Prof. Seyed Mohammad Marandi is a professor at Tehran University and a former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiation team. He discusses U.S. war plans toward Iran and a last-minute off-ramp.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introduction and Context of Current Tensions
00:02:50 Iran's Intelligence and Military Preparedness
00:10:09 Consequences of Potential Conflict
00:13:08 Iran's Strategic Moves and US Midterm Elections
00:18:05 Negotiation Dynamics and Off-Ramps
00:24:49 Potential Outcomes and Global Implications
00:27:48 The Escalating Tensions in the Middle East
00:31:22 The Political Landscape in Israel
00:36:31 The Regional Chessboard: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Beyond
00:41:09 The Future of U.S. Influence in the Middle East
00:49:57 The Global Implications of U.S. Foreign Policy
Russia has finally begun striking the Dnieper bridges, and the missile strike that closed Kyiv's South Bridge could reshape Ukraine's entire supply picture. On this episode we break down why the bridge campaign took so long, how Operation Vivaldi gains are being reversed near Lyman as the Zaporizhzhia and Sloviansk Kramatorsk fronts shift, and why the consistent 10 to 1 body exchange ratio and a new academic casualty study challenge the Western narrative. If the bridges fall, can Ukraine's armies in the east hold?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro: bridges, front lines and Operation Vivaldi
00:00:53 Why Russia never hit the Dnieper bridges
00:02:18 Strikes on Kyiv's South Bridge and Zaporizhzhia
00:04:54 What losing the bridges means for Ukraine
00:06:10 Did the West overestimate Russian capabilities?
00:09:08 Politics, BRICS pressure and Ukrainian air defense
00:11:13 Ukraine's economy and missile programs falter
00:13:53 Zaporizhzhia, Orikhiv and the southern push
00:15:47 Operation Vivaldi reversed; Lyman offensive
00:17:35 The 10 to 1 body exchange ratio
00:21:02 New King's College study on casualties
00:25:21 The West's four legged narrative table
00:28:00 What would change Western perceptions
00:30:05 Final thoughts
Vance signed the letter. Iran’s intelligence believes Trump wrote it, a source close to Iran’s security chief Mohsen Rezaei says — and Pepe Escobar challenged that on air.
The same source says that after an hour with Iran’s Supreme Leader, Pakistan’s army chief has taken over the talks, and Iran’s answer is its money back and the blockade gone before any nuclear talks. Qatar remains the public mediator.
Pepe Escobar, from Shanghai, on the $6 billion, the order that blocks a deal, and the strike plans after Tuesday’s midterms. Zulfiqar Ali brings his source.
Timeline:
00:19:14 Inside the room with Iran’s leader — per our host’s source.
00:20:12 Pakistan takes the talks.
00:25:05 Vance signed. Trump wrote? Iran’s assessment — and the on-air challenge.
00:27:43 $6 billion back, blockade gone, nuclear talks last.
Poland is in a full blown constitutional crisis after Donald Tusk sent police to take over the constitutional tribunal, forcing President Nawrocki to turn his plane around as PiS warns of a judiciary coup. Alex breaks down what Brussels stands to gain from control of Poland's courts, plus the G20 family photo fiasco in Atlanta, Lavrov's verdict on Europe, and the Axios report on Iran talks ahead of the midterms. Did Tusk just make the biggest political blunder of his career?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:40 Poland constitutional crisis explodes
00:04:41 Tusk suspends tribunal chief and sends in police
00:06:57 Judiciary coup claims and street protests
00:07:56 EU pressure on Poland's courts, borders and the euro
00:10:17 Nawrocki turns his plane around
00:13:45 Sikorski admits it was not elegant
00:14:51 G20 Atlanta family photo fiasco
00:18:20 Lavrov says Europe blew its chance
00:19:24 Iran talks, Qatar mediation and the midterms
00:23:35 Oleshky evacuation completed
00:25:45 Patriot PAC 3 deal delayed until after 2030
00:27:36 The Flamingo missile grift
00:29:57 Clown world: Kallas and Carney
00:33:31 Daily Mail doomsday space nuke
Joseph McMoneagle is a world-renowned remote viewer who has worked professionally in the field for almost four decades – both within the military and as a private contractor.
He is author of Mind Trek, The Ultimate Time Machine, The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy, and Remote Viewing Secrets. He is also coauthor of ESP Wars: East and West.
He is the recipient of a congressional Legion of Merit Award for his remote viewing work within the U.S. government military intelligence services. He has successfully demonstrated remote viewing on television, both live and taped, on numerous occasions.
In this video, rebooted from 2016, he points out that he is comfortable working with “honest skeptics” in the media. He prefers such individuals to “true believers”.
