encore-at-the-cirque-du-hormuz-the

Latest from Transition Protocal

slight differenes of opinion https://youtu.be/g9_Ugq_L6n4?si=usObPztsAm1PGZey

Peter Alexander, a China expert on China

https://www.youtube.com/live/GGZ1kQU1e_I?si=0WvRPCDxVOFsfdVz

Larry Wilkerson talks of the possibility of nuclear weapons use on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/live/gyKyYBnzoUU?si=KWQ5tagLfq-U2MeR

Professor Marandi with Nima

https://www.youtube.com/live/Vaz5tFQPMqs?si=tRjJHqLZL_UcEsQH

Alastair Crooke update on Iran

https://www.youtube.com/live/bliS6A0mBkA?si=xwvx2gMPzPiboRRm

About the Mecca Defensive Pact from Transition Protocol

https://youtu.be/KRZVkPrtWDY?si=MwviQlZwIHDJR_vV https://youtu.be/lYI4tTWhnfw?si=gDmJ0MVcoOlItd3t Another take from Anthony Aguilar https://www.youtube.com/live/_RcSlZAIFFs?si=cKwjqg45ehV4DN1t

Weakly round up from Judging Freedom

https://www.youtube.com/live/U1hDhzuKaTc?si=e70kq5gSz6-vGBvV

Update from Larry Johnson

covers both Ukraine an Iran https://www.youtube.com/live/foug7L3cF1s?si=tID1kFJVEXPInBkl

Larry Johnson at Transition Protocol

https://youtu.be/BW3dPp5PUCE?si=uYQB0P0H15az64pA

Anthony Aguilar on exeneded war

with name. but it seems to be one dominent war, another essentially over and orhers perpheral https://www.youtube.com/live/wg8xTuXi5_4?si=gwcfKlBNTFS1EL6d

Last Taco?

https://www.youtube.com/live/hqhBKETFH3M?si=gNyqRyvcTylQEuK_

From The Duran, Iran strike called off

https://youtu.be/iKHW-Gbxf9A?si=Acap_CVqZqJqP8G6

Trump Tacos again

https://sonar21.com/trump-tacos-again-thank-god/ He should not be allowed to.

Lavrov interview with some personal details

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/sergey-lavrov-interviewed-by-tass

Escalations in the wars with possibilities of nuclear weapons

from Danny Haiphong with the two Larrys https://www.youtube.com/live/NHfordskew4?si=_Po04GVXS38T3KF6

Is there a US strategy?

it seems that there is according to Patrick Henningsen https://www.youtube.com/live/STRoIPPDTGU?si=6eQ9r3KF3Ra7EiRa

Predictions from people with inside information, Transition Protocol

https://youtu.be/6gx8OdX5wjI?si=A4gXomaAJn93I6R0

Two on both conflicts Ian and Ukraine

one from Robert Barnes https://www.youtube.com/live/XCWwbdeI_MY?si=DEANRsJhpB-bixEM also from Alastair Crooke https://www.youtube.com/live/LQyYKtWhtOg?si=ld1PSJOHUAD1sLHu

Latest from Mario Nafal

iran has the upperhand https://www.youtube.com/live/JiAhRq62o_g?si=uk5IAeWy0U1nW8yB but Trump is good at dragging out the conflicts https://youtu.be/Z2VtAMeyJjg?si=dmwoVQ6nkdAv0ARL

Professor Marandi on why Iran is not attacking Israel yet

https://youtu.be/NYqw74Ppx2I?si=na1Elv0vA442y1tI

Saudis and Yemenis are talkings according to Transition Protocol

it is not clear why Saudis attacked in the first place https://youtu.be/FV1WrPg6140?si=gLlNHI-3aleUDgwV Scott Ritterthinks that Trump might have set up the Saudis https://www.youtube.com/live/RDcFrpywPRQ?si=pRMK83SW25Ct7ofh

Alex Christoforou gives the big picture

https://www.youtube.com/live/r4HxEFzU50M?si=ystp7yJ3o6sQBCQJ

Back door negotiations from Transition protocol

mai source seems to be Pakistani sources https://youtu.be/MoC-vPrXmVs?si=Tv15uomqcj_lZId7

Alexander Mercouris with Danny Haiphong

the interview covers both Iran and Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/live/ygTyrtOLjFc?si=ZLWzQbhK40SWcz-H

Drone deals: it seems many Ukraine drones originate in China

https://youtu.be/MsMcorqXpqM?si=DYpokf7DU6CxNvoF

Possible Pakistani reaction to escation around Saudi Arabia

https://youtu.be/uGIfqvfLA6U?si=BqXSZHWeXG1Tn_1H

Palestine and Kurds

https://jacobin.com/2026/07/kurds-palestine-oppression-self-determination

Trump can’t get no respect

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-cant-get-no-respect

Garfield Sobers RIP

https://www.cricinfo.com/story/good-times-and-great-lessons-from-the-goat-garry-sobers-1546079

Harari on AI

i read only a summary on Twitter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPNC0pMHVB4

