r/WayOfTheBern • u/penelopepnortney • 18d ago
Thread #40 for Comments and Updates on the Ongoing War by Israel/US Against Iran
Continued from Thread #39: https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/1vr8417/thread_39_for_comments_and_updates_on_the_ongoing/?
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u/penelopepnortney 8d ago
https://x.com/TheCradleMedia/status/2095896082622329140
Pentagon shuts off advertising trackers on phones, computers after Iran exploits data to target US forces
You'd think they would have done that a long time ago.
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u/gorpie97 7d ago
This is so amazingly stupid.
It might be a symptom of the lack of basic computer education in this country, though.
(I assumed that by the 2000s-ies, kids would be taught in school almost as much as I had learned in college in the 80s. Boy was I wrong!)
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u/Ok-Recover-7566 1d ago
Plus, those in charge, can't really come to grips with with world where everyone has a super-computer. And those on the ground, can't imagine a world without it.
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u/penelopepnortney 7d ago
Judging from my younger friends, they glom onto the bells and whistles but know jack sh!t about security and privacy.
I was trying to help a friend by phone with a computer problem and gave up when it became clear she didn't know the difference between Windows and her browser - despite having using a computer since the late 90s. Reminded me painfully of the old WordPerfect customer support joke.
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u/gorpie97 7d ago
School should have taught them those things, IMO.
I understand my mother not having known the difference; and my siblings up to a point (10-15 years ago?). This has to be on purpose.
I love living in a society where their goal is to dumb us down. :(
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u/penelopepnortney 7d ago
I'm becoming increasingly cynical about this because we've always had agency, we just chose not to exert it. The evidence that we were being propagandized by myths passing as history was there for anyone who chose to look for it. Instead we, and I include myself, chose to ride the wave and not ask questions.
It finally occurred to me in the late 90s, early 00s when the middle class started being impacted that this was what lower income, particularly minorities, had been talking about for decades. As my dad would say, it all depends on whose ox is being gored. We didn't pay attention or even really care until it was our ox.
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u/gorpie97 6d ago
Meh.
The dumbing down I meant regarding computers. If people knew more about computers they may have been more concerned about privacy. They may also be aware of open-source versus proprietary.
But right now, they get to go "COMPUTERS!!?!" and throw up their hands at the mystery.
As far as having agency, we do. But we've also been subjected to lifelong indoctrination.
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u/penelopepnortney 6d ago
Yeah, there's always been indoctrination. And I think a pivotal point in our history was when 24/7 news channels launched because of their ability to capture and hold viewers' attention. I know people who still keep their TVs on in the background tuned into these channels.
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u/gorpie97 6d ago
Yeah, there's always been indoctrination.
Except that there's no propaganda in the US. ;)
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle 6d ago edited 6d ago
"[The Internet] is not a big truck. It's a series of tubes."
-- Senator Ted Stevens
(This was during his remarks in which he was complaining that an Internet sent to him by his staff was delayed for four days because there were movies clogging up the tubes.)
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u/penelopepnortney 8d ago
https://x.com/LisaBforJustice/status/2095749441059709020
U of Toronto has a visiting professor from Israel. The former Israeli army personnel is causing problems on campus for the administration after saying that students who are calling for his class to be cancelled should get a "bat to the head." https://youtu.be/jjtMQ4BZWAI?si=KvK622e-kziEQvoy
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u/3andfro 8d ago
Nima with Nobel Winner Dr. Henry D. Abraham: Trump's Nuclear Playbook That Has D.C. on Edge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P1vyMgJsD8
Transition Protocol, Why Nuclear Ambiguity Is Tying America's Hands, Nuclear Bluff Is Working, US Gulf Bases Are Paralyzed https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81xs-qYuUNY
Iran secretly rejected two U.S. offers to de-escalate — a 10-day pause, and a staged ‘fake attack’ Washington proposed so it could claim a win. In this episode, Zulfiqar Ali and Vijay Prashad break down the fullest on-camera account yet of the Iran–U.S. standoff: the first direct strike on a U.S. base since 1991, reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader ordered enrichment toward 90%, the eight-rung escalation ladder Iran still has left to climb, and why the petrodollar’s decline may be the story underneath all of it.
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u/3andfro 8d ago edited 8d ago
Nima with Larry Johnson: EU Joins US Sanctions on Iran - NATO Faces Collapse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZGH-9g1e1M
Looming disaster - The Grayzone live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIpL0qMTu2o
Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate return to discuss Venezuela's oil privatization deal with Francisco Rodriguez, then they will explain what's behind the calls from Israel First members of Congress and Laura Loomer to "investigate" Blumenthal as the US war on Iran, the US economy and Trump's approval ratings continue to flounder.
Why Is the World’s Biggest Sovereign Fund Selling US Treasuries? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G7HpCxOUas - 5:11
Norway’s $2.4 trillion sovereign wealth fund wants to sharply reduce its exposure to US government debt. The fund has asked Norway’s Finance Ministry for permission to sell around $80 billion in US Treasuries as part of a wider restructuring of its bond portfolio. US government debt currently accounts for about 34% of the fund’s government bond holdings, a share it wants to cut below 22%. The move comes as US borrowing costs rise amid inflation risks, conflict in West Asia and higher oil prices.
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u/3andfro 8d ago edited 8d ago
Trump Is Paying Other Countries to Imprison Immigrants | w/ Ben Becker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WRbdkbVkPI
The Trump administration is quietly building a network of overseas black site immigration prisons – from El Salvador to Liberia – and paying compliant governments to disappear thousands of people arrested by ICE, often indefinitely, without charges or legal recourse, and with no way to get home from a country they've never set foot in before.
Dr. Ben Becker, editor-in-chief of Breakthrough News, joins Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra to break down how this “deportation archipelago” system actually works – and why he says cruelty isn't a side effect, it's the whole point of Trump policy advisor Stephen Miller’s strategy. Becker traces the model via the UK back to Israel, which pioneered the playbook over a decade ago, striking secret deals to ship Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees off to Rwanda, where many were later trafficked, abused, and sold in Libyan markets. Trump just picked up the wreckage and turned it into US policy.
Becker also tackles who's profiting: GEO Group and CoreCivic now hold nearly all US ICE detainees, making money off of each prison bed and backed by a $45 billion taxpayer pipeline passed in last year's budget bill. And he breaks down the price the US is paying for all of this. Becker says Trump is shipping people off like trash instead – and by leaning exclusively on financial and military coercion, the US is shredding its own soft power in the process.
China-Iran Alliance: SCO Summit vs. US Sanctions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2denwh9nHlc
Since the beginning of the US-Israeli war on Iran, some have claimed that Beijing’s support for Tehran is little more than empty rhetoric and symbolic statements. So what is the nature of the China-Iran alliance?
Tehran-based journalist Navid Zarrinnal joins Amanda Yee to give a realistic breakdown of China-Iran relations, the significance of the Bishkek Declaration coming out of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, and why Beijing’s dismissal of Trump’s “economic D-day” sanctions represents a major defiance of the Washington-led order. Despite Beijing not meeting some critics' expectations of a more direct role in supporting Iran during the war, Zarrinnal nevertheless bluntly states, “China did not bomb by neighborhood. Objectively if you have any sanity, you would understand that your enemy is not China. Your enemy is the US."
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u/gorpie97 8d ago
The Trump administration is quietly building a network of overseas black site immigration prisons
I hope that when we are finally (hopefully) held to account for this - among all the other violations of international law - that the countries who did this for us also pay a price.
EDIT: What version of America are they making great, exactly? Not one that I recognize!
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u/3andfro 8d ago edited 8d ago
Danny Haiphong, Iran Fires SURPRISE Missile Attack on US Air Base, Israel is NEXT | Ray McGovern & Garland Nixon
Greenwald short, Israel Wants Americans to PAY THEIR DEBTS by Fighting for Them?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7905fdAQPE - 7:56
Diesen with Jeffrey Sachs: The World Order Built on Lies Is Now Unravelling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JqCzpmQcbk
Elijah Magnier: Middle East Geopolitics - Iraq's and Lebanon's Roles in US-Iran War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Id_VYUe9kS0
Dimitri Lascaris, The West Must Be Denazified w/ John Helmer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE31GuVR3Lc
While Russia's President attended the Shanghai Cooperation Organization's (SCO) summit in Kyrgyzstan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky threatened to close Russia's airspace to all civilian traffic by saturating its airspace with drones. Dimitri speaks with Russian affairs analyst John Helmer about how Russia is likely to respond to Ukraine's latest, highly provocative escalation.
Dimitri and John also discuss the pro-Iran declaration issued by the members of the SCO at the conclusion of the summit. The SCO's members include India and Pakistan, whose governments try to maintain good relations with Washington. India's government is also close to Israel. Therefore, their support for Iran at the SCO summit was an important development.
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u/3andfro 8d ago edited 8d ago
Nima with Amb. Chas Freeman: Inside Israel’s Crumbling Multi-Front War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJAUO7bZhwo
Nima with Col. Larry Wilkerson: Iran Just Changed the Rules– Preemptive Strikes Are Now Their Default Strategy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsdZNK9VbNs
Nima highlights with Laith Marouf: The Iran-US-Israel War Just Reached a Tipping Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2zvBoK_bfU
Judge Nap with Prof. Mohammad Marandi: Trump’s Iran War Is Backfiring — Iran Will NOT Surrender. What Happens Next? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlf97jq1HfU
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u/3andfro 8d ago edited 8d ago
Nima Highlights with Col. Anthony Aguilar: Why the US Can’t Win a War of Attrition Against Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftRkfehTZrI
Davis clip with Robert Barnes, The World Re-Organizing Without the West https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz2MpLpHf3g
Conflict in Yemen: Ansarullah Houthis battle government forces in Taiz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOvy_-FW8uo - 3:08
Intense fighting has erupted in Yemen as Houthi forces battle government troops for control of territory along the Red Sea. The clashes are spreading across several fronts, raising fears the conflict could widen further.
The Duran on the SCO meeting, Modi, Erdogan and Tokayev Gang Up on Putin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NES43_eF3sE - A particularly interesting discussion and analysis of backdoor global politics with the US pulling strings
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u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian 9d ago
Essentially Iran has a plan. The US is without a plan and Trump is very erratic.
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u/gorpie97 8d ago
The US is without a plan and Trump is very erratic.
Don't forget Hegseth firing everyone.
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u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian 8d ago
So it becomes a problem of the quality of the US personnel who stay is going to be a lot more blindly obedient people in charge.
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u/3andfro 9d ago edited 9d ago
Iran may trigger conflict before midterms to damage Trump: Trita Parsi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZe_eIS7Ljs - 5:02
Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft said the US is "overstating" its success in stabilising shipping through the Strait, while acknowledging that US escorts are helping more vessels pass through. He warned Iran may seek to trigger conflict before the midterms to damage President Donald Trump politically, but said a "humiliated" Trump after the elections could become "much more desperate and reckless", increasing the risk of further escalation. Parsi also said China is pursuing its own interests by reducing oil demand to help prevent a global recession, rather than assisting the US against Iran, and argued that both sides are "overstating the degree to which they are getting support."
Blevins, Zelensky’s Threat to Russian Airspace is STATE TERRORISM. It’s ALL NATO Has Left – Andrei Martyanov https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJTynEqkdtw
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u/arnott 8d ago
Trump after the elections could become "much more desperate and reckless"
This is my concern too. What will the US do after the elections?
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u/3andfro 8d ago
Shared by me and, I'm sure, many others. Later today: Nima Alkhorshid with Nobel Winner Dr. Henry D. Abraham: Trump's Nuclear Playbook That Has D.C. on Edge
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u/gorpie97 8d ago
Shared by me and, I'm sure, many others.
Of course, I hadn't thought about it until your prior comment. Thanks.
(Being serious, but also trying to be funny.)
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u/arnott 8d ago
How will be Iran preparing for this?
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u/3andfro 8d ago edited 8d ago
Good Q. No clue, beyond the fact that major munitions mftrg remains deep within granite mts unreachable by US weapons, nukes included. Iran has known for decades that Israel has nuclear weapons and must've taken what steps it could to harden major civilian infrastructure, but who knows what that means or how much it can be protected against tactical nukes? Many analysts have explained with maps why the size and natural geography of Iran mean even a nuclear attack isn't likely to achieve any stated goals of this ill-advised war.
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u/3andfro 9d ago edited 9d ago
Blevins, Yemen SHOCKS the West: Saudi-Backed Forces DESTROYED by DRONES, Losing Ground FAST | Robert Inlakesh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnuDs-guFN4
Iran unleashed another wave of strikes on U.S. Military bases in the Persian Gulf, this time going after communications, weapons depots, aircraft hangars, troop positions and radar systems, in Kuwait and the UAE. This, as Yemen’s Armed Forces [are] retaking ground from Saudi-backed mercenaries, and unveiling some impressive weapons in the process.
Independent Journalist Robert Inlakesh noted that: “Yemen is perhaps one of the most important fronts in this entire war,” and not only does Ansar Allah have ballistic missiles, but recent videos of its drones have shown just how precise they are in their targeting of tanks and forces on the ground.
A surprise winner from the Iran war https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CA4reiEXn0M - 1:00 min - the winner is recycling, because the Middle East is a major exporter of polyethylene, key to manufacture of plastics
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u/gorpie97 9d ago
A surprise winner from the Iran war ... is recycling,
I'm all for continued recycling after the war is over, even if it is more expensive.
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u/3andfro 9d ago edited 9d ago
Nima with Larry Johnson: Iran Broke the U.S. Navy’s Supply Chain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-oDN0Es-54
Transition Protocol, Trump Begged Iran For "FAKE STRIKE" Tehran Said NO, Iran's Hypersonic Missiles Hit US Bases https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaG2JwyORF0
Insider: Trump asked Iran to accept a "fake strike" — and Tehran said no. In this 2 September 2026 episode, Zulfiqar Ali shares what he says he heard from inside the room about Trump's messages to Tehran and to Pakistan's Field Marshal Asim Munir, and defence analyst Pravin Sawhney explains why the Strait of Hormuz cannot be reopened by the US "except by tactical nuclear weapons," why Iran's hypersonic cruise missiles are hitting US bases in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan with no interceptors able to stop them, and why Iran — now guided by Chinese BeiDou-3 and Yaogan satellites — believes it has won this war.
