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Anthony Aguilar & Ray McGovern | Iran Blows Up US-Israeli Strike Plan; Russia Joins War | Oct. 21, 2026

Source: Danny Haiphong youtube



Description: 
Trump & Israel are scrambling to launch a massive strike plan but Iran has other ideas. New reports suggest that Iran has blown up the attack but that hasn't stopped the masters of war in Washington and Tel Aviv from building up toward a new round of war that could begin at any moment. Former Lt. Colonel Anthony Aguilar and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern join to break it all down.

Patrick Henningsen | WSJ: 23 Million Barrels of Oil Flow Through Hormuz Every Day | Oct. 21, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube, 21stcenturywire.com, 21st Century Wire youtube



Description: 
Nima Alkhorshid says the Wall Street Journal and Kpler claim that 23 million barrels of crude oil are flowing through the Strait of Hormuz every 24 hours. Patrick Henningsen says he finds a return to pre-war volumes impossible, calls the figure likely disinformation ahead of the US elections, and says a Brent futures price near $108 a barrel is well below the $150 to $200 he says it costs to move a barrel from the dock into a refinery.

Andrei Martyanov | Rubio Enlightened | Oct. 21, 2026

Source: Andrei Martyanov youtube, smoothiex12.blogspot.com



Description: 
ISW--war amateurs. Big Three meeting idea source. Andrei Martyanov says he agrees with Marco Rubio that it is not unusual for the leaders of the three most powerful nuclear-armed nations to communicate, and that Rubio is right that there are three superpowers and the rest depends on what those three settle among themselves.

Alexander Mercouris | Putin Trashes EU/Kiev Offer In Witkoff Meeting; No Truce November Talks; Russia To Bomb Kiev Bridge | Oct. 21, 2026

Source: Alexander Mercouris youtube



Description: 
Vladimir Putin has dismissed the Oslo plan Steve Witkoff carried to St Petersburg, telling him the European and Kiev proposals offered little useful for ending the Ukraine conflict. Alexander explains why forcing Russia to choose between Donbas and Ukraine staying out of NATO was always doomed, why the November 10 trilateral talks will come with no ceasefire, and why recent Russian glide bomb strikes near the Kiev and Dnipro bridges look like rehearsals for something bigger as forces close in on Zaporozhye. With Zelensky refusing every concession and Biletsky now running the Donbas battle, is a negotiated settlement still possible at all?

Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro and the latest US push
00:01:40 Putin rejects the Witkoff proposals
00:03:09 How we got here: Anchorage and the drone offensive
00:07:43 Russia's air campaign cripples Ukraine
00:08:38 Glide bombs near the Kiev and Dnipro bridges
00:12:20 Europe asks Washington to reopen talks
00:15:10 The Trump Zelensky diesel dispute
00:19:57 Why Zelensky refuses every concession
00:25:22 Oslo meeting and the Donbas or NATO plan
00:28:55 Ushakov's readout of the St Petersburg talks
00:33:14 Talks set for November 10 with no ceasefire
00:37:46 A new European security architecture?
00:40:25 Lavrov on reversible US concessions
00:42:34 Why the meeting lasted three hours
00:44:46 Hubbard, diesel, Middle East and the APEC idea
00:47:01 Li Qiang in St Petersburg and the China factor
00:50:06 Kaja Kallas and the endless conflict option
00:52:16 Why Russia will return for the Kiev bridges
00:59:35 Zaporozhye front: Kamianske and Malokaterynivka
01:05:24 ISW numbers, Operation Vivaldi and Biletsky

The Duran | France and the hollowing out of Europe | Oct. 21, 2026

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Description:
France is in flames and Macron has left the country, but in this episode we argue this is not just a French crisis, it is a European one rooted in a Brussels center that now controls borders, migration, the euro, foreign policy and Project Ukraine. From Orban and Georgescu to Meloni, Le Pen, Merz and the AfD, we explain why national governments can no longer answer to their own voters, and why Macron may already have his eyes on the European Central Bank as Lagarde moves on. Will the EU outlive the very nations it was built on?

The Duran: Episode 2654
00:00:00 France protests spread across Europe
00:01:00 Why France is the flash point again
00:02:16 Migration, economics and fear of conflict
00:03:53 Weak governments under a Brussels center
00:07:14 France under pressure from EU policy
00:09:38 There is no France without sovereignty
00:10:26 Orban, Georgescu and the price of dissent
00:11:43 Meloni falls in line, Le Pen softens
00:14:28 The EU will destroy member states first
00:17:27 Five years of meetings about Ukraine money
00:19:34 Macron's speech and his exit to the Middle East
00:22:47 Macron's next move: the European Central Bank?
00:26:00 Project Ukraine as the test of loyalty
00:29:08 Burning of the town hall and cultural violence
00:32:32 Europe's future: tourism and the military
00:34:12 Germany's AfD split, east versus west
00:38:04 Britain, Brexit and the London establishment
00:41:14 What is the EU? Treaties and Aztec gods
00:44:16 Mercouris on the France he loves 

Bigelow Podcast | Does consciousness survive death? Chris Carter on the case for the afterlife | Oct. 21, 2026

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Description:
Oxford-educated philosopher and author Chris Carter joins the Robert Bigelow Podcast to lay out the evidence that consciousness survives death. He starts with the haunting that first drew him to the question. He then walks through the early research of the British and American Societies for Psychical Research, including how several debunkers became believers.

Can We Prove There Is Life After Death? | BY Chris Carter

Pepe Escobar | MBS wants Pakistan. Trump needs Iran. What did Munir deliver? Munir in Tehran | Transition Protocol | Oct. 21, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube



Description:
MBS wants Pakistan. Trump needs Iran. Pakistan’s Field Marshal Munir is in Tehran — and our host’s sources say MBS gets a no. Pepe Escobar says what Munir carried: a quiet return of IAEA inspectors, for little more than the interest on Iran’s $6 billion in Qatar.
— 06:10 The offer: IAEA inspectors back in Iran, and what Iran would get in return — according to Pepe Escobar.
— 14:21 “Show us the money”: why Escobar says Tehran won’t take it — before the 3 November midterms.
— 30:01 What MBS wants from Pakistan, and why our host’s sources say Islamabad will refuse.
What you’ll learn: what Field Marshal Asim Munir carried into Tehran · why Washington wants a concession from Iran before the midterms · how sanctions, the IMF and the border gates squeeze Pakistan · what Lavrov proposed in Tehran · what our host’s sources say about China’s backing, the Riyadh war room and Saudi pressure.

Sourcing note: The Qatari–Pakistani IAEA idea and its price are Pepe Escobar’s account; we have not located them in public reporting. The Pakistan–MBS and China reports are our host’s own sourcing from Islamabad and Rawalpindi and cannot be independently verified. 

The Najran delegation, the three Black Hawks and the Article 2 wording are as Escobar describes them; we have not located them. Escobar’s Balochistan remarks are a scenario, not a report. Public record: Fars said Munir’s trip was finalised on Monday 19 October; Reuters reported on 20 October — after this recording — that Mohsen Rezaei told Munir there would be “no talks with Washington until Tehran’s demands were met”, and that Iranian officials see “little prospect of a breakthrough before the November 3 vote”; Trump has said the US would not strike Iran again before 3 November. The 1934 Treaty of Taif was signed between Saudi Arabia and Yemen.

