John Michael Greer returns to Legalise Freedom for a conversation sparked by his latest book, The Magical Writings of W.B. Yeats. Topics include what magic actually is, its overlap with New Thought (popularly known as manifesting), advertising and propaganda as mass hypnosis, and how building a psychic firewall can help lead a freer life.
Prof. Richard Wolff talks with Danny Haiphong about why Trump's biggest mistake in the Iran war keeps getting worse, and how this quarter-trillion-dollar nightmare is digging the petrodollar, and the US empire's, grave.
Trump tells a Nebraska crowd that losing Los Angeles or San Diego would be a small price to pay to stop Iran getting nuclear weapons, and Alex breaks down the remark alongside a bleak Financial Times report on Odessa and Project Ukraine. From 650 drones launched toward Moscow and Ukraine's vanishing locomotives to Germany's talk of conscription, a Merz and Macron trade kill switch for Brussels, and the so called Muslim NATO activating against the Houthis, the collective West looks increasingly rattled.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Trump: Let them take out Los Angeles
00:03:10 Ukraine launches 650 drones toward Moscow
00:05:06 Financial Times bleak report from Odessa
00:06:45 Ukraine running out of locomotives
00:08:10 Kiev data center goes offline
00:08:58 Pompeo and the Siberia outbreak narrative
00:10:55 Rada to remove NATO from Ukraine constitution
00:12:35 Wadephul on conscription and Lavrov meeting
00:15:30 German spy chief warns of conflict with Russia
00:18:30 Merz and Macron want EU trade kill switch
00:21:15 Muslim NATO activated against Houthis
00:23:40 Protests in France spread to Belgium
00:24:50 US trade deficit hits 17 month high
00:25:45 Clown World: Telegraph on Russian spies in Finland
00:29:45 Stubb blames Russia for Spain migrant crisis
Episode 2198. Saudi Arabia's offensive in Yemen has begun, yet the Houthis are encircling Taiz and closing in on Aden, and Alex explains why MBS is now asking the Trump administration to step in. Alex also covers the US pulling its bombers out of RAF Fairford, Iran's 7 day proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, the Russian Ministry of Defense telling Ukraine to blame Zelensky, Medvedev's Starlink warning, and Flavio Bolsonaro beating Lula in the first round in Brazil. With Sanchez calling snap elections in Spain, is the Zelensky curse about to strike again?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Saudi backed Yemen offensive begins
00:02:11 Houthis encircle Taiz with Aden next
00:04:33 US bombers leave RAF Fairford
00:08:29 Iran 7 day proposal to reopen Hormuz
00:09:57 Russian MOD says blame Zelensky
00:14:20 Peskov says Russia will fight with full force
00:15:56 Kiev bridges and the Crimean Bridge double standard
00:21:42 Trump team pushes trilateral meeting
00:23:20 Medvedev warns on Rassvet and Starlink
00:26:05 Merz in Kiev on German Unity Day
00:30:40 Flavio Bolsonaro wins first round in Brazil
00:33:15 Sanchez calls snap elections in Spain
00:34:50 Siberia lab incident
00:35:50 Romania protests over Georgescu
00:36:40 Clown world: Estonia moves troops to Russian border
Vasily Prozorov, a former Ukrainian SBU officer who defected to Russia and survived two assassination attempts, has spent years tracking the network of foreign fighters and mercenaries operating inside Ukraine. His new book, "Ukraine: Murderers for Hire — Dogs of War Lured by Kiev," is a documentary investigation into who these fighters really are.
He sits down with Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and Marine Corps intelligence officer, and DDGeopolitics to break it down.
He sorts foreign fighters into three categories: ideological neo-Nazis, mercenaries chasing a paycheck, and Western military professionals operating NATO systems under official deniability. British Afghanistan veterans could not answer how to defend a checkpoint against a tank. A Ukrainian officer had already faced that in 2014. By late 2023 most Western mercenaries had left Ukraine. The war was nothing like Afghanistan or Iraq.
The supply has shifted to Latin America. Colombians are now the dominant foreign mercenary group and are used as cannon fodder. Western countries are paying their own mercenaries through Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, with their own financial assistance. Colombian cartels are recruiting Ukraine-trained FPV drone operators. Prozorov says he has seen it firsthand. Ukrainian instructors have been sent to Colombia to train cartel members on FPV drones on the spot.