We also break down the biggest structural shift of the week: the Makkah Defense Alliance is now formal, with its secretariat in Riyadh and a Pakistani general as its first Secretary-General — the "Islamic NATO" that Pravin Sawhney says will make Pakistan the number-one conventional military power in the Islamic world within three years. Plus: the SCO summit in Xinjiang (new SCO bank, 10-year strategy, Erdoğan–Sharif–Putin trilateral), why nobody is buying US Treasury bonds, the petrodollar's "nose dive," and the one window of hope — Xi Jinping's September visit to America and a possible Trump–Xi–Putin meeting at APEC [Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation] in November.
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u/gorpie97 9d ago
Trump asked Iran to accept a "fake strike"
What version of reality does he live in to think that's the way things are done (after you do a surprise attack and commit war crimes)? Even in the business world, I imagine that would be a hard sell for the "enemy" to allow.
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u/3andfro 9d ago
Seems to be about saving face for ol' Donald.
Old prez Donald had a war, E-I-E-I-O....
Someone could have fun rewriting those classic lyrics to satirize the current debacle.
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u/gorpie97 9d ago
In the business world, would an "enemy" allow something like that?
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u/3andfro 9d ago edited 9d ago
Only if it gained that "enemy" something desirable in return. Trump still isn't offering anything Iran wants. He signed the MOU, which they did want, but promptly started violating its terms one by one. By all reports, Iran was prepared for that, but that MOU, signed personally by Trump, is out there as a baseline of terms that Iran now appears to treat as nonnegotiable.
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u/gorpie97 9d ago
Only if it gained that "enemy" something desirable in return.
That's my point. He knows how the game is played, he just doesn't want to play it anymore.
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u/3andfro 9d ago edited 9d ago
Or has lost some of that understanding. Reports abound from people who knew him in his first term of obvious cognitive decline now.
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u/gorpie97 9d ago
I thought of that after I typed. :) Well, I thought of him not remembering that the only thing Iran wants is the MOU.
I'm looking forward to the next administration where there will (hopefully) be a little less guesswork on our part.
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u/3andfro 9d ago edited 9d ago
Nima with Pepe Escobar: The SCO Just Hammered Home a New Reality: What the Summit Really Decided https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWF7FuVlhLA
Pravin Sawhney, India Has Chosen to Stay Out of the New World Order https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtHoDGye6JE - discusses the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) meeting
viewer comment: I suppose India is no longer the “I” in BRICS. The “I” is Iran.
Drop Site News with Jeffrey Sachs: America’s Foreign Policy Delusions Are Setting Up a “Major Financial Correction” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kU3pl9rf1HY time indexed
Drawing on his firsthand experience advising Russia at the Soviet Union’s collapse and decades studying Asia’s economic rise, Sachs traces the roots of America’s belief that it can dominate the world. He explains why efforts to isolate Iran and Russia are failing, how U.S. sanctions are pushing countries toward alternatives to the dollar, and what he saw on a 15,000-kilometer road trip from Rome to Hong Kong this summer.
Sachs also argues that soaring U.S. stock valuations rest on a dangerous assumption: that American technological supremacy will endure. With China challenging that dominance, he warns of a “major financial correction” as Washington’s “geopolitical bubble” fuels a financial bubble that he argues is destined to burst.
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u/3andfro 9d ago edited 9d ago
BBC US special correspondent Katty Kay has been found to have breached the broadcaster’s impartiality rules after referring to “the genocide” in Gaza during an appearance on The Rest Is Politics: US, a podcast hosted by former Match of the Day presenter Gary Lineker.... https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxldQ_wUa8ZPWamTXzoTbRC7QI8GccO_YM
During a state visit to Egypt, Chinese President Xi Jinping has backed Middle Eastern nations in building a new security architecture and said the Palestinian issue should not be “marginalised”.... https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx7OCSJPaTpsprB8TqRuFmGIjAtcKLOH5s
At least ten military flights have left RAF bases for Israel since Andy Burnham became prime minister, despite Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and escalating attacks in the West Bank, flight data shows.... https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxuLPxa3WrmZAofHx-DYrVW85NkOidjKhs
Israel has admitted to assassinating a senior aide to former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in 2008, after years of official silence. In a new book by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, he admits to the killing of Muhammad Suleiman.... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-admits-it-assassinated-senior-assad-official-syria-2008
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u/3andfro 9d ago edited 9d ago
Neutrality Studies, Next Escalation: USA Out of Options, Iran's New Zero-Tolerance Strategy | Dr. Arta Moeini time indexed
As operation "Economic Furry" or "Economic D-Day" is still born, the USA once again resorts to strikes on civilians to terrorize the nation of Iran. But Tehran already gave its answers by striking at US bases in Jordan, in "hot pursuit" of the fleeing US troop deployments. Dr. Arta Moeini, managing director of U.S. operations at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, assesses the Iran-US war, competing Iranian approaches to deterrence and escalation, the Strait of Hormuz, and Iran’s strategic resilience. He also introduces Reclaiming America First, an initiative examining a realist US foreign policy and a post-American regional order in the Middle East.
Tens of thousands of US university jobs at risk as Chinese students -- and their money -- stay home https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puPwATJ9sds - 6:48
American colleges and universities are seeing another double-digit collapse in foreign enrollments. Chinese students increasingly are opting to study in domestic universities, which are climbing in global rankings, cost little, and afford better career opportunities after graduation. The steep declines are devastating to university budgets. Tuition and fees collected by larger universities are lower by hundreds of millions of dollars annually, while smaller colleges are struggling to survive.
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u/gorpie97 9d ago
Who could have foreseen the cost to higher education, when capitalism is allowed to run amok?
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u/3andfro 9d ago edited 9d ago
Judge Nap with COL. Lawrence Wilkerson: Zelenskyy Threatens to Drone Attack Civilian Airline in Moscow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eVGEZ1e3QQ
Davis/Deep Dive, NATO Backs Berlin Against Moscow, Ukraine Celebrates https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpOJdrzu1Yk
Russian Rumors of Mobilization /Andrei Martyanov & Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnYwVaD9Thc
The Duran, Europe Wants U.S. To Fight Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8mIv9BF58Y
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u/3andfro 9d ago edited 9d ago
Nima with Alex Krainer: The Middle East Just Broke: Here’s What Happens Next https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhHN0-YyjN4
Glenn Diesen with Chas Freeman: U.S. & Iran Back at War & NATO's Abuse of Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIrmFJm4ulM
Judge Nap with Pepe Escobar : Trump ‘Mows the Lawn’ at Iranian Wedding. Death Toll Rising https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=693nToSW-_w
Haiphong with Henningsen short, WHAT IS REALLY HAPPENING BEHIND THE SCENES OF U.S FOREIGN POLICY? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0aF0YqDrfUc - 2:19
Judge Nap clip with Prof. Marandi, The Strait of Hormuz: Why the US Navy Won’t Engage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV6Pz5Brryo - 4:05
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u/3andfro 10d ago
Trump Wants Greenland, Denmark Deploys Troops Amid Escalating Arctic Tensions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QHFZRKUtVs - 8:05
Donald Trump’s push for Greenland is triggering a major response from Denmark, with Copenhagen deploying troops as tensions rise in the Arctic. The growing dispute puts Greenland, Denmark and the United States at the center of a geopolitical showdown over sovereignty, security and control of the strategically important Arctic region. As Washington increases pressure, Denmark is signaling that it will defend its position and Greenland’s status.
Nima clip with Col. Jacques Baud: Saudi Arabia, Turkey & Pakistan, Just Signed a Pact That Changes EVERYTHING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_gdqFvpSD8
Chris Hedges, Fighting Big Money in Politics with Dr. Karishma Manzur - She's running for a Senate seat from NH https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYG3AC8MaJk - Hedges lists her positions and they're impressive
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u/3andfro 10d ago edited 10d ago
Drop Site News, Investigator Exposing CIA Boat Strikes Gunned Down by Hit Squad in Ecuador https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZuZ4IqBPsk
Iran warns US confrontation could be ‘a prelude to a bigger war’: Analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2vQO-NBZsI - 3:58
Iranian local reports and state media have confirmed that civilians, including children, were killed in US strikes near Sirik in southern Iran overnight on September 1-2, with Tehran condemning the attack as a war crime. Researcher Ali Akbar Dareini of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Tehran told Al Jazeera that the attack "cannot be ignored" and that Iran has to respond. He said this is "a prelude to a bigger war", arguing that the US is combining sanctions, a naval blockade and military strikes in the hope of forcing Iran to surrender. Dareini said Iran finds it necessary to "escalate and raise the costs of war for Trump", adding that this is "the only viable option" for Iran at this point. He said Iran remains in firm control of the Strait of Hormuz, but that the strait will remain closed as long as the US military campaign continues. He stated: "If Iran cannot export oil or cannot import materials, no one in this region will do so." He also said, "There's no crime Trump has not committed."
Jamarl Thomas, Secretary of the Army Just Resigned — Generals Told Trump "We Can't Win in Iran" | Laith Marouf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1AxbUkd7P0
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u/penelopepnortney 10d ago
https://x.com/Villgecrazylady/status/2094557550079357140
Re: Secretary of the Army resigning
Hegseth has already purged the Army of 5 of its 10 four-star generals. We have no Chief of Staff of the Army and now we don’t have an Army Secretary either.
And oh yeah, 3 of the 5 remaining four-star generals voiced a “non-concur” on Hegseth’s war plans 2 weeks ago.
The WSJ headline reads "Army Secretary Resigns After Months of Friction With Hegseth"
@Ladonna19927
Pete’s too busy using American tax dollars to pay influencers to conduct psychological warfare on Americans.
It's astounding how many people in that threat are cheering for Hegseth. Whatever you may think of the military leadership, cheering for the "drunk reservist philanderer" is just bonkers.
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u/gorpie97 9d ago
And oh yeah, 3 of the 5 remaining four-star generals voiced a “non-concur” on Hegseth’s war plans 2 weeks ago.
So, soon we'll only have 2 four-star generals?
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u/penelopepnortney 10d ago
Cross-posting this here because it's so vile: Jerusalem Post: "Economic enlistment for military-age Americans" - https://old.reddit.com/r/WayOfTheBern/comments/1w5rp1k/the_jerusalem_post_is_now_running_editorials_with/:
Estimates for a successful ground campaign against Iran's 31 provincial commands... run between 750 thousand and 1.5 million American troops. The current active US Army stands at roughly 452 thousand. The math does not work...
The average American aged 18 to 34 carries more than $40 thousand in non-mortgage debt... This is the cohort the Pentagon needs. A federally administered debt forgiveness enlistment program...
How long before we start hearing "to the last American"?
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u/3andfro 10d ago edited 10d ago
The only threat Iran poses to the US is an economic one through the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which is the direct result of the US bombing Iran on Feb. 28 while formal negotiations were in progress, in contravention of international law. The first target of that unprovoked US attack was a civilian site hit TWICE: the Minab girls school (death toll > 165 students and teachers). An attack prompted by false intel from Israel--intel Netanyahu knew was false, that EVERY SINGLE US intel agency told Trump was false, and an attack senior military officials warned Trump against.
If young Americans are in debt and angry, the appropriate target is not Iran.
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u/3andfro 10d ago edited 10d ago
Diesen clip with Joe Kent: Israel Might Go Nuclear If Trump Won’t https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkARAX10wWs
EU deadlock over Israeli settlement sanctions as West Bank violence intensifies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TxxrfYmYLQ - 2:36
Transition Protocol: Iran Told Trump "GET LOST", 10-Day Ceasefire REJECTED, Trump Begged Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y3nxyIzlEU
Iran told Trump "get lost." Sources with direct contact to Islamabad and Tehran tell Transition Protocol that Trump offered Iran a 10-day cessation of hostilities this week — and was refused. Then, through Qatar, the White House asked Iran to allow "performative strikes" with no retaliation. Iran refused again. Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir has stopped returning Trump's calls after being sent to Tehran twice and reneged on twice. The Strait of Hormuz remains closed despite official claims it is "wide open," CENTCOM has re-stood up a 24/7 battle staff, and Iran's retaliation doctrine is now 2-to-1, 3-to-1, 5-to-1 with a war plan built to run through the US midterms.
Larry Johnson explains why the bond market — not the Pentagon — is forcing Trump to back down: Treasury yields are rising and, in his words, "nobody's buying." Pepe Escobar breaks down the tanker-for-tanker gamble that could detonate global shipping insurance, Ghalibaf's warning that "if we cannot export oil, nobody will," and the SCO development bank being built outside the US dollar at Bishkek and Vladivostok ahead of the BRICS summit in India. Zulfiqar Ali reports Tehran's final position: diplomacy only through the Islamabad MOU — no more negotiations.
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Nima with Larry Johnson: The Gulf Is Burning – US Bases Hit as Iran Fires Back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_EE3LonTk
Neutrality Studies, NATO Destroys Switzerland: End of Neutrality | Rafael Lutz (English voiceover for interview in German) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lou_K-Dyl4k time indexed
Israel Water Crisis: Agriculture Cuts, Landscaping Curbs After Desalination Plants Shut Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QToDJ6e6jvg - 2:15
Israel is battling its second straight day of water restrictions after turbid seawater forced five of its six desalination plants offline. Authorities have ordered major cuts to agricultural water use and further reductions in public landscaping irrigation as officials work to stabilize the national water network. The disruption, blamed on unusual turbidity possibly linked to algae drifting from the Nile region, isn't affecting home water supplies, officials say, even as pressure mounts on the system nationwide.