Alex Christoforou | Putin's Two Options; Witkoff Oslo Ukraine Plan; Zelensky Has No Clue | Oct. 20, 2026

Source: Alex Christoforou youtube



Description: 
Europe is finally ready to talk to Russia, but the two option offer reported by the Financial Times looks designed to be rejected. Alex walks through the Witkoff Oslo meeting with the E4, Zelensky lobbying US senators against Trump, Elon Musk distancing Starlink from Star Shield, plus curfews in France, Albania blaming Russia for its protests, the Kim Jong Un coma rumor and Christiane Amanpour leaving CNN. Why would Putin pick either door when Russia is already winning?

Timeline:
00:00:00 Europe ready to talk to Russia
00:01:13 FT reveals Europe's two options for Putin
00:03:47 Why Russia will reject a ceasefire and the NATO trade
00:06:26 Setting Russia up to say no and the next escalation
00:07:29 Starlink, Starshield and Musk distancing
00:09:33 Witkoff heads to Oslo to meet the E4 and Ukraine
00:12:43 Kushner joins virtually as US and Europe coordinate
00:14:52 Trump lashes out at Zelensky over leadership
00:17:04 Trump floats a Trump Xi Putin denuclearization meeting
00:20:43 Zelensky lobbies US senators against Trump
00:26:21 Republicans tie Pentagon funding to a tougher Russia stance
00:27:18 France curfews, Macron in the UAE and Italy deploys troops
00:29:31 Hegseth in Israel and talk of another Iran strike
00:30:48 Clown World: Albania protests and Rama blames Russia
00:34:28 Kim Jong Un coma rumor and Amanpour leaves CNN

Pepe Escobar | Ansarallah Captures Strategic Mountain, Munir in Tehran and Hegseth in Israel | Oct. 20, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube



Description: 
Nima Alkhorshid says Ansarallah has captured Jabal Han, a strategic mountain in the encirclement of Taizz, and that the siege is closing on Saudi-backed forces in a city of at least two million people. Pepe Escobar says a Najran tribal delegation pledged allegiance in Sanaa, and that Sergei Lavrov went to Tehran before Munir.

The Duran | Desperate Maneuvers To Get Russia To Stop | Oct. 20, 2026

Source: The Duran youtube



Description: 
Europe and Washington are quietly drafting a new offer for Moscow, and Russia is almost certain to say no. In this episode we break down the Financial Times report on Europe's two option plan, Witkoff's Oslo talks, the rumored Trump Putin Xi meeting at APEC, and why the public Trump Zelensky feud may be cover for coordinated escalation through Starlink and Star Shield. Is the West setting up Russia's rejection as the excuse for one last big round of escalation?

Timeline:
00:00:00 Russia grinding Ukraine down as Western diplomacy turns chaotic
00:00:48 Rumored Trump Xi Putin meeting at APEC in China
00:01:16 Witkoff in Oslo and a possible trip to Moscow
00:01:42 Financial Times reveals Europe's two option plan
00:02:59 Endgame since September and the West's push for a freeze
00:04:16 Ratcliffe threats and Witkoff Kushner offers rejected
00:06:47 Was the tripartite summit really Putin's idea?
00:09:07 Trump links the meeting to denuclearization
00:10:39 Why China won't want a three way meeting
00:12:30 Rassvet, Oreshnik and Ukraine's financial crisis
00:14:49 Trump Zelensky feud versus quiet US Europe coordination
00:18:46 Starlink, Star Shield and the intelligence sharing confusion
00:21:08 Kellogg plan, the summer drone offensive and Vietnam parallels
00:26:10 Zelensky lobbies US senators against Trump
00:32:05 Through the fog: Russia will say no

MintPress News | Iran Destroys U.S. Strike Plan As Yemen Acquires Khaibar Shekan Missiles To Strike Israel | Oct. 20, 2026

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Description:
On this episode of The Target, Robert Inlakesh breaks down how Yemen’s acquisition of modern Iranian Khaibar Shekan missiles to strike Tel Aviv & the IRGC’s new missile strategy has completely destroyed the U.S.-Israeli strike plan. All as Washington issues warning to 11 embassies across the region that escalation may be imminent.

Plus, we cover a Saudi helicopter shot down near the Yemeni border, mysterious fires at UAE oil sites in the Strait of Hormuz, and the massive escalation of missile strikes on Saudi Arabia while Riyadh continues its horrific civilian massacres in Yemen, with the city of Taiz suffering the most casualties. Also, we debunk the mainstream media propaganda, & disinformation being spread in the alternative media, regarding Yemen.

The corporate media is completely silent on the massive escalation in the Middle East, but we aren't.

Stand with independent watchdog journalism.

Larry Johnson | Lavrov Lands in Tehran, MBS Is on His Own, Trump Is Out of Options,Hegseth Summoned Generals | Transition Protocol | Oct. 20, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube



Description:
Trump said Russia was doing “very little, if anything” to help Iran. Today Sergey Lavrov sat beside Abbas Araghchi in Tehran. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson asks whether that was a coincidence — and host Zulfiqar Ali’s Pakistani and Turkish contacts say the leader who is really on his own is MBS.

— 09:29 Lavrov in Tehran: “You think that was just a coincidence?”
— 19:55 MBS on his own: why Pakistan and Turkey have cut their support, per our host’s contacts — and China’s position.— 30:48 “There are no good military options”: Trump’s only way out, according to Larry Johnson.

What you’ll learn: why Lavrov’s visit contradicts Trump’s claim about Russia · why Pakistan’s border “closure” is two gates, not the border · what our host’s sources say about MBS, Pakistan, Turkey and China · why Iran wants the Islamabad MOU, not the JCPOA · what Johnson expects before the 3 November election.

Sourcing note: The reports on Pakistan’s and Turkey’s support for MBS, on China’s position, on sea traffic through Gwadar and on US helicopters off Pakistan’s coast are our host’s own sourcing and cannot be independently verified. Johnson’s report of a Quantico meeting of senior officers on 20 October had not been publicly reported at the time of publishing. 

Public record: Lavrov met Araghchi in Tehran on 19 October and said Russia is committed to its 20-year strategic partnership with Iran; Pakistan suspended trade at the Taftan and Gabd crossings (18 October; some reports say four crossings) and Iran’s foreign ministry cited “technical issues”; Trump said on 16 October that “Israel’s been very helpful to Saudi Arabia”; IRGC Brigadier General Hossein Zarifi was killed in Saravan on 24 September; Pakistan’s information ministry on 18 October called claims that the US Navy operates from Pakistani territory against Iran “baseless”. 

Joseph Farrell | Beyond the Forbidden | The Darkside of AI: Transhumanism & the Technocratic Elites Endgame | Oct. 20, 2026

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Description:
THROWBACK INTERVIEW FROM 2019

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YOUTUBE:

A FEW TALKING POINTS IN THIS INTERVIEW:
• AI as an anti-human technology: Farrell argues AI is fundamentally anti-human and that its unchecked development could lead to a Terminator-like future if not carefully controlled.