Nuclear options being considered?

https://www.youtube.com/live/wxhcE1-7LjM?si=ShC1EB1KQooY2dTk

Simplicius on China’s preparations for future conflicts

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-new-third-front-china-quietly

Larry Wilkerson is back and lets himself go

https://www.youtube.com/live/RKMqYmBUla0?si=gsC5Ay3YicvpVVtx

Alastair Crooke on the current status of the conflict in Hormuz

https://www.youtube.com/live/GbDdTq4nrrM?si=OwUKcNZA00QlQClU

Simplicius on Russian “oligarch” Andrey Melnichenko

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/russian-oligarchs-true-warning-hidden John Helmer https://johnhelmer.net/paul-craig-roberts-on-putins-blindness-melnichenkos-plan-for-war-peace-between-the-oligarchs-erdogans-epilepsy-collapse-three-readin/#more-94619

Sulaiman Ahmed in Iran from Daniel Davis

https://www.youtube.com/live/U2NN4qHUMBg?si=cLE_nqGJUAS3jKC3

A glimpse into Thurston’s work Ken’Ichi Ohshika, Athanase Papadopoulos

https://hal.science/hal-02936616v1/document

Lawrence Wilkerson two days ago

https://youtu.be/BZmMii-xhng?si=LWFVFLhd6-CV6aYz

Simplicius on the current US strategy on Ukraine

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trump-and-rubio-hopeful-ukrainian

Link to Gurajada writings

https://te.wikisource.org/wiki/గురుజాడలు

Trumps’s latest strategy in Hormuz according to Colonel Anthony Aguilar

it seems that US is trying to take the Straits of Hormuz https://youtu.be/wWQsZlJWCAw?si=DHMb_i9f7W6sWsWJ

Trump says ‘ceasefire’ over

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/08/world/live-news/iran-war-nato-summit-ukraine-trump

Larry Johnson update with Danny Haiphong

https://www.youtube.com/live/5cV8CYwfyu0?si=kFCbisVX-koplD_B

An update from Larry Johnson and Mario Nafal

https://www.youtube.com/live/0rVz12oLzEA?si=l3FbqqANc_-8JXuc

US wants to strip Iran naked says Alastair Crooke

https://youtu.be/ckMVoPyTG_c?si=G308k0Yts8VxxhRD

RUSSIA LEARNS FROM IRAN WAR /Alastair Crooke & Lt Col Daniel Davis

https://www.youtube.com/live/M8avg3pJOgY?si=QzDBGLOSnRzUfEVd

A short update from Yves Smith

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/07/iran-war-philip-pilkington-nate-wade-debunk-oil-cliff-hopium-pilkington-explains-prices-derived-from-crack-spreads-are-100-to-115-a-barrel-us-declares-fertilizer-emergency.html one of the key videos in the above report https://www.youtube.com/live/4QRpMjgE-pw?si=-_H6gvmOkCyyr_TV Transcript ( machine generated ) of the above interview which seems important https://youtubetotranscript.com/transcript?v=4QRpMjgE-pw#google_vignette

Larry Wilkerson is back and gives his assessment of both Iran and Ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/live/lT9cFr1GdZk?si=g0ddwpUx8wy2cfiu

Alastair Crooke with Mohammad Marandi

https://youtu.be/qANJyNIkN5Q?si=jcMFxR_j8sRM7EmT

The Duran view of MoU

discusses the different views in Iran https://youtu.be/dF20HPd7gLc?si=fTc3jnwBwywQr9vb

Alastair crook discusses both big conflicts

https://www.youtube.com/live/B9RrX1Z25TI?si=lSzHDgqPTD1xrIOP

Dima with Anthony Aguilar

https://www.youtube.com/live/qNBja9HrZT8?si=j19Si1IqafGX4MGv

The latest from Mario Nawfal and Larry Johnson on MoU

https://www.youtube.com/live/m2YxkPspw4c?si=tsb88LqQSWgfGLJm

Plas-Stick

https://m.economictimes.com/news/new-updates/the-earth-prize-2026-winners-indian-teens-develop-tamarind-based-solution-to-remove-microplastics-from-water/articleshow/131275588.cms

Interesting chat between Robert Barnes and Stanislav Krapivnik

https://youtu.be/zUmX_sAM0qg?si=_ZJu3zAVCbpujdpB

Robert Pape on Escalation in Middle East

https://www.youtube.com/live/oT8p2EQ6r0s?si=RAHIo0KLCJoFoUPg

How oil prices are suppressed from Jeff Snider with Mario Nafal

https://www.youtube.com/live/dVxBUbapbio?si=gTmzaPOCEZrhRPlh

Larry Johnson with Mario Nawfal reviews Iran and Ukraine situations

https://www.youtube.com/live/SAYLQGWHU0M?si=xKmG08T7CpZW8FED

Mediators may be misleading in the Iran conflict

And Larry Johnson and Pepe Escobar seem to taken by it. https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/iran-war-us-doubles-down-on-claim-iran-agreed-to-iaea-inspections-ballistic-missile-limits-after-iran-denial-dispute-over-food-for-frozen-assets-lebanon-ceasefire-holds-as-us-presents-withdrawal-p.html

