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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu this week used the seat of world diplomacy -- established to pursue peace -- to spread their vile supremacist ideologies.
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Iran is prepared to take the war beyond the Strait of Hormuz and into the Indian Ocean if nothing moves this week — that is what Pepe Escobar’s contacts and three separate decision-level sources in Tehran are telling Transition Protocol. Here is the way out Washington did not take, the deadlines that start the clock, and who will and will not fight.
In the first edition of THE WEEK AHEAD, Pepe Escobar — speaking from Bangkok at 1 a.m. Monday — joins host Zulfiqar Ali to map the seven days that could decide the Iran war.
— Xi’s off-ramp: according to Escobar, Xi Jinping told Trump face to face to go back to the memorandum both sides signed. Chinese state media reported Xi backed a return to the June 17 Islamabad memorandum.
— The clock: Mohsen Rezaei’s four-to-five-day window runs out Monday 28 September; Wednesday 30 September is a second deadline, as Escobar describes it.
— Hormuz on Iran’s terms: pay the fee, get IRGC Navy clearance — or be attacked.
— Yemen: the Saudi strike on a market in Taiz, and what comes next.
— Pakistan’s answer: will Islamabad join a Saudi–Pakistani–Turkish campaign against Yemen? The host’s sources say no. On Tuesday he brings the answer from a decision-maker.
Iran's missile blitz overnight in the Strait of Hormuz represented the largest in months as the pressure is on Trump to settle on a deal he's rejected or return to full war. Prof. Mohammad Marandi discusses the breaking developments as war escalates.
Episode 2190. Germany's foreign minister Johann Wadephul just sat down with Sergey Lavrov at the UN for the first German Russian foreign minister talks since the special military operation began, and the ceasefire push looks a lot like Merkel's Minsk playbook from Debaltseve. Alex breaks down who really asked for the meeting, why the Putin G20 Miami invite smells like a trap, Trump rejecting Iran's Strait of Hormuz offer, Russian strikes on Kiev, the Swiss neutrality referendum and the Trump Xi tariff deal. Is Europe's panic over the front lines the real story behind this sudden outreach to Moscow?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Zelensky, Trump and Iran's supreme leader
00:01:07 Lavrov meets German FM Wadephul at the UN
00:02:42 Debaltseve flashback: Merkel, Minsk and the ceasefire play
00:05:27 Who really asked for the meeting?
00:09:06 Wadephul backs Putin at G20 Miami: a trap?
00:12:07 Lavrov at the UNGA: Europe prepares for conflict by 2030
00:14:08 Russian strikes hit Kiev Vodafone data center
00:15:59 Trump rejects Iran's Hormuz offer
00:20:32 Swiss neutrality referendum
00:23:42 Trump Xi tariff deal and Clown World
Ukraine's front is buckling as Russian forces close cauldrons around Dobropillya, Orikhiv and Kharkiv Oblast while tightening the pincer on Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Stanislav Krapivnik breaks down the Third Corps counteroffensive at Lyman, how the rainy season and Russia's Arena defense system blunt the drone wall, why Moscow now sees Trump's diplomacy as a lost year, and what Iran's strikes on US bases mean for the Strait of Hormuz. With the EU facing diesel and food shortages and Kyiv running out of men, how much longer can the front hold?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction with Stanislav Krapivnik
00:00:50 Front line overview and the three cauldrons
00:01:37 Kherson and the Orikhiv encirclement
00:03:34 Dobropillya fully surrounded
00:05:47 Slavyansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka pincer
00:07:33 Azov Third Corps counteroffensive at Lyman
00:09:01 Zelensky vs the ultra nationalists and the October 3 protest
00:11:51 Kharkiv Oblast pocket and the Kupyansk push
00:14:02 Ukraine air defense depleted and Patriot performance
00:15:35 Boris Johnson in Kyiv and the locomotive campaign
00:16:39 Is Russia ramping up operations
00:17:53 Arena active defense system vs FPV drones
00:22:09 Rainy season, fog and the end of the drone wall
00:24:17 Air campaign and Ukraine's warehousing losses
00:26:49 Putin's strategy and Lavrov on negotiations
00:27:50 EU food, diesel and Black Sea grain crisis
00:30:42 Why Russia blames Europe, not Washington
00:35:54 Is Trump worse for Russia than Biden
00:40:48 Iran, Hormuz and the Oman shipping route
00:45:25 US bases, Israeli elections and what comes next
Chinese President Xi Jinping met Donald Trump in the Oval Office and put Iran's final 60-day de-escalation framework directly on the Resolute Desk. Trump refused—and Tehran's September 30 deadline to break the US blockade by force is now live.