• Consciousness upload agenda: He outlines a possible blueprint in which elites seek to infuse or transfer human consciousness into AI systems, effectively creating a form of digital immortality or machine-based existence.

• Will AI turn on us? Discussion of the risk that advanced AI could become autonomous, malevolent, or act against human interests.

• Elon Musk’s role: Analysis of Musk’s public warnings about AI and his involvement in its development, including the idea that something external could be “transduced” into AI systems.

• Cold War race to perfect AI: Historical context of the U.S.–Soviet competition in advanced technologies and how that race continues in the AI domain.

• Malevolent agendas: How AI could be weaponized or used by powerful groups for control rather than human benefit.

• CERN and the Large Hadron Collider: Speculation on whether high-energy physics experiments could intersect with AI development or open pathways to simulated or higher-dimensional realities.

• Simulated universe theory: Whether we may already live in a simulation and how AI fits into that framework.


Alex Christoforou | Xi, Putin, Trump Meeting; Macron Blames Trump, Then Flees France | Oct. 19, 2026

Source: Alex Christoforou youtube



Description: 
In the video I reference the Putin-Trump call on October 9th. I said "December 9th" multiple times. This is my mistake. I meant to say October 9th. My apologies for the error.

Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump may meet at the APEC summit in China to discuss Ukraine, and Zelensky is not invited. Alex breaks down the Wall Street Journal report, Trump's blunt Truth Social message to Zelensky after pausing Graham's sanctions, Russia's Rasvet guided strikes on western Ukraine, and Macron's speech blaming Trump for fuel prices before flying off to the Gulf. Is Europe's leadership running out of excuses as protests spread from Paris to Milan?


Timeline:
00:00:00 Xi, Putin and Trump to meet at APEC in China
00:04:05 Why Zelensky is not invited
00:06:48 Trump defends pausing Graham's sanctions bill
00:09:10 Trump on Iran and his blunt message to Zelensky
00:11:14 Witkoff and Kushner call and what Putin may propose
00:13:12 Zelensky blames the US in NBC interview
00:15:40 Russia hits western Ukraine using Rasvet
00:17:56 Kyiv strikes and the US warning claims
00:21:19 St Petersburg drone flight path via Lithuania
00:25:18 Macron's speech and the Celine Dion concert
00:29:38 Macron blames Trump and the Middle East
00:33:12 Macron leaves France for the Gulf
00:35:06 Italy's Crosetto dismisses public opinion
00:36:54 Trump endorses Netanyahu
00:38:49 Clown World: Zelensky's NBC interview

Scott Ritter | Trump vs. Zelensky — End of Ukraine, NATO & EU | Oct. 19, 2026

Source: Glenn Diesen youtube



Description: 
Scott Ritter tells Glenn Diesen that the largest drone attack on St. Petersburg did not exploit a hole in Russian air defenses so much as a corridor along Belarus, Poland, and the Baltic states, where intercepting the drones would put Russian assets into NATO airspace, and that the precision implies guidance beacons inside NATO countries. He says Zelensky made the quarrel with Donald Trump personal, a mistake he calls fatal, and that the split points to the collapse of Ukraine and, with it, of NATO and the European Union.

Andrei Martyanov | Convulsions | Oct. 19, 2026

Source: Andrei Martyanov youtube, smoothiex12.blogspot.com



Description: 
Big Three, real one. Stand-off arsenals. Andrei Martyanov says political and military elites have brought Europe to the end, with France convulsing, and that only the United States, China, and Russia will decide a relatively peaceful world, because Russia's standoff arsenal, used every day, is not comparable to what he says remains of U.S. munitions after the Iran war.

Larry Wilkerson | Iran's 'Father of Missiles' Responds to Trump's MOAB Threat | Oct. 19, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube



Description: 
Nima Alkhorshid reads Iran's foreign minister answering Donald Trump's endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu and the claim they will finish the job, then an IRGC brigadier general who said a MOAB strike on Iran would be answered with a father of missiles Iran has not used yet. Larry Wilkerson calls that talk a path toward another round of war, likelier after the November 3 election than before it, and says Egypt's President Sisi would be unwise to send troops to Yemen after Tehran warned of consequences.

Stanislav Krapivnik and Mark Sleboda | Putin warns Europe? Risks of nuclear escalation | Oct. 19, 2026

Source: Stanislav Krapivnik youtube



Description:
Stanislav Krapivnik and Mark Sleboda go through a set of warnings: British talk of preparing for war, a nuclear escalation in Europe, pressure on Macron, and further fronts they name in Pakistan, Syria, Iran, and Ukraine.

Timeline:
0:00 British politicians urge preparations for war
4:15 Europe could trigger a nuclear escalation
8:54 French protests increase pressure on Macron
12:28 Migration policies deepen divisions across Europe
16:32 Trump's opponents seek to restrict his decisions
19:54 Pakistan could enter the Middle East conflict
23:59 Syria risks becoming another conflict front
28:24 Houthis challenge Israel over regional conflict
31:30 Trump surprises with ambitious military plans
34:33 Iran war weakens America's strategic position
38:05 Ukraine's future sparks new territorial debates
41:06 Speakers fear another prolonged war 

The Duran | Graham 500% sanctions collapse; Zelensky wants €155 billion | Oct. 19, 2026

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Description:
Donald Trump has waived Lindsey Graham's sanctions, shelving the 500% penalties on Russian oil. The episode argues the Graham-Blumenthal bill was a trap ahead of the midterms, while Zelensky arrives in Brussels asking for more money and warning of 20 million refugees. It also asks how the EU funded its 90 billion euro Ukraine loan, and whether Russia's frozen assets in Euroclear are being used as collateral.

The Duran, episode 2652.

0:00 Trump waives Lindsey Graham's sanctions
0:58 Why 500% sanctions on Russian oil was always a bad idea
3:11 Strait of Hormuz, Red Sea and the global energy crunch
4:13 Trump's waiver authority and why it is rational
5:12 Why did Trump let this bill get so far?
7:13 A neocon setup for a Putin puppet narrative
9:40 The tariff trap after the Supreme Court ruling
12:47 Blumenthal and Congress react with fury
14:27 Midterms, investigations and impeachment talk
16:32 Zelensky in Brussels asks for another 70 billion euros
18:30 Who is funding the 90 billion euro loan?
21:02 Merz and Sikorski refuse to hand frozen assets to the US
23:52 Are frozen assets being used as collateral?
26:05 How the asset freeze backfired on Europe
28:45 Zelensky warns of 20 million Ukrainian refugees 

Now you see them, now you don't. Budd Hopkins says nobody saw | Oct. 18, 2026

Source: UAMN TV youtube



Description:
Invisible alien encounters and abductions in plain sight, the kind no one around ever notices: a family missing from the photographs they posed for, dozens of people nearby who saw nothing, and beings said to pass through walls. Twenty-eight years of casework from the late Budd Hopkins.

