Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are in Moscow meeting Vladimir Putin, and the real goal behind their talk of a new European security architecture looks a lot like a ceasefire by another name. Alex breaks down the Axios scoop, why this mirrors the Minsk playbook, Zelensky mocking Trump over Greenland in Denmark, Israel preparing a possible Iran strike, and the Nvidia board moving to oust Jensen Huang. Will Putin take the bait, or is Washington about to hear a firm no on any freeze?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Israel readies possible Iran strike
00:04:29 Nvidia board moves to oust Jensen Huang
00:09:40 Kushner and Witkoff meet Putin in Moscow
00:12:24 US asks Russia for new European security architecture
00:16:36 Putin's likely reply and a Minsk rerun
00:20:06 Zelensky tour and Donbas claims
00:23:42 Zelensky mocks Trump in Denmark
00:25:16 EU negotiator demand and Merz ready to call Putin
00:26:46 Italy school bomb threat hoax
00:28:57 Spain general strike over housing
00:31:39 Russian ambassador Darchiev dies at 66
00:32:07 Clown World: Ovechkin, Carney and Nikki Haley
00:34:16 Budanov speaks Russian again
Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson with Nima Alkhorshid on how Iran turned the tables on the U.S. after the so-called Iron Gate. The program art shows Trump, Iranian warships, and a missile.
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are back in Moscow, asking Putin to resubmit a European security architecture he already handed to Biden back in 2021. In this episode we break down the Axios report, the hardline Russian positions coming out of the Abu Dhabi talks, and why this push for deescalation and a Ukraine ceasefire looks like a rerun of the Minsk agreements. Will Putin fall for the same play twice?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Kushner and Witkoff head to Moscow
00:01:01 Why a new security architecture is a fantasy
00:02:34 Russia's December 2021 draft treaties
00:04:05 Witkoff, Putin and the ceasefire push
00:07:39 Kushner's game plan: resubmit and deescalate
00:10:22 Russia's hardline positions after Abu Dhabi
00:14:09 Nord Stream, Merkel and Minsk lessons
00:16:41 A rerun of Minsk with a twist
00:19:34 Why Russia is far stronger than in 2021
00:21:11 No good faith from Washington or Europe
00:24:35 Why a deal in weeks is impossible
00:26:06 What Putin should tell Kushner
00:28:19 Trump in a hurry, Putin is not
00:32:14 Inside Russia's Security Council
00:35:12 Biden, Blinken and broken promises
Larry Johnson and Andrey Klintsevich on what is blocking a peace deal Trump wants. The episode art asks whether the Ukraine peace talks have hit a dead end, with Putin, Trump, and Zelensky.
Alex Krainer with Nima Alkhorshid on a massive Middle East shift the episode says has just begun. The program art centers Iran, with Trump, oil, and a tanker.
S0 News on two major atmospheric changes and a shattered record. Today's links are a reversed Arctic polar vortex and a paper on anomalous quasi-biennial oscillation (QBO) changes in 2023–2024.
The polar-vortex page says the Arctic vortex has reversed: winds around it blow from the east at 2 m/s, about 30 m/s weaker than the 1991–2020 normal for 11 November. The linked paper compares 2023–2024 equatorial wind and total ozone with the usual QBO cycle and reports an anomalous change.
Dr. Eric Davis, a researcher in advanced propulsion physics and one of the scientific figures associated with U.S. government investigations into unidentified anomalous phenomena, joins Behind Greatness on recovered UAPs, reverse engineering, and time travel.
He traces his turn toward physics to a book he was given at age 12, and his later work in theoretical astrophysics.
Warwick Powell and Laith Marouf on TIO Talks, a week and a half after the US midterms, about talks in the Persian Gulf that Powell says do not match Iranian statements. Marouf calls the shift in Congress and the Israeli election theatrics. He says Netanyahu's share of the Israeli vote rose, and that the visible change was 19 seats for Palestinian citizens' lists.
He treats Trump's threats to destroy Iranian civilization as psychological warfare, and says the United States has no bunker buster that can reach facilities hundreds of meters underground. He expects a wider war soon, started by Washington or Israel, and says the loss of Aden would be decisive for the Saudis in Yemen.