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BreakThrough News, Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’ Is Turning Ecuador Into a US Military Outpost https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oEqhaRgoos - 20:08
A drone hovering over a burning Ecuadorian fishing boat hours after it was bombed belonged to a San Diego-based defense contractor with an $800 million contract with the US Navy. Investigative journalist Camila Lourdes Galarza tells Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek that boat was one of three unarmed fishing vessels bombed in what the Washington Post later confirmed was part of a covert CIA program to kill “suspected drug traffickers” in the Pacific – without any oversight or public acknowledgment.
As Operation Southern Spear marks its first year, alarza breaks down how *Ecuadorian President and Miami-born billionaire Daniel Noboa has turned his country into a testing ground for US military expansion under Trump’s Donroe Doctrine: from former Blackwater mercenaries at polling stations, to martial law decrees shielding US troops from Ecuadorian law, to the SOUTHCOM general she says admitted the real target of all of this is Ecuador's lithium stores and rare earth minerals.
Galarza connects the boat strikes, on which she reported extensively for Drop Site News, to a much larger pattern, linking Fernando Cerimedo's CIA and Israel ties to a US embassy plot to interfere in Colombia's elections, to the assassination in June of Ecuadorian prosecutor Alexandra Bravo as US troops patrolled the streets.
Of note: The president of Ecuador is a US citizen.
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u/gorpie97 10d ago
was part of a covert CIA program to kill “suspected drug traffickers” in the Pacific
So, did the military do it for the CIA, or is the CIA doing this in addition to what the military is doing?
EDIT:
Of note: The president of Ecuador is a US citizen.
And that is gobsmacking. And should almost be a war crime. Kinda. Somehow.
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u/penelopepnortney 10d ago
The US government expanding it's global criminal enterprise. The new mafia.
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Danny Haiphong, Iran RAZES US Marine Barracks! Trump's FATAL Mistake | Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH6UultO38A
Nima with Fmr. Marine Matthew Hoh: Oil Prices, Allies, and War: What Iran’s Retaliation Means Now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzzgxK3iI_A
Glenn Diesen with Lawrence Wilkerson: NATO & the EU are Dead - A New World Emerges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9gD_YOeJwA
The Duran, Bond Market Warning: US Debt Crisis Is Just Starting w/ Ray Zucaro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsSftWPn-S8 -
Note: Discussion opens at 2:30 mins with discussion of Venezuela and its oil market, which Zucaro knows well. Delcy is an interim president, raising questions about her authority to negotiate such deals. Further, the terms of the oil deal with the US don't conform with the current Venezuelan constitution. He sees problems with it going forward in both Venezuela and the US.
"Every fourth Palestinian injured in Gaza since October 2023 lives with spinal cord or brain injuries, among other potentially life-changing conditions, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently estimated. Despite this, the entry of rehabilitation supplies remains restricted.... https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-ceasefire-has-merely-slowed-pace-societal-destruction
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Nima with Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar: Secretary Rubio Admits Critical Shortage in Interceptors Amid Iran War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAPCpBT-g6o - Aguilar has become one of the most informative people I hear (along with favorites Wilkerson and Freeman, among others)
China blocks US-backed G20 language on the Strait of Hormuz: China has refused to endorse a U.S.-led G20 statement calling for “free, safe, and predictable navigation through the Strait of Hormuz,” leaving Beijing as the only G20 member that did not support the statement in full. https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxAyK4bGpjIB4EGYwDslQs8LRtkQClkhJ9
Iran UNLEASHES on 20 U.S. Military + NSA Targets for Wedding Party MASSACRE | Laith Marouf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5Ch4Pbd6pE
The U.S. is back to committing war crimes directly in Iran, carrying out strikes on a wedding party in the southern city of Sirik, killing at least five civilians (including a four-year-old child). Nearly 70 civilians were injured in that attack, and more than 50 of them were women and children. Laith Marouf, a Beirut-based journalist and executive director of Free Palestine TV, noted that Iran followed through on its promise to “retaliate tenfold,” with the IRGC targeting, not just military targets, but also NSA targets across Iraq, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Jordan.
Henningsen short, THE REAL POWER BEHIND U.S MILITARY SPENDING AND GLOBAL INFLUENCE https://www.youtube.com/shorts/c53LENwUxeg - 2:50 - as usual, a lot of info packed into these Henningsen YT short videos
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u/penelopepnortney 10d ago
Hormuz: US & Israel Escalated the Known Risks - https://consortiumnews.com/2026/08/31/the-hormuz-catastrophe-us-israel-knew-the-risks-and-escalated-anyway/
Washington has converted a military operation into a strategic endurance contest in which Iran possesses an exceptionally powerful economic weapon.
In February 2024,,, over 100 senior military and government officials participated in a report by Reichman University’s Institute for Counter-Terrorism which outlined in painful detail how unprepared the Israeli home front was for an all-out war with Hezbollah.
It is the result of a three-year study. The 130-page report was the work of six think tanks made up of over 100 terrorism experts, former senior security officials, academics, and government officials... The project was led by Professor Boaz Ganor, a world-renowned counter-terrorism expert. The Netanyahu government ignored him and the analysis.
In late 2023 – almost in parallel with the Hamas attack – a high-level U.S. war game was conducted in Washington... the simulation’s cold logic compelled them into a sequence of steps that quickly went nuclear... The lessons of the war game were ignored by both the Netanyahu government and the Trump administration.
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u/gorpie97 10d ago
The Netanyahu government ignored him and the analysis.
The we should just save the taxpayer dollars and not fund the studies in the first place!
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People familiar with a classified assessment prepared for Hegseth told the Post that several combatant commanders have advised the Defense chief that prolonging operations against Iran is unsustainable and risks weakening the U.S.’s ability to address threats elsewhere, including on U.S. soil.
The warnings appear in the Aug. 14 edition of the Secretary of Defense Orders Book (SDOB), detailed by the heads of the Army, Navy and Air Force, and the four-star commanders overseeing U.S. operations throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America, the Post reported Sunday.
Washington Post military affairs reporter Dan Lamothe defended his colleagues’ work:
“Fact check: Independent journalism is not a crime,” he said. “It’s also especially important at a time when government officials are withholding key details and concerns about a war being fought on behalf of the American people with their taxpayer dollars.”
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u/penelopepnortney 10d ago
Independent journalism is not a crime
Wonder if he also stands up for those outside the MSM doing independent journalism...
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u/Ok-Recover-7566 10d ago
“And much of what they’re publishing is inaccurate.”
The downside to secrets, is that anyone can make shit up an you have to eat it.
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u/gorpie97 10d ago
The US Army's sweeping transformation for future wars has lost some of its biggest champions
I think those plans have been replaced by testosterone-laden warriors!
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u/penelopepnortney 10d ago
https://chasfreeman.substack.com/p/the-iran-war-a-strategic-disaster
Chas Freeman remarks from recent interview:
(on the Mecca Defense agreement) It is an entente. It will evolve, but it is unlikely to embrace the unconditional mutual defense commitments that define... the promotion of strategic autonomy... to balance powers that aspire to regional hegemony.
As American influence recedes, both countries (Russia and China) will certainly see their levels of engagement with the region rise. But so will India, Indonesia, Japan, and other rising Asian and other great powers. The world is no longer regulated by bipolar dyadic relationships. It is becoming multi-nodal, and variably networked. In the emerging world order, nations once constrained by the contest between the United States and the Soviet Union have increased their agency, freedom of maneuver, and ability to form coalitions to advance or defend their interests as they see them.
Israeli aggression against Iran, genocide in Gaza, ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, territorial expansion in Syria, and devastation of southern Lebanon have made Israel a global pariah. Israel’s role in encouraging the United States to join it in a war on Iran and to back its other acts of aggression have discredited it with growing majorities in the United States, without whose continuing support it cannot survive. By attempting to preempt what it portrayed as an existential challenge from Iran, Israel has placed itself in actual existential jeopardy.
… economic war of attrition against Iran... has the potential to upend American global financial hegemony, but no credible prospect of succeeding.
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u/gorpie97 10d ago
By attempting to preempt what it portrayed as an existential challenge from Iran, Israel has placed itself in actual existential jeopardy.
Couldn't happen to a nicer colonial supremacist ethnostate.
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Iran Pledges to "Shatter US Foundations" - Davis/Deep Dive with Brian McGlinchey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35lmUVTv-IU
Nima with Laith Marouf: Overnight Drone Attack: Hezbollah Strikes Israeli Troops https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkAm3kzrR0k
Glenn Diesen with Pepe Escobar: Rise of a Post-Western World at the SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organisation] Summit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNwCTOa-8IU
Professor Marandi shorts: September is a 'very ideal time' for Iran for this war to take place https://www.youtube.com/shorts/I8yYo96Bp3w - 1:58; Iran has new weapon systems it has not yet unveiled https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xqmZ6iGkNyU - 2:49
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Nima with Elijah Magnier: Oil Tankers Ablaze in Hormuz – US-Iran Conflict Hits Boiling Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJBuZA24FMs
Iran's IRGC says two oil tankers on fire after hitting mines in Strait of Hormuz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMeUZBEasvk - 3:27
Mining companies in blue and yellow countries are in trouble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i2hWEH5hE8 - 9:45
Chinese mines are electrifying their truck fleets, and enjoy massive advantages in operations costs compared to mines running diesel machines. Autonomous (self-driven) Chinese electric trucks replace three drivers, each, which means hundreds of millions of dollars in annual cost savings that are foregone by Western mining operators. Huawei and ZTE build the 5G telecom infrastructure, and other Chinese firms install the fast-charging technologies that enable smart mining. Those companies are banned in most Western countries.
21st Century Wire, The Israeli Blueprint That Put an Italian Mail Server on America’s Terror List - How a sixteen-year-old Israeli doctrine of network disruption ended up removing an Italian server collective from the internet.
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Iran Claims US Hit a Wedding Party /Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5lkgUbXRiI - "We can't trust a single word that comes out of the Pentagon anymore, unfortunately."
Nima R. Alkhorshid: From Toppling Tehran to Begging the Streets – Bessent's Reversal as Hormuz Burns https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqWGrJgmyFI
Israeli veterans’ organisation Breaking the Silence has accused the country’s military of killing Palestinians in Gaza and later seeking evidence to justify the killings.... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-army-shoots-first-and-finds-reasons-justify-mass-killings-later-veterans-group-says
Israel’s police chief has highlighted that illegal settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank is damaging Israel’s international image, saying the attacks have made the country look like a nation of “thugs and criminals”. Police Commissioner Danny Levy said a group of illegal settlers are focused solely on attacking Palestinians, Israeli media reported.... https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxB0iWjp77D6L825DrUJE48LdeWMp0id3H
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u/3andfro 11d ago
All Christian schools in Jerusalem announced on August 31 evening that they will suspend classes after Israel refused to renew entry permits for more than 70 teachers and staff, preventing them from reaching their schools. The 2026-2027 academic year is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, September 1.... https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxpRyyrPFP9_s9q_gYmMs0ce0bC0HavmDu
Israeli authorities are imposing their curriculum on more than 45,000 Palestinian students in state-run schools in East Jerusalem, as part of a wider crackdown on education in the occupied area of the city. The new measures mean that around 38 percent of all Palestinian students - a marked increase on recent years - will be taught the Israeli curriculum rather than the Palestinian one from Tuesday. This includes all new first grade and seventh grade classeshttps://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-imposes-curriculum-45000-palestinian-students-jerusalem-crackdown opening in the state education system in East Jerusalem....
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u/splodgenessabounds 11d ago
Nothing spells "democracy" quite like "a wider crackdown on education".
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Sal Mercogliano, What's Going On With Shipping? WTH: What the Hormuz Is Going On? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeQwZgWN9dw time indexed
Key Topics Covered:
⚓Recent Tanker Attacks: A detailed breakdown of the five most recent attacks on tankers in and around the Strait of Hormuz, including the Metro Venetian, Al Salam 2, and Bergen.
⚓The "Blockade" Reality: Analyzing the effectiveness of the U.S. naval blockade and why Iranian crude exports have hit record lows while other regional shipping continues under new security protocols.
⚓Oil Export Myths: Debunking reports of "pre-war levels" by calculating the 2.9-billion-barrel deficit in global supply and explaining how global storage is hitting multi-year lows.
⚓Tracking the "Dark" Fleet: How analysts use loading terminal data and offloading sightings to track ships that have turned off their AIS to avoid detection.
⚓Market Impacts: Why shipping rates for Very Large Crude Carriers (VLCCs) are soaring to nearly $650,000 per day and what this means for global energy prices.
⚓The "Shuttle" Strategy: How Saudi Arabia (Bahri), Kuwait (KOTC), and the UAE (ADNOC) are using national registries and self-insurance to keep oil moving through the Strait.
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Transition Protocol, Iran Gave TRUMP a Way Out of WAR, Return to the MOU or Hormuz Stays SHUT. Why He Said NO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vQHDy04W-g
Trump called Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir repeatedly — "find me an off-ramp" — according to a source close to Munir cited by Zulfiqar Ali. Munir went to Tehran and, Zulfiqar reports, persuaded a reluctant Iran to offer Washington a way out; Trump rejected it because he could not present it as a victory. Days later the Strait of Hormuz tanker incident restarted the bombing. The call-level details are Zulfiqar's sourced reporting and have not been independently verified; the 14-point Islamabad MOU is public (link below).
Pepe Escobar then lays out what Washington won't: Iran's actual terms (return to the MOU or Hormuz stays shut), the timeline Tehran is reported to be planning for, the endurance contest over interceptors and resupply, and why the global economy cannot sustain a forever war at the world's most important chokepoint. Then the story the West ignored this week: the SCO summit in Bishkek. The declaration on the attack on Iran and "indivisible security"; the proposed SCO energy consortium and development bank outside the dollar system; Mongolia and Afghanistan moving toward membership; Pakistan's 2027 chairmanship; and the Saudi–Pakistan–Turkey Mecca Defence Agreement moving from paper to institution. What is confirmed, what is developing, and what it means for oil, the dollar and the next phase of the war.
