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Jeffrey Sachs & The Duran | Geopolitical Lies Fuel Financial Bubble | Sep. 1, 2026

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Jeffrey Sachs joins Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou on why the collapse of American and European hegemony is a crisis for the Western political class, not the world. Sachs on Scott Bessent’s economic D-Day, 1914 parallels, and why Iran, China and Russia are stronger than Western leaders admit.

Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro: Jeffrey Sachs joins The Duran
00:00:59 Alexander’s overview of crises in Ukraine, Iran, China and the economy
00:02:01 Sachs frames it as a crisis of Western hegemony, not the world
00:04:27 Why Europe’s behavior is even stranger than America’s
00:06:18 Multipolarity is good for living standards, not a disaster
00:08:34 Grandiosity, denial and the collapse of truthful government narratives
00:10:30 How the geopolitical bubble is fueling a financial bubble
00:12:22 The public already senses something is deeply wrong
00:14:46 Reading Foreign Affairs: the establishment’s five scenarios for world order
00:20:28 Scott Bessent’s economic D Day and the backlash it triggered
00:23:05 Alexander on Britain’s decline and the origins of World War One
00:27:48 Parallels and differences between 1914 and today
00:32:54 Why China is not the new Kaiser Wilhelm
00:36:22 Inside the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS
00:41:43 The truth about Iran’s civilization, resilience and economy
00:44:18 How the US weaponized the dollar, and why it is failing
00:48:01 Can the West face reality before the reckoning arrives
00:52:09 Why ordinary people, not elites, may be the last hope

Alex Christoforou | Odessa Fate Sealed. Russian First, Guided Weapons Hit Port | Sep. 1, 2026

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Alex Christoforou on Russian guided bombs hitting Odessa port for the first time, strikes on Kiev, the G20 finance meeting over Russia's return, and a hundred-year Venezuela oil deal.

Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro: Bessent on the collapsing Iranian regime
00:00:59 Massive Russian strikes hit Kiev and Odessa
00:02:34 Russia uses KAB guided bombs on Odessa port for the first time
00:04:24 Polish weapons facility fire blamed on foreign sabotage
00:07:40 G20 finance ministers meet in North Carolina, Russia attends
00:11:12 EU officials boycott the group photo over Russia's presence
00:13:17 Lindsey Graham's Russia sanctions bill stalls in Congress
00:14:39 Army Secretary Driscoll resigns amid Pentagon infighting
00:17:11 Putin's Kyrgyzstan summit with Xi, Erdogan and Modi
00:18:17 Witkoff and Kushner plan Kiev trip for a September ceasefire
00:21:05 EU pressures Greece and Spain to hand over Patriot missiles
00:23:16 Trump claims tankers are moving through the Strait of Hormuz
00:26:51 Venezuela oil deal details: US locks in a hundred year stake
00:32:00 Clown world: Merz booed, Starmer quits as MP, Kallas the bookworm

Rupert Sheldrake & Mark Vernon | The Souls of Plants | Sheldrake—Vernon Dialogue 103 | Sept. 1, 2026

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An ancient intuition is that plants have souls and even participate in the life of God by virtue of being alive. But what sense can be made of that today? 

In this episode of the Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues, Rupert Sheldrake and Mark Vernon consider the Neoplatonic understanding that all living creatures, and perhaps all self-organising things, have a soul as part of their existence. 

But what does this imply about plant perception, plant intelligence, and plant awareness? Why do plants so inspire artists, mystics, and scientists - as well as worldwide activities such as the cut flower industry? 

Rupert has spend decades both studying plants and profoundly enjoying their presence in his life. Mark feels the inspiration that plants offer the contemplative life. Considering the souls of plants is quite as generative of insights and questions as plants are themselves generative of beautiful forms of life. 

Einar Tangen | Russia, China, Iran & India Build a New World Order at the SCO Summit | Sept. 1, 2026

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Einar Tangen is a Senior Fellow at Teihe Institute and a Senior Fellow at CIGI. Tangen discusses the current SCO Summit in Kyrgyzstan where Putin, Xi, Modi, Pezeshkian, and other world leaders are meeting to reduce reliance on the US.

The Corbett Report | Philip K. Dick's The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch - Film, Literature and the New World Order | Sept. 1, 2026

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The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch is a particularly bizarre tale from that most imaginative of writers, Philip K. Dick. This month on Film, Literature and the New World Order, James discusses this groundbreaking work with Tim Lacy of ReportageBook.com. So, what do the exploits of Leo Bolero and Barney Mayerson have to do with anamnesis, the Platonic forms and Valentinian gnosis? Find out in this fascinating conversation!

Show Notes:
Philip K. Dick Theorizes The Matrix in 1977, Declares That We Live in “A Computer-Programmed Reality”
Postscript to The Name of the Rose
How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later
Philip K. Dick: A Documentary
90 Minutes With Philip K. Dick
Palmer Eldritch by Blu Simon
NEXT MONTH: The Conversation (1974) – dir. Francis Ford Coppola
NEXT NEXT MONTH: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Duran | Russian Strikes Are Breaking The Zelensky Regime | Aug. 31, 2026

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The Duran on a fourth straight day of Russian drone and missile strikes on Kiev, Ukraine's energy grid, CIA-linked drone strategy, and collapsing front lines near Sumy and Pokrovsk.