Israeli instructors were seen in the Dnipro battalion in 2014, a personal connection through Kolomoisky. On drone operators controlling strikes from European apartments, he says: "War criminals. Nothing but disgust." He calls Laura Loomer a soldier in information warfare, a foreign mercenary serving the Kiev regime. His next book is on weapon smuggling from Ukraine.
Darcy Weir is an independent documentary filmmaker focused on UFOs/UAPs, secret government programs, the paranormal, underground bases, and related unexplained subjects.
Timeline:
00:00 - Dinosaur Stargates in an alleged NSA file
08:05 - The claim Venezuela was invaded for a Stargate
15:58 - The Atacama mummy's human DNA test
22:29 - The whistleblower who called black triangles US tech
26:21 - NASA's sightings revealed in the UFO files
30:49 - The Air Force's 1958 plan to arm the Moon with nukes
34:02 - X-15 pilots reported saucers pacing their craft
38:24 - Gary McKinnon hacked NASA with blank passwords
43:50 - What Gary McKinnon says he saw inside NASA
47:36 - The Solar Warden Program
55:38 - Inspiration behind Project Stargate
01:01:15 - If the US has UFO tech, why not use it in Iran?
01:05:25 - Pascagoula alien abduction incident
01:12:07 - Corey Goode's abduction story
01:16:48 - Corey Goode's questionable copyright
01:27:34 - Could UFO encounters originate in consciousness?
01:34:52 - What NASA's ultraviolet cameras saw in space
01:39:12 - NASA shuttle crews spotted "alien spacecrafts"
01:43:33 - Buzz Aldrin's UFO confession
01:47:42 - Ultraterrestrial breakaway civilization theory
01:52:26 - The triangle UFO filmed over Tehran
01:59:24 - Tehran UFO incident of 1976
02:06:32 - "Fastmover" underwater UFOs
02:15:37 - Alleged 4K UFO satellite images
02:26:34 - Project Bluebeam's laser technology
02:30:56 - Annie Jacobsen's source on Roswell
02:37:22 - Why would Roswell's 'aliens' look human?
02:41:23 - Why the Nazca Mummies are a hoax
02:56:46 - Nazca Mummies have thumb joints
03:04:00 - The Chris Bledsoe orbs
03:10:22 - Why did NASA figures visit Chris Bledsoe?
03:14:03 - Darcy's biggest skepticism of Chris Bledsoe
03:18:56 - The Bledsoe neuralizer story Danny cut
Kiev is in panic as Russian Geran drones cut the Dnieper bridges and split the city in two, and in this episode we explain why this is a logistics crisis for the Ukrainian military in the east. They break down the rare Russian Ministry of Defense statement placing full personal responsibility on Zelensky, Peskov's warning that Russia will now use full force, and Friedrich Merz's surprise trip to Kiev with money, weapons and possibly the Taurus missile. With Western embassies drawing up plans to leave Kiev, how much longer can Zelensky hold on?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Kiev bridge strikes and Merz surprise visit
00:00:50 Panic in Kiev as Geran drones hit the Dnieper bridges
00:03:08 Why the Kiev bridges are critical to Ukraine military logistics
00:07:35 Russian MOD and Peskov warn of full force
00:11:12 Why Merz rushed to Kiev
00:12:46 Taurus missile and the FP9 question
00:16:38 AfD surges as Merz visits Kiev on German national day
00:19:07 Russia tells Western diplomats to leave Kiev
00:23:24 Russian MOD puts full responsibility on Zelensky
00:26:41 Trilateral meeting talk for end of October
Paul Stonehill on the early Celtic hillfort at Horné Orešany in western Slovakia, on Slepý vrch in the Little Carpathians, excavated under Karol Pieta. He reads the 5th–4th century BCE finds, then asks whether a bronze fibula of a horned figure on a horseless vehicle is an ancient Segway, and whether horned humanoids once lived in Central Europe.
SpaceWeatherNews on a day-long geomagnetic storm, with solar wind above 700 km/s after yesterday's surge from large dark coronal holes. No flares or eruptive events, sunspots stay exceptionally weak, and the show expects the wind to ease today with some storm reverberations still likely.