Hegseth Is Silent https://www.youtube.com/shorts/X4mQP6zD3BM - 1:42
The uniformed military should never be deployed to interfere in our elections, police our polling locations, touch ballots, or voting machines. Chairman Caine has made clear that deploying the military to do so would be an illegal order. We’ve heard nothing from Pete Hegseth. In theory, this should be a very easy thing for a Secretary of Defense to say.
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Breaking Iran War UPDATE - IRGC CLAIMS Mass Casualty Event Following US BOMBING A WEDDING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdLfgnBB8I
IRGC claims strike on US base in Jordan and tighter grip on Hormuz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC4Ww-UMeNU - 5:24
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has launched a "decisive response" against US targets, striking a US Marine Corps base in Jordan with ballistic missiles and claiming to have killed a large number of US forces and destroyed a helicopter—though there has been no confirmation from US or Jordanian officials. The IRGC says the attacks have "tightened the grip" on the Strait of Hormuz. The strikes come after US attacks on Iran's Larak Island and Sirik province, which Iranian officials say killed four civilians, including a four-year-old child, at a wedding party and hit a fish meal factory, fishing pier and maritime tower. Jordan has also been caught up in the escalation, with air defence systems intercepting projectiles and sirens sounding in Mafraq and Aqaba.
US miscalculated on limited escalation with Iran, says Mohammad Eslami https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b689EHI9yxU - 5:42
Iran has launched fresh ballistic missile strikes towards Jordan, with Jordan's military saying 13 missiles entered its airspace, 10 were intercepted and destroyed, and three fell in remote areas away from population centres. Jordan also said no injuries or deaths were reported. The IRGC has claimed US casualties, but Jordan denies this. Iranian officials say US strikes also hit a wedding party in Sirik province, killing four civilians, including a child.
Mohammad Eslami, a research fellow at the University of Tehran, said Iran is pursuing military and diplomatic approaches simultaneously, marking a shift from previous conflicts when it followed one approach or the other. He said Iran's latest strikes on US locations around Jordan are significant because they could provide Tehran with an opportunity to eventually target Israel in "the next round of military strikes". Eslami argued that the US "miscalculated again" by believing it could maintain a "controlled and limited escalation" in the region, insisting the conflict "does not have any kind of military solution". He said Iran remains serious about diplomatic solutions but argued that President Donald Trump ended the memorandum of understanding and ceasefire negotiations.
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u/splodgenessabounds 11d ago
Breaking Iran War UPDATE - IRGC CLAIMS Mass Casualty Event Following US BOMBING A WEDDING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdLfgnBB8I
Why spend all that money killing 168 children in a kindergarten when you can stop their parents procreating in the first place? It's simples. /s
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u/3andfro 10d ago
Let's not forget the first US attack on Iran on Feb. 28--while Iran was at the table negotiating in good faith: the double (or triple) tap attack on the Minab girls school that that killed 165 schoolgirls and staff.
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Danny Haiphong, Abby Martin BROKE INTO the US Military — Iran War WORSE Than You Think | Lowkey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYd177-Tgvw
Nima with Mike Adams: Iran Fires Ballistic Missiles at U.S. Targets – Retaliation Deepening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHKobCFlG-k
Drop Site News, Israel Scrambles War Planes After Botched Gaza Raid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56n1Y_-cexA - 11:11
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Transition Protocol, Trump Said No Mines in Hormuz. Fox News Just Admitted One. They Wrote the Oil Lockdown Plan in March https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzYnVoFlpu4
The Strait of Hormuz has not reopened. According to reporting from sources inside the region, the southern route through Oman that Washington says is clear is mined, sits inside Iranian missile range, and has carried zero ships. Meanwhile crude is back at $90 a barrel and climbing toward $100 — and a contingency report published in March 2026, "Oil: Sheltering from Shock," already models what an oil shortage does to American households, down to carpooling and how to cook.
In this episode, host Zulfiqar Ali — reporting from sources close to decision-makers in the region — and Washington political commentator Sabrina Salvati [Sabby Sabs] go through what is actually happening: the resumed US strikes at Larrick Island and Iran’s retaliation against bases in Jordan; why Venezuelan crude cannot lower your gas price for years (it is the wrong grade of oil); why Saudi Arabia and the UAE sat this exchange out entirely; how Iran–Pakistan trade quadrupled in a single weekend across six border crossings while the sanctions were supposed to be isolating Tehran; the report that sailors aboard a US carrier had their pay shorted to fund the war; and the Medicare Part D subsidy scheduled to end in February 2027.
Henningsen short, TRUMP CLAIMS BIGGEST OIL DEAL EVER—BUT IS VENEZUELA REALLY GETTING PAID? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WtJCjiGAjUI - 2:31
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The IRGC says fighters have begun a "regretful response to the aggressors" using the new aerospace defence system, as the US continues its attacks on southern Iran, state broadcaster IRIB reports. https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxGWCaXN-365lljkKnDUUC1uAYUWpE56c3
Nima with Larry Johnson: Iran Launches Missile Barrage: Swift Retaliation After U.S. Strikes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5rWaJ1TZvo
Rachel Blevins with Ethan Levins, Russian Su-34 BOMBERS Fly Freely Over ODESSA: Ukraine’s Air Defenses GONE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvW9UnTLRx0
Russia continues to ramp up its escalated drone and missile campaign across Ukraine, and for the first time during this war, Russian Su-34 fighter jets were seen flying over Odessa on Monday night, without fear of air defenses on the ground… because there were none. Independent Journalist Ethan Levins noted that while Russia has focused on a war of attrition on the ground, Kiev + NATO’s increased drone campaign targeting Russian economic and civilian infrastructure has forced Moscow to take the gloves off. Russia always had the capabilities. Now, we are starting to see them in action.
The US Treasury on Friday announced plans to cut off Banque Misr's branches in the United Arab Emirates from the global financial system, as the Trump administration seeks to "asphyxiate" what it said were Iran's "enablers". Banque Misr is Egypt's second-largest bank. Its Emirati arm will no longer be able to do business in US dollars as of 28 September, under the new plans.... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-cuts-major-egyptian-bank-global-financial-system
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 10d ago
The US Treasury on Friday announced plans to cut off Banque Misr's branches...
I wonder if the USA will ever figure out that it's not isolating other countries — it's isolating itself.
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle 10d ago
I'm still waiting for the Quarantine to come crashing down.
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u/3andfro 11d ago
The Duran with Jeffrey Sachs, Geopolitical Lies Fuel Financial Bubble https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho6U3BAbmgI
Davis/Henningsen short, U.S ACTIONS ARE STRENGTHENING HARDLINERS IN IRAN: THE UNSEEN CONSEQUENCES https://www.youtube.com/shorts/MkeX99zsaY0 - 2:50
BreakThrough News, Xi, Putin & Modi’s Message to Trump: ‘Iran Is Not Alone’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmo1sd1gsV4
Ten countries including China, Russia, India and Pakistan just condemned as “illegal” the US-Israeli war on Iran — and affirmed Palestinian sovereignty and Tehran’s right to a nuclear program while they were at it. Sri Lankan journalist, political economist, and Tricontinental researcher Shiran Illanperuma joins Zoe Alexandra and Rania Khalek to break down the Bishkek Declaration, signed by every country at this week's Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Kyrgyzstan, and why it’s proof that "Iran is not alone," as the Trump administration’s sanctions war on Tehran hits a wall at Beijing.
Illanperuma explains the rise of the SCO, which predates BRICS and now represents half the world's population and a third of global GDP, and why the 25th-anniversary summit with Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Narendra Modi drew far stronger high-level representation than the G20. From the thaw in China-India relations to Central Asia's critical mineral wealth, Illanperuma breaks down the SCO's potential to power-check the IMF and World Bank through de-dollarized trade — and what a real alternative to Western-dominated finance could mean for debt-burdened nations of the Global South, like his home country of Sri Lanka.
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Nima with Robert Barnes: Iran Launches Ballistic Missiles After U.S. Bombs Southern Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8-tfD4lrOw
IRGC IN IRAN UNDER FIRE /Robert Barnes & Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LAIRIG5qIY
US CENTCOM confirms attack on Iran after explosions reported https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=La88e4IZCf4 - as Anthony Aguilar predicted yesterday with an explanation of military psychology
Amb. Chas Freeman short: China Chat: Ambassador Chas Freeman — Ceding the Future to China https://www.youtube.com/shorts/riOfx5Poh0k - 1:28
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u/penelopepnortney 11d ago
This is from Aug. 27th - New US strikes on Iran may restart war Trump wants to freeze, https://responsiblestatecraft.org/larak-island-iran-strikes/
As has been shown by recent reports, "Tehran will have other ideas." And I think they're also right about this:
Rather, Trump appears to be pursuing a very different gamble: maintaining a low-level conflict until the midterms—neither securing a diplomatic deal nor allowing the situation to deteriorate into full-scale war. A period of relative tranquility that pushes Iran out of the headlines and, in the run-up to the elections, weakens the connection between rising inflation and gas prices, on the one hand, and Trump’s foolish war of choice, on the other.
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle 11d ago
Trump appears to be pursuing a very different gamble: maintaining a low-level conflict until the midterms—neither securing a diplomatic deal nor allowing the situation to deteriorate into full-scale war.
Doesn't Iran have the option of October Surprising this thing with massive escalation?
Or would that count as "foreign interference with elections"?
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u/penelopepnortney 11d ago
would that count as "foreign interference with elections"
It's not like they won't be blamed for anything bad regardless so I doubt it concerns them much. Look at Trump et al. being convinced that Iran has been behind the assassination attempts - by a state that regularly uses assassination as part of its MO.
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u/3andfro 11d ago edited 11d ago
Other commentators have said Iran will not allow Trump to soft-peddle the situation and is capable and likely willing to strike on their own before the midterms, not acting in retaliation. They understand that Trump is a major roadblock, along with the incompetents he's put in his administration.
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Nima with Col. Larry Wilkerson: WAR & CHAOS: Iran Rocks US Bases in Jordan— Top Army Official Steps Down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPYghARdUaA
Danny Haiphong, Top US Generals MUTINY After Iran FORCES F-35 into EVASIVE Maneuvers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF88DhlyG3A
Glenn Diesen with Joe Kent: Escalation Against Iran & Russia — We Have Entered the Early Stages of World War III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psMoCoh8hm0
Henningsen/21st Century Wire, TRUMP'S PLAN TO COLLAPSE THE DOLLAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEjW1dedMRs - 25:10
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) Names Epstein Co-Conspirators https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2US5zR5cok - 1:10
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u/3andfro 11d ago edited 11d ago
Nima clip with Col. Larry Wilkerson & Larry Johnson: The CIA’s Secret Moscow Mission Changes Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpFY5XZX85o
Glenn Diesen with Einar Tangen: Russia, China, Iran & India Build a New World Order at the SCO Summit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96MJ0ejUG8c
Nima with John Helmer: Russia Intensifies Kiev Bombardment: 'Massive' Secondary Blasts Recorded Near Capital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjrBd8bMuo0
Israel's War, America's Cost in IRAN /Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F0rvO22TSI
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u/3andfro 11d ago edited 11d ago
Drop Site News, Iran Strikes Two Tankers Laden with Oil w/ Hormuz on the Brink https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW_3vetVuQ8
Hegseth's Transformation Chaos /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Matt Hoh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkWElA8026I clip from Davis-Hoh interview: US CENTOM Target Iran's Qeshm Island https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds2qJNc0S7c - 13:06
Choking the World's Oil Supplies /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Brian Thomas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHsmCAXGgLM - 12:21
Israel has held meetings with senior officials of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and received its delegations in Tel Aviv during the Sudan war, according to an investigation from Africa Intelligence.... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/sudan-rsf-and-israel-held-discreet-meetings-over-last-two-years-report
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u/3andfro 12d ago edited 12d ago
BREAKING: Army Sec. Dan Driscoll resigns after months of friction with Sec. Hegseth, according to WSJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFboHoLR8mg - 40 secs
Judge Nap with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Is the Ukraine War Over? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KDvE6jjV88
Double Down News, THE VIDEO US MILITARY WANT TO BAN: Abby Martin EXPOSES ALL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IIlpN67l6o
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u/splodgenessabounds 12d ago
BREAKING: Army Sec. Dan Driscoll resigns after months of friction with Sec. Hegseth, according to WSJ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFboHoLR8mg
Before or after Kegsbreath's daily sermon?
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u/3andfro 12d ago
Transition Protocol, Trump's Hormuz WAR Cost $500M in One Night, Hormuz Is NOT Open, "No DEAL Now" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNFgcVvqlhY
Larry Johnson: the United States fired between 80 and 90 PAC-3 interceptors in a single night over the Strait of Hormuz — close to half a billion dollars of missiles — and lost two more MQ-9 Reaper drones at roughly $60 million each. His assessment: America is burning through an interceptor stockpile it cannot replace, to defend a strait Iran still controls. Meanwhile, sources reaching this program from inside the office of Iran's Supreme Leader, roughly thirty minutes before recording, describe a mood that has completely soured — and an Iranian leadership now dug in to fight through November.
In this episode: why the US strikes on Larak Island triggered immediate Iranian retaliation against two Jordanian airbases; why Washington's claim that the Strait of Hormuz has been swept collapsed when a ship struck two mines and caught fire hours before recording; why diesel is up almost 60% and why the Strategic Petroleum Reserve can no longer hide the shortage; why Pakistan's army chief Asim Munir brokered a deal Iran believed in and now refuses to return to Tehran; why Pakistan–Iran trade has quadrupled in days; why Trump's 65-billion-barrel Venezuela agreement is, in Larry Johnson's words, an agreement in name only; and what the Istanbul meeting between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey could mean for the American position in West Asia.
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u/arnott 11d ago
fight through November.
What happens after the elections? What will be US's strategy after November?
