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MintPress News | F-15 Shot Down As Iran’s Missiles Inflict US Soldier Casualties & Israeli Fronts Deteriorate | Sept. 17, 2026

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The Israeli war machine is running out of money, and the US empire is taking hits. On this episode of The Target, Robert Inlakesh breaks down the severe warnings from Israel’s own leadership that its 3-front axis could collapse as its army budget falls dangerously low. This comes as Iranian missile and drone strikes in the Strait of Hormuz successfully hit a ship, injuring US soldiers and highlighting the extreme vulnerability of American imperialism.

Robert also brings you extreme battle footage from Yemen, where an F-15 has been shot down, further embarrassing the military-industrial complex. Plus, we expose the double standards of the region: Saudi Arabia playing sectarianism, Syrians escalating protests against economic mismanagement, and the powerful social justice movement in Jordan preparing for a Day of Rage in support of Gaza.

Stand against the war machine. See through the propaganda.

Alexander Mercouris | Russia Massive Missile Strike; All Missiles Hit Targets; China India Reject US Sanctions; Lyman Fail | Sep. 17, 2026

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Russia unleashed one of its most powerful missile and drone strikes yet on Ukraine overnight, hitting Kiev, Odessa and Zaporizhzhia while wiping out key bridges and leaving Ukraine's air defense in near total collapse. 

Alexander Mercouris on why China and India are openly defying the new US sanctions bill, why Volodymyr Zelensky just sanctioned his own former spokeswoman for suggesting peace talks, and what the stalled Ukrainian offensive near Lyman really means for the war.

Timeline:
00:00:00 Massive Russian Missile And Drone Strike Overnight
00:01:37 Kiev Zaporizhzhia Odessa And Black Sea Ports Hit
00:03:09 Ships Smuggling Weapons Into Odessa Attacked
00:05:56 Zatoka And Mayaki Bridges Knocked Out
00:09:14 Warehouses Data Center And Drone Storage Destroyed
00:10:24 Energy Grid Still Spared Bigger Campaign Coming
00:11:40 Rasvet Satellite System Speculation
00:15:24 Russian Strike Tempo Accelerating Every Few Days
00:17:40 Ukrainian Air Defense In Total Collapse
00:22:10 Greece Refuses To Hand Over Air Defense Missiles
00:26:48 Did Diplomacy Delay Russias Offensive
00:37:07 Ukraine Strikes Rostov Air Base
00:41:18 Yaroslavl Refinery Hit Trump Blames Ukraine For Diesel Crisis
00:47:07 Russian Strikes Gut Ukraine Warehouses And Locomotives
00:53:12 Ukraine Demands Another 50 Billion Euros
00:55:44 Zelensky Sanctions Critic Julia Mendel
01:05:55 Sanctions Bill Passes China And India Defy It
01:15:28 Front Line Update Dorop Kharkov Lyman And Russian Elections

The Duran | Saudi Nightmare: Houthis Seize Red Sea As Pipeline Burns | Sept. 17, 2026

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Saudi Arabia is facing its greatest crisis since the founding of the kingdom, as Houthi forces seize the Red Sea coast and a crippling strike knocks out the East West pipeline, cutting off nearly all Saudi oil exports. In this episode we break down why Trump is leaving MBS out to dry, and what an all out war on Iran after the midterms could mean for global energy markets. Is Washington quietly preparing to go all in against Iran once the midterms are over?

The Duran: Episode 2625
00:00:00 Introduction to the Yemen and Houthi advance
00:01:47 Houthis take full control of Yemen's Red Sea coast
00:03:31 Saudi oil pipeline attacked and exports come to a halt
00:04:36 Israel threatens Iran's desalination plants and Iran vows to retaliate
00:06:01 Depleting oil reserves and Europe's natural gas shortage
00:07:44 Trita Parsi on the mood in Washington after the midterms
00:09:12 Why the Trump administration seems uninterested in Saudi Arabia
00:13:03 Trump's strategy to manage the damage before the midterms
00:16:53 Trump leaves MBS hanging until after the midterms
00:19:30 The case for an all out war on Iran

Yanis Varoufakis | EU Is Finished & China Can Now Pull the Plug on the U.S. Economy | Sept. 17, 2026

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Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, the former Finance Minister of Greece, and the author of numerous bestselling books. Varoufakis discusses how the EU is a cartel designed by the U.S. that is no longer fit for purpose. 