On the other hand, working with hostile scoffers is a waste of his time. He describes several examples in which he demonstrated remote viewing for television audiences both in the United States and Japan.
He explains many of the difficulties that people in the media have in presenting parapsychological phenomena. In many instances, they are afraid of ridicule if they appear to endorse the reality of the phenomena.
Thomas Fazi is an Italian journalist and author focusing on economics and geopolitics.
He discusses NATO's hybrid warfare, deception, and permanent war with Glenn Diesen.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Thomas Fazi on European politics and hybrid warfare
00:02:18 Why Fazi calls hybrid warfare a dangerously vague concept
00:05:05 A counter-database of disputed Russian-war claims
00:08:26 Baltic cables, a Lithuania plane crash, and Heathrow
00:12:15 The drone-sighting wave and what investigations found
00:16:05 Stray drones, the von der Leyen claim, and evidence
00:18:02 Nord Stream and the consequences of misattribution
00:23:24 Threat narratives, domestic politics, and rearmament
00:28:06 Information warfare, censorship, and Romania’s election
00:30:01 Gladio and the danger of manufactured threats
00:35:58 RussiaGate and the persistence of disputed claims
00:42:09 Public opinion, propaganda, and rising repression risks
Russia's Black Sea blockade has quietly expanded into the territorial waters of Romania and Bulgaria, with sea drones sinking cargo ships bound for Ukraine near Constanta and Varna while NATO stays silent. Alexander breaks down the strikes on the Dnipro bridge and railway station, the Starlink feud between Elon Musk and the US intelligence community, the 500 PAC 3 interceptors Ukraine will not see until 2030, and Lavrov's sharp exchange at the G20 in Atlanta. Has the Black Sea become a Russian lake while the West looks the other way?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:35 Fresh Russian strikes on Kiev
00:01:07 Dnieper bridge in Dnipro hit
00:04:33 Kiev South Bridge and Zaporozhye bridge status
00:06:39 Dnipro railway station struck
00:11:00 Eleven cargo ships sunk in the Black Sea
00:14:28 Ships hit in Romanian and Bulgarian waters
00:15:28 The Bulgarian presidential election angle
00:18:44 Russian sea drones and the Turkish Straits
00:22:57 Black Sea becomes a Russian lake
00:27:08 Russian satellite over Kiev during the strike
00:30:43 Rassvet satellites and Iskander precision
00:35:45 Ukraine refinery strikes defy Trump
00:41:51 The Atlantic, Elon Musk and the Starlink fight
00:48:31 500 PAC 3 interceptors that do not exist yet
00:58:43 Lavrov at the G20 in Atlanta
01:03:32 Lavrov rebuffs Deutsche Welle on Putin and Zelensky
01:07:18 Oleshky ceasefire and front line advances
01:16:55 Europe far behind on diplomacy and Abu Dhabi
01:19:21 Iran island plans and the Snake Island lesson
America lost. Iran didn’t win. Vijay Prashad, back from Brazil and China, says that is why neither side will make the first concession — Iranian nuclear material or American bases.
Our host’s sources say Iran will ask China and Russia to act as guarantors of the Trump administration’s conduct — a task the host himself calls impossible. Meanwhile Saudi Arabia’s defence minister sat down in Tehran, and Prashad says what a real UN chief would do: “set up the UN headquarters in Gaza.”
Timeline:
00:18:01 Who could guarantee Trump? China, Russia and the Islamabad MoU — per our host’s sources.
00:25:53 “You can lose a war without the other side having won it”: Vijay Prashad’s verdict.
00:42:15 Move the UN to Gaza: “we dare you to bomb us.”
The US and Israeli build up to another round of strikes on Iran that's happening in front of our eyes is being concealed by talks of intense mediation efforts from Qatar and other regional actors. Geopolitical analyst Mark Sleboda joins the show to discuss what this build up actually looks like, what it means for the geopolitical landscape, and provides his expert military analysis on the theaters of war from West Asia/Middle East to Ukraine.
Scott Ritter tells Judge Napolitano that the Pentagon plan is a raid on Iran's energy sites at Kharg and Qeshm, meant to collapse the Iranian economy and target its leadership, not an occupation of the islands.
He says Iran would answer by striking Gulf energy infrastructure, including Saudi Arabia, and that Senator Chris Murphy should reveal the plan and try to stop what Ritter calls an illegal war.