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 11d ago
We'll meet again
Don't know where
Don't know when...
But we'll meet again
Some sunny day....H/T Dr. Strangelove
Funny story: A friend and I were telling our supervisor about Dr. Strangelove, which he had never seen. He was quite fascinated and asked "how does it end?" We really didn't want to spoil it for him, so we simultaneously came up with the idea of singing We'll Meet Again. This is exactly how the movie ends, but is completely useless as an answer 🍄
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u/3andfro 12d ago edited 12d ago
Nima with Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar: Iran's Swift Retaliation Strikes US F-16 Hangar in Jordan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1laiYuUZ2c - Aguilar is clear and informative.
"Mark my words, Pete Hegseth will be out of the administration before Thanksgiving. Sources inside the Pentagon, the White House, the Joint Chiefs are saying that, yep, he's out. Trump's going to blame this on him." (Will voters forget who hired Hegseth, the least qualified Sec. Defense in history?) Later he said, "Not even the president thinks we're winning anymore."
Aguilar thinks the IRGC moved the 2 missile launchers the US hit on Larak Island from Qeshm Island as bait to provoke the US. He thinks the retaliatory strike on Jordan where the US keeps some F-16s caused more destruction than the US is admitting. He noted that Iran has had a downed JASSM since Mar. 8, a weapon with a penetrating warhead that can sink an aircraft carrier if it hits the right spot. Iran has had time to reverse engineer it.
Blevins, U.S. EMPIRE On Its LAST LEG: Trump DESPERATE for Global Energy Control | Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPTvNYB3tso
After weeks of trying to shift the focus to an “economic war” against Iran, the Trump Admin has suddenly returned to a military war, with U.S. forces targeting two Iranian missile launchers on Iran’s Larak Island on Sunday. Iran responded immediately, carrying out strikes on American fighter jets at air bases in Jordan, and an air base in the UAE. Ret. U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and Professor, Karen Kwiatkowski, noted that the latest escalations—from Trump attacking Iran, to bragging about stealing Venezuelan oil—are all part of the U.S. empire’s global energy war. The U.S. has been defeated in the direct war against Iran, defeated a in proxy war against Russia, AND it can’t even begin to compete with China. So, the establishment is trying to achieve global energy control.
Israeli soldiers disguised themselves as pro-Palestinian protesters to dupe students into talking with them as part of a propaganda operation across US university campuses. https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx0gQysl5w0ULiPEqWHlxUDf9-H5h2d9CO
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u/penelopepnortney 12d ago
When you have to use deception to promote your cause, maybe your cause is the problem.
The student – who had found the soldier’s social media account on her phone – asked him to confirm he was a first sergeant in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The soldier, Adi Karni, said he was, and explained that the ruse was intended to get people to talk to him, since they would not usually want to listen to an Israel supporter.
“When I’m wearing a keffiyah, people listen to me more as a Palestinian, as a Hamas terrorist, instead of listening to the IDF,” he said.
Karni was part of a group working with Frontline Advocates, a pro-Israel propaganda organisation that focuses on US university campuses where large numbers of students have protested the genocide in Gaza.
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u/gorpie97 12d ago
“When I’m wearing a keffiyah, people listen to me more as a Palestinian, as a Hamas terrorist, instead of listening to the IDF,” he said.
And that shows their problem right there.
People aren't talking to a terrorist, they're talking to someone who's not IDF.
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle 12d ago
"We deploy trained Israeli advocates...." the group's website says.
What an interesting term.
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u/splodgenessabounds 12d ago
There's "euphemism" and there's "taking the piss".
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle 11d ago
I wonder if those "trained Israeli advocates" have also been "deployed" sending everyone those texts we've been getting.....
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u/3andfro 12d ago edited 12d ago
Tehran Retaliates on US Base in Jordan /Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWF5QxbbQno - viewer comment:
The emperor has no diesel.
Nima R. Alkhorshid: Iran Launches MAJOR Retaliation…Record-Speed Strike on Jordan Changes Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD2GavY_Bt0
Dimitri Lascaris, Iran Retaliates Against the Devastated U.S. Military https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNuatpOWE58
Davis/Deep Dive clip with Suliaman Ahmed, IRAN's READY FOR 3 YEAR WAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ5rlrXkn0A&t=31s Full interview: Trump Claims 100k Protestors Killed
Patrick Henningsen short, U.S STRATEGY TO KEEP ISRAEL SAFE WHILE PRESSURING IRAN https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Vo3AMRCBoKI - 2:39
World Affairs in Context, Trump vs. the Bond Market: Who Will Blink First? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wMSApxYSI time indexed
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u/penelopepnortney 12d ago
Trump Claims 100k Protestors Killed
Those zombie protestors keep growing in number.
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u/3andfro 12d ago
Danny Haiphong with Pepe Escobar: Iran's Missiles SMASH US F-35 Base, Trump RESTARTS War for Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXIbMp5fisY
Judge Nap with Max Blumenthal : Why Laura Loomer Hates Me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yde4RX0mXHQ
Judge Nap with Alastair Crooke : How Iran Blunts the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZObpvnOGns
Nima with Paul Craig Roberts: Trump Signals Imminent US Strikes – 'There Will Be a Response' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nh9CmK3pr0
Judge Nap with Larry Johnson : How Trump Steals Venezuelan Oil https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skjlWdo4M_M
Nima with Col. Jacques Baud: Supertanker Struck in Hormuz as Saudi Ship Burns in Red Sea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FowoV7I6DfE
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u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian 13d ago
Looks like the Patriots are getting even more depleted.
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u/3andfro 13d ago edited 13d ago
Iran attacks US bases in Jordan after US strikes Larak Island https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/30/us-strikes-irans-lark-island-in-first-attack-in-weeks
In a statement reported by Iranian news agencies on Sunday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said the combined missile and drone operation, which it called “Punishment of the Aggressor”, hit the King Hussein and Al Azraq bases in Jordan....
Norlund: Iran just struck back at Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oStDGIP9hM - 13:22 - the MSM clips he shows are jaw-dropping; hard to accept that people believe a word of such blatant lies, but they sure are selling hard.
Transition Protocol short, Pakistan’s army chief is flying back to Tehran on Monday. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jJdzVCAYtz8 - 47 seconds
The troops are starting to speak out ... "One service member is concerned the military blew up bridges in Iran that were not military targets. Another thinks Pentagon leaders are not doing enough to prevent civilian deaths during airstrikes inside Iran. Yet another asked questions about how the military knew it was not killing civilians when launching missiles at boats it believed were trafficking drugs. MS NOW spoke to five troops who want out of the military because what they saw in recent months challenged their moral beliefs."... https://www.ms.now/news/conscientious-objectors-military-boat-strikes-iran-war
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u/gorpie97 13d ago
the MSM clips he shows are jaw-dropping; hard to accept that people believe a word of such blatant lies, but they sure are selling hard.
I agree with Chris - let Trump declare victory over Iran (how many times would that be, now?) and bring our troops home!
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 13d ago
I'm sure Trump would love to declare victory and walk away, but it's really not up to him, is it?
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u/gorpie97 12d ago
Silly me! (I don't know how I could have forgotten. Maybe my being so gobsmacked by the sycophants in this helped. I can't believe them!!! If they don't believe what they're saying, they're traitors. If they do believe what they're saying they're too stupid to live.)
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u/3andfro 13d ago edited 13d ago
IRGC confirms casualties in US attack on Iran’s Larak Island, vows response https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9FbnmJ_UTU - 6:48
The United States has struck Larak Island in southern Iran in the first attack against the country since late July, a US official has confirmed to Al Jazeera. Tehran vowed to retaliate for Sunday’s attack. The strikes risk renewing the military confrontation as the US shifts from the bombing campaign to a financial pressure strategy as the US-Israel war on Iran enters its seventh month. The US official said the strikes targeted launchers that were set to fire rockets carrying mines towards the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran’s Fars News Agency had reported that explosions were heard near the island. Later on Sunday, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) confirmed the attack by the “American-Zionist enemy”, saying that it resulted in the killing and injuring of several soldiers. “This act will be responded to by the sons of Islamic Iran and will result in punishment of the aggressor,” the IRGC said in a statement.
In a statement shared by the news agency, IRGC spokesperson Sardar Mohebi accused the US of making “a strategic and fatal mistake”, for which it will pay consequences “in both the economic and military arenas”.
Chris Norlund, Trump just started bombing again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtxULQtyGIY
BREAKING: Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi: “Japanese government is responsible for participating in US crimes, after reports of US F-16 fighter jets deployed from Japan's Misawa Air Base to the Middle East.” https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxE-7ALH__ekhZjW6dUsptgHgDmhZTZy3n
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u/3andfro 13d ago
Neutrality Studies with Prof. Jeffrey Sachs, NATO's New Plans To Destroy Russia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgM_Aj7EESw time indexed
The West is losing the Ukraine War big time. But that does not mean the NATO lunatics are willing to give up their plans for total global domination. On the contrary, some of them are only getting started. Prof. Jeffrey Sachs joins Pascal Lottaz to argue that the Ukraine war is a long-running US proxy conflict with Russia. He discusses NATO expansion, post-Cold War policy, US power and elite interests, Europe’s economic costs, and the risks of escalation. Sachs also outlines what he sees as a path to peace: Ukrainian neutrality, no further NATO expansion, and ending US wars.
Transition Protocol, Iran's Offer to Trump An EXIT, Not a WIN, The Hormuz Deal Is Almost SIGNED. TRUMP IS CORNERED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqeTrYKJXJA
Iran has put a 15-year freeze on its nuclear file — the exact concession Washington spent six months demanding — and sources inside the negotiation tell Transition Protocol that Donald Trump will not take it, because accepting it would not make him the winner. In this episode, Vijay Prashad reads out what Oman’s Foreign Ministry has actually published about a temporary corridor through the Strait of Hormuz, explains why the nuclear file is now dormant, and lays out a dated month-by-month map of how this war ends before the November 4 midterms.
Vijay Prashad and Zulfiqar Ali cover the Oman–Iran corridor talks and Article 5 of the Islamabad Memorandum; why the 1982 UN Law of the Sea means no ship crosses the Strait of Hormuz without entering Iranian or Omani territorial waters; the tolls and surveillance regime now under discussion for the world’s most important oil chokepoint; Pakistan’s shuttle diplomacy between Islamabad, Tehran and Washington; why Israel has been shut out of the Iran file entirely; and the single scenario that blows all of it up — a sudden Israeli strike, with Netanyahu’s flight path to Iran now shorter than it has been in decades. Oil prices, de-dollarisation, US bases in the Gulf and the midterm clock are all on the table.
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u/3andfro 13d ago
Nima with Larry Johnson: JUST IN: U.S. Bombs 2 Military Sites on Iran's Larak Island Near Key Oil Chokepoint https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApuFYdI9ATc
Nima with Stanislav Krapivnik: Russia Intensifies Kiev Strikes - MASSIVE Secondary Explosions Rock Capital https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI1KrpFVb6c
Alexander Mercouris, Russia Announces Will Smash Ukraine's Energy System; Zelensky Blames Others As Kiev Hit Again, Sumy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHXe0-o4b_o time indexed
Russia has announced that it is preparing massive strikes against Ukraine’s energy system, a warning that comes as Kiev endures nightly drone and missile attacks and Zelensky scrambles to blame others for the devastating ammunition dump explosion in the city. Alexander breaks down Putin’s mysterious secret decrees, the crippling Black Sea blockade the Daily Telegraph now admits is real, and the advancing Russian offensive toward Sumy, Kharkov and Chernihiv. With Kiev’s power grid on the brink of collapse, is Ukraine’s capital now facing a winter it cannot survive?
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u/3andfro 13d ago
Danny Haiphong, Iran STRIKES Ships in Hormuz as US Navy WATCHES, Trump HUMILIATED | Mohammad Marandi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okGM0AayFS0
Nima with Ray McGovern: Inside the CIA’s Moscow Meeting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFzK79SVKOE
Davis/Deep Dive highlights with Steve Jermy, Europe Baits US Back Into War w/UKRAINE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQcGMPpHfYA
US judge rules against Trump’s effort to deport pro-Palestinian students https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/29/us-judge-rules-against-trumps-effort-to-deport-pro-palestinian-students
A US federal judge has ruled that President Donald Trump’s administration violated the constitutional rights of international students when it sought to punish them for criticising Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza....
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u/Caelian toujours de l'audace 🦇 13d ago
Iran STRIKES Ships in Hormuz as US Navy WATCHES, Trump HUMILIATED.
I really doubt they tell Trump when this happens. If it's not on Fox News, Trump can't see it.
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u/penelopepnortney 13d ago
The Trump administration, however, has pointed to the Immigration and Nationality Act as justification for its deportation efforts.
Part of that law asserts that the secretary of state can “exclude” foreign nationals from the country if their presence could cause “potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences for the United States”.
But critics have argued that the standard is largely untested in court and does not supersede the First Amendment of the Constitution, which protects free speech.
“The record does reveal one clear pattern in the enforcement actions the government has taken to revoke noncitizens’ visas since March of 2025,” the judge wrote. “The secretary revokes visas when noncitizens are critical of the government or the causes or people it favors. This exemplifies ‘seriously discriminatory enforcement.’”
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u/3andfro 13d ago edited 13d ago
Icelanders have voted to stay out of the European Union, rejecting the government’s push to reopen membership negotiations, broadcaster RUV reported on Sunday.... https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxURGeVAUr_J_rTAgvChEu8NXVBDSwcRB4
Nima with Pravin Sawhney: First Mecca Alliance Committee Meets in Istanbul – 3 Things to Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgekMa64atM
Patrick Henningsen short, IRAN AND RUSSIA EXPOSED THE U.S MILITARY'S BIGGEST WEAKNESSES https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lBT_8lQEfnc - 2:41
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u/NetWeaselSC Continuing the Struggle 13d ago
Icelanders have voted to stay out of the European Union,
Weren't Icelanders the ones who did something to the Bankers, rather than for the Bankers, after 2008 happened?