In this emergency Transition Protocol intelligence briefing, renowned historian and geopolitical analyst Vijay Prashad joins host Zulfiqar Ali to break down the explosive backchannel negotiations, frontline sanctions defiance, and catastrophic imperial blowback reshaping the global order.
From secret meetings between Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in New York, to the destruction of US early-warning radar arrays in Kuwait and the impending closure of Al Udeid base in Qatar, Prashad reveals why Washington's position in West Asia is collapsing in real time.
Meanwhile, inside the United States, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has sent California diesel surging to $10 a gallon and mortgage rates to 7%, triggering a devastating domestic inflationary crisis just weeks before the midterm elections.
Episode 2189. Putin says the circus has left town but the clowns stayed behind, mocking Estonia's defense minister as Bloomberg reports that Trump told Zelensky to go to Moscow and meet Putin himself. Alex breaks down the EU's €6.6 billion European Peace Facility package, the scramble over the €90 billion loan, the Dobropillia encirclement Alexander Mercouris compares to Mariupol, CBS reports on Cuba, and Trump rejecting Iran's ceasefire offer over the Strait of Hormuz. Is the collective West now in full panic mode as Ukraine's economy and front lines give way?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Putin mocks Estonia's "clownery" at the United Cultures Forum
00:02:36 Putin on retaliation for the Wildberries and Ozon strikes
00:03:25 Putin on peace talks and claims of a threat to Europe
00:05:05 Trump's $400 million package and the EU's €6.6 billion
00:08:25 Bloomberg: Trump tells Zelensky to go to Moscow
00:10:34 Trump's handshake gesture at the UN
00:12:13 EU scrambles to frontload the €90 billion loan
00:14:45 Ukraine steel, locomotives, internet and Dobropillia
00:18:10 Cuba plans, Trump Xi talks and the Iran ceasefire rejection
00:22:51 Clown World: Amanpour, von der Leyen and multilateralism
Ian Proud is a former British diplomat, holding a number of roles, including the Economic Counsellor at the UK's embassy in Moscow between 2014 and 2019.
Dr. Jack Kruse explains why circadian biology is not a hormone story. It is a physics story of light, water, and magnetism.
This is Logan Duvall’s sixth conversation with Dr. Kruse. Recorded after time together in El Salvador, it starts from a simple observation: why the same person can feel different in Arkansas than at a lower latitude, and why that difference is not mainly diet.
Kruse’s claim is that circadian mismatch begins with dielectric and magnetic changes in lipid membranes — especially cardiolipin, DHA, cholesterol, and linoleic acid — before it shows up as sleep, energy, or lab markers. Magnetism is the origin of the bioelectric current. Light only becomes biologically meaningful after it is translated through the retina and the inner mitochondrial membrane.