Paul Stonehill on Gonur Depe in the Karakum Desert of Turkmenistan, which he calls the capital of a vanished Bronze Age civilization known as Turkmen Egypt, the Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex.
He says Viktor Sarianidi found the settlement in 1972 in the ancient delta of the Murghab River, near the Afghan border. Excavations from 1974 revealed a palace, temples, fine pottery, bronze, silver, gold, stone, and ivory, later shown at three museums in Germany in 2018 and 2019 and kept in Ashgabat and Mary. He dates the city to about 2300–1500 BCE, with a possible great fire around 1700 BCE, after which it was abandoned.
He describes the royal necropolis found in 2004, mosaics of griffins and bird-headed figures, more than 350 seals, vessels molded with snakes and frogs, and lapis lazuli beads no wider than a millimeter.
Russian teams returned in 2024 and 2026, after a two-year break, to dig the small settlements around the city. Stonehill rejects the idea that the roughly 5,000 bodies were formal burials inside the living quarters.
He says the abandoned dishes, people, and animals look like a disaster, and that something, possibly a war fought with powerful weapons, destroyed a center Sarianidi linked to the Indus Valley and Mohenjo-daro.
Our American Alchemist this week is Jonathan Caplan, a King's Counsel, prominent British barrister, and UFO researcher with over 50 years of experience investigating the phenomenon.
Jonathan joins Jesse to reveal the British Royal Family's surprising history with UFOs, including Prince Philip's private investigations and his aide's alleged encounter with a telepathic non-human intelligence. They examine the controversial Majestic 12 documents, Britain's role in UFO secrecy, alleged CIA crash retrieval operations, and claims connecting the JFK assassination to extraterrestrial intelligence. Jonathan also shares an extraordinary personal memory of life before birth, raising questions about reincarnation, consciousness, and the nature of reality. They explore what non-human intelligences might want from humanity and why governments may never fully disclose what they know.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Cold open
00:02:50 Introducing Jonathan Caplan KC
00:03:55 Prince Philip, Flying Saucer Review and palace witnesses
00:07:53 Peter Horsley meets the mysterious "Mr. Janus"
00:11:19 Lord Mountbatten and Dorothy Kilgallen's crashed-saucer story
00:13:32 King Charles, Dan Costello and the European royals
00:15:52 Why elites care: Maslow, the Rockefellers and Eric Walker
00:18:50 Haim Eshed and the "Galactic Federation"
00:24:32 Majestic 12, the Truman directive and Forrestal's diary
00:29:28 Britain's secret Flying Saucer Working Party
00:33:35 The death of James Forrestal
00:35:50 CIA crash retrievals: Varginha, Peru and Five Eyes
00:42:38 David Grusch, underwater bases and Villarroel's orbs
00:49:14 Paul Hellyer and the pioneers: Keel, Friedman and Mack
00:51:17 Douglas Caddy, Howard Hunt and Watergate
00:55:09 Was JFK killed over UFOs?
01:00:37 The "burned memo" and Lancer
01:02:37 Stanton Friedman and John Mack
01:05:46 Caplan's pre-birth memory and the cycle of life and death
01:13:22 Robert Hastings, Marco Rubio and credible witnesses
01:18:25 Why now? The debunkers: Condon, Hottel and Menzel
01:25:42 Their agenda: abductions, mutilations, Valensole and Timothy Good
01:33:29 Will the UK ever disclose? Trump and what counts as disclosure
Colm Kelleher, a biochemist, managed the day-to-day operations of the Advanced Aerospace Weapon Systems Application Program of the U.S. government, through a contract given to the Bigelow Aerospace Advanced Space Studies.
He is co-author (with George Knapp) of Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah. He is also the coauthor, with George Knapp and James T. Lacatski, of Skinwalkers at the Pentagon: An Insider's Account of the Secret Government UFO Program.
In this video, rebooted from 2021, he describes his investigations of paranormal phenomena at the Skinwalker Ranch in Utah starting in 1996.
Military interest in the project led to a government funded, two-year research program that generated over 100 reports on UFO activity and related topics – eventually leading to the public disclosure in 2021 of military interest and acknowledgment of UFO activity. To conduct this research, Colm assembled a multi-disciplinary team of 50 individuals.