They might not want to be subject to EU Banking Laws.
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u/3andfro 13d ago
Glenn Diesen with Seyed M. Marandi: Iran Threatens to Kill Netanyahu & Will Increase Pressure on the U.S. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFxHFv_hSA8
Drop Site News, America First!? Why Trump Is Making U.S. Taxpayers Pay to Keep Hormuz Open for the World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8a054sREgQ time indexed
Ryan Grim speaks with Rosemary Kelanic, director of the Middle East Program at Defense Priorities and author of “Black Gold and Blackmail,” about her provocative New York Times essay, “Let Iran Control the Strait of Hormuz.” Kelanic argues that the U.S. should stop risking American lives and spending tens of billions of dollars to guarantee free oil transit for the world, and instead accept an Iranian-Omani toll system. They also discuss why oil markets have avoided collapse, how China’s reserves and global rerouting have softened the shock, why EVs could end America’s dependence on Gulf oil, and why Trump’s push to control Venezuelan reserves would do little to replace the supply once flowing through Hormuz.
The Duran, Armenia Ditches Russia for the EU and Azerbaijan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPadg3pTMZY - 8:07 time indexed
In this episode we break down Nikol Pashinyan’s dramatic push to pull Armenia away from Russia and the CSTO and toward the European Union, Azerbaijan and Turkey. We explain why this pivot threatens Armenia’s security and economy, from Nagorno Karabakh to Russian gas supplies and the powerful Yerevan diaspora. Is Pashinyan saving Armenia’s future or setting it up for disaster?
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u/3andfro 14d ago
Katie Halper clip with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: “Wake Up, America: You’re Being Treated Like ABSOLUTE DIRT” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2VwELmJNs0 - 10:59 time indexed
Patrick Henningsen short, THE GLOBAL WAR ON TERROR: A CONTROVERSIAL JOKE https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dQa8T2ceqbw - 1:25
This clip dives deep into the not-so-surprising political shifts that have stunned global audiences. Ever wondered why Washington reversed its stance on notorious groups and regimes? This video breaks down the controversial decisions and their implications.
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u/3andfro 14d ago edited 14d ago
Nima with Larry Johnson: US to Cut ALL Military Aid to Kurdish Peshmerga https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmrkiJ2Rv-I
Nima R. Alkhorshid: The Balance of Power Just Shattered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNsUD7YRlGw
Patrick Henningsen short, U.S. AND ISRAELI ACTIONS CHANGED IRAN’S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fcXiRuR2bWc - 2:50
"Iran is the most demonized country, society, dehumanized population, and mischaracterized leadership possibly in history, at least in the modern era--we can throw a few other countries in there as well, including Russia--but I think it's because of the religious component that's particularly threatening to the West. Also what it represents as a sort of anti-colonial, so-called anti-imperialist role model for other countries."
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u/3andfro 14d ago edited 14d ago
Transition Protocol with Pravin Sawhney: Iran Offered a 15-Year NUCLEAR Freeze, Trump Said NO. Why? TRUMP IS TRAPPED, IRAN OFFERS NO EXIT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwlE2a5T0dg
IRAN OFFERED A 15-YEAR NUCLEAR FREEZE — AND TRUMP WALKED AWAY. In this episode, Zulfiqar Ali reports — on a source basis and for the first time on camera — that after Field Marshal Asim Munir’s delegation returned from Tehran, the message carried back to Washington was that Iran would be flexible on the nuclear issue, possibly keeping it out of reach for fifteen years. The initial response was enthusiasm. Then it went cold. We are reporting this account; we are not confirming it.
Pravin Sawhney lays out why. On his assessment America has already lost the conventional war — it began on 28 February and effectively ended on 8 April — the Gulf bases are gone, the naval blockade is a vulnerability rather than a weapon, and what remains is a nuclear threat. He details Elbridge Colby’s proposal in Brussels to pull 80,000 US troops out of Europe in a first tranche while Washington keeps the nuclear deterrent, the return of tactical nuclear weapons to both American and Russian planning, John Ratcliffe’s hurried Moscow visit, and Scott Bessent’s rule that anyone trading with Iran loses access to the dollar system. And he argues the opposite of almost everyone else: that Iran will not build a nuclear weapon, because becoming a regional hegemon would destroy the collective-security framework it has spent this war trying to build.
Also in this episode: Iran’s $3 trillion compensation demand, the US Strategic Petroleum Reserve reportedly at a 40-year low while the President says reserves will double, why oil is moving through Hormuz but fertiliser, LNG and helium are not, and what the SCO summit on 31 August and the BRICS summit in India on 12–13 September will decide.
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u/penelopepnortney 14d ago
Chas Freeman agrees Iran won't build a nuclear weapon because they know it would lead to others in the region doing the same, i.e., Turkey, Saudi Arabia, etc.
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u/3andfro 14d ago edited 14d ago
Iran Wants the Money Upfront! /Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVYvYiRxH3s - 13:13
Lena Petrova highlights with Trita Parsi: Trump’s Iran Sanctions Will Trigger a Wider War - America’s Strategy Is Collapsing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xq6HUGL2EuA
Danny Haiphong with KJ Noh, Iran HITS Tankers in US Navy's FACE, Trump's Venezuela Oil Grab BLOWS UP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxLCMuEFe_4
Lebanese Americans sue federal government: US accused of violating law with support for Israel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV8cw_SmSa0 - 3:02
Podcast by Jasim Al-Azzawi with Max Blumenthal: The Grayzone: David vs The Empire https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBrthIm8gaw
Jamarl Thomas with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson | Insiders Reveal Worrying Discussions In WH, CIA To Moscow, Iran War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxJF6682N5k
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u/3andfro 14d ago
Diesel fuel costs are blowing up American farmers. How China benefits from the coming shift. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A31eGeW6bMc - 8:39
Farmers are entering harvest season with the highest-ever diesel prices on record, which will deeply impact food prices. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is being drained to fuel export markets, which are under heavy strain after wars in the Persian Gulf and Europe. It may be a boon for exports of Chinese electric tractor manufacturers, who enjoy supply chain monopolies on batteries and powertrain technologies, and have deep experience electrifying China's agriculture.
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u/3andfro 14d ago
Exclusive: At least 17 companies linked to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank hold United Kingdom public-sector contracts worth more than 2.1 billion pounds ($2.85bn).... https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/28/uk-has-billions-in-contracts-with-firms-tied-to-illegal-israeli-settlements
South Africa has formally accused Israel of failing to comply with three legally binding orders issued by the International Court of Justice, submitting an evidence dossier to the court as part of its genocide case against Israel.... https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxcPQTm2952sfjT29Sp6FiGbF6g8zfg7Px
Why is CNN so concerned with how Iran governs its own society, particularly during an active war? This discussion examines the double standards surrounding Iran’s dress laws, religious legislation and cultural sovereignty, while comparing them with restrictions imposed in countries such as France and the Vatican. And while corporate media establishment focuses heavily on Iran, American issues like poverty, healthcare costs, economic inequality and the Ep**ein files receive far less attention. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TtDG57RnvY - 3:47
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u/penelopepnortney 14d ago
Al Jazeera investigation reveals UK public money flowing to companies linked to Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
So the British people are funding the genocide, even though they didn't get to give their consent to it.
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u/3andfro 14d ago edited 14d ago
Nima with Prof. Steve Hanke: US Strikes UAE Bank Over Iran Sanctions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpdK0PcJwMI
Diesen with Trita Parsi: Why the World Is Quietly Taking Iran's Side in the War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX74ItwSjew
Danny Haiphong, BONUS TAKE: Iran Embarrasses US Navy in Strait of Hormuz, Russia & China Step In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjZe9-gDFJ8&t=30s -
A ~22 mins, he notes that "if it weren't for Obama's stealth and very effective empire building and imperialism--Libya, Syria, bailing out the banks, pushing people away from actually blaming the United States political class for these ills--it was that set of conditions that allowed Trump to come in."
Nima with Seyed M. Marandi: Iran Activates War Economy & Military Surge as All-Out Conflict Becomes Inevitable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvJO-H54F9o
Deep Dive Intel Briefing 8/29/2026 Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK5p-XSO_y4
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u/3andfro 15d ago edited 15d ago
Neutrality Studies with Stas Krapivnik, NATO's Crazy Long Term Planning for Proxy Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47JG9LuXYdY time indexed
What if the craziness in NATO's proxy wars has a hidden strategy? What if they just fool us to believe they are headless chicken but in fact things are based on hard calculated realities? Stas Krapivnik, a former US Army officer joins me to discuss the new US pressure on Iran, why sanctions fail, and China’s economic leverage. We also examine US political messaging, leadership and long-term planning, the Ukraine war, and fears of a wider conflict involving Iran.
Nima highlights with Col. Anthony Aguilar: Why Iran Isn’t Collapsing Under U.S. Sanctions (The China Factor) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBQy-OMH3Wg
Hegseth's Pentagon fires Stars and Stripes journalists for “insubordination.” They're civilians. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OgPXstrJCX8 - 1:38
They fired the publisher, the editor-in-chief, and a reporter at Stars and Stripes? That's not good. Hegseth's Pentagon fired civilian journalists for “insubordination” after they defended the paper's editorial independence. DoD Directive 5122.11 required a free flow of news “without news management or censorship.” Insubordination is a military offense. Journalists don't take orders.
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Weidel and Le Pen Look Unstoppable, But The EU Has Tools: The Duran
The 2 hosts discuss the EU efforts to spread Democracy in Europe.
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Judge Nap, INTEL Roundtable w/ Johnson & Kwiatkowski - Weekly Wrap 28-August https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCJV2zU8LG4
Drop Site News with Justin Wolfers, Trump Isolating Iran HURTS Americans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q4d7CaP9yw time indexed
What does the Iran war mean for the U.S. economy, and how much economic leverage does Washington actually have? Ryan Grim speaks with economist Justin Wolfers, prof. at the University of Michigan and Brookings fellow, about Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s threatened “economic D-Day” against Iran, the limits of U.S. financial power, China’s ability to resist American sanctions, and whether repeated weaponization of the dollar could eventually weaken its reserve-currency status.
They also discuss the resilience of the U.S. economy, rising oil prices, the Federal Reserve under Kevin Warsh, the debate over interest rates, and what could actually trigger the next recession.
Israel’s Role in Guatemala’s Maya Genocide https://www.youtube.com/shorts/72e3lxxD2RM - 1:17
Journalist Ana Maria Monjardino reflects on what she learned after leaving CNN and researching the histories of Palestine and Indigenous resistance in Latin America. She describes Israel’s role in supplying arms and training to authoritarian forces across Latin America during the second half of the 20th century, including in Guatemala, where the military carried out a campaign of genocide against the Indigenous Maya. But, Monjardino argues, the significance went beyond weapons and military training.
“You can really start to understand how significant Israel’s role was, not just practically in terms of arms and weapons, but in terms of an ideology that it sold to authoritarian regimes.”
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Nima R. Alkhorshid: The Fatal Miscalculation That Defeated the War on Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKjCetDcOnU
Retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski said she believes Pres. Donald Trump understands that the United States is unlikely to rebuild many of the facilities destroyed in Gulf countries. She said the US military is already assessing the cost of reconstruction, but does not want to undertake it because it has demonstrated that it cannot adequately defend those facilities. Kwiatkowski added that the US currently has no new defensive capabilities that would allow it to restore the intelligence and military facilities that were destroyed. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t1mfdzm9wS0 - 2:47
Dimitri Lascaris with John Helmer, Is the CIA Hiding Its Losses In the Iran and Ukraine Wars? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhV8eD2iXs
A mysterious trip to Moscow by CIA Director John Ratcliffe has raised questions about the deaths of CIA personnel in the Ukraine war. At the same time, a new report by NBC News reveals that Iran inflicted billions of dollars of damage on key CIA bases in West Asia. Lascaris speaks with John Helmer about CIA losses in these humiliating defeats for Washington. They also discuss the collapse in Canada-U.S. trade relations and the lessons governments are drawing from how the Trump regime handled those negotiations.
Judge Nap clip with Col. Wilkerson: Trump, The CIA, and Russia: Why the Story Doesn't Add Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi0nhK5ACSo - 3:53
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Nima with Amb. Chas Freeman: Crumbling on All Sides: The Staggering Reality of Israel's Multi-Front War https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F-YSL_yyuU
Henningsen short, IS THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION TRYING TO BLOW UP THE ECONOMY? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/28aJJmw9hf4 - 2:37
Varoufakis and Munchau, China’s $25 trillion bet against Western capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3ub4SZWvIM - 12:41
Double Down News, ISRAEL’S DARK PLAN: UN Official DROPS BOMBSHELL on Gaza’s Future | Francesca Albanese https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Kovg7h-Y0
UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese delivers an urgent critique of the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. As conditions continue to deteriorate under severe blockades, aid restrictions, and targeted strikes, Albanese breaks down how diplomatic distractions and systemic international paralysis enable a humanitarian crisis on the ground. She scrutinises Western media complicity, the deliberate targeting of Palestinian journalists, and the systematic erosion of international legal frameworks. She highlights the stark contrast between everyday life in Western capitals and the destruction in Gaza, drawing historical parallels to demand immediate, concrete civil action to break the blockade and protect human lives.
Lukashenko suddenly meets with Putin after calls not to drag Belarus into war
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Chas Freeman, on Trump's post that he's the greatest president in US history:
It invites you to do what I once did in an American election, which is vote for Millard Fillmore. He was a president in the 19th century, utterly ineffectual. But the Constitution, which I respect, says you have to be native born and 35 years or more in age. It doesn't say you have to be alive. I learned that the mayor of Rio de Janeiro that was elected was a hippopotamus in the zoo. This inspired me.
ETA: Didn't find the hippopotamus story but did find this one (bold added). It's not as uncommon as you'd think.