Einar Tangen is a senior fellow at the Taihe Institute and at CIGI. With Glenn Diesen he discusses China's new economic strategy versus the West's ideological trap.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Introducing Einar Tangen and China's fifth plenum
00:02:40 Anti-corruption and the question of political legitimacy
00:08:10 Prescriptive versus performative governance
00:13:27 Western politics, planning, and recurring promises
00:21:30 Ideological certainty versus a willingness to learn
00:25:10 China's shift toward shared gains and social development
00:31:31 Environmental rights, consumption, and small business
00:34:25 Digital tools and opening international markets to SMEs
00:38:15 AI productivity and the prospect of shorter workweeks
00:42:07 Markets, extraction, and public investment
00:44:37 Dollar alternatives, US debt, and economic vulnerability
Anders Otteson of Uncanny Expeditions gives a part-one update on the Northrop Tejon radar test range at the west end of California's Antelope Valley. He recaps the site, which official records mothballed in 2011, along with later local accounts and UFO sightings, and says part two is due Sunday.
Daniel Liszt presents Dark Journalist X-Series episode 243 on continuity of government, a cyber crash, a deep event, the UFO file, Secret America, missing scientists, and Golden Dome, with NORAD and NORTHCOM emergency powers.
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.
Putin's 90 minute call with Finland's Alexander Stubb and Norway's Jonas Gahr Støre went nowhere, and the Kremlin readout now demands unconditional acceptance of Russia's terms. In this episode we break down why Stubb is angling to become Europe's chief negotiator, why London spun a false Financial Times story, and why the push for a Ukraine ceasefire on current lines keeps hitting a wall. With Witkoff, Kushner and Dmitriev floating Arctic and energy deals, who is really stringing who along?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Putin's call with Stubb and Støre; Norway refutes the FT
00:01:16 UK sources working to block diplomacy
00:02:47 Frederiksen and EU hardliners furious over the call
00:03:47 Stubb and Støre refloat the old Donbas proposal
00:04:53 Putin demands unconditional acceptance of Russia's terms
00:06:06 Why the call happened; Finland's growing concerns
00:07:23 Stubb's bid to be Europe's chief negotiator
00:09:19 Is US intelligence backing Stubb?
00:11:17 Why Putin takes every call
00:12:12 Europe's nightmare: separate deals with Russia
00:15:57 The real goal: a ceasefire on current lines
00:18:57 Echoes of unconditional surrender
00:24:12 Why not von der Leyen or Kaja Kallas?
00:27:23 Arctic deals, energy talks and the sanctions reality
00:31:07 Who's stringing who along?
Larry Johnson warns a strike on Iran could become Trump's 'Eagle Claw' and expects it after the markets close Friday.
Johnson, a former CIA analyst, expects Trump to strike Iran after Tuesday's midterms, most likely Friday, after the markets close, and warns it could cost a ship, potentially an aircraft carrier, and a thousand lives: Trump's own Eagle Claw. Would his officers refuse the order? Johnson says they can, and after Tuesday, the Senate may hold their promotions. Meanwhile, per Zulfiqar Ali's sources, Iran has answered J.D. Vance's letter: our money back, blockade off, then talks.
Timeline:
00:03:33 Iran's reply to Vance — per our host's sources.
00:08:41 After the markets close: Johnson's timing.
00:37:15 Eagle Claw: the carrier, the thousand, and Jimmy Carter's 1980 failure in Iran.
00:40:35 Would his officers refuse? The Senate and every promotion from colonel up.
Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou tells Elizabeth Lane what government corruption looks like from the inside: officers who retire on Friday and come back Monday with a different colored badge and a no-bid contract, a company that grew into a multi-billion dollar business that way.
He explains the F-35 'flying duck', why the Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row, how the CIA hides its budget inside other agencies' line items, what happened to the truckloads of gear he handed to a Pakistani general, and why his bosses kept telling him: don't try to save the government money.
Timeline:
00:00:00 'He probably sold it to the Taliban'
00:00:39 Government corruption
00:01:55 The revolving door
00:02:59 A multi-billion dollar company
00:04:03 The strip-club contract
00:05:39 Price rigging and kickbacks
00:06:32 The F-35 'flying duck'
00:12:00 Seven failed audits
00:13:44 The Golden Fleece
00:14:39 Costa Rican snails
00:15:25 Unlimited budget in Pakistan
00:17:29 'What stuff?'
00:19:18 Don't save the government money
00:19:45 The $5 trip to Pittsburgh
00:22:22 The $195 salad
00:24:07 'I have so much money'
Co-host of The Duran and geopolitical analyst Alexander Mercouris joins to discuss the massive escalation building up for another round of strikes by the US and Israel, and what impact midterm elections, Israeli elections, and Western emergency alert panic are having on the geopolitical landscape. Plus, a full deep dive into the news and analysis on the Middle East (West Asia), the Ukraine conflict, and much more!