Lula's surprise win in Brazil looks very different from the ground in Rio de Janeiro. Alexander Mercouris talks with Niko House of the For the People Podcast about Alexandre de Moraes and the Supreme Court, why Lula kept Venezuela out of BRICS, free public hospitals, the Pix payment system, favelas, Brasília and soaring food prices. Is Lula quietly working with Washington, and could Brazil still become the next superpower?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introducing Niko House
00:01:46 Lula's surprise comeback over Bolsonaro
00:03:52 Election machines and jailing rivals
00:05:37 Moraes, the STF and Lula's political machine
00:07:51 Is corruption the organizing principle?
00:08:41 Free hospitals, cheap internet and Pix
00:11:43 Lula and the Democratic Party
00:12:43 Venezuela kept out of BRICS
00:14:15 Brazil slows the BRICS financial push
00:17:01 How much sway Washington still has
00:18:55 Why the Democrats won the midterms
00:22:50 Brazil's economy and soaring prices
00:29:07 Rio, São Paulo and the truth about favelas
00:33:15 Brasília and a detached elite
00:35:39 Brazil's foreign policy and superpower future
Iran had agreed to meet JD Vance in Doha. Then, sources in Tehran say, its leadership called Beijing and Moscow, and both said withdraw. Host Zulfiqar Ali explains what changed since Monday. Pepe Escobar in Shanghai and Larry Johnson in Florida on what Washington does next, why choking Iran runs into Russian ships on the Caspian, and why Tehran will not wait.
The account of decisions in Tehran, the Leader's permission, his reading of Washington, the call to Beijing and Moscow, and the decision to end "no war, no peace", is the host's own sourcing and cannot be independently verified. No public readout of those calls exists. "No deal, and no strikes" is Pepe Escobar's account of leaks from the G7 meeting. "The Qatari spin" is his characterisation. The report that Iran has acquired new technology is the host's and is unverified. On the public record, Qatar's prime minister met President Trump and Vice President Vance at the White House on 9 November. Afterwards Trump said the US remains "locked and loaded", and a senior Iranian official denied plans for a meeting. Secretary Rubio called Iran's demands "outrageous and ridiculous" on 8 November.
Timeline:
06:32 China said: withdraw. The call from Tehran to Beijing, per the host's sources.
10:04 The Caspian tripwire: why Larry Johnson says choking Iran means stopping Russian ships.
26:27 Tehran won't wait: Iran's decision to end "no war, no peace", per the host's sources.
We investigate the mysterious Mike Moran phone call to uncover his true connection to Pentagon contracting and DARPA programs.
Following our previous report on the anonymous caller, we identify the individual behind the contact as Mike Moran. This breakdown examines his professional background, specifically his role in owning companies that manage sensitive genetics research for defense agencies. We look at the implications of these high-level affiliations for those tracking UAP disclosure.
By analyzing Moran's track record in government contracting, we assess how private industry intersects with classified research initiatives. This account provides clarity on the figures operating behind the scenes of national security and the ongoing search for answers regarding anomalous technology.
Episode 2075. Alexander Mercouris on Russia's line that a Ukraine deal depends on a European security treaty, the US reaction, and Jared Kushner going to see Putin.
Episode 2235. Jared Kushner heads to Moscow to see Putin after the Abu Dhabi talks ended in two hours. Alex covers Medinsky on Europe's security architecture, a prisoner exchange, Zelensky's demand for an 800,000-strong army, and an EU training mission moving into Ukraine. He also takes Merz and long-range missiles, Fico's refusal, a UK request for a direct line to Moscow, and Rubio on Iran.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Kushner heads to Moscow
00:00:40 Abu Dhabi talks end after two hours
00:01:50 Medinsky on Europe's broken security architecture
00:05:14 Prisoner exchange and Zelensky's 800,000 army demand
00:08:55 Kushner and Witkoff to Putin, then Dublin
00:12:50 St Petersburg drones, Lithuania alert and Odessa
00:17:28 Merz's long range missiles worry France
00:20:39 Fico tells Merz no
00:23:07 EU training mission moves into Ukraine
00:26:07 UK asks for a direct line to Moscow
00:27:48 Rubio, Iran and the Bessent option
00:30:55 Refrigerator gate
00:35:17 Tusk targets social media
00:36:43 Clown world: Levin AOL saga and Kiev substation money
Trita Parsi with Judge Napolitano on how Iran beat Trump. Parsi is co-founder and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.