Kruse’s line through the episode: you cannot make circadian biology one frequency. Magnetism is the father of the bioelectric currents that control it.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Arkansas vs El Salvador: the environmental contrast
00:02:50 Circadian mismatch starts with magnetism, not just light
00:05:28 Cardiolipin, DHA, and the inner mitochondrial membrane
00:07:28 Marcus inversion, reverse electron transport, and heteroplasmy
00:10:12 Electron resistance and the experience of time
00:12:26 Why Arkansas feels different than El Salvador
00:16:35 Fractal scaling from mitochondria to planet and cosmos
00:17:33 Beeswax candles, dielectric constant, and planetary oxidation
00:19:23 Hurricanes, El Niño, and broken thermal currents
00:22:56 Scaling the thesis from oceans to the sun and galaxy
00:24:25 Magnetic pinning, retinal pathways, and why Logan felt better elsewhere
00:26:23 Cardiolipin, apoptosis, autophagy, and chiral spin selectivity
00:28:47 The 71 hertz claim and the candle thread
00:31:41 Why Kruse says the thesis is being validated in the literature
00:33:39 UVB, VDR, and why slowing electron flow can be protective
00:34:38 COVID, ARDS, intubation, and oxygen overload
00:38:46 Neuropsin, UVA, melanin, nitric oxide, and blocking electron overload
00:42:28 Reciprocal, not recursive, and the Warburg shift
00:44:12 Water, deuterium depletion, and consciousness theory
00:48:32 Space medicine: environment over food
00:51:25 Fat as protection, development, and metabolic margin of safety
00:53:59 Why red light alone is not enough without UV context
01:00:47 Teach the physics model
01:02:48 Why change comes from outside established systems
Is Putin going to war with Europe? Europe and Ukraine say yes, and soon. Geopolitical analyst Chris Helali joins to discuss how his on the ground experience in both Russia and the Middle East helps us understand the geopolitical developments confronting the increasingly divided world order.
Chase Hughes says some memories you are sure of never happened. The brain stores conversations and places without labeling where they came from. He treats lucid dreams, false awakenings, and sleep paralysis as output of the same system that builds waking experience, and he says learning to dream lucidly changes who you are awake.
He gives three daytime habits: stop and genuinely check whether you are dreaming, write the dream down the moment you wake, and after staying up 20 or 30 minutes in the night, go back to bed intending to wake inside the next dream. His warning is that vivid dreams are filed with the same machinery as real life, so two weeks later you can remember a conversation with your wife that only happened in a lucid dream.
Daniel Liszt presents Dark Journalist X-Series episode 239 on the Tall Whites UFO file, an Iran sky event, and lunar wars. The episode covers an Iran UFO file, space wars, a moon buster, missing scientists, special access, a claimed false CIA UFO threat, SpaceX, and continuity of government.
The host notes earlier reports on missing scientists after the death of MIT neutron-star merger scientist Nuno Laureiro in December 2025 and General William McCasland in February 2026.
Trump got exactly what he wanted in Greenland, in this episode we explain why the whole annexation drama with Denmark was theater designed to humiliate Europe. With the US military now in charge of Greenland's security, annexation becomes a stroke of the pen in Washington, while Elbridge Colby and a rising Pentagon faction look toward hemispheric defense and an eventual pullback from Europe. Is that quiet fear of an American exit, not Russia, the real reason behind Europe's panic and crackdowns from Andy Burnham to Jacob Rees Mogg?
Timeline:
00:00:00 The Greenland deal signed by Trump, Denmark and Greenland
00:01:25 Why Europe told Denmark to give Trump what he wants
00:02:31 The Greenland theatrics: memes, AI images and 51st state talk
00:03:48 Denmark sold out the Greenlanders
00:05:33 The path to future US annexation of Greenland
00:07:35 Why stage the show? Humiliating the Europeans
00:09:06 Military protection means ceded sovereignty
00:10:36 Is there any sovereignty in Europe? Poland's new US bases
00:12:39 Why Greenland can never say no
00:14:34 US troop pullback and the Atlantic as an American lake
00:18:50 From protecting Europe to defending the US homeland
00:21:13 Elbridge Colby and the case for leaving Europe
00:24:05 Europe's Russia scares: Rees Mogg and Burnham's disinformation speech
00:26:48 Using Europe as the next proxy against Russia
00:30:25 Who really benefits from Europe's fear of Russia
Iran has reportedly put a conditional offer on the table for reopening the Strait of Hormuz — but the proposal comes with terms, a seven-day sequence, and a September 30 deadline.