The view from Iran with Hussain Shafiei

https://youtu.be/WFLz0nGkQ-w?si=QJg_ThJAgA5Yr5r4

Paul Craig Roberts with Nima

https://www.youtube.com/live/j1xXXu6TFHk?si=AA-67syxyPs42tqS

Alistair Crooke update on MoA with Iran

https://www.youtube.com/live/LQz66eU-pgQ?si=WPFbO2MfWKQeAKcM

US-Iran meeting in Switzerland postponed

https://sonar21.com/us-and-iran-will-not-meet-in-switzerland-israel-derails-the-negotiation/

Alistair Crooke at The Cradle

https://youtu.be/1e00cv3DnI8?si=5yVx9JXUiIJamTEi

Text of the MoU with Nima and Larry Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/live/pDVwed9QDRk?si=hkvxeZELIza1f-4D

Richard Pape and Patrick Henningsen with Danny Haiphong

https://www.youtube.com/live/wMZpfLQx0zk?si=BspIia-6nGRJfet1

Pepe Escobar with Judge Napolitanoon the current state of MoU with Iran

https://www.youtube.com/live/hPaW0kHj7-0?si=c4pusxMvtXiahHU7

Alastair Crooke on the current pause in Iran war

https://www.youtube.com/live/eiEH9Lww67A?si=D4b0kOTFF76J_8tD More here https://strategic-culture.su/news/2026/06/15/post-iran-war-end-era-not-decline-but-as-trigger-abrupt-change/

Another peace deal?

Short take from Tita Parsi https://youtu.be/HjGp9vQnYnQ?si=5UsSUxYW6JpSCaKK https://sonar21.com/friday-catch-up-the-iranians-are-being-bamboozled-again/ https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/us-politics-iran-war-live-updates-iran-says-deal-with-us-wont-be-signed-sunday/live-coverage/8b0e8fdb068b9042e8a454c40787398a

Liability problems AI overviews

https://www.resultsense.com/insights/2026-06-11-google-ai-overview-liability-munich-ruling/

China supplying drones to Ukraine

https://youtu.be/vvZJfY3CaGU?si=8s1j7-fkad7HJ2F5

Robert Barnes on Trump’s state of mind

https://www.youtube.com/live/mdoNyGGEztI?si=6EKsBosPGaA21uCm

War is back, from Daniel Davis conversation with Alistair Crooke

https://www.youtube.com/live/pEHDc-UYi0U?si=laK0CYCsyknqsycw

Yves Smith on the current war on Iran

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/iran-war-us-launches-new-attacks-on-iran-using-bogus-pretext-with-iran-retaliating-swiftly-global-economy-destroying-long-conflict-looks-baked-in.html

Israel blocks aid to Gaza

https://www.youtube.com/live/UifdOag4SNY?si=h8C_4LKXLt6Yk2Fl

A long article on Yahya Sinwar

who changed middle east https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/08/12/yahya-sinwar-profile-hamas-gaza-war-israel (it may take a few arrempts to open the page). MENTIONED HERE https://www.youtube.com/live/LMoMQ3E0_JU?si=PrbQYyAEAEnJuMUt

Iran sends missiles to Israel with Mario Nawfal and Larry Johnson

https://www.youtube.com/live/C5_7c9mmWkI?si=7HlldXK-WpUJ1bPx

Economic attrition game?

According toThe Duran it may be another four months https://youtu.be/vq62yMGdAiQ?si=gBuK9ARx8H0Pz0ic

Two updates from Judge Napolitano

colonel Wilkerson says that it is likely that Iran has nukes https://www.youtube.com/live/QV5jW_KRyKA?si=djszyg2JiTSqMB-H Douglas Macgregor on the general situation with Iran https://www.youtube.com/live/vOjEQTXT9kQ?si=rwC-jd86TjOZphqh

Does Iran have a nuclear bomb?

https://www.youtube.com/live/yLSrunuWrns?si=03dsSztQmB_sTJUe

Long discussion from Mario Newfal with Malcom Vance and Aquilar

lot of intereting details from milirary experts https://www.youtube.com/live/DNBm2pmuXc4?si=9q0natIn4GJFOeWe

Hua Bin on indianization of the west

https://huabinoliver.substack.com/p/when-argument-becomes-opium-amartya

A crucial escalation? Iran Abandons Talks & Threatens to Retaliate Against Israel

https://youtu.be/e03waQsmDkY?si=-gVRM665Zuai7keX

Yves Smith daily update suggests no peace in sight in the war on Iran

But i doubt whether Trump will go for a big attack. it may slow burn escalation https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/06/iran-war-iran-rejects-trump-claims-that-deal-is-near-as-us-counterproductively-toughens-terms-hotter-tit-for-tat-strikes-threaten-ceasefire-what-if-trump-continues-to-stall-when-hitting-energy-clif.html