Timeline:
0:00 They walk through walls
3:48 The man who filmed it and forgot
6:49 Got any pictures?
9:28 The family missing from their own photos
14:08 Fifty people nearby, nobody saw
17:43 Five people, one night
21:31 The hybrid question
28:11 He woke up in the wrong house
36:46 Under one roof
42:36 Two sources never to believe
45:37 The damage nobody intended 

Bigelow Podcast | Three beings at the bedside: Bigelow and Nolan's childhood encounters | Oct. 13, 2026

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Description:
In this episode of the Bigelow Podcast, Robert Bigelow reveals a childhood experience he kept private for most of his life. At age 8, three short, hooded figures stood beside his bed, silent and motionless. It happened about four times. He wasn't afraid.

His story began earlier. Robert's grandparents were driving home from the mountains when a glowing object grew until it filled their windshield, then vanished with a sharp turn. They arrived home hours late, a classic sign of missing time. They refused to talk about it for the rest of their lives. Days later, Robert's mother and grandparents watched a large craft hover over a mountain before it disappeared.

Then Stanford geneticist Dr. Garry Nolan joins the conversation. Nolan describes nearly the same scene from his own childhood: three figures in his bedroom, pressure on the edge of the bed, and a face at a window far too high for anyone to reach. The two men had never spoken before last week. 

No Human: the most important UFO news from Oct. 11 to 18, 2026 | Oct. 18, 2026

Source: Maussan Televisión youtube



Description:
In this edition of No Humano with Jaime Maussan, the program presents the most striking UFO and UAP news and evidence recorded worldwide. It looks at the attacks and reports of the mysterious being of Valle de Juárez in Chihuahua, with testimony from Eduardo Gamaliel and a biological and morphological analysis by biologist Ricardo Rangel of the photographs and videos.

It also covers U.S. congressman Eric Burlison's statements on colossal motherships, testimony from Jay Stratton, former director of the Pentagon's UAP Task Force, on non-human technology, progress in the Noah's Ark research in Turkey, and the week's unusual sightings in Brazil, England, Saltillo, and Michoacán.

0:00 Introduction and the week in brief
0:29 The strange attacks in Valle de Juárez
4:12 Notable sightings: the US, Brazil, and France
9:07 UFO anniversaries: Chulucanas, Peru, and Waterloo Bridge, London
14:06 Special report from Ciudad Juárez with Eduardo Gamaliel
28:21 Biological and morphological analysis with biologist Ricardo Rangel
41:25 Motherships and statements by congressman Eric Burlison
49:03 International cases: anomalous spheres in Brazil and England
59:41 An enigmatic object over Saltillo, Coahuila
1:06:16 Close encounter with an entity in Atecuaro, Michoacán
1:10:20 Progress and underground radar at the Noah's Ark excavation
1:13:33 Jay Stratton says the Pentagon holds non-human craft
1:16:00 Night records: a disc in Mongolia and lights on the River Thames
1:19:56 Conclusions and Maussan Televisión's Sunday schedule 

Pepe Escobar | Pakistan Navy warns off US Black Hawks; Iran locks 400 targets, porous border, open routes | Transition Protocol | Oct. 18, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube



Description:
Pakistani military sources say Pakistani naval aircraft warned US helicopters away from the coast off Karachi. The same weekend, trade across the Iran–Pakistan land border crossings was halted — and our host’s sources say Iran has 400 targets locked, many of them in Israel. Zulfiqar Ali brings both accounts, checked in Islamabad and Tehran; Pepe Escobar, from Bangkok after midnight, brings the dollar-bypass talks the closure interrupted — and the one country whose cargo still crosses.

— 07:57 The Black Hawk encounter, per Pakistani military sources.
— 16:30 Except China: the cargo that still crosses, per our host’s sources.
— 27:17 Iran’s 400 locked targets: the warning our host’s sources relayed.

What you’ll learn: why Pakistan and Iran suspended trade at their border, and what officials on both sides say it was for · whether Washington pressured Islamabad — and the answer our host was given · what the US Navy is doing off Pakistan’s coast · why Chinese cargo is still moving · where Iran stands on the Mecca defence pact · what Egypt and the OIC are doing about Saudi Arabia’s war in Yemen.

Sourcing note: The Black Hawk encounter, the Chinese-cargo exemption, the saboteur arrests and the position of US naval assets are our host’s own sourcing from Pakistani military, naval and coastal officials and cannot be independently verified; we found no public report of the encounter. “3 nautical miles” is the distance as reported to our host; Pakistan’s territorial sea extends 12 nautical miles, and the host says the helicopters did not enter Pakistani territory. 

A Pakistani brigadier told our host the detained saboteurs were financed by the UAE; that is one officer’s allegation and has not been independently verified. The 3,000-truck figure and its banking cause are Pepe Escobar’s information. 

Public record: Pakistan’s Ministry of Commerce suspended trade through the Taftan and Gabd-Rimdan crossings (memo of 16 October, announced 17 October); Pakistani officials cited security, counterterrorism and smuggling and said the border is likely to reopen soon; Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman called the closure temporary and cited “technical issues”; more than 2,000 containers were reported stranded at Gabd-Rimdan, while passenger traffic continued at Gabd-Rimdan. 

The 400 locked targets are our host’s sourcing and cannot be independently verified. The Iran–Pakistan central bank meeting is Escobar’s reporting; the IMF–World Bank Annual Meetings ran in Bangkok on 12–18 October. Iran’s interest in the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement is contested: our host’s sources say Iran has expressed interest; Escobar says it is not being discussed in Tehran; Iran’s foreign ministry said in August it had received no formal invitation.

Jennifer Kavanagh | Why the U.S. Should Pull Back From the First Island Chain | Oct. 18, 2026

Source: Glenn Diesen youtube



Description: 
Jennifer Kavanagh is a Senior Fellow and Director of Military Analysis at Defense Priorities and an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Security Studies. Kavanagh discusses her policy paper advocating a US withdrawal from the First Island Chain to avoid war with China, and explains why it sparked such a strong reaction.

Alex Christoforou | Limoges Tower Burns; Petersburg Drone Attack; Drones Fly Over Baltics? | Oct. 18, 2026

Source: Alex Christoforou youtube



Description: 
Alex Christoforou on protests in France, a drone attack toward St. Petersburg, and drones reported over Latvian and Estonian airspace.

The episode covers the Limoges tower and Marseille town hall fires, Macron staying out of sight, more EU money for Ukraine, Rubio's Starlink and Starshield denials, a Witkoff and Kushner plan to bring Russian gas back to Europe, and a Financial Times push to split Euroclear over Russian frozen assets.