It returns to the 2015 paper with Kongpop U-Yen and Christopher Holloman, which it says showed the sun triggering the largest earthquakes, and notes that Wilcox Solar Observatory has stopped the polar-field record.
The linked Research Square preprint by Ivan Berezin and Andrey Tlatov tests whether the KMAS/STOP magnetograph can continue that series. A second report covers crustal magnetic anomalies and electrical resistivity outside the United States and Canada, as a step toward storm-time surge maps for power grids and pipelines.
Copernicus ozone monitoring shows the southern-hemisphere hole near another daily peak, already above the daily record several times this year. The show reads the next spike as particle input from the current storm at the top of the ozone layer, while lower down it is pollution controls against volcanoes, and says the pole shift is taking a toll up high.
Iran's leaders say they expect a U.S. attack and are ready for it, according to Zulfiqar Ali's contacts in Tehran and Islamabad.
Pepe Escobar puts a "possibility of some sort of adventure" in the next few days at roughly 20–30%, and "nearly 100% certainty" of a U.S. move after the midterms, four weeks away.
In this episode of The Week Ahead, recorded Sunday 4 October 2026, Zulfiqar Ali reports what he says he was told by people making decisions in Tehran and Islamabad: that the civilian and military leadership expect an attack; that Iran says it has stocked food, medicine and housing for at least six months; that Russia, China and Pakistan are helping; and that Iran's targeting is "locked in."
Pepe Escobar, speaking from Thailand, explains the offer he says Iran put on the table through Qatar, what he says Xi Jinping offered Washington and how he expects China to reply, why he says diplomacy is dead for now, and how he reads the odds.
Episode 2039. Russia's Defence Ministry has announced that strikes on Kiev will intensify, and Alexander explains why the Dnieper bridges now sit closed to heavy traffic with no tunnels to replace them. He traces the campaign to a multi year Russian build up in Geran drone technology overseen by Dmitry Medvedev, then turns to Peskov's pledge to fight with full force and Putin's visible irritation at Modi's proposal to freeze the conflict. With Merz leaving Kiev empty handed, does anyone in the West have a plan for what comes next?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Kiev bridges crisis deepens
00:02:22 NYT: bridges weakened, not destroyed
00:05:38 No tunnels under the Dnieper
00:08:08 Ukraine's logistics options narrow
00:11:35 Russia's drone technology build up, Medvedev's role
00:15:56 Gepard air defence fails over the bridges
00:18:00 Zelensky threatens Russian refineries
00:21:57 FP9 ballistic missile claims
00:27:07 Pontoon bridge plans
00:29:00 Russian Defence Ministry: strikes will intensify
00:37:16 Merz rushes to Kiev empty handed
00:44:35 German polls: AfD 30%, CDU 18%
00:47:25 Modi peace plan irritates Putin
00:49:41 Peskov: Russia will fight with full force
01:00:17 Front lines: Dobropillia, Sumy
Geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen joins the show to discuss Trump's imminent operation against Iran that no one is talking about, and why the US and Israel are finding themselves on the path to escalation despite the mounting consequences of nearly 8 months of war.
Jiang Xueqin, host of Predictive History, tells Glenn Diesen that the West's political crisis is a contest among globalists, nationalists, an AI oligarchy, and Zionist factions around Trump.
He argues that a wider war would more likely be traced to the Houthi-Saudi conflict in Yemen than to a direct clash between the United States and Iran, because the Houthis are not constrained the way state actors are.
Episode 2197. Merz makes a surprise train trip to Kiev with his CDU polling at a historic low, and Alex asks whether the real purpose is a Taurus missile rebranded as a Ukrainian long range weapon. As Russia hits Kiev's bridges again, a strategy Alexander flagged months ago, Zelensky promises retaliation on Russian refineries while the New York Times reports Putin raised a 20 billion dollar Lukoil asset sale with Witkoff and Kushner involving investors tied to Trump allies. Is this escalation, a business deal, or both at once?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Merz surprise train trip to Kiev
00:04:47 Taurus missiles rebranded as FP9?