Ted Postol tells Daniel Davis that the PAC-3 has no chance of hitting an Iranian ballistic missile, and that a nuclear strike on Iran's mountain sites would not destroy them. He says Iran could build a simple bomb within weeks of an attack and that Israel would not survive nuclear strikes on its major cities, while Davis opens on Trump's push for talks with Russia and Ukraine.
Putin just warned that the Baltic Sea could become the next Strait of Hormuz, and Alex breaks down what that means for Europe as Elbridge Colby and the Pentagon quietly tell Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to stop poking Russia. We also cover Ursula von der Leyen and Mark Carney pushing Canada toward EU associate membership, Zelensky striking Russian refineries despite Trump's pressure, the CENTCOM briefing on Iran, Kaja Kallas under fire and the massive $6 billion Binance crypto hack. Is Europe about to turn the Baltic into its own Hormuz crisis?
Timeline:
00:00:00 Ursula and Carney push Canada EU associate membership
00:04:17 Merz backs the EU Canada Alliance for the Future
00:08:41 Putin backs Africa seat on UN Security Council
00:10:05 Putin warns Baltic Sea could become another Hormuz
00:12:00 Why Putin took the call from Stubb and Store
00:13:33 Putin on 2030: Russia ready, but no victors
00:15:10 Colby tells Baltic states to stop poking Russia
00:19:14 WSJ says Ukraine paused refinery strikes, then Samara hit
00:23:10 CENTCOM briefs Trump on Iran blockade and Hormuz
00:27:16 Senator Murphy calls the Iran strike plan insane
00:29:54 Nord Stream stays shut as EU oil majors post record profits
00:33:00 The $6.3 billion Binance hack and North Korea claims
00:36:07 Clown World: Berliner Zeitung asks what Kallas does
00:39:16 Merz in Japan seeking funds for Ukraine
00:41:03 Rest in peace Patrick Stewart
Larry Wilkerson and Larry Johnson discuss a Financial Times report that Iran is using limpet mines, and Nima Alkhorshid’s account that at least two supertankers are on fire in the Strait of Hormuz after US Central Command said the mines were gone. Wilkerson says the mines add to Iran’s options rather than marking a new kind of escalation, and Johnson says US ships can no longer enter the strait without coming under attack.
Alexander Mercouris and Alex Christoforou discuss Ursula von der Leyen pressing for Canada as an EU associate member, a large Russian missile strike, and Ukrainian attacks on refineries. They say Elbridge Colby told the Baltic states to calm their rhetoric toward Russia, and that US talk of de-escalation with Iran is cover for a return to war within weeks.
Kevin Annett, an ex-minister and Vatican whistleblower, tells Danny Jones he was blacklisted in Canada after the United Church delisted him for raising the deaths of children in Indian residential schools. He describes what he says is happening at the Vatican, including China's role in the Church and the resignation of Pope Benedict.
Timeline:
00:00:00 Being Blacklisted in Canada & the Trudeau Family
00:03:28 Environmental Genocide & How Canada Killed Thousands of Natives
00:16:13 China Secretly Runs the Catholic Church & Canada
00:25:27 How Kevin got Blacklisted
00:31:30 Forcing Pope Benedict's Resignation & Church Experiments on Children
00:36:52 Josef Mengele & Nazis in Canada
00:39:19 The Vatican's Death Camps
00:44:56 China's Growing Power & Church Experiments in America
00:48:34 Big Pharma & Churches Working Together on Drug Test Experiments
00:55:27 Making AI Into a God & Reason vs. Religion
01:02:17 Mass Mind-Control & Psychedelics in Church
01:04:40 Neuralink & Prototype Mind Control Experiments
01:10:52 "There's a Big Crash Coming in North America"
01:15:05 Exiled from Canada & the Illusion of Democracy
01:19:47 Dr. Michael Persinger's God Helmet & Splitting Personalities
01:27:48 AI Weapons, Russian Plague & Dissociation
01:31:40 Canada's Leadership & Who Runs the Media
01:38:11 Indigenous Groups in Canada & How Churches Avoid the Law
01:48:28 Kevin's Exorcism & Tentacles of a Multidimensional Reality
02:00:06 What the "Devil" Really Is
02:04:09 Patreon Questions
Alastair Crooke tells Nima Alkhorshid that Senator Chris Murphy called a Trump administration briefing on restarting military operations against Iran insane and said the plan would prolong and escalate the war. Crooke says some form of military action after the US midterms is the most likely course, describes a message from JD Vance to Iran as a carrot beside threats of a larger war that Tehran will not answer with nuclear concessions, and says Netanyahu, possibly as a caretaker prime minister, could still join such a war.