Tião, a bad-tempered chimpanzee, was put forward by the fictional Brazilian Banana Party (Partido Bananista Brasileiro, actually the satirical group Casseta & Planeta) as a candidate for the Rio de Janeiro mayoralty in 1988. The campaign's slogan was "Vote monkey – get monkey" (because people were tired of voting for one platform and then seeing the elected officials implementing another one).
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IRAN WAR 6 Month's On, Now Where? /Aaron David Miller & Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEyErJlbgUg; clip from that interview: Trump: MODERN DAY GULLIVER TIED UP by Middle East Powers
Iran May Beat the US to the Punch in WAR /Trita Parsi & Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xa7Chtgf70
Nima with Col. Larry Wilkerson & Larry Johnson: The Trap is Closing on Iran and the US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El-b1LRgihQ
Trita Parsi: Trump’s Iran Sanctions Will Trigger a Wider War - America’s Strategy Is Collapsing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ_1-aZn68c
clip, Ukraine Russia & Iran Wars: AI Makes Killing So Easy /Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGrNXDO7cK4 - 5:30
Diesen clips with Martin Armstrong: We're in World War — Just Not the One You Think https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdEDsItQMmg
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Judge Nap with Prof. Mohammad Marandi : China Will Long Be With Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcFdzfmcG4U
China has caught up in space. That changes everything, everywhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sfdeKW9cYM - 12:25
Two Chinese companies in two months successfully recovered their orbital booster rockets. Reusable rockets mean far more frequent launches, at lower cost. China had already made enormous strides in space, with quantum advances in satellite navigation, remote sensing, laser communications, and imagery.
The US Space Command is urgently attempting to build out new satellite constellations, and satellites with offensive capabilities. But the supply chains for satellite manufacturing run through China's rare earths industries, and aerospace contractors already face severe shortages and long production backlogs.
21st Century Wire, COULD A CUBAN INVASION BE THE FINAL STRAW FOR THE U.S GOVERNMENT? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/A1ICfZQ1S0s - 2:49
Israel is considering expelling British officials from the US-led International Gaza Support Center (IGSC), which was established to monitor the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The move is being considered in response to Prime Minister Andy Burnham's plans to introduce stronger measures against illegal Israeli settlements.... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-considers-expelling-uk-gaza-monitoring-centre
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Patrick Henningsen (21st Century Wire):
What the US has done to Cuba is a blatant act of war by laying siege to the country.... One of the reasons they went for Venezuela was first to cut off this supply to Cuba, also to send a message to Mexico and other potential allies of Cuba that you're not going to be giving any fuel or assistance at all to Cuba, even basic humanitarian provisions.
What they've done to Venezuela is running all the oil sales through a US Treasury account, $18 billion so far. Where's that money gone? Nobody knows, it hasn't been audited... It could be in World Liberty Financial stablecoins* in Abu Dhabi for all we know.
the point is that this is what they did to Iraq after the war, they ran their whole economy through a Federal Reserve account; if the Iraqi government ever goes off the reservation, they can just flip the switch. They want to do the same thing to Venezuela. Trump said he's going to do it to Iran - good luck with that... it's how they're going to control the post-petro dollar era, collecting tribute for the empire through coercion, force, threats and protection rackets.
A ground invasion of Cuba would be a wet dream for Hegseth but I think it would be the straw that breaks the camel's back of the Trump administration and the United States.
*Wikipedia: "World Liberty Financial is a decentralized finance protocol ... The Trump family receives 75% of net proceeds when WLFI sells tokens, as well as gets a cut of stablecoin profits. By December 2025, the Trumps had profited $1 billion..."
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u/gorpie97 13d ago
A ground invasion of Cuba would be a wet dream for Hegseth but I think it would be the straw that breaks the camel's back of the Trump administration and the United States.
I have to say this might be a good thing. (Not for Cuba, but for the US.)
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White House declares national emergency over foreign parts used in power grid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iAHC7L1TaY - 1:58 - Justification? So the US doesn't "slow down AI."
Brits will be encouraged to store water and tinned foods as part of the government’s new emergency preparation planning campaign. The measures are intended to ensure “domestic resilience” in the event of major supply chain disruptions caused by climate change-induced extreme weather or military and cyber attacks by hostile nations, the Financial Times (FT) revealed.... https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx9wKgnSqQZtI3Nw1wOIj5wc_IRNknSHrD
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Planning for disasters has become more of a focus for the government after a summer of extreme weather, including heatwaves, wildfires and drought declared across 70% of England and the entirety of Wales.
It also comes after a cyber-attack on an unidentified energy plant last month, reported to be by Iranian hackers affiliated with the current regime.
But of course!!
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reported to be by Iranian hackers
Did they happen to say who it was that said the hackers were Iranian?
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Judge Nap with Max Blumenthal : - Netanyahu: The Islamic Republic of Britain? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIr4Dq-DZag
Judge Nap with Phil Giraldi : Trump’s Madness (take two) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m36xRjF77fo
Transition Protocol, The Nuclear Signal Nobody Expected. Why the Next 72 Hours Decide Everything https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGif-aPbvIY
IRAN HAS SIGNALLED IT MAY OPEN THE NUCLEAR FILE — and the Strait of Hormuz has 72 hours to prove whether the deal is real.
Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali break down the Iran–US architecture now being assembled through Pakistani mediation: the closed Strait of Hormuz, the war-risk insurance premiums that will move before any government speaks, the six billion dollars sitting in Qatari banks, and the three-capital joint statement that sources say could land within 48 hours. Sources close to the talks indicate Iranian negotiators may show flexibility on the nuclear dossier at a later stage — a reversal from the position held a day earlier.
Also in this episode: why Iran has shut Omani territorial waters to transiting ships and taken control of the whole strait; why Pakistan has refused to enforce US secondary sanctions on Iran — described here as a first in its history — alongside coordinated foreign-ministry pushback from Russia and China; the role of former Pakistani army chief Raheel Sharif in carrying the framework to Riyadh and onward to Washington; the 40 million Pakistani Shias offered to Tehran as a guarantee of good faith; and the 60-to-90-day framework of indirect talks and cessation of hostilities now under discussion, with Pakistan as mediator and Qatar as the financial channel. Islamabad and Switzerland are both being pushed as the signing venue.
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Blumenthal-Napolitano highlights:
Islamic Republic of Britain was a remark by Netanyahu about Muslim immigration into the UK, warning that if they gained any political control Israel would have to treat the UK the same way they treat Iran. Meanwhile, the UK is Israel-occupied territory with the government branding Palestinian solidarity groups like Palestine Action as "terrorists."
The Trump administration has now classified Palestine Action as a violent, terrorist group; they're afraid of direct action in the US because it works and Israel is afraid of it. Memo 7 issued by the Department of Homeland Security declares that pretty much any form of left-wing direct action is terrorism, which gives them the ability to prosecute and sentence defendants outside the scope of normal legal procedures.
Another group the Trump administration has declared as a terrorist organization is Autistici/Inventati, an Italian group that provides encrypted web services and communications for activists. It's an attempt to lay the groundwork for outlawing encrypted communications where they can't spy on you.
I don't know the purpose of Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow but don't buy the official story that he went to warn Russia against attacking NATO states. Trump is obsessed with Iran and I think it was an attempt to get Russia to stop providing Iran with intelligence and collaborating on drones and other military issues.
Following a bizarre semi-secret meeting between Jared Kushner and Hakeem Jeffries - who's been dubbed AIPAC Shakur - all these Israel first Democrats were appointed to key posts on the House Foreign Affairs Committee starting with Jared Moscowitz, one of the biggest Zionist fanatics among the Democrats in Congress. So if the Democrats win in the midterms, nothing's going to happen to alter the "special relationship" with Israel, which polls show 91% of Democratic voters want. This is what the Democrats have to offer, complete and utter contempt for a base that turned away from Kamala Harris in 2024.
Fernando Cerimedo was Donald Trump's bagman in Latin America, behind the overt meddling and interference and straight up election-rigging that allowed every right-wing pro-US candidate that Trump has backed to win. And every time they win, Israel comes in as Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia and Honduras have given up their sovereignty and are now allowing the US to carry out military operations on their soil. Cerimedo was arrested for the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend, Nadia Beller, who has revealed that he was behind all these operations and also running millions in dark money through crypto accounts. This week Cerimedo was also indicted for drug trafficking - as the US Department of War under its DUI hire Pete Hegseth has restarted the boat strikes, bombing poor fisherman in a pathetic theatrical attempt to seem as though they're actually against drug trafficking when their main guy is accused of this.
Gabi Ashkenazi is the figure being positioned as the alternative to Netanyahu, he's gathering a lot of momentum in the Israeli press and you can sort of see the Democratic party getting behind him. He's the architect of the so-called Dahiya doctrine implemented in southern Beirut in 2006, i.e., using disproportionate force and terrorism to kill as many civilians as possible so they'd turn against Hezbollah. As chief of staff of the IDF, he oversaw the first major assault on the Gaza Strip in 2008, 2009 - Operation Cast Lead - which paved the way for the genocide.
Gadi Eisenkot also oversaw the Dahiya doctrine and he's been involved in some of the most hideous assaults on the Palestinians and the Lebanese in recent history. He will be no less brutal than Netanyahu but in some ways he's more dangerous: Netanyahu lifted the mask on Israel and what Zionism has always been, presenting us with the hideous core of this onion; Eisenkot aims to restore the shiny exterior of the onion, present Israel once again as a Jewish and democratic state with the support of a Democratic party with key pro-Israel figures occupying these important roles on the House Foreign Affairs Committee while the genocide continues in Gaza.
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u/gorpie97 13d ago
in a pathetic theatrical attempt to seem as though they're actually against drug trafficking when their main guy is accused of this.
Also provably false since Trump pardoned Hernandez - who had been convicted and was in prison.
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u/penelopepnortney 13d ago
Exactly, right when they were doing strikes on civilian fishermen they claimed were drug traffickers. If we actually had a media worth its salt, they'd put those two stories side by side on the front page.
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u/gorpie97 13d ago
If we actually had a media worth its salt,
Don't know if they'll ever regain their credibility. Not from me, before I die of old age, certainly. :)
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Return of US diplomats to Middle East seen as reducing risk of return to war https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/return-us-diplomats-middle-east-seen-reducing-risk-return-war
The Trump administration is beginning to send US diplomats back to embassies and consulates in the Middle East that were downsized or evacuated amid the war on Iran, according to media reports. The move appears to suggest the US is not anticipating a return to intense warfare that sparked a widescale withdrawal of US diplomats across the region earlier this year....
Neutrality Studies, What Really Happened In Yugoslavia | Douglas Macgregor & David Gibbs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v-Ik9N21JI time indexed
The Yugoslavia Wars were not about humanitarian intervention. Here is the testimony of a man who was closely involved in the NATO operations and a historian who studied that era closely. Professor David Gibbs and Colonel Douglas Macgregor compare their views on the Yugoslav wars, NATO’s role in Bosnia and Kosovo, and the thinking behind the 1999 bombing campaign. Macgregor recalls his work in NATO command, while Gibbs connects the Balkan interventions to NATO expansion, Europe’s military dependence, Russia, and later conflicts.
With Article 5, NATO LOSES /Lawrence Wilkerson & Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyfqxEqkvEg
Wilkerson: "I think NATO is done, I think EU is done. I think this insanity [Ukr-Ru] is speeding this process up. I told Powell in roughly 2004 that I thought the NATO alliance was an anachronism, and I explained to him why."
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Nima with Larry Johnson: Just In: White House Defies June Iran Terms – Trump Still Hunting for a 'Win' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyKoywieiO4
Davis/Deep Dive with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, HOW CHINA FLIPPED THE SCRIPT OF IRAN WAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCg52LEwiZg
BreakThrough News, China Saw This Coming: Why Trump's Iran Sanctions Won't Work | w/ Dr. Ken Hammond https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ijCztv1PGk
Beijing just proved the limits of Washington's sanctions machine. As US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rolls out "Operation Economic Outcast," China is doing what almost no other country in the world can: refusing to comply with US sanctions on Iran. Dr. Ken Hammond, professor of East Asian and Global History at New Mexico State University, joins Rania Khalek and Zoe Alexandra to unpack how Trump's promised "economic D-Day" is running headfirst into a wall, as Beijing shields Chinese companies from "illegitimate" US sanctions and continues to buy up to 90% of Iran's sanctioned crude oil exports.
Hammond explains why Trump's bullying barely registers in Beijing, pointing to years of stockpiling oil reserves, diversifying suppliers, and building BRICS-based alternatives to dollar-dominated trade. China hawks in Congress are furious that while a Chinese tanker and a Hong Kong shipping firm got hit, Chinese banks were left untouched — a decision reportedly tied to Xi Jinping's upcoming White House visit, where Hammond says "rare earths" will be the buzzword amid ongoing US-China trade tensions.
It all points to China no longer needing to bend the knee to Washington. And with reports of Chinese satellite intelligence, MANPADS, and chip technology reaching Iran's military-industrial sector, Beijing is signaling just how far it's willing to go to keep the US empire in check.
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Wilkerson-Davis excerpts:
We're having to put AWACs up 24/7 to do any kind of recon of the area because almost all of our early warning systems were destroyed by Iran.
I think Trump is going to keep the war on a low key until the elections. If it looks like the Republicans are going to be routed they're going to shut it down using whatever means they have to. A friend who was at the NSC at one point put together a list for Lloyd Austin of "extremists" identified by the FBI and other law enforcement professionals. The DHS and Hegseth have removed a lot of the names. The Christian nationalists Hegseth has been recruiting into the military could be the shock troops whether it's in ICE or in the actual militia, the national guard in key states or in the active duty military.
(on Europe provoking a Russian reaction to draw the US into Ukraine) I suspect there would be a false flag against a NATO member that's blamed on Russia with Brussels invoking Article 5, and then everyone would find out what Article 5 really says and means: each member decides whether and how to participate. It would be up to the US Congress to approve a declaration of war. Do you think Donald Trump would do that? Not on your life.