Episode 2211


Timeline:
00:00:00 Zelensky on US intel sharing and Starlink limits
00:00:29 Violent protests sweep France
00:01:58 Limoges tower burns, Marseille town hall set ablaze
00:03:13 Macron in hiding ahead of national address
00:07:40 Nicusor Dan on EU migration talks and Ukraine money
00:11:22 Over 1,000 drones launched at Russia
00:14:15 Drones over Latvian and Estonian airspace
00:18:09 Rubio denies Starshield access for Ukraine
00:20:49 Witkoff and Kushner Russian gas deal for Europe
00:24:45 Deadly explosion at CFB Wainwright in Alberta
00:26:48 FT plan to split Euroclear over Russian frozen assets

Bryce Zabel & Richard Dolan | Jay Stratton - Steps Out of the Shadows - Need to Know | Oct. 18, 2026

Source: Stellar Productions youtube



Description: 
Bryce Zabel and Richard Dolan on Jay Stratton’s book Out of the Shadows and his account of U.S. intelligence work on UFOs and UAP.

In this episode of Need to Know they look at Stratton’s revelations, his personal experiences, and what his decision to come forward could mean for disclosure. The conversation covers his influence on modern UAP investigations, his connections in the intelligence community, and the role he played in bringing the subject into public and congressional view, including claims about non-human intelligence, advanced technology, and alleged secret government programs.

The Duran | Dobropillia Falls; Kramatorsk Cauldron Looms; Ukraine Out of Air Defense | Oct. 18, 2026

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Description: 
The Duran on Dobropillia falling and Russia moving to encircle Kramatorsk and Slavyansk. The episode covers Gerasimov's battlefield update, the collapse of Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi near Liman, Putin's signal that talks with Zelensky are off the table, and depleted Patriot and THAAD stockpiles.

The Duran: Episode 2651


Timeline:
00:00:00 Dobropillia captured, Kramatorsk and Slavyansk next
00:01:37 Gerasimov confirms the fall of Dobropillia
00:03:35 Azov commander sacked, Aleksandrovka captured
00:05:02 Kharkov pocket cleared and Operation Vivaldi fails
00:06:52 Energy and Dnieper bridge strikes, Putin's orders
00:07:26 Putin and Peskov signal no negotiations with Zelensky
00:08:33 Ukraine without air defense and the Rassvet system
00:12:04 Russia outproduces the collective West
00:14:53 US Patriot and THAAD stockpiles depleted until 2030
00:17:31 Storm Shadows, Greek and Spanish Patriots, Trump's question

SpaceWeatherNews (S0) | Worst Pole Shift News, Solar Record Shatters | Oct. 18, 2026

Source: SpaceWeatherNews (S0) youtube



Description: 
SpaceWeatherNews on what the episode calls the worst pole-shift news, tied to a solar record. The first linked paper is a flash report from the Russian Ionosfera-M satellites on the geomagnetic storm of 19-21 January 2026. The authors report a G4 storm with Kp 9 and a solar proton flux they call the highest of Solar Cycle 25 and of the 21st century so far.

The second paper finds that recurrent high-speed solar-wind streams are followed by a small, repeatable rise in the first Schumann resonance frequency at high-latitude stations. That response lines up more clearly with geomagnetic activity than with solar-wind speed alone.

The exceptional geomagnetic storm of January 2026
Schumann resonance frequency increase following recurrent solar wind stream onsets

Paul Stonehill | Satellites and UFOs of the year 1913 | Oct. 17, 2026

Source: Paranormal Research Paul Stonehill youtube



Description: 
Paul Stonehill says that on the evening of February 9, 1913, people from Canada to Brazil watched 40 to 60 huge flaming spheres move slowly and in parallel, when falling satellites and rocket parts were still extremely rare. He then reads Russian press from the 1912–1913 wave, including objects that fort guns and searchlights could not bring down, and treats those reports as the same kind of sightings described today.

Larry Johnson | The MOAB Can't Crack Iran. No One Can Save MBS. Europe Will Regret It | Oct. 17, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube



Description: 
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson, with Zulfiqar Ali on Transition Protocol, on why Trump's MOAB can't crack Iran's Pickaxe Mountain. Ali's sources in Islamabad say MBS asked Pakistan for help, repeatedly, and Pakistan said no. Johnson, who briefed a UN Security Council Arria-formula meeting on Wednesday, says Europe will start a war with Russia it will regret.

The show also covers what the MOAB can and cannot do, why Pakistan will not fight Ansar Allah for MBS, what Pakistani and Turkish officers told MBS about Israelis in his war room, how Johnson expects the war to end and China's role, and why diesel is short in a country that makes more than it uses.

The Islamabad decision, MBS's requests and the war-room account are the host's own sourcing and cannot be independently verified. Johnson's Europe and MBS forecasts are his analysis.

Timeline:
00:03:56 The MOAB: why an 11-ton air-burst bomb can't reach a facility under a mountain
00:10:21 No rescue: what Islamabad decided, per the host's sources
00:31:38 At the UN: the US tone shift, Nebenzia's answer, and Europe's hard line

Alexander Mercouris | Putin Tells Generals Keep Striking Ukraine Russia Takes Dobropilia Key Towns; Trump Waives Sanctions | Oct. 17, 2026

Source: Alexander Mercouris youtube



Description: 
Episode 2052. Alexander breaks down General Gerasimov's briefing to Putin, confirming the fall of Dobropillia, the capture of Oleksiievo Druzhkivka and Russian troops entering Druzhkivka as the pincers close around Kramatorsk and Sloviansk. He explains why the sacking of Azov commander Prokopenko, the stalled Operation Vivaldi and Putin's order to keep up strikes on bridges, rail and energy point to a deepening crisis for Ukraine, while Zelensky asks the EU for 155 billion euros and Trump waives Lindsey Graham's bone crushing sanctions. Is the battle for Kramatorsk about to begin?

Timeline:
00:00:00 A dramatic 24 hours in Ukraine
00:01:43 Gerasimov briefs Putin
00:02:53 Is Gerasimov credible?
00:05:10 Dobropillia falls
00:07:12 Why no flags in parts of Dobropillia
00:11:34 Oleksiievo Druzhkivka captured
00:14:11 Russians enter Druzhkivka
00:16:11 Azov commander Prokopenko sacked
00:17:39 Rybar: Biletsky rushed south
00:20:09 Operation Vivaldi stalls
00:23:30 Biletsky and Prokopenko outmatched
00:29:23 Velyka Mykhailivka and Serhiivka
00:33:10 Malokaterynivka, 5 km from Zaporizhzhia?
00:38:54 Kharkov cauldron cleared
00:42:11 Air campaign on bridges, rail and energy
00:43:53 Putin: strikes must continue
00:48:47 Geran drones, Rassvet and Musk
00:54:59 Zelensky asks EU for 155 billion
01:00:42 Zelensky's 20 million refugee warning
01:07:21 Trump waives Graham sanctions

Alex Christoforou | Putin, Strikes Will Continue; Trump, Sanctions on Hold; Zelensky, 20M Refugees | Oct. 17, 2026

Source: Alex Christoforou youtube



Description: 
Episode 2210. Putin has ordered Gerasimov to keep the strikes coming after the capture of Dobropillia, putting Kramatorsk and Sloviansk next in line in Donbass. Alex, walking the streets of Athens, breaks down why Trump put Lindsey Graham's bone crushing Russia sanctions on hold, the Patriot interceptor shortage that could last until 2030, and Zelensky's demand in Brussels for 155 billion along with a warning of 20 million refugees heading to Europe. How long can Ursula von der Leyen and the EU keep paying for Project Ukraine?