Chas Freeman, former US assistant secretary of defense and ambassador to Saudi Arabia, with Glenn Diesen on US, Russian and Ukrainian talks that leave the Europeans out. The chapters run from negotiations in Abu Dhabi and Russian security to US-Iran relations, Israeli politics, and the future of American influence.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Negotiations in Abu Dhabi: A New Approach to European Security
00:08:30 The Role of Geography in Russian Security Concerns
00:15:29 Understanding Russian Fears and Historical Context
00:20:25 The Impact of Domestic Politics on Foreign Policy
00:26:49 The Future of U.S.-Iran Relations and Regional Stability
00:29:39 Regional Dynamics and Iranian Influence
00:35:28 Shifting Alliances and Israeli Politics
00:41:09 The Evolving Nature of Warfare
00:44:49 Global Power Shifts and Strategic Autonomy
00:52:55 The Future of American Influence
SpaceWeatherNews, in part 2 of its pole-shift special, presents a research note that counts five Florida-latitude auroras in Solar Cycle 25. The note says those five events, in under three years, stand against a historical average of about 0.6 Florida-equivalent auroras per solar cycle back to 1859, and that the Cycle 25 storms were weaker than the older ones that reached Florida. It reads the difference as Earth answering the solar wind more strongly while the magnetic field changes, not as the sun producing more major storms.
A second note covers 23–24 March 2023: a G4 storm from a faint CME that forecasts missed, and a camera-only red aurora photographed that night from Chiefland, Florida, which the note calls the first Florida aurora of the cycle.
Lula's comeback win in Brazil has broken Latin America's rightward shift, and markets are already repricing what it means for Argentina and Javier Milei next year. In this episode we speak with emerging markets investor Ray Zucaro about Brazil's economy, China's trillion dollar trade surplus, Nvidia's troubles, rare earths and why Xi heads into the Shenzhen summit holding the stronger hand. With America stuck in post midterm limbo and Europe running low on gas, is the center of economic gravity quietly moving away from the West?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction with Ray Zucaro
00:01:41 Why Lula won the Brazil election
00:05:50 Brazilian markets reverse the Bolsonaro trade
00:07:20 Argentina elections and the Milei test
00:09:35 How strong is the Brazilian economy really
00:12:36 China's trillion dollar trade surplus
00:14:51 China's energy and infrastructure advantage
00:17:20 Chinese chips, lithography and Nvidia's troubles
00:21:05 AI data center backlash in the US
00:22:55 Why Xi holds the cards before Shenzhen
00:23:43 Africa's rise and the Nigerian naira
00:26:07 America after the midterms
00:29:05 Europe's energy squeeze and gas reserves
James Corbett's Sunday(?) Update for November 11 covers COP31 in Antalya. He says the UN climate meeting, jointly hosted by Turkey with Australia leading the talks, drops new targets for a push to turn old promises into action. A voluntary pledge aims to raise electricity's share of global energy from 20 percent to 35 percent by 2035 without requiring that power to be clean. He cites economist Tilak Doshi, who writes that phasing out fossil fuels is not a formal agenda item.
He recaps last year's COP30 in Brazil as a failure, including Bill Gates saying climate change is not an existential crisis, a highway cut through rainforest, and a fire in the conference tents. He then says the new pitch is climate health: a WHO report claiming six measures would save 1.6 million lives a year. He points to Charles Rotter, who argues that figure mostly counts deaths from soot, smog, indoor cooking, and sanitation, and that the touted trillions are fuel taxes.
He also covers a separate UN biodiversity COP17 in Yerevan. He says the Yerevan Pathway calls for more control of land, money, and resources, and he quotes Armenia's environment minister Hambardzum Matevosyan on directing how resources are used and where finance goes.