The German economic locomotive has broken down; the EU no longer has an economic model, its foreign policy is consumed by war, and it has already become a technological colony. Varoufakis also argues that China can now pull the plug on the U.S. economy if it chooses to do so.

Pepe Escobar | Saudi Arabia Is Boxed In.The Yemen Intel They Won't Reveal.Yemen Put Saudi on Back Foot | Sept. 17, 2026

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Iran holds the Strait of Hormuz. Yemen’s forces now hold the Bab al-Mandab. Saudi Arabia is boxed in on both coasts — and Transition Protocol says it knows why Yemen went all-in.

Recorded after midnight in Moscow, Pepe Escobar and Zulfiqar Ali (Mr. Z) break down five interlocking developments: the quiet understanding between Ansarallah and the White House behind Trump’s “the Houthis called us”; CENTCOM commander Adm. Brad Cooper’s meeting with MBS in Jeddah; the postponed Iran–Gulf Hormuz talks that Iran blames on Riyadh; the UAE’s surprise BRICS sit-down with President Pezeshkian; and Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi’s talks with Wang Yi in Beijing.

The hosts also say they hold information — which they say was confirmed at senior levels in Tehran and Islamabad — explaining the ferocity of Yemen’s offensive. They explain on air why they are not releasing the details yet.

Also: diesel at the $9.99 pump limit in California, who turned down MBS’s requests for help, Yemen’s next moves on Taiz and Marib, and Pepe Escobar’s scenarios for Saudi Arabia.

Guest statements about sources, intelligence and future events are the speakers’ own reporting and analysis and are labelled as such on screen.

Support independent analysis: subscribe to Transition Protocol on Substack (same name). New: Friday Fire with Pepe Escobar, every Friday. 

Alex Christoforou | Saudi Blocks Oil, Zelensky Escapes Drone Strikes as Canada Enters EU | Sept. 16, 2026

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Europe is cracking down hard as Ursula von der Leyen unveils a sweeping new Act to police social media, right as Saudi Arabia abruptly cuts oil shipments and leaves the EU scrambling for energy. Alex breaks down Zelensky's latest drone claims, Denmark's tense standoff with a Russian warship and why Germany is secretly funding Ukraine's arsenal behind closed doors. Is Brussels really stronger than ever, or is the whole union quietly falling apart?

Episode 2179
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:25 Ursula von der Leyen delivers the State of the Union
00:04:08 EU adopts a NATO style Article Four
00:04:32 Kids Act details and social media restrictions
00:06:00 Canada offered associate EU membership
00:07:43 Saudi Arabia halts oil shipments to Europe
00:10:01 Libya shuts down three major oil fields
00:11:18 United States may ban diesel exports
00:14:57 UK weighs joining the fight against the Houthis
00:15:34 CBS photos reveal Iran strike damage on US bases
00:17:48 CBS interviews Zelensky on alleged drone attacks
00:20:07 Zelensky explains why Ukraine avoids elections
00:24:26 Ukraine foreign minister requests locomotives
00:25:20 Denmark and Russia clash over a helicopter incident
00:27:44 Sikorski claims and Russia's response on Poland
00:29:38 Merz cancels his New York trip and Kissinger Award
00:31:02 Germany's secret unit funding Ukraine weapons revealed
00:34:41 Ed Sheeran loses his band and opening acts
00:37:49 Clown world Stubb Merz axe photo and Yermak's bracelet
00:43:04 Clown world Kallas fields a Putin phone call question

Larry C. Johnson | Saudi Oil's Escape Route Got Cut, Houthis Claim Saudi F-15 KILL as OIL Crisis Deepens | Sept. 17, 2026

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Hormuz was already blocked. Now Saudi Arabia's main escape route — the East-West pipeline to the Red Sea — is shut, the Houthis claim they shot down a Saudi F-15, and the Fed just raised rates.