Timeline:
00:00:00 Dobropillia captured, Gerasimov frontline update
00:02:28 Putin orders strikes to continue
00:04:57 Kyiv blackouts and Ukraine out of Patriots
00:06:14 CBS: Patriot stocks not restored until 2030
00:08:40 Trump puts Graham sanctions bill on hold
00:11:23 Warren and Blumenthal react
00:13:02 What the sanctions bill would have done to oil prices
00:14:25 Trump: I'll release the details
00:15:41 Zelensky in Brussels asks for 155 billion
00:20:02 Zelensky praises EU leaders, Ursula's reaction
00:20:55 Zelensky's 20 million refugee warning
00:23:09 Piers Morgan reacts
00:24:13 Press secretary out after five days
00:26:21 Albania protests against Edi Rama
00:29:54 Clown World: Politico's EU briefing room mystery

SpaceWeatherNews (S0) | Galactic Magnetic Reversal - Every Sign Amplifies | Oct. 17, 2026

Source: SpaceWeatherNews (S0) youtube



Description: 
SpaceWeatherNews on a galactic magnetic reversal, with the episode framed around signs that are amplifying. Today's linked notes cover Chandra's Treble Clef, a radio structure shaped by a black-hole outburst and a collision of two galaxy clusters; a check of zodiacal dust models at small solar elongations; survival odds for heliospheric energetic neutral atoms seen by IMAP; and heliosheath pickup ions along Voyager 2, tied to the low-energy ENA gap.

Chandra: Treble Clef galaxy cluster
Zodiacal dust models near the Sun
IMAP energetic neutral atom survival
Voyager 2 pickup ions and ENA fluxes

Max Igan | The System Is a Fiction: The Choice Humanity Faces | Oct. 17, 2026

Source: The Crowhouse youtube, thecrowhouse.com



Description: 
Max Igan, on INSPIRED with John Nolan, says the legal and government system is a fiction that exists only because people believe it, and that fighting it is fighting a cloud. He traces that view to a meditation around 2008 in which he saw the world as an emotional mirror and a loss of self, and he argues that people do not need to prove sovereignty to a system they never contracted with.

He tells Nolan he left Australia in 2021 after a shooter's licence arrived and he believed police were setting him up, and that he now lives mostly in Mexico. The conversation also covers Gaza as a moral test, wars he calls cover for depopulation, the smartphone as the base of a surveillance grid, and what he says still matters: the integrity of one's spirit. This Crowhouse upload mirrors the INSPIRED interview.

John Mearsheimer | Russia’s Existential War & the Rise of a Post-Western World | Oct. 17, 2026

Source: Glenn Diesen youtube



Description: 
John Mearsheimer tells Glenn Diesen that the end-of-history moment failed once unipolarity gave way to a multipolar order of the United States, China, and Russia, and that a liberal international order cannot hold when two of the three great powers are not liberal democracies. He says Europe's nightmare is poisoned relations with Russia after an ugly Russian victory in Ukraine, and the chance that the American pacifier leaves Europe for East Asia.

Mearsheimer argues Russia treats the war as an existential threat and will not lose, and that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil push Moscow to wreck Ukraine as a functioning state. He ties Trump's diesel deal and pressure on Zelensky to the Iran war and the world economy, and he expects Trump to back off cutting intelligence and Starlink. He also says the Houthis are hitting Saudi oil routes, including Yanbu, that another short bombing campaign will not do what a 40-day campaign failed to do, and that wars are much easier to start than to end.

The Duran | Russia Hypersonic Dominance. Zelensky Blames Trump For Defeat | Oct. 17, 2026

Source: The Duran youtube



Description: 
The Duran, episode 2650, on Zelensky blaming Trump for Ukraine's defeat, claims of a US intelligence cutoff, and Russian Zircon strikes the hosts say the US cannot track. They cover Ukrainian refinery strikes and Flamingo missiles, Su-34 claims and Starshield targeting, six ballistic missiles with no air-raid warning, and Zelensky courting Democrats and Congress.

The episode also takes up the claim that Ukraine collapses without US intelligence, the argument that Trump did not cut military aid, an FP9 missile and Starlink throttling, Putin, Trump, Tomahawks and a diesel-oil deal, how Russia could respond, Russia's nuclear doctrine and pressure on Kiev, and whether Moscow has ever been hit by a ballistic missile.

Joseph Rael | Being and Vibration, Part II | Oct. 17, 2026

Source: New Thinking Allowed with Jeffrey Mishlove youtube


Description:
This video is a special release from the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television from 1986 until 2002. It was recorded in about 1993.

Joseph Rael, whose Picuris Pueblo Indian sacred name translates to Beautiful Painted Arrow, is a visionary, poet, and creator of sacred sounds. He is author of Beautiful Painted Arrow and Being and Vibration. Here Rael presents many Tiwa chants and songs, describing their meaning and use. He elaborates on the deeper meaning of such concepts as work, commitment, choice, clarity, purity, transformation and higher consciousness.

Dark Journalist | X-241: Jessup in the HotZone, Missing UFO File, Scientists and Apotheum Revealed | Oct. 17, 2026

Source: Dark Journalist youtube



Description: 
Daniel Liszt presents Dark Journalist X-241 on Morris K. Jessup in the Hot Zone, the triangle he draws between western Cuba, Bimini, and the Yucatán. With Rudolf Steiner and Edgar Cayce he reads it as Poseidia, the last island of Atlantis. The technology in that account is Cayce’s two-eye stone. Liszt splits Atlantis between the Children of the Law of One and a Belial group, and says the island sank when the stone was tuned too high. Survivors of that culture, not visitors from another galaxy, are Jessup’s explanation for modern UFOs.

Jessup, as Liszt tells it, is a Navy man at 19, a Carnegie researcher in South America, an astronomer in South Africa, and a digger in the Yucatán tied to Henry Ford’s Fordlandia. The Case for the UFO draws the Office of Naval Research after Carlos Allende, also called Carl Allen, annotates it with what he claims he witnessed at the Philadelphia Experiment. Jessup recognizes the handwriting. He then drives to Yale oceanographer J. Manson Valentine with something he will not say by phone. Hours later he is found dead in a Coral Gables park, a hose from the exhaust through the window, and no autopsy. In 1968 Valentine finds the Bimini Wall where Cayce had said a Poseidian temple would rise.

Liszt sets that death beside the scientists in his recent reports. Major General William McCasland has been missing since 27 February 2026. From the Podesta emails he takes Tom DeLonge’s note that McCasland held the Roswell material at Wright-Patterson, and he says Space Force officials left the general shaken the night before he vanished. MIT’s Nuno Loureiro is shot in Brookline by Claudio Valente. Caltech’s Carl Grillmair is killed in a reported carjacking. NASA engineer Monica Reza disappears on a hike in Angeles National Forest. Liszt ties a heat-proof alloy he calls Mandaloy to Roswell memory metal, and he names the distortion around these cases Apotheum: missing time, and passage through solid objects, the same effects he says appear when a UFO is seen.