00:06:06 Russia warns diplomats, Kiev bridges hit again
00:07:45 Pontoon bridge and tunnel plans
00:10:27 Zelensky tells Reuters retaliation is coming
00:15:30 Trump allies and the Lukoil assets deal
00:22:36 EU natural gas prices surge
00:23:20 Zelensky and the EU 90 billion loan
00:26:07 Houthis claim Aramco refinery strike in Riyadh
00:27:40 G7 releases 100 million barrels
00:30:20 Spain housing protests
00:32:45 Brazil election first round
00:33:50 Bosnia and Latvia elections
00:35:35 Clown World: Sandu warns Finland
00:38:10 FlyDubai co pilot crash axe update
What is really happening behind the recent US-China summit? Ambassador Chas Freeman explains the reality of the diplomatic dialogue.
In this interview, we examine the shifting power dynamics between Washington and Beijing. Ambassador Freeman analyzes how escalating trade tensions and supply-chain vulnerabilities are forcing a reevaluation of the global order. By challenging conventional assumptions about the military balance near the Taiwan Strait, he provides a clear-eyed perspective on the risks and potential for conflict in the region.
We also discuss the broader implications of these developments for the international landscape, including how regional power struggles could shape the future of geopolitics. Freeman argues that a strategic truce may be an unavoidable necessity for both nations, given the current constraints on their respective military and economic capabilities.
The conversation also explores how the wider geopolitical landscape — including the conflicts and power struggles in West Asia — could shape the future of US-China relations and the emerging international order.
Chas Freeman is a former US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and a senior American diplomat who played a key role in US-China relations during the normalization of diplomatic ties.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Geopolitical Landscape with Ambassador Freeman
00:00:42 The Complex Dynamics of US-China Relations
00:06:01 Taiwan: A Potential Flashpoint for Conflict
00:09:07 Military Asymmetry and Modern Warfare
00:20:20 Economic Realities and Strategic Truces
00:32:34 Domestic Challenges and Political Shifts
00:41:52 The Yemen Conflict and Regional Instability
00:49:04 The Changing Status of Israel in the Region
U.S. Navy scientist Dr. Salvatore Pais returns to the UAP Files Podcast for his second appearance.
Pais is a current U.S. Navy scientist and former U.S. Space Force scientist, best known for a series of extraordinary patents covering advanced propulsion and energy technologies — technologies that, in my opinion, we may already be seeing emerge in the real world today.
In this wide-ranging conversation, we dive into artificial intelligence, sentient plasma, time travel, emerging terrestrial technology and non-human intelligence, exploring where these subjects intersect with the enduring mystery of UFOs/UAPs.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:46 Host introduces the episode
00:03:00 Three layers of an AI agent
00:04:20 Triarchy of sentience
00:09:56 Meeting Congressman Burlison
00:11:20 Man-made technology versus non-human technology
00:12:16 Drone swarms and military change
00:14:46 Science without a box
00:18:35 A funded lab and the nature of time
00:20:49 Reversing the arrow of time
00:23:54 Plasma compression fusion
00:27:56 Plasma as a bridge to the vacuum
00:29:57 Briefing in a SCIF
00:32:01 Who would control the technology
00:36:02 Physics fifty years from now
00:45:07 The propulsion problem behind the patents
00:48:50 Terrestrial craft or non-human intelligence
00:54:14 Atra-Hasis and human origins
00:59:16 Could the soul be plasma
01:06:52 AI and a feudal technocracy
SpaceWeatherNews on intensifying solar wind from a departing coronal hole, with geomagnetic conditions climbing after a weak CME and a possible minor storm.
The show links an AGU paper on earthquake synchrony and a Nature paper on the Laschamp excursion, which it reads as a particle-radiation surge closer to 400 percent, from a superflare or Miyake event timed with the magnetic pole shift.
Polarity Josh goes through David Grusch's appearance on Joe Rogan. Grusch says colleagues described reptilian-looking beings and grays, and that he has not seen the reptilians himself. He links the grays to the 1994 Ariel School sighting in Zimbabwe and describes the reptilian craft as Tic Tac-like.
Josh sets those comments beside other accounts he treats as the same thread: Jake Barber, Juliette Bryant on Epstein and Zorro Ranch, David Icke, and a World War II naval intelligence officer on reptilians. He says he does not know if the beings are real, and he separates a witness being sincere from the claim being proven.