Military analyst Larry and host Zulfiqar Ali explain how the Houthi offensive, the pipeline outage and record diesel prices connect — and why the only door being negotiated open may be an Iran-controlled corridor through the Strait of Hormuz, with a fee attached.

In this episode: why the Houthi offensive was planned months ago; what the Houthis' F-15 claim means for Saudi air power; Pakistan's reported answer to MBS; Iran's reported one-for-one tanker offer; the Pentagon inspector general's report on US bases; the Fed's first rate hike since 2023; $9.99 diesel in California; and whether the oil shock can ease before the 3 November midterms.

Sourcing note: the pipeline shutdown, the Fed decision and the Pentagon IG findings are publicly confirmed. The F-15 downing is a Houthi claim not confirmed by Saudi Arabia. Statements attributed to contacts in Tehran, Islamabad and Riyadh are our guests' sources and have not been independently verified. Predictions are the speakers' analysis. 

Alexander Mercouris | Russia Smashes Zatoka Bridge Tightens Dobropilia Cauldron Repels Lyman Attack; CDU Plots Merz Ouster | Sept. 16, 2026

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Russia has struck the Zatoka Bridge linking Odessa to Romania while grinding forward at Orikhiv and closing the Dobropillya cauldron on Sloviansk. Alexander breaks down the disputed Lyman counteroffensive claims, the mounting pressure on Ukraine's budget and why 78 percent of Germans now want Friedrich Merz to resign. With the CDU plotting his ouster and Russia's new jet powered drones going unanswered, is the war entering its most decisive phase yet?

Episode 2020
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:06 Russian drone and missile strikes resume on Kiev
00:01:40 Reports the Zatoka Bridge to Romania has been destroyed
00:04:37 Ukrainian drone strikes on Russia drop sharply
00:07:56 Russian recon drones signal a major strike is coming
00:09:24 Orikhiv nears total collapse under Russian assault
00:16:16 Russians storm Dobropillya to encircle Sloviansk
00:20:08 Azov commander Prokopenko's troubled battlefield history
00:22:15 Rybar reports Ukrainian collapse in northeastern Kharkiv
00:23:29 Ukraine claims a counteroffensive breakthrough near Lyman
00:29:12 Mercouris questions the scale of Ukraine's Lyman claims
00:36:17 Biletsky's Azov offensive looks politically motivated
00:49:28 Russia's jet powered Geran drones have no Western answer
00:53:29 Russia mass produces the new Dan T cruise missile
00:59:56 Ukraine admits it can no longer fund its own budget
01:00:56 Belgian court ruling shakes frozen Russian asset seizure plans
01:08:05 Poll finds 78 percent of Germans want Merz to resign
01:10:26 CDU faces collapse in the Mecklenburg Vorpommern election
01:18:27 Middle East turmoil deepens the global energy crisis
01:24:41 Congress pushes bone crushing Russia sanctions bill

Scott Ritter | Trump Unleashes SPACE WEAPON, Yemen DOWNS US F-15! | Sept. 16, 2026

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Former Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter discusses US deployment of a new space weapon and why a nuclear space race is being launched by Trump just as Yemen downs an f-15 and leaks over the extensive damage to US bases has come out.

The Duran | Putin, Xi and Modi Unite Against US Sanctions | Sept. 16, 2026

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The BRICS summit in India just delivered its biggest breakthrough in years, with BRICS Pay set to challenge the dollar and reshape global trade. In this episode we break down how Modi brought Putin, Xi Jinping and the rest of BRICS together after a stalled year, why frozen Russian assets and Western sanctions are pushing the Global South toward de dollarization, and how Iran and Brazil fit into the new picture.