In this emergency briefing, Pepe Escobar breaks down the reported New York diplomatic channel, the conditions tied to the Strait of Hormuz, China’s reported message to Donald Trump, the aviation-ban confrontation, the Red Sea front, and the parallel military and diplomatic tracks.
This episode distinguishes on-record analysis, attributed reporting, source-based claims, and forecasts. Claims about an Iranian offer, China’s position, and regional alignment are presented as statements made in the conversation unless independently confirmed in the final edit. Viewer judgment matters: which track is moving faster, diplomacy or escalation, and who blinks first?
The war in Yemen is entering a new phase. With Saudi Arabia facing renewed Houthi attacks and the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, could Pakistan and Turkey become directly involved in the Yemen conflict?
In this interview, Mohammad Marandi examines the strategic meaning of the Mecca defence pact, the interests of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey, the complex relationship between Iran and Saudi Arabia, and the wider regional implications of the conflict.
We also discuss whether regional powers are being drawn into a broader confrontation, the role of mediators in Iran-US relations, and where the US-Iran conflict could go from here.
Timeline:
0:00 Geopolitical tensions and regional alliances
0:32 The Yemen conflict and regional stakes
5:13 Popular sentiment in Pakistan and Turkey
11:30 The future of Iran-Pakistan relations
16:25 The Iran-Saudi Arabia dynamic
23:50 US-Iran relations: strategy or stagnation?
32:19 Nuclear threats and global security
Fresh from 16 days in Russia, former CIA officer Larry Johnson offers a firsthand report from Moscow and St. Petersburg. He recounts an informal dinner with Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and meetings with Russian officials, academics and military figures.
Johnson examines the country’s political and economic life as he encountered it, explains why Moscow no longer regards Washington as a reliable negotiating partner and describes how Russia has become a refuge for political exiles from the West. He also relays a stark warning from General Apti Alaudinov about the growing danger of a direct conflict with Europe.
Michael Schratt originally gave this presentation across two of my interviews with him in 2024. I've removed the interview portions and stitched both parts of the presentation together.
Every case in the presentation is drawn from Leonard Stringfield's work, illustrated with artwork that brings the accounts to life.
Given how much the crash retrieval conversation is heating up, I'm re-releasing this for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.
Alexander reports that Russia has tightly encircled Dobropillia, and explains why its fall could open the road to Sloviansk and the rest of western Donbass. At the same time Ukraine's economy is imploding, with steel production halted for the first time in a century, Russian strikes knocking out Kiev's data centers and internet, and the EU scrambling to fast track €45 billion from its €90 billion loan while Zelensky chases a ceasefire after a meeting with CIA director John Ratcliffe that Alex Christoforou flags as the one that really mattered. With Europe's own budgets under strain and elections looming, how much longer can Brussels keep kicking the Ukrainian can down the road?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro and Western urgency to halt the Russian offensive
00:00:46 Black Sea blockade and failed land routes
00:02:06 Ukraine steel production stops for the first time in a century
00:04:05 Russian strikes on Kiev data centers and internet blackouts
00:07:28 Agriculture crisis and a spiraling Ukrainian economy
00:09:57 Making Kiev unworkable: could ministries relocate west?
00:16:36 Zelensky pushes for a Putin Trump meeting at the G20
00:18:34 Dmitriev in New York and the fake tripartite meeting
00:20:33 Zelensky asks Trump to lean on Xi Jinping
00:26:22 Germany's token Patriot interceptor pledge
00:30:35 Europe's budget stress and rising bond yields
00:35:34 Euroclear plan dropped and the €90 billion loan scramble
00:41:57 Zelensky's real meeting with CIA director Ratcliffe
00:43:51 Ukrainian drone strikes and hardened Russian refineries
00:46:06 CIA shadow fleet drone claims in the Mediterranean
00:52:29 Dobropillia surrounded: the Russian MoD map and siege
00:59:14 Russian MoD signals goals beyond Donbass
01:04:02 Sloviansk outflanking, Orikhiv and Dnieper crossings
01:10:48 Biletsky's Lyman offensive and the Readovka account
01:16:47 Kharkiv cauldron and closing remarks