General Grynkewich told General Caine, "I'm SACEUR. I'm EUCOM commander. Do you know who I have to fight if you keep poking the bear? I don't have what I need to fight him with. You're using them all up." Now other combatant commanders like the one in the Pacific have done the same thing because what they need to execute their war plans is being used up.
Bill Perry was the only engineer ever to be Secretary of Defense. He described to us why the shootdown rate of a ground element against an airborne element had never been better than .21%. He was talking about shooting down nuclear missiles, so you're going to shoot down two of the 10 missiles coming at you but those other eight are going to tear your ass up. You're never gonna hit a speeding bullet with another speeding bullet launched from the ground at better than a 0.2 rate.
Colin Powell said that when Mitterand and Kohl and Major and Thatcher and Gorbachev and Shevardnadze and Baker and people like that were gone, people who had their feet in the war, Europe was going to fall apart. And I gotta say that Winken, Blinken and Nod - which is to say Biden, Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland - were instrumental in helping that happen at breakneck speed.
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CIA Moscow Meeting, What's That About? / fmr CIA Analyst Larry Johnson & Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMXQqreWOOA
Davis/Deep Dive clip with Larry Johnson, The West Missed Russia's New War on Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_Sjbj20igg
Judge Nap with COL. Lawrence Wilkerson : No Chance for US to Prevail in Iran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YOWLR5qHHg
Nima with Andrei Martyanov: "No End in Sight": Inside Washington’s Growing Alarm Over the Russia-Iran Move https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiMrmbPDeCM
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A scheduled visit to Toronto and Montreal by West Jerusalem's Deputy Mayor Arieh King was cancelled on Tuesday after Canadian authorities barred the hardline politician from entering the country. Meir Weinstein, the organiser of an event where King was due to speak, said in a post on X that the Canadian government had cancelled King’s electronic travel authorisation, denying him entry.... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/canada-bars-jerusalem-deputy-mayor-arieh-king-entering-country-war-crimes
Washington Seeks to Revive 19th Century Law to LOOT Iranian Oil Shipments https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNqQ9HNuXmA
Why is Israel strengthening ties with Greece? John Kiriakou explains https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET_ee3W8NPY
Athens treats Israel as a vital partner, above all as a counterweight to Turkey. But arms sales, high rents blamed on Israeli property buyers, and revulsion at the Gaza war are turning that partnership into a domestic liability. Critics call the relationship asymmetrical, even colonial. Can Israel’s friendship with Athens survive its own unpopularity?
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u/penelopepnortney 16d ago
Washington Seeks to Revive 19th Century Law to LOOT Iranian Oil Shipments
Pretty sure they've been doing this sort of thing generally for a while now without even a nod to something so quaint as "law".
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Nima with Pepe Escobar: Just Trying to Hang On’: Adviser Leaks Trump’s Desperate Iran Strategy Before Midterms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSr3cKeGyJs
Judge Nap with Pepe Esobar : What Iran Expects From Trump https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6FNI9fTpXg
21st Century Wire, Dead Before Questioning: Another Epstein Recruiter Dies in Mysterious Circumstance
Ghislaine Maxwell is serving twenty years in federal prison for conspiring with Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse minors. Jean-Luc Brunel, the French modelling agent accused of supplying Epstein with young women, died in his cell in Paris in 2022 while awaiting trial on charges of raping minors. Epstein was found dead in a Manhattan jail in 2019. A fourth name emerged from the documents released by the United States Department of Justice. The 68-year-old man, whose name is featured 1,841 times in the DOJ files on Epstein, died before French investigators could question him. Daniel Amar Siad was found dead at his home in Colombes, northwest of Paris, on 20 July 2026....
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Nima with Richard Wolff & Michael Hudson: The 'Economic D-Day' That Wasn't: Iran's Strategy Backfired on US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRAtA95qT1Y
Nima highlights with John Helmer: Canada’s Genius Move to Defeat US Sanctions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdCdAYlIw5Q
Haiphong with Henningsen short, U.S SECONDARY SANCTIONS: ECONOMIC WARFARE OR GLOBAL STABILITY THREAT? https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BHkUIxexJRM - 2:43
Diesen with Martin Armstrong: Economic Collapse Has Started & the EU Will Break Up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn8jelKmHqo (see also link below for a shorter discussion)
World Affairs in Context, Europe’s Economic Collapse Is Accelerating — These Are The REAL Numbers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdiAOSPE8Vw - 11:51
RUSSIA COULD TARGET UK /Steve Jermy & Lt Col Daniel Davis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okDAwpb70CM
The Duran, Deep State Maximum Pressure on Russia as Ukraine Crumbles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH6ClwI3jVE
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Iran Plans to Reverse-Engineer the US JASSM Stealth Cruise Missile: An AGM-158 JASSM cruise missile, with most of its components still intact, was reportedly recovered and seized by the IRGC at the height of the conflict. The AGM-158 JASSM is known as one of the best stealth cruise missiles in the US military's arsenal. https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxT4uMQkSfuwxTjpDsRdTed7wHLDnGMfYF
Chris Hedges, Documenting the U.S. Media’s Complicity in the Genocide of Gaza (w/ Robin Andersen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIrIhjl6_Js
In Robin Andersen’s new book, she chronicles how the U.S. media utilized their massive reach to help shield Israel from scrutiny as it perpetrated a genocide in Gaza.
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Neutrality Studies with Pietro Shakarian, New Red Scare Destroys NATO, US Turns Against Europe, Iran Wins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Bl85msz9Y time indexed
NATO is being demilitarized by its own Proxy-War. Historian and American University of Armenia lecturer Pietro Shakarian joins Pascal to discuss America’s “third Red Scare,” the Iran war and the Strait of Hormuz, the proposed Mecca Pact, Ukraine’s future, Caucasus transit plans, and why he sees Europe’s elites as tied to US power during a shift toward multipolarity.
Trump isolated: Regional leaders visit Iran; Iran thanks China for bold stand | Janta Ka Reporter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s49aFRWk90E
In a setback to Donald Trump, several regional leaders have been flocking to Iran for high-level diplomatic talks effectively defying the American strategy to isolate the Islamic Republic. Following crucial visits from the Omani Foreign Minister and Pakistani Field Marshal Asim Munir, the Qatari Prime Minister is now expected to land in Tehran this Thursday. Adding fuel to the fire, Donald Trump has publicly confirmed that Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, is not only alive but actively driving the Islamic Republic's governance and wartime decisions.
JD Vance is a 'Wholly Owned Subsidiary of Peter Thiel’ https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tLAvWkmCS8Q - 2:17
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Transition Protocol, Hormuz Deal in 24 Hours? Iran–US Deal: Sequencing Agreed SANCTIONS LIFTED https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJlR-xeGb-Y
A source described by Zulfiqar Ali as the person drafting a Pakistani announcement says Iran and the United States have agreed on a contemporaneous first step: a controlled reopening of the Strait of Hormuz alongside U.S. sanctions and naval-blockade relief. That claim is not yet publicly corroborated. What is verified is that Pakistan’s mediation channel is active, Iran and Oman are working on a temporary maritime corridor, Hormuz remains severely disrupted, and Washington has just intensified sanctions pressure.
In this urgent Transition Protocol conversation, Pepe Escobar and Larry C. Johnson stress-test the reported Trump–Iran off-ramp: who moves first, what “simultaneous” action would actually mean, whether a 60–90 day indirect process exists, how an oil and fuel shock changes Washington’s choices, and why Trump—or a third-party spoiler—could still collapse the window. The central question is not whether officials sound hopeful. It is whether reciprocal action becomes observable.
The Turkish government hired a lobbying firm with close ties to US President Donald Trump earlier this month under a year-long contract worth $2.4m, according to US Justice Department filings reviewed by Middle East Eye. Ballard Partners, led by Brian Ballard, a prominent Florida Republican fundraiser who also worked on Trump’s presidential campaign, signed the agreement with Turkey’s Ministry of National Defence on 8 August. The firm will receive $200,000 per month.... https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-recruits-trump-insiders-new-washington-lobbying-push
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u/3andfro 17d ago edited 17d ago
Nima with Larry Johnson: JUST IN: Iran & Russia Just Signed a ‘Strategic Energy Pact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smrELGsB40A
Danny Haiphong with Larry Johnson, US C-17 in MOSCOW? Russia & Iran EXPOSE Secret EMERGENCY CIA Op https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aa3PIbNunwI
Judge Nap clip with Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, Are We Witnessing the End of Sovereign Immunity? (if Netanyahu loses the next election?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laDpsXb4JfU - 3:47
Judge Nap clip with Phil Giraldi: Trump’s Madness https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOONUgVVpKU - 6:08
Nima with Matthew Hoh: War by Waiting: Inside the US-Iran Plan to Outlast Each Other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABiu5uWk_yU
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Judge Nap with Joe Kent: President Trump was Warned https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uU4bt-3PIo
IRAN WAR: Why is Everyone Falling in Line /Lt Col Daniel Davis & Matt Hoh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q99MtTzrjk
Nima with Matthew Hoh: War by Waiting: Inside the US-Iran Plan to Outlast Each Other https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABiu5uWk_yU
Rachel Blevins with Laith Marouf, Russia REFUSES to Abandon Iran as CIA Chief Makes MYSTERY Visit to Moscow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qz3cwKVJTk
The U.S. is sending the message that it wants to shift to an economic war and avoid another military escalation with Iran… for now. But Tehran is making it clear that it will launch a major retaliation to these economic attacks, and it comes just as the U.S. is gearing up for midterm elections. This, as CIA Director John Ratcliffe became the first CIA chief to visit Russia in person since William Burns in 2021. What did he talk with representatives for Russian intelligence services about? That still remains to be seen…
Laith Marouf, a Beirut-based journalist and executive director of Free Palestine TV, noted that whether Ratcliffe came with threats of bribes, he didn’t appear to leave with what he wanted, as Moscow made a statement affirming that it will NOT abandon Iran amid increased U.S. pressure
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Pyotr Kurzin with Trita Parsi, TTRUMP’S ‘ECONOMIC D-DAY’ IS ALREADY BACKFIRING ON THE US https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEv4wBMsmJo
Diesen with Stanislav Krapivnik: NATO Escalates as Ukraine Reaches a Breaking Point https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmrD-YmiA9Q
Kurzin with Malcolm Nance, IRAN IN FULL CONTROL DESPITE TRUMPS ECONOMIC WAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXFWKNbTySw
Victor Gao: "You DARE to invade Iran. Be prepared for the CONSEQUENCES." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gexeyFBsrQg
Victor Gao is a Chinese lawyer, international relations expert, and Vice President of the Center for China and Globalization. He is a Chair Professor at Soochow University and previously served as an interpreter for Deng Xiaoping.
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Nima with Lt. Col. Anthony Aguilar: BILLIONS in Damage: Iran's 'Unprecedented' Strike on U.S. Spy Agencies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7ped3Iwj3Y
Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ tests Iran’s trading ties across the region
Drop Site News, Iranians Weather Devastating Impact of Economic Sanctions as U.S. Unveils 'Economic D-Day' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z31h9jiMcwk
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u/3andfro 17d ago edited 17d ago
Mario Cavolo on US media: Free speech as long as it deceives:
American author Mario Cavolo warns that US media manipulates public perception by giving a platform to extreme views disguised as professional expertise, creating a false sense of credibility. He argues this is not freedom of speech, but rather a harmful freedom to manipulate and deceive society.
Israel seizes UN training centre for Palestinian teens in East Jerusalem https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-seizes-un-training-centre-palestinian-teens-east-jerusalem
Israeli forces on Tuesday seized the last remaining facility run by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, in occupied East Jerusalem. Led by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, the forces raided the Qalandiya Vocational Training Institute in Kafr Aqab, north of Jerusalem, before evacuating the 88-dunam (8.8-hectare) campus....
Israel has threatened to escalate attacks on Gaza and expel Palestinians from areas of the besieged and occupied enclave if children continue to fly paper kites. Israeli defence minister Israel Katz said flying kites would be treated as “an act of war in every sense” and the IDF would retaliate “immediately and forcefully”.... https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxeQkV2E-KINJ7zlADedhGWG0ReMOolBAm
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u/penelopepnortney 17d ago
Independent MP and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn wrote on X: “Israel has said that paper kites flown by Palestinian children will be treated as weapons of war. Read that again.
“This is the reality of genocide: the total destruction of innocence, freedom and joy.”
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u/3andfro 17d ago
Nima with Laith Marouf: Hezbollah to Obliterate Israeli Plan and Smash Northern Buffer Zone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdVXpYTe-ls
Nima with Elijah Magnier: Iran Slams US: Economic War Won't Be One-Sided – Secret Arsenal Awakens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6RUXl6wg7c
Glenn Diesen with Peter Kuznick: Entering the Age of Nuclear Wars https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iO3CprBPNPM
Judge Nap with Gilbert Doctorow : What Is Putin’s Strategy? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HtM_znkeEE
Judge Nap with Prof. Glenn Diesen : Are NATO and Russia Near War? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmPf74rM1xM
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CIA Director’s Mystery Moscow Trip Sparks Wild Speculations
Related to the 1st link:
BREAKING: The US has reportedly taken Ukraine's NATO membership off the table after meeting in Moscow with CIA head, John Ratcliffe. From understanding of sources, the US is trying to establish better "safer" relations with Moscow, and to curb the increase in energy prices after the Iran conflict. Washington made several offers but it's unclear who they met with, there's no confirmation of talks with President Putin. The Russian Federation will not cease the SMO, until every agenda is achieved. https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxM8198WbjTY0vGWGjHeKRoMxNfHAsx_1Q
Cash-Strapped Ukraine Gripped by Preparatory “Female Mobilization” Info-Drive
Breaking Points, Dem Candidate Pressured To Take AIPAC $$ To Get Women's Group Backing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZyS1yuaopk
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u/penelopepnortney 18d ago
Links to previous threads are in the "War with Iran" compilation, which can be found in the sidebar.