The Duran: Episode 2624
00:00:00 Introduction to the BRICS summit results
00:00:31 Massive BRICS declaration and BRICS Pay announced
00:01:30 Recap of the stalled BRICS momentum since Kazan 2024
00:03:02 Brazil's wobbling and a lost year for BRICS
00:03:49 Modi's skillful chairing brings all leaders together
00:04:51 Digital currencies and payment systems progress quietly
00:06:16 China to take BRICS presidency next year
00:07:19 Trump could have ended dollar weaponization instead
00:08:03 Iran's shifting commitment to BRICS
00:09:22 Why US sanctions on Russia and Iran will never be lifted 

Rupert Sheldrake | Spiritual Practices That Actually Work | Sept. 16, 2026

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Spiritual practices work, and this is not a matter of opinion. Scientists have been measuring their effects for more than thirty years, and there are now thousands of papers in peer-reviewed journals showing that people with a regular spiritual or religious practice tend to be healthier, happier and longer-lived than those without one, whatever they happen to believe. 

In this talk I look at the practices themselves rather than the arguments around them: gratitude, meditation and prayer, mantras, ritual, holy days and festivals, sport, and pilgrimage. Most of them cost nothing and require no prior belief system.

The thread running through all of them is connection. Meditation and prayer are complementary rather than rival, more like breathing in and breathing out. Rituals and festivals connect people to each other and to those who did the same things before them. Even sport, which is usually thought of as a supremely secular activity, brings people into the present more quickly than almost anything else.

This talk was recorded live at Hollyhock on Cortes Island in British Columbia, 2026. 

Jeffrey Sachs | The Iran War Will Break America | Sept. 16, 2026

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Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins Cyrus Janssen to discuss the Iran war, Donald Trump, and America’s declining influence around the world. He explains why the United States needs to leave Iran, pursue direct diplomacy, and rethink its role in the Middle East. They also discuss Trump’s trade war with Canada, America’s growing debt, political corruption, and the power of the military-industrial complex. Sachs also addresses whether Trump is accelerating America’s decline—and why his proposed $5,000 checks simply don’t add up.

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro to Jeffrey Sachs
00:30 - What is the US trying to accomplish in Iran?
01:30 - Why Iran is not Venezuela
02:40 - Why the price of oil will only increase
03:34 - How dangerous is the world economy
05:01 - Will Trump steal the upcoming election?
06:30 - Why Trump is mentally unstable to serve
07:30 - What is the threat of AI?
08:30 - Can America still influence the Middle East?
10:10 - Why Iran needs direct diplomacy
11:05 - Why the Middle East doesn't need the USA
12:15 - Why the US doesn't have the power anymore
13:02 - Is America First policy finished?
13:58 - Why Trump should not be president
14:55 - Why every problem in America is self-inflicted
17:25 - The sunk cost fallacy for US politicians
18:22 - Why the United States should leave Iran
19:10 - Why Trump attacked Canada
21:20 - Why Trump's trade war is failing
22:25 - Why Mark Carney and Canada are winning
23:20 - Is Trump the cause of America's decline?
24:15 - Why the military industrial complex is to blame
25:25 - How American politics became corrupt
27:10 - How America became $40 trillion in debt
28:27 - Why Trump can't give Americans $5000 checks
29:55 - Closing thoughts 

Jacques Vallée | Is A.I. the “Alien” Intelligence We’ve Been Awaiting? | Bigelow Podcast Ep. 7 | Sept. 16, 2026

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Astronomer and author Dr. Jacques Vallée started his scientific career as an astronomer but earned his PhD in computer science at Northwestern University, where he met UFO pioneer Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the key scientific advisor to the US Air Force’s much maligned Project Blue Book. Vallée was on the ground floor in the development of artificial intelligence, and over the ensuing decades has used his computer expertise to revolutionize how UFO data has been organized and catalogued, including his creation of the world’s largest UFO data warehouse, created as part of the DIA’s secretive AAWSAP investigation.