Around them he places Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, Stephen Hawking in a submarine called Atlantis, Paulina Zelitsky’s 2001 city off western Cuba, and Thomas Townsend Brown’s Navy dives on that coast. Donald Keyhoe’s Silence Group is, for Liszt, the circle he calls X-Protect. Jessup is the early case of a scientist removed for getting too close.

Pepe Escobar | Iran's Two Answers: Ready to Strike. Preparing to Bypass the Dollar | Oct. 16, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube



Description: 
Pepe Escobar with Zulfiqar Ali on Transition Protocol. Escobar says Iran is like a coiled cobra, ready to strike, and preparing to bypass the dollar.

A participant in Iran's Friday leadership meeting told Ali that if an attack comes from Dubai, Dubai will be finished as a commercial center. They also cover Iran's and Pakistan's central bank heads at the IMF meeting in Bangkok, and a report that Iranian oil may move to China over land.

The host says the Tehran meeting account, the Dubai and Oman lines, and the claim that Israelis have left Riyadh's war room are his own sourcing and cannot be independently verified.

Timeline:
00:02:59 Why Iran is a coiled cobra
00:15:42 IMF meeting in Bangkok
00:25:14 What Iran's leaders decided on Friday

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson & Larry Johnson | Breaking: Reuters: Iran Is Beating the U.S. Naval Blockade | Oct. 16, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube, sonar21.com



Description: 
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson and Larry Johnson with Nima Alkhorshid on a Reuters report that Iran is beating the U.S. naval blockade.

Wilkerson is a retired U.S. Army colonel and former chief of staff to the Secretary of State. Johnson is a former CIA analyst.

The Duran | Kaliningrad blockade plan returns, and the Baltics ignore Russia's warning | Oct. 16, 2026

Source: The Duran youtube



Description:
A week after Russia's nuclear warning over Kaliningrad, The Duran says the Baltic states are again planning a blockade, starting with the gas pipeline into the exclave. The episode covers Nikolai Patrushev's claim of a NATO blockade plan, the view in Lithuania and Estonia that NATO could defeat Russia in a week, and why Moscow will not retreat on Kaliningrad. 

Robert Inlakesh | Iran's covert missile strikes, the US MOAB threat, and the Arab-Israeli plot | Oct. 15, 2026

Source: MintPress News youtube



Description:
Robert Inlakesh, on The Target, says a report counts at least 135 Iranian strikes on Gulf infrastructure, and that the White House played them down. He also covers a Pentagon threat to use the MOAB, a covert Arab-Israeli alignment, Israeli warnings to Hezbollah, a Yemeni strike on Saudi-backed targets, and Ansarallah gains in Taiz. 

Andrei Martyanov | Fake it ... but you not gonna make it | Oct. 15, 2026

Source: smoothiex12 youtube, smoothiex12.blogspot.com



Description:
Andrei Martyanov says reports of a strike on Borisoglebsk, pushed by Boris Rozhin and Fighterbomber, are fake. He says the field had no aircraft, eight combat planes had already left, and a photo of a hit Tu-22M3 was already debunked. On the Ryazan refinery he cites the Russian Defense Ministry: four Flamingo cruise missiles and 69 drones were shot down, and a tank fire from falling debris was put out with no damage to the plant.

He says the situation in Kiev is dire, and that Pete Hegseth does not understand this war. He claims Russia makes more than 5.5 million FPV drones a year, while the United States reaches a fleet of 2 million only around 2028. He points to a Pacific training launch from a Yasen-M submarine, Onyx at 170 km and Kalibr at 1,200 km, and says twelve Zircons reached Kiev. He also says the US Treasury has lifted energy sanctions on Russia and that this will not be reported. 

Einar Tangen | Saudi Arabia Called Beijing for Help. Trump Called Putin for Diesel. Nobody's Coming Yet: 110 Americans | Transition Protocol | Oct. 15, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube



Description: 
Riyadh called Beijing. Trump called Putin for diesel. Nobody's coming to save Saudi Arabia — except 110 Americans.

("110 Americans in the Saudi war room" is per Transition Protocol's Pakistani military sources.) Here is why nobody is coming, what Beijing will actually do, and what the Russian diesel deal is really for — from a man who has lived in Beijing for almost three decades.

Einar Tangen joins host Zulfiqar Ali from Beijing as Houthi missiles hit Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport again.

Riyadh's calls: according to Transition Protocol's Pakistani military sources, 110 Americans were in the Saudi war room during the bombardment of Ansar Allah positions, even as Trump told Riyadh he wanted no new war. Pakistan will guard the holy sites only.

Beijing's answer: "very little," in Tangen's assessment — China will police dual-use parts flowing to the Houthis, will not arm anyone, and cannot project force from its single base in Djibouti. Reuters reported on 17 September that Saudi Arabia appealed to Beijing and that China privately urged Iran to rein in the Houthis.

Iran's choice: our sources say Tehran told Pakistani mediators it would not restrain the Houthis — it wanted Saudi losses.

The October surprise: why the Russian diesel deal (1.8 million tonnes from October to December) covers only days of US demand, and what Tangen thinks it is really for.

A gateway to a wider war? "Unfortunately, I do." And two ways this ends.

Sourcing note: "110 Americans" and the Iran–Pakistan exchange are the host's own reporting from Pakistani sources. Tangen's remark about discussions of tactical nuclear weapons has not been independently confirmed. On air, a figure of "510 to 525 million tons" of daily US diesel use is a misstatement; the US uses roughly half a million tonnes of distillate a day (EIA).

Larry Johnson | Yemeni Missiles Hit Two Aramco Headquarters and a Fighter Jet | Oct. 15, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube



Description: 
Larry Johnson on reports that Yemeni forces struck two Aramco headquarters in Saudi Arabia and published footage of a hit on a Saudi Typhoon, described as the second fighter jet after an F-15. He also recounts speaking at a Russian-chaired UN Security Council session in New York on civilian casualties in Ukraine, and says the US tone toward Russia has softened.

Larry Johnson & Lawrence Wilkerson | Iran Leaks US-Israeli Attack, Yemen Hits European Jet | Oct. 15, 2026

Source: Danny Haiphong youtube, sonar21.com



Description: 
Has Iran just leaked US-Israeli war plans, which according to Iranian intel, could be carried at any moment? Fmr CIA analyst Larry Johnson and retired US Army Colonel and Chief of Staff Lawrence Wilkerson react to a bombshell report that details the deep war preparations of Trump and Netanyahu when no one was watching, and give expert insights into the Yemen-Saudi war that cannot be ignored as Middle East oil comes under massive crisis.

The Duran | MBS runs out of options; Burnham blames Iran | Oct. 15, 2026

Source: The Duran youtube



Description:
MBS is reportedly moving between bunkers as the Houthis push deeper into Yemen and warn Saudi civilians to evacuate oil installations. In this episode we break down why no ally will send ground troops, why Iran's mediation offer is a nonstarter, and why Trump faces enormous pressure to intervene despite Houthi warnings to stay out, before turning to Andy Burnham blaming Iran for the RAF Fairford incident. Is Saudi Arabia running out of options, and is Burnham turning out to be even worse than Starmer?