Timeline:
00:00:00 Four Days of Russian Strikes on Kiev
00:01:31 Drone Campaign Devastates and Exhausts Kiev
00:03:16 Ukraine Faces New Advanced Geran Drones
00:05:43 Kiev Economy Collapsing Empty Shelves
00:08:44 Putin Orders Massive Strikes on Energy Grid
00:11:02 Zelensky Cut Russian Gas Transit
00:12:09 Winter Catastrophe Looming Kherson Evacuated
00:14:24 Refugee Tensions Rise in Poland
00:17:04 Peskov Only Ukraine Capitulation Ends War
00:18:45 Ratcliffe and CIA Behind Zelensky Drone Plan
00:20:34 Europe Gas Storage Critically Low
00:27:48 Budanov Admits Massive Mobilization Losses
00:29:23 Ukraine Considers Conscripting Women
00:34:41 Why Sending Ratcliffe to Moscow Backfired
00:38:20 Front Lines Collapsing Around Sumy and Donbas

Richard Wolff | The US Empire is Over...It's China's Turn | Aug. 31, 2026

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Economist Professor Richard Wolff explains why he believes the American empire is in decline—and why China and Asia are shaping the future of the global economy. 

We discuss the history of U.S. colonialism, the failures of American capitalism, China’s hybrid economic model, the economic consequences of the Iran war, and the growing appeal of socialism in the United States. 

Professor Wolff also examines whether America and China can peacefully coexist, how the upcoming midterm elections could reshape American politics, and why both Republicans and Democrats may be unprepared for the dramatic changes ahead.


Timeline:
00:00 - Intro to Professor Richard Wolff
00:30 - Can the United States Empire Survive?
01:59 - Why the US Empire Will Collapse
02:57 - The History of the US Colonialism
07:05 - The United States's Biggest Mistake
08:28 - Why China and Asia is the Future
09:18 - Can the US and China Work Together?
10:25 - What is China Doing Better Than the US?
11:55 - How the US Lost China
12:45 - The Problem with US Capitalism
16:00 - Why the Chinese Hybrid Economy Will Win
17:55 - Why the Chinese Economy Outperforms the US
19:45 - How China Rose from Poverty
21:35 - How China Outperformed Every Other Country
23:15 - Is the Chinese Economy Slowing Down?
24:30 - Will the Iran War Dethrone the United States?
25:33 - How the US Lost in Vietnam and Afghanistan
26:45 - Why the Iran War is Different
27:45 - How Socialism is Growing in America
31:04 - How Will the Midterms Change America?
34:05 - Why the Republicans and Democrats Are in Trouble
36:50 - Why the Future Will Be Very Different
38:57 - Final Thoughts

Vijay Prashad | Iran's Offer to Trump: An Exit, Not a Win. The Hormuz Deal Is Almost Signed. Trump Is Cornered | Aug. 30, 2026

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Vijay Prashad and Zulfiqar Ali on Transition Protocol: Iran has put a 15-year freeze on its nuclear file — the concession Washington spent six months demanding — and sources inside the negotiation say Donald Trump will not take it, because accepting it would not make him the winner. Prashad reads what Oman’s Foreign Ministry has published about a temporary corridor through the Strait of Hormuz, why the nuclear file is now dormant, and a month-by-month map of how this war ends before the November 4 midterms.

They also cover the Oman–Iran corridor talks and Article 5 of the Islamabad Memorandum; UN Law of the Sea rules on the Strait of Hormuz; a tolls and surveillance regime under discussion; Pakistan’s shuttle diplomacy; why Israel has been shut out of the Iran file; and the scenario that blows it up — a sudden Israeli strike.

Rick Strassman | #1 DMT Scientist: Banned Research, Biblical Prophecy & the CIA | Aug. 30, 2026

Source: Amrit Sandhu youtube



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Dr. Rick Strassman, pioneer of clinical DMT research, talks with Amrit Sandhu about naturally occurring DMT in the human brain, banned research, biblical prophecy, and the CIA.

He explains how endogenous DMT may mediate near-death experiences and mystical visions, cautions against psychedelic commercialization, and traces a path from Zen Buddhism to ancient Hebrew scholarship — including the pineal gland, fetal development, and divine shefa.

Seyed M. Marandi | Iran Threatens to Kill Netanyahu & Will Increase Pressure on the U.S. | Aug. 30, 2026

Source: Glenn Diesen youtube



Description: 
Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi of Tehran University, a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team, talks with Glenn Diesen about Iran's threat to send Netanyahu to "hell" and rising pressure on the U.S. after economic warfare against Iran.

Krapivnik & Diesen | Europe at a Dangerous Crossroads: Risks of Conflict with Russia | Aug. 30, 2026

Source: Stanislav Krapivnik youtube, Glenn Diesen youtube



Description: 
Stanislav Krapivnik with Glenn Diesen on Europe at a dangerous crossroads and the risks of conflict with Russia — Ukrainian losses around Kramatorsk, Storm Shadow, NATO deep strikes, and women's mobilization.

Krapivnik is a former U.S. Army officer from Donbas who moved from the US to Russia 15 years ago.

Timeline:
00:00:00 Ukraine loses ground after counterattacks
00:03:50 Russian breakthrough threatens Kramatorsk logistics
00:07:06 Foreign fighters join Ukrainian assault brigades
00:10:25 Britain raises stakes over Storm Shadow
00:14:07 Moscow weighs prospects for new negotiations
00:17:44 NATO discusses deep strikes into Russia
00:21:17 Women's mobilization moves to the forefront
00:24:23 Ukraine expands mobilization pool with women
00:27:24 Female conscription sparks debate in the West
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