In this episode, Vallée is reunited with two longtime colleagues, Robert Bigelow and Dr. Colm Kelleher, interviewed by George Knapp. The trio worked together during the private NIDS effort as well as during AAWSAP, digging into the mysteries of Skinwalker Ranch, the pursuit of unusual materials from alleged UFO crash sites, human abductions, animal mutilations, and an attempted understanding of nonhuman intelligence.

Is A.I. itself a form of alien intelligence, created by us, but eventually a threat to human survival? Now that the president has ordered the formal release of UFO files and videos, has “disclosure” already happened? Now at the end of a decades-long career as a writer of influential UFO books and journals, Vallée opens up about big picture issues and mysteries that have been percolating in his head. 

The New Atlas | Canada Doubles Down on US Servitude; Saudi Crisis Hurts, Not Helps Multipolarism | Sept. 16, 2026

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While Canada poses as “reducing dependence on the US” it has actually doubled down on subordination and servitude to the US by expanding its commitment to the US proxy war on Russia in Ukraine.

The political circus created between Canada and US President Donald Trump was designed specifically to create an emotional override compelling Canadians to rally around their Prime Minister and his policies without realizing they were US policies.

While Saudi Arabia is a US proxy, the crisis slowly destroying it serves US interests, not hinders them.

The destruction of Saudi energy export infrastructure hurts Asia and China first and foremost and is a key part of US objectives amid its war of aggression on Iran and its wider war on multipolarism.

References: NEO — The US “Burden Sharing Network” Takes Shape (Sep. 15, 2026); US White House National Security Strategy (2025); EIA Saudi crude oil exports; Harvard Atlas of Economic Complexity; FT — Canada seeks Ukraine loan role to deepen EU ties (Sep. 14, 2026); CBC — Iraq and alleged militia attack on Saudi oil pipeline (Sep. 12, 2026); NYT — The Partnership (2025); NYT — The Spy War (2024). 

Australia | Calls for a Royal Commission into Covid | Sept. 10, 2026

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Prominent Australians are calling for a Royal Commission into Covid in this live discussion at The Juniors Kingsford on Thursday 10 September 2026.

Comments posted in the live chat may be displayed in the livestream.

Hosted by Graham Hood and John Larter.

Guests include Professor Charlie Teo (neurosurgeon), Emeritus Professor Robert Clancy AM (clinical immunologist), Emeritus Professor Angus Dalgleish (immunologist / medical oncologist), Dr Melissa McCann (GP; class action for vaccine-injured), and Dr Phillip Altman (pharmacologist; former TGA drug regulator).

Also appearing: Senator Malcolm Roberts, Senator Alex Antic, John Ruddick MLC, Gerard Rennick, Kara Potter (CoVerse), Rosie Marshall, NZ whistleblower Barry Young, Dr Raphael Lataster, Alexandra Marshall, Tony Nikolic, Sharon Cousins, Josh Hawkes, Prof Ian Brighthope, Katie Ashby-Koppens, Dr Julie Sladden, Ben Falconer, Craig Kelly, former UK parliamentarian Andrew Bridgen, and Dr John Campbell (UK).

Why it matters: Australia had some of the world’s longest and harshest lockdowns and mandates. More than 140,000 adverse events and 1,000 deaths were reported to the TGA. FoI documents on testing and safety were fully redacted. In 2022 Health Minister Mark Butler said it would be “unthinkable” not to hold a Royal Commission into Covid.^ 

Richard Dolan | UFO Whistleblowers: What is the Pentagon Actually Promising? | Sept. 15, 2026

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The Pentagon says UFO insiders can now come forward without violating their secrecy agreements. But come forward to whom? And what happens to their evidence afterward? 

Six weeks ago, I raised those questions about PURSUE. Now we have a follow-up announcement, and the answers still aren't clear. I look at what the Pentagon is promising, and how the secrecy system can absorb the information, absorb the pressure, and keep the public in the dark. Getting extraordinary information into another government office is no guarantee that any of it will ever come out. 

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