The Duran: Episode 2648
00:00:00 MBS in hiding as the Houthis advance in Yemen
00:00:50 No allies willing: Pakistan, Turkey and Syria say no
00:01:11 Houthis warn Saudis to evacuate oil installations
00:02:27 Riyadh airport strikes and Iran's offer to mediate
00:03:47 Why MBS can't send the Saudi army into Yemen
00:05:14 Putin, the UAE and Russian mediation
00:05:46 Houthis warn the US to stay out
00:07:08 Can Trump resist the pressure to intervene?
00:09:50 Burnham blames Iran for the RAF Fairford incident
00:11:26 Brexit, Russia and what Burnham is really doing 

Vijay Prashad | Saudi Arabia Has No Easy Way Out Iran at Hormuz,Yemen at the Red Sea,Riyadh Airport Hit Again | Transition Protocol | Oct. 14, 2026

Source: Transition Protocol youtube



Description:
Vijay Prashad, speaking from Beijing, says Yemen’s Ansar Allah now covers the Bab al-Mandab (Arabic for “Gate of Tears”) while the Strait of Hormuz remains restricted — leaving Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Arab states, he says, with no easy way out.

Status check: control of Mocha is contested. The Houthis seized the port city in September; Yemen’s government said on 5 October that it had retaken it, which Al Jazeera could not verify, and a Houthi spokesman denied it on 6 October. Prashad calls it “still contested”. Mayyun (Perim) Island is Prashad’s account; we could not confirm a change of control.

Host Zulfiqar Ali speaks with Prashad about what Beijing is seeing: the Strait of Hormuz and the Bab al-Mandab, the strikes on Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport, Iran–Saudi contacts that Beijing’s dialogue made possible, why he says Ansar Allah is “not a proxy of Iran”, and Xi Jinping’s proposed table for Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

What you’ll learn: why Prashad says the Gulf’s two sea exits are both in other hands · what he says Ansar Allah gained at Mocha · why he argues Iran “does not speak for the Yemenis” · what he says the Iran–Saudi channel achieved · why Iran, he says, wants the Mecca pact left alone · why he asks whether Yemen could “collect” at the Bab al-Mandab as Iran does at Hormuz · what he expects from a Xi-hosted Trump–Putin meeting.

Chas Freeman | Trump–Zelensky Conflict: U.S. Cuts Kiev Intel | Oct. 14, 2026

Source: Glenn Diesen youtube



Description: 
Chas Freeman, former US assistant secretary of defense and ambassador to Saudi Arabia, with Glenn Diesen on the quarrel between Trump and Zelensky after a US diesel deal with Russia. Freeman says the Trump administration does not share the Biden line of using Ukraine to pressure Russia, and discusses reports of reduced US intelligence sharing, including a degraded Starlink used to guide Ukrainian drones.

Alex Christoforou | Russia Strikes, Kiev Goes Dark; Intel Cut Off?; Starlink Capped; Guilfoyle Resigns | Oct. 14, 2026

Source: Alex Christoforou youtube



Description: 
Did Ukraine's partners really go silent before Russia's latest missile strikes on Kiev? Alex breaks down Zelensky's claim that intelligence warnings were withheld, Trump's denial, the new Starlink speed cap, the Russian diesel deal angering Senator Blumenthal, Houthi strikes on Saudi Aramco, Kimberly Guilfoyle's exit as US ambassador to Greece, and the Nord Stream trial opening in Hamburg. Is Washington quietly tightening the screws on Kiev, or is this just good cop, bad cop?

Timeline:
00:00:00 Intro and Rutte on Russia and NATO
00:00:41 Zelensky heads to London to meet Burnham
00:01:53 Zelensky claims partners withheld missile warnings
00:03:42 Trump denies cutting off intel to Ukraine
00:06:16 Medvedev mocks Zelensky over intel
00:07:11 Starlink speed cap hits Ukraine's front line
00:09:24 Senators slam Trump's Russian diesel deal
00:10:49 Massive Russian strikes leave Kiev in blackout
00:13:25 Ukraine runs out of interceptors
00:14:13 Houthis strike Saudi Aramco
00:15:32 Iran's new tactics in the Strait of Hormuz
00:19:34 Guilfoyle asked to resign as ambassador to Greece
00:22:14 New press secretary's rocky first briefing
00:26:01 Nord Stream trial begins in Hamburg
00:28:21 Clown World: Rutte on hybrid threats

Scott Ritter | Two Ships Sinking in Hormuz, Massive Missile Strike on Saudi Aramco and Riyadh | Oct. 14, 2026

Source: Dialogue Works youtube



Description: 
Scott Ritter with Nima Alkhorshid on reports that two ships are sinking, one in the Strait of Hormuz and one in the Gulf of Oman, after more than ten vessels were hit. They discuss an Ansarallah announcement of strikes on Aramco headquarters, an Aramco facility, and King Khalid International Airport, and Ritter's view that Iran controls the strait while Saudi attempts to divert oil to the Red Sea have failed.

Alastair Crooke | 420,000 Iranian Troops Shatter US-Israeli War Plan, Yemen Hits Aramco | Oct. 14, 2026

Source: Danny Haiphong youtube



Description: 
Renowned analyst Alastair Crooke brings his decades of diplomatic and intelligence experience in West Asia to break down reports of a coming Israeli attack greenlit by Trump as Iran amasses troops on its borders for a major ground response. Yemen is hitting the nerve center of the petrodollar hard, and the Saudi regime is on brink of collapse despite US and Israeli support.

Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat and the Founder of the Conflicts Forum based in Beirut.

Robert Schoch | True Civilization After the Last Ice Age | Oct. 14, 2026

Source: One Spark youtube, www.robertschoch.com



Description:
Full lecture from the 2026 Snippy festival.

Dr. Robert M. Schoch is Director of the Institute for the Study of the Origins of Civilization (ISOC) at Boston University's College of General Studies, where he has been a faculty member since 1984. 

He earned his Ph.D. in Geology and Geophysics from Yale University in 1983. Schoch maintains that true civilization existed 12,000 years ago and was decimated by the cataclysmic events, initiated by our Sun, that ended the last ice age, circa 9700 BCE. 

With John Anthony West, in the early 1990s Schoch uncovered geological evidence (water-weathering and water-erosion features) indicating the origins of the Great Sphinx date back millennia prior to its conventional dating of circa 2500 BCE. Subsequently, excavations of the 12,000-year-old megalithic site of Göbekli Tepe confirmed Schoch's assertions regarding the extreme antiquity of civilization. 

Martin Armstrong | European False Flag Operations to Start War with Russia | Oct. 14, 2026

Source: Glenn Diesen youtube



Description:
Martin Armstrong is the former chairman of Princeton Economics International Ltd., a former leading multinational corporate advisor with offices in Paris, London, Sydney, Hong Kong and Tokyo. He was hailed as Economist of the Decade and was named Hedge Fund Manager of the Year in 1998 after correctly forecasting the collapse of Russia